Conquer Cancer

In our last +1, we talked about a super powerful way to keep your telomeres nice and long. Specifically: By seeing the stressors in your life as Challenges rather than as Threats. Our key practice? Saying “Bring it on!” in response to those stressful situations.

In our last +1, we talked about just how important it is to have a sense of Empowerment when we approach life — especially if we’re dealing with something like cancer.

Continuing our Anticancer theme, let’s have a pop quiz!

Continuing our Anticancer theme, let’s chat about another brilliant idea from David Servan-Schreiber’s book, Anticancer.

Continuing our Anticancer theme, let’s take a quick look at the key things to consider nutrition-wise, largely inspired by David Servan-Schreiber’s great book Anticancer and supported by Notes on other great books.

Stephen Jay Gould was one of the leading scientists of the 20th century. A Harvard professor and popular evolutionary biologist, he was known as the second Darwin.

In Conquering Cancer 101, we talk about how powerful modern medicine is in dealing with acute illness. For example, the surgery my brother had to remove the cancerous cyst that was blocking his stomach literally saved his life.

A couple +1s ago we talked about taking a systems approach to disease vs. just a symptoms approach. We referenced Dr. Junger’s metaphor of a wise gardener tending to the roots.

Susan Peirce Thompson wrote a great book called Bright Line Eating. She has a Ph.D. in neuroscience and is one of the world’s leading experts on the psychology of eating.

In our last +1, we talked about the importance of making the connection between your two ADDs: your addiction to digital devices and your attention deficit disorder.

Not too long ago we had a series of +1s on how to conquer cancer.

Today we’re going to talk about some bad math. Specifically, bad cancer math.

Today we have another Pop Quiz.

So, on one hand, as per our last +1, science shows that genes play a surprisingly small role in the cause of cancer.

Otto Warburg was a really smart guy. He won the Nobel Prize in 1931 for his discovery of the fact that cancer cells create energy in a weird way. (And, he was nominated for a couple other Nobel Prizes as well — which is a hard thing to achieve.)

Remember that study done with kids adopted at birth?

For Today’s +1, please dust off your high school biology class textbooks and open to the page on cells.

Today we have a Heroic +11. (Hah.)

In our last +1, we talked about our 80/20 180 phase in which we implemented a number of high-leverage lifestyle changes.

This is our final idea in our second +1 series on Cancer. We’re going to cultivate more hope.

Today we’re going to talk about the ancient etymology of the word patient.

Continuing our “let’s create an indestructible self” theme (!), here’s another way Alex Lickerman encourages us to think about it in his great book The Undefeated Mind.

In our last +1, we chatted about my little burpee saga and had some group gratitude hugs.

In our last couple +1s, we’ve been exploring some history-making heroes. Most recently, the Mahatma himself: Mr. Gandhi.

In our last +1, we went on a little hide-and-seek adventure in search of our serotonin.

In our last couple +1s, we’ve been hanging out in our guts. (Good times! 🤓)

In our last +1, we had a quick chat about sleep efficiency as we shined a (night) light on how much sleep you’re ACTUALLY getting.

Alzheimer’s.

Continuing our brief exploration of the power of placebo-words (and expectations), I’d like to go back to Harvard and walk from Benson’s lab in the Medical School back to Langer’s Psychology of Possibility Lab for a couple more bits of wisdom.

A couple +1s ago (right before taking out the carbage yesterday), we had a brief chat about the links between sugar consumption and depression, highlighting the fact that we went from consuming essentially NO sugar 500 years ago to consuming 150 POUNDS every year.