Sam Apple joins us to discuss his fascinating book 'Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection'. We discuss the connection between diet and cancer, and the Warburg Effect, which states that cancer cells thrive on dietary glucose, and why Sam thinks it's not entirely accurate because it ignores the role of insulin resistance. We also discuss Hitler's fascination with cancer research, which allowed Warburg to survive the Nazi era even though he was Jewish and gay, and Hitler's infamous addiction to sugar. We further discuss why this enormously important work has been ignored in modern science, why alternative genetic hypotheses are woefully inadequate, whether modern medicine can be reformed to focus on dietary causes of disease, and, of course, how bitcoin fixes this!

References (All links are available on saifedean.com/podcast/150-the-cancer-diet-connection-with-sam-apple)

Sam Apple’s official website.
Buy Sam’s book on Amazon, The Book Shop and Norton.
Chris Palmer
Econtalk with Gary Taubes
The Nazi War on Cancer by Robert N. Proctor
Lewis Cantley Harvard page

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