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<blockquote data-quote="ButtterflyLady" data-source="post: 916963" data-attributes="member: 43498"><p>Seyfried is claiming that a ketogenic diet cures cancer and he has proposed clinical trials that would involve cancer patients not having conventional treatment, so that a ketogenic diet could be studied. That is unethical and frankly it wouldn't fly if it was put up to a research ethics board. He is a biologist, not a medical practitioner. Some of what he says is interesting and promising, but his approach amounts to hype, that is not backed by oncological science at all, and I'm afraid his claims don't stand up to scrutiny. I think ketogenic diets are great for weight loss and T2 diabetes, but Seyfried goes too far when he pushes them as a cancer cure.</p><p></p><p>The reason an oncologist doesn't offer a patient a ketogenic diet as part of their treatment options is because there is no reason to believe that it would help with treating the cancer. So why would the oncologist want to get their hopes up unnecessarily? Doctors don't suggest things until there is good evidence that it will work. Otherwise medical care would be all over the place. There's also no evidence that it is safe for a cancer patient to follow a ketogenic diet. That has not been proven yet. Why take the risk of harm when there is no evidence of efficacy or safety?</p><p></p><p>Yes, we will have to agree to disagree if we're only prepared to read our trusted sources and not also read reviews of their work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ButtterflyLady, post: 916963, member: 43498"] Seyfried is claiming that a ketogenic diet cures cancer and he has proposed clinical trials that would involve cancer patients not having conventional treatment, so that a ketogenic diet could be studied. That is unethical and frankly it wouldn't fly if it was put up to a research ethics board. He is a biologist, not a medical practitioner. Some of what he says is interesting and promising, but his approach amounts to hype, that is not backed by oncological science at all, and I'm afraid his claims don't stand up to scrutiny. I think ketogenic diets are great for weight loss and T2 diabetes, but Seyfried goes too far when he pushes them as a cancer cure. The reason an oncologist doesn't offer a patient a ketogenic diet as part of their treatment options is because there is no reason to believe that it would help with treating the cancer. So why would the oncologist want to get their hopes up unnecessarily? Doctors don't suggest things until there is good evidence that it will work. Otherwise medical care would be all over the place. There's also no evidence that it is safe for a cancer patient to follow a ketogenic diet. That has not been proven yet. Why take the risk of harm when there is no evidence of efficacy or safety? Yes, we will have to agree to disagree if we're only prepared to read our trusted sources and not also read reviews of their work. [/QUOTE]
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