Dr Fung literally saved my life. I was on insulin and metformin for 4 years. Following Dr Fungs advice in his books, I got off both meds. My insulin resistance has returned to that of a non-diabetic person. I lost 60 pounds in 10 weeks (great side effect).
Congratulations Sharon, that is wonderful news. Can you share a bit about what protocols you followed ... your fasting schedule, diet changes etc. As well, is your new routine continuing now as it was before? Would love to hear some details.
Dr Nadir Mir Ali in Texas is fantastic and tends to inject humor from time to time so with all his medical/technical jargon - should you catch it he’s quite funny!!! He’s a cardiologist but VERY up to date and aware of getting to the root cause! His website says it all “EAT MOSTLY FAT”
@@billscow I'd bet on Fung ahead of traditionalists, any day. He challenges ideas, not people. So maybe respond to the ideas rather than off the cuff ad hominem dismissals of the critical thinker/ challenger of old, non-fruitful ideas.
Dr. Fung's CZcams videos saved my life. Last March I was diabetic. 10 months later my blood glucose before my breakfast is 80. I am also 40 pounds lighter. My quest for health continues, I am hoping to get my blood glucose in the low 70s before March this year.
As always up to date doctors are fascinating teachers! Wish my PCP and interventional cardio doc would even just catch up with keto and intermittent fasting AND insulin resistance. They’re younger than me and consider me non- compliant because 2 1/2 years on keto/IF I got off all 17 meds. I’m nearly 66 years old. Think I’m outgrowing my doctors. Sad.
Same here, I have a pacemaker and had bypass surgery at age 56 from decades of eating LOW FAT HIGH CARB as per the food pyramid. 5 years now HIGH FAT LOW CARB. Never felt better in my life. My PCP and cardio don’t get it either. There’s a reason people turn to the internet for their health, the medical establishment is full of sh-t Stay safe, stay healthy.
Thank you!! Dr. Fung. Do you ever go to sleep? I am simply fascinated with your wide ranging professional knowledge and interests. Your work helps me in my everyday life: using intermittent fasting to reduce insulin, manage weight to lower cancer risks, etc. May God continue to bless you as you share your work with us/the world.
I am a desciple of Dr. Jason Fung. To be able to put across the research hypothesis and methodology that anyone can understand is not a given. Love the seed and soil analogy. Modern day Confucius! Stay blessed.
I guess I live in a different world... I have been eating twice a day ( morning and mid-afternoon) for decades ( low carb, lots of vegetables, eggs, cheese, less than 2#s of meat/yr. -- never ever been overweight, always naturally very thin, get regular vigorous exercise). People really eat 6+ times a day?.. what kind of food bills do they have?... I couldn’t afford to eat that way. At 64+ I have no medical issues, never get sick, have plenty of energy, grow my own food, run my own home based businesses... and live simply ( nearly off the grid, cook and heat with wood in winter ), dig my gardens by hand.... I hope I can get Dr. Fung’s books through the library.... What about waist circumference in someone with a significant scoliosis? That circumference includes going around ribs etc., therefore for that population it wouldn’t be a very accurate measurement.
He counts anytime you have a snack or even popping a piece of candy in your mouth as eating. We've been fed a bill of goods in our country that you need to eat 5-6 small meals every day to keep your blood sugar even. All utter bs, since every time you eat you have an insulin response and have to divert energy that could be used for healing in the complicated digestion process. Now that I know this, and have at least 16 hours between last and first meals, never eat 3 meals a day, and do weekend fasts a couple times a month, the weight it falling off me. Love Dr. Fung!
Valter Longo, an Italian biologists did research experiments and proved that fasting fights cancer. However he couldn't get patients and doctors to adopt the intervention in actual practice. So he came up with the "Fasting Mimicking Diet". A person can eat some foods but still get the benefits of fasting. It is currently being used successfully to fight cancer. However our legal system prevents this from being promoted or any claims made.
Latest published papers , fasting Chemo and IV vitamin C have had even greater results. Valter, not Walter Longo, sorry to correct but may be necessary for people wanting to read the published Data. Pubmed is a great place to start.
Money runs the world. It's not a big focus to cure or prevent cancer bc no money making for the big pharma and doctors. No sick patient means no money coming in for the business!!! Sick patients keeps the money coming.
Thank you for another very valuable opportunity to learn from Dr Fung. I consider myself very lucky to be able to access these talks, free for everyone, but I subscribe to dietdoctor to enable more people to have the opportunity to learn a wonderful way of eating and living.
Thanks for this incredibly useful information. I'm terminally ill from a rare form of cancer, peritoneal carcinomatosis. Recently I switched to a ketogenic diet and go at least 12 hours in between eating, hoping to at least extend remission. It will be interesting to see if there's any impact on the growth and spread of the cancer. Certainly I have little to lose in the attempt.
Bisca una entrevista de una señora que tenía cáncer de pulmón que había hecho metástasis y se curó con pura dieta keto clean y water fasting e intermittent fasting con el Dr. Matthew Phillips creo ella se llama Sirona. Si cancer se redujo un 96% y está documentado. Deseo te alivies.
Look into a 21 day fast. It's important to get nutrition along the way, but sugar looks like a big no no for cancer. I fast for 19 hours every day and have done for two years. I lost 113 pounds of body weight and reversed type 2 diabetes. I also got rid of a ton of bone inflammation. I studied Dr Fung, Dr Berry, Dr Boz and Dr Ekberg.
I teach research methods and love this discussion. Science should be eager to disprove our hypotheses. However, now, orthodoxy sets in quickly, gets all kind of money for research and never stops to check the primary hypothesis if data contradicts it.
Dr. Scher did an EXCEPTIONAL job at asking the precise questions that helped elucidate all the concepts Dr. Fung needed to bring forward. Incredibly informative video…THANK YOU!
What a great combination of Drs. Scher and Fung. Always makes for an outstanding program and learning experience. Thank you to you both for your devotion to helping us learn how to help ourselves, and helping clarify the complexities of the physical challenges we face. While giving us options alongside solutions. I so respect the both of you for your devotion, your research, and tireless dedication to these crucial topic, and your experience, knowing you are still researching and we share your findings with us in the future. You are both priceless!!🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻🤦🤦🏼♀️🤷🏽🤦🏼♀️🤷🏽🤦🏼🤷🏼♂️🙎🏼♀️🙎🏼♀️
I’ve been keto for 18 months and have gained many benefits from it but listening to this interview makes me think we don’t really know everything about this carb issue. It might be much more nuanced than what we think...
