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#188: Dom D'Agostino on Disease Prevention, Cancer, and Living Longer

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Radiation Therapy and the Ketogenic Diet

The ketogenic diet seems to enhance the tumor killing effect of radiation. It does that through a number of different mechanisms, probably crippling or reducing glycolytic flux through the tumors. The ketones tend to lower inflammation in the normal healthy tissue and protect your normal healthy brain tissue. We think that there's a lot of potential for the ketogenic diet as an adjuvant.

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