In December of 2004, our 4 year old son Raffi was diagnosed with a brain tumor. After three surgeries and several failed drug protocols, it was clear that the tumor was winning. Raffi’s vision, language and motor skills deteriorated and a cascade of endocrine problems affected many vital functions. Our little fighter had done everything […]
The ketogenic diet is unique in its ability to simultaneously put cancer cells under metabolic stress while ‘supercharging’ normal cells capacity to deal with a variety of insults. Chemotherapy is responsible for numerous side effects that significantly detract from the patient’s quality of life, leaving people sick and exhausted. To date, few therapies have been […]
Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is the most aggressive form of brain cancer. Median time of survival is about 15 months from diagnosis. Standard therapy for GBM includes surgical resection followed by concomitant radiation and chemotherapy and is able to extend GBM patients’ lives by approximately 1 year. Like all cancers GBM is highly dependent on glucose […]
Dr. Seyfried, other than Otto Warburg himself, may well be considered the godfather of the metabolic theory of cancer. In this video he briefly explains the main points of the metabolic theory of cancer, and the use of the ketogenic diet in managing brain cancer. Of special interest is the synergy between diet and 2-Deoxy-glucose, […]
The therapies that treat cancer as a metabolic disease exhibit incredible promise. The main stumbling block right now is that nobody knows how to make money from the molecules that treat cancer metabolically, because they are mostly non-patentable – so little attention gets paid. What follows is two case studies of cancer patients whom tried […]
In March 2012, Nobel Prize winner James Watson gave a seminar at Yale University entitled “Driven by Ideas”. Seemly out of character for the man who co-discovered DNA, Watson repeatedly suggested researchers shift focus to the metabolism of cancer. Watson presented a variety of metaphors to describe how scientists should view studying cancer. For example, […]