Episode #084
How Our Health Care System Keeps You Sick

In his first book, Tripping Over the Truth, author Travis Christofferson wrote about how cancer may come from a metabolic origin.

His theory was nothing new and, if you’re a regular listener of this podcast, you’ve heard me talk about this with guests like Dr. Thomas Seyfried, Miriam Kalamian, and Dr. Angela Poff.

Since we’ve covered this topic so extensively already with those guests, today’s episode with Travis Christofferson takes the conversation a bit further.

So you’ll hear more about treating cancer with supplemental theories, but that’s just the beginning of what we get into.

While diving into this research, Travis quickly discovered that our health care system is failing patient success rates and it doesn’t have to be this way.

When you tune into the episode, you’ll hear more about what’s really preventing us from lowering health care costs, why supplemental therapies that are more effective aren’t being used, and what needs to change to fix this.

Travis and I also get into why the war on cancer is so ineffective, why cancer rates are really down, and so much more.

On top of writingTripping Over the Truth, Travis is also the author of Curable, which outlines the exact blueprint needed to transform our health care system.

He’s also earned a master’s degree in material engineering and science and he’s the founder of The Foundation for Metabolic Cancer Therapies.

By checking out the episode, you’ll learn more about Travis’ background, whether or not it’s possible to fix this, and how we get to that point.

Here’s a peek at some of the topics Travis and I discuss

• Travis Christofferson’s background and how he found himself on this health journey
• Why is cancer on the rise?
• Why the war on cancer is such a mess
• Bioenergetics of cancer cells
• Metabolic dysfunction of cancer cells
• Supplemental therapies and metabolic cancer treatments and why we’re not using them as much as we should be
• Why our healthcare system is the way it is today and what’s wrong with that
• Should the government get more involved in our health care system?
• The three strategies that Travis sees the most success with when combined
• Why it’s important to restore aerobic metabolism and what that is
• Are there cancers that don’t respond to keto?
• The cancers that fare the best with supplemental therapies
• The biggest issues that plague our health care system today
• Are any health care systems doing things the right way?
• The surprising results of fecal transfers and what we learned from these
• Travis also shares his thoughts on the carnivore diet

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Mentioned in This Episode 

• Travis Christofferson’s website (this is also his foundation, The Foundation for Metabolic Cancer Therapies)
• Travis Christofferson’s Twitter and Facebook
• Travis’ book, Tripping Over the Truth
• Travis’ second book, Curable

More Resources 

• The Keto Answers Podcast Episode 066: Dr. Thomas Seyfried – Upending Traditional Cancer Treatment with Ketosis, Fasting, and Hyperbaric Oxygen
• The Keto Answers Podcast Episode 60: Dr. Paul Saladino – Plant Toxicity, The Carnivore Diet from a Doctor’s Perspective, and Foods to Add and Avoid When Going Carnivore
• The Keto Answers Podcast Episode 082:  Dr. Paul Saladino – Sustainability of Meat-Based vs. Plant-Based Diets
• The Keto Answers Podcast Episode 075: Dr. Angela Poff – Ketones, Ketosis, and Cancer Metabolism: A Top Keto Researcher Shares the Latest
• The Keto Answers Podcast Episode 065: Miriam Kalamian – Keto for Cancer: Plus Fasting, Protein Intake, and The Number One Thing You Can Do Today, Even if You’re Healthy
• Ketosis for Cancer Treatment
• Brain Cancer and The Ketogenic Diet: What You Need to Know