Host Jasmeet provided a brief intro for Dr Alex who was also a guest speaker in MHC 1 held in Nov-2023. She went on to discuss with the doctor the path of his clinical medical practice that follow the track of Metabolic Therapies for various Metabolic disorders and refrain from Pills based therapy, if possible--despite being a mainstream qualified Doctor. Alex responds by saying he spend several years on Oncology training from the start of his career. Being into Oncology, he spends server years with numerous cancer patient and prescription based standard cancer therapies. As he wanted exposure on a broader spectrum of medical practice, Alex resorted to General Practice. As a general practioner, he dealt with various types of patients suffering from various metabolic disorders like diabetes, hypertension, etc. He observed each of these patients were following strictly the standard treatment guideline, but bot sign of improvement rather escalation of medication. Such observation intimidated Alex to explore other path of therapies that could provide relief to the patients. Alex being a doctor him. explore and researched and finally eyed the low carb and keto therapies and has been practicing this route of metabolic therapies for part six years on his patients. To have a strong hold he started building a team of doctors as metabolic therapist and also established his low carb clinic. Being an Oncologist, he started thinking on Metabolic therapies for cancer patient as cancer is one of the metabolic disorders and since worked on cancer knew more details about the cancer cell as an oncologist. Last two year his clinic is now providing therapies for cancer patients, some ongoing some reversed. Some of the patients are the one who could not find any therapies and are now put on Low Carb and Keto therapies to patients who lost all hopes of fighting cancer. Tis summarizes the journey of Alex from start of his career to as on date where he more focused on dealing with cancer patient by deploying use of metabolic therapies for cancer patients.
Discussion with Host Jasmeet went on as she asked Alex to define cancel cell and how they can be different from other cells. Alex& responded by saying cancer is nothing but an abnormal cell growth. Over the past, there has been many definitions of cancer, but each cancer is basically described by its origin of tissue that can be described as lung cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, etc. Each of these are categorized as sub type of cancer based on specific type of cell and named few of them. Discussion with Host Jasmeet and Dr. Alex went on with in-depth discussion on cancel cells and various metabolic therapies for cancer reversal, Preview the recorded video to hear what Dr. Alex says more on cancer and its therapies.
About Dr Alex Petrushevski
Dr Alex Petrushevski graduated from the University of Tasmania in 2008, attaining Honours in the MBBS. He has worked in various teaching hospitals in 2 states, including working for several years within Sydney Cancer services, and had his research published in an international journal during this time. His postgraduate qualifications include the Fellowship of the College of General Practitioners and the Diploma of Child Health from Sydney University.
He currently works in general practice in addition to practicing within Sydney Low Carb Specialists. He is passionate about preventative health, improving the lifestyle of his patients and treating chronic diseases without medication if possible. Having seen the immense benefits low carbohydrate nutrition has provided for many of his patients in general practice he is keen to share this exciting cutting edge medical therapy with more patients in our clinic.
Alex is a foundation member of the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners and has done further nutrition training through the Nutrition Network. He is also a member of Low Carb Down Under and has presented several times at Low Carb Down Under conferences.