Starting to feel like spring

We’re in waiting mode. No tests for a couple more weeks. Another chemo free week is coming up. Johnny is getting excited for his Indians to play ball!!!   And we just found out some good friends, Michelle and Joe purchased a home around the corner from us.  We’re waiting to hear when moving day is, but there’s gonna be a party. In fact Brian had the neighborhoods first bonfire of the season last Saturday.

 

While Johnny’s been watching some of the spring training games I’ve been digging into more cancer research.

The first researcher: Thomas Seyfried, at Boston College, is the author of Cancer as a Metabolic Disease.  He believes Otto Warburg (a German researcher, Nobel Prize winner, and Albert Einstein’s friend) got the whole story right and that cancer originates with the cell’s inability to produce sufficient energy with oxygen.  Seyfried is primarily focused on non-toxic therapies, particularly our ketogenic diet.

The second researcher Dominic D’Agostino of the University of South Florida College of Medicine.  His research combines the ketogenic diet with hyperbaric oxygen treatments.  He uses 2.5 Atomsphers for 60 minutes 3 times per week, including pressurization and depressurization, each session is 90 minutes.

The third is Lewis Cantley, the director of the Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medical College.  His work has shown that elevated insulin, driven by diet, is often the first step in the process of cancer.  Once the cells begin to take up more and more glucose it leads to mutations.  Bottom line-keep your blood sugar levels low.

Another is Matthew Vander Heiden, at MIT.  He’s looking at whether insulin or glucose is playing a more important role in cancer development.  And it is looking like it depends on the type of cancer but his finding show that both contribute.

Some of the others I’m watching closely are David Sabatini of MIT, Peter Attia and his blog The Eating Academy.  Peter Pedersen, a biochemist at Johns Hopkins, and Dr. Young Ko who has done the critical research on 3-bromopyruvate.

I know the research stuff can be overwhelming for some boring for others, but I like putting it out here.  It takes hours and hours of reading, so if I can help someone else with cancer –that is what this blog is all about.  Happy Grilling this weekend.