Starving Cancer: The Hidden Power of Food, Fasting, and the Body’s Inner Terrain

Cancer can be seen as a seed that only sprouts in the right
soil—the body’s inner landscape. Today, that soil is changing fast,
and cancer rates are climbing, especially among young people. Our
modern diet—packed with sugar, processed foods, and nonstop
snacking—keeps the body flooded with signals to grow, not heal. But
there’s good news: by eating real, colorful foods and giving the
body time to rest between meals, we can calm inflammation, balance
our gut, and make our inner soil far less welcoming to disease. The
power to shift the story lies in every bite and every pause we
take. In this episode, I discuss, along with Dr. Jason Fung and Dr.
Thomas Seyfried, how modern diets and constant eating create a
fertile soil for disease. Dr. Jason Fung is a physician, author,
and researcher. His groundbreaking science-based books about
diabetes and obesity, The Diabetes Code, The Obesity Code, and The
Complete Guide to Fasting have sold over one million copies and
challenged the conventional wisdom that diabetics should be treated
with insulin. Dr. Fung is also the co-founder of The Fasting
Method, a program to help people lose weight and reverse Type 2
Diabetes naturally with fasting. His work on fasting has been cited
by CNN, Time, The Atlantic, Forbes, The Toronto Star, and many
other media outlets. His latest book is The Cancer Code: A
Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery. Dr. Thomas
Seyfried is an American professor of biology, genetics, and
biochemistry at Boston College. He received his Ph.D. from the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1976 and did his
postdoctoral fellowship at the Yale University School of Medicine.
Dr. Seyfried has over 150 peer-reviewed publications, and his
research focuses primarily on the mechanisms driving cancer,
epilepsy, and neurodegenerative diseases and calorie-restricted
ketogenic diets in their prevention and treatment. He is the author
of Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: On the Origin, Management, and
Prevention of Cancer and presently serves on the Nutrition &
Metabolism, Neurochemical Research, Journal of Lipid Research, and
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