Understanding Cancer as a Metabolic disease
In 1931, a doctor discovered the real root of cancer, and the world ignored him. His name was Dr. Otto Warburg. He won the Nobel Prize for something that should have changed cancer treatment forever. Cancer doesn’t begin with bad genes. It begins when cells can no longer use oxygen to make energy. Warburg discovered that cancer cells ferment sugar even when oxygen is available. This is called The Warburg Effect, and here is the kicker: We’re still treating cancer today as only genetic, but Warburg was right: Cancer is a metabolic disease. The big obstacle to getting established medicine to rethink cancer is that there is no money in metabolic therapy. There’s no pill or shot for Big Pharma to sell.
The origin of the disease arises from the damage to the mitochondrial of the cells, resulting in the cells having to ferment, or generate energy without oxygen. The mitochondria regulates energy metabolism within the cell, when the mitochondrial become dysfunctional, they revert to fermentation, fuels that don’t require oxygen those fuels are glucose and glutamine. Cancer’s energy comes from these two fuels, glucose and glutamine and can’t use fatty acids or ketone bodies. So you have to deprive them of their fuels glucose and glutamine
It is vitally Important to move patients into ketosis, ketosis deprives the cancer of their energy source glucose. So you have to deprive them of their fuels glucose and glutamine . Often I start with water fast, fasting triggers autophagy, a cellular process where cells break down and recycle damaged or unnecessary components. Autophagy typically ramps up significantly after 12–24 hours of fasting, the process helps clear damaged proteins, organelles, and pathogens, supporting cellular health and stress resilience. Then come in with drugs that target glucose and glutamine. These ketosis diets, cWhen the patient is in ketosis, we use glutamine blocking drugs spaced through our the day. Depriving the cancer of it’s two vital fuels glucose and glutamine.
As you slowly degrade the tumor by restricting the glucose, your other cells are getting healthier using fatty acids. Normal cells are extremely flexible in the fuels they can use. The cancer cells are massively inflexible because their oxidative phosphorylation system is corrupted. They have to root lie on fermentation in the two predominant fuels are sugar and glutamine. You can keep the body healthy while degrading the tumor.
Once you understand what the origin of the disease is, or the disorder you’re able to manage the disease without toxicity. remove the two fuels that drive fermentation metabolism while changing the body over to fatty acids and ketones.
Cancer is a mitochondrial metabolic disease where fermentation gradually replaces respiration for cellular energy.
Glucose and glutamine are the major fermentable fuels for driving cancer growth
Ketone bodies can replace glucose in normal cells, but not in tumor cells
ROS production is greater in tumor cells than in normal cells
Cancer mutations arises in effect, not as a cause, of destabilization cancer mutations arises in effect, not as a cause, of destabilized energy metabolism
Cancer mutations make tumor cells more vulnerable to energy stress the normal cells
The glutamine addicted neoplastic macrophage is the origin of the metastatic cancer cell