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Podcast: Ultra Life Today
Episode: Starving Cancer? Dr. Thomas Seyfried on Keto, Fasting & Low-Dose Chemo (Part 2)
Description: Dr. Thomas Seyfried returns for Part 2 of our deep dive into the metabolic theory of cancer—and this time we get practical.In this episode, Professor Seyfried (Biology, Boston College), author of Cancer as a Metabolic Disease, explains how glucose and glutamine fuel tumor cells and why managing cancer as a mitochondrial metabolic disorder changes everything about prevention and therapy.We discuss:* Why keeping blood sugar low and ketones elevated (nutritional ketosis) creates a hostile environment for cancer cells* How he uses the Glucose Ketone Index (GKI) to guide diet and fasting* Th...