P5 Protocols - Dr. Thomas Seyfried - Episode 4

"Could cancer be a metabolic disease after all?" Welcome to the next episode of P5 Protocols with Tom Seyfried, a cancer researcher at Boston College, who is the world’s leading researcher in, well let’s use the title of his book: Cancer as a Metabolic Disease. When you meet Tom, who is 70 and widely experienced, you immediately sense that he is a force of nature! Next week, I will be at a conference, aptly named Tripping over the Truth, which will have the world’s leading experts in the research and development of metabolic treatment protocols for cancer as well as Alzheimer’s. Tom is one of the organizers and featured speakers, deservedly so. No one with metabolic therapies for cancer does a thing without speaking to Tom! I recorded this interview back on June 22 of this year, but held it back a bit to coincide with this upcoming conference. As well, since Tom is a researcher and not a practitioner, he does not prescribe treatment protocols, but he does the research needed to create them; and, with other practitioners around the world, he has done just that – and to great effect. I love contrarian thinkers. As Mark Twain once said: “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” However, few do that – especially when their life’s work is on the line. But Tom Seyfried did just that. For decades, Tom was a genetics researcher, who kept looking to find answers and found that virtually all of his past work did not make sense; AND he had the guts to turn his work in entirely different direction, risking the pitfalls of heresy. When I see people like that, I’m in! I believe Tom is on to something. As some say, he thinks that going on a ketogenic diet will kill cancer. Though at times, when he talks, it sounds that way, if pressed, he emphatically states that is not the case. His entire research is based on putting together protocols that include many different tools and even some current tools that have their place and time of use. As to the current genetics and immunotherapy approach, I hear of occasional miracles and in certain areas there have been and will be. But is it efficient? When will it work for most? Statistics alone tell me that many millions will die before that approach figures it out, if ever. Remember that the war on cancer started during the Nixon Administration. So, I wonder: If in the 1960’s, when the world’s computing power was equivalent to roughly one iPhone, we were able to put a man on the moon, AND get a lost space capsule back to earth, why, with hundreds of billions spent every year on genetic related approaches including immunotherapy, gene therapy, etc., are we not making any material progress? This should be done by now! Why are cures always around the corner? It makes no sense and for those in need, why not try things now??? Get any edge you can get? If you are in cancer therapy – as a patient or provider, you have to at least listen to what Tom has to say. If you don’t at least consider it, you are by definition not looking to get every edge you can get, and if your or a loved one’s life is on the line, why not? And with that question, here is Tom Seyfried.