Priorities In The War · Cancer Warriors

Priorities In The War

This is just a piggy-back off of Bernardo’s recent post, and I’m hopeful it can serve as supplemental to the information that he already provided in it, as I believe his post was articulate, detailed, well thought out, and very helpful.

I thoroughly appreciated reading it!

I don’t get on here that much recently as things in my personal life have ramped up a lot, but as a refresher, I started an account here because my mom and dad have cancer (my mom’s was stage IV small cell ovarian cancer and my dad’s was less serious — papillary thyroid cancer which they were able to remove via surgery)

I wanted to learn, and hoped that Lord willing, I could be of help to others who have/had cancer as well.

I am in contact with Bernardo off this platform here and there, and appreciate his dedication to this as well. I recognized that he had spent hours and hours and hours of research as well, and we have bounced things off of each other on occasion.

To the point.

With my mom, (as I pretty much did all the research and my parents trusted the results—which was very humbling and also could become very stressful for me because it felt like her success was largely in my hands….this led to the necessity to remind myself of the basics which I’ll explain in a moment and resting in the Lord as ultimately in control)

Through all the time I spent studying, I was very intentional not to get lost in the tunnel vision of “cancer only”.

(I’ll explain later—this is important, and I believe Bernardo did a good job mentioning this)

I wholeheartedly believe cancer is metabolic, and I believe that genetic mutations merely make certain people more susceptible to cancer due to the body’s normal defenses, which would protect from mitochondrial damage, being compromised, (e.g. BRCA-1, BRCA-2, Tp53)

These genetic mutations do not cause cancer, they simply compromise the body’s natural defenses to damaged mitochondria. It is the damage to the mitochondria that leads to dysfunctional mitochondrial activity and insufficient oxphos.

People can have these mutations and never develop cancer, but mitochondrial damage is always present where cancer is, and many people without these mutations develop cancer, with damaged mitochondria as the hallmark.

(I’m an electrician, so a simple analogy I can give is this: Surge protection in an electrical panel can protect sensitive appliances during a high surge event, but the absence of the surge protection doesn’t cause the damage to the appliances, the surge does. Removing surge protection just increases the likelihood of damaged appliances.)

With my mom, I was careful not to get laser focused on anything and everything that said “anti-cancer effects”.

Some meds, supplements, etc. showed elevated risk of accelerated tumor growth in certain cancers even though they said “anti-cancer” effects.

This does not mean cancer is genetic, but it does mean that the body employs different pathways in different areas (pathways in the brain are not the same pathways in the ovaries, prostate, etc.)

Certain drugs/supplements that work for one cancer may not work for another because the pathways that shuttle drugs/supps to one area of the body are different than the ones shuttling drugs/supps to another area. In my mind, it’s not necessarily genetic in the traditional sense of the term in the context of cancer, but body makeup or physiology.

So, to be taking multiple things that don’t even reach a certain cancerous area in the body due to poor uptake in particular pathways would be a waste of time, waste of resources, waste of energy (taking all those things is draining 😔), and not conducive to actually fighting the cancer, assisting the body, or supporting a positive outlook. It could also be an added burden on organs.

Next, after focusing only on drugs or supps that were promising in the particular pathways used for fuel/nutrients to the tumor microenvironment in my mom’s specific cancer, I focused on organ support.

This is big because organ dysfunction can lead to a host of issues that can exacerbate a tumor microenvironment.

It also can be a secondary avenue of health complications that could end up becoming more pressing/dire than the cancer you’re seeking to fight. (We learned as we went on this)

I made sure that nothing was a waste to take, it would be optimal for her cancer’s pathways, that it wouldn’t pose a heightened risk for her normal bodily functions and organ health (outside of GI upset, as I believe almost everything elevated the side effects of GI upset unfortunately).

A helpful list:

1. What causes cancer? (When overwhelmed)

2. ⁠How does cancer thrive? (When overwhelmed)

3. ⁠Remove the ingredients for its nourishment.

4. ⁠Be specific to the cancer at hand.

5. ⁠Don’t lose sight of the big picture. (Cancer is the war, but there are many little battles with cause/effects with meds/supps that can lead to a cascade of other issues)

6. ⁠Remember to step back and remind yourself of the basics when you get overwhelmed.

If you understand what causes and drives cancer, it really is simple. The “chess” comes down to supporting the body holistically while fighting the war.

7. ⁠Don’t have a “throw the kitchen sink at it” approach with meds/supps or timing.

Timing was crucial for certain meds, therapies, as well as for fasts.

We learned that HBOT, IV Vit C, DON, etc. were optimal when timed correctly around her chemo.

If you are undergoing chemo, you also need to do a quick study of your whole protocol, and what can make the chemo “fallout” worse, or can heightened risk to organs. I believe like 97% (not a strict percentage) of her meds/supps were very safe and we were particular about dosage as well, but they can pose a risk when used alongside chemo. Some enhance the sensitivity of cancer cells to chemo, some increase sensitivity of organs to chemo.

HBOT, IV VIT C, etc. should also be timed around this.

This can all be quickly done by plugging your protocol into Grok, and asking about synergy with chemo, and which ones to potentially “pause” during chemo. I always put guardrails in place for my prompts by saying something like “evidence based, observational/repeatable in vitro/in vivo, dismissing popular mainstream medical dogma unless it aligns with these parameters.”

We also learned that starting a water only fast one or two days before chemo, and during the 3 days of chemo was exploiting cancer cells’ weaknesses against them while utilizing healthy cells’ proper functioning for their protection.

Chemo targets fast dividing cells, and when someone takes chemo, there is a lot of friendly fire for healthy cells.

If you are in a fasted state, you are in ketosis (given you’ve fasted long enough beforehand or that you’re on a ketogenic diet), this means that your healthy cells are already used to using ketones for ATP while cancerous cells cannot, and when you are fasting, your healthy cells slow down metabolism and go into kind of a “hibernated state”. Since chemo targets fast dividing cells, many healthy cells are therefore protected from its harmful effects while cancerous cells continue on in fast metabolism and taking more of the chemo than normal.

Not only this, but it is also protective against chemo-induced neuropathy as it is protective of healthy cells.

(If someone cannot fast and must eat, a liquid diet of broths and such can be implemented while keeping calorie intake under 500 a day during chemo—typically people are not hungry during chemo, so this takes advantage of that side effect)

I hope this is helpful, and please add to this if you desire. I’m still learning myself.

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