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Metabolic Therapies: How to Prevent & Treat Cancer (Starve It!) | Dr. Dominic D'Agostino

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Episode 553

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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

Show sponsor:

Quicksilver Scientific <== 15% off all Quicksilver Scientific products by using the code ultimatehealth15 at checkout

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)

Moffitt Cancer Center

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago