Hi,
I've discovered the research of a french physician named Laurent Schwartz on cancer. Unfortunately I found nothing in english on Youtube, only videos in french (for those who can understand french).
To summarize his approach:
Regarding the research on cancer:
- he considers that the pharmaceutical industry did no progress on fighting cancer in the last 5 decades, and demonstrate it by statistical analysis showing that we made no progress on the chance to survive on cancer today compared as in the 60's
- he considers that the hyper specialisation of the research on cancer today is contra-productive, and we have lost the big picture on the disease
Regarding his view on cancer:
- he considers it's a naturally occuring disease, as a consequence of aging
- if so, a few and simple adjustments on lifestyle could prevent, slow down or reverse the disease
Regarding his methodology to undertand the disease:
- he set up a team of scientist, not only medical doctors, but mathematicians and physicists, from the prestigious school of engineering Ecole Polytechnique, where he is a teacher.
- his team performed historical and statistical analysis on all available data, some of these data coming from 19th century
- his team was focusing on invariants on the different form on cancer, rather than the differences
The conclusion they reach:
- the cancer is probably the consequence of mitochondrial malfunction in cell
- this malfunction can occur from natural aging, or because of external causes like irritations caused by inflamatory or toxic agents
- for instance he considers that lung cancer as a consequence of smoking, is not related to tar as commonly accepted (low tar cigarettes cause as much cancer has normal tar ones), but because of CO2 and the resulting asphyxiation of mitochondrias in cell
- boosting mitochondrial function could help against cancer (helping mitochondria with glucose and oxygen)
The cure he is testing:
- to slow down the disease, on cancerous patient, he advise to use some simple mitochondrial booster
- ALA (alpha lipoic acid), intravenously when possible (600mg per day), generally used for diabete
- hydroxycitrate (3x500 mg per day, beware of impact on your liver
- for certain patients, he also advise metformin, generally used for diabete, under medical supervision, or naltrexone (reduce glucose uptake on cancer cell) under medical supervision
The anecdotal results:
- anecdotally on the patients he followed, some on advanced phase of cancer, he was able to extend their chance of survival, sometimes by many years.
Why I found this approach interesting:
- I read this forum for many years now, and here I learned many things regarding the mitochondrial hypothesis on Alzheimer, and why ketogenic diet, or MCT oil can help this disease.
- I also noticed the threads on C60, and the fact that the rats given C60 not only doubled their lifetime, but also where clean of any tumor at the end of their life.
- Also the threads on caloric restriction or fasting and its impact on aging and cancer
- In some of his videos, Laurent Schwartz says that he thinks that neurodegenerative disease are also a consequence of mitochondrial dysfunction.
So I think that protecting and boosting our mitochondrias is key to prevent degenerative diseases like cancer, alzheimer etc. and this is why I wanted to share these information with you guys!
Any ideas on how to build the ultimate mitochondrial stack?
