#71 The Cancer Series (1 of 3). What to eat for Cancer with Professor Robert Thomas
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2020
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
In today’s podcast we talk about everything to do with the “emperor of all maladies”, the big C.
Myself and Professor Robert have met on a couple of occasions at conferences geared toward healthy lifestyle and cancer, and I could not think of a more educated and enthusiastic person to have on the podcast who is up to date with the evidence and continues to wave the flag for lifestyle medicine and oncology.
Professor Robert Thomas is a Consultant Oncologist at Bedford and Addenbrooke’s Hospitals, a clinical teacher at Cambridge University and visiting Professor of Sports and nutritional science at the University of Bedfordshire. He is lead of a Lifestyle and Cancer Research Unit conducting designing and conducting government backed studies evaluating the impact of exercise, diet and natural therapies.
More recently, he led the analysis of the 155,000 patient data set (PLCO) which has linked sugar with an increased cancer and tea and broccoli with cancer prevention. In 2019, he wrote the book “Keep Healthy after Cancer”, and remains medical advisor for the lifestyle and cancer website Cancernet.co.uk.
We frame our conversation into 3 distinct areas to avoid confusion. What to eat to prevent cancer, during cancer and post cancer with the aim of reducing risk and improving outcomes. As cancer is an extremely broad field and confusing for even medical professionals to understand it’s biology, I want to remind listeners and viewers that this is general information and not to be taken as medical advice.
In today’s pod we talk about
- What Cancer is
- The balance of genetic vs acquired cancer and the influence of lifestyle on risk
- The general principles of how to avoid cancer
- What foods to eat
- How food exerts a positive impact on cancer risk
- How we investigate the anti-cancer impact of food
- Gut health and cancer
- The Warburg effect
- The implication of excess sugar on cancer risk
- What to eat during cancer
- The potential for ‘prehab’ initiatives
- Vitamin D, Polyphenol and Probiotic supplements, Vitamin Supplements
- Post Cancer lifestyle regimens to reduce the risk of recurrence
- What an anti-cancer diet looks like
- The Future of Oncology: Individualised medicine, Immunotherapy and Metabolic Oncology
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is sponsored by Zoe, the nutrition program that starts with an at-home test. |
| 0:06.6 | I was really excited to get my Zoe at-home test kit in the mail. |
| 0:10.3 | It comes complete with an easy-to-apply blood glucose monitor to give me real-time analytics |
| 0:16.0 | on how my body responds to different foods, a gut health test and of course the famous muffins |
| 0:22.5 | to determine how my body responds to sugars and fats. |
| 0:26.1 | I downloaded the Zoe app which took me through the program and I was on my way and I was pleasantly surprised |
| 0:32.0 | to find that as a healthy eater myself, my sugars were pretty stable and my gut was healthy |
| 0:37.5 | and all my favourite foods were suggested in my personalised scores like edamame beans and broccoli. |
| 0:44.0 | If you want to feel more energetic, improve your gut health and reduce your risk of long-term disease |
| 0:50.0 | it all starts by understanding how you eat for your body. |
| 0:54.0 | Professor Tim Specter and the scientist that Zoe run the world's largest in-depth study of nutrition |
| 1:00.0 | and their biggest learning is that we all respond to food very differently. |
| 1:05.0 | They've turned their research into a personalised nutrition program that gives you insights into how your body responds to food |
| 1:12.0 | and how to eat for your best health which all begins with an at-home test. |
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| 1:31.0 | We know that obesity is higher off the cancer treatments and we know that sugar is one of the strongest reasons why people put on weight. |
| 1:38.0 | So there's many other reasons if you increase it's fatigue which is big problems after cancer treatments. |
| 1:45.0 | So if you are doing one thing to help yourself with cancer, reducing sugar is definitely one of them. |
| 1:55.0 | Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen podcast. |
| 2:00.0 | The show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. |
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