Here's the latest issue of my weekly newsletter. We'll go over the ten biggest Covid lies and how the Covid narrative is changing. How, thanks to the pandemic, customer service has gone to hell in a hand basket. GLP-1 receptor agonists and booze. More on mass balance. Is cancer a mitochondrial metabolic disease. And flat out flat picking.
Thank you for writing about cancer. I have an appointment with my oncologist next week and I’m giving him my Dear John letter. I am unwilling to live with the horrible side effects of endocrine therapy for the next 10 years and simply live my life. Especially when my pharmacist friend told me the number needed to treat was in the upper 160s. I surrendered my breasts and ovaries to cancer, and that’s enough. The low carb lifestyle has been a challenge, but with what I assume you’re going to continue to write about, I will give it another whirl. Look forward to your newsletter every week.
I watched a documentary on Amazon a few years ago called “Cancer Can Be Killed” a Jeff Witzeman Film. (Just checked and it is listed now as “currently unavailable.” Anyhow he goes on to say that his wife has bladder cancer and the Doctor wants to remove her bladder. They do some research and her sister had been “cured” in Europe at an alternative health clinic. She ends up opting to do the same. The flight, hotel, treatment I think were about $28k and they cured her cancer with infrared heat and vitamin infusions. She comes back to the states and her Doctor is quite surprised when she is cancer free...
They end up saying that in America the infrared treatment is available but only with chemo, as they don’t want any success with any voodoo treatments that big pharma can’t profit off of. Further, the alternative treatment plans in America that do have some success usually get discredited as not a large enough profile or a fluke. Larger institutions are even not doing their clients justice in doing things like having a dish of candy in the lobby (as you mentioned sugar feeds the cancers).
I’m sure that there are plenty of honest folks out to do a good job and cure the diseases that plague all the people that are suffering but as long as the cure isn’t profitable for some it doesn’t stand a chance and doesn’t get any good publicity.
I lost both parents to cancer in 1969. Since they were separated, I only got to watch my Mother's experience, but that was more than enough for this 13 year-old. It's depressing to think of how many resources, time (our most precious resource) and lives have been spent chasing one model of cancer when there was another one that could/should have been investigated.
In terms of the standard cancer treatments, I'm of same or similar mind. If there are standard treatments for "easy to cure" cancers with great long-term track records, I'd considered those. Otherwise, no, and carry on.
Interesting anecdotes amongst older expats here in Thailand. Even though treatment is world-class here as much as anywhere 1st world, and a fraction of the cost, many forego them anyway even if they have international health insurance. (International health insurance is really cost-effective, covers cancer, and ALL policies I've ever looked at cover you worldwide with a single excluded country: USA. That gives you a clue as to how effed...)
So, again, anecdotes...so there are those who eventually die, but had decent quality of life here until that point, and those who basically just upped their walking the beach, swimming in the ocean, sun exposure on bare skin...and for many of the older dudes...indulging in the 20-sumthin' set if you know what I mean...kicking quality of life up a notch or three...hey, give a dyin' man a break!
Options...options...
And as you would expect, there are stories about how cancers that got ignored, just went away.
I've been trying to make sense of the COVID-19 pandemic by considering it as a large complex system. As more evidence emerges, it seems increasingly plausible that this is a military operation. Here are some possible reasons why:
• The military has been studying biological attacks for decades and has funded research labs both at home and abroad.
• Preventing a biological attack is near impossible, there are only defensive options available such as vaccines, decontamination, filtration and prophylactics.
• Developing targeted vaccines quickly is critical for biowarfare.
• Military research into rapid vaccine development (i.e., mRNA) has been underway for many years and receives significant funding.
• To field test the effectiveness of an mRNA vaccine, a pathogen with recognizable symptoms but low lethality could be released on an enemy's territory, especially near one of their biolabs.
• Before releasing the pathogen, the vaccine must be ready for rapid deployment.
• Once released, the vaccine can be tested on an enormous cohort of people; hence the need for mandates, coercion, funding, propaganda, prevention of treatments (to ensure the infection spreads and vaccine effectiveness is not impacted)*, etc.
If this scenario were true, it would explain the responses of governments and organizations. There are likely many culpable people involved, and far more useful idiots, but I doubt that those that were the instigators of these horrors will ever be brought to justice.
