Advocating for a Therapeutic Ketogenic Diet | Miriam Kalamian EdM MS CNS | TEDxSedona

[@chanellynel]

The keto lifestyle is life changing. I went from intermittent fasting to one meal a day which means I'm basically doing a 23 hour fast every single day. I love it. I'm never hungry and always satiated for extended periods of time. Sometimes I'll even do a 2-3 day fast and not even bat an eye. Dr. Ken Berry and Dr. Jason Fung are out here changing lives! All the best to you and your family 💗

[@cinzialbm]

I love her 💜

[@karenbixby7453]

Me, too! Love those bold docs!

[@gypsybyker]

If I had known this when my 14 year old son was dx with rare pediatric sarcoma in 2010, we would have tried it. We were clueless and he was given very low odds of survival with stage 4. We let him eat what he wanted: loads of Mountain Dew. He died in 2012. Our oncologists had no dietary recommendations at all. I am now on a ketogenic diet myself and I am now a huge advocate of it, for many health reasons.

[@patriciagriffin1505]

What a shame that no one told you about this..

[@Candlewick14]

I am so so sorry xxxxx just been diagnosed with breat cancer myself and terribly grateful it's me and not my 9 year old with cancer. It's too hard.

[@richardbautista503]

Condolences…

[@ChrisAllenJ]

So sorry of your loss.

[@2tired2cook]

What a stunning mother! Flawless, well-paced what I'm sure must have been an incredibly hard and emotional speech. I'm so sorry for your loss. Your undoubted courage, inspiration and memory of your beautiful son are true lights that shine bright in this world.

[@kjlovestanuki]

Don't stop sharing your story. Raffi's light shines on.

[@Kobe29261]

My sister has asthma - the lesson I learned from her experience is that the sick are like canaries - they reveal the hidden mechanics of our bodies. What your sons life teaches us is that at some level mostly* non whole-fruit carbs are toxic to the body especially the brain. In 10 who knows 5 years we'll eat a lot less starchy carbohydrates than we do now. Thanks for your courage and be peaceful!

[@lucylocket5262]

Brilliant speech. It moved me to tears. I've been on KETO diet since September 2019. I've noticed many health benefits of KETO and Intermittent Fasting. I intend to stay on it for the rest of my life. Prevention is much better than cure. We shouldn't wait until we get a diagnosis of potentially incurable illness. We should start today! Highly recommend it

[@standup_jokes]

you took the words out of my mouth. right on.

[@aylinurgun5244]

I am on keto four years now, healtier than fifteen years ago

[@otto.nommiik]

How true your words are

[@didemoner3633]

Can you please advise what you eat in keto diet, and how you do intermittent fasting? Looks like there are so many different ways..

[@kool2770]

wow thats interesting. I am also on keto since September 2019

[@ketonesnotglucose4978]

Every cell in our body has between 1 and 4,000 mitochondria per cell. The mitochondria is where ATP is created. It's the body's energy currency. Without ATP the very cell itself cannot do anything, it needs energy. So when the mitochondria is dysfunctional, it will ferment rather than respirate. Healthy human cells will respirate oxygen using glucose or ketones, while cancer cells ferment glucose or glutamine, which is an amino acid. Those are the only two fermentable fuels that cancer can use. Glucose needs insulin in order to enter the cell to be used for energy production. Ketones do not need insulin to access the cell. Ketones freely enter all cells, including the brain! Glucose also causes inflammation, causing all of the inflammatory pathways to switch on. Diet is the number one defense, proactively or reactively!

[@heatheggers2454]

I read this and thought someone was commenting that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell, either way nice comment

[@SuperPumpkin22]

I second what that.

[@CANCEREVOLUTIONdoc]

Miriam is such a fantastic person. What a great talk on keto. Her book Keto for Cancer helped save my wife Maggie's life. So honored to be able to interview her in our documentary.

