Ep. 181 - Meningiomas, Ketosis, And The Carnivore Diet Nobody Is On

The first question comes from a viewer who has not managed solid food in four weeks and had severe chest pain when she ate. Dr. Lodi walks through the two sphincters of the esophagus, explains that the pain of a spasm there cannot be told apart from a heart attack, and says that with every scan and swallow test coming back clean, what is left to look for is a functional cause rather than an anatomical one. He points her toward a gastroenterologist who specializes in the esophagus and stomach, or a neurologist, and says it is hard to say. The longest block of the show goes to a woman who had a meningioma removed a year ago, with a fragment left near major vessels, and who says she eats mostly keto carnivore. He lays out what a ketogenic diet is actually for, argues that you can never starve a tumor of its fuel because the body makes glucose through gluconeogenesis and makes glutamine too, and cites a review covering 249 studies on meningioma in which a diet high in vegetables and fruit came out protective against developing one. Then he tells her that nobody she has read about is on a carnivore diet at all. "Carnivores eat animals alive," he says. "They don't take them home and barbecue them." What people are really on, on his account, is "a scavenger diet, which is a dog diet, which is eating corpses." From there the questions run through pearl powder, Parkinson's disease and intravenous glutathione, what the injected glucose in a PET scan is measuring, how high liver enzymes can go during a cleanse, and five years of POTS-like symptoms after living in a house with black mold. The last answer ends on rebalancing the autonomic nervous system. **Covered in this episode** - Trouble swallowing and esophageal spasm - Meningioma after surgery - What he says a ketogenic diet is for - Whether a carnivore diet is really carnivorous - Root canals and hormones - Pearl powder - Parkinson's disease and glutathione - B cell lymphoma and what a PET scan measures - Liver enzymes during a cleanse - Black mold and POTS Send us Fan Mail Join Dr. Lodi's Inner Circle membership and unlock exclusive access to webinars, healthy recipes, e-books, educational videos, live Zoom Q&A sessions with Dr. Lodi, plus fresh content every month. Elevate your healing journey today by visiting drlodi.com and use the coupon code podcast (all lowercase: P-O-D-C-A-S-T) for 30% off your first month on any membership option. Support the show This episode is the audio of Dr. Lodi's free Sunday Night Live, where he answers health and cancer questions sent in by viewers. He goes live every Sunday at 8pm New York time on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Send your question in before the show: https://drlodi.com/contact-dr-lodi/livestream-qa/ **Follow Dr. Lodi** YouTube: youtube.com/@DrThomasLodi Facebook: facebook.com/DrThomasLodi Instagram: instagram.com/drthomaslodi TikTok: tiktok.com/@drthomaslodimd