The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery pdf

Jason Fung, MD, è nato nel 1973 e si è formato a Los Angeles e Toronto come specialista in reni. Ha fondato The Fasting Method (TheFastingMethod.com) per fornire consigli basati sull'evidenza per la perdita di peso e la gestione degli zuccheri nel sangue, concentrandosi su diete a basso contenuto di carboidrati e digiuno intermittente. È diventato ovvio che i trattamenti medici convenzionali stanno fallendo i pazienti. Molti dei problemi medici cronici di oggi sono legati alla dieta e all'obesità, ma i trattamenti si concentrano su farmaci e interventi chirurgici. Se non affronti la causa principale, il problema non migliora mai. Un problema dietetico richiede una soluzione dietetica. Il Dr. Fung è l'autore di The Obesity Code, The Complete Guide to Fasting e The Diabetes Code. È anche editore scientifico del Journal of Insulin Resistance e amministratore delegato dell'organizzazione no-profit Public Health Collaboration (Canada), un gruppo internazionale dedito alla promozione di solide informazioni nutrizionali.

The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery pdf da Jason Fung

Author of the international bestsellers The Diabetes Code and The Obesity Code Dr. Jason Fung returns with an eye-opening biography of cancer in which he offers a radical new paradigm for understanding cancer—and issues a call to action for reducing risk moving forward. Our understanding of cancer is slowly undergoing a revolution, allowing for the development of more effective treatments. For the first time ever, the death rate from cancer is showing a steady decline . . . but the “War on Cancer” has hardly been won. In The Cancer Code, Dr. Jason Fung offers a revolutionary new understanding of this invasive, often fatal disease—what it is, how it manifests, and why it is so challenging to treat. In this rousing narrative, Dr. Fung identifies the medical community’s many missteps in cancer research—in particular, its focus on genetics, or what he terms the “seed” of cancer, at the expense of examining the “soil,” or the conditions under which cancer flourishes. Dr. Fung—whose groundbreaking work in the treatment of obesity and diabetes has won him international acclaim—suggests that the primary disease pathway of cancer is caused by the dysregulation of insulin. In fact, obesity and type 2 diabetes significantly increase an individual’s risk of cancer. In this accessible read, Dr. Fung provides a new paradigm for dealing with cancer, with recommendations for what we can do to create a hostile soil for this dangerous seed. One such strategy is intermittent fasting, which reduces blood glucose, lowering insulin levels. Another, eliminating intake of insulin-stimulating foods, such as sugar and refined carbohydrates. For hundreds of years, cancer has been portrayed as a foreign invader we’ve been powerless to stop. By reshaping our view of cancer as an internal uprising of our own healthy cells, we can begin to take back control. The seed of cancer may exist in all of us, but the power to change the soil is in our hands.