Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection

The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat—and what it means for how we should. Otto Warburg (1883-1970) was a Nobel laureate who discovered the Warburg effect: cancer cells consume massive amounts of glucose and eschew aerobic respiration in favor of fermentation. This biography chronicles how Warburg, despite being Jewish and by some accounts gay, survived WWII-era Germany because his research on cell metabolism was so valuable to the Nazis.