First he explained his background as an oncologist, and why he’s so concerned with prevention:

I want to prevent illness. I’m a guy who sees people dying every day…I don’t want to take it anymore. I want to prevent disease. We have the technology, we have the means to do it, we just gotta enact it.

This all sounds pretty great, but when Stewart gets him talking about inflammation, he gets into his unorthodox solution:

It’s the root cause of things like heart disease, cancer…and we can reduce inflammation. You take an aspirin a day; reduces inflammation, lowers your rate of cancer double-digit percentage, as well as a dramatic effect on heart disease. Why aren’t we mandating it?

He also promotes more conventional wisdom, like increasing physical movement and eating real food on a regular schedule. Check out the full interview:

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Amid the massive backlash–mostly from those who were upset that Komen Foundation was buckling to conservative ideas–the organization has insisted that their decision wasn’t at all political. Officially, they were trying to eliminate grant recipients who were under investigation by the government, like Planned Parenthood currently is. But no one–on either side–seemed to believe it. Which meant there was a lot of discussion about what values are important, and which organizations best speak to those values.

Pro-life organizations and individuals applauded the move because, even though none of the funding from the Komen Foundation was going to anything other than breast health care, being linked to a polarizing organization like Planned Parenthood was reason to withhold support for the foundation. It is doubtless than many of them will be asking for refunds on donations today.

Critics, too, didn’t buy the story that it wasn’t political, saying that that rationale is a red herring–that the reason that Planned Parenthood’s grants were initially cut off wasn’t because of the investigation, but because of the organization’s Vice President, Karen Handel, a woman who had previously run for office on a pro-life, actively anti-Planned Parenthood platform.  To them, the decision seemed to pit politics against equal access to health care, and was decidedly in contrast with Komen’s mission: that every woman deserves to live a cancer-free life.

What is interesting among all of this is the massive wave of support that this move garnered for Planned Parenthood’s breast health efforts. The sexual and women’s health provider raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in just 48 hours, including many matching funds from large donors. Even politicians took up the cause for Planned Parenthood, writing letters to Komen asking that they re-consider their decision. The spotlight was no longer on the organization’s abortion services–just 3% of the services they offer–but instead, on everything else that they do for millions of women and families.

It’s hard to say whether or not this move will permanently change the way that those on both sides of the debate see the Komen Foundation. But, whatever the outcome, there’s one giant silver lining.

In the last week, there’s been more discussion about women’s health, the right to access, affordable care, and treatment, than is ever in the news. This fiasco may have been angering for people on all sides of the aisle–but it sure did get people talking about breasts and health, equality and poverty, and how to best help women. It’s unfortunately that it took a media firestorm to get there, but at least we’re talking about it.

*This, by the way, is important. The statement doesn’t actually guarantee future funding, and it’s very possible that this is the last year that Planned Parenthood could receive any. Just a note.

Image: Lian Maris

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