I think the biggest thing is you got to convince people that this is a metabolic disease.

It's a mitochondrial metabolic disease.

Okay, so that changes the whole ground, the whole playing field, how you're going to treat the disease.

Because it's a metabolic disease, why are you a radiate?

Why? Because I've got to stop the tumor growth the tumor growth open if I can stop it by taking away the fuels that I don't need to do that and now of course

okay so you're relabeling what the disease is and by relabeling and

providing the evidence that this is a different than what we thought and that the

gene mutations are really red herrings

uh... their epiphenomena that they're very little related to what goes on.

Well, that's a different difficult pill to swallow.

This is episode number 97 with Dr. Thomas Seyfried.

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Hello there and welcome back to pursuing health.

This is definitely the most controversial episode of the podcast that I have brought to you to date,

but I'm very excited to share this upcoming conversation with you.

A little bit of background about Dr. C. freed. Thomas C. freed PhD is a biochemical geneticist, scientist, and professor at Boston College.

For more than 25 years he's taught and conducted research in the fields of neurochemistry,

neurogenetics, and cancer. Through his extensive research, Thomas has

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