Keto is just very good because it forces you to plan and think about your food a lot, which makes you obsess with healthy foods and instill a lot of amazing food habits. Increasing healthy fats, limiting/reducing/deleting sugar intake and processed bullshit, increasing low carb high nutrient foods in general etc. This will give you amazing benefits. It's not purely the ketosis that's doing you good. I mean, it's really easy to lose weight while in ketosis, because of the hunger-surpressing. But you can gain almost all the benefits from a proper ketogenic diet from a plant-based diet or even a carnivore diet, if done properly. It's just that the average person's diet is total shit, so anything that changes that already makes you wayyyyy healthier.
His book was so useful to me. Mucosal melanoma in my nose. Surgery plus Immunotherapy plus keto is my path. Currently cancer free. Interestingly having a high level of mutations is a good predictor for a good response to PD-1 immunotherapy; mucosal has a low level of mutations but across tumors there is lots of variability. They still are developing targeted therapies to certain genes in cancer tumors (e.g. BRAF+, KIT). You can get side effects from immunotherapy; when the brakes are off, your T cells can cause an autoimmune response.
@@CG-mj8tk yes I had colitis. Had to take prednisone, but doing good otherwise. I am NED since I started immunotherapy. No cancer detected when I had surgery to establish margins. 2pet scans later, still NED.
33:04, All cancers share one thing. Damaged mitochondria. The mitochondria are known to be dysfunctional in at least two ways. 1. The mitochondria in cancer cells cannot switch over to burning ketone bodies for energy as normal mitochondria can, (Warburg Effect). 2. In normal cells the mitochondria are in charge of signaling apoptosis, programmed cell death. In cancer cells the mitochondria have lost this ability hence unregulated cell growth. Many things can damage mitochondria including a virus. The immune systems kills most cancer cells before they become tumors. Crank up your immune system with vitamin D3. As Mulder said to Scully; The truth is out there.
It’s amazing how when everyone one else is stuck on the same path and someone like Dr Fung stated looking this disease in the other direction it helps everyone out so with all this new information All I can do is give thanks for all Doctors who is looking forward to helping us peoples
It's very difficult to find a doctor that is well read on nutrition. Most think nutrition has very little to do with disease. It's a shame but we really need to doctor ourselves and follow the advice of doctors such as these.
Five years ago, I would have heard him talking and thought, what the hell is he speaking about ?? I would have written a glossary.... and looked everything up, for eg what is BRCA gene ? etc etc. Now I breeze through medical terms and have my mind blown right along with him. I've come to understand transcription factors and methylation, genetic mutation, and epigenics, biomarkers and a whole plethora of other information that continues to show me just how amazing our bodies are, and just how ignorant we spend the majority of our life. No wonder we are all getting sick. No shade, I was really sick, that's how I got here, back to health, but with a whole new appreciation, knowledge base and curiosity to continue learning as i go through the second half of my life. Makes me happy to know I've really taken hold of my health and my life or as Dr Fung says 'the soil'. Being unhealthy really is 20% genes and 80 % choice. Choose wisely, you might cheat the clock in youth, but our choices come back to bite.
I have T2D and my PCP or dietition was no help. The foods play big roles in our health. I've learned doctors are in it for money. He is sharing info we can impliments into our diets to assist if we need to make diet changes in our lifestyle. I now do fasting and low carb high fat diets to manage weight loss, lower my glucose, and A1C results. High carb diet definitely did my body great harmed over time but I am taking charge of it. He helped me a lot in my overall health changes. I'm happy I've found him here.
On the subject of eating snacks- yes! Snacks were figuratively, and darned close to literally, shoved down our throats. I remember standing there in shock that a teacher was trying to make us eat when it was not time for it, and kids crying . I went home and told Mom they were making us drink milk and have graham crackers only an hour or two after we got to school. So, she told me to quit eating breakfast at home. I read so many articles and heard so many things from parents and children, all of whom hated it but the parents were being convinced it had to happen. And, after a while, the kids started liking it. Because, they got treats as snacks when they would not get them at other times. But that didn't last long because "Oh no, we need healthy snacks!" and then the kids still wanted treats, so throw in another snack. And, "healthy" was, like, salty pretzel sticks with celery and peanut butter. So, lots of calories and fat and glu e .. I mean, flour and salt. So gross! My feeling was - and boy did I get in trouble for saying so- if we are going to have meals, let's have only the meals and if we are going to snack, let's only have snacks, even at meal times. It was too much food and time wastage.
takes a while to get going and hit the nail on the head, but it does finally happen starting at around 36:00. So chronic injury can make any cell evolve into a non team player (or de-volve into the type of primitive cell that only existed before the dawn of multicellular organisms)
Dr Fung I just had a mastectomy and an 20 lbs over weight in stomach. I’m trying to figure out what got m. The Timor was HUGE. I can say I Vegas deep depression and jealousy and anger in my life. I’m in mid70s. I also developed a hunger for sugars and sweets. Is all this possibly a reason for the aggressive cancer. It hasn’t spread but I was guaranteed I’d be dead in a year and ? Months if I don’t get chemo and radiation. I’ll never touch sugar ever again and I’m going back to transcendental meditation. Please Dr Fung can you advise anything beside fasting, and fruit and vegetables. I want to live❤ I’ve been hearing your speeches and you are a very wise Doctor. Thankyou so much!🥦🥕🥒🍅🫒🫑🥑🥝🥬🍇🍉🍓🫐🍑🍒
Back in 2020 I was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer. To remove the cancer, my right kidney, spleen and 80 percent of my pancreas was removed. Endocrinologist said that automatically makes me a type 2 diabetic. She said I'm fighting a battle I can't win with only 20 percent of a pancreas. Is there anyone in this group with a partial pancreas having success with fasting and a very low carb diet? I'm not asking for medical advice. I'm asking if there is anyone like me in this group. I've been cancer free for 2 years now.
I was lucky enough to have herceptin for hert2 breast cancer 7 years ago...my personal theory about cancer involves the effects life long stress has on our cells. Even though I was athletic, healthy eater, stress seems to be the common denominator for myself and many other people I met also going through treatment. No one is talking about the detrimental effects stress has on our bodies and the link to cancers...I'm thinking stressed cells would not absorb nutrients properly. It's a common observation that positive thinkers have a better outlook, why is that do you think? It's not a random connection either.
