I borrowed this book from the library, the author is a Nephrologist (renal/kidney specialist), Dr Jason Fung.
I was in Jewel the day I finished reading this book, there was this couple posing for their pre-wedding shooting. Hope they wouldn’t mind featuring blurry here in my blogpost.
It is a fairly new book, the hardcover was published in December 2020, very up-to-date. I would say it’s for anyone who wants to learn more about cancer, as it’s very accessible, not too medical and technical. Dr Fung would take you through the history of cancer, what researchers already found and knew (e.g. what’s likely to cause cancer, is the problem with the seed (the genes and cancer cells) or the soil (environment we are in), what treatments are available, what works for what types of cancer, how cancer evolves over time and why certain treatment that don’t evolve would fail over time etc).
I also like that he summarises from time to time. There is also this Chapter 20 that summarises most of the things (but you wouldn’t want to just read that chapter, because you would miss the opportunity to be in awe of this single cell organism who lives in multicellularity and striving so hard to survive (i.e. cancer) and also evolution. (The fact that I’m using “who” tells you how I feel about it after reading and learning about it).
You’d learn so much from the book and want to share with people around you. You probably might change some little or big things in your lifestyle. I’m now also listening to his audiobook, “Life in the fasting lane”. There are also “The Diabetes Code” and “The Obesity Code” by the same author.