Metabolic therapy in glioblastoma: Ancestral strategies | Dr Matthew Phillips | FOM23

Can the keto diet influence brain cancer? Clinical and Research Neurologist Dr Matthew Philips spoke at the Future of Medicine Conference 2023, about his research into utilising fasting and low-carb, high-fat ketogenic diets to help those with glioblastoma.
About Dr Matthew Phillips
Dr Matthew Phillips is a highly respected neurologist based at Waikato Hospital in Hamilton, New Zealand. With a strong passion for exploring the potential benefits of metabolic therapies for neurological disorders, he has made significant contributions to the field of neurology through his pioneering research into fasting and ketogenic diets.
As a full-time clinician, Dr Phillips has firsthand experience treating patients with a variety of difficult neurological conditions, including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. Through his research, he has sought to develop alternate metabolic states that may improve not only the symptoms but also the function and quality of life for these patients.
Dr Phillips’ groundbreaking work has earned him international recognition and acclaim. In 2017-2018, his team conducted a world-first randomised controlled study of a ketogenic diet in Parkinson’s disease, providing compelling evidence for the therapeutic potential of this approach.
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[@AnneAlready]

I remember Andrew Scarborough in the UK used a ketogenic diet and fasting to treat his GBM. That would have been ten years ago and I checked and he's still doing well and actually conducting research at a London hospital. Just another source of inspiration for anyone needing it. x

[@kenpumford754]

This video needs to have 100x more views, as the information it contains offers the first real hope for glioblastoma patients. Both my father-in-law, at 67, and an aunt at a similar age, died of GBM, and with standard surgery and radiation treatment both expired in a year or less from initial diagnosis. In neither case was there any mention of the possibility of diet influencing the outcome. I'm excited to follow the results of Dr. Phillips' ongoing study.

[@mcapital5539]

He's the new Professor Thomas Seyfried. God bless both! ❤

[@scrollkidsylable6793]

Dr Matt Phillips is truly a gift to mankind, We fortunate to have him in NZ

[@mmc7695]

This is a great video! Gives me hope to beat the carcinosarcoma I’m fighting. I was diagnosed in May, started chemo and got surgery in late August. A few days ago I was told it metastasized to my lungs. I will try this metabolic therapy ❤

[@cindyabramowicz4346]

Also look into ivermectin and also methylene blue and also serrapeptase. Good luck.

[@MrBlaxjax]

Good luck. As for the fasting element it’s not difficult once you get into the swing of it. If I were diagnosed with cancer of any kind I would try metabolic therapy. Why not? Hopefully the trial will yield positive results.

[@manuelgolarte5215]

Look for Dr. Thomas Seyfried in you tube, also Ivermectin has powerful anti cancer properties

[@paulreesor8200]

For sure do it.

[@chrissyesfand8101]

Look in to blackseed oil b17 hight dose vit c organic try less meat chicken turkey no prossest

[@FuzzyLogic-mf5hz]

Fabulous research, results and stories. I've been ketogenic and time restricted eating for nearly 5 years. Couldn't be happier.

[@colinnz]

Looking really promising. I lost my cousin Vicki to gbm and i know how bloody horrible they can be. Wish she had got to see this❤

[@maryannehill8821]

I am so grateful to you Dr Phillips for all you are doing. This was so inspiring 🙏🫶xoxo

[@janetmyers3729]

My sister is being treated for GBM at a large, Midwest teaching hospital. She is not eligible for any of the trials we’ve read about. At no point has any doctor on her team mentioned diet. I don’t think she would follow any advise found on KZbin, but I will remind her to ask about newer diet trials including this one.

[@user-vs2vl6ge4c]

Thank you Dr Philips. My 18yr old granddaughter has GBM.. we are doing the Keto diet with the RT and chemo.. Your approach is the only realistic approach to changing and assisting effective treatment so far. Gratitude. How do we access your trial.

[@lorettadillon-ham1574]

I sent a reply to your message. Sadly it seems it does not appear. (Not sure why) I think it is because I included an email address and a website URL that provided you with a direct link. Terrible how these sites control people helping each other. I am on Facebook as per my name. If my other replies don't show up, i can pass on the info through Messenger. ❤

[@user-qw8ib3sx1c]

​@lorettadillon-ham1574 Hello, I was hoping you could please send me the information as well. I would really like to start this protocol with my father, who was just diagnosed with GBM. Many thanks ❤

[@chrissyesfand8101]

Hi please look in to high dose vit c b17 hyperbaric chamber organic diet less meat red meat no sugar even substitute

[@chrissyesfand8101]

Blackseed oil catsclaw modified citrus pectin ip6 berberine boswallia so helpful we. Got diagnosed 2 years ago

[@anujthakran8083]

​@@chrissyesfand8101you was diagnosed with GBM? How are your scans now? Did you adopt for radiation and chemotherapy?

