#64 - Victoria Field | Keto for Pets

In this episode of What the Fat, Dr. Ryan Lowery sits down with Victoria Field, Co-Founder of the Metabolic Health Initiative and Program Director of the Epigenix Foundation and KetoPet Sanctuary. If you have a furry friend at home, this episode will provide tremendous insight into the benefits of a ketogenic diet for pets. Victoria will explain how the KetoPet Sanctuary has not only been providing a “forever home” for pets who would have otherwise been euthanized but helps treat cancer and other diseases. Stay tuned to also hear life-changing stories of the phenomenal work the Epigenix Foundation is doing to save lives and improve the quality-of-life in human cancer patients. Enjoy the show! Takeaways The ketogenic diet may be the key to treating and/or alleviating symptoms of cancer and other neurodegenerative diseases in not just humans, but pets as well. The Epigenix Foundation is providing ground-breaking research on humans, while the KetoPetSanctuary is providing substantial evidence to back these claims in dogs. Links/Resources Keto Pet Calculator: Keto Pet Calculator Metabolic Health Summit 2019 Ryan's Favorite Things Giveaway MHS 2019: Enter Here Keto Pet Sanctuary: ketopetsanctuary.com Show Notes: The KetoPet Sanctuary 1:38 Steps of the rescue process 4:43 Keto calculator 8:00 From Quest Nutrition to saving pets 11:00 Cancer research by the Epigenix Foundation 13:10 Empowering cancer patients 16:16 KetoPet Sanctuary and Epigenix resources 20:13 Episode recap 21:23 Tweetable quotes “They are more hungry than ever to change more people’s and animal’s lives” “The most profound effects that we saw were in the late stage brain cancer patients” “One patient specifically was suffering from aphasia, alexia, lost his ability to read and write, and then I remember him calling me up for the 6-weeks-in and saying, ‘I just read a few paragraphs in a novel.” “When they get this diagnosis, their lives completely changed. They have a seizure, they then go in for a scan the next day, they find out they have brain cancer, maybe 2-3 years to live, you have the options: surgery, chemo, radiation, but if you can provide them with another option that’s nutrition that might help them feel like they have some control in that situation again what that does for a patients quality of life and the empowerment it provides that in-and-of itself…that changes everything.”