Your scenario verges on fantasy. At least as we would have thought about it 20 years ago. Today, I'm not so sure. Who knows what's going on now? What with all the lack of transparency about minor things, I can't imagine what might be going on with major issues.
You mentioned re: Fauci "So why did he say hydroxychloroquine doesn’t work for SARS-CoV-2 when he knew it did or at least very likely might? In the end, it turned out to be an effective frontline treatment." Is it true that introducing a 'vaccine' is illegal if there is an existing, superior treatment?
Could that also be the case for how assiduously vitamin D itself was buried - a patent, willful ignorance of grade 8 science and our hard-won lessons via TB sanatoriums?
Is this why they insisted on legal immunity? Should an action be brought against them, for simple criminal acts? Why sue them when they should be indicted, tried and sentenced - by their colleges on up to San Quentin.
Millions died from a proscribed Big Pharma experiment - that's pure crime.
An Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) cannot be obtained if there is a drug or therapy that works. In the early days of Covid, hydroxychloroquine was on the formulary as a treatment. As soon as the vaccines reached a point in their development at which an EUA could be applied for, hydroxychloroquine was removed. And Fauci et al began badmouthing it.
I believe the problem is that if there is a treatment that works, the FDA and CDC (or whoever makes these decisions) cannot give any drug an Emergency Use Authorization label - so they had to say that hydroxychoriquin and ivermectin didn't work - or they couldn't have made the jabs EUA protected. Paxlovid still has EUA status too, I think. It's just all criminal.
Mar 11, 2023·edited Mar 11, 2023Liked by Michael Eades
Exactly correct, Marcia.
It can be approved, ultimately, if other treatments exist—even better ones—but that requires the standard course for approval (years and many millions).
At this point, it's a foregone conclusion that none of those "vaccines" could ever get standard approval, on at least 2 fronts: not effective and too harmful.
EUA was the only way to do it legally, and that absolutely required the claim that other treatments were not effective.
So, ironically, in order to do it "legally," they had to lie and commit fraud and other crimes. So in a sense, it's legalized murder. Students of the WWII German NAZIs might recognize this as similar to what happened at the Wannsee Conference in 1942, where the murderous and atrocious actions being taken had to be put into official and legal terminology.
"Legalization."
A bright side or silver lining to Covid is that a lot of this sort of conspiratorial behavior and action has been exposed. But when you see that nothing much happens in terms of justice rendered, you may understand the deep depths of the swamp [that Trump was supposed to drain]. And indeed, the recent revelations over Jan 6th and the exculpatory video footage aired by Tucker Carlson flipped a light switch on a bunch of other cockroaches; namely, Republican lawmakers, who didn't like Carlson showing the American people video that contradicts the narrative in plain-ass view.
And then you begin to understand what REALLY happened to Trump 2020 and how in the world we have what we have in that White House.
Want even more Clown World? You might not be able to contain your laughter over this one. Carlson, again, different topic, but the same (if you know what I mean).
Wow - thanks, Richard. Have read your stuff for years - very pleased to to have you say I'm correct. Now if only I could get my many acquaintances to figure it out . . . . course, the real credit goes to Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying where I first heard about the EUA strictures against any other kind of medicine working as a cure.
I -a lifelong Democrat (but no longer) - was also incredulous at the attacks on January 6th - that I'd been predicting for weeks. What confused me was - if I knew, how come those bozos in Washington didn't? I'm sure I wasn't the only one - and clearly they'd done less than nothing to prepare.
As for the Tucker Carlson clip - all I can say is "good grief." There is no sanity left and I'm mightily sick and tired of those arrogant, righteous women who call men transphobic for questioning whether or not a man can get pregnant. Makes me slightly nauseous - alongside totally furious.
My late father was a doctor. He never wanted all the advanced treatments etc for anything and he said it amazed him that patients wanted these therapies because all it did was bankrupt you and guarantee your last days were miserable. He only pushed for the aggressive stuff in young patients. Many of his doctor friends were of the same opinion-they refused chemo etc. Non doctors have way too much faith in medical treatments.
At the same time, most people discount the importance of diet. And yet...take your dog or cat to the vet and the first question is what are you feeding your pet? It is astounding that doctors rarely ask you and when they do give advice, it's all this SAD diet or low fat nonsense.
