Right now, our dad is not just outliving cancer, but living his best life, as he's travelling with mum in South America. When he first was diagnosed, he was told, that he'd have 6 to 60 months left to live. This is now three years ago.
Technically, he has yet to fully outlive his diagnosis, but when he left for South America, his cancer was completely undetectable, despite the poor five-year survival rate of 5% and the median survival of about a year (1, 2). But how did he do it? And what might you learn from it?
This article will be the second part to an article I posted a few weeks ago, detailing the more nutritional side of how dad is outliving cancer. In so doing, we looked at four of the seven measures of the Mosaic Method, which my brother Cedric and I developed to help cancer patients such as yourself with surviving and thriving in spite of cancer. Today, I want to take a closer look at the remaining three of those seven measures.
If you want to read dad's full story, I implore you to read the first part.
With that out of the way, let's remind ourselves of the seven measures of the Mosaic Method (at that time):
- Stop all consumption of carbohydrates
- Eliminate all possible consumption of glutamine and glutamate
- Maximise fat consumption
- Supplement vitamin D3 and omega-3 fatty acids
- Supplement EGCG and curcumin
- Eliminate all oxalates, alcohol, and pro-inflammatory substances
- Keep a positive mind at all times
We have already taken an in depth look at measures 1–3 and 5. The logic for these measures – just to recapitulate, so we're all on the same footing – was to lower the availability of fuels, which cancer cells can efficiently use (measures 1 and 2), and to get ourselves into a metabolic state (namely, ketosis), where cancer is weak and can't grow efficiently or – best-case scenario – at all (measures 3 and 5).
