Ken D Berry MD
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@KenDBerryMD
Board-Certified MD | ADS Founding Board Member | Fighting Metabolic Disease with a #ProperHumanDiet | Author: LIES MY DOCTOR TOLD ME https://t.co/Jvm5TSsa5K
Reality check from @markkaplan20. "(My cardiologist) prescribed it (a statin) because he had to. His quality score depended on it. His reimbursement was tied to it. His insurance contracts required it. If my LDL was above the threshold and he didn't write the prescription, his performance metrics went red. Not mine. His". Ever been told that your cardiologist won't treat you, unless you take a statin? Now you know why. (Nothing to do with whether or not it might prolong your life). @DrAseemMalhotra @MaryanneDemasi @LDLSkeptic @Marion436842126
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FOUR MILLION VIEWS !!!! Lowcarb goes mainstream in just 5 weeks!! On average my patients lose 10% of their body weight. So grateful to @StevenBartlett for giving me this opportunity to reach so many interested people youtu.be/zc8Nh4TMB1s?si…
Ketones are brain fuel.
If the diagnosis is Cancer, the recommended diet should be Keto.
NEW STUDY: Diet in One of the Deadliest Cancers. I have studied ketogenic diet in cancer, and in particular glioblastoma (GBM) going back to 2014. GBM is arguably one, if not the most, deadly cancer we know of. It has a 3-year survival ~10% with a median survival of 12-18months with standard of care treatments. When we were studying these diets in GBM, the mechanistic rationale, growing preclinical evidence...but we had very little human evidence (only case reports). Awe-inspiring to see this work by @drmclphillips: doi.org/10.1093/noajnl…. RESULTS: 1) 3-Year Survival: -Standard of Care: 7% -Ketogenic Metabolic Therapy: 27% 🤯 2) Median overall survival: -Standard of Care: 14.7 months -Ketogenic Metabolic Therapy: 21.5 months 🎉 ....that is absolutely incredible!!!!!! 3) 83% sustained the metabolic therapy, targeting a specific glucose:ketone index (called GKI). ✅ 4) Side effects of the intervention were mild to moderate, showing it is well tolerated.🤏 5) Exercise and quality of life improved....💪 LIMITATIONS: 🤔 1) Not a randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled trial. 2) Intervention was not just ketogenic diet, but also intermittent fasting and exercise (comprehensive metabolic intervention) alongside chemoradiation therapy. A complete lifestyle therapy. 3) 32 participants is actually a huge number for a trial like this...but not HUGE in the grand scheme of pharmacological clinical trials. TAKE HOME MESSAGE: 1) Diet is not a replacement for cancer treatment. 🍽️vs💊 2) But metabolism is becoming a critical part of cancer treatment, as multiple lines of evidence have shown across other cancer environments in humans (e.g., ketogenic diet in GBM; fasting in breast cancer; etc.)
People are clowning on this but shouldn't. I recommend fiddling around with LLMs if you have a weird health thing that your doctors can't figure out. I had chronic digestive issues for a decade that had me sprawled out on the floor in agony on a regular basis. Horrible chest pain and hopelessness. Had all kinds of expensive scans and tests. Saw a half dozen specialists over the years who thought it was a heart thing or an esophagus thing or a hernia or a spasm or reflux etc. Finally ran all my symptoms in detail through ChatGPT and it immediately pinpointed gallbladder, because of one data point buried in my experience: the prolonged length of the "attacks" which lasted for hours at a time. I got a new test - confirmed gallbladder. A decade of pain resolved, just like that.
