Sugar and Cancer

Dec 11, 2015

Dr. Thomas Seyfried from Boston College joins Vinnie Tortorich on this Friday edition of the Angriest Trainer podcast.

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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