Managing Sickness with a Ketogenic Diet with Andrew Scarborough

: Episode 592 – Andrew Scarborough, patient advocate and health and fitness expert, joins Vinnie Tortorich on this Friday episode to discuss his story and how he is managing sickness with a ketogenic diet, in a very interesting way!

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ANDREW’S STORY

• Background as a fitness trainer and has a master’s degree in Nutrition
  • In university, he was told to not think about calories, but rather think of a low carb diet
    • Rare for universities!
• Was diagnosed 3 years ago with anaplastic astrocytoma and suffered a brain hemorrhage
  • Malignant tumor, has brain cancer induced epilepsy
• Started lowering his carb intake, started feeling better

HEART FUNCTION & CHOLESTEROL

• Doctors tell you to lower cholesterol by not eating fats
• We NEED cholesterol to function
• We don’t need statins for the most part
• Our body will make cholesterol if we do not eat enough
• Magnesium acts as a natural statin

MANAGING SICKNESS WITH A KETOGENIC DIET

• Andrew replaced his seizure medicine with magnesium supplements
  • He was told to increase medication but instead went off of it
• Doctors thought that because he had brain tumor related epilepsy, a ketogenic diet wouldn’t help
  • They were wrong
  • Adults have metabolic flexibility too
• Has done 9 day fasts with just water and various salts
• His metabolic approach is hopefully changing the markers in his scans
• Ultimately, he is on a low carb high fat diet that allows him to feel better, and hopefully make his cancer more manageable and ultimately help cure it
• Ketogenic diet is anti-inflammatory

EDIBLE BUGS

• Andrew eats edible insects because they are very nutrient dense
  • Consumes various larvae
  • Breeds bugs to manipulate feed and environment to manipulate the nutrients within
• Cut out all plants and many things on a ketogenic diet
  • Bugs were the best option!
• He also consumes organ meats because of their nutrient-density and lack of carbs
  • Eats brains and sweet-breads, etc.