{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Decoded Genius","title":"Fasting Expert Explains How to Defeat Cancer (Full Interview)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4018,"description":"Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/ghwih1KRHBI\nWhat if the cure for the world's most common diseases isn't a drug, but the absence of food?\nDr. Alan Goldhamer has supervised more water-only fasts than anyone alive, and he argues that many of the chronic diseases we're told to manage for life can actually be reversed.\nIn this episode of Decoded Genius, Alan explains why fasting is a biological adaptation rather than starvation, how the visceral fat around our organs quietly drives heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, and what it really takes to break free from the foods engineered to keep us sick.\nABOUT THE GUEST\nDr. Alan Goldhamer is the founder and director of TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, California, the world's largest facility specializing in medically supervised, water-only fasting. Over the past four decades he has overseen the fasting and care of more than 25,000 patients, and the Center has become a leading training site for physicians seeking certification in therapeutic fasting. He is co-author of The Pleasure Trap and Can Fasting Save Your Life?, author of The Health Promoting Cookbook, and a principal investigator on landmark studies of fasting and hypertension.\nWHAT WE DECODED\n→ Why fasting is a survival adaptation, not starvation\n→ How visceral fat behaves like a tumor and fuels chronic disease\n→ Why \"getting well\" was never part of the medical paradigm\n→ The pleasure trap and why we crave the most concentrated foods\n→ How fasting and exercise improve the same biomarkers\n→ Whether we're failing at health or being set up to fail\nCHAPTERS\n00:00:00 Introduction\n00:00:29 The Real Benefits Of Fasting Medicine Overlooks\n00:03:03 Fasting Is Not Starvation: What Doctors Get Wrong\n00:05:37 The Most Dramatic Transformations He's Seen\n00:09:33 Can Fasting Improve Depression And Anxiety?\n00:12:18 The Pleasure Trap And Why We Crave The Wrong Foods\n00:15:13 Is Red Meat The Problem? Animal Foods And Hidden Toxins\n00:17:55 Intermittent Fasting...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/uv6GICvlW3pcb73X4hnbgyae04a5VYLjqVHFw-9Ykwo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iMzI2/ZDBlZWYzMGE4OWFm/MDEwYWE3YjAzMDYy/MTdlNS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}