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  • The Return of the Metabolic Theory of Cancer Illuminates a New and Hopeful Path to a Cure
  • By: Travis Christofferson
  • Narrated by: Clay Lomakayu
  • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (21 ratings)

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Tripping Over the Truth

By: Travis Christofferson
Narrated by: Clay Lomakayu
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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.

©2014 Travis Christofferson (P)2016 Travis Christofferson

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So important

It's hard to believe we've spent so much time, money and lives looking for a cure down one path (with little tangible improvement) when another path has been sitting there waiting to be explored for decades and seems to show far more promise.

I am always fascinated to learn of how things came to be. This book describes it in detail from many angles. Love it and the important information it contains!

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A Masterpiece of Medical Research

Without blowing smoke up my own butt “I know what I’m talking about when it comes to understanding this stuff” But I am humbled by the work of Travis Christofferson.

Eloquently written and thoroughly Researched. If you are on the fringe in wanting to learn more about this terrible affliction, Travis transports you from Believing … to … “KNOWING”
Even if you are not technically minded … EVEN IF YOU ARE technically minded . Do yourself a favour. This is a historical and Medical Masterpiece. 10/5 stars

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The slow laborious trip to a cure!

it is a good read, but was a bit slow here and there.
Just needs money and someone to believe, its is a cheap way to treat cancer, just needs funding.

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