I have worked in the field of healthcare for more than fifty years. I started my career in addiction medicine. After working with men and women suffering from addictions to drugs such as alcohol, heroin and cocaine, I began to realize that addiction is not just about drugs.
We know that people can have addictive relationships with food, work and even sex and love. In my book, Looking for love in all the wrong places: overcoming romantic and sexual addictions, Say,
“When we find that our romantic relationships are a series of frustrations that continue to follow, we are looking for love in all the wrong places. When we are overwhelmed by our physical attraction to a young person, when chemistry feels fantastic and we are sure that this Time we found someone who will make us whole, we are looking for love in all the wrong places. ”
In the book, I also mentioned Dr. Stanton Pele, a beginning for the addiction that reminds us,
“Many of us are addicted, we only do not know it. We turn each other from the same needs that lead some people to drink others in heroin. Interpersonal addiction – addiction to love – is precisely the most common but less recognized form of addiction.”
Now Dr. Raphael Cuomo has further expanded our understanding of addiction. In his book, Crave: The hidden biology of addiction and cancer, Says,
“We live in an addictive society, but not only the species that ends in emergency rooms or interventions, this is not only for heroin, meth or alcohol, it is for the relentless cycle of stimulation and reward that determines the usual life.
I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Cuomo. I asked him questions that I thought my readers would be more interested in learning about the following:
- What are you interested in for the first time the connection of cancer and why this connection is both hidden and important?
- If you were talking to a group of children, what are some of the things you will tell them about how the book could help them?
- Tell us in what ways food is a medicine and what do we need to know so as not to be anchored?
- What is “digital dopamine” and why is it a hidden public health problem?
You Watch my full interview with Dr. Cuomo here.
Most of whom are concerned about cancer know someone who has been diagnosed with cancer or fears that we are ignoring or obsessed. Dr. Cuomo offers a new perspective that I found very useful. Says,
“We often think of cancer as a genetic accident. A cell transforms, begins to split uncontrollably and escapes from detection.
What makes the body permissible in this escape?
Why does the immune system, which determines and eliminates the abnormal cells every day, begins to lose its goals?
Why do repair systems fail to correct damaged DNA?
Why does cell growth move from regulated to revolutionary? ”
In ten, the chapters full of information, Dr. Cuomo answers them and many other questions that can help us understand the biology of addiction and cancer:
- Molecular scars
- The addicted society
- The longing is chemical
- Inflammation
- Food as a medicine
- Digital dopamine
- Nicotine, alcohol and ordinary suspects?
- Beyond the person
- Biology can change
- The new prevention
In his final chapter, Dr. Cuomo says,
“Prevention, as it is usually understood, has struggled to match the evolving reality of cancer. Cancer includes more than external exposure, it results from internal conditions. Over time.”
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