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Metabolic dysfunction rarely makes itself known until late in the process. Long before a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, the body may already be struggling to store and access fuel efficiently. This guide distills the most important insights from science and clinical practice to help you identify, prevent, and... show more

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36,873 views • 6 months ago

$50 million! That’s the size of a new privately funded donation by the Baszucki Family to launch the Metabolic Health Coalition, a group of scientists and healthcare professionals committed to addressing the root causes of our metabolic health crisis. As both a PhD scientist and new MD and chronic disease patient, this hits home for me. Because one thing I know for certain: the system we’ve built isn’t designed to prioritize metabolic health. It’s optimized for treatments that maintain the business model—pharmaceuticals, procedures, and quick fixes—not long-term root-cause solutions. 🚨This coalition is different. It’s a move toward unbiased research and widespread education—for both clinicians and patients. It’s a serious effort to bring logic, science, and systems-level change to a crisis that’s been swept under the rug for too long. It’s sad that we need disruption, and that true change is being built of the backs of people like me and my friends and colleagues who became passionate about metabolic health because we or a loved one suffered in a dysfunction system. 🚨But that sad truth is also the reason this metabolic health movement is so robust. Enough have suffered. Let’s shake things up. 1⃣First, follow Coalition for Metabolic Health for further updates. 2⃣Then, check out the metabolic health coalition website (👇) 3⃣Finally, share if you care *Some members of the scientific advisory board and supporting experts you may know and love... Benjamin Bikman Dominic D'Agostino Andrew Koutnik, Ph.D. Georgia Ede MD Dr. David Ludwig Chris Palmer, MD and many more... Ht/ David Baszucki Jan Ellison Baszucki 🙏

$50 million! That’s the size of a new privately funded donation by the Baszucki Family to launch the Metabolic Health Coalition, a group of scientists and healthcare professionals committed to addressing the root causes of our metabolic health crisis. As both a PhD scientist and new MD and chronic disease patient, this hits home for me. Because one thing I know for certain: the system we’ve built isn’t designed to prioritize metabolic health. It’s optimized for treatments that maintain the business model—pharmaceuticals, procedures, and quick fixes—not long-term root-cause solutions. 🚨This coalition is different. It’s a move toward unbiased research and widespread education—for both clinicians and patients. It’s a serious effort to bring logic, science, and systems-level change to a crisis that’s been swept under the rug for too long. It’s sad that we need disruption, and that true change is being built of the backs of people like me and my friends and colleagues who became passionate about metabolic health because we or a loved one suffered in a dysfunction system. 🚨But that sad truth is also the reason this metabolic health movement is so robust. Enough have suffered. Let’s shake things up. 1⃣First, follow Coalition for Metabolic Health for further updates. 2⃣Then, check out the metabolic health coalition website (👇) 3⃣Finally, share if you care *Some members of the scientific advisory board and supporting experts you may know and love... Benjamin Bikman Dominic D'Agostino Andrew Koutnik, Ph.D. Georgia Ede MD Dr. David Ludwig Chris Palmer, MD and many more... Ht/ David Baszucki Jan Ellison Baszucki 🙏

Nick Norwitz MD PhD

21,253 views • 10 months ago

Cancer’s fuel is glucose + glutamine. Starve both → tumors choke and die. Thomas Seyfried: “We have not found a single tumor that can survive without glucose and glutamine. Put the body into nutritional ketosis (low sugar, high ketones/fatty acids) and the cancer cells get hammered. Metabolic therapy should be first-line for every patient.” At the end, maybe a small touch of radiation/chemo/immunotherapy to mop up stragglers—but the foundation is metabolic. Tumor cells are metabolically inflexible. Normal cells thrive on ketones; cancer cells cannot. Transition the body’s fuel source → cancer suffocates. If metabolic therapy (ketogenic diet + glutamine targeting) is this powerful, why isn’t it standard protocol? What’s your take—would you push for metabolic therapy first if diagnosed? Or have you seen / tried keto in cancer contexts? Your thoughts 👇

Cancer’s fuel is glucose + glutamine. Starve both → tumors choke and die. Thomas Seyfried: “We have not found a single tumor that can survive without glucose and glutamine. Put the body into nutritional ketosis (low sugar, high ketones/fatty acids) and the cancer cells get hammered. Metabolic therapy should be first-line for every patient.” At the end, maybe a small touch of radiation/chemo/immunotherapy to mop up stragglers—but the foundation is metabolic. Tumor cells are metabolically inflexible. Normal cells thrive on ketones; cancer cells cannot. Transition the body’s fuel source → cancer suffocates. If metabolic therapy (ketogenic diet + glutamine targeting) is this powerful, why isn’t it standard protocol? What’s your take—would you push for metabolic therapy first if diagnosed? Or have you seen / tried keto in cancer contexts? Your thoughts 👇

Camus

324,809 views • 4 months ago