A mentor of mine told me that he fed his dog an all raw meat diet, and that dog is the greatest looking, smartest German Shepherd I have ever seen. He commented that the dog pooped very little as the food was so nutritious, there literally was little waste. That got me thinking that fiber logically is useless to eat because you don't digest it.
And yet that mentor is soft and fat and eats too much bread, while his dog is just the most glorious living specimen. Ripples with energy and muscles!!!!
My son's dog, which I've written about in The Arrow previously, had been on an all-meat diet for the last few years. He died a few weeks ago at age 15, which is a long, long life for a huge dog. Bear (he was big and coal black) weighed in excess of 100 pounds.
I hadn't heard of this doc until you posted this comment. I checked him out. Looks like he was clamoring for an RCT to prove the efficacy of his treatment regimen, and when one was finally done, the patients on his regimen lived for only 1/4 of the time similar patients did on traditional therapy.
Consequently, I wouldn't rely too much on what he says about ketogenic diets and cancer. One of his patients--probably the one the doc above mentioned--developed glioblastoma multiforma GB), a deadly brain cancer. He did undergo surgery and chemotherapy, but so did countless other people, all of whom died in just a few months. Seyfried's patient was a young man when he came down with GB. He's survived for many years--which is unheard of with GB--and was able to marry and father two children. He's still alive.
I can understand your skepticism about Dr. Gonzalez. Unfortunately, what happened to Dr. Gonzalez was not unlike what has happened to so many doctors today who are using repurposed drugs for COVID. He was demonized. Dr.
Gonzalez wrote a detailed book describing the extraordinary irregularities and unethical, if not corrupt behavior that governed his NIH trial on the part of both the federal government and Columbia University, who administered the trial I hope you’ll read it. It’s a real eye-opener.
What Went Wrong: The Truth Behind the Clinical Trial of the Enzyme Treatment of Cancer https://a.co/d/019F3zY
I had a primary cancer of my lung that metastasized to the liver in 1989. I did no chemo or radiationI only followed the protocol that Dr Gonzalez prescribed. I know that’s only an N of one but how many people with liver metastasis with or without conventional treatment are around over 30 years later?
I really got to know Dr. Gonzalez over the 25 years I was his patient and a more dedicated and uncorruptible man of integrity and brilliance I have never met. He was destroyed by the medical establishment because his approach to cancer was so radically different and so threatening to the cancer establishment and to the prevailing ideology.
He wrote many books the one that probably gives the best overview of the theory behind his practice is this one: The
Regarding the poll, my first though yesterday was I can't participate because as you know, I dumped booze entirely coming up on 7 months now, after 2 decades of "too much too often."
And it excludes nicotine...
But then I rethought. As a stand-in for the booze, I guess, I became a really serious coffee drinker, like all the damn time. Liters per day.
I cut way, way down on that because of your mention some issues back at how coffee was disturbing your sleep. Sleep improved.
But then I realized there was a confounding variable. It was about the time I emailed you about Yacon, and I was eating the tubers, and I did so because appetite had gone way down, looked into it, and turned out the experimental results were similar [and profound] to Wegovy.
So there's a possibility that the Yacon was helpful in that cutting down, and I have another data point and that's since I moved from Phuket and hit the road, and it was a 2-week ordeal before settling in a new place, I had neither the tubers nor the syrup (which I don't like taking anyway...I much prefer the cool, crisp, curious flavor, and mild sweetness of the tubers) and my coffee consumption has shot way up again, and I'm on about the 3rd day in a row of getting up at 03.30 and just staying up and getting to the desk/laptop. (That marathon run-on sentence there is coffee fueled, now 4 hours and many cups in this morning.)
So, I gave the poll a "somewhat" and it's time to source those tubers here in Pattaya.
Incidentally, Yacon is a thing here in Thailand. Imported from Peru, they grow it. In fact, I was back in the village in Sisaket province where I built a house and discovered that one of the villagers grows them, enormous ones (but they don't have the quality of flavor the medium-size do).
Here's a cool video about bạw h̄ima (บัวหิมะ translates to “snow lotus.”) here in Thailand. You'll understand it, even if you don't understand a word of Thai.
When I did a quick rundown of the 52 studies posted on PubMed about GLP-1 receptor agonists and addiction, I did notice a couple on nicotine. But don't remember any on caffeine.
