Steven Bartlett with Dr Thomas Seyfried
Cancer is widely misunderstood as a genetic disease, but it is actually a metabolic disorder driven by defective mitochondria and fueled by sugar and glutamine.
Cancer cells cannot survive using oxygen and must instead ferment glucose and the amino acid glutamine to sustain their unregulated growth.
Genetic mutations found in tumors are a downstream side effect of mitochondrial damage rather than the root cause of the disease.
Metabolic therapy utilizes calorie restriction and a ketogenic diet to transition the body to burning fatty acids and ketones, which are powerful fuels that cancer cells cannot process.