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What Causes Cancer? The Truth Most Doctors Don’t Talk About · Intellectual Medicine

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  What causes cancer? Is it sugar?
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  Is it insulin? Is cancer a metabolic disorder?
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  Or is it genetic cancer like sugar?
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  Let's take the sugar away. What happens next?
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  Food is like a force of nature. Too much harms you, not enough
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  harms you. We're going to explore that a
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  bit. The idea that cancer is caused
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  by high sugar is simplistic with a kernel of truth.
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  We know that cancer prefers sugar as a source of energy, but
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  we also know that your cells in your brain need it as well.
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  And if you eliminate all sugar from your diet, your liver will
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  make some. So the metabolic origin for
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  cancer was theorized by Otto Warburg.
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  He won a Nobel Prize for his work.
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  He was a doctor and APHD. His theory was that cancer
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  starts at the level of the mitochondria.
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  It's dysfunctional metabolism flips into a pathway that
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  instigates abnormal cell growth and can initiate and propagate
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  cancer. A very worthwhile theory that
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  may have effect and may be true, but what happened next?
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  The Warburg theory. The Warburg effect, as it's
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  called, this idea that cancer cells thrive by making sugar in
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  an environment with abundant oxygen.
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  They ought not to be doing it through lactic acidosis.
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  They should be doing it through pyruvic metabolism.
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  In other words, cancer cells can generate energy out of sugar in
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  an environment and in a manner that normally wouldn't be
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  executed. Well, Warburg had that theory.
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  It had plausibility, but it wasn't followed up on because
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  what happened next was the genome theory.
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  So the metabolic theory gets put on the side and we dive into
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  genes. If we just figure out the gene
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  that causes cancer, the DNA mutation that connects the dots,
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  we can then cure it. And we spent money and time
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  studying genes, looking at the profiles.
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  There's been some help. There are some genes that are
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  inclined to make us more at risk.
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  But when it comes to prostate cancer, there are over 180 genes
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  that have been correlated with cancer risk.
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  Oh my word, when you see that many correlations, it means none
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  of them are accurate. The other problem with prostate
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  cancer in particular is it's different than any other cancer,
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  as we've discussed. As my book explains, yes, you
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  should buy the book, Prostate cancer is an Inevitable change
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  that occurs in the gland at some point in a man's life.
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  These are the atypical dormant cells that get mislabeled and
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  misdiagnosed as active malignancies by overzealous
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  practitioners that are doing biopsies, which really shouldn't
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  be done anymore. So in that setting, prostate
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  cancer is utterly unique because of its inevitability in the
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  gland. The idea that you can starve it
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  out, that the metabolic effect can weigh upon it, is limited in
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  its impact. Now, cancer writ large, all of
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  the malignancies have it are affected by this metabolic
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  connection. Otto Warburg theorized it.
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  Thomas Seyfried from Boston College is a PhD researcher.
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  He's put on some nice theoretical papers with some
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  interesting research. One thing that Thomas Seyfried
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  and Otto Warburg have in common, They never treated a cancer
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  patient. Ever.
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  Not one, Never. That's a big deal because you
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  can come up with very elegant theories, promote them based
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  upon the metabolic evidence, but unless you go to the field, look
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  a patient in the eye and apply that theory, you'll never know
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  if it's valid. Doctors like me, myself, Doctor
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  Pederuti, those that are certified in my protocol,
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  they're out there. They're in numerous states.
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  You can reach 1 if you need one. We take that information and
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  research and we're the bridge to apply it in real life.
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  This is not a drop down ordered from the supplement store
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  Internet based. I don't see the doctor treatment
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  pathway. That will never be valid.
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  There are too many people out there simplistically promoting
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  the principles of metabolic effect, theorizing that cancer
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  can be starved If you just don't eat sugar, you go into ketosis.
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  All right, cancer like sugar. Let's take the sugar away.
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  What happens next? Your cells, your brain, they
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  don't thrive without sugar. And oh, by the way, cancer cells
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  can convert from metabolizing sugar to metabolizing other
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  energy sources. They find a way to survive.
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  They live right next to your cells.
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  I'm also on board with a metabolic effect.
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  How can these two things square? The metabolic effect is real.
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  We know that high insulin and high sugar correlate with
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  advanced levels of cancer establishing and also with its
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  progression in prostate cancer. A huge risk factor is excess
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  body weight, adiposity that is unequivocal.
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  So whether or not it is high insulin, high sugar, or the
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  inflammatory nature of adiposity, the excess body
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  weight must be addressed if you want your best shot at avoiding
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  or preventing cancer from progressing.
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  Prostate cancer thrives in an obese frame.
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  You can't treat it effectively as well as it needs to be
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  addressed. If that's not analyzed, that's
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  part of my protocol is addressing percent body fat.
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  When the urologist wants to just burn laser radiate, they're
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  ignoring the environment in which the cancer is thriving.
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  That's not a cure, That's not a remedy.
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  That is just capitalizing on your fear to sell you a
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  procedure that's not going to work.