[@risecopeman5409]

I am sharing this video and a lot of other research with the wife of my husband's boss. He has young children. He wants to live, and live healthy, for many years to come. Pray that they understand how much hope there is and go for it!

[@irinakonig7119]

I've lost my mother to cancer 5 years ago. I wish I had this information back then, I am sure she still would be alive, if we would have applied the metabolic therapy. It breaks my heart to know, that we could have saved her.

[@petercyr3508]

Subsistence on sugars and starches in the short, recent agricultural period allowed the population to explode only because the bad effects of this diet occur only after the reproductive years.

[@nataliajimenez1870]

Plus sugar was a very small part of the diet until very recently (the last 100 years and more so since the 70s with the introduction of high fructose corn syrup) and people just ate twice a day at most, allowing for periods of fasting. And fasting was a common practice of all the major religions

[@deborahthaler35]

Great video! Yes, more people need to see this. Along with Thomas Seyfried's brilliant videos.

[@nitonixnitron5569]

When are they going to start using this therapy in Australia?

[@user-qw8ib3sx1c]

Thank you so much Dr. Phillips, this is inspiring! My father was recently diagnosed with GBM and I have already started him on a keto diet. Is there any way he can take part in the trial?

[@dinomiles7999]

Mct oil ? Have u looked into it ?

[@billbrennan8177]

I literally have 30 clients with ALS that have had improvements w/in 90 days while using my ALS Protocol. I’ve been using a ketogenic diet w/ intermittent fasting and periodic prolonged fasts for years and I’ve reversed most of my ALS. I can prove i have the worlds first effective ALS Protocol but it will be years before I get the recognition for it. Studies like yours will help me validate my Protocol, thank you very much!! I wish my brother Mike had listened to me. He didn’t and he died from cancer a couple years ago on my birthday. 🙏😞

[@davidpacheco750]

Hi what that means ALS protocol. Do you mind to explain. Thank you man.

[@KeithRobertson57]

Brilliant talk, thanks 👍🏻

[@kathyl7269]

Thank you for this video

[@janetmyers3729]

Is this trial available only to people who are able to be at the trial site in person?

[@paulatoledo3946]

Great talk❤

[@nyckolaus]

Thank you, Dr. Phillips!

[@conniebellantone268]

Brilliant

[@ihor_huk]

GREAT👍👍👍

[@maryannehill8821]

So inspiring thank you 🙏🫶👍

[@MadMaxYouTube]

Do you have room for more subjects in your study? I was just diagnosed with a high grade glionoma

[@paulreesor8200]

Why did he skip over the glutamine as a factor theory? Ok think he's referring to Thomas Seyfried who's method apparently has very good advances.

[@drmclphillips]

Hi Paul, yep just trying to keep it simple for this talk. Glutamine is definitely an issue. Kind Regards, Matt.

[@Heyar..]

Thank you Dr. would this Keto diet works for lung cancer? How can we get access to the keto diet plan you have. Were the patients taking any supplements like vitamins etc

[@deflo56]

This metabolic approach works to normalize all body functions. You start with a solid nutrient base eating plan. No garbage, nutrient dense, useable carb deficient food is a good start. Then learn not to eat. When you fast you use the above for the repair process. Processing food slows down the repair process. You got to grocery shop though. Stock up so you don’t have to go as often. 🤓

[@lynlawley8903]

Also sleep is important fir healing vit d magnesium helps sleep

[@AllenTweed]

Why not allow the patients to omit the radiation? There are those who believe the radiation kills the patient.

[@drmclphillips]

Thank you - yes I did consider this a few years ago, but it would have been impossible to run such a trial without the support of the oncologists and for that we have to stick to standard of care, which includes radiation. That said, I am not against radiation, we are trying to augment the standard of care with this approach and make it much better. Hope that makes sense! Very best, Matt.

