553: Metabolic Therapies: How to Prevent & Treat Cancer (Starve It!) | Dr. Dominic D’Agostino
The Jesse Chappus Show
The Role of Different Fuels in Cancer Cells
Exploring the utilization of different fuels by cancer cells, including the use of ketones for lipid production and the reliance of aggressive tumors on glucose. The abnormal structure and decreased number of mitochondria in aggressive tumors are also discussed.
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/553drdominicdagostino
Dr. Dominic D’Agostino (IG: @dominic.dagostino.kt) is a tenured Associate Professor at the University of South Florida (USF) Morsani College of Medicine in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology. He teaches medical neuroscience, medical physiology, nutrition and neuropharmacology.
Dom is also a Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) to assist with their efforts towards optimizing the safety, health and resilience of the warfighter and astronaut.
His primary research focuses on developing and testing nutritional and metabolic-based therapies for a variety of disease states and advancing the use of metabolic-based therapies into human clinical applications.
Today, we are talking all about the prevention and treatment of cancer using metabolic therapies.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why the ketogenic diet is a therapeutic way to treat & prevent cancer
- What does cancer as a metabolic disease mean?
- The prescription-strength ketogenic diet
- The ketogenic diet and latest cancer research
- Tumors and metastatic cancer
- The two fuels that feed cancer
- What glucose ketone index (GKI) ratio is therapeutic for cancer?
- Understanding blood glucose range
- The ketogenic diet combined with radiation
- The problem with chemotherapy
- Supplements to help manage blood glucose
- Supplement recommendations for cancer treatment & prevention
- What is the therapeutic benefit of ketones?
- Carbs and ketones
- The carnivore diet & cancer
- Dom’s thoughts on a plant-based approach to cancer
- Water fasting before chemotherapy
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is beneficial for radiation necrosis
- How to lower glutamine naturally?
- Glutamine and cancer
- Exercise is an important component of cancer treatment
- An integrative approach to cancer
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Related links:
Dr. Dominic D'Agostino's website (KetoNutrition)
Follow Dr. Dominic D'Agostino (KetoNutrition) on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube
Listen to Dr. Dominic D'Agostino previously on TUHP (episode #133)
Listen or watch Dr. Thomas Seyfried previously on TUHP (episode #525, #530, and #545)
Dr. Thomas Seyfried - Cancer as a Metabolic Disease (book)
Travis Christofferson - Tripping Over the Truth (book)
Miriam Kalamian - Keto for Cancer (book)
Keto Mojo - Glucose Ketone Index (GKI)
Adrienne C. Scheck, PhD - Molecular Biology of Chemotherapy and Resistance (study)
BiOptimizers - Blood Sugar Breakthrough
Audacious Nutrition - KETOSTART+
Edward P. Manning - Central Nervous System Oxygen Toxicity and Hyperbaric Oxygen Seizures (study)
Listen or watch Dr. Valter Longo previously on TUHP (episode #442)
ProLon - Fasting Mimicking Diet
Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society
Related episodes:
Metabolic Nutrition: Eat This Way to Prevent & Fight Cancer | Dr. Christy Kesslering (#549)
Stage 4 Cancer Thriver: Using Metabolic Therapies to Prevent & Treat Cancer | Maggie Jones (#546)
Cancer Survivor Reveals Her Top Foods That Fight Cancer | Lauren Kretzer (#535)
Food as Medicine: Eat This to Heal the Body, Burn Fat & Starve Cancer! | Dr. William Li (#534)
Fasting Secrets: How to Lose Weight & Prevent Cancer! | Dr. Jason Fung (#523)
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