Watched the video. Is that the Yacon tuber they're talking about?
I thought I heard her say "yacon" right near the start, but I just figured it was a Thai word that sounded the same. Makes me want to try the tubers. For taste, if for nothing else. Sort of reminds me of jicama, which I dearly love to munch on.
Dr. Eades, regarding Keto diet and cancer, I'll be curious about your thoughts. In my opinion, I think following the Keto diet is difficult. Keeping carbs to 20g or less per day is extremely restrictive. Also, does the body get all of the nutrients it needs to heal itself from food or does a person have to supplement on the Keto diet? Then, how absorbable are supplements? I thought whole foods were a better source for nutrition than supplements even with the additional few carbs. Dr. Terry Wahls, you likely have heard of her - I believe she's in the "low carb space", recommends 9 cups of vegetables (3 c cruciferous, 3 c colorful, and 3 c leafy greens per day) for the body's self-healing. I've been following this part of her protocol and carbs are around 70-100g per day which is still relatively low compared to the standard American diet, but would not be "Keto", so I assume glucose is still the main source for fuel even with that amount of carbs. For what it's worth, I have been eating a "loose" low carb diet for more than 10 years. I felt very healthy, maintained a healthy weight, was an active tennis player. I'm 57. I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer Sept 2022, completed the chemo treatment and I'm still pursuing alternative treatments because of the high rate of recurrence likely with this cancer. I was sorry to read about MD's sister...we all know people in that boat and it's paradoxical, treatment has improved in some ways, and yet, it hasn't improved in other ways. For the amount of money thrown at this disease, I would think we'd have better statistics. I enjoy your newsletter. Thanks for writing and sharing your perspective. All the best to you and MD!
The ketogenic diet is difficult to stick with...sort of. It takes some getting used to, but I find it pretty easy to stay one. Years ago I blogged about a study from Germany in which people with far gone cancers were offered a ketogenic diet as their last hope. Some dropped out simply because they didn't like the idea of avoiding sweets. Those who remained on the program did well. I've been unable to find follow up info on this study, but I'll keep after it. You can read about it here in the old Time Magazine archives: https://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1662484,00.html
Really enjoyed reading The Arrow this week, especially about Covid-19 as here in the UK a lot is being published in the Telegraph with the WhatsApp messages from Matt Hancock, the health minister during the ‘pandemic’ - very shocking. It should be in the World’s press.
So interesting about cancer. I found only one typo re Peter Gøtzsche: "He just published a piece on it for the Institute for Scientific Freedom. Her’s how it starts:”
Do you still have time with all the Arrows and writing the new book to look at your proteinpower.com emails ? I sent you one a week ago about a little problem I had with Substack, and also my success making L.reuteri yoghurt.
Hey Anne, I've been swamped lately with a couple of projects MD and I are trying to put to bed, so we can focus full time on finishing PP 2.0. Yes, I have been slack in catching up on emails. I'll search yours out and respond.
Had I not run out of time and length, I would have included a bit about Matt Hancock in this past week's Arrow. It is a tribute to his stupidity that he would give all his WhatsApp text messages to Isabel Oakeshott to do with whatever she pleased. Given the content of them, which he had to have known (he did write them, after all), how dumb was that move? Of course, he's no genius or he wouldn't have been playing kissy face with his inamorata in a frigging elevator. Every moron knows they have CCTV in them. Geez...
Best one yet, Mike - love the covid stuff, the cancer stuff, I subscribe to Zoe who's such a great researcher (and all-round nice person) and then there's Doc Watson - great all round. All that and only one typo - or maybe I raced through too fast and missed something.
Thank you for writing about cancer. I have an appointment with my oncologist next week and I’m giving him my Dear John letter. I am unwilling to live with the horrible side effects of endocrine therapy for the next 10 years and simply live my life. Especially when my pharmacist friend told me the number needed to treat was in the upper 160s. I surrendered my breasts and ovaries to cancer, and that’s enough. The low carb lifestyle has been a challenge, but with what I assume you’re going to continue to write about, I will give it another whirl. Look forward to your newsletter every week.