[@petertownsend252]

I recall from an in depth video interview of Dr Thomas Seyfried with Peter Attia where Dr Seyfried said the ideal approach is to use metabolic therapy as the sole, stand-alone therapy. He said the incorporation of concurrent standard of care treatments (e.g., surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy) is an unfortunate concession to allow metabolic therapy to be considered and "approved" for use. I understand why a doctor must submit and conform to the governing rules of medicine. However, those rules do not apply to the patient. With respect to an educated patient, can the patient by their own initiative choose to be wilfully non-compliant with the "standard of care" treatments and say something like: "I want metabolic therapy as my sole treatment therapy at this time. I refuse to receive surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation as part of my treatment therapy. I will reconsider the 'standard of care' treatment options, if and only if, metabolic therapy is not proving to be effective." In contrast to the doctor, a patient can not be disciplined or punished for being wilfully non-compliant with the standard of care treatments for cancer. How would a patient's wilful non-compliance in refusing surgery, radiation, and/or chemotherapy as a 1st line treatment play out in the real world of medicine? If a Jehovah's Witness patient can refuse a standard of care blood transfusion and receive medical accommodation, why can't a cancer patient refuse to undergo surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation and receive a similar medical accommodation? Metabolic therapy rooted in terrain theory is consistent with the precepts, beliefs, and practices of many Pagan religions. With respect to the USA, sincerely held religious beliefs can hold precedent over medical standards of care. Can a doctor withhold treatment of surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and/or immunotherapy out of respect and accommodation of a patient's sincerely held religious beliefs? Can the governing medical boards that oversee and regulate the practice of medicine openly discriminate and withhold promising cancer treatment against patients of certain religious beliefs?

[@drmclphillips]

@@petertownsend252 Good points Pete. A patient can absolutely refuse SOC at any time, most doctors would be respectful of that even if they did not agree with it. The problem is that metabolic therapy on its own would be really, really difficult to get approval and support for in a clinical trial, and it is the clinical trials that have the chance to change the SOC. Clinical trials need approval and support from oncologists and few (if any) would support metabolic therapy on its own. Our current trial is incredibly difficult to run even allowing for the conjunction of metabolic therapy with SOC, but hopefully we can keep going and let's see how we go. Best, Matt.

[@petertownsend252]

@drmclphillips Yes. Your comment is consistent with what Dr Seyfried was saying in his interview with Peter Attia. I can see why doctors are highly limited and constrained by what they can say or do within the context and parameters of an approved clinical trial. Implied by your answer is that a patient seeking only metabolic therapy would never be accepted into a clinical trial in the first instance. If initially admitted, but later became non-compliant and refused SOC during the clinical trial, that patient's data and results would likely be stricken or omitted from the results of the trial. Is that anything close to correct?

[@drmclphillips]

@@petertownsend252 Yes, that is more or less correct. They would be counted as a withdrawal.

[@dennisbauer3315]

Would this be the first time, on any video, any where, that a GBM has shrunk away to nothing?

[@carolynscott5299]

Go see the story of Pablo Kelly

[@nataliajimenez1870]

Paleomedicina from Hungary has been using a paleo keto diet to treat glioblastomas for the last 10 years. The main researcher is Dr. Zsófia Clemens and she has shared the patients reports. It's great that finally English speaking doctors are using it so that more people get the benefits from it. Their diet is a lot more strict because they just focus on a ketogenic paleo carnivore diet with ruminant meat and no dairy (since the use of dairy in adults, just like grains, is relatively recent in human history)

[@fourshore502]

isnt it possible to look at peoples mitochondria in a microscope to tell how damaged or healthy they are?

[@drmclphillips]

Hi! Yes, various aspects of their structure and function can be measured but it was mainly a matter of funding and resources for this trial. So I focused on the outcomes that matter the most (quality of life, survival). In future trials I may have more ability to measure mitochondria directly - thanks again, Matt.

[@fourshore502]

I see. As i understand dysfunctional mitochondria is the root cause of alzheimers also and I think ALS ? Maybe all of the nastiest most difficult to treat diseases. So im surprised that "mitochondria screening" is not a thing yet. I mean in general, not by you specifically. Perhaps its tricky and expensive? But especially since all three of these diseases are quite often misdiagnosed way too often and for far too long it seems like it could be an aid for diagnosis.@@drmclphillips

[@drmclphillips]

Fully agree! I hope that at some point mitochondrial health testing will become commonplace, but I reckon it is a ways away yet (as in several decades). Matt.

[@lynlawley8903]

Good god why if we sort cancer,,then more money for other health probs

[@Joseph93]

No, there’s hundreds of mitochondria per cell.

[@dublinvalletta]

'i believe' .....I think you should reference your findings, this is not your work you're presenting.

[@drmclphillips]

Thank you! Yes I avoided too many references to try and keep it simple for the audience. Certainly not my intent to pretend I came up with everything - just focusing on using any and all information to help people with GBM. Kind regards, Matt.

[@xenasloan6859]

You are a breath of freshness. Please resist any urge to give up, an army of silent but knowledge-hungry people are out here

[@lynlawley8903]

Yes we can't get to youre knowledge points,,but helping us to help our selves thanks so much,,,from a busy every day person,,with cancer

[@lynlawley8903]

Well he is helping to give us some chance,,do you have cancer,,