In Bad Taste

For a bonus episode this month, we’re joined by a very special guest. Dr Ranjana Srivastava (@docranjana) is an oncologist, award-winning author and Fullbright Scholar who is going to give us the truth around complimentary therapies and cancer. We’re also going to discuss some of your stories you’ve sent us about Gerson Therapy.

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This week’s suggested readings:

A selection of some Dr Srivastava’s writing

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/03/what-do-doctors-say-to-alternative-therapists-when-a-patient-dies-nothing-we-never-talk 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/05/belle-gibson-mimicked-countless-fake-healers-they-arent-delusional 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/14/my-patient-swapped-chemotherapy-for-essential-oils-arguing-is-a-fools-errand 

https://www.ranjanasrivastava.com/books 

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Natural = good right? Well no, not really despite what The Gerson Miracle would have you believe. For our second last takedown of this film, we’re exploring why they want us to believe in naturalness being our salvation and why they’d be dead wrong.

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This week’s suggested readings:

Natural doesn’t mean better https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/know-science/natural-doesnt-mean-better

Calcium and acidity: The impact of dietary protein on calcium absorption and kinetic measures of bone turnover in women.

https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article-lookup/doi/10.1210/jc.2004-0179

https://asbmr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1359/jbmr.090515

God Awful Movies Podcast - The Great Culling: Our Water - https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/244-the-great-culling-our-water/id1041876428?i=1000472170387 

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The Gerson Miracle is littered with people telling us how life changing it was, and there are some well known real-life examples of people who have tried this regimen. This week, we’re discussing some of these stories and why they’re cautionary tales not evidence. 

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This week’s suggested readings:

Cancer Research UK https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancer-in-general/treatment/complementary-alternative-therapies/individual-therapies/gerson

National Cancer Institute https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/patient/gerson-pdq

Why people use complementary therapy https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13187-020-01734-0

Use of complementary therapy in early stage breast cancer https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/fullarticle/2521357 

Cancer is ‘natural’ https://www.statnews.com/2017/08/29/cancer-treatment-alternative-medicine/ 

National Cancer Institute - why people use CAM https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam

Gerson and Jess Ainsclough https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-gerson-protocol-and-the-death-of-jess-ainscough/

Crowdfunding bogus cancer treatments https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45509942

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Still on The Gerson Miracle, we are again having to defend our nether regions from wellness rubbish. This time we’re trying to work out why someone thought coffee enemas were a good idea. Yep, that's right. Coffee. Up your butt.

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This week’s suggested readings:

Cancer Research UK https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancer-in-general/treatment/complementary-alternative-therapies/individual-therapies/gerson

National Cancer Institute https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/patient/gerson-pdq

Rectal perforation due to coffee enemas https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/html/10.1055/s-0031-1291512

Seeing is Believing - The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2006/feb/04/health.lifeandhealth

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This month we’re taking a turn into Serious-Town to go behind enemy lines and watch The Gerson Miracle (2004) and debunk some of the dangerous claims it makes about treating cancer. Trust us, we won’t be pulling any punches on this one.

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This week’s suggested readings:

This is a study of pancreatic enzyme therapy & diet versus chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19687327

JAMA Oncology - patients using complementary therapies twice as likely to die of their cancer https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/fullarticle/2687972?resultClick=1 

Cancer Research UK https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancer-in-general/treatment/complementary-alternative-therapies/individual-therapies/gerson

National Cancer Institute https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/patient/gerson-pdq

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Game Changers trotted out a whole bunch of doctors, some scientists and even the Terminator. They must be telling the truth right? Well it’s not that straightforward. We’re going to show you why conflicts of interest and expertise matter when it comes to health claims.

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This week’s stellar references:

The effects of mandatory disclaimers

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2014.0515

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1509/jppm.12.053

Where the film tells you not to listen to people with big followings for health advice but goes ahead and provides it anyway https://gamechangersmovie.com/food/core-principles/

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Is being vegan all it takes to achieve sporting glory? Not bloody likely. This week, we’re going to talk about plant-powered athletes and why it’s not the advantage it’s made out to be. 

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Vegan diets and athletes: practical advice https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12970-017-0192-9?sf114327445=1

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In this week’s episode, we’re going to sift through more of the steaming pile of poop that is the so-called science of this documentary and find out if being vegan will save your heart.

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This week’s stellar references:

Plant based diets for cardiovascular disease prevention https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11883-019-0779-5

Low calorie vegetarian versus the Mediterranean diet https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.030088

Inflammation after a high fat meal https://doi.org/10.3945/an.116.014431

Vegan diets can still result in metabolic disease https://doi.org/10.1093/advances/nmz090

Heart disease in fire fighters https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.116.025711

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We’re starting off with a bang with popular Netflix documentary ‘The Game Changers’, which was released in 2018. And of course, let’s look at the cheekiest claim first – does being vegan give you better boners? 

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This week’s stellar references:

Attractiveness of vegan men https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2015.11.021

The role of nocturnal penile tumescence (aka night boners) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sxmr.2018.10.005

Testosterone, sex hormone binding globulin and diet https://doi.org/10.1079/bjn19900014

Effect of massive soy consumption on testosterone https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nut.2010.10.018

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Join nutritionist Pixie Turner and cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Nikki Stamp as we cast a critical eye over health documentaries, and the claims they make.

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