The PricePlow Podcast #014: Shawn Wells #2 - Fighting Brain Cancer and Disease with Diet & Supplements
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A year after helping us Optimize Brain Performance, Shawn Wells returns to the PricePlow Podcast for a very informative interview, especially for those considering some adjunct therapy or last-ditch efforts when all others have failed.
We’re talking about cancer, specifically brain cancer (and even more specifically, glioblastoma).
It’s best to watch the video yourself, and we’ll have plenty of links below. Note that the video is long, and also gets into the entire “state of the situation” after we’re done talking about cancer specifically:
Targeting Cancer and other Metabolic Diseases with Diet, featuring Shawn Wells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvIjuWndShg
A ton of this entire discussion centers around the answer to this ultra-important question, however:
Is cancer a metabolic disorder?
Before proceeding any further down this path, the first question one has to ask themselves is if they believe the “Cancer is a Metabolic Disorder” theory.
The best and most convincing video to watch on the subject is by Dr. Thomas Seyfried, titled “Cancer: A Metabolic Disease With Metabolic Solutions”. It is embedded below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEE-oU8_NSU
More recently, Dr. Seyfried has published a paper titled Press-pulse: a novel therapeutic strategy for the metabolic management of cancer that I brought up in the podcast with Shawn.
If you believe that metabolic disorders caused by diet may be the most pressing cause of the proliferation of cancer (as Shawn states in the video, he believes it is 90% of the time), then there are ways to attack this potential root cause alongside an oncologist’s prescribed therapy.
Shawn’s Last-Ditch Adjunct Gameplan for Glioblastoma / Brain Cancer
As mentioned in the interview above, Shawn had very little time to assist with someone’s terminal condition. This is the entirety of what he suggested (the suggestions start at the 25:00 mark in our interview above):
- THERAPEUTIC Diet
Therapeutic typically means achieving a Glucose “K-Tone” Index (GKI) of 1.0. This is calculated using the formula based upon this study by Dr. Thomas Seyfried, the man mentioned above.
This is possible — in fact, I achieved a GKI of nearly 1.0 by accident, but I only got to those levels when I lowered protein (not on purpose) and was fasting for a while. Which leads us to our next point:
- Intermittent Fasting
In order to get into a “therapeutic” state as mentioned above, it’s far easier to do it unless you’re fasting or are extremely caloric-restricted.
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