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

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Post by TriNetra »

You can ask him to try yogic and ayurvedic methods. AN excerpt from The Wellness Sense book (author: OM Swami) [0]:

>I've had patients successfully cure ulcers, cancers, migraines, obesity, hypertension, allergies, depression and many other ailments by following the principles I share with you in this book. I am not suggesting that Ayurveda is a panacea. No system of medicine is. But, when you combine the principles of Ayurveda with the yogic thought, you make a giant leap in your understanding of the human body and its wellbeing. In this book, I introduce you to a holistic system of health and wellness. My goal is not to give you herbal remedies, because once again I don't wish to treat the symptoms. Besides, I'm not a medical professional but a meditation specialist and a tantric practitioner. There are plenty of Ayurvedic doctors out there you can consult for medicine. Having said that, chances are, once you adopt the principles and practices I am sharing here, you will not need to see a doctor again. For a healthy and a long life, the ancient yogic thought offers you one of the most insightful, complete and scientific perspectives. I promise by the time you finish reading this book, you will look upon your body and your health in a new way. You will learn how to take care of it better, you will know how to lead a healthier life in our present world

0: https://www.amazon.com/Wellness-Sense-Practical-Emotional-Ay...

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

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Post by sfn42 »

hoppp wrote: post #237
RamblingCTO wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. Maybe look into end of life LSD therapy ( https://www.webmd.com/palliative-care/features/facing-death-... ) and work on the bucket list. That should be priority #1. #2 can be to try a lot of "out there stuff", but don't forget to live.

Lsd works in the sense that it makes you not care about dying that much, the ego death helps. Combine that with ketamine for a nice anti depressant effect and you got a really good party going. Why not do mdma also to kill the ptsd, maybe a visit a psytance festival instead of the hospital? Jokes aside, its sad to prepare for death. I think drugs are not the answer, but they can help too. Depends on the people. Maybe…

Not like they have much to lose

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

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Post by thebigspacefuck »

adamredwoods wrote: post #147
lylejantzi3rd wrote: post #20

Have you looked into ivermectin and fenbendazole? https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3158014/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7505114/

Fuck ivermectin and fuck you for even suggesting it. It doesn't work on cancer, end of discussion. It works by paralyzing worms on ion channel that humans DON'T have.

Do you have a source for this? The linked study claims it has potential.

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

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Post by ryandrake »

avgDev wrote: post #265
ausbah wrote: post #87

I know when someone’s faced with certain death they’ll do almost anything they can to survive if only for a little bit longer, but this thread full of personal antectodes and largely non-reproduced effects from random pubmed articles is the hackernews equivalent of essential oils or smth

I think it is ok to seek some alternatives or "hacks" for some hard to diagnose chronic stuff like fatigue, as there are so many things that can cause this. However, when you know you have certain disease there is nothing like talking to an expert in the field. Internet is filled with garbage and misinformation now. People selling snake oil. HackerNews is also filled with people who think they know better than expert…

Reminds me of the joke: What do you call alternative medicine that works? Medicine.

If any of the wild things posted in threads like these actually worked, those things just be considered standard care.

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

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Post by serguzest »

ibash wrote: post #110

You should ask them if they want you playing doctor. I have a chronic disease, not fatal, and totally manageable. But the most annoying thing is when someone finds out and suddenly pretends to be the expert. Of course my doctors and I investigating it for years were completely wrong! I should’ve ate more apricots! Please just check with them if they want their limited time spent like that.

I have a friend who is an MD, and he recently asked me what I’ve been doing to manage my seborrheic dermatitis. Since dermatologists have no cure for it, we often have to resort to anecdotal treatments. Moreover, big pharma doesn’t invest in studies for treatments they can’t patent. Blind trust in medical professionals isn’t necessarily wise. Anecdotal solutions still hold significant value, in my opinion

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

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Post by ryandrake »

zmgsabst wrote: post #203
lambdaphagy wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My own view is not that self-experimentation is an appropriate, let alone likely efficacious, substitute for reconciliation to the idea of one's death. I certainly don't endorse interference in others' treatment, however well-intentioned. If you want to say: "you shouldn't treat your terminal illness like a science fair project unless you possess extreme sang froid and are precommitted to the acceptance of your death…

As a pure numbers game, I’d find it more surprising if “broscience” never found a result: - a lot of terminal patients are prone to experimenting - their overall number probably eclipses the total number of trial patients in a given year by at least one order of magnitude and I’d believe two or three - they don’t have institutional barriers to what they can try, eg, they’ll fund non-patentable treatments - a lot of t…

When you try someone else's "broscience", you're not really experimenting with the unknown, so it's unlikely you're going to stumble into a "result". They know it doesn't work. If it did work, they'd have patented it and licensed it to Merck or Pfizer.

Choosing quackery is not experimenting.

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

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Post by cpr »

internetter wrote: post #47
cpr wrote: post #21

https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/ivermectin-testim... -- see "New and improved Joe Tippens protocol". Has worked for hundreds of people, and what has he got to lose? It's all natural medicines.

https://substack.com/@2ndsmartestguyintheworld This guy is a nut

And you know because...?

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

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Post by serguzest »

fcanela wrote: post #58
alecst wrote: post #10

I'm really sorry to hear that. Since you're asking for moonshots and weird things to try, here's something they can ask their doctor about: > Case reports involving glioblastoma patients using water-only fasting regimens in conjunction with other forms of cancer treatment have reported favorable outcomes with respect to tumor growth https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2874558/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articl…

I have a relative with glioblastoma who could see his granddaughter born if he extends his life a while. Thanks a lot for sharing!

Please Google Thomas Seyfried and William Makis. The latter is controversial—if he’s not completely fraudulent and making things up, he might be onto something. He’s sharing emails from numerous cancer patients who claim to have healed using these two particular molecules.

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

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Post by lambdaphagy »

ryandrake wrote: post #276
zmgsabst wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a pure numbers game, I’d find it more surprising if “broscience” never found a result: - a lot of terminal patients are prone to experimenting - their overall number probably eclipses the total number of trial patients in a given year by at least one order of magnitude and I’d believe two or three - they don’t have institutional barriers to what they can try, eg, they’ll fund non-patentable treatments - a lot of t…

When you try someone else's "broscience", you're not really experimenting with the unknown, so it's unlikely you're going to stumble into a "result". They know it doesn't work. If it did work, they'd have patented it and licensed it to Merck or Pfizer. Choosing quackery is not experimenting.

Elsewhere in the thread I argue why efficient market hypothesis arguments are unlikely to fully apply in this case.
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