3 Quotes by Travis Christofferson

Ketosis is a normal physiological state. I would argue it is the normal state of man. It’s not normal to have a McDonald’s and a delicatessen around every corner. It’s normal to starve.” Maybe many modern diseases are an artifact of civilization, and maybe, as Veech suggested, a little deprivation would do us a ton of good.

Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause. Summarized in a few words, the prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar.

Many of these drugs were doing nothing but making the mice lose their appetites. It was the reduced calories that had the anti-tumor effect.