Stress in medical terms corresponds to elevated levels of cortisol aka the stress hormone, which could be one of the triggers of bringing about cancer.
Yeah, that's what Fung is also stating about the cigarette smoking and the cells being stressed to de-volve into the single-cellular variant, which can cause cancer. Every stressor on your body can eventually cause cancer. That's also why it's so beneficial to fast every now and then. Most diets involve stressing your intestinal system at least to a small minimum degree, even healthy diets. By fasting you are halting this stress, so your body can recuperate, broadly speaking. This is also true in case of for example doing muscle-building exercises. It's amazing for your body to do strength training, but if you overdo it, you keep stressing your body very hard, and you have to eat a lot which also stresses the body hard. You may end up very healthy while looking healthy, if this isn't done with proper resting in between sessions
Discovered this podcast because I follow Dr Jason Fung. Thank you for having him on your podcast, I just subscribed. His health approach and knowledge is brilliant! Very interesting to listen to him, he is such a great teacher! Good interview!
Great discussion. Dr Bret please please invite Dr Thomas Seyfried to your Podcast. His cancer research makes compelling case for cancer being a metabolic disease and is from damage to your mitochondria. Cancer as a Metabolic Disease
Dr Bret Sher, thank you for your lovely interview with dr J Fung. I am waiting for the next book written by dr Fung. I allow myself to propose the next topics.: immune system work, digestion good and bad or heart issues
The keto/carnivore community is rapidly building up a large body of anecdotal and indeed scientific evidence of the change to chronic inflammation from diet, especially carnivory. I have experienced a great reduction of inflammation and metabolic damage after going carnivore, let alone auto immune, gastrointestinal and colonic problems have either been radically reduced or have disappeared. Who’d have thought?
The first boiled potatoes with very thin skin in the summer is really something we go Yiehaaaa! and when you add a bit of butter nothing really beats it! 🤗
This was great and very informative. I just officially relapsed again with my lymphoma and am back in the research phase for how I want to focus and supplement my upcoming treatment. Thanks for the interview
Yes Dr.you are right, we need just to eat good, Not sugar because that is the first food that cancer likes , there so many foods that make Cancer growth,so let's eat better🙂
I was thinking that if I get cancer I would try to starve it from glucose and glutamate, by eating/fasting only coconut oil or butter for 2 months and doing resistance training (for the glutamate/aspartic acid)
Starve the cancer cell so it dies off. It makes sense if we don't feed it it's not going to rapidly grows and killing good cells. By starving it by fasting no nutrients is feeding the cancer cells. Why professional don't talk about it only tells us where they lies in wanting to cure or heal the sick patients. Money runs the world.
I don’t mean to be disrespectful but for all the cancer patients that have come to this podcast Are wondering does the cancer code book by Dr. Fung have recommendations on how to reduce your cancer Burden? Can cancer be reversed once you have cancer or is this for only People who don’t yet have cancer
I would like you to do an episode on the role of Keto and IF in prevention and treatment of prostate cancer. A lot of data on the one hand says prostate cancer loves ketones and fat, while others say it is not about Keto but about insulin resistance; those with IR at higher risk. There's just not much out there on this cancer and keto and intermittent fasting.
I grew up in China in the 80’s. I ate mainly wheat and rice. I hated them. We ate them because they were the only food available. Meat and eggs were used like spices. We were all stick thin. Now I know why.
31:52 "Why does cancer exist in every part of the body?" Because in the absence of oxygen, cell hypoxia, almost every cell in the body can revert to glycolysis for energy production in order to not die, it's the cell's ability to switch to a different metabolism in order to continue to make energy without oxygen and the Oxidative Phosphorylation metabolism that requires oxygen. Otto Warburg went on record saying that a cancer cell is more versatile than a normal cell because a cancer cell can use either fermentation or respiration, meaning either glycolysis or oxidative phosphorylation, to make energy whereas a normal cell that uses oxidative phosphorylation can only use respiration to make energy, that's just one reason why cancer cells are hard to kill. 32:21 And that's why every multi-celled animal that has ever existed has the potential to get cancer, because all animals have cells that have the ability to switch from oxidative metabolism to a fermentive metabolism that causes unregulated uncontrolled and undifferentiated cell growth, i.e. cancer.
@@ericshubert2007 Me too, somewhat, but I'm not surprised. Virtually no one in medical science except Tom Seyfried have ever taken the time to learn any of Warburg's work which has been known for almost a hundred years, they're STILL ignoring and not teaching anyone anything about Warburg. But that's because they can't teach things they don't know and haven't studied themselves first.
Hi, I'm hoping you can pass a message to Dr Fong. Please ask him to guide research towards body temperature and it's influence on breast cancer, TNBC in particular. It appears there has been no recent research on how TNBC is able to manipulate body temperature to make it a more habitable environment. When the body is kept at a higher temperature, the cloaking ability of TNBC is broken down and this allows T-cells to see the cancer for what it is and attack the cancer and destroy it. Thank you, Lisa
I often wonder if all that chemo I had (that meant I could not eat for weeks -losing 33lbs in six weeks of treatments) really helped - I wonder if it was LESS about the toxic effects of the platinum circulating and killing my GI lining, or was it actually a benefit because it enforced radical fasting and weight loss??
Having you as a trusted Dr was a super blessing in my life because you did what no other Dr could do,I nearly thought it was the end but you Brought out a situation with your herbal supplement thank you so much Dr
I love Jason Fung but I've heard all the interviews on this book and read most of it and I don't really understand the point of it. I feel like the summary is just: "the origin of cancer and treating it is complicated", with no real answers. I feel like since he's the fasting doctor, it was a wasted opportunity to talk about fasting and cancer, which is a massive topic.
“ ‘Cancer’, Dr Meares explained, ‘is not just a matter of cells going wrong. It is the failure, rather, of the body’s immune system to cope with cancer cells which dwell, for the most part harmlessly, in every human being.“ From the book: “Doctor Ahead of his Time, the life of psychiatrist Dr Ainslie Meares”. By Desmond Zwar 1985
If indeed your body totally rebuilds itself every 2 years, eating more healthy high quality low carb means your body will be built more healthy of better stuff, and I'll go out on a limb to say more cancer resistant and with a better immune system. Get that autophagy going!
