#32 - Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., Ph.D.: new frontiers in cancer therapy, medicine, and the writing process

In this episode, Siddhartha Mukherjee, oncologist, researcher, and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer,” discusses his writing process, his thoughts about medicine, cancer, immunotherapy, and his recent collaboration on a study combining a ketogenic diet with a drug in mice that provided remarkable and encouraging results. We discuss: • Sid’s background [ 5:00 • ]; • How Sid and Peter met [ 6:00 • ]; • Sid’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book: The Emperor of All Maladies [ 8:00 • ]; • Sid’s writing process: the tenets of writing [ 12:30 • ]; • Our struggle to find preventable, human, chemical carcinogens of substantial impact [ 23:30 • ]; • The three laws of medicine — Law #1: A strong intuition is much more powerful than a weak test [26:30]; • Law #2 of medicine: “Normals” teach us rules; “outliers” teach us laws [32:00]; • Law #3 of medicine: For every perfect medical experiment, there is a perfect human bias [35:00]; • The excitement around immunotherapy [38:15]; • The story of Gleevec [46:00]; • How does the body's metabolic state affect cancer? [49:30]; • Can a nutritional state be exploited and/or a drug sensitivity be exploited through a nutritional intervention? [52:00]; • How does Sid balance his family, writing, research, laboratory, and patients? [1:00:30]; and • More. Learn more at www.PeterAttiaMD.com Connect with Peter on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram.

Release date

Lydbog: 10. december 2018