I watched a documentary on Amazon a few years ago called “Cancer Can Be Killed” a Jeff Witzeman Film. (Just checked and it is listed now as “currently unavailable.” Anyhow he goes on to say that his wife has bladder cancer and the Doctor wants to remove her bladder. They do some research and her sister had been “cured” in Europe at an alternative health clinic. She ends up opting to do the same. The flight, hotel, treatment I think were about $28k and they cured her cancer with infrared heat and vitamin infusions. She comes back to the states and her Doctor is quite surprised when she is cancer free...
They end up saying that in America the infrared treatment is available but only with chemo, as they don’t want any success with any voodoo treatments that big pharma can’t profit off of. Further, the alternative treatment plans in America that do have some success usually get discredited as not a large enough profile or a fluke. Larger institutions are even not doing their clients justice in doing things like having a dish of candy in the lobby (as you mentioned sugar feeds the cancers).
I’m sure that there are plenty of honest folks out to do a good job and cure the diseases that plague all the people that are suffering but as long as the cure isn’t profitable for some it doesn’t stand a chance and doesn’t get any good publicity.
Duane,
Here's the website for that documentary:
https://cancercanbekilled.com/
Compelling 2-min trailer. It's available for purchase or rent via Apple, Google Play, or the producers themselves.
Searched the top torrent sites for those who cheat when others aren't looking, no joy.
I lost both parents to cancer in 1969. Since they were separated, I only got to watch my Mother's experience, but that was more than enough for this 13 year-old. It's depressing to think of how many resources, time (our most precious resource) and lives have been spent chasing one model of cancer when there was another one that could/should have been investigated.
In terms of the standard cancer treatments, I'm of same or similar mind. If there are standard treatments for "easy to cure" cancers with great long-term track records, I'd considered those. Otherwise, no, and carry on.
Interesting anecdotes amongst older expats here in Thailand. Even though treatment is world-class here as much as anywhere 1st world, and a fraction of the cost, many forego them anyway even if they have international health insurance. (International health insurance is really cost-effective, covers cancer, and ALL policies I've ever looked at cover you worldwide with a single excluded country: USA. That gives you a clue as to how effed...)
So, again, anecdotes...so there are those who eventually die, but had decent quality of life here until that point, and those who basically just upped their walking the beach, swimming in the ocean, sun exposure on bare skin...and for many of the older dudes...indulging in the 20-sumthin' set if you know what I mean...kicking quality of life up a notch or three...hey, give a dyin' man a break!
Options...options...
And as you would expect, there are stories about how cancers that got ignored, just went away.
Thanks for the musical interludes. I enjoy them greatly.
I've been trying to make sense of the COVID-19 pandemic by considering it as a large complex system. As more evidence emerges, it seems increasingly plausible that this is a military operation. Here are some possible reasons why:
• The military has been studying biological attacks for decades and has funded research labs both at home and abroad.
• Preventing a biological attack is near impossible, there are only defensive options available such as vaccines, decontamination, filtration and prophylactics.
• Developing targeted vaccines quickly is critical for biowarfare.
• Military research into rapid vaccine development (i.e., mRNA) has been underway for many years and receives significant funding.
• To field test the effectiveness of an mRNA vaccine, a pathogen with recognizable symptoms but low lethality could be released on an enemy's territory, especially near one of their biolabs.
• Before releasing the pathogen, the vaccine must be ready for rapid deployment.
• Once released, the vaccine can be tested on an enormous cohort of people; hence the need for mandates, coercion, funding, propaganda, prevention of treatments (to ensure the infection spreads and vaccine effectiveness is not impacted)*, etc.
If this scenario were true, it would explain the responses of governments and organizations. There are likely many culpable people involved, and far more useful idiots, but I doubt that those that were the instigators of these horrors will ever be brought to justice.
* minor edit to improve clarity
Your scenario verges on fantasy. At least as we would have thought about it 20 years ago. Today, I'm not so sure. Who knows what's going on now? What with all the lack of transparency about minor things, I can't imagine what might be going on with major issues.
You mentioned re: Fauci "So why did he say hydroxychloroquine doesn’t work for SARS-CoV-2 when he knew it did or at least very likely might? In the end, it turned out to be an effective frontline treatment." Is it true that introducing a 'vaccine' is illegal if there is an existing, superior treatment?
Could that also be the case for how assiduously vitamin D itself was buried - a patent, willful ignorance of grade 8 science and our hard-won lessons via TB sanatoriums?