I tend to focus upon language, a reflex where one looks to logic. What the cool Dr. Fung discussed at one point is described as evolutionary. This term didn't work for me. He was describing a devolution to a more primitive state as a reaction to a poor soil, Dr. Fung's metaphor. Don't panic, but this is best described as intelligent design within the body's instructions to return to a state that may preserve existence. Are we saying cancer is merely cells trying to survive in a poor soil?
Long before modern medicine saw the value of fasting, Moses, Buddha, Yashua (Jesus) and Muhammad advocated it. In the U.S. Norman S. W. Walker in his book “Pure & Simple Natural Weight Control” and Elijah Muhammad in his book “How to Eat to Live” stated all of this as well but 50 years ago they were called “crazy” for advocating what we now call “intermittent fasting”, juicing and eating clean natural food. Just keep living, studying and getting better.
i'm partial to the idea of the atavistic theory of cancer being onto something, and the idea of the somatic mutation theory as not a satisfying explanation of cancer genesis, but isn't it a stretch to say that this is a new way people are thinking of cancer. I think it's still considered somewhat on the fringe and is mostly pushed by one main researcher - Paul Davies. I do think what cancer is still very poorly understood on the whole but there is not much consensus on any alternate theory beyond the SMT at present.
Thank you for great information! I wonder where I can find some information about autologous bone marrow transplantation being fake? I underwent this procedure myself in 2015 as a part of cancer treatment in Norway. Please give me a hint, Dr.Fung 🙏
I had a very small cancer on my right breast. The surgeon took it out. I don't want radiation. I want to fast.I have fasted before. Is this the safe way to go?
You can call it Evolution, I call it Intelligent Design aka God made us to function properly given that we give our God created bodies the proper environment (i.e. organic pasture raised foods, etc... no smoking, no sugar, no processed foods, no seed oils, low carbs reduce stress, ....
Does anybody know where an example can be found of a diet that provides nutrition during a long term fast? I've heard that bone broth is a good option and is unlikely to stimulate insulin. What I'm looking out for is an example of a daily nutritional intake, so as to not starve to death, but be able to fast for long periods - in the hope of fighting various cancers. I'm following Doctors Fung, Berry, Boz, Berg and Ekberg.
I have a problem with high triglycerides usually above 250, has recently been above 735 and even 1200. My blood glucose is very low, the last two week average measured with a CGM was 84. I have a foot ulcer that has largely prevented me from getting exercise. Any recommendations that I could share with my doctor. I am perplexed, please any direction would be helpful.
Are you keto? That will usually send HDL up, and trigs down. LDL may go up, down or stay the same. If you don't know the work done by Dave Feldman, go to cholesterol code. com and browse around. He suggests that high caffein may contribute. See website under "research" tab.
I’ve lowered triglycerides from over 500 to 74.... the answer is KETO KETO KETO, eat steak cooked in bacon grease and butter... sardines and canned mackerel..... it WORKS... I’m down 61 lbs....
Dr Fung literally saved my life. I was on insulin and metformin for 4 years. Following Dr Fungs advice in his books, I got off both meds. My insulin resistance has returned to that of a non-diabetic person. I lost 60 pounds in 10 weeks (great side effect).
How did you manage that weight loss! What regimen did you follow?
@@annam6447 look up and listen to book Fast Feast Repeat for some protocols
60 lbs in 10weeks is scary as heck!! 😅 hope all is well with you
Congratulations Sharon, that is wonderful news. Can you share a bit about what protocols you followed ... your fasting schedule, diet changes etc. As well, is your new routine continuing now as it was before? Would love to hear some details.
Amazing.
Did did you do his online course
I love Dr Fung's medical common sense. As a physician, it is always a pleasure learning from him. Thanks a lot!
He knows nothing about cancer and should not be writing books about it.
Dr Nadir Mir Ali in Texas is fantastic and tends to inject humor from time to time so with all his medical/technical jargon - should you catch it he’s quite funny!!! He’s a cardiologist but VERY up to date and aware of getting to the root cause! His website says it all “EAT MOSTLY FAT”
@@billscow I'd bet on Fung ahead of traditionalists, any day. He challenges ideas, not people. So maybe respond to the ideas rather than off the cuff ad hominem dismissals of the critical thinker/ challenger of old, non-fruitful ideas.
@@billscow I’ll need to see your evidence.
@@billscow Really first time I’ve heard of him
Dr. Fung's CZcams videos saved my life. Last March I was diabetic. 10 months later my blood glucose before my breakfast is 80. I am also 40 pounds lighter. My quest for health continues, I am hoping to get my blood glucose in the low 70s before March this year.
Hi, how old are You?
As always up to date doctors are fascinating teachers! Wish my PCP and interventional cardio doc would even just catch up with keto and intermittent fasting AND insulin resistance. They’re younger than me and consider me non- compliant because 2 1/2 years on keto/IF I got off all 17 meds. I’m nearly 66 years old. Think I’m outgrowing my doctors. Sad.
@Tony L you got that right! And don’t forget pharmacy reps’ kickbacks and perks for “sales”!
@Tony L I think Medicare should reduce my Medicare insurance payments as I don’t cost them anything! Haha!
Ditch those doctors you undoctored yrself
@@jw-vx8im did you read UNDOCTORED?! I did. it was wonderful!
Same here, I have a pacemaker and had bypass surgery at age 56 from decades of eating LOW FAT HIGH CARB as per the food pyramid. 5 years now HIGH FAT LOW CARB. Never felt better in my life. My PCP and cardio don’t get it either. There’s a reason people turn to the internet for their health, the medical establishment is full of sh-t Stay safe, stay healthy.
Thank you!! Dr. Fung. Do you ever go to sleep? I am simply fascinated with your wide ranging professional knowledge and interests. Your work helps me in my everyday life: using intermittent fasting to reduce insulin, manage weight to lower cancer risks, etc. May God continue to bless you as you share your work with us/the world.
Definitely a revolutionary hero. Thank you Dr. Fung, for your courage and caring! Love Dr Scher! Such a great interviewer, objective and well studied.
I am a desciple of Dr. Jason Fung. To be able to put across the research hypothesis and methodology that anyone can understand is not a given. Love the seed and soil analogy. Modern day Confucius! Stay blessed.
