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302: The Shocking Root Cause of Cancer and How to Starve It Naturally | Thomas Seyfried, PhD

The Genius Life

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The Effects of Low Glucose on the Brain

If you're in a diet that has very low glucose, well, okay, let's just bring it to 65 milligrams per decoliter. That just proves that the brain can burn and survive on ketones. But if you lower blood sugar, the demand for glucose in all of the cells of our body is increased because of their insulin sensitivity. The tumor cell absolutely has to have that glucose. It can't live without the glucose. So this explains why you have these massive amounts of tumors grown faster than the patients. You gotta know how to play the cells of one type off the cells of another type.You gotta bring your body back into a new state of metabolic homeost

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