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Dhru Purohit Show

#169: The New Science of Why We Get Cancer with Dr. Jason Fung

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Our understanding of cancer is slowly undergoing a revolution, allowing for the development of more effective treatments. For the first time ever, the death rate from cancer is showing a steady decline, but the “War on Cancer” has hardly been won.


On today’s Broken Brain Podcast, our host Dhru talks to Dr. Jason Fung, a physician, author, and researcher. His groundbreaking science-based books about diabetes and obesity, The Diabetes Code, The Obesity Code, and The Complete Guide to Fasting have sold over one million copies and challenged the conventional wisdom that diabetics should be treated with insulin. Dr. Fung is also the co-founder of The Fasting Method, a program to help people lose weight and reverse Type 2 Diabetes naturally with fasting. His work on fasting has been cited by CNN, Time, The Atlantic, Forbes, The Toronto Star, and many other media outlets. His latest book, The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery, was just released. 


In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Fung talk about a revolutionary new understanding of cancer—what it is, how it manifests, and why it is so challenging to treat. They discuss the seed and soil analogy of cancer, and how the seed of cancer may exist in all of us, but the power to change the soil is in our hands. They also talk about how hyperinsulinemia may enable the development of cancer, and how we can build a soil that offers cancer a hostile environment as opposed to a fertile one.


In this episode, we dive into:


-What is cancer (4:09) 

-Cancer Paradigm 1.0: Excessive Growth of Cells (7:42) 

-Cancer Paradigm 2.0: Genetic Disease (15:36) 

-The cost of cancer drugs (28:50)

-Cancer Paradigm 3.0: An Evolutionary Process (34:27) 

-The seed and soil analogy of cancer (53:58)

-The biggest drivers of cancer (57:17)

-What feeds cancer cells (1:00:45) 

-How chemotherapy targets cancer cells (1:02:57)

-What you can do today to minimize your risk of cancer (1:10:31)

-The importance of getting your blood sugar under control (1:14:38) 

-Where listeners can learn more about Dr. Jason Fung (1:20:26)


For more on Dr. Jason Fung you can follow him on Instagram @DrJasonFung, on Twitter @DrJasonFung, and through his website https://thefastingmethod.com/. Get Dr. Fung’s book, The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery at https://thefastingmethod.com/book/the-cancer-code/.


Also mentioned in this episode:

-Pique Fasting Tea - https://www.piquetea.com/pages/fasting-tea


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0:00.0

This is not just a genetic disease because for years we've been sort of thinking about it as a genetic

0:05.2

disease. So we think, well, it's just sort of pre-programmed into us. But it's not because the rates of

0:11.2

cancer depend on your environment more than it does on your genes. Hi everyone, Drupal here host

0:18.8

of the Broken Rain Podcast. Today we are asking ourselves the most fundamental of questions, which is

0:25.0

what exactly is cancer? You may think you know, but my guest today, Dr. Jason Fung, is going to help

0:32.4

you completely reimagine it and understand it because he's going to summarize the history of cancer,

0:38.7

most importantly, focusing on the last 15 to 20 years, which have completely changed the way

0:45.0

that we think of cancer. Is cancer this random disease that randomly attacks the human body,

0:52.2

or is it part of our evolutionary response? Is it a survival mechanism baked deep into our human

1:02.6

genome? And is it something that helps us survive toxic environments? Well, we're going to go into

1:10.6

all that and more in today's episode. If you care about cancer, if your family has been touched by

1:16.6

this horrific disease, you won't want to miss this episode. Stay tuned. Quick shout out to today's

1:23.1

sponsor, Magnesium Breakthrough by Bio Optimizers. I first heard of this incredible supplement that

1:29.1

has over seven different forms of magnesium in it. For my brother-in-law, who's a cardiologist who

1:34.9

had been taking it to support his sleep. He caught me up one day and said I'd been taking this thing,

1:40.6

called Magnesium Breakthrough, and it's incredible. It's helping me sleep better. So I got curious and

1:45.0

we reached out to the company and thought it'd be a fantastic fit for the podcast because shortly

1:50.0

after my brother-in-law, my fiance and I started taking it to support our sleep. Magnesium is so

1:55.8

crucial, a little background on magnesium. So most of our soils have become depleted of magnesium.

2:01.8

It's a tough mineral to get enough of through diet alone. 80% of Americans are actually

2:07.4

deficient in it and it's crucial for hundreds of reactions in the body. I actually found out from

2:12.6

the past podcast guest that it's over 400 different functions inside of the body. It impacts everything

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