I guess I live in a different world... I have been eating twice a day ( morning and mid-afternoon) for decades ( low carb, lots of vegetables, eggs, cheese, less than 2#s of meat/yr. -- never ever been overweight, always naturally very thin, get regular vigorous exercise). People really eat 6+ times a day?.. what kind of food bills do they have?... I couldn’t afford to eat that way. At 64+ I have no medical issues, never get sick, have plenty of energy, grow my own food, run my own home based businesses... and live simply ( nearly off the grid, cook and heat with wood in winter ), dig my gardens by hand.... I hope I can get Dr. Fung’s books through the library.... What about waist circumference in someone with a significant scoliosis? That circumference includes going around ribs etc., therefore for that population it wouldn’t be a very accurate measurement.
He counts anytime you have a snack or even popping a piece of candy in your mouth as eating. We've been fed a bill of goods in our country that you need to eat 5-6 small meals every day to keep your blood sugar even. All utter bs, since every time you eat you have an insulin response and have to divert energy that could be used for healing in the complicated digestion process. Now that I know this, and have at least 16 hours between last and first meals, never eat 3 meals a day, and do weekend fasts a couple times a month, the weight it falling off me. Love Dr. Fung!
I think this post is more about bragging than actually commenting.
Valter Longo, an Italian biologists did research experiments and proved that fasting fights cancer. However he couldn't get patients and doctors to adopt the intervention in actual practice. So he came up with the "Fasting Mimicking Diet". A person can eat some foods but still get the benefits of fasting. It is currently being used successfully to fight cancer. However our legal system prevents this from being promoted or any claims made.
ahh... and pay big bucks, let me know when I can buy real food
Do you have a link to his work?
@@slothmar4735 ...no, found it on line
Latest published papers , fasting Chemo and IV vitamin C have had even greater results. Valter, not Walter Longo, sorry to correct but may be necessary for people wanting to read the published Data. Pubmed is a great place to start.
Money runs the world. It's not a big focus to cure or prevent cancer bc no money making for the big pharma and doctors. No sick patient means no money coming in for the business!!! Sick patients keeps the money coming.
DR. FUNG my favorite Doctor! Just finished reading his fasting book....I will follow his 42 hour fast protocol starting tomorrow!!!
Thank you for another very valuable opportunity to learn from Dr Fung. I consider myself very lucky to be able to access these talks, free for everyone, but I subscribe to dietdoctor to enable more people to have the opportunity to learn a wonderful way of eating and living.
Thank you for that, I'm one that benefits and I appreciate❤️
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Thanks for this incredibly useful information. I'm terminally ill from a rare form of cancer, peritoneal carcinomatosis. Recently I switched to a ketogenic diet and go at least 12 hours in between eating, hoping to at least extend remission. It will be interesting to see if there's any impact on the growth and spread of the cancer. Certainly I have little to lose in the attempt.
Theresa I believe Dr Fung is truly on to something I will keep you in my prayers Good luck to you 😘
Bisca una entrevista de una señora que tenía cáncer de pulmón que había hecho metástasis y se curó con pura dieta keto clean y water fasting e intermittent fasting con el Dr. Matthew Phillips creo ella se llama Sirona. Si cancer se redujo un 96% y está documentado. Deseo te alivies.
Look into a 21 day fast. It's important to get nutrition along the way, but sugar looks like a big no no for cancer.
I fast for 19 hours every day and have done for two years. I lost 113 pounds of body weight and reversed type 2 diabetes. I also got rid of a ton of bone inflammation.
I studied Dr Fung, Dr Berry, Dr Boz and Dr Ekberg.
I hope you come back and let us know. Have you looked at the Gerson diet for cancer?
Theresa, have you attempted any chemotherapy?
I teach research methods and love this discussion. Science should be eager to disprove our hypotheses. However, now, orthodoxy sets in quickly, gets all kind of money for research and never stops to check the primary hypothesis if data contradicts it.
Dr. Scher did an EXCEPTIONAL job at asking the precise questions that helped elucidate all the concepts Dr. Fung needed to bring forward. Incredibly informative video…THANK YOU!
Absolutely loved The Cancer Code. Best book I’ve read.
I was like what!? cause I pre-ordered The Cancer Code and it hasn't released yet, but I see he wrote an older version
He is the best in explaining about various cronic illneses as he simplify it for the understanding of everyone who is lesteni ng
Another fabulous vid by 2 fabulous drs that TRULY care about people’s health. Thank you both for valuable info.
What a great combination of Drs. Scher and Fung. Always makes for an outstanding program and learning experience.
Thank you to you both for your devotion to helping us learn how to help ourselves, and helping clarify the complexities of the physical challenges we face. While giving us options alongside solutions. I so respect the both of you for your devotion, your research, and tireless dedication to these crucial topic, and your experience, knowing you are still researching and we share your findings with us in the future. You are both priceless!!🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻🤦🤦🏼♀️🤷🏽🤦🏼♀️🤷🏽🤦🏼🤷🏼♂️🙎🏼♀️🙎🏼♀️
I really enjoy Dr. Fung's interlect, he is so logical and down to earth.
Sooooooo blessed to have doctors like Dr Fung!!!🙏🏼
I’ve been keto for 18 months and have gained many benefits from it but listening to this interview makes me think we don’t really know everything about this carb issue. It might be much more nuanced than what we think...
It's rarely just one thing.
Keto is just very good because it forces you to plan and think about your food a lot, which makes you obsess with healthy foods and instill a lot of amazing food habits. Increasing healthy fats, limiting/reducing/deleting sugar intake and processed bullshit, increasing low carb high nutrient foods in general etc. This will give you amazing benefits. It's not purely the ketosis that's doing you good. I mean, it's really easy to lose weight while in ketosis, because of the hunger-surpressing. But you can gain almost all the benefits from a proper ketogenic diet from a plant-based diet or even a carnivore diet, if done properly. It's just that the average person's diet is total shit, so anything that changes that already makes you wayyyyy healthier.
The thing with Keto is that it makes it very easy to fast . I haven’t even caught a cold since I’ve been doing it. 🙏
His book was so useful to me. Mucosal melanoma in my nose. Surgery plus Immunotherapy plus keto is my path. Currently cancer free. Interestingly having a high level of mutations is a good predictor for a good response to PD-1 immunotherapy; mucosal has a low level of mutations but across tumors there is lots of variability. They still are developing targeted therapies to certain genes in cancer tumors (e.g. BRAF+, KIT).