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  The same thing in oncology world.
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  Look, I have respect for my oncological and my urological
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  colleagues, but they're way off base with prostate cancer.
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  Their paradigm, their approach, the dogma, the way they've been
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  initiated to treat it is flat wrong.
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  You can't ZAP burn chemotherapy it out of existence.
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  You can't cut it out. You can't focal therapy it out.
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  These are crude attempts to treat a cellular phenomenon with
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  gross anatomy. Intervention is the metabolic
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  trigger at play. It is.
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  How does that then translate into a rational approach?
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  Oh, by the way, you don't need to see a doc to apply the
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  metabolic principles to your own health.
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  Here's a beautiful part about that folks.
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  When you address metabolic phenomenon through nutritional
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  modification, the use of thoughtful supplements and in
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  some cases physician or nurse practitioner guided prescription
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  drugs. When you apply that, let's take
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  out the drugs for a moment. Those of you that are listening
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  and are wondering what to do about your elevated PSA, you've
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  been told you need a biopsy. You don't.
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  Please read the book first. You'll understand why I just
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  said that. You can join the Doctor Pederuti
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  helps to pay for the research, the treatment, and the work that
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  I do in promoting this concept, this treatment, this new
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  paradigm. We're not funded by pharmacy, by
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  equipment manufacturers. We're up against the multi
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  billion dollar industry and we intend to breakthrough and we
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  pharmaceutical company, manufacturer, lab testing
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  company. We can't maintain our
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  intellectual independence. I think it'd be hard to do both.
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  Not only that, but they don't have anything to offer us.
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  You know, they try to make it seem like the greatest and
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  latest test is going to make a difference.
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  It doesn't. The greatest and latest
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  treatment, Focal therapy, cryoablation Aqua.
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  Nope, not at all. How about the metabolic
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  approach? Should you get your insulin
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  level tested? That's a reasonable test to get.
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  A fasting insulin level is reasonable.
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  Inexpensive, may help guide thought.
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  How about a hemoglobin A1 CI? Like that test I order for my
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  patients? That's a three month average of
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  what your blood sugar has been doing better than a spot sugar.
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  It tells us the overarching sugar control, the target
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  between 5 and 5.4 is a sweet spot.
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  If it goes below that, there's no benefit.
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  If it goes above that, increasing risk for cancer and
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  its propagation. By the way, folks, this applies
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  to every known cancer, breast cancer.
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  Women that have had breast cancer and gain weight,
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  increase, relapse, pancreatic, colon, all the same.
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  Obesity, excess percent body fat, men.
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  That means if you're above 20% women, above 30 for other
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  cancers, of course, your risk level increases.
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  So you got to get that down. I have an entire section of my
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  book and appendix that deals with weight loss.
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  It goes beyond GLP one drugs. Yeah, they're nice.
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  They can have value, but you should always come back to
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  nutritional behavioral change. A part of the the core, not a
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  diet, not a keto diet, right? You'll lose weight temporarily,
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  it'll come back. So metabolic issues have to be
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  addressed. Fasting insulin, hemoglobin A1C.
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  How about a continuous glucose monitor?
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  Nice, elegant. It can tell you how your body
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  reacts to certain foods. That's kind of cool.
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  It's a nice behavioral modification tool.
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  I've seen people use that and have profound benefit in how
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  they choose to eat food when they see what spikes the sugar.
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  That which spikes sugar spikes insulin and grows fat.
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  And all of these three amigos travel together to increase your
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  risk. Oh, by the way, it doesn't just
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  increase your risk of prostate cancer become a metastatic or
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  becoming established, It also increases your risk of heart
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  disease and dementia. Percent body fat correlates with
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  accelerated neuroatrophy. That's not good.
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  I don't want to shrink my brain, nor do you.
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  So the metabolic phenomenon is real.
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  The idea that you can starve cancer is not real.
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  You can't. You can alter the metabolic
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  milieu through nutrition, through percent body fat loss.
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  There are no magical foods that do this.
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  Yes, there are foods that are carcinogenic and we outline
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  those in the book, nitrites being one of them.
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  Think processed meat. Not all meat folks processed
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  meat. This becomes kind of a difficult
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  nutritional sort of fork in the road.
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  Let me think, if insulin's bad and carbohydrates including
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  fruit, raises insulin, should I just eat meat?
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  But wait, people say that meat is carcinogenic because it has
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  methionine and other meat. So stop the silly over focus on
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  unique diets. Here's what I can tell you
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  unequivocally, whether you are a carnivore or a vegetarian, if
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  you're growing fat, you're at risk for cancer propagation.
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  I would rather you be a lean vegetarian or a lean carnivore
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  than an obese organic eating vegetarian.
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  That's not good for you folks. Don't fool yourself.
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  There's really no such thing as a healthy food.
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  Food is like a force of nature. Too much harms you, not enough
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  harms you. It's like, well, like rain,
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  right? Too much your flood, not enough
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  to drought the right amount, you thrive.
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  That's food. Real food.