[@liannekarla]

What a beautiful story.. Thank you so much for this! I do therapeutic ketogenic diet after I had my Stroke last November 22, 2016 and I had to start from from scratch - ABC’s, reading, writing and I needed speech therapy because I had Aphasia. I found Dr. Eric Berg on KZbin when I was searching for a better diet since my Stroke was due to AV Malformation and bad diet, I decided to try it. After 8 months of speech therapy, I passed my tests from 77% to 97.5%; I can now see colors from my right eye; and I can now dream. Plus I lost 60 pounds on it. These are just some of the changes that improved because of keto. It’s amazing how the body heals! I’m still on the Ketogenic diet and added intermittent fasting as well. I drink apple cider vinegar with lemon and I drink coconut oil every day.

[@lrose48]

In 2017 at the age of 55 I was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma an incurable cancer and Diabetes. It was a bad year. I dived in head first researching both since I wasn’t familiar with either conditions. Of course my doctor wanted to put me on meds and insulin so I asked her to give me three months than will go from there. At the end of three months I lost 20 lbs and A1C was 5.7 and she asked my how I did it. Ketogenic diet stopped the progression of diabetes and to this day I’m still on ketogenic way of eating. My cancer is in remission after getting stem cell transplant but I contribute my MM cancer remission not only to the transplant but with ketogenic diet. I know cancer feeds off of sugar so I cut out as much as i am able to. I swear my ketogenic diet for it improved my life.

[@mikaelhagne8786]

Great speech, great work. i’m in moderate ketosis since three month it all makes sense. I were diagnosed with high risk cancer 1 1/2 yrs ago. Last x-ray showed no tumors. I’ll get there! Thank you!

[@ELLISRUGER8]

I've done Keto for 3 months feel years and years younger and looking far better and leaner. There is also some great success with the treatment of Alzheimer's. If there's is a predisposition to such problems in your family or you just want to look and feel better, do the research. To the lady in the video that was a great presentation my condolences for your loss and my total respect for your courage and efforts to help others.

[@elendilnz]

Miriam, it must be painful to talk about your loss; yet all the time, you are bravely helping others. Thank you for your love, selfless service and bravery. So many will benefit from your story. What a wonderful thing you achieved, to add so many more years to your son’s life and now you are on the cutting edge of a brighter future for thousands - or more - a future with more and better information and healing methods ❤️🙏

[@jacknissen6040]

She is not alone.

[@tatianafxbeatty9381]

THIS NEEDS TO GO VIRAL

[@carsh55]

So sorry for your loss..In your grief you are bringing his light to those who need it..

[@9879SigmundS]

Thank you. It’s wonderful that your son’s legacy and your mission is so intertwined and so important.

[@DominicDAgostino]

Thank you for sharing your story Mimi and for helping to get this important information out!

[@retiredmona2181]

What a brave momma, you are amazing!!! Thank you for your dedication, love and hope you give!!!

[@halsted23]

Great presentation. I have Glio and am on a strict Keto diet. God bless your family. Good for you. Shocked TED allowed this conversation!

[@suzanneeister7357]

I’m diagnosed with Glioblastoma and I’m taking the Keto route as well. Stay strong, let’s do this!

[@dukeblair7792]

How are you doing now? I have cancer in my brain. Wanted to know how it is going.

[@mariaelenadieguez5211]

Thank you Miriam 🙏 you are so courageous, thank you for telling us the story of your beautiful and brave little boy 🩷 Thank you for your work, your relentless work on getting the word out and being an advocate for us in the medical community. I have successfully finished 6 rounds of chemo!!! I feel very blessed and grateful for a new chance at life, and this includes the Leto diet and other alternative modalities that will strengthen and protect my body from any further damage or threat. There is so much we can do with the information we have already, the oncology community has to catch up!!! And the only way to do that is by more patients being better educated and speaking up! Again, thank you 😊 I feel encouraged after listening to this talk. May God continue to bless you always 🌷

[@bethhubbs9937]

Watch until the very end. The whole speech is packed with wonderful information, but don't miss out on the very end.

[@sorryamber]

Bless you, what a brave Mother

[@jJtom30]

Miriam, you are an inspiration. Thank you so much. This really is a brilliant pointing coming straight from your direct experience. I believe Raffi is very proud and full of so much love for you, knowing you will be helping so many who will benefit greatly from this very simple, yet profoundly effective, diet. My son Pablo Kelly, is living proof of this, having a grade 4 Glioma. He has been on this diet since he found Dr Professor Thomas Seyfried & Dominique D'Agostino's research. He is more healthy than he has ever been! Thank you so much to you all for all your persistent hard work. I love you guys.

