A New Show About Doctors Of Old : NPRNPR's Arun Rath talks to actor Clive Owen about his new TV series The Knick. It's a medical drama set in turn- of- the- century New York City. ARUN RATH, HOST: It's hard to imagine today, but before the 2.
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Steven Soderbergh's new series on Cinemax called . It's set in the fictional New York City hospital, the Knickerbocker, in 1. It's a dark, dirty, rather frightening place, and the doctors are not afraid to try new procedures.(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, . More has been learned about the treatment of the human body in the last five years than was learned in the previous 5. Twenty years ago, 3.
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Today, it is more than 4. RATH: That's Clive Owen as Dr. John Thackery, head surgeon at the Knickerbocker Hospital. You might remember him from the dystopian film . And there was this brilliant book called . He was a very brilliant doctor and made, you know, a lot of amazing discoveries and was really at the forefront of pushing the whole medical world forward.
And they discovered that he was consuming vast amounts of drugs while he was doing that. The first image you see of me in this is injecting myself with liquid cocaine, but at that time, cocaine was totally legal in the states. And they thought it was the new wonder drug. They thought it was a great anesthetic, and they had no idea of the problems that come with it. So there were a number of doctors at that time who were getting addicted to it. RATH: We see some medical procedures that seem almost incredible for the time - major invasive surgeries.
Was that sort of thing really happening like that in 1. OWEN: Everything that happens in the whole series is inspired by real events and things that were going on. And the operations - every single operation that we perform - there was a brilliant advisor called Dr. Burns who has this incredible archive. And every single operation - he had historical photographs, often booklets from 1. And he was onset for any of the medical stuff and his mantra would be more claims, more blood.
RATH: What was shocking for you as you're going through with this, in terms of what medicine could accomplish at that time? OWEN: It was obviously a very scary time to be very ill - is the truth. You know, the very first operation that we perform in this doesn't go too well, and it's a very sort of, you know, brutal way of saying, welcome to 1. SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, . It's only a matter of time.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) Hunter's ligation, reset the weak spot, try to reconstruct. OWEN: (As John Thackery) Yeah. With an aneurysm that large, once we resect it, there won't be much tissue left with which to reconstruct the artery.
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UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) We have to try. OWEN: (As John Thackery) We do indeed. It was a time of sort of great passion, of trying to push forward. And they were taking risks and trying things out and discovering things at a very quick rate. But it was a little sort of shooting from the hip.
They would go into surgeries and just try things out, in the hope that they would learn things to make it better for the next person. RATH: Now, there's plenty of drama just in the hospital scenario by itself. But there's more dramatic tension from the introduction of an African- American doctor. This is your character - the head surgeon's reaction.(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, .
I grant that your background is impressive, and I'm sure there are many Negro infirmaries that will benefit from your talents, but this hospital.. HOLLAND: (As Algernon Edward) You're here. This is where I'd like to be. In London and in Paris, I was treated as an equal, and I have no doubt.. OWEN: (As John Thackery) This is New York. This is not London or Paris.
You can only run away and join the circus if the circus wants you. I don't want you in my circus. RATH: The attention to historical detail we were just talking about really makes me curious. Were hospital staffs already starting to integrate that time? OWEN: There was no black doctor working in any hospital in New York in 1. One of the things that I think is so successful about it is you're constantly going, really?
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Is this how we were then? Is this how people behaved? Is this - did this really happen? It's shocking, and it should be shocking.(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, . Thackery, I spent some time at Hotel- Dieu Hospital in Paris. OWEN: (As John Thackery) Scrubbing the floors, were we?
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HOLLAND: (As Algernon Edward) Working with Dr. We experimented using a galvanic procedure on aortic aneurisms and had a fairly good success rate. OWEN: (As John Thackery) Thank you, Dr. Edwards, but if I want your ideas, I'll ask for them. RATH: You know, the hospital drama - it's a pretty well- worn TV staple. But this doesn't feel like anything like . But the thing about this is that the hospital is a great way of looking at the period and at the location - New York at this time - what was happening on the streets of New York.
