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
Photo by ALEXANDRE DINAUT / Unsplash Digest №3: How Understanding the Resistance Mechanisms of Cancers to Treatment Can Help You Live Longer 2026, week 9: What mechanisms can cancer cells use to overcome treatment challenge and how does this influence the success of treatment re-challenges. Digests Merlin L. Marquard Mar 7, 2026 — 5 min read
