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Summary of Transcript:
In this YouTube video, Professor Seyfried Thomas Seyfried explains that ketones and fatty acids might be used as fuel by slow-growing tumor cells that have retained some respiratory capacity. He also states that fatty acids cannot support in vitro tumor or cell growth without glucose and glutamine. Therefore, if someone raises their carbohydrate level and provides glucose or glutamine and also burns ketones or takes ketones, some tumor cells could use ketones or fatty acids as fuel.
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Summary of Description:
Professor Thomas Seyfried has found that ketones and fatty acids can be used by some slow-growing tumor cells that have retained some respiratory capacity. However, if glucose and glutamine are kept low, the cancer cells can’t support tumor growth.
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Can ketones feed cancer? I asked an expert, and here’s what he told me.
Professor Thomas Seyfried’s Discussion on Cancer: (Layperson’s Version)
Professor Thomas Seyfried’s Discussion on Cancer:
DATA:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2020.00021/full
Timestamps
0:12 Professor Thomas Seyfried
1:12 Can cancer cells use ketones?
3:47 Ketones and tumors
3:58 Can ketones feed cancer?
In this video, we’re going to talk about ketones and cancer. I want to answer the question, “Can ketones feed cancer?”
I contacted Professor Thomas Seyfried to help me with this question, and this video is based on what he told me. Professor Thomas Seyfried is an expert on cancer and ketones.
Ketones and fatty acids might be used in some slow-growing tumor cells that have retained some respiratory capacity.
What does that mean?
There is one big difference between a cancer cell and a normal cell. That difference is how that cell is using its fuel. In a normal cell, you have this machine called the respiratory chain that takes energy and turns it into something the body can use to run all metabolic processes. Oxygen is the key thing in this process.
When this system is damaged, there is no oxygen. So, how do the cells turn oxygen into energy? They have a plan B. They convert to a different mechanism where they ferment glucose and glutamine, a specific type of amino acid. So, cancer cells ferment glucose and glutamine. This alternative mechanism doesn’t need oxygen.
In other words, unless the cancer cell has retained some of the respiratory chain function, it could use some ketones and fatty acids.
From his research, Professor Thomas Seyfried has found that all tumors show this pattern of the damaged respiratory chain.
Professor Thomas Seyfried also said ketones and fatty acids could support the cell’s plan B. But, without glucose-glutamine, fatty acids can not help in vitro (outside of the body) tumor cell growth.
So, if you were to raise your carbohydrate level and provide glucose or glutamine, and you were also burning ketones or taking ketones, some tumor cells could use ketones as fuel. But, if you keep the glucose and glutamine low, the cancer cells can’t support tumor growth.
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Thanks for watching! I hope this video helps you better understand ketones and cancer and answers the question, “Can ketones feed cancer.”
