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Beyond the Standard Protocol: The Cancer Battle Nobody Told You About
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Fighting cancer demands everything you've got, but what happens when you discover a pathway the medical establishment has overlooked for decades? My personal battle took a dramatic turn when I combined methionine restriction diet, methioninase supplementation, fasting, and conventional chemotherapy – resulting in tumor reduction that left my oncology team speechless.
The results speak volumes. After trying countless alternative treatments with no success, this combination approach reversed my tumor's growth by a full year in just four weeks. I can physically feel it retracting daily – a sensation like healing tissue, tightening and sometimes itching as it shrinks away. Despite undergoing an aggressive triple-drug chemotherapy protocol that leaves me feeling "a little drunk or seasick" with everything tasting like "moldy wet cardboard," my overall strength is improving dramatically between treatments.
What's most striking is how this approach challenges existing paradigms. The methionine addiction of cancer cells has been documented for over 50 years, yet many patients still follow high-protein diets that may actually feed their cancer. My journey – soon to be published as a case study on PubMed – demonstrates that combining conventional treatment with targeted metabolic approaches can amplify effectiveness while reducing side effects. This path isn't easy – the diet is extremely restrictive, methioninase costs $1,000 monthly, and maintaining absolute discipline is essential. But when facing cancer, the question becomes simple: how badly do you want to live? For those willing to challenge convention and fight with everything they've got, this approach might offer hope where standard protocols fall short. Have you considered how metabolic approaches might transform cancer treatment?
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Well, hello and welcome back to the Healthy Living Podcast. I'm your host, joe Grumbine, and this is another subscriber episode and I'm digging back into the journal of my recovery from cancer Still dealing with it, but I'm making some progress. So I haven't been updating as often because the progress has been steady and profound and I'm spending a whole lot more time doing other things. I'm super grateful for everybody who has supported this and I apologize for any hassles with the update and the subscriber from the platform. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to sort of update everybody on that. I think I have to record another spot for the regular episodes.
Speaker 1:But today is Monday, memorial Day, and I finished my second round of chemo on Saturday. Monday I had the infusion where I received initially some what do you call it nausea medication, some hydration and then the docetaxel and the cisplatinum and the nurse practitioner that administers or oversees anyways, the chemo was just fucking blown away. She saw my tumor reduction and just my overall health and she just couldn't believe it. And of course, she's putting all the credit to the chemotherapy and we all know that it's everything, but I, more and more I believe that it's the methionine restriction diet and the methioninase and the fasting, maybe more so than the oxidative therapy and the supplements and all the other stuff I'm doing. I think exercise is important too. Now that I'm getting stronger I can feel a big change in all that. So I don't even care. I just want, obviously, this thing to be finished. I was able to. I've been documenting this thing the whole time, taking pictures two pictures a day for a while, and Dr Hoffman, who records an episode a week on my show, is writing up, or having one of his students write up, a case study of my experience here and we're going to be publishing it on PubMed, which is kind of cool. I think that in my life I've been able to do some things that were used by others, including my battle with the government over cannabis. Other people were able to use my fight and fight their own, get their own freedom, and so now that this is a fight for my life, it's maybe more important even than freedom, and I'm kind of excited that I'm able to carry this new banner out there.
Speaker 1:And it's hard, you know. We talk about the structure of scientific revolution, the book by John Kuhn, and the difficulty of how things change from knowledge to practice to accept a paradigm, and there's so many things that are just wrong about sciences and doctors' understanding of cancer. And we've gone beyond that at least some of us have and we've understood some things. I mean, this methionine addiction of cancer cells has been known for more than 50 years and yet it's just not been accepted as part of the paradigm. And people are choosing keto diets and they're restricting sugar and carbs and they're eating tons of protein and all they're doing is making their situation worse. And that's not to say that some people have good luck with various different things.
Speaker 1:But this thing that I was doing, remember, I was doing everything, every fucking thing. I was on the, I was on the diet, I was on the cannabis oils, soursop, the ozone therapy, the so or ivermectin, fin benzodil I mean, it's just on and on and on. My regimen was was brutal and this thing kept growing and it wasn't until we did the methioninease, the methionine restriction diet, the fasting and the chemotherapy that we knocked the shit out of this thing. And you just can't deny this. And within four weeks I've reversed this tumor by a year. I've looked at pictures from me a year ago and what I have today is less than it was a year ago and it's continuing to shrink by the day. I can feel it retracting. It's almost like I don't know if you've ever broken a bone or had a major injury to tendons and ligaments, but when it heals you have this sort of real tightening feeling and sort of a retraction and even an itching sort of a feeling. And that's what's happening on the regular right now. And that's what's happening on the regular right now. And so there's just absolutely no denying that what I'm doing is working.
Speaker 1:And it's kind of rough because it's not easy. It's a very, very difficult diet and the methionine is expensive. It costs me $1,000 a month, just as the bare minimum, and I'm still struggling even to make money. And the chemotherapy is rough. I did not take a light dose, I took a triple drug cocktail and the 5-fluorosil. I have to wear a pump for five days after receiving the several hour infusion and I got to walk around with this frigging pump and it's literally like once every 30 seconds to a minute pumps this poison into my vein, into my artery. I think it's my vein, yeah, anyways, and it's brutal and it makes you feel like you're loaded or dizzy, a little bit seasick, a little bit drunk, hard to think. They call it chemo fog, but I'm powering through it.