You can get side effects from immunotherapy; when the brakes are off, your T cells can cause an autoimmune response.
Did you have any side effects?
@@CG-mj8tk yes I had colitis. Had to take prednisone, but doing good otherwise. I am NED since I started immunotherapy. No cancer detected when I had surgery to establish margins. 2pet scans later, still NED.
@@mpoharper wonderful ty!!
33:04, All cancers share one thing. Damaged mitochondria. The mitochondria are known to be dysfunctional in at least two ways. 1. The mitochondria in cancer cells cannot switch over to burning ketone bodies for energy as normal mitochondria can, (Warburg Effect). 2. In normal cells the mitochondria are in charge of signaling apoptosis, programmed cell death. In cancer cells the mitochondria have lost this ability hence unregulated cell growth. Many things can damage mitochondria including a virus. The immune systems kills most cancer cells before they become tumors. Crank up your immune system with vitamin D3. As Mulder said to Scully; The truth is out there.
I love Dr Jason Fung- his books are amazing and inspiring thank you
It’s amazing how when everyone one else is stuck on the same path and someone like Dr Fung stated looking this disease in the other direction it helps everyone out so with all this new information All I can do is give thanks for all Doctors who is looking forward to helping us peoples
Thank you Jason Fung and Diet Doctor for the lumination
It's very difficult to find a doctor that is well read on nutrition. Most think nutrition has very little to do with disease. It's a shame but we really need to doctor ourselves and follow the advice of doctors such as these.
Five years ago, I would have heard him talking and thought, what the hell is he speaking about ?? I would have written a glossary.... and looked everything up, for eg what is BRCA gene ? etc etc.
Now I breeze through
medical terms and have my mind blown right along with him. I've come to understand transcription factors and methylation, genetic mutation, and epigenics, biomarkers and a whole plethora of other information that continues to show me just how amazing our bodies are, and just how ignorant we spend the majority of our life. No wonder we are all getting sick. No shade, I was really sick, that's how I got here, back to health, but with a whole new appreciation, knowledge base and curiosity to continue learning as i go through the second half of my life. Makes me happy to know I've really taken hold of my health and my life or as Dr Fung says 'the soil'. Being unhealthy really is 20% genes and 80 % choice. Choose wisely, you might cheat the clock in youth, but our choices come back to bite.
I have T2D and my PCP or dietition was no help. The foods play big roles in our health. I've learned doctors are in it for money. He is sharing info we can impliments into our diets to assist if we need to make diet changes in our lifestyle.
I now do fasting and low carb high fat diets to manage weight loss, lower my glucose, and A1C results. High carb diet definitely did my body great harmed over time but I am taking charge of it. He helped me a lot in my overall health changes. I'm happy I've found him here.
I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation and have replayed it numerous times just to soak it up. 💖 thank you
On the subject of eating snacks- yes! Snacks were figuratively, and darned close to literally, shoved down our throats. I remember standing there in shock that a teacher was trying to make us eat when it was not time for it, and kids crying . I went home and told Mom they were making us drink milk and have graham crackers only an hour or two after we got to school. So, she told me to quit eating breakfast at home. I read so many articles and heard so many things from parents and children, all of whom hated it but the parents were being convinced it had to happen. And, after a while, the kids started liking it. Because, they got treats as snacks when they would not get them at other times. But that didn't last long because "Oh no, we need healthy snacks!" and then the kids still wanted treats, so throw in another snack. And, "healthy" was, like, salty pretzel sticks with celery and peanut butter. So, lots of calories and fat and glu e .. I mean, flour and salt. So gross! My feeling was - and boy did I get in trouble for saying so- if we are going to have meals, let's have only the meals and if we are going to snack, let's only have snacks, even at meal times. It was too much food and time wastage.
This Cancer coded/ coding makes so much sense
Always learn so much from Dr Fung and Diet Doctors thank you
takes a while to get going and hit the nail on the head, but it does finally happen starting at around 36:00. So chronic injury can make any cell evolve into a non team player (or de-volve into the type of primitive cell that only existed before the dawn of multicellular organisms)
Thank you very much for the heads up 👍
Thank you for confirming what natural medicine has already known for decades. I hope you included research on that in your book.
He always does! Have you read his other 3-4 books? Excellent!!
I think you are a true observer of science and also quite profound, I hope to meet you someday. Genius
Dr Fung I just had a mastectomy and an 20 lbs over weight in stomach. I’m trying to figure out what got m. The Timor was HUGE. I can say I Vegas deep depression and jealousy and anger in my life. I’m in mid70s. I also developed a hunger for sugars and sweets. Is all this possibly a reason for the aggressive cancer. It hasn’t spread but I was guaranteed I’d be dead in a year and ? Months if I don’t get chemo and radiation. I’ll never touch sugar ever again and I’m going back to transcendental meditation. Please Dr Fung can you advise anything beside fasting, and fruit and vegetables. I want to live❤ I’ve been hearing your speeches and you are a very wise Doctor. Thankyou so much!🥦🥕🥒🍅🫒🫑🥑🥝🥬🍇🍉🍓🫐🍑🍒
Back in 2020 I was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer. To remove the cancer, my right kidney, spleen and 80 percent of my pancreas was removed. Endocrinologist said that automatically makes me a type 2 diabetic. She said I'm fighting a battle I can't win with only 20 percent of a pancreas. Is there anyone in this group with a partial pancreas having success with fasting and a very low carb diet? I'm not asking for medical advice. I'm asking if there is anyone like me in this group. I've been cancer free for 2 years now.
Have you tried a healthy keto diet with intermittent fasting?
Fascinating and hopeful. Empowering too.Thank you Dr Bret and Dr Jason! You rock and more power to your work. Following in your footsteps! Thank you!
I was lucky enough to have herceptin for hert2 breast cancer 7 years ago...my personal theory about cancer involves the effects life long stress has on our cells. Even though I was athletic, healthy eater, stress seems to be the common denominator for myself and many other people I met also going through treatment. No one is talking about the detrimental effects stress has on our bodies and the link to cancers...I'm thinking stressed cells would not absorb nutrients properly. It's a common observation that positive thinkers have a better outlook, why is that do you think? It's not a random connection either.
Stress in medical terms corresponds to elevated levels of cortisol aka the stress hormone, which could be one of the triggers of bringing about cancer.