[@jot9561]

Thank you for sharing this. It made me cry. Living with a beloved with advanced cancer diagnosis is agonizingly painful. This is very helpful and informative.

[@95ireyna]

Thank you Miriam for all you do. Raffi would be so proud.

[@noelmyeo]

Thank you for sharing your journey and learning about keto and cancer. Deeply sorry for your loss, but know that your loss is helping me and countless people out there!

[@johnstewartvet]

Every time a story like yours is shared it helps standard of care to shift to ketosis . Thanks also to TEDx Sedona for have the foresight to put Miriam on the stage. An important message to share

[@gyorgygaspar3435]

Thanks for let us into Your life to such a sensitive degree. I just wanted to acknowledge what You've said with my expericences in keto. I'm on ketogenic Diet 3 months ago. I had no cancer nor diabetes ... only 18 kg overweight. BUT since I'm doing the diet I'm calm and feel myself more clever. I have more energy and started to gym again. It is a totally life-changing way of eating and the top of that I've lost 8 kgs without ever being hungry (eating bacon and cheese and nice fatty meats :) ) Maybe You will be happy to hear that in my country (Hungary) it is getting quite a movement the use of ketogenic diet. There are people in FB group with diabetes epilepsy, cancer and all of them are satisfied with the results.

[@jdapolo]

The ending gave me chills. Almost cried.

[@rebeccag.2381]

Thank you Miriam for your dedication and care!

[@williamstewart1266]

sorry for your loss what a courages women you are thanks for sharing xx

[@ethelnelson889]

I am touched. I admire your courage to bring keto to Raffi when facing such uncertainty. I thank you for sharing and bringing this important message to the rest of us. God bless you.

[@suziegrandma]

This astonishing. More doctors need to learn the benefits of this nutritional plan.

[@Dubinski2382]

Suzanne Johnson They need to be held financially responsible for failing to provide the best form of treatment.

[@kentuckyburbon1777]

Uhh yeah right, they’ll say i’m not a nutritionist…I can only look at your lab results and prescribe pills LOLZ True story

[@schmittyshar]

What an amazing thing you have done with your pain. Bless your heart and Raffi’s life, which will no doubt lend itself to helping others extend and improve the quality of their, or a loved one’s, life. 🙏❤️

[@MsAnchovey]

Fasting goes hand N hand with a Ketogenic diet. It really helps!!

[@ossifrage6828]

Autophagy works!

[@MsAnchovey]

Actually, I've changed my mind. Fasting took away my muscle but not my pains. Autophagy...Ha! Didnt do a thing for me after 7 mo. Ghrrrr!

[@ossifrage6828]

@@MsAnchovey lol

[@davidjd123]

fasting is the true keto diet, keto diet is a mock fast diet, but helps in the long run to keep nutrients coming when when fasting cant.

[@Photologistic]

@@davidjd123 keto is the way virtually everyone ate prior to the insanity of Ancel Keys (and his fake, falsified data) and George McGovern (corrupt senator from a major grain producing state) railroaded the flawed dietary guidelines through congress, over the objections of scientists. Prior to a lot of packaged food like products (all have sugar and wheat in them) and industrial seed oils, and fast food. Search for MCGovern and Keys, there are old videos of it, it’s quite an eye opener.

[@bruh-rr6pl]

Your son is so beautiful! You are such an amazing mom!

[@bohdanburban5069]

A powerful story amd a salutary reminder of the fallability of experts.

[@lakshhminarasimhashubhrave8638]

Thank you for everything. Sincerely hope that you have a great rest of your life.

[@mariam6thmaimoona5thandmar5]

Miriam this moved me i lost my mother to Cancer wish i knew things then which i know now.

[@jackryan6202]

Strong smart woman. As a man with a Glioma my wife is my rock. Keto 100%

[@STrouwborst]

Miriam, I bow in awe. Thank you for sharing!

[@thomasbrown3127]

A beautiful caring soul. Bless you. Thank you

[@kassrripples3659]

I am training to become a Health Coach through PreKure, because I believe support is key to change and success for families moving onto the ketogenic / LCHF way of eating. Thank you for sharing your story and telling us about your beautiful son.