It's just a brilliant way in to view, you know, a whole world, really. As I've said before, it was a particularly exciting time in the world of medicine, so there's a reason to set it in 1. It's not that it could be just any year. It's - this was a particularly intense period.
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RATH: I have the impression of you as an actor who's very selective of the type of roles that you take on. I'm curious about this character, in particular. And you do - maybe you seem to have an attraction for complicated characters?
OWEN: You occasionally read these scripts where it reminds you of why you do what you do. And there was something about this character that was so challenging and sort of dangerous and exciting.
And, you know, it gets wilder, in many respects. You know, it's a very sort of challenging beginning. You think, my God, who is this guy? I just never read anything set in this time period that felt so edgy and dangerous and - contemporary's the wrong word, but it felt sort of visceral and present.
And the one thing often about period things is that we do this kind of this distant, respectful thing, where we look at it period, and then we sort if look at it from afar. And when I read this, I felt that the writers were really putting me into a world.
And that's what I found very excited about it. RATH: Clive Owen - his new television show, . Thank you so much. OWEN: Thank you. Copyright .
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Cancer: Forbidden Cures . Mercola. Imagine a commercial plane crashed and there were some fatalities involved. You can be sure that would make the headline of every major newspaper. Well, we have the equivalent of 8- 1. EVERY DAY with everyone on board dying from cancer.
Nearly two million Americans are diagnosed with cancer every year—one person out of three will be hit with a cancer diagnosis at some time in their lives, in spite of the massive technological advances over the past half- century. Western medicine is no closer to finding a . The statistics speak for themselves: In the early 1. In the 1. 94. 0s, one in 1. In the 1. 97. 0s, it was one in 1. Today, it's one in three! If overall death rates are falling, why are incidence rates still on the rise?
The answer is simple: the 4. The cancer epidemic is a dream for Big Pharma, and their campaigns to silence cancer cures have been fierce, which is a tale well told in the documentary film featured above, Cancer: Forbidden Cures. The Cancer Machine. Please understand that cancer is big business.
The cancer industry is spending virtually nothing of its multi- billion dollar resources on effective prevention strategies, such as dietary guidelines, exercise and obesity education. Instead, it pours its money into treating cancer, not preventing or curing it. Why would they shoot their cash cow? If they can keep the well- oiled Cancer Machine running, they will continue to make massive profits on chemotherapy drugs, radiotherapy, diagnostic procedures and surgeries. The typical cancer patient spends $5. Chemotherapy drugs are among the most expensive of all treatments, many ranging from $3,0.
If the cancer industry allows a cure, then their patient base goes away. It makes more sense to keep a steady stream of cancer patients alive, but sick and coming back for more.
How did this societal monster come about? The featured documentary is enormously informative. It details how the pharmaceutical industry partnered with the American Medical Association (AMA) in an ingenious plan to overtake the medical system in four swift, easy steps, back in the early 1.
In a nutshell, it went something like this: International bankers that own the drug and chemical companies gained control over the medical education system over 1. This is not too surprising when you consider that two of the three are carcinogenic themselves! One study estimated that chemotherapy benefits about one of every 2. Over the last hundred years, a number of natural cancer treatments have been developed and used successfully to treat patients in the US and other countries. All have been vehemently discounted, silenced, and pushed under the rug by the medical monopoly, with physicians and researchers attacked, smeared, sent to prison, and professionally ruined for daring to defy the medical establishment.
To this day, with respect to credibility in medicine, . Drug companies have no interest in natural agents that they cannot patent, because they interfere with their revenue stream. They will go—and have gone—to extreme measures to prevent the truth about effective natural treatments (competitive threats) from reaching the public. The FDA is now, thanks to PDUFA, primarily funded by the drug companies and is complicit in this process. They restrict competition in the guise of protecting the public, when the reality is they are protecting the profits of the drug companies. My Top 1. 2 Cancer Prevention Strategies. There is so much you can do to lower your risk for cancer.
But please don't wait until you get the diagnosis—you have to take preventative steps NOW. It's much easier to prevent cancer than to treat it, once it takes hold. I believe you can virtually eliminate your risk of cancer and chronic disease, and radically improve your chances of recovering from cancer if you currently have it, by following these relatively simple strategies. Food Preparation: Eat at least one- third of your food raw.
