Fighting brain cancer: nature could hold the key | Tejas Athni | TEDxPeachtree

High school senior takes us on his journey to discovering a plant compound that could hold the key to fighting one of the deadliest forms of cancer: glioblastoma multiforme or GBM. Tejas Athni is a high school senior at
Stratford Academy in Macon, Georgia and
a student researcher at Detroit’s Karmanos
Cancer Institute and Georgia’s Fort Valley
State University. His research on the
effects of certain plant compounds on
glioblastoma multiforme brain cancer cells
is being readied for submission to peerreviewed
journals.
Tejas’ other interests lie in community
service and journalism. He founded CPR
Education NovoToro, a nonprofit focused
on teaching basic life saving skills, and
is the editor-in-chief of an international
online magazine known as the Publizette.
Tejas’ long-term goals include pursuing
a career in the medical field, either as a
physician or a medical researcher. He is
the winner of the 2017 American Academy
of Neurology’s (AAN) Neuroscience

[marleymae]

We need more young people like this young man in the world. Good job mom and dad.

[jamespaul]

Simply amazing. Congratulations to young Tejas, his parents (Dr. Athni is a former client of mine), teachers and mentors. It surely took a village to produce such a super-talented young man. Looking forward to a marketable, affordable, safe, natural and effective cure for GBM and other cancers.

[kufyadaas]

I had gbm grade 4 and went into surgery last year, the tumor came back but I've been on bacopa for about 6 months and there's just a tiny bit left. Thank you Jesus! This has been very useful, thank you😊

[joanneculligan]

Amazing.... Hopefully this research comes through... I recently lost my mother to GBM the cruellest cancer ever.

[victoredwin]

May God continue to bless this young scientist

[JacquiChew]

Such an impressive 16-year-old! GBM is one of the deadliest of cancers. Hope more will be done on this.

[Meeshamac]

❤ thank you for following your love. I lost my hubby to GBM 13 years ago. 🤙keep up the fight

[grits]

My husband is now in hospice with only days maybe two weeks at the most left thanks to GBN. They did surgery and removed as much as the two tumors as possible. When he went back 6 weeks later all the cancer was back plus two more tumors. They decided it wouldn't be beneficial to do radiation or chemo and sent him directly to hospice. He has been in hospice for two weeks now and every day I watch more and more of my husband disappear. I know there are cures out there but it is the greed of those whose pockets get padded from good people dying from this hellish cancer.

[Therealtarot]

Tejas, wishing you all the very best in your endeavours. Blessed be ❤💕

[robertdirocco]

Is big pharma holding this We need this out now!!

[tracymorgan]

He’s the future. Very impressive! Keep at it!

[jimg]

i hope this goes on clinical trial already. my mom was newly diagnosed with GBM about a fist size tumor on her left frontal lobe. if this research can be fda approved. it could saves millions of lives..

[captainfalcon]

I think most people underestimate just how much smarter the top 10-15% of people in STEM really are from the rest of us, just one standard deviation (15 iQ points) above the mean iQ (115) can be the difference between curing cancer and merely understanding how cancer effects the body and when you get to two standard deviations and above the mean (iQ of 140+) we’re talking about individuals that can learn languages in under a month, are able to visualize and map mathematical equations mentally and understand complex geometric patterns and concepts like 3 dimensional manifolds/space curvature and have mathematics mapped out in their head the way that we have our homes memorized and could navigate them with our eyes closed they can navigate complex concepts in a similar manner and that blows my mind, it even seems to blow their minds ive seen many interviews with these types of geniuses and savants acquired and standard and they describe the overwhelming nature of their thoughts and just how much stimulation they require to satisfy their intellectual cravings and one that amazed me the most was a man with an eidetic memory which means you remember everything you’ve ever seen or heard and maybe thought but I’m not sure either way this man learned the most difficult and learned it in a week and was thoroughly fluent which takes a normal person probably several years which is hundreds of times longer than he took at least 103 times longer cause it probably takes two years for the average person to learn that language and that’s 104 weeks so learning it in one week means that he could goof off and procrastinate for 103 of those weeks and still learn it in time fluently lol that’s amazing

[joandebruin]

Thinking of Dmitri Hvorostovsky, respected and beloved baritone opera star and singer, who died in 2017 due to GBN.Lets hope there will be better treatments and hope for sufferers of this deadly form of brain cancer in the future.

[kaylajohnson]

hey man, thank you for your existence. ;)

[jerseytexeira]

God bless you dear may the almighty God shower his blessings Thank you so much dear my husband has been operated last year for GBN

[MPop-jgmg]

Thank you for this information. My mother and cousin died of GBM. It was devastating.

[janeherrmann]

I love this young man's work and can feel his joy and pride in such an amazing accomplishment. There is certainly more work to be done, but remember, big pharma doesn't want us to get "better", they make more money on keeping us sick. Sorry to say that but it's the truth. Hoping research like this puts an end to that nonsense soon!!

[Speedster]

Bottle some for me! I'd love to try it on my wife who was recently diagnosed with GBM. It's such a shame that clinical trials take years. And no one wants to fund anything like this because there is no money in it. Great work! Keep moving forward.

[maffavaki]

That plants is growing in the Pacific islands ..thanks for your findings.