我采访这位身材瘦削、衣着随意的医学家时,他飞快地介绍着他的想法,仿佛唯恐全世界不能尽快了解自己的思想。他说:“我希望医生们从病人健康时就着手治疗,而不是到生病时才去治。”阿古斯的灵感来自他2004年在《财富》杂志(Fortune)上读到的一篇文章:《为什么我们输掉了与癌症的战争》(Why We're Losing the War on Cancer)。文章作者克里夫·利夫当时担任过《财富》杂志编辑,他本人就是一名癌症幸存者。他写道,癌症研究人员们习惯于治疗癌症的各种症状,而不是设法直接控制癌症。史蒂夫·乔布斯去世前的最后几年,阿古斯也是乔布斯治疗团队的一员。阿古斯说:“我们忘了治癌要从防癌开始。”
Today, if we get cancer, we attack the cells. If we get a heart attack, we perform a bypass. That's fine, but why not avoid the disease in the first place? Agus believes that diseases like cancer and heart disease should be thought of as verbs and not nouns. In his lexicon, "cancering" suggests a systemic problem. He points to a study of women who, after treatment for breast cancer, were given either an osteoporosis drug or a placebo. The ones who took the drug had a 40% lower rate of recurrence of the cancer, as their system was changed and the cancer didn't grow back. "Keep the soil healthy," says Agus, "and the bad seed won't grow."
今天,一旦病人得了癌症,我们就会试图去杀死癌细胞。如果病人心脏病发作,我们就做心脏搭桥。这无可厚非。但我们为什么不能“防病于未然” 呢?阿古斯认为,我们应该把癌症和心脏病这类疾病看成一个动词,而不是名词。在阿古斯的字典里,“患有癌症”意味着一个系统性的问题。他指出,在一项研究中,一组女性在接受了乳腺癌治疗后,医生向她们发放了一些治疗骨质疏松的药物或安慰剂。但服用了这些药物的患者的复发率却比平均水平低了40%。随着她们的身体系统发生良性改变,癌症没有再复发。阿古斯说道:“只要保持土壤健康,坏的种子就无法萌芽。
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