Cancer on the Joe Rogan Experience
17 fact-checked claims across 13 episodes · Nov 2017 to Mar 2025 · updated Jul 20, 2026
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“But it slowed that doubling rate by 86%, which is pretty profound.”
Patrick claims a study found 60mg/day of sulforaphane slowed the doubling rate of PSA (a prostate cancer biomarker) by 86%.
“So why are there no fenbendazole clinical trials for cancer? The answer seems rather obvious. It's very cheap, it's safe, and it seems to be effective, very ef…”
Rogan reads and endorses a viral claim that fenbendazole (a dog dewormer) has proven, effective anti-cancer mechanisms in humans and is being suppressed from clinical trials because it's too cheap for pharmaceutical companies to profit from.
“So along comes polio research, and the polio vaccine, even to this day, is made on African green monkey kidney cells. Now, the African green monkey kidneys ear…”
Humphries claims the polio vaccine is still made on African green monkey kidney cells and that Dr. Bernice Eddy discovered the cancer-causing SV40 virus in the vaccine substrate.
“But there are now actually identification of several cancers that thrive on fats rather than carbohydrates.”
Galpin claims that several cancers have been identified as thriving on fat rather than carbohydrates/sugar.
“women that do that, that have already had breast cancer, they reduce their breast cancer risk recurrence by like 40%”
Patrick claims women who eat within an 11-hour window and fast 13 hours reduce breast cancer recurrence risk by about 40%.
“there was, you know, the World Health Organization two years ago, last year, two years ago, declared that red meat was a class two carcinogen and processed mea…”
Baker states the WHO/IARC classified red meat as a class 2 carcinogen and processed meat as class 1, then frames this classification as based on weak epidemiology and questionable rat studies.
“That's still 50,000 to 60,000 people a year that get colon cancer if that data's right. They wouldn't get colon cancer if they just would stop eating hot dogs.”
Kahn claims that, based on WHO processed-meat risk data, 50,000 to 60,000 people a year get colon cancer specifically because they eat hot dogs/processed meat.
“So, for example, there was a study out of Harvard University, I think three years ago, women with severe PTSD have double the risk of ovarian cancer.”
Maté claims a Harvard study from around 2019 found that women with severe PTSD have double the risk of developing ovarian cancer.
“If meat caused cancer, most people would have cancer. 95 plus percent of the population on earth eats meat.”
Baker argues that because most people eat meat and most people don't get cancer, meat cannot cause cancer.
“as kids we played in asbestos our whole lives we've cleaned it up thousands of times put it in trash bags... now nobody i haven't heard of anybody with asbesto…”
BJ Penn suggests childhood exposure to asbestos was common and harmless since he hasn't personally heard of anyone getting sick from it.
“So how this affects me is that I'm a kidney specialist, and I looked at the curve of kidney cancers that have gone up since the inception of polio vaccines and…”
Humphries claims kidney cancer rates rose after the introduction of polio vaccines and SV40, and that SV40 enhances two oncogenes and inhibits two tumor suppressors.
“And the fact of the matter is, is that all cancers in humanity have gone up since the inception”
Humphries claims that all cancers in humanity have increased since the beginning of vaccination.
“isn't so much that as the IGF-1, which doesn't cause cancer, but it allows cancer cells to grow... You eat meat, it causes cancer. Well, no, that's not necessa…”
Rhonda Patrick claims IGF-1 does not cause cancer but only promotes growth of existing damaged/cancerous cells, disputing a direct 'meat causes cancer' framing.
“Well, Wi-Fi radiation is – does all kinds of bad things, including causing cancer.”
Kennedy claims Wi-Fi radiation causes cancer, citing cell phone-associated tumors behind the ear as evidence.
“Because some dude told me that once, that he got cancer. I think it was testicle cancer on his right side. And the guy was saying, do you keep your phone in yo…”
Rogan relays an anecdote where a man attributed his testicular cancer to keeping his cell phone in his right pants pocket on that same side.
“I don't believe that there is anything that can afflict mankind that hasn't got a natural cure for it. I think that there has to be. It just makes sense to me.”
Gibson claims every disease that afflicts mankind has a natural cure, and separately recounts three friends with stage 4 cancer who recovered after taking ivermectin, fenbendazole, and methylene blue.
“you use a reverse osmosis water filter because it's a really, really fine filtration. But it takes everything out. Like, it takes the bad stuff and the good st…”
Greenfield claims reverse osmosis water filtration strips out both contaminants and beneficial minerals, implying municipal tap water without such filtration (or unfiltered use) is linked to a neighborhood cancer cluster from golf course runoff.