Dr Anthony Chaffee is an American medical doctor specialising in Neurosurgery who over a span of 20 years has researched the optimal nutritional habits for athletic performance and health. It is his assertion that most of the so-called chronic diseases that doctors treat these days are actually caused by the food we eat, or don’t eat, and can in many cases be reversed easily with dietary changes.
Dr. Chaffee began his University education studying Molecular & Cellular Biology with a Minor in Chemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle at the age of 15, which culminated in attaining his MD from the Royal College of Surgeons.
Dr. Chaffee is an All-American rugby player and a former professional athlete in England and America, having taken several years off from his education for the pursuit of sports between his undergraduate degree and medical school. Throughout his athletic career he saw first hand the monumental difference that diet makes to performance and recovery.
Dr. Chaffee almost accidentally came across and practiced a fully carnivorous diet from age 20 to 25, having first learned of the toxic nature of plants during his University education. Since then he has rediscovered this truth and more and has dedicated many years and a large part of his professional practice to the study and education of diet and nutrition. He personally practices a fully carnivorous diet and currently resides in Perth, Australia where he does private consultations and clinics in functional medicine and nutrition.
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13 responses to “Dr. Anthony Chaffee – ‘Ketogenic Metabolic Therapy: a novel adjunct in cancer treatment’”
Utterly baffled at the notion of having a viable, non-toxic treatment for cancer, and then spurning it because it’s inconvenient for social functions. Feels like I’m not even a member of the same species.
There’s tons of edible plants that existed 10,000 years ago. They tend to be at least a bit difficult to eat (bitter, spicy, fuzzy, or prickly) because totally appetizing wild plants get eaten and die off, and relatively appetizing wild plants get domesticated. Prickly pear cactus (Opuntia sp.) and milk thistle (Silybum marianum) are two that grow near my house and can be delicious vegetables after you cut off the spikes. I’ve picked a wild onion chive (Allium sp.) on a camping trip that would be a decent seasoning for other food (but I didn’t really have cooking equipment). My local wild grape (Vitis sp.) almost certainly has edible leaves, though I’ve never tried them. Stinging nettles (Urtica sp.) grow tons of places and are a decent cooked green.
If you don’t know any people who eat plants that existed 10,000 years ago, you need more interesting friends.
I strive to be a great doctor like Chaffee one day
It would seem that sugar is the underlying problem for everything that ails us.
Thanks Doc, it’s almost as if the human body when fed the proper human diet actually gets back to healing itself. Carnivore FTW!!
One of the best minds in the ketogenic field. Wealth of knowledge for sure, but his logical deductions are often what impresses me the most.
Given I’ve lost 3 family members to pancreatic cancer I really hope carnivore will prevent me from ever developing it.
My friend, age 58, passed away a month ago with a GBM using standard of care. He was not interested in changing his diet. So good to hear reports of success with ketogenic diet. Very interesting presentation professionally delivered.
Excellent information. Thank You
Looking forward to hearing about PaleoMedicina case studies? Maybe?🤔 👀 Re Glioblastomas.
Pour ça que j’ai des rages de sucre.
This guy changed my life a long time ago and I will forever be grateful
I would go keto any day! I pray that all patients be filled with love and peace always❤. This world is not the ultimate. It’s the penultimate.