Name: Cancer as a metabolic disease
ISBN: 9780470584927

Cancer as a metabolic disease

The book addresses controversies related to the origins of cancer and provides solutions to cancer management and prevention. It expands upon Otto Warburg's well-known theory that all cancer is a disease of energy metabolism. However, Warburg did not link his theory to the "hallmarks of cancer" and thus his theory was discredited. This book aims to provide evidence, through case studies, that cancer is primarily a metabolic disease requring metabolic solutions for its management and prevention. Support for this position is derived from critical assessment of current cancer theories. Brain cancer case studies are presented as a proof of principle for metabolic solutions to disease management, but similarities are drawn to other types of cancer, including breast and colon, due to the same cellular mutations that they demonstrate.

What Hacker News says

lambdabaAug 2024

My "TOE" for cancer (and other chronic diseases):

- stress

- environmental pollutants

- empty calories + nutritional deficiencies (aka "high-calorie malnutrition")

- excessive hygiene and underexposure to pathogens particularly during childhood (even cesarian birth contributes to gut dysbiosis)

- overreliance on pharmaceutical drugs that do more harm than good

All in all a gross misunderstanding of what constitutes health and how the human body works.

For those so inclined, check out Dr. Thomas Seyfried's work on cancer as a metabolic disease: https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/morrissey/departments/biol...

thread

torceteSep 2023

Have a read to the book: Cancer as a metabolic disease.

I don't know how true is what they claim in the book, but basically it's the following.

All cancer cells obtain their energy from fermentation and not oxidation. They use glucose for that fermentation process and they propose fasting and a ketogenic diet as a treatment.

Antioxidants can actually promote fermentation and inhibition oxidation.

thread

238475235243Jun 2021

Cancer as a metabolic disease by Prof. Seyfried. Available on Amazon. Good starting point.

thread

238475235243Jun 2021

If you're a layperson try "Tripping over the Truth" by Travis Christofferson. If you have some biology try "Cancer as a Metabolic Disease" by Seyfried.

thread

jdale27May 2021

Look into Thomas Seyfried's work, e.g. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2020.00021... and his book "Cancer as a Metabolic Disease".

thread

bfieidhbrjrJan 2021

YSK, cancer as a metabolic disease, and tripping over the truth, are excellent books about this, and why we got cancer wrong since watson and crick.

thread