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YSK, cancer as a metabolic disease, and tripping over the truth, are excellent books about this, and why we got cancer wrong since watson and crick.


Here is a video on "Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: Implications for Novel Therapies" [1] by Prof. Thomas Seyfried that may be related. I think their research is very promising.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06e-PwhmSq8 [video]


I find the metabolic cancer hypothesis to be extremely compelling. Did you happen to find this link on HN originally?


No, I am subscribed to the Youtube channel Low Carb Down Under. They have hosted some great speakers. I've linked the video here on HN a couple of times as related discussions have come up.


So I know that Gundry's book "Plant Paradox" is probably rife with some scientific hyperbole, but it's enticing for me to at least follow a system with this principle in mind: that you want to essentially mellow out your metabolism.


"Tripping Over The Truth," seconded.


I’m listening to his other books now, Ketones.

There’s also Emperor of All Maladies (and his other book Genes) from another author that may be of interest.


> There’s also Emperor of All Maladies (and his other book Genes) from another author that may be of interest.

Author name's Siddhartha Mukherjee. Great book, focused more on history of oncology than the biology of cancer though.




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