Dr. Gregory Howard
Appearances
Dhru Purohit Show
A Controversial Yet Promising Approach to Cancer: Is This The Future of Cancer Treatment?
Beautiful. I'm Dr. Greg Howard, married to Michelle Howard. And yeah, we started Hippocrates Research Foundation a couple of years ago with Daniel Orego.
Dhru Purohit Show
A Controversial Yet Promising Approach to Cancer: Is This The Future of Cancer Treatment?
And so I'll jump in. So a lot of people don't know the source of glutamine. Glutamine is your amino acid that makes your muscle. So we need glutamine. Right. It's a healthy part of the body. It's a healthy part of the body. So that's why Dennis is kind of a big guy. He's got a lot of muscle on him.
Dhru Purohit Show
A Controversial Yet Promising Approach to Cancer: Is This The Future of Cancer Treatment?
So when we're inhibiting glutamine and glucose, you're going to lose some weight and you're also going to lose some muscle. So we can't really start with someone that's emaciated with no muscle. There's no place to go with that. So he was really... Everything about his case was perfect for us. He hadn't had chemo radiation, so he wasn't all beat up.
Dhru Purohit Show
A Controversial Yet Promising Approach to Cancer: Is This The Future of Cancer Treatment?
He had some weight and muscle that wasn't going to hurt him to take that down a little bit. And so, yeah, he was perfect. But yes, but that's the fundamental, glucose and glutamine. And then everything else kind of stems from that.
Dhru Purohit Show
A Controversial Yet Promising Approach to Cancer: Is This The Future of Cancer Treatment?
Why is that so key? Well, so Dennis, he told us something that we didn't know. Apparently, if you play some video game, you can... Raise your blood sugar 50 points and it'll stay there.
Dhru Purohit Show
A Controversial Yet Promising Approach to Cancer: Is This The Future of Cancer Treatment?
And even we noticed with Michelle, she works out like three hours a day for the Ironman. And that will raise your blood sugar while you're doing it. And maybe after like three hours, it'll start to come down. But she might be at 60 or 70. And then when she's running, it'll be 110. And it'll stay pretty constant. And so...
Dhru Purohit Show
A Controversial Yet Promising Approach to Cancer: Is This The Future of Cancer Treatment?
Yeah, a lot of people, it's interesting with the, you know, they're taking sugar and goose and all these things while they're running a marathon. Well, your sugar is already pretty high and that probably doesn't do anything. Might give you a little sugar rush, dopamine release, so you feel better. But metabolically, are you making yourself faster? No, probably not.
Dhru Purohit Show
A Controversial Yet Promising Approach to Cancer: Is This The Future of Cancer Treatment?
You already got enough fuel already.
Dhru Purohit Show
A Controversial Yet Promising Approach to Cancer: Is This The Future of Cancer Treatment?
So would you like to chime in? Yeah. Usually these people, they have a functional medicine doctor. Some people refer to that as a concierge doctor. That's some doctor that they're not using insurance. They're paying this individual to have more access to. And those type of doctors are and we have many of them around the world and clinics around the world that are working with us.
Dhru Purohit Show
A Controversial Yet Promising Approach to Cancer: Is This The Future of Cancer Treatment?
a lot of times they already have a lot of the pieces. We're working with a group in Turkey. Daniel, what's the name of the?
Dhru Purohit Show
A Controversial Yet Promising Approach to Cancer: Is This The Future of Cancer Treatment?
Yeah. We have a lady that found us roughly six months ago. She was pretty far along and she was misdiagnosed by standard of care. They thought she had stage two breast cancer and they did a sentinel node biopsy, which is standard of care. And I think she was clean. So they thought, well, you have stage two. But she was having all this pain in her body. So we just push, push, push.
Dhru Purohit Show
A Controversial Yet Promising Approach to Cancer: Is This The Future of Cancer Treatment?
You have to get a total body PET CT scan. And she did. And it turned out she was stage four. She had metastases to her skull, to her everywhere, pelvis. And all of her pain was really, she was stage four and really probably only had a couple of months to live. And so... It was so urgent and they had means. So Daniel contacted this group in Istanbul, Turkey.
Dhru Purohit Show
A Controversial Yet Promising Approach to Cancer: Is This The Future of Cancer Treatment?
We made arrangements to get her there and then they were able to do treatments, more aggressive treatments that we couldn't do in the United States. So there's something called insulin potentiated chemotherapy where they give insulin and glucose along with chemo, traditional chemo, but you can lower the dose to about a third what you would normally get.
Dhru Purohit Show
A Controversial Yet Promising Approach to Cancer: Is This The Future of Cancer Treatment?
And they were doing some other interesting things over there. So, yeah, we like to find those groups of people around the world in those clinics and that works best. So they're overseeing everything. And then we just give our expertise on the diet and the really You know, they know their piece, we know our piece, and when it comes together, it's just fantastic.
Dhru Purohit Show
A Controversial Yet Promising Approach to Cancer: Is This The Future of Cancer Treatment?
So this lady that, I'm sure she's back in the United States now. I haven't kept up with her probably as good as I should, but she was over there almost six months in Turkey, but she's gonna come back cancer-free and do just fine. And so those are the great success stories that we have, you know, around the world. But we have clinics,
Dhru Purohit Show
A Controversial Yet Promising Approach to Cancer: Is This The Future of Cancer Treatment?
I don't know, almost every continent, just everywhere around the world. So if something was to happen to us, there's many, many, many people around the world that know our protocol. I mean, very well, physicians that could just pick up the torch and run with it. And so We want to work with these clinics, ideally. But it takes a doctor there at that clinic that's willing to work with us.
Dhru Purohit Show
A Controversial Yet Promising Approach to Cancer: Is This The Future of Cancer Treatment?
But when someone that's just listening to this, how do I get started, was your question. They need to find a concierge doctor And they're usually the ones that will help orchestrate that in the United States. But we're working with, like I said, Canada. We work with a lot of people in Canada and all over the world.