A Radical New Dietary Approach To Cancer Treatment with Dr. Thomas Seyfried

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Seyfried about the underlying causes of cancer and why addressing
metabolic dysfunction is a very important and often overlooked area
of its prevention and treatment.  Dr. Thomas Seyfried is an
American professor of biology, genetics, and biochemistry at Boston
College. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign in 1976 and did his postdoctoral fellowship at the
Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Seyfried has over 150
peer-reviewed publications, and his research focuses primarily on
the mechanisms driving cancer, epilepsy, and neurodegenerative
diseases and calorie-restricted ketogenic diets in their prevention
and treatment. He is the author of Cancer as a Metabolic Disease:
On the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancer and presently
serves on the Nutrition & Metabolism, Neurochemical Research,
Journal of Lipid Research, and ASN Neuro editorial boards. This
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are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple
Subscriber version): How Dr. Seyfried’s work on treating epilepsy
with a ketogenic diet informed his understanding of cancer (6:57 /
3:14)  Mitochondrial damage and cancer (16:58 / 14:44) 
Glucose fermentation and oxidative stress and their links to cancer
(25:52 / 24:47)  Our current misunderstanding of the cause of
cancer (32:19 / 29:54)  Current cancer treatments vs metabolic
oncology (38:31 / 36:50)  Populations without cancer incidence
(56:10 / 51:55)  Metabolic cancer treatment for dogs (1:09:27
/ 1:05:11)  Using a ketogenic diet with current cancer
treatments (1:12:56 / 1:08:50)  Learn more at tomseyfried.com
and at the Foundation for Metabolic Cancer Therapies.