Photo by Trent Haddock / Unsplash Digest №13- Separating the Chaff from the Wheat in Understanding and Treating Cancer 2026, week 19: The weakness of categorical claims, financial incentives, and arguments from authority. Digests Merlin L. Marquard May 16, 2026 — 4 min read
Photo by Emily Morter / Unsplash Digest №12: Why Curiosity and Skepticism Are Essential to Learning, Medicine, and Science 2026, week 18: the foundations of learning and how scientists, doctors, and patients may learn from it how to thrive. Digests Merlin L. Marquard May 9, 2026 — 5 min read
Photo by Markus Winkler / Unsplash We've Updated the Website The old site was confusing. Patients didn't know where to find what. We've updated it to much more straightforward and intuitive to navigate. Updates Merlin L. Marquard May 8, 2026 — 1 min read
Photo by Fox & Hyde / Unsplash Digest №11: The Practical Benefits of Gamifying Cancer Survival 2026, week 17: Gamifying cancer as a theory, its surprising practical benefits, the confirmation of its predicted benefits. Digests Merlin L. Marquard May 2, 2026 — 4 min read
Photo by Johannes Plenio / Unsplash Digest №10: The Importance of Energy in Human Health 2026, week 16: Overfeeding, underfeeding, and figuring out how much to eat of which things. Digests Merlin L. Marquard Apr 25, 2026 — 4 min read
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
