Unraveling Cancer describes the forces that cause cancer development and outlines a framework for understanding how, in health, the body is able to eliminate cells that have cancer-causing mutations. This book describes how lifestyle habits can interfere with these protective mechanisms, and explains how we can most effectively modify our habits and greatly lower the risk of developing cancer. The same forces that cause cancer also promote its growth and transition into an aggressive, metastatic disease. Making lifestyle and dietary changes even after a cancer diagnosis can reduce cancer growth, enhance treatment, and help prevent recurrence.Unraveling Cancer focuses on modifiable risk factors that can promote or help prevent cancer, even for persons with a high genetic risk of disease, such as women with BRCA mutations. These modifiable risk factors include foods and their preparation methods which impact cancer risk. This book describes better ways of preparing foods that provide for better health and lower cancer risk. The book explains which types of exercise are effective and those that do not lower cancer risk. It provides strategies to lower cancer risk, even if one is unable to exercise. Some cancer risk factors have their greatest impact during growth, and Unraveling Cancer explains how we can protect our children and grandchildren now from developing cancer as adults.Unraveling Cancer instructs not only how to prevent cancer, but to slow its advancement and make chemo and other treatments more effective. The book describes how to prepare for chemo to make it more effective in killing cancer cells, less toxic, and have fewer and less intense side effects. The book provides hope for cancer patients and their loved ones by giving them ways to enhance treatment and empowering them to participate in improving their health.
About the Author: Dr. Lewis is a practicing physician, board certified in Preventive Medicine and Public Health. He is a researcher, author, epidemiologist and developer of several patented medical devices. His research focuses on the prevention of chronic disease and the restoration of health after disease diagnosis. Dr. Lewis led the first research group to demonstrate that elevations in serum homocysteine levels, caused by marginal levels of the B vitamin folate, increases the risk for coronary artery disease. This work was cited by the Institute of Medicine for their recommendations for setting higher levels of folic acid fortification of processed foods, a change that resulted in a reduced incidence of heart disease, neural tube defects, and in some cancers in the United States. In collaboration with the Scheie Eye Institute and Columbia University, Dr. Lewis helped identify the cause of a severe form of recessive retinitis pigmentosa, RP-14 as being caused by a mutation in the TULP1 gene. He is recognized for his work in explaining the mechanisms by which the gastrointestinal immune system promotes systemic inflammation and the development of chronic diseases, including diseases and disorders of the central nervous system. Prior to attending medical school, Lewis served as a volunteer in the U.S. Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic. His work included the teaching nutrition and hygiene to elementary school teachers in the southwest region of the Dominican Republic, as well as leading sanitation, health and agricultural promotion projects. Currently, in addition to writing and seeing patients, he serves on the advisory boards of the College of Integrative Medicine and for LPP, a company developing safe, clean, fusion power, and collaborates in cancer research.