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Date posted:   Oct 16, 2017

"We should never have to poison and burn patients to treat cancer" - Thomas Seyfried

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Biology Professor Thomas Seyfried was recently featured in a Business Day article, "Cancer treatments undergo a rethink as fasting and diet studies deepen." He argues that cancer is a simple disease that has been made complex, and is an industry with crippling costs for treatment - treatments which in some cases, can cause additional cancers. Seyfried has developed a "press-pulse" model, which is a nontoxic, therapeutic strategy based on paleobiology and the Warburg effect. It includes ketogenic diets, drugs and hyperbaric oxygen therapy to deprive cancer cells of the fuel needed to survive. Read more