The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Leading Cancer Researcher: They’re Ignoring My Research, Cancer Patients Must Know This!

Explore episode Jul 16, 2026

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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy & Cancer

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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is the logical complement to metabolic therapy. Normal cells with healthy mitochondria tolerate elevated oxygen well; cancer cells with damaged mitochondria cannot. Flooding the body with high-pressure oxygen generates oxidative stress that selectively destroys cells incapable of managing it — i.e., tumour cells. Seyfried and D'Agostino published this finding in a 2013 mouse study: ketogenic diet alone significantly slowed tumour growth in metastatic cancer models; adding hyperbaric oxygen produced a profound synergistic effect, dramatically increasing survival times. Seyfried also notes an irony: conventional radiation therapy works by creating oxidative stress, but it does so indiscriminately, damaging the whole body. Ketosis plus HBOT achieves selective tumour-cell oxidative stress without the systemic collateral damage. He warns, however, that if HBOT is used while the patient is in the red zone metabolically (as they often are, given that standard treatment drives blood sugar up), the therapy can paradoxically strengthen the tumour.

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