This episode features Dr David Harper, a nutrition researcher and an expert in cancer prevention. Dr Harper specializes in understanding the root cause of cancer, how cancer grows, and the use of nutrition and lifestyle to starve cancer cells.
Dr Harper will discuss the truth about cancer and why cancer is not a genetic disease. Dr. Harper will explain the gene mutations that occur from cancer cells and the science behind metabolic therapy to starve cancer cells, reduce tumor (carcinomas) size, and ultimately prevent cancer.
Dr. Harper explains the three axes of what causes cancer, hyperinsulinemia, hyperglycemia, and chronic inflammation, and the mechanism by which all three lead to chronic disease, which includes cancer but also many other chronic health conditions like dementia, heart disease, stroke, and obesity.
Dr Harper will share the science behind the Ketogenic diet as a nutritional protocol to starve cancer cells and the role of Beta-Hydroxybutyrate, MTOR, and AMPK in preventing cancer (via up-regulation and down-regulation of certain mechanisms).
This episode is important for understanding how to actively treat cancer with nutrition, the science of metabolic therapy and mitochondria, and how to prevent cancer through lifestyle changes.
Journal Articles
- Beyond weight loss: a review of the therapeutic uses of very-low-carbohydrate (ketogenic) diets
- The Warburg Effect: How Does it Benefit Cancer Cells? (Study)
- Feasibility and metabolic outcomes of a well-formulated ketogenic diet as an adjuvant therapeutic intervention for women with stage IV metastatic breast cancer: The Keto-CARE trial (Study)
- High-fat diet made Inuits healthier but shorter thanks to gene mutations (Article)
- Cancer as a mitochondrial metabolic disease (Study)
Books
- BioDiet: The Scientifically Proven, Ketogenic Way to Lose Weight and Improve Health
- Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: On the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancer
Other Resources
- Find A Carnivore/ Keto Doctor
- Carnivore Macro Calculator
- GoCarnivore Sugar Calculator
- Buy KetoMojo (Ketone Meter)
About Dr David Harper
Dr David G Harper PhD is an Associate Professor of Kinesiology at the University of the Fraser Valley and a Visiting Scientist at the BC Cancer Research Center, Terry Fox Laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in comparative physiology at the University of Cambridge. He is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Canadian Clinicians for Therapeutic Nutrition and a member of the Institute for Personalized Therapeutic Nutrition.
He is a health educator and a cancer researcher who has been studying the impact of diet on human health for many years. The accumulation of that extensive work is the book Bio Diet, an exploration of both the background science and the how-to of the ketogenic diet.
