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THE POWER OF METABOLIC THERAPY

by | Jul 14, 2017

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THE POWER OF METABOLIC THERAPY

My good friend, Thomas Seyfried, PhD, an outstanding biologist at Boston College, is senior author on an amazing case report of a complete remission in a patient with triple-negative breast cancer. The treatment took place at an innovative cancer center in Turkey and involved a combination of chemotherapy with hyperthermia, hyperbaric oxygen and a ketogenic (i.e., a very low carbohydrate + high fat) diet.

The article in question appeared in July 2017 in the online PubMedCentral-indexed scientific journal, Cureus. Here is a link to the article:

Efficacy of Metabolically Supported Chemotherapy Combined with Ketogenic Diet, Hyperthermia, and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Stage IV Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.

I have a special favor to ask my readers: If, after reading, you like this article as much as I did, please RATE IT and leave a review at the site. This is important because the paper is in a best outcome competition at the journal and winning this contest will advance the cause of innovative cancer treatment. You may need to sign up with Cureus first.

Here is my comment: Based on the prevalence of the Warburg effect, and the enormous amount of preliminary work on the glucose-dependency of cancer, it would be logical to pursue such strategies as a ketogenic diet, water fasting, and extending the nightly fast, to the cancer situation. This would most logically be done at first as an adjunct to other, better established treatments. Despite this great promise, there has been little human clinical research on this topic. Thus, this paper, although it concerns only a single patient, is highly suggestive that this approach is fully deserving of a full-scale randomized clinical trial.
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