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  So metabolic effects in cancer are huge.
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  They are utterly ignored by oncologist.
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  I can't tell you. It really nauseates me when I
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  hear my patients come to me and say, oh, my oncologist told me
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  eat whatever I want, have ice cream, have cake.
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  It doesn't matter. We want you to get nice and
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  plump because this chemotherapy is going to RIP you apart.
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  That is just ignorant. Now I don't mind docs who lack
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  knowledge. We all do in different spaces.
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  What bothers me is in the absence of knowledge, they
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  promote advice without evidence. No, if you're battling cancer,
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  you can't eat bagels and expect your best outcome and grow fat.
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  That's bad. Ideally, you want to bring that
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  together. So in the prostate cancer
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  protocol, This is why. It's not a peel and stick list
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  of meds or a boilerplate supplement.
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  They all have value. But if you don't put it all
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  together folks, metabolic concerns, insulin level,
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  hemoglobin A1C, nutritional behavioral change, you put all
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  that together, now you're living the anti cancer lifestyle.
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  There are other triggers out there.
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  The metabolic 1 is highly significant and must be
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  addressed. The role of toxins, heavy
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  metals, lead, mercury, cadmium, it's very real and needs to be
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  considered. The role of viruses, not so much
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  in prostate cancer. We've not seen a correlation,
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  nor have we seen one with parasites.
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  Parasites do not cause cancer. Those of you that are in that
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  rabbit hole on the websites, you have my permission to abandon
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  it. It's a comfortable theory that
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  has no credibility. But the metabolic syndrome is
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  real. Obesity, high sugar, high
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  insulin levels also correlates in some cases with a more
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  sedentary lifestyle. Otto Warburg was right.
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  Tom Seyfried is right. There is a mitochondrial
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  metabolic trigger in there. The problem is then translating
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  that bench research to clinical practice.
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  That's what we do at intellectual medicine.
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  That's where you want to apply it to the knowledge you acquire
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  either on your own, you can certainly do a lot of things
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  guys, to make your body resilient and when you need that
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  extra step, that's what we're here for.
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  So metabolic phenomenon are real.
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  Mitochondrial support kind of makes a dilemma for us as well.
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  What about Ned nicotinamide 99 nucleotide that's good for
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  mitochondria? That may help make the
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  mitochondria more resilient toward the onset of cancer.
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  In some cases, taking supplements that are precursors
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  to boost NAD may make sense. However, if you have active
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  metastatic progressive cancer, the same stuff that makes
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  mitochondria resilient to cancer can ironically feed the
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  mitochondria in cancer. So the same substance, the same
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  supplement, depending on where you are in your life, arc can
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  either protect or harm. This is not for folks to fly on
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  their own. Knowing when and what supplement
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  to use is relevant, especially mitochondrial support NAD in
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  particular. Now I've seen some people
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  advocating the use of peptides to stimulate growth hormone as a
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  means of achieving anti aging, mid abdominal weight loss,
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  muscle mass, etcetera. The test we used to gauge the
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  function of the pituitary and help us determine the amount of
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  growth hormone at play is called an IGF one.
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  IGF 1 levels when they increase correlate with accelerated
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  cancer. Oh my goodness right, you
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  thought that the growth hormone was a good thing.
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  Unless you've got cancer, in which case it can accelerate its
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  growth. In fact, some of the Cancer
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  Research surrounds suppressing IGIG F1.
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  But wait, if you don't have cancer, then stimulating the
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  growth hormone can actually be helpful.
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  It can enhance immune function. It can revive the thymus gland.
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  If you're at an age where it can benefit you, typically over 60.
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  So I share these details with you not to muddy the water, but
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  try to put some rational balance into the promotional dynamics
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  that go behind a lot of these treatments that are that are
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  advocated. Starving cancer with extreme
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  dieting is not helpful. I have borne witness to that.
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  With regard to prostate cancer, I've seen it fail numerous
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  times. In a vacuum, it fails as a
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  component of global treatment. It can help percent body fat
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  absolutely worth targeting. So I guess we just got to keep
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  thinking. We have to continue to filter
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  information keeping an open mind an open mind to that, which may
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  help, but maintaining our high degree of skepticism.
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  Show me where's the research that shows that there may be
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  value. We don't need proof folks,
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  right? That kind of proof, that the the
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  type of proof that is absolute is rare in the world of
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  medicine, is nearly not existent in the world of prostate cancer.
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  Here's the best proof we have. However, we have proof that
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  conventional therapy fails to prevent death from prostate
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  cancer. That's proof enough to move away
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  from that paradigm completely. No more biopsy, no more
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  prostatectomy, no more radiation therapy.
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  No more castration. It all fails.
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  Metabolic focus is part of the equation.
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  All right, well, thanks for hanging with me, folks.
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  We'll talk to you next time on the podcast.
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  And remember, please go buy my book.
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  It's on Amazon. And join the men's group, Doctor
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  and it will give you crazy amounts of education.
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  Will continue to open your eyes. Talk to you next time.