Is this why they insisted on legal immunity? Should an action be brought against them, for simple criminal acts? Why sue them when they should be indicted, tried and sentenced - by their colleges on up to San Quentin.
Millions died from a proscribed Big Pharma experiment - that's pure crime.
An Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) cannot be obtained if there is a drug or therapy that works. In the early days of Covid, hydroxychloroquine was on the formulary as a treatment. As soon as the vaccines reached a point in their development at which an EUA could be applied for, hydroxychloroquine was removed. And Fauci et al began badmouthing it.
I believe the problem is that if there is a treatment that works, the FDA and CDC (or whoever makes these decisions) cannot give any drug an Emergency Use Authorization label - so they had to say that hydroxychoriquin and ivermectin didn't work - or they couldn't have made the jabs EUA protected. Paxlovid still has EUA status too, I think. It's just all criminal.
Exactly correct, Marcia.
It can be approved, ultimately, if other treatments exist—even better ones—but that requires the standard course for approval (years and many millions).
At this point, it's a foregone conclusion that none of those "vaccines" could ever get standard approval, on at least 2 fronts: not effective and too harmful.
EUA was the only way to do it legally, and that absolutely required the claim that other treatments were not effective.
So, ironically, in order to do it "legally," they had to lie and commit fraud and other crimes. So in a sense, it's legalized murder. Students of the WWII German NAZIs might recognize this as similar to what happened at the Wannsee Conference in 1942, where the murderous and atrocious actions being taken had to be put into official and legal terminology.
"Legalization."
A bright side or silver lining to Covid is that a lot of this sort of conspiratorial behavior and action has been exposed. But when you see that nothing much happens in terms of justice rendered, you may understand the deep depths of the swamp [that Trump was supposed to drain]. And indeed, the recent revelations over Jan 6th and the exculpatory video footage aired by Tucker Carlson flipped a light switch on a bunch of other cockroaches; namely, Republican lawmakers, who didn't like Carlson showing the American people video that contradicts the narrative in plain-ass view.
And then you begin to understand what REALLY happened to Trump 2020 and how in the world we have what we have in that White House.
Want even more Clown World? You might not be able to contain your laughter over this one. Carlson, again, different topic, but the same (if you know what I mean).
https://youtu.be/Od2xo18vrQU
Wow - thanks, Richard. Have read your stuff for years - very pleased to to have you say I'm correct. Now if only I could get my many acquaintances to figure it out . . . . course, the real credit goes to Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying where I first heard about the EUA strictures against any other kind of medicine working as a cure.
I -a lifelong Democrat (but no longer) - was also incredulous at the attacks on January 6th - that I'd been predicting for weeks. What confused me was - if I knew, how come those bozos in Washington didn't? I'm sure I wasn't the only one - and clearly they'd done less than nothing to prepare.
As for the Tucker Carlson clip - all I can say is "good grief." There is no sanity left and I'm mightily sick and tired of those arrogant, righteous women who call men transphobic for questioning whether or not a man can get pregnant. Makes me slightly nauseous - alongside totally furious.
Thanks again for the comments.
My late father was a doctor. He never wanted all the advanced treatments etc for anything and he said it amazed him that patients wanted these therapies because all it did was bankrupt you and guarantee your last days were miserable. He only pushed for the aggressive stuff in young patients. Many of his doctor friends were of the same opinion-they refused chemo etc. Non doctors have way too much faith in medical treatments.
At the same time, most people discount the importance of diet. And yet...take your dog or cat to the vet and the first question is what are you feeding your pet? It is astounding that doctors rarely ask you and when they do give advice, it's all this SAD diet or low fat nonsense.
I quite agree with your dad and with the most appropriate question vets ask.
A mentor of mine told me that he fed his dog an all raw meat diet, and that dog is the greatest looking, smartest German Shepherd I have ever seen. He commented that the dog pooped very little as the food was so nutritious, there literally was little waste. That got me thinking that fiber logically is useless to eat because you don't digest it.
And yet that mentor is soft and fat and eats too much bread, while his dog is just the most glorious living specimen. Ripples with energy and muscles!!!!
Some people just can't connect the dots.
My son's dog, which I've written about in The Arrow previously, had been on an all-meat diet for the last few years. He died a few weeks ago at age 15, which is a long, long life for a huge dog. Bear (he was big and coal black) weighed in excess of 100 pounds.
