Photo by Gennady Zakharin / Unsplash Digest №9: On the Health Implications of an Animal-Based Ketogenic Diet 2026, week 15: Animal fats have got quite the bad rep, how cholesterol and LDL impact health, how animal foods influence cholesterol and LDL, and what it means. Digests Merlin L. Marquard Apr 18, 2026 — 6 min read
Photo by Ed Wingate / Unsplash Digest №8: How Ancestral Dietary Patterns and Modern Science Converge on Anti-Cancer Nutrition 2026, week 14: Nigh non-existent cancer amongst hunter-gatherers, ancestral dietary patterns, modern nutritional insights, and the manifold benefits of ketogenic diets. Digests Merlin L. Marquard Apr 11, 2026 — 7 min read
Photo by National Cancer Institute / Unsplash Digest №7: What Even Is Cancer? 2026, week 13: What is cancer? How does it develop? And what can that tell us about its treatment? Digests Merlin L. Marquard Apr 4, 2026 — 5 min read
Photo by K. Mitch Hodge / Unsplash Digest №6: How Cancer Survival, Social Support, Inflammation, and Depression Interconnect 2026, week 12: How inflammation interacts with immunity, how immunity can kill or save patients, and what can be done about it. Digests Merlin L. Marquard Mar 28, 2026 — 5 min read
Photo by Ardian Lumi / Unsplash Dancing for Better Cancer Health? Dancing is one of the – if not the – most ubiquitous cross-cultural phenomenon, but can it help you with healing cancer? And what can you learn from this about exercise and social support? Essays Merlin L. Marquard Mar 24, 2026 — 7 min read
Photo by Jordan Heath / Unsplash Digest №5: Why Using More than a Single Therapeutic Is Essential to Outliving Cancer 2026, week 11: Why mono-therapies don't work in so many cases, how to use multiple vectors of healing cancer Digests Merlin L. Marquard Mar 21, 2026 — 4 min read
Photo by Aarón Blanco Tejedor / Unsplash Digest №4: What Does 'Curing Cancer' Even Mean and How Could We Achieve It? 2026, week 10: Stigmatisation of cancer, understanding curation, diagnosis, detection, and self-identity, cancer as a state of life and as an illness, missing clarity in terminology. Digests Merlin L. Marquard Mar 14, 2026 — 4 min read
Photo by Hannah Busing / Unsplash On Inviting Others into Your Game of Outliving Cancer Overcoming the disease of cancer is incredibly difficult – both medically and mentally –, but sharing that experience with those we love can make it more enjoyable and successful. Essays Merlin L. Marquard Mar 13, 2026 — 5 min read
