: 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!
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!
- In university, he was told to not think about calories, but rather think of a low carb diet
- 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.