Avoid frying or charbroiling; boil, poach or steam your foods instead. Consider adding cancer- fighting whole foods, herbs, spices and supplements to your diet, such as broccoli, curcumin and resveratrol. To learn more about how these anti- angiogenetic foods fight cancer, please see our previous article: . Carbohydrates and Sugar: Reduce or eliminate processed foods, sugar/fructose and grain- based foods from your diet. This applies to whole unprocessed organic grains as well, as they tend to rapidly break down and drive up your insulin level.
The evidence is quite clear that if you want to avoid cancer, or you currently have cancer, you absolutely MUST avoid all forms of sugar, especially fructose, which feeds cancer cells and promotes their growth. Make sure your total fructose intake is around 2. Protein and Fat: Consider reducing your protein levels to one gram per kilogram of lean body weight. It would be unusual for most adults to need more than 1. Replace excess protein with high- quality fats, such as organic eggs from pastured hens, high- quality meats, avocados, and coconut oil.
GMOs: Avoid genetically engineered foods as they are typically treated with herbicides such as Roundup (glyphosate), and likely to be carcinogenic. A French research team that has extensively studied Roundup concluded it's toxic to human cells, and likely carcinogenic to humans. Choose fresh, organic, preferably locally grown foods. Animal- Based Omega- 3 fats: Normalize your ratio of omega- 3 to omega- 6 fats by taking a high- quality krill oil and reducing your intake of processed vegetable oils. Natural Probiotics: Optimizing your gut flora will reduce inflammation and strengthen your immune response. Researchers have found a microbe- dependent mechanism through which some cancers mount an inflammatory response that fuels their development and growth. They suggest that inhibiting inflammatory cytokines might slow cancer progression and improve the response to chemotherapy.
You can always add a high- quality probiotic supplement as well, but naturally fermented foods are the best. Exercise: Exercise lowers insulin levels, which creates a low sugar environment that discourages the growth and spread of cancer cells.
In a three- month study, exercise was found to alter immune cells into a more potent disease- fighting form in cancer survivors who had just completed chemotherapy. Researchers and cancer organizations increasingly recommend making regular exercise a priority in order to reduce your risk of cancer, and help improve cancer outcomes. Research has also found evidence suggesting exercise can help trigger apoptosis (programmed cell death) in cancer cells. Ideally, your exercise program should include balance, strength, flexibility, high intensity interval training (HIIT).
For help getting started, refer to my Peak Fitness Program. Vitamin D: There is scientific evidence you can decrease your risk of cancer by more than half simply by optimizing your vitamin D levels with appropriate sun exposure. Your serum level should hold steady at 5. To learn more, please see my previous article: .
Sleep: Make sure you are getting enough restorative sleep. Poor sleep can interfere with your melatonin production, which is associated with an increased risk of insulin resistance and weight gain, both of which contribute to cancer's virility. Exposure to Toxins: Reduce your exposure to environmental toxins like pesticides, herbicides, household chemical cleaners, synthetic air fresheners and toxic cosmetics.
Exposure to Radiation: Limit your exposure and protect yourself from radiation produced by cell phones, towers, base stations, and Wi- Fi stations, as well as minimizing your exposure from radiation- based medical scans, including dental x- rays, CT scans, and mammograms. Stress Management: Stress from all causes is a major contributor to disease.
Even the CDC states that 8. It is likely that stress and unresolved emotional issues may be more important than the physical ones, so make sure this is addressed. My favorite tool for resolving emotional challenges is Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT).
What to Do If You Already Have Cancer. Without a doubt the most powerful essential strategy I know of to treat cancer is to starve the cells by depriving them of their food source. Unlike your body cells, which can burn carbs or fat for fuel, cancer cells have lost that metabolic flexibility.
Otto Warburg was actually given a Nobel Prize over 7. You can review my recent interview with Dr. D'Agostino below for more details but integrating a ketogenic diet with hyperbaric oxygen therapy which is deadly to cancer cells debilitated by starving them of their fuel source would be the strategy I would recommend to my family if they were diagnosed with cancer.