Summary: In the finale of the special series on “Carbohydrates and Cancer” today, for the Carbohydrates Can Kill Podcast Show, Rainer Klement, PhD and Ulrike Kämmerer, PhD are my featured guests. Both both Dr. Klement and Professor Kämmerer are working at the University of Würzburg, in Würzburg, Germany. As I have continued to review literatures including those are related to cancer etiology and treatment, I came across an excellent article by Dr. Klement and Professor Kämmerer, “Is there a role for carbohydrate restriction in the treatment and prevention of cancer?” On October 31, 2011, I wrote an article for this website in affirming their findings. I was subsequently connected to this pair of brilliant cancer researchers, and discovered the interesting story of Dr. Lucy Kunz, who was interview on this podcast on last Wednesday, March 14, 2012. Each of Professor Kämmerer and Dr. Klement has had a unique personal journey, which motivated them to joining the fight against cancer. I am going to ask them lots of questions about the relationship between carbohydrates and cancer. I trust you want to know about their answers to my questions. Let us tune in now for this interesting and informative episode! About Professor Ulrike Kämmerer After Dr. Ulrike Kämmerer finished her PhD thesis in Biology (about myocarditis and picornaviruses) at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, she worked as a PostDoc at the Universities of Tübingen and Dresden. In 1996 she joined the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the University of Würzburg, where she predominantly worked as reproductive biologist with her main focus on human reproduction and the role of dendritic cells therein. As “side” projects several ontological aspects were in the research area as well, especially the remarkable similarity between the benign human placenta and malign tumors. This in the end led to the focus on metabolism of invasive cells and to the question, how the remarkable lactic acid production of malign cells could be influenced by specific therapies. Due to missing medical approaches, nutrition came into the focus. As a result, a ketogenic diet seemed to be a remarkable tool to positively influence the situation of a cancer patient. This was tested in a first small study and the experimental work with sugar metabolism and the nutrition of cancer patients in now the main focus of her work. Having learned from intensive literature research and own experimental data, she changed her diet in 2007 to a very low carbohydrate to ketogenic diet and still felt very well on this nutrition with all laboratory parameters having changed to the very best and feeling able to scope with the multiple tasks in teaching, research and doing lots of administrative work for her department. About Rainer Klement, PhD After graduating with a Diplom in physics from the University of Heidelberg in 2005, Dr. Rainer Klement started doing research as a Ph.D. student at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), situated on top of the “Koenigstuhl” above the famous castle of Heidelberg. He mainly worked on identifying stellar streams, which are groups of stars travelling on similar orbits through the Milky Way and are though to be remnants of former satellite galaxies that got disrupted by the Milky Way’s tidal field. He initiated a planet search campaign that lead to the discovery of the first “extra-Galactic” planet HIP13044b (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIP_13044_b) After receiving his Ph.D. in Astronomy in 2008 he continued to work as a Postdoc at the MPIA for two years as part of the European Space Agency’s GAIA satellite mission. During that time, Dr. Klement undertook an advanced course in medical physics at the German Cancer Reseach Center in Heidelberg, realizing that this could provide the opportunity to combine his background in physics with his general interest in medical topics. In the beginning of 2011, he gladly to[...]
