Beating Cancer, Nutrition
In this video, Patrick Quillin spends about 27 minutes speaking on "Beating Cancer, Nutrition" at the 42nd Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Patrick Quillin
PATRICK QUILLIN, Ph.D., R.D., C.N.S. studied Pre Med at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. He received his B.S. Degree in Foods and Nutrition from California State University, San Diego, and his M.S. Degree in Applied Human Nutrition from Northern Illinois University. His Ph.D. in Nutrition Education was earned at Kensington University, Glendale, CA.
Dr. Quillin is a Registered Dietitian (R.D.), Licensed Dietitian (L.D.) and Certified Nutrition Specialist (C.N.S.) from the American College of Nutrition. Over the past 20 years, he has become a nationally recognized expert in Clinical Nutrition. He has appeared on numerous TV and radio talk shows nationwide and is a regular speaker at medical conventions.
Dr. Quillin has been a Consultant to the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Army Breast Cancer Research Group, Scripps Clinic, La Costa Spa and United States Department of Agriculture. He has taught college nutrition for 11 years and worked as a hospital dietitian. In 1995, he obtained an Investigational New Drug #48,676 from the FDA to conduct research on bovine cartilage in advanced cancer patients.
Patrick’s 17 books have sold over 2 million copies and include the best sellers Healing Nutrients and Beating Cancer With Nutrition.
Dr. Quillin served for 10 years as the Director of Nutrition for Cancer Treatment Centers of America located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He edited the textbook called Adjuvant Nutrition In Cancer Treatment and organized the 1st, 2nd and 3rd International Symposia on “Adjuvant Nutrition in Cancer Treatment,” which attracted scientists from all over the world.
He may be contacted through his e-mail [email protected] and website www.nutritioncancer.com.
Transcription
Pleasure. Great to be here.
Thank you very much. We're gonna have a good time. This is an amazing event and I honor the many people who are part of this. Frank Cousineau and Lorraine Rosenthal. If Lorraine would come up here, I'd like to offer her my applause and some flowers. You realize this lady.
Has dedicated her life to providing options for cancer patients. Lorraine Rosen Voll.
The flowers are living in colorful. Lorraine got her degree from Berkeley. She's a very bright lady and because of her, thousands of cancer patients have had better options. I'm here to talk about nutrition and cancer. We're gonna have a fun time before I'm through. But we'll also learn a few things. And as they said in Smokey and the Bandit, we've got a long way to go and a short time to get there. So a few minutes for a talkative Irishman like me, I it takes twenty five minutes to just clear my throat. But we're gonna get a lot of information done before we're through. Well nourished cancer patient can better manage the disease and its therapies.
That doesn't mean nutrition is a cure all for cancer. It means it's essential, but may not be sufficient. The second statement, a healthy human body is self regulating and self repairing. This is an amazingly blindingly obvious statement. It's homeostasis one to one, a from biology and any college in the world. And yet we forget it when we get into medicine and think life is this ongoing disease process that must be medicated with drugs and surgery. Not so. The good news is cancer has been with us since the dawn of time. And because of that, we have innate mechanisms within the body that help us to fight off cancer. For instance, Doug just finished a brilliant dissertation on fungus and cancer. There is a very fascinating field that's developing right now. And phytochemicals phyto Alexi's. They're also called Sylvester Rawles. Essentially, when plants, especially red and green fruits and vegetables, are attacked by fungus in the environment and they give off a protection mechanism, phyto lexan, that's how they survive. And when you eat those phyto will exons, you now have an antifungal mechanism. And coincidentally, they find those same vital axons in your gut help you fight off cancer. Is cancer a fungus? Interesting. We're gonna move ahead briskly, but there's a lot of questions and answers that we will have before we're through here.
Lorraine, we salute you. Forty two years of providing options to cancer patients. Thank you. W.C. Fields was a famous alcoholic, and I think it's funny that Doug mentioned alcohol