Speaker 1:I don't buy any of the excuses people have for chemo problems. I think it's really you have to suck it up, buttercup. You have to get in there and fight and everybody who lays back and says how hard it is. I remember the movie the Glengarry Glen Ross, and you know the salespeople were talking about the Glengarry leads and you know there's no Glengarry leads. You get out there and you hustle. You got to get out there and make this happen. My spirit is probably 50 percent of what's making this thing work and the support and and all the practices and everything else and that chemotherapy probably another 20 to 30 percent. It's a powerful drug, it's a powerful bomb, but it's being amplified by everything else I'm doing and maybe as much as that is, it's retarding the negative effects by equally as much and I've been fortunate Lately I've gotten a little bit of additional side effects.
Speaker 1:So there's two things that happen. One I got less side effects on some hand because I've gotten stronger, I've gained some weight, I'm sleeping better, and so what I started with when the first round I was at my very worst. I was literally at death's door and I got hit with all that poison and I I was laid out, you know, for days and I couldn't hardly get out of bed and while I was starting to work, and then, little by little, I began to get some sleep and then I began to, you know, eat a little better and slowly started gaining on it. Well, now, the last couple of nights I've gotten damn near a full night's sleep. I have to drink a lot of water, because one of the drugs will damage my kidneys if I don't, and I just got to keep that water flowing. So I drink a lot of water and that gets me up a few times at night. But I was waking up every hour for a while and I think last night I got up twice and getting deeper sleep, getting more dreams, just overall, everybody that sees me is blown away. They say how healthy I look, how strong I'm getting, my voice is getting better, just my overall chi is improving and I couldn't be more grateful and in some ways that's a little bit of a distraction because I got to keep my eye on the prize.
Speaker 1:This cancer is a motherfucker and you have to know that it's made out of me and so, as strong as I am getting and as difficult as I am being to it, it's just waiting. It's searching, it's scanning, it's waiting for an opening, some way for it to get around all the things I'm doing to it, I can't give it any of it. Give it any of it. So, as I'm celebrating a little bit and being happy and not focusing every bit of attention at just blowing this thing to hell, I'm a little bit at risk of, you know, leaving an opening. But I'm not, I'm not going to leave an opening at all. The diet is absolutely impeccable and I take that methionine. If I veer off the diet, even a little bit, I double up and I'm just going to spend the money. If I don't have it too bad, I'm going to do it anyways. I'm super grateful for the support I've received, but that's the support I've received, but that's virtually dried up and I'm doing more to just raise money, earn it, selling my products and services and consulting and all the things I can do. I'm out here to do it. I'm going to get this thing done, still have the fundraiser going and I appreciate everything that comes in. There has been bits and pieces, but you know, frankly, it's not your problem, it's my problem and I'm going to solve it. And I, I don't know, I, I'm, I'm this.
Speaker 1:This round there was some accumulative event or effects a little bit not not brutal, but I had a little bit of edema and they said that could happen. Um, they give you the injection after they take the pump out. So saturday I got the pump out. They give you this injection for um, to to rebuild your white blood cells, because this chemo just trashes you, just kills everything, kills your microbiome, it kills your immune system. But I'm busy rebuilding it. I'm getting outside, getting some sunlight, eating as much as I can.
Speaker 1:But this last round, the last couple of days, oh my god, I got this nasty taste in my mouth and I think it's receded a little bit right now. But yesterday I could barely eat anything and just everything tastes like wet cardboard, if I could describe it, and very untasty Maybe moldy wet cardboard would be a good description and it's just hard to eat. I even smoked a little cannabis and got a little munchies Boldy wet cardboard would be a good description and it's just hard to eat. I even smoked a little cannabis and got a little munchies and kind of forced myself to eat a little bit, but everything fruit to macadamia, nut butter to beans and rice to potatoes, sweet potatoes, vegetables, salad fruit it just all kind of has that taste, that aftertaste.
Speaker 1:I have been able to hold off the ulcers in my mouth. I can feel them trying, but I am continuing to rinse with a buffered saline solution and that seems to hold it off. And I backed off a little bit on the chlorine dioxide and glycerin but I got to get back to it. It's just another thing and as I'm getting more things done, it's hard to remember all the things. So it gets more complicated the more active I'm getting.
Speaker 1:When the only thing I was doing was focusing on this tumor, it was more easy because I wasn't doing anything else, and the second I add other things to it it's got to put even more concentration, and concentration's a bitch right now. It's it's. You know I've heard it called chemo fog, but really it's just like you're a little drunk or a little seasick, just very difficult to really give it a good focus. And some of that quantum focus I was getting is diminished, and I know it's just because I've got more sensory input, more things going on. So that's pretty much where I'm at right now. I've got another basically two weeks until my next session. The next session is the last session of this plan, of this round, and we'll see what happens. Hopefully this thing will be down to zero.
Speaker 1:The remaining tumor is significantly more dense and the nodules are pretty much all gone, but there's still a substantial tumor there and the nurse practitioners had told me that and I think the doctor did too that it's likely to take longer to basically dissolve or be reconstituted, because the tissue itself will die and it just takes longer for your body to reabsorb dead tissue than you know material that would be making it. But I'm confident that I'm gaining on this every minute of every day and I wish that the people I've been talking to would receive this information better. I've been able to speak to a few people and a few people have reached out to me, but I'm not getting the reception that I wish I would, because I don't know why. It's just hard, it's a hard lesson for me to tell you to eat the way I'm eating and to behave the way I'm behaving, do the things I'm doing.
Speaker 1:It's a very difficult road to walk and I think when most people have cancer they're already weak, they get weakened by it. And so to say, oh, now you've got to suck it up and do more. I think it's a very difficult ask, but just think about this. You know how much do you want to live and how much do you want your quality of life to be the best it can, and I subscribe that the things that I'm doing are going to give me the longest life and the best quality of life of anything that I could be doing. And it kind of blows me away that it's not being better received, but that's how it is when you're trying to change paradigm. All right, well, thank you for all your support, and this has been another edition of the Healthy Living Podcast, and we'll see you next time.
