380: Dr. Jason Fung - A Revolutionary New Understanding Of Cancer
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2020
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Jason Fung (IG: @drjasonfung) is a physician, author, and researcher. His groundbreaking science-based books about diabetes and obesity have sold hundreds of thousands of copies and challenged the conventional wisdom that diabetics should be treated with insulin.
This conversation is based off of Dr. Fung’s latest book, The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What is cancer?
- The history of cancer
- The 3 modern cancer paradigms
- Surgery, radiation, chemotherapy aka cutting, burning, poisoning
- The Human Genome Project & The Cancer Genome Atlas
- What causes genetic mutations?
- The 8 hallmarks of cancer
- The differences between unicellular & multicellular cells
- The environment is responsible for 70-80% of cancers
- Types of carcinogens
- Chronic sub lethal damage causes cancer
- Radiation treatment can cause secondary malignancies
- What is immune surveillance?
- Why does cancer develop to kill itself?
- The truth behind the high price of cancer drugs
- How effective are cancer drugs?
- Treating cancer with immunotherapy
- Nutrition and cancer
- Obesity is a big risk factor for cancer
- What is hyperinsulinemia?
- Insulin is a potent growth hormone
- The increased risk of cancer for type 2 diabetics
- Metastasis is not a late stage thing, it actually occurs very early on
- Treating cancer with adaptive therapy
- Intermittent fasting moves your body from growth mode into repair & regeneration mode
- Green tea has an anti-cancer effect
- The entire cancer field is changing
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Related links:
Dr. Jason Fung - The Cancer Code (book)
Dr. Jason Fung's website (The Fasting Method)
Follow Dr. Jason Fung on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Dr. Jason Fung - Life In The Fasting Lane (book)
Listen to Dr. Jason Fung previously on TUHP (episode #369)
Douglas Hanahan, Robert A Weinberg - Hallmarks Of Cancer (article)
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the ultimate health podcast. |
| 0:02.4 | So what is it about smoking, what is it about asbestos, |
| 0:05.7 | what is it about certain types of viruses |
| 0:08.6 | that cause these genes to move from a sort of multicellular organism's state, normal state, to these cells becoming a sort of survivalist. |
| 0:20.6 | That is, you activate the core of your survivalist programming. |
| 0:25.0 | And the answer is that certain types of damage, so it has to be chronic and |
| 0:31.0 | it has to be sub-lethal. |
| 0:32.0 | And the reason it has to be sub-lethal. And the reason it has to be sub-lethal is because if you have a single sort of |
| 0:37.1 | catastrophic event, everything dies. And when everything dies, cancer doesn't survive either. |
| 0:42.8 | So it has to be sort of sub-lethal. |
| 0:44.8 | And it has to chronic because that's what happens in evolution. |
| 0:48.2 | Evolution is not a single one-time thing. |
| 0:52.1 | That is, if you have a single shock like you know a meteor falls and |
| 0:56.2 | everything just dies it's too overwhelming and two it simply is not there on a long enough basis to exert a selection pressure. |
| 1:07.0 | So any type of chronic sub-lethal damage, in fact when you look at almost any type of chronic sub-lethal damage, it can cause cancer. Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 380. I'm Jesse Chappas and |
| 1:28.0 | I'm here to take your health to the next level. Each week I'll bring you in-up |
| 1:31.6 | conversations with health and wellness leaders from around the world. |
| 1:34.4 | And this week I'm speaking with Dr. Jason Fung. He's a physician, author and researcher, |
| 1:39.6 | his groundbreaking science-based books about diabetes and obesity, the diabetes code, the obesity |
| 1:45.0 | code, and the complete guide to fasting have sold hundreds of thousands of copies and challenge |
| 1:50.3 | the conventional wisdom that diabetics should be treated with insulin. |
| 1:54.5 | This conversation is based off Dr. Fung's latest book, The Cancer Code, A Revolutionary |
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