Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.

Dr. Jason Fung is a Canadian nephroologist and a world-leading expert on intermittent fasting and low-carb,

especially for treating people with type 2 diabetes.

He's the author of numerous best-selling books and his latest must- is entitled the cancer code a revolutionary

new understanding of a medical mystery. Jason welcome. Thanks, thanks for having me here.

So congrats on another really interesting and important book, The Cancer Code.

I'll start off by talk about in the book.

He said that the war on cancer began in the 1970s,

we're almost 50 years later,

and yet we've hardly won that war.

So I'll start with the big question at the highest level.

Why is that?

What are we getting wrong?

That's a great question.

And I think it's to do with the fact

that we never really described what cancer actually is.

So if you look at other diseases, and predominantly the comparison goes towards heart disease,

because if you look at the number one and two killers of Americans it's

heart disease and cancer there's sort of one and two and they've been like that since

the 1970s you're talking 50 years if you look back in the 70s it was quite a mismatch though so heart disease killed about

twice roughly twice as many people as cancer and the progress we've made in

heart disease has been fairly steady. Like we've gotten

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