Steven Bartlett with Dr Thomas Seyfried
Cutting carbohydrates does not remove the other fuel this cancer-treatment proposal targets: glutamine. Its central challenge is restricting both fuels at once.
Dr. Thomas Seyfried contends that cancer is fundamentally a metabolic disease caused by chronic damage to mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation rather than a primary genetic disorder.
Cancer cells depend on ancient fermentation pathways that require two primary fuels, glucose and glutamine, to survive and proliferate without oxygen.
While carbohydrate restriction and ketogenic diets effectively lower blood glucose, glutamine suppression requires specific pharmacological interventions or targeted pulse therapies.