He Got Cancer - And The Misinformation Made Him Furious | Jamie East
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How did Jamie first react when he was diagnosed with leukemia?
When broadcaster Jamie East got diagnosed with cancer, the first thing he did was search for answers and make a podcast about it. What he discovered was a world of horrendous misinformation, and it pissed him off. He's here to talk about his new podcast, Bad Blood, where he shares his whole cancer journey.
They're taking the nugget of truth and stretching that elastic band to the moon. And it's that twisting, it's that, you know, they turn the facts inside out on themselves. I'm
Dr. Garan and in this podcast I speak to the world's foremost experts in science and medicine to cut through the BS of modern health advice. Thanks as always to Loam Science for sponsoring the show, the world's first invisible fiber blend with clinical trials. Jamie East, you've been this is all normal to you. This podcast setup is very normal to you. You've been involved It's a good setup. Yeah, thank you. Um you've been involved in the podcast world for a number of years with the Daily Mail Group. You've been big in broadcasting for you know, long before that as well. You know, doing stuff with the big brother as well. Yeah. Amazing show back in the day. It was
it it was of its time.
But, you know, you experienced something pretty drastic and a curveball in your career far different from the podcast world when you found out you had leukemia. Tell me what that was like.
What early symptoms did Jamie experience and why were they easy to miss?
I mean mind blowing, like terrifying. pretty like felt very disastrous at the time, like for a very short space of time it was it was catastrophic and upsetting, scary. You know, I've got I'm a father of four, you know, I'm a breadwinner, you know, still kind of in the thick of it a little bit. So kind of felt like I wasn't I d I didn't feel ready to have cancer. I wasn't supposed to think I was supposed to have cancer, but I th I presume that's what everybody who gets cancer says. And And then then it turns into, you know, quite hopeful and you know, and it chang you know, it it changes you and, you know, so I've come out I'm still in it, but I've come, you know, I'm over a year into my diagnosis and and
I think I said, you know, nothing changes but everything changes. I you know
I mean, you have a very sort of a unique type of cancer. It's not one that someone commonly speaks about, chronic myeloid leukemia. Now tell me some of the symptoms you were experiencing and when you were first You know, having these symptoms and undergoing it. What did you think was going on?
Але сліт. I didn't think I didn't have a any symptoms whatsoever. It was so I mean, obviously I did, but I I wasn't they weren't strong enough or or present enough to make me kind of like hit the danger signs. I remember we'd gone on a family holiday to Miami and to do like Disney and and all the rest of it. I haven't got young children.
How do doctors typically deliver a cancer diagnosis and why is it so hard?
They were they were could be quite old to be going to Disney, but I took two of them to Disney anyway. We went to Miami, we did Keel Lago and it was it really, really nice uh family holiday. And I remember lying there And I couldn't work out why I felt so tired still. You know, w yeah. You know, when you go on holiday, everyone crashes at first, right? 'Cause it's just it's just the Oh, I'm on holiday. So everyone kinda g but then I I was already, you know, maybe ten days into it. I was like, Oh my god, I'm still really tired. And Disney's tiring, but it's not that tiring. So there was a little bit of that. It's just like, you know, I just really Struggling to get out of bed a little bit. But then I remember lying there and like feeling my glands and like oh
feels like a is that is that a lump there? Is it you know, you know when you feel your glands are up or if you run down? And I was like, okay, well that feels weird. And I felt it in one side and I was like, right, I'll definitely go and get that checked out. And of course, like two days later it had gone.
Why do leukemia symptoms often go unnoticed until it’s too late?
So I was like, I'm cured. And then when I got back, it came back but on the other side of my throat. So immediately went to Google like any sane human being does and diagnosed myself with thyro acute thyroiditis.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did Jamie first react when he was diagnosed with leukemia?
0:00–1:11
2
What early symptoms did Jamie experience and why were they easy to miss?
1:11–2:32
3
How do doctors typically deliver a cancer diagnosis and why is it so hard?
2:32–3:20
4
Why do leukemia symptoms often go unnoticed until it’s too late?
3:20–4:36
5
Should patients use Google to look up their possible cancer diagnosis?
4:36–6:31
6
What kinds of cancer misinformation did Jamie discover online?
6:31–8:49
7
What marketing tricks do health‑grifter influencers use to spread false cancer cures?
8:49–10:55
8
Is the claim that ‘sugar feeds cancer’ scientifically accurate?
10:55–42:14
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