[@TheTamrock2007]

Bless you and your family. Thank you so very much for sharing your sons, and you story. I found Keto in February and and my health is improving. Eager for it to reach more people. Having doctors better educated about nutrition would be so tremendous in bettering peoples lives. Again, Thank you ❤

[@robfick3289]

can I get this someway written on paper? My English is not good enough to understand it all and it is important to me to have knowledge of this diet.

[@TheTamrock2007]

@@robfick3289 I have actually gone carnivore recently. Keto Naturopath on KZbin is my favorite channel right now, along with doctor ken Berry and Dr Berg. There's another too, Dr Sten Eckberg, sorry I'm sleepy. The names not right. My health has been much improved over the last four years. No medications anymore and I'm thriving

[@jadewimberley6201]

mariam, thank you for all that you do. I recommend your book with a few others to all cancer patients as well as many other patients as a foundation to understand metabolism and food choices.

[@carolynapappas]

Thank you for sharing your story and I'm so sorry for the loss of your son. I am looking into this diet for myself for a different condition.

[@vitaaging24]

Sencillamente espectacular, mis felicitaciones por tanto amor y dedicación

[@richMortiz]

Thank you for sharing your story with such amazing grace

[@truth23-gp7dk]

Wow.... What a brave mom

[@brenrose8682]

Your son is so lovely thanks for sharing.

[@jojomarie66]

Bless you sweet lady. You will certainly see your beautiful boy again one day. xx

[@adventureplustv]

Thank you for sharing your story. You are a beautiful person. 🙏🏻

[@7quidstudio]

Beautiful speech, excellent presentation x

[@andreabelobradic1213]

Thank you for this hope and your bravery

[@ladymei2149]

I am so happy to buy her book, I just received it today.. can’t wait to read it...

[@yolandasilva1921]

What is the name of her book plz ?

[@ladymei2149]

@@yolandasilva1921 Keto for Cancer

[@ntebomaishy9999]

We are proud,thank you

[@jeffallen4113]

Wow. Thank you for sharing!!

[@jhalaby1]

Thank you for sharing your story. You are brave and your message is inspirational. Your boy was beautiful.

[@cloudfurr1]

Thank you for sharing your story with us.

[@Steve-yz9uo]

What a beautiful story.

[@asiam1312]

Thank you for sharing your story

[@KatTremblay1]

Beautiful message! Thank you for sharing your experiences and knowledge.

[@rashmiendenburg5115]

Thank you !

[@wDoopieMam]

May the God bless you and send you peace.

[@generalopinion402]

Amazing amazing and so very helpful …. Thank you.

[@RobAbdul]

Wow, what an amazing journey. Ketosis Is here to stay.

[@hamilderen259]

I´m so sorry for your loss.

[@MsAnchovey]

Hamil... what is her loss?

[@huhanarokx-potae942]

Same question here, what loss?

[@huhanarokx-potae942]

I get it now that I have listened to Miriam’s lecture in full. The loss of her son at age 13, but 8 years beyond the age of 8 that was originally predicted by the medical fraternity. All due to ketogenics.

[@Dubinski2382]

Huhana Rokx-Potae Let's be honest...the arrogance of the doctors murdered her son. Kids lives matter.

[@samcad-ho3ze]

You are incredible.

[@claudiaharris187]

Thank you

[@tracymaysmith7894]

Great talk

[@Videoschool24]

Inspirational. Thank you!

[@eileenkenny7718]

Thankyou so much Miriam, for such a super informative talk. I have Parkinson's and have been following a ketogenic diet for about 8 months...

[@jetzibond5112]

Have u seen any signifcant benefits?

[@eileenkenny7718]

@@jetzibond5112 Not really, specifically for my Parkinson's. However, I have trimmed down quite a bit - which is a bonus.. I didn't follow that diet whilst in Spain for a couple of months earlier ths year - and I was keen to get back to it on my reuturn...

[@MyMlittleFriends]

@@eileenkenny7718 how are you doing?

[@SlobberySlob]

Latest news is lack of gut bacteria causes Parkinson's. Stay away from artificial sweeteners, diet coke etc... They kill many gut bacteria.