“Healthy eater” nah you probably ate primarily carbs like most people
@@andreahighsides7756 Have you even watched this video? Eating primarily carbs doesn't automatically mean unhealthy at all.
Yeah, that's what Fung is also stating about the cigarette smoking and the cells being stressed to de-volve into the single-cellular variant, which can cause cancer. Every stressor on your body can eventually cause cancer. That's also why it's so beneficial to fast every now and then. Most diets involve stressing your intestinal system at least to a small minimum degree, even healthy diets. By fasting you are halting this stress, so your body can recuperate, broadly speaking. This is also true in case of for example doing muscle-building exercises. It's amazing for your body to do strength training, but if you overdo it, you keep stressing your body very hard, and you have to eat a lot which also stresses the body hard. You may end up very healthy while looking healthy, if this isn't done with proper resting in between sessions
Dr. Andrew Weil talks about how stress affects your health.
Thanks for this wonderful discussion. I’ve enjoyed all of Dr Fung’s books and found this presentation to be a good companion to the book.
Great interview with Dr. Fung! He’s incredible. So knowledgeable! Thank you for, The Obesity Code, and now, The Cancer Code! ❤️ #DrJasonFung
Discovered this podcast because I follow Dr Jason Fung. Thank you for having him on your podcast, I just subscribed. His health approach and knowledge is brilliant! Very interesting to listen to him, he is such a great teacher! Good interview!
You need to interview Dr. Thomas Seyfried. Cancer: A metabolic disease with metabolic solutions.
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Yes .. Dr. Thomas Seyfried is a MUST !! ✨
Great discussion. Dr Bret please please invite Dr Thomas Seyfried to your Podcast. His cancer research makes compelling case for cancer being a metabolic disease and is from damage to your mitochondria. Cancer as a Metabolic Disease
Dr Bret Sher, thank you for your lovely interview with dr J Fung. I am waiting for the next book written by dr Fung. I allow myself to propose the next topics.: immune system work, digestion good and bad or heart issues
thanks Doc jason Fung from the philsGod bless
absolutely fascinating talk
Thank you both for opening our mind, true life change.
The keto/carnivore community is rapidly building up a large body of anecdotal and indeed scientific evidence of the change to chronic inflammation from diet, especially carnivory. I have experienced a great reduction of inflammation and metabolic damage after going carnivore, let alone auto immune, gastrointestinal and colonic problems have either been radically reduced or have disappeared. Who’d have thought?
That's awesome
Agreed! I also have much improved on it very quickly. I have an autoimmune condition and had cancer as well. Feeling really good!! 👍🙂
The first boiled potatoes with very thin skin in the summer is really something we go Yiehaaaa! and when you add a bit of butter nothing really beats it! 🤗
Potatoes are carb poison to many people.
@@dltnsdd I don’t eat them anymore than once/twice per year but my point was that someone can really like potatoes and eat them every day.
This was great and very informative. I just officially relapsed again with my lymphoma and am back in the research phase for how I want to focus and supplement my upcoming treatment. Thanks for the interview
Love your channel.
Other
The book is amazing.
Does he say how to treat cancer in the book? Ty 🙏🏼
Excellent and informative interview, very much appreciated
Great discussion and information...very much needed 🙏
Am I only one hearing Dr.Fung's mic doing ASMR in secret.
Love Jason Fung!
Yes Dr.you are right, we need just to eat good, Not sugar because that is the first food that cancer likes , there so many foods that make Cancer growth,so let's eat better🙂
Love it, thank you. FYI - the volume of the recording seemed quite low and I had a hard time hearing.
I was thinking that if I get cancer I would try to starve it from glucose and glutamate, by eating/fasting only coconut oil or butter for 2 months and doing resistance training (for the glutamate/aspartic acid)
Starve the cancer cell so it dies off. It makes sense if we don't feed it it's not going to rapidly grows and killing good cells. By starving it by fasting no nutrients is feeding the cancer cells. Why professional don't talk about it only tells us where they lies in wanting to cure or heal the sick patients. Money runs the world.
I don’t mean to be disrespectful but for all the cancer patients that have come to this podcast
Are wondering does the cancer code book by Dr. Fung have recommendations on how to reduce your cancer Burden? Can cancer be reversed once you have cancer or is this for only
People who don’t yet have cancer
It's developing into a type of Primitive cell? That's mind-blowing information
Great video. Thanks
Fascinating! Thank you so much both for this invaluable information! 💖💖💖
I would like you to do an episode on the role of Keto and IF in prevention and treatment of prostate cancer. A lot of data on the one hand says prostate cancer loves ketones and fat, while others say it is not about Keto but about insulin resistance; those with IR at higher risk. There's just not much out there on this cancer and keto and intermittent fasting.
His next book will be The Heart Disease Code.
Already done with the Obesity Code, I think.
Great Podcast
I grew up in China in the 80’s. I ate mainly wheat and rice. I hated them. We ate them because they were the only food available. Meat and eggs were used like spices. We were all stick thin. Now I know why.
We are eating more than our bodies need, these tribes eat to survive whereas the western world eats for pleasure and comfort
Seems like the terrain theory of the early 19th century is making a come back!!
Great interview!!!
31:52 "Why does cancer exist in every part of the body?" Because in the absence of oxygen, cell hypoxia, almost every cell in the body can revert to glycolysis for energy production in order to not die, it's the cell's ability to switch to a different metabolism in order to continue to make energy without oxygen and the Oxidative Phosphorylation metabolism that requires oxygen.
Otto Warburg went on record saying that a cancer cell is more versatile than a normal cell because a cancer cell can use either fermentation or respiration, meaning either glycolysis or oxidative phosphorylation, to make energy whereas a normal cell that uses oxidative phosphorylation can only use respiration to make energy, that's just one reason why cancer cells are hard to kill.
32:21 And that's why every multi-celled animal that has ever existed has the potential to get cancer, because all animals have cells that have the ability to switch from oxidative metabolism to a fermentive metabolism that causes unregulated uncontrolled and undifferentiated cell growth, i.e. cancer.
I'm disappointed that there was no mention of Dr Thomas Seyfried's work.
@@ericshubert2007 Me too, somewhat, but I'm not surprised. Virtually no one in medical science except Tom Seyfried have ever taken the time to learn any of Warburg's work which has been known for almost a hundred years, they're STILL ignoring and not teaching anyone anything about Warburg. But that's because they can't teach things they don't know and haven't studied themselves first.
