Welcome everyone. This is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today we are joined by a repeat guest, Travis Christopherson, who wrote the fantastic book that catapulted my interest in final appreciation of the important influence of diet and cancer and he wrote the book the tripping over the truth the metabolic theory of cancer and fabulous book if you haven't read it

it's probably to put on your due to read list but he's written another book

called curable which addresses the issue of what has happened to American health care.

What are the foundational disruptions or corruptions in the system that has flawed to a point

where it's really a travesty and that would be a light term.

So the book again is curable and we're just delighted to have Travis so welcome and thank you for

joining us to Travis. Well thanks for having me glad to be here. So your book in some ways

was based on the theory that was promoted in Moneyball,

which is a book and a movie, I believe,

and really describes how you can use statistics to really massively improve a flawed system or at least

the system that was based on strategies that have been used for long periods of time and generally believed to be accurate but then

found that with further analysis it wasn't. So why don't you start there and

maybe the motivation for the book? Yeah, the motivation I was lucky to kind of have an epiphany moment.

After tripping over the truth, I think the next year I've been invited to speak at a small charity event in London and one of the speakers

the speakers that went right after me was Dr. Nandaba Masabuco and he was at this startup clinic called Care Oncology in the UK and the idea behind

this clinic was there are drugs that have gone off patent that have a whole other life to them but they're

unrealized they're undervalued in the system and one of these drugs for example

is met formin in the use of cancer and because it's

awfully you know there's this just fast body of data to suggest it can improve cancer outcomes

but there's no good mechanism for the system to get this on the prescription pads of doctors.

It just doesn't, it just doesn't happen.

So there's a flaw in the system and they, to address this flaw or this, you know, underappreciated part of it it they open this clinic and prescribed

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