Here’s an interview with the incredible doctor, who cured me and thousands of others of metastatic cancer. He was not a big fan of a ketogenic diet for cancer. https://youtu.be/t0i-AdCm-Mg?list=UUwbrSKPyqtgolrRKcrfjRFQ
I hadn't heard of this doc until you posted this comment. I checked him out. Looks like he was clamoring for an RCT to prove the efficacy of his treatment regimen, and when one was finally done, the patients on his regimen lived for only 1/4 of the time similar patients did on traditional therapy.
Consequently, I wouldn't rely too much on what he says about ketogenic diets and cancer. One of his patients--probably the one the doc above mentioned--developed glioblastoma multiforma GB), a deadly brain cancer. He did undergo surgery and chemotherapy, but so did countless other people, all of whom died in just a few months. Seyfried's patient was a young man when he came down with GB. He's survived for many years--which is unheard of with GB--and was able to marry and father two children. He's still alive.
I can understand your skepticism about Dr. Gonzalez. Unfortunately, what happened to Dr. Gonzalez was not unlike what has happened to so many doctors today who are using repurposed drugs for COVID. He was demonized. Dr.
Gonzalez wrote a detailed book describing the extraordinary irregularities and unethical, if not corrupt behavior that governed his NIH trial on the part of both the federal government and Columbia University, who administered the trial I hope you’ll read it. It’s a real eye-opener.
What Went Wrong: The Truth Behind the Clinical Trial of the Enzyme Treatment of Cancer https://a.co/d/019F3zY
I had a primary cancer of my lung that metastasized to the liver in 1989. I did no chemo or radiationI only followed the protocol that Dr Gonzalez prescribed. I know that’s only an N of one but how many people with liver metastasis with or without conventional treatment are around over 30 years later?
I really got to know Dr. Gonzalez over the 25 years I was his patient and a more dedicated and uncorruptible man of integrity and brilliance I have never met. He was destroyed by the medical establishment because his approach to cancer was so radically different and so threatening to the cancer establishment and to the prevailing ideology.
He wrote many books the one that probably gives the best overview of the theory behind his practice is this one: The
Trophoblast and the Origins of Cancer
https://a.co/d/0twrjEs
He also wrote two volumes with detailed case histories of over 100 of his patients who outlived their prognosis by many years.
Hey Mike,
Regarding the poll, my first though yesterday was I can't participate because as you know, I dumped booze entirely coming up on 7 months now, after 2 decades of "too much too often."
And it excludes nicotine...
But then I rethought. As a stand-in for the booze, I guess, I became a really serious coffee drinker, like all the damn time. Liters per day.
I cut way, way down on that because of your mention some issues back at how coffee was disturbing your sleep. Sleep improved.
But then I realized there was a confounding variable. It was about the time I emailed you about Yacon, and I was eating the tubers, and I did so because appetite had gone way down, looked into it, and turned out the experimental results were similar [and profound] to Wegovy.
So there's a possibility that the Yacon was helpful in that cutting down, and I have another data point and that's since I moved from Phuket and hit the road, and it was a 2-week ordeal before settling in a new place, I had neither the tubers nor the syrup (which I don't like taking anyway...I much prefer the cool, crisp, curious flavor, and mild sweetness of the tubers) and my coffee consumption has shot way up again, and I'm on about the 3rd day in a row of getting up at 03.30 and just staying up and getting to the desk/laptop. (That marathon run-on sentence there is coffee fueled, now 4 hours and many cups in this morning.)
So, I gave the poll a "somewhat" and it's time to source those tubers here in Pattaya.
Incidentally, Yacon is a thing here in Thailand. Imported from Peru, they grow it. In fact, I was back in the village in Sisaket province where I built a house and discovered that one of the villagers grows them, enormous ones (but they don't have the quality of flavor the medium-size do).
Here's a cool video about bạw h̄ima (บัวหิมะ translates to “snow lotus.”) here in Thailand. You'll understand it, even if you don't understand a word of Thai.
https://youtu.be/r4Xa3J1Uzl8
Cheers.
When I did a quick rundown of the 52 studies posted on PubMed about GLP-1 receptor agonists and addiction, I did notice a couple on nicotine. But don't remember any on caffeine.