Hi,
I'm hoping you can pass a message to Dr Fong. Please ask him to guide research towards body temperature and it's influence on breast cancer, TNBC in particular. It appears there has been no recent research on how TNBC is able to manipulate body temperature to make it a more habitable environment. When the body is kept at a higher temperature, the cloaking ability of TNBC is broken down and this allows T-cells to see the cancer for what it is and attack the cancer and destroy it.
Thank you,
Lisa
You can't change cancer. You have to change.
I often wonder if all that chemo I had (that meant I could not eat for weeks -losing 33lbs in six weeks of treatments) really helped - I wonder if it was LESS about the toxic effects of the platinum circulating and killing my GI lining, or was it actually a benefit because it enforced radical fasting and weight loss??
Having you as a trusted Dr was a super blessing in my life because you did what no other Dr could do,I nearly thought it was the end but you Brought out a situation with your herbal supplement thank you so much Dr
I love Jason Fung but I've heard all the interviews on this book and read most of it and I don't really understand the point of it. I feel like the summary is just: "the origin of cancer and treating it is complicated", with no real answers. I feel like since he's the fasting doctor, it was a wasted opportunity to talk about fasting and cancer, which is a massive topic.
I like the way both of them tippy toe around the real answer….. BAD FOOD..
Thank you.
“ ‘Cancer’, Dr Meares explained, ‘is not just a matter of cells going wrong. It is the failure, rather, of the body’s immune system to cope with cancer cells which dwell, for the most part harmlessly, in every human being.“
From the book: “Doctor Ahead of his Time, the life of psychiatrist Dr Ainslie Meares”. By Desmond Zwar 1985
If indeed your body totally rebuilds itself every 2 years, eating more healthy high quality low carb means your body will be built more healthy of better stuff, and I'll go out on a limb to say more cancer resistant and with a better immune system. Get that autophagy going!
He's really a smart Nephrologist ang i'm new to you channel...
This cardiologist must read Dr Bruce Lipton's books on Epigenetics.
thanks a lot for your efforts, but cant believefasting was the main subject while autophagy wasnt mentionned at all
Thanks for sharing
I tend to focus upon language, a reflex where one looks to logic. What the cool Dr. Fung discussed at one point is described as evolutionary. This term didn't work for me. He was describing a devolution to a more primitive state as a reaction to a poor soil, Dr. Fung's metaphor. Don't panic, but this is best described as intelligent design within the body's instructions to return to a state that may preserve existence. Are we saying cancer is merely cells trying to survive in a poor soil?
I am sharing info with a friend whose response is thank you but my cancer is genetic, same as my mother had. Help!
Long before modern medicine saw the value of fasting, Moses, Buddha, Yashua (Jesus) and Muhammad advocated it.
In the U.S. Norman S. W. Walker in his book “Pure & Simple Natural Weight Control” and Elijah Muhammad in his book “How to Eat to Live” stated all of this as well but 50 years ago they were called “crazy” for advocating what we now call “intermittent fasting”, juicing and eating clean natural food.
Just keep living, studying and getting better.
Thanks👌👌👌
Are you Orthodox? 😂😂 if you're the crispy I'm thinking of
@@ThomasG_Nikolaj I see you in Ortho casts.
I am interested but can't say I am.
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@@drcrispyjohnson2242 oh okay. I think I saw you in a Church of the Eternal Logos live chat recently. About the antichrist
@@ThomasG_Nikolaj yeah, listening to orthodoxy first and primal edge health now Thomas.
Our food didn’t have glyphosate in the 50’s and 60’s. It’s not just about snacking between meals unfortunately.
i'm partial to the idea of the atavistic theory of cancer being onto something, and the idea of the somatic mutation theory as not a satisfying explanation of cancer genesis, but isn't it a stretch to say that this is a new way people are thinking of cancer. I think it's still considered somewhat on the fringe and is mostly pushed by one main researcher - Paul Davies. I do think what cancer is still very poorly understood on the whole but there is not much consensus on any alternate theory beyond the SMT at present.
Hi Dr Fung, you have a intermittent meal plan for prostate cancer already spread to bones ? Thank you
Thank you for great information! I wonder where I can find some information about autologous bone marrow transplantation being fake? I underwent this procedure myself in 2015 as a part of cancer treatment in Norway. Please give me a hint, Dr.Fung 🙏
Look up dr Pradip. I think he talks about marrow in his fasting talks. Hope it helps.
Fabulous.
Awesome 👍
I know this is 2 years ago but I was wondering if they know about burzynski?
I had a very small cancer on my right breast. The surgeon took it out. I don't want radiation. I want to fast.I have fasted before. Is this the safe way to go?
Please make sure to work with your oncology team.
May I ask what treatment you decided to take and how are you doing?
You can call it Evolution, I call it Intelligent Design aka God made us to function properly given that we give our God created bodies the proper environment (i.e. organic pasture raised foods, etc... no smoking, no sugar, no processed foods, no seed oils, low carbs reduce stress, ....
Looking how to BREAK a cancer fast!??
Does anybody know where an example can be found of a diet that provides nutrition during a long term fast? I've heard that bone broth is a good option and is unlikely to stimulate insulin. What I'm looking out for is an example of a daily nutritional intake, so as to not starve to death, but be able to fast for long periods - in the hope of fighting various cancers.
I'm following Doctors Fung, Berry, Boz, Berg and Ekberg.
I have a problem with high triglycerides usually above 250, has recently been above 735 and even 1200. My blood glucose is very low, the last two week average measured with a CGM was 84. I have a foot ulcer that has largely prevented me from getting exercise.
Any recommendations that I could share with my doctor. I am perplexed, please any direction would be helpful.
Are you keto? That will usually send HDL up, and trigs down. LDL may go up, down or stay the same. If you don't know the work done by Dave Feldman, go to cholesterol code. com and browse around.
He suggests that high caffein may contribute. See website under "research" tab.
I’ve lowered triglycerides from over 500 to 74.... the answer is KETO KETO KETO, eat steak cooked in bacon grease and butter... sardines and canned mackerel..... it WORKS... I’m down 61 lbs....
Definitely watch Dave Feldman videos. He explains bloodwork on Keto and fasting. I learned alot!