Episode 178: Sam Apple
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Sam Apple is a health care and medical writer. He did his undergrad at University of Michigan, his masters at Columbia. He has worked for University of Pennsylvania, is currently on the faculty of the MA in Science Writing and MA in Writing programs at Johns Hopkins, and has written extensively on metformin and metabolic health. Soon, he will be releasing his brand new book, Ravenous, which tackles, among others, the subjects of the Warburg Effect and metabolic health's relationship to cancer.
In this discussion, Tro, Brian, and Sam talk about the role of metabolic health in preventing cancer, the effect that hyperinsulinemia has an cancer growth, the Warburg Effect and the work of Otto Warburg as it pertains to cancer cell research, how sugar, stress, and poor sleep habits raise insulin, the unfortunate lack of emphasis on preventative treatments for cancer in research, how the rise in cancer diagnoses follows the same curve as the rise of the western diet, and whether there is a diet out there that treats cancer.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the low-carb MD podcast, no one is beyond help, no one is beyond hope. |
| 0:08.3 | As we have always said, we are bringing you medical information and cutting-edge science, |
| 0:12.7 | but none of this is medical advice, please seek out input from your own doctor. |
| 0:18.5 | Hello and welcome to the low-carb MD podcast, thanks for joining us again, we have a cool |
| 0:28.6 | guy here. Jason Fung actually reached out to us and he never does that. He says, you got to get |
| 0:32.6 | this guy on, guys. So, Troll, how are you doing? Man, I'm back from the jungles of Guatemala. It's |
| 0:36.6 | good to be back. Good life. Glad to have you back. You know, it's amazing work that you do. I'm Brian, |
| 0:45.3 | I look at you and I know you do a lot of philanthropic work, but going into these, you know, really |
| 0:52.3 | underserved areas, I just want to start off and say that's just seeing some of the pictures that |
| 0:56.9 | you jump in off and the cliff and having a great time and working with the clowns that were part |
| 1:02.5 | of the gangs and, you know, seeing you affect so many lives, it's inspiring. I have to be honest, |
| 1:08.3 | it's very inspiring. Yeah, the people said my shoes were smaller, that's how they told me |
| 1:12.3 | apart from the clowns. That was the only difference. And my nose isn't red, I guess, I don't know. |
| 1:17.1 | But yeah, man, well, yeah, Sam here, let's talk about him. Yeah. I'm excited about this. It's |
| 1:21.5 | good to be back. So this is a, this is actually a really important topic and, and this is a great book |
| 1:29.0 | that's going to come out. This is a Sam Apple. Sam Apple is a healthcare and a medical writer. |
| 1:36.4 | He did his undergraduate at the University of Michigan. He did his masters at Columbia. And he's |
| 1:42.0 | been working, he worked at UPEN and then now at Hopkins doing a lot of medical writing. He's |
| 1:47.5 | written articles about metformin and metabolic health. And he's kind of gone down the same, down |
| 1:52.6 | the same rabbit hole that we've all been, you know, going from towns to neat and tight salts, |
| 1:58.2 | all these amazing journalists who really change the lives of so many. And now, you know, he's come |
| 2:04.1 | out with his own book, which will be released in May, called Ravenous, discussing the Warburg |
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