Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Dr Seyfried Ep 2 | The Secret to Cancer Prevention_ Mitochondria Hold the Key!

10 Sept 2024 · 0 min

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Short talk arguing that maintaining healthy mitochondria prevents cancer; recommends promoting ketone body metabolism (fat mobilization → liver-produced ketones) because many normal tissues (brain, heart, muscle) can burn ketones and this improves cellular health, whereas cancer cells cannot burn ketone bodies.

It's very hard to get cancer if your mitochondria remain healthy. How do you allow mitochondria to remain healthy? You have to have them burn ketones. Ketone bodies are fat, are breakdown products of fat. When you mobilize, fat goes to the liver. Liver makes water soluble ketone bodies. Our brains burn ketone bodies. Our muscle heart can burn ketone bodies. Our cells get super healthy when you're burning ketone bodies. Cancer cells can't burn ketone bodies.