Review - Crave: The Hidden Biology of Addiction and Cancer
Posted on August 1, 2025
Crave: The Hidden Biology of Addiction and Cancer, by Raphael E. Cuomo, PhD
A Book Review by Tom Horvath, PhD
This compact and compelling book describes how our moment-to-moment actions regarding food, sleep and rest, physical activity level, electronic activities, relationships, and daily life in general contribute to increasing or decreasing our risk for developing cancer and other diseases. These actions often have the character of addictive behaviors, “the relentless cycle of stimulation and reward that defines ordinary life (pg. 1).” The impacts of these actions accumulate over time, altering “the internal landscape…the body’s terrain pg. 1).”
This book could have been entitled The Body Keeps the Score, but that title was taken!
“The term ‘addiction’ is reserved for beh...
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