Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked?

Post by d--b » Thu, Jan 09, 2025, 9:56 PM UTC

scdc wrote: post #14

toomuchtodo wrote: post #5

Find a clinical trial you can get them into.

Here is a good site to find clinical trials: https://clinicaltrials.gov

Post by glitchc » Thu, Jan 09, 2025, 9:57 PM UTC

Post by droideqa » Thu, Jan 09, 2025, 9:57 PM UTC

jawilson2 wrote: post #11

zblevins wrote: post #2

I have heard some people having luck by switching to a ketogenic diet. Here’s a paper I could find on PubMed about this. Sorry to hear about your friend. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9504425/ Edit: I am not a doctor. My wife is a physician and I spoke to her before posting this.

This. It is very dependent on the type of cancer. There is a lot of research on this. For a little context, I was a pediatric neurology professor for a while, and have been on a low carb diet for a decade. Much of the department did low carb, as did much of the oncology dept. Many kids with epilepsy are put on keto as well with great effect. I did a deep dive into low carb research before starting and keeping with th…

Post by echelon » Thu, Jan 09, 2025, 9:59 PM UTC

neom wrote: post #29

That spinning hat is pretty cool. When cells breath they create a byproduct (Reactive Oxygen Species) - all cells do this, they need to keep their ROS levels in check else the cell will die, but because cancer cells have messed up mitochondria, they don't do this correctly and typically end up with way more ROS. That hat agitates the cells so they produce more ROS, but because the cancer cells are almost at capacity,…

Post by toss1 » Thu, Jan 09, 2025, 10:00 PM UTC