A century ago, a brilliant, Nobel prize-winning scientist staked his reputation on a new understanding of cancer’s origins: a dysfunction in the cancer cell’s ability to create energy. His discovery, known as the Warburg Effect, is the foundation for the metabolic theory of cancer. It was all but forgotten.

In the 1950s, the idea that cancer is a genetic disease captured minds and research funding. Yet the theory that genetic mutations are the root cause of cancer has never been proven. In fact, evidence is mounting against it despite establishment attempts to force increasingly contradictory data to fit this profitable model.

Episode 1 tells the story of Dr. Otto Warburg and the rise and fall of the metabolic theory of cancer that has layed the foundation for today’s emerging cancer treatments.