Sugar and Cancer

Dr. Thomas Seyfried from Boston College joins Vinnie Tortorich on this Friday edition of the Angriest Trainer podcast. PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Villa Cappelli Squatty Potty Pure Vitamin Club VINNIE AFTER CANCER After leukemia (and during) people kept telling Vinnie he needed to do certain things Eat macro-diet and micro-diet, juice everything, have wheatgrass, etc or he would die He went to his hematologist and asked how much of it was the truth His incredibly intelligent hematologist simply said "Stay away from sugar!" Everything is pointing towards sugar as one of the things that cancer loves SUGAR AND CANCER Sugar does not cancer, but cells that make tumors and such are fermentors This means they will gain energy from glucose fermentation Sugar feeds them This is a prime fuel, but not the only fuel Our red blood cells are constantly making a little lactate Tumor cells have defective mitochondria so they make lots of lactate WHAT CAUSES CANCER? Radiation Chemicals in the environment Chronic inflammation ex: Lung cancer comes from lung inflammation which is worsened by smoking Age Mutations in genome that we inherit People are pre-disposed to cancers genome is your set of genes and differences / mutations in them