Quotes from David Servan-Schreiber

At a certain age—six months for a mouse, the equivalent of fifty years for a human—the mechanism of resistance is weakened.

made a similar discovery about prostate cancer.7 Certain genes trigger an extreme sensitivity to inflammation and stimulate the transformation of slow-growing microtumors of the prostate into aggressive and metastatic cancers.e However, when men who carried such genes consumed oily, omega-3-rich fish at least twice a week, their dangerous genes remained in check. Their cancers were five times less likely to become aggressive than those of men who ate no oily fish at all.

There is little likelihood that our physicians will suggest these approaches. Changes in lifestyle cannot, by definition, be patented. Thus, they do not become medications and they do not require prescriptions. This means thatmost physicians don't consider them within their realm, so it is up to each of us to make them our own.

Real" foods are thus more effective than supplements, and they are more effective in combination than when eaten separately.

Schopenhauer's saying: All great truth goes through three phases. First it is ridiculed, then violently attacked, and finally accepted as self-evident.

When we respect the needs and bodies of the animals that feed us, our own bodies are better balanced

The resistant mice were able to mount a powerful defense, thanks to their immune system, even after cancer had taken hold.