Exploring Drug Repurposing in Cancer Treatment

Once you put the patient in this state of nutritional ketosis, it

opens up a whole array, a new array of drugs that may have

been, uh, thrown out, not worked. That's called the whole field of

repurposing

drugs now. But once the body is in this new physiological state,

things that were thought to be ineffective become super

effective. So again, that's a who-whole new field

that will open,

uh, as the result once this information gets

out more.

And you mentioned, um, albendazole in your talk as well.

Does that have a, a, a glutamine blocking aspect to it as well?

Yes, that's in our paper also. That's another interesting thing.

Parasite medications. I don't know about ivermectin because

there was a lot

of political stuff about that. So I didn't-- I said to the, the lab,

"We're not gonna do that," because we didn't wanna get, get, uh,

get the wrath from

somebody. But, but albendazole, fenbendazole,

um, I said, "Why the hell... Why..." People are taking that and they,

and you hear

people say, "Well, I got my rid of my cancer with this

and that."

So I, I, I did a dive on it and I said, "Why, why parasite

medications work against cancer cells?"

And it turns out that the parasites use

mitochondrial substrate level phosphorylation in the tissue.

And the, and these albendazole, fenbendazole kill these

parasites,

so I tried it on the cancer cell, and sure en- sure as hell they...

It, it targets the mitochondrial substrate

and glycolysis.

So we have a mechanism now why parasite medications are working.

But cancer is not a parasite. All these people say, "Oh, cancer

is a parasite."

It's not a parasite. Parasites and tumors use a common metabolic

pathway, and a drug that works against parasites can be very

effective against

cancer, and that's what we begin to see, especially under nutritional

ketosis.

Yeah.

Right? Can you imagine this?

Yeah. Yeah, that... Oh, sorry, go on.

Um, so ivermectin, it actually works on the mitochondrial

cell death

pathway, the Bcl-2/Bax, Bad pathway.

So it actually helps push the cell death pathway