Re: OT - 18 months and I'm still alive

2018-02-02 Thread @lbutlr
On 2 Feb 2018, at 13:44, Marc Perkel supp...@junkemailfilter.com> wrote:
> The keto diet is very counterintuitive. Bacon good, fruit bad. You have to 
> eat fat to lose fat. But I'm losing weight and women should find me even more 
> irresistible. It's a diet that seems to work well for anyone contemplating 
> dieting.

First, congratulations, if that is appropriate. I forgot to check Miss Manners 
on the protocol for "You aren't dead yet" but congratulations seems in order.

The zero carb diet is one that several friends (and at least two family 
members) have done. One is a 96 year old friend of the family who is still 
going strong and still working, he's been carb free since the mid 1960s. Others 
have used it sporadically as a weight loss regime.

The trouble with it, of course, is that you pretty much have to cut all carbs 
and that means no packaged foods (even sausage often contains carbs) and of 
course no breads, grains, or a lot of vegetables (corn, carrots, peas, and many 
more).

But, if you can manage to live off steak and eggs and bacon and a few vitamins, 
you will shed weight at an alarming rate (alarming to most Doctors who are 
still in the 'fat and salt are bad for you' camp).

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Competent? How are we going to compete with that?



OT - 18 months and I'm still alive

2018-02-02 Thread Marc Perkel

hello everyone,

I haven't been posting much here lately but I want to let everyone know 
that I'm still alive. I sent this out to my list of friends. Feel free 
to share it. And I'm still filtering spam.


Hello friends and family,

As of today I am 18 months in since I was diagnosed with stage 4 lung 
cancer on Aug 1 2016. And I'm still alive and feel mostly normal. Back 
when I was diagnosed I didn't expect to still be around this long 
especially considering that I have refused all conventional treatment. 
In fact, it's more likely that chemo would have had no effect against my 
cancer and would likely have killed me.


I have just completed a second round of radiation and immunotherapy 
drugs and this time there was no effect either positive or negative. The 
idea was that if there is an immune response in progress that this will 
boost it. But at this point I still have no idea why I'm still alive 
because the scans remain confusing.


The last scan in early December showed everything the same size, nothing 
changed; nothing bigger, nothing smaller, no new mets. Most people would 
be thrilled but I'm confused. The immune system trick I'm doing has a 
more binary outcome where it either totally wipes out the cancer or it 
does nothing. So I expected it to either be a lot bigger or a lot smaller.


There are several possible explanations.

1. White blood cells also light up on a PET scan and the cancer might 
already be totally dead and is very slowly being eaten by the immune 
system. And that would be great.


2. I have been taking an anti-cancer cocktail of my own design that 
attacks cancer through multiple pathways and this combination has kept 
the cancer at a stalemate, neither growing or shrinking. But it would be 
odd that it didn't grow or shrink on any tumor. But apparently this 
cancer is hard to image and results are not reliable. In the past 
different doctors see different things.


3. I have a very slow growing cancer, and I'm just lucky, and nothing I 
did had any significant effect.


4. The universe really can't get along without me in it and it changed 
its mind about booting me out.


At this point I actually feel like I know less than I used to but at the 
moment I'm working on 2 different strategies at the same time. While I 
am hopeful the immunotherapy trick worked I have added more anti-cancer 
supplements as well as starting on the Ketogenic diet. If option 2 is 
correct my new plan should set the cancer back quite a bit.


I recently found out that normal cells can run on either sugar or fat, 
but cancer runs on only sugar. That immediately lead to the ketogenic 
diet where I eat no carbs and make up for the calories in eating fat. 
And as a side effect - I'm losing weight. There also is evidence that 
once I get to a very sugar starved state that hyperbaric oxygen 
treatments might really fry cancer. But I'm still designing a cocktail 
that should really kick butt in a way that has beneficial side effects.


The keto diet is very counterintuitive. Bacon good, fruit bad. You have 
to eat fat to lose fat. But I'm losing weight and women should find me 
even more irresistible. It's a diet that seems to work well for anyone 
contemplating dieting.


I'm also documenting everything so if you know people who have cancer - 
this might be useful. And feel free to pass this email to anyone 
interested. It might turn out that I'm one of the most advanced minds on 
the planet for fighting cancer and if that's true - isn't that just a 
little bit sad. Here's the link:


http://wiki.junkemailfilter.com/index.php/Cancer

I'm also discovering the very very premise that the oncology world is 
based on - is wrong. Most people believe cancer starts with a genetic 
mutation that leads to cancer. But it turns out that cancer might start 
as a metabolic disorder that leads to genetic damage. If this is true it 
might be easy to create a general cure for all cancers that targets the 
unique metabolism of the cancer cells. Something like creating a toxin 
that activates in the presents of fermentation byproducts and attached 
to sugar as a delivery mechanism. You get a shot and the next day all 
your cancer is dead. More on that in the future.


So - bottom line is - more likely than not that I'm still here next 
year. But I can still drop dead unexpectedly at any moment. If that 
happens either the universe will end or someone will start a cult in my 
name based on the worst aspects of my personality. (I'm glad I won't be 
around to see that.) But if I'm dying I'm doing it way to slow to be 
interesting. Thanks for reading my detailed explanation of no news really.


Marc Perkel
m...@perkel.com
Twitter: mperkel



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