Watched the video. Is that the Yacon tuber they're talking about?
Sure is. In fact, if you listen carefully at the beginning of the video, you'll hear her say "yacon."
I thought I heard her say "yacon" right near the start, but I just figured it was a Thai word that sounded the same. Makes me want to try the tubers. For taste, if for nothing else. Sort of reminds me of jicama, which I dearly love to munch on.
It is very similar to raw jicama, which my mom discovered years ago and makes as side dishes in various ways. I love it too.
Dr. Eades, regarding Keto diet and cancer, I'll be curious about your thoughts. In my opinion, I think following the Keto diet is difficult. Keeping carbs to 20g or less per day is extremely restrictive. Also, does the body get all of the nutrients it needs to heal itself from food or does a person have to supplement on the Keto diet? Then, how absorbable are supplements? I thought whole foods were a better source for nutrition than supplements even with the additional few carbs. Dr. Terry Wahls, you likely have heard of her - I believe she's in the "low carb space", recommends 9 cups of vegetables (3 c cruciferous, 3 c colorful, and 3 c leafy greens per day) for the body's self-healing. I've been following this part of her protocol and carbs are around 70-100g per day which is still relatively low compared to the standard American diet, but would not be "Keto", so I assume glucose is still the main source for fuel even with that amount of carbs. For what it's worth, I have been eating a "loose" low carb diet for more than 10 years. I felt very healthy, maintained a healthy weight, was an active tennis player. I'm 57. I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer Sept 2022, completed the chemo treatment and I'm still pursuing alternative treatments because of the high rate of recurrence likely with this cancer. I was sorry to read about MD's sister...we all know people in that boat and it's paradoxical, treatment has improved in some ways, and yet, it hasn't improved in other ways. For the amount of money thrown at this disease, I would think we'd have better statistics. I enjoy your newsletter. Thanks for writing and sharing your perspective. All the best to you and MD!
All the best back to you as well.
The ketogenic diet is difficult to stick with...sort of. It takes some getting used to, but I find it pretty easy to stay one. Years ago I blogged about a study from Germany in which people with far gone cancers were offered a ketogenic diet as their last hope. Some dropped out simply because they didn't like the idea of avoiding sweets. Those who remained on the program did well. I've been unable to find follow up info on this study, but I'll keep after it. You can read about it here in the old Time Magazine archives: https://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1662484,00.html
I saw Doc Watson in the time frame of the videos you featured...amazing performance!
I love him. I love his story. And I love his music. What more can I say?
Hi Mike,
Really enjoyed reading The Arrow this week, especially about Covid-19 as here in the UK a lot is being published in the Telegraph with the WhatsApp messages from Matt Hancock, the health minister during the ‘pandemic’ - very shocking. It should be in the World’s press.
So interesting about cancer. I found only one typo re Peter Gøtzsche: "He just published a piece on it for the Institute for Scientific Freedom. Her’s how it starts:”
Do you still have time with all the Arrows and writing the new book to look at your proteinpower.com emails ? I sent you one a week ago about a little problem I had with Substack, and also my success making L.reuteri yoghurt.
all the best,
Anne
Hey Anne, I've been swamped lately with a couple of projects MD and I are trying to put to bed, so we can focus full time on finishing PP 2.0. Yes, I have been slack in catching up on emails. I'll search yours out and respond.
Had I not run out of time and length, I would have included a bit about Matt Hancock in this past week's Arrow. It is a tribute to his stupidity that he would give all his WhatsApp text messages to Isabel Oakeshott to do with whatever she pleased. Given the content of them, which he had to have known (he did write them, after all), how dumb was that move? Of course, he's no genius or he wouldn't have been playing kissy face with his inamorata in a frigging elevator. Every moron knows they have CCTV in them. Geez...
Thanks for the typo heads up. I'll fix it now.
Best one yet, Mike - love the covid stuff, the cancer stuff, I subscribe to Zoe who's such a great researcher (and all-round nice person) and then there's Doc Watson - great all round. All that and only one typo - or maybe I raced through too fast and missed something.
Thanks, as always, for your work,
Marcia
" . . . so it they stopped her chemo . . ."
so they stopped her chemo
Got the typo fixed. Thanks again for being my copy editor.
More than happy to do it!
-M
For that, I am forever grateful.