Cancer as a Metabolic Disease PDF Download Book

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I am a board-certified medical oncologist with 30 years experience in caring for cancer patients and another 20 years of research in cancer medicine dating back to 1963. Seyfried’s “Cancer as a Metabolic Disease” is the most significant book I have read in my 50 years in this field. It should be required reading of all cancer specialists, physicians in general, scientific researchers in the field of cancer and for medical students. I cannot overstate what a valuable contribution Thomas Seyfried has made in writing this masterpiece.
Stephen B. Strum, MD, FACP
Medical Oncologist, Member of ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) since 1975

Dr. Seyfried provides compelling evidence that cancer is a metabolic disease (NOT a genetic disease), and this has major implications for the treatment and prevention of cancer.

According to Otto Warburg’s theory of cancer, mitochondrial dysfunction is the origin of cancer. Dr. Seyfried has amassed extensive evidence to support Warburg’s theory and advances the idea that cancer arises from defects in energy metabolism (mitochondrial dysfunction), and that this metabolic dysfunction triggers genomic instability, activates oncogenes and inactivating tumor suppressor genes. The author does an incredible job at convincing the reader that healthy mitochondria are the ultimate tumor suppressor.

It’s clear that the strategy to treat cancer as a genetic disease is not working following metastasis of solid primary tumors, but this fuels the pharmaceutical industry. Enormous amounts of money are spent on large cancer genome projects, but this has not advanced our understanding or treatment of cancer as expected. The cancer genome project has actually created more confusion amongst cancer researchers, and this is very clear if one reads the literature. On the other hand, when cancer is viewed as a metabolic disease the strategies to treat and prevent cancer become incredibly simplistic and economical. For example, animals studies, case reports and anecdotal evidence demonstrate that metabolic therapies that lower blood glucose and elevate ketones will quickly reduce tumor growth, extend lifespan and in some cases cause complete remission. This strategy is effective because cancer cells are fueled by glucose and lack the ability to derive energy from ketones due to mitochondrial defects. Metabolic therapies exploit the mitochondrial defects associated with cancer by targeting glucose metabolism, reducing insulin and elevating ketones. These therapies are simple and include “therapeutic fasting”, calorie restricted ketogenic diets and relatively cheap and safe drugs that target glycolysis, insulin and other cancer-specific metabolic pathways. The information in this book is valuable to patients and supported by extensive references. This book is technical (in parts), but the author has the ability to describe complicated processes with elegant simplicity.

I read this book immediately after reading “The Secret History of the War on Cancer” and “The Emperor of All Maladies”. These are excellent books, but I found Dr. Seyfried’s book to be more informative and empowering because it gives the reader clear evidence for the cause of cancer and highly effective strategies to prevent and treat the disease.

I would recommend this book to all cancer researchers, oncologists and layman interested in understanding the origin, management and treatment of cancer as a metabolic disease. This book will also be an extremely valuable resource for patients diagnosed with cancer.
Dominic D’Agostino, PhD, University of South Florida50.

There is no one like Thomas Seyfried. I borrowed his book from UCONN for 6 weeks to see if it was worth the $140 price. I bought two which is one month’s worth of food for my family. We sacrificed to own his book. The guy is a true scientist. Not proclaiming magic. Asking excellent questions. Providing experimental evidence. Addressing competing points of view. He is not into cancer research for the glory; just look at the basic research that has occupied his life which never gets to see the media.

There is no question that I distrust the MD who is trained to regurgitate and is prevented from pushing the frontiers of knowledge. We all need more PhDs to increase our understandings and to offer competing points of view to stimulate further investigation. Such a competing point of view exists in all science other than that offered by the medical industry which has consistently promoted conformance, not pursuit of knowledge. Just read Gary Taubes book, Good Calories, Bad Calories to appreciate this point of view.