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Re: Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies

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> Just trying to help someone in dire need

Sorry your lost your mom. This person in need is obv more intelligent and driven than most of us and is using resources that go way above YT videos.

Re: Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies

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Thanks for posting this. Happy to answer questions!

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> Fasting (1 to n weeks) is said to provide potential benefits for certain types of cancer treatments. Pre-cancer, it is said to potentially prevent cancer onset. This is potentially powerful for those of us with a family history with cancer.

It makes sense. Cells need nutrients for the cell cycle, similar to the way computers need RAM to execute programs.

Fasting not only deprives cancer cells of nutrients, but also triggers a homeostatic response in the entire body. This response includes putting its garbage collection system (autophagy) into overdrive mode so that it can reclaim the limited resources it has left to survive. Fasting is a reductive treatment, like purging oxygen from a server room on fire. It might help slow it down, but it can take healthy inhabitants along with it.

Additive treatments offer more options. If you catch the fire early and it’s contained (non-metastatic), you can target it with a fire blanket (surgery, stem cell transplantation) or a fire extinguisher (small molecules, biologics, peptides, gene therapy, etc.) to put it out. The sprinklers are a last ditch effort for larger fires (chemotherapy, radiation), which could save the building, but result in significant collateral damage.

Re: Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies

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How are you now?

Doing well. We've not seen the cancer for 10 months (not for lack of trying) and I'm enjoying an international trip for pleasure!

Fantastic. Wishing you all the very best. A very close family member just with Stage 4 just got the pass for the next 3 months. We're 3 years in now. For them, the immunotherapy seems to be working, the radiotherapy has actually left the area affected worse (althogh we'd have never known the outcome if it wasn't tried, so it was a price worth taking).

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Thanks for posting this. Happy to answer questions!

I have worked as an architect in HCLS technology for 10 years with Google and AWS. Listening to you stitch all the technology and innovation together, moving from the information world to the physical world, as a patient, almost brought me to tears. You said this will be the standard of care in 30-years, but the capability is here today. Listening to your recording is a profound moment in my life. Thank you for shari…

Is there a way I can start using this tech for myself as a solo dev? Is there some OSS project?
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