[@patriciagriffin1505]

@@eileenkenny7718 hi I’ve seen a video about Qigong improving “ curing “ Parkinson’s” Disease

[@ntebomaishy9999]

Thank you,it really helps

[@jjsza11]

Amazing story.

[@rosalieb1110]

wow, I am so touched.....

[@stacyhackney6100]

Thank you.

[@giterdunpete]

Brave Brave Brave

[@seanoconnor569]

Gold. 👍

[@Carnivorelion]

Not so sure its an added therapy. Should be used as a sole therapy for glio's. Chemo is detrimental.

[@Candlewick14]

Beautiful Beautiful

[@pattybabbitt6500]

What can you do for a none curable kidney cancer...

[@Master-AGN]

Since cancer cells thrive on glutamine and glucose, I wonder if anyone’s thought about loading the body with non-glutamine aminos before each meal. The body can only digester certain amount of protein at each meal, so if you take 12g of say citruline valine and lysine etc so your body can’t absorb so much glutamine.

[@Hveragerthi]

It is well known, and has been well known for a long time that cancer cells can use glucose, fructose, ketones, lactate, fatty acids and some amino acids as fuel sources. And since many of these are produce in the body, it is impossible to starve cancer. Studies have also proven that ketones promote cancer cell metastases due to the acidic nature of ketones, which activate hyaluronidase and proteolytic enzymes that allow cancer cells to invade tissues.

[@petercyr3508]

Would be great if medicine would do the right thing and determine the real treatment for cancers. It is horrific that people like this woman have to resort to do-it-yourself.

[@giribt]

What was the website you were saying? Can you gives me the link?

[@geezusfreek1]

Also look at Dr William Li. Angiogenisis diet. It works well with Keto and provides a broader diet.

[@Intellectualcuriocity]

Does keto help in autism , my son is 5 years old and autistic

[@eg50000]

So sad listening to the last part.

[@vqfive]

Could keto help Lung Cancer?

[@Jsarson1976]

Lowering sugar will starve most cancers.

[@petercyr3508]

The problem with treating with nutrition is that there is no money in it. Maybe we could get Elon interested in this!

[@andrewheath5948]

Reduce glucose is key, Keto is just one way. All good diets restrict sugar.

[@elphi9445]

Just imagine keto and IF. Cancer most fear...

[@richyllamayao1119]

The main reason I started dieting was to get rid of cellulite, however the keto diet made it unbearable.. That's why I tried the *Agoge diet* and it worked great

[@yellowfocus]

Any good diet plan shoould be healthy and convenient so people can follow it long term. That's why the keto diet sucks, and why the Agoge diet is great. I got rid of my cellulite finally.

[@chuckboy9372]

Here is the problem with all of these diets. It's. They are failing to understand stand the bigger picture.. It is really quite simple. It is simply a matter of how much activity you get throughout the day the day in conjunction with how how much fuel you give your body. The problem with Western culture is culture is that you sit on your a** all day with hardly any hardly any physical labor for the majority of people yet we still eat extreme Amounts of food. Your body has the ability to rise to the occasion if you give it the right stimulus. However today in our society we do a lot of sitting and eating and that combination is what causes causes us to have so much heart disease diabetes and poor health all Around. If you have ever gone to a place like military basic training or a fitness camp Then you know when you are active all day you will use all of the fuel you give your body and your body and you will feel Better.However when you do not use the fuel for the fuel for your body it will result in hormone levels that are out of whack. These hormone levels and the extra fuel floating around create a growth environment for cancer.

[@joelg2057]

Medical mafia would never allow this type of treatment to be incorporated in textbook of students/ made a standard protocol. Else they'll loose a lot of business for every "patient" who won't buy their medicines

[@rosalbadelriogarcia9598]

DrThomasSeyFried cancer as a metabolic disease..book

[@pilarsg6370]

I'm so sad

[@jacknissen6040]

The current misguided nutritional guidelines are a recipe for disaster. The status quo can no longer be accepted. Let us understand better, what food is.

[@colour2690]

Cheers for this, been searching for "natural ketosis recipes" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Ever heard of - Leviwiy Ketogenic Kaiserism - (search on google ) ? Ive heard some unbelievable things about it and my cousin got cool results with it.

[@11BDUBS]

+[ (God yes!)