It's hard to overstate how exciting this book is! We now have a well-respected doctor using quality research to verify that alternative cancer treatments are evidence-based and highly effective!
As always, thank you for all the hard work you do. A special thanks for the comments about statins at the end of the article. I was puzzled to see them listed; I think your comments about their inclusion are very fair.
Dr. Aseem Mahaltra, a top cardiologist from the UK who wrote a book called My Statin Free Life, talks on YouTube about how the drug reps find ways to greatly exaggerate the benefits of statins. They greatly downplay the side effects because those with side effects to statins were left out of the clinical trials. So you can understand how a doctor who's had his info from drug reps all his life wouldn't know better. Also, Marik's specialty is ICU so it makes sense to trust the many cardiologists against statins. And Marik is simply using data from the published journals and since they're all pro-statin, it's understandable that he made a misstep at that one point.
I'm not familiar with deuterium depleted water. Tell me more.
Marik's book will have inevitably missed some alternative cures because Dr. Marik confined his search to published journal articles. However, people who are already interested in alternative cures will know how to find the more obscure information.
I'm excited about this book because it's bridging the gap between science/medicine minded people and alternative cures. I have compassion for people who blindly trust the mainstream medical system since most of my adult life, I believed in mainstream medicine and headed straight to a doctor with all of my chronic ailments. It took 25 years of no answers to understand that the model was broken (for chronic disease not acute). I've always been very science-minded and evidence-based and that led me to be skeptical of anything alternative: chiropractors, naturopaths, natural treatments, etc. I thought they were all crazies trying to sell supplements. I needed someone to bridge the gap for me, and that's what I hope this book will do. Once people can see the corruption in the mainstream system, they'll likely look beyond Marik's book for even deeper cures.
Yet I'm afraid that people won't necessarily benefit from it though, because it requires important courage not to rely on mainstream medicine when you have a diagnosis of cancer.
PS: Deuterium Depleted Water has been studied and there are scientific publications about it.
Yes, I agree, it takes tremendous courage to do something different.
That's interesting that there are scientific publications about it. When I read your post, I thought it was particularly interesting that deuterium depleted water may be one of the reasons the ketogenic diet is so helpful in fighting cancer.
This is hardcore biochemistry so I can't say I've really grasped and can explain it though, apart from the fact that a ketogenic diet with restricted water consumption or with Deuterium Depleted Water should lead to deuterium depletion which is good regarding cancer.
I disagree with his book's description of alternative therapies.
The book states, "Alternative medicine is used in place of (as an alternative to) conventional medicine. Alternative medicine is NOT science-based. It aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine without biological plausibility, testability, repeatability, or evidence of effectiveness. Unlike orthodox and integrative medicine, which tests plausible therapies through ethical clinical trials to produce repeatable evidence, alternative therapies exist outside medical science. They don't use the scientific method but rely on testimonials, anecdotes, religion, tradition, superstition, belief in supernatural 'energies,' and pseudoscience. Some alternative practices are based on theories that contradict established science on how the human body works."
Strictly speaking, off-label drug use also falls under alternative therapies, as they are unapproved treatments.
Thank you for posting this. Dr. Marik is an angel for humanity.
I’ve shared your note, thank you.
I’ve a friend at the beginning of prostrate cancer treatment. Treatment plan is sex change via hormones plus burning with radiation.
The cancer industry isn’t going to change until they lose their patients.
Let’s hope your article moves the pendulum in that direction.
It rests on the assumption that the body is stupid and aggressively trying to kill itself. Anyone who studies our physiology must see the mis-match.
The body is always actively engaged in aiding our survival.
Amazon recently pulled this book. To me that means, it’s relevant & should be explored further. Thank you for posting this. It’s a big deal! 🏆👏🏼
Yes! It must be valuable if they banned it.
As always, thank you for all the hard work you do. A special thanks for the comments about statins at the end of the article. I was puzzled to see them listed; I think your comments about their inclusion are very fair.
Dr. Aseem Mahaltra, a top cardiologist from the UK who wrote a book called My Statin Free Life, talks on YouTube about how the drug reps find ways to greatly exaggerate the benefits of statins. They greatly downplay the side effects because those with side effects to statins were left out of the clinical trials. So you can understand how a doctor who's had his info from drug reps all his life wouldn't know better. Also, Marik's specialty is ICU so it makes sense to trust the many cardiologists against statins. And Marik is simply using data from the published journals and since they're all pro-statin, it's understandable that he made a misstep at that one point.
It’s a staircase of revisiting all we think we know, until one sees the non-science is inserted so regularly, everything must be scrutinised.
I've just searched in the book and there is no mention of Deuterium Depleted Water, this is regrettable.
I'm not familiar with deuterium depleted water. Tell me more.
Marik's book will have inevitably missed some alternative cures because Dr. Marik confined his search to published journal articles. However, people who are already interested in alternative cures will know how to find the more obscure information.
I'm excited about this book because it's bridging the gap between science/medicine minded people and alternative cures. I have compassion for people who blindly trust the mainstream medical system since most of my adult life, I believed in mainstream medicine and headed straight to a doctor with all of my chronic ailments. It took 25 years of no answers to understand that the model was broken (for chronic disease not acute). I've always been very science-minded and evidence-based and that led me to be skeptical of anything alternative: chiropractors, naturopaths, natural treatments, etc. I thought they were all crazies trying to sell supplements. I needed someone to bridge the gap for me, and that's what I hope this book will do. Once people can see the corruption in the mainstream system, they'll likely look beyond Marik's book for even deeper cures.
This is an interesting book, there is no doubt 🙂
Yet I'm afraid that people won't necessarily benefit from it though, because it requires important courage not to rely on mainstream medicine when you have a diagnosis of cancer.
PS: Deuterium Depleted Water has been studied and there are scientific publications about it.
Yes, I agree, it takes tremendous courage to do something different.
That's interesting that there are scientific publications about it. When I read your post, I thought it was particularly interesting that deuterium depleted water may be one of the reasons the ketogenic diet is so helpful in fighting cancer.
Here is a paper about the link with the ketogenic diet if you're interested: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987715004399
This is hardcore biochemistry so I can't say I've really grasped and can explain it though, apart from the fact that a ketogenic diet with restricted water consumption or with Deuterium Depleted Water should lead to deuterium depletion which is good regarding cancer.
https://leadtheway.substack.com/p/deuterium-depleted-water
Fascinating. I’m so grateful for the courage of Dr Marik. And thank you, Leslie, for sharing this so eloquently.
I disagree with his book's description of alternative therapies.
The book states, "Alternative medicine is used in place of (as an alternative to) conventional medicine. Alternative medicine is NOT science-based. It aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine without biological plausibility, testability, repeatability, or evidence of effectiveness. Unlike orthodox and integrative medicine, which tests plausible therapies through ethical clinical trials to produce repeatable evidence, alternative therapies exist outside medical science. They don't use the scientific method but rely on testimonials, anecdotes, religion, tradition, superstition, belief in supernatural 'energies,' and pseudoscience. Some alternative practices are based on theories that contradict established science on how the human body works."
Strictly speaking, off-label drug use also falls under alternative therapies, as they are unapproved treatments.