A second doctor's book about cancer – and second opinion about Laetrile.
Our power is out half the time now. It is becoming a nuisance. Although my UPS remains up and I have battery on my laptop, the outages affect my Internet service provider and email service, ukr.net. I hadn't seen my mail for a day.
Yesterday I wrote that A Midwestern Doctor had some good words to say about Laetrile. He also said some good words about Dr. Marik's new book about cancer. I do not think I have a family susceptibility. My parents both died of smoking related ailments after a lifetime with the weed. My mother was successfully operated on for tongue cancer and my father probably died with prostate cancer. It was smoking, not cancer that got them.
Curious nonetheless, I looked to see what the Internet had to say about the risks of those of us who quit smoking. People who quit 25 years ago are at three times the risk of people who never smoked. I, having quit 60 years ago after smoking heavily for only seven years, am certainly at less risk but it would still be non-negligible.
I bought Dr. Marik's book, "Cancer Care: The Role of Repurposed Drugs and Metabolic Interventions in Treating Cancer." It is a mixed bag. Chapter 2, entitled "what is cancer" uses terms that only a clinician or an oncologist would be likely to understand. There was enough I could relate to convince me that he's thoroughly studied the subject. Not that he needed the credibility, but it lent authority to the rest of the book – how to avoid and how to treat cancer.
Dr. Marik came to prominence as a leading member of the Front Line Covid Critical Care Alliance. His association with them cost him his job, freeing up his time to pursue what he may have wanted to do for a long time, write a book. A key part of the FLCCC mantra is that big Pharma is in it for the money. They have a lot more interest in expensive treatments than in making you well. The theme of this book is that there are things you can do for not too much money to make yourself much more resistant to cancer and to treat it if you have it.
We all love confirmation. I like his suggestions because they are so much in line with what I have always believed. He splits his 10 strong recommendations for avoiding and treating cancer among several chapters. The first recommends:
1. Glucose management and Ketogenic diet. This is advice that anybody paying attention has received a thousand times over, but still good. Avoid too many carbs. Avoid processed foods – if it looks like food, it probably is. If it comes in a box avoid it. Don't eat between meals. Fast occasionally.
2. Exercise half an hour a day. As you all know, that's what I do. He says just plain walking will generally do the trick. I believe in sweat.
3. Stress reduction and sleep.
The next chapter goes into strong recommendations for vitamins and repurposed drugs. Specifically, and in this order:
4. Vitamin D3
5. Melatonin
6. Green tea
7. Metformin
8. Curcumin
9. Mebendazole
10. Omega-3 fatty acids
11. Berberine
12. Atorvastin
13. Disulfram
14. Cimetidine
15. Mistletoe
16. Phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitors.
Beyond number ten above are things I hadn't heard about. But once again, the beginning items in the list, the top priority stuff, convinced me that he knows what he's talking about.
His latter chapters address treatments that are probably useful, might be useful, and are not useful. He puts Laetrile in the not useful category, saying it has been extensively tested for more than 30 years and that there is nothing there. Fair enough with me. He gives somebody looking for an alternative to the unappetizing palette of traditional cancer treatments a lot to choose from.
Another follow-up from yesterday. A Midwestern Doctor said that the establishment had suppressed the most effective ever drug for insomnia. I amended the post to add a link. It turns out there is more to the story. The simple name of the compound is sodium oxybate. It is available in the US as Xyrem, a treatment for narcolepsy. With a whole bunch of controls. Also available here, no prescription but only in injectable ampules.
That's the news from Lake WeBeGone, where the strong man's email just came back. Life is good.
Graham
Dr. Paul Marik, not Malik
Yes, stay off any prescribed medication these days if you don’t have to take them. And research very carefully whether or not they are needed. Statins are a big unresolved question for me at this point. I was involved in a lot of the original research showing reduction in all cause mortality with statins. Given what Pfizer and the other Covid vaxxx and drug companies are reporting about their clinical trials, I’m not sure we want to believe everything They said about atorvastatin 20 years ago.