Episode 1491 – (Originally Episode 515) BEST OF: Dr. Thomas Seyfried from Boston College joins Vinnie Tortorich on this Friday edition of the podcast to discuss the relationship between sugar and cancer. If you like what you’re hearing and want access to more premium content, please visit us at this link to subscribe: https://vinnietortorich.com/PremiumPodcastMembership
VINNIE AFTER CANCER
- After leukemia (and during) people kept telling Vinnie he needed to do certain things
- Eat macro-diet and micro-diet, juice everything, have wheatgrass, etc or he would die
- He went to his hematologist and asked how much of it was the truth
- His incredibly intelligent hematologist simply said “Stay away from sugar!”
- Everything is pointing towards sugar as one of the things that cancer loves
- His incredibly intelligent hematologist simply said “Stay away from sugar!”
SUGAR AND CANCER
- Sugar does not cause cancer, but cells that make tumors and such are fermentors
- This means they will gain energy from glucose fermentation
- Sugar feeds them
- This is a prime fuel, but not the only fuel
- This means they will gain energy from glucose fermentation
- Our red blood cells are constantly making a little lactate
- Tumor cells have defective mitochondria so they make lots of lactate
WHAT CAUSES CANCER?
- Radiation
- Chemicals in the environment
- Chronic inflammation
- ex: Lung cancer comes from lung inflammation which is worsened by smoking
- Age
- Mutations in genome that we inherit
- People are pre-disposed to cancers
- genome is your set of genes and differences / mutations in them
- Tickets will get more expensive as time goes by.
- We’re also on airplanes now – check it out!
