Tripping Over the Truth

The Return of the Metabolic Theory of Cancer Illuminates a New and Hopeful Path to a Cure

De: Travis Christofferson

Narrado por: Clay Lomakayu

A masterful synchronization of history and cutting-edge science shines new light on humanity's darkest diagnosis. In the wake of the Cancer Genome Atlas project's failure to provide a legible road map to a cure for cancer, science writer Travis Christofferson illuminates a promising blend of old and new perspectives on the disease.

Tripping Over the Truth follows the story of cancer's proposed metabolic origin from the vaunted halls of the German scientific golden age to modern laboratories around the world. The listener is taken on a journey through time and science that results in an unlikely connecting of the dots, with profound therapeutic implications. Transporting us on a rich narrative of humanity's struggle to understand the cellular events that conspire to form malignancy, it flows like a detective novel, full of twists and cover-ups, blind alleys and striking moments of discovery by men and women with uncommon vision, grit, and fortitude.

Ultimately we arrive at a conclusion that challenges everything we thought we knew about the disease, suggesting the reason for the failed war against cancer stems from a flawed paradigm that categorizes cancer as an exclusively genetic disease. For anyone affected by this terrifying disease and the physicians who struggle to treat it, Tripping Over the Truth provides a fresh and hopeful perspective. It explores the new and exciting nontoxic therapies born from the emerging metabolic theory of cancer - therapies that may one day prove to be a turning point in the struggle against our ancient enemy. We are shown how the metabolic theory redraws the battle map, directing researchers to approach cancer treatment from a different angle, framing it more like a gentle rehabilitation than like all-out combat.

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Moving forward towards a cure for cancer

This book is a true gem, a must read for anyone interested in health topics as well as in scientific paradigm shifts. One of those you want to keep in your permanent collection. Very scientific and well reasoned yet accessible for the general public and enjoyable to read or listen thanks to the author's wonderful narrative skills. If you want to understand cancer, the medical and pharmaceutical apparatus behind it and the political forces that keep us from making progress, you will very much appreciate this book. If you or a loved one have been diagnosed or are battling cancer, this book will offer hope and provide valuable information to guide you in making the decisions that are best for you.
The audio book was very pleasing. I will probably be getting the print copy as well.

The bigger picture!

This book is excellent. The author takes us from our narrow or focussed point of view; far enough away to see a bigger picture. A picture that needs to be seen by the researcher, medical provider, regulatory body and patient alike.

breakthrough book

I must read if you or any family member is suffering from cancer I use RKD for Optimal Health. Judy Farmer

great book!

The book was very technical, so my favorite parts were the case studies. I was hoping to hear about the ketogenic diet. The last 1 1/2 hrs spoke about the diet. I guess I could have started listening at that point because really all of the technical details were over my head. While listening to the last 1 1/2 hours other parts of the book were mentioned, so it made sense to me. If I had only listened to that last section I would not know the references, but since I wanted to understand the keto diet piece, I guess I could have started listening at 1 1/2 hrs from the end and got what I wanted out of it...

About Time!!!

It’s about time chemo got turned on it’s head. A doctor once told me that even water can be toxic?!?!?!? Not even in the same sense as taxol and all of the rest. I could write a book.

Very informative!

Lots of scientific information but if you can get through it, this book sheds much light on the entire evolution of cancer and the search for a cure and how maybe, just maybe there is an inexpensive way to treat it! It also shows how the business of cancer really has not embraced the potential cures that do not cost much to make or administer. Good read!

Everyone who has ever been touched by cancer should read this book

I think everyone who has ever been touched by cancer should read this book. If I had this information 25 years ago with my father, he might still be here. I’m a huge fan of Thomas Seyfried and his research, and Travis makes his research as well as Young Ko’s So very understandable. It’s an absolutely amazing book, I think this information is life-saving, and we should be raising money for this research. It’s the only thing that makes sense, after 30 years of chasing the wrong idea.

Paradigm Shifting

Like many, I can talk about having spent a career in and adjacent to healthcare (e.g. I should be knowledgeable about cancer).

Like many, I can talk about the myriad of family members and friends who've battled cancer, often losing (e.g. cancer has impacted me directly).

Like many, I can also say that (until recently) I'd never heard of the metabolic theory of cancer.

Yet it exists. Not only that, but it has existed for a long time and, frankly, the evidence increasingly appears to support it.

And that's great news! Because if it's true, then cancer is less of an opaque black box than we're led to believe, which should give us all hope.

This book is an excellent listen. A fascinating history is laid out in which competing ideas regarding the true cause of cancer, pushed forward by brilliant and influential people, were grappled over. Incentives, politics, technology and timing all played crucial roles in the gene theory of cancer "winning out." Yet this book also lays out a compelling case as to why the gene theory is inadequate, and why the metabolic theory of cancer holds up better.

This book is worth a listen to anyone impacted by cancer, which at this point is all of us. And I'd encourage you to dig deeper after you're done. It just might save your life someday...

Everyone should read this

With my background in biochemistry this book had enough scientific detail to keep me engaged. Multiple statements were repeated by the author, which was redundant to me but helped to emphasis his agenda.

The metabolic theory of cancer is very underfunded and this book is great to expose the terrible job the us and european cancer research institutes have done.

You will think twice about going to an ocologist after this book unless they are well-versed in this research.

Great read overall and accessible to college graduates, but it might go over the heads of most people. I wish he had a chapter on how to incorporate these ideas into your health, but that is best served for a separate book.

I am going to recommend this to all my colleagues, friends, and family.

Terrific Timeline and History of the Metabolic Theory of Cancer

This book gives a great overview of the history of cancer research as well as the underlying ideas and theories. Not only does the metabolic theory of cancer make sense, the stubborn, systemic resistance to it in Medical research can no longer be tolerated.

With the abysmal record of the sequential gene mutation theory in the laboratory and more importantly, in the lives of millions of sufferers, it’s time for a new approach.

A “Pascal’s Wager” on cancer treatment would be the smartest path forward. Follow the SMT and die broke and in misery, or take the metabolic approach and “be the change” as the saying goes.

This book is a great lead in to the author’s more recent book “Curable” which addresses the cognitive biases in our own thinking that lead to such stubborn intransigence in our institutions. Fixing our individual thinking is the only way forward, as only individuals think and make moral actions, not groups or governments or institutions.