Summary Guide: The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery: By Dr. Jason Fung | The Mindset Warrior Summary Guide: Metastatic Cancer, Diet Therapy, Longevity, Aging, Prevention

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• What makes cancer so ruthless...
• Why treatment doesn't always work...
• Why lifestyle matters more than genetics in cancer... prevention (and what changes you can make)...
• How cancer stays dormant for decades, and what finally activates it...
• What we're just now learning about cancer—despite decades and billions of dollars devoted to research... 

 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: K.P.
• Release date: Nov 24, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393380924

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Introduction

In this Mindset Warrior Summary Guide, we cover the main topics discussed in The Cancer Code by Dr. Jason Fung. This book is intended to supplement your reading and be an easy reference guide. You are encouraged to purchase the original book if you have not already.

The difference between this guide and the actual book is that we don't go into the lengthy stories and repetition that most books often do. Instead, we share each principle, explain its reasoning, and then provide advice on how you can apply each to your own life in order to build and maintain resilient health.

As I always say, the original books are great to read because they provide lots of examples. This repetition can help to embed the lessons into your psyche. That being said, stripping these lessons down to there core will help you to focus on the things that really matter. As I'm sure we can agree, time is very valuable. I am all about maximizing time.

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Setting The Stage

The author of The Cancer Code is Dr. Jason Fung. He's well-known for his other best selling books:

The Obesity Code

The Complete Guide to Fasting

Dr. Fung has a way of taking complex science and breaking it down in a format that's easy for the layperson to understand. He skips the cheesy humor and still makes the book a fun read.

On Cancer

Personally, I had always heard that every person has cancerous cells in their body, but the cells lie dormant. That made we wonder: what triggers activation?

Another question that always puzzled me was, why did people just diagnosed with cancer seem to die soon after?

I realize now that all those questions were because I had no idea what cancer was about, and how treatment affects cancer progression.

No matter where you sit in your understanding of cancer, I'm confident you'll gain a more complete understanding of the whole phenomenon.

And better yet...

You'll learn what you can do to better protect yourself and your family.

The Cancer Code takes you through the entire journey of cancer, from understanding it, to treating it.

You'll learn how cancer develops from a biological standpoint. And then you'll learn how and why various treatments work or don't work.

The 2000s have seen some radical shifts in how we understand cancer. These are shifts that are extremely promising for the future of cancer prevention and treatment.

PART 1 – Cancer As Excessive Growth

Chapter 1 – Trench Warfare

The Obesity Epidemic

In 1985, not a single U.S. state had obesity rates above 10%. 20 years later, in 2016, the Center For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report showed all U.S. states have obesity rates over 20%.

Dr. Fung says that these rates can't be blamed on genetics. And though low calorie diets have been promoted for decades, they're not working either. That's because obesity is a hormonal issue, not a caloric one.

The Type 2 Diabetes Epidemic

Since the 1990s, type 2 diabetes has seen a steady rise.

note: You can see a chart, along with other data, at www.cdc.gov/diabetes/library/reports/reportcard/incidence-2017.html

The CDC reports that 1 in 10 Americans have type 2 diabetes.

Standard treatment for diabetes involves insulin, but overtime you require more. The disease just gets worse, but the medical community has accepted it as a chronic disease, so the practice continues.

The Cancer Epidemic

The development of successful treatments for cancer has been much slower than other prominent medical conditions.

A Little History

In the early 20th century, medicine was focused on infectious disease. Then in 1928, penicillin was discovered, and the focus moved to chronic disease like heart disease and cancer.

In the 1940s, the American Cancer Society (ACS) promoted early detection through routine screenings. This proved to be helpful. For instance, cervical cancer rates have dropped significantly as a result of screenings.

In 1971, U.S. president, Richard Nixon, signed the National Cancer Act, which pushed $1.6 billion into cancer research. But by 1981, a decade later, cancer deaths were continuing to rise.

In 1986, cancer researcher, Dr. John Bailar III, started questioning the effectiveness of the cancer research program. He highlighted the fact that, adjusted for population growth, cancer death increased by 25% between 1962 and 1982.

But Dr. Bailer did something that is often shunned in the medical community. He shed light on an unpopular subject—i.e. the increasing cancer rate, despite the increase in research—and thus received heavy criticism.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the study of genetics picked up, so then the focus moved to cancer as a genetic disease.

This led to the development of the Human Genome Project, which was completed in 2003. While we now have a full diagram of the human genome, it hasn't helped much in the fight to beat cancer.

Other efforts relating cancer to genetic were subsequently launched. For instance, the 2005 Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) program. The program studied hundreds of human genomes in the quest to find agitators of cancer. Unfortunately, the effort didn't provide much insight to benefit cancer treatment and prevention.

From 1969 to 2014, U.S. deaths from heart disease dropped about 17%, while cancer