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Thomas N. Seyfried

Thomas N. Seyfried (born 1946[1]) is an American professor of biology, genetics, and biochemistry at Boston College.

Education and early life

His father, William E. Seyfried, Sr., served in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II and was president and founder of Capeway Paints in Brockton, Massachusetts.[2] His brother William E. Seyfried, Jr. is a University of Minnesota professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.[3] Seyfried served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War, receiving the Bronze Star, the Air Medal, and the Army Commendation Medal.[4]

Seyfried received his PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1976. His postdoctoral fellowship studies were in the Department of Neurology at the Yale University School of Medicine where he served as an assistant professor in neurology. He did undergraduate work at the University of New England, formerly St. Francis College, and received a master's degree in genetics from Illinois State University, Normal.

Research and views

His research focuses on mechanisms of chronic diseases such as cancer, epilepsy, neurodegenerative lipid storage diseases, and caloric restriction diets.[5] He previously served as chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the National Tay-Sachs and Allied Diseases Association. His 2012 book is Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: On the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancer. Seyfried is a popular interview guest regarding the metabolic theory of cancer.

In podcast interviews Seyfried has claimed that radiation therapy and chemotherapy, which he compares to "medieval cures", can only marginally improve life expectancy by 1-2 months for cancer patients, with Seyfried advocating that cancer patients adopt a ketogenic diet. Seyfried's claims about the effectiveness of conventional cancer treatments are not supported by scientific evidence, and other medical professionals have said there is insufficient evidence that ketogenic diets are effective treatments for cancer.[6][7][8]

References

  1. ^ "Interview with Thomas N. Seyfried on Cancer as a metabolic disease: On the origin, management, and prevention of cancer". Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  2. ^ "Obituary: William E. Seyfried, Sr., 85". Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  3. ^ "University of Minnesota: William Seyfried". Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  4. ^ Seyfried, Thomas (26 June 2012). Thomas N. Seyfried bio at Amazon.com. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0470584927.
  5. ^ "Biology Department Faculty: Thomas N. Seyfried, professor". Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  6. ^ "Steven Bartlett sharing harmful health misinformation in Diary of CEO podcast". Retrieved 2024-12-13.
  7. ^ Wilson, Clare (2024-12-13). "Four wildest health claims in Steven Bartlett's Diary of a CEO podcast debunked". The i Paper. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
  8. ^ Grimes, David Robert; O'Riordan, Elizabeth (November 2023). "Starving cancer and other dangerous dietary misconceptions". The Lancet Oncology. 24 (11): 1177–1178. doi:10.1016/S1470-2045(23)00483-7. PMID 37922928. One especially common variant is the ketogenic diet for cancer, pivoting on the assumption that forced physiological ketosis (a normal response to low glucose availability brought on by fasting or low carbohydrate diets) avoids fuelling cancer. This concept has been taken to extremes by some advocates, who assert that ketogenic diets eliminate the need for chemotherapy and radiotherapy. However, there is insufficient evidence to support the efficacy of ketogenic diets in cancer, with only a few, somewhat biased, clinical investigations, with findings that are distinctly at odds with the more sweeping claims made.

Further reading

Christofferson, Travis (2017). Tripping over the Truth: How the Metabolic Theory of Cancer Is Overturning One of Medicine's Most Entrenched Paradigms. Chelsea Green Publishing.

Quelle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_N._Seyfried