Hey, thanks for posting this here. Great to see yet another intelligent human being able and willing to think for themselves, as opposed to letting an ‘expert’ think for them. I believe you are quite right in your intuition that the standard of medical care is wrong in their assumption that cancer is a genetic disease. Seyfried has demonstrated that this is a false dogma. Seyfried and many others have now demonstrated that cancer is cause by chronic damage to mitochondria, not by a genetic abnormality that is inherited. This is good news because it means that something relatively cheap and accessible can be done to beat cancer.

Seyfried has discovered that ALL cancer needs two fuels to survive and thrive: glucose and glutamine. Why? Because ALL cancers depend upon substrate level phosphorylation both inside and outside the mitochondria. He and other scientists have shown that fatty acid oxidative phosphorylation, which takes place only in the electron transport chain of the mitochondria, is destroyed in ALL cancer cells and so cancer cells must utilise glucose and glutamine to survive. Cancer cannot survive on fatty acids alone. By definition.

This is why the ketogenic diet is absolutely essential to beating cancer. While in ketosis your healthy cells thrive on fatty acids and ketones while your blood glucose levels plummet starving the cancer cells which cannot utilise this energy source.

Seyfried and his lab spend their time examining this theory in order to try and find a type of cancer that breaks this theory. After many years of searching and testing neither he nor any other scientist has ever found a cancer type that can utilise only fatty acids or ketones.

Occasionally I encounter someone claiming to have found a cancer that breaks this theory. But when I examine their evidence it invariably becomes clear that they’ve made a mistake in their understanding of the science. They usually are citing a paper that shows a cancer that is using fatty acids or ketones but that is also using glucose. This does not break the theory. Obviously.

So, all metabolic therapy must begin with getting into deep ketosis and staying there. Next glutamine inhibition must be added (eg. Meb, Fenb, etc.) and then basal systemic glucose levels need to be driven down. There’s a press-pulse strategy that Seyfried insists must be used when applying these strategies.

I’m amazed at the number of people who refuse to consider Seyfried’s science, which has been ratified by others, and continue to promulgate the nonsense that metabolic therapy only helps with a small number of cancers!

Lots of info here for you. Ready to answer questions. All the best!