This is simply excellent. It contains pearls to achieving not only prudent ways to reduce cancer susceptibility, but to maintaining overall general and cognitive health. We would all do well by studying and incorporating Dr. Marik’s information into our daily lives.
We are all fortunate that Dr. Marik’s tradition of brilliant and innovative thinking now accrues to the direct benefit of all of us.
Thank you for your work, Dr. Marik. I followed your work through the FLCCC and your guidelines on repurposed medication in Covid care. Your book on cancer care was my first resource when I was diagnosed with cancer in 2024. Your work has impacted my life multiple times and I’m grateful for you!
Do you have a book or books that would help someone follow the proper diet. I have been a vegetarian for 46 years and have tried to follow an alkaline diet. I am 77 years old and take no medications, not even an aspirin. I look much younger than 77 so I felt I was doing the right thing for my health and body. I would like to read up on proper Ketogenic diet and perhaps is there one that would work for a vegetarian??
See my 2nd post on what to eat and what not to eat. I think I will post it on Thursday. The best book on a Ketogenic diet is by Jason Fung. Available at Amazon. I would not recommend an alkaline diet.. it is of no benefit
Karen, since you’re staying healthy and didn’t mention a cancer diagnosis, your diet seems to be a prevention diet that works for you and your genotype. As long as you are supplementing B-12 and a handful of essential ammino acids which are not present in almost all plants, you seem to be on the right track for you. Dr. Marik is primarily presenting a cancer-support metabolic strategy, which is often different that the anti-cancer strategy. The cancer-support strategy is more strict, depending on your genotype. Now, if you want to guard against excess carbs and the resulting insulin intolerance (A1C test indicates this problem), choosing low-glycemic foods in your diet would be a reasonable option. You can find lots of guides on this on the internet. Here’s a brief discussion on the lower-carb vegan option (you really can’t obtain keto (ketosis) on a vegan diet, unless you drank unfiltered EVOO for most of your diet. https://www.signos.com/blog/low-glycemic-vegan-diet
Intermittent fasting plus a Whole Foods plant based diet allows for some ketosis without the harmful long term effects of over processed animal products.
I simply don’t have words to convey how thrilled I am to see this information and to be able to subscribe. Having lost my husband and soulmate to cancer about a year and a half ago (esophageal and brain tumors), and seeing all the horrific things that he went through, I will feel compelled to share this and your upcoming information with all of my friends, family and subscribers. May God bless you.
My husband reversed his type 2 diabetes because of you! He's now in excellent health: sunshine, low carb diet, saturated fats, exercise, and he supplements with a handful of vitamins. ❤️
Intermittent fasting is the most important approach combined with real foods. As regards vitamins I would take Vitamin D3 and K2, aged garlic extract and omega-3 FA
Hi Petra. It’s going to sound daunting, but after a while it all becomes second nature, especially since you begin seeing results almost immediately. The first thing I would do is start watching Dr. Ken Berry’s videos on Youtube. In the meantime, get your dad on a diet of protein (include lots of wild caught fish, too), saturated fats (tallow, coconut oil, full fat dairy products like real cheeses, grass fed cream, grass fed butter, pasture eggs), absolutely NO vegetable oils and avoid any olive oil other than the expensive ones since a lot of the cheaper olive oils are adulterated with vegetable oils, and no more than 20 carbs a day. Carbs are more than just sugar, so he should avoid vegetables like potatoes, beets, peas, that are high in carbs. We often use cauliflower as a great substitute for potatoes. You can mash them as a sub for mashed potatoes: just add butter, sour cream, and cream; or it’s a great sub for macaroni instead of pasta. There are hundreds of keto recipes online. After a month on this diet, my husband’s weight loss was noticeable and his glucose levels have consistently in the range of 97 to 109 every day. But there’s more: he needs to begin some kind of regular exercise program, maybe beginning with walking. And then there are the supplements and vitamins: D3 (10,000 IU), K2, B complex (the methylated kind), potassium, melatonin, Berberine (the poor man’s Jardiance), vitamin C, vitamin E, and magnesium glycinate. Get him off statins. I highly recommend the following books: “Rethinking Diabetes” by Gary Taubes, “Big Fat Surprise” by Nina Teicholz, and “The Case for Keto” by Gary Taubes. Also check out Dr. Marik’s writings on how he reversed his own type 2 diabetes. Lastly, include intermittent fasting in your dad’s program and avoid vegetable oils like the plague. They are in everything. You have read the ingredients of everything you buy. Vegetable oils are highly inflammatory because they contain linoleic acid. You can read a lot about seed oils on Dr. Mercola’s Substack.
Thank you very much for your thoughtful reply. 🥰 my dad takes metaformim for years now can he and should he get off that medication? I should add he also smokes cigarettes daily. I suppose any step is a good step foe improvement? He is 65.
Berberine is a great substitute for Metformin. Berberine has zero side effects because it lives in nature. Think of it this way: for every molecule that comes out of a factory and is only designed to manage symptoms, God has already made molecules that either prevent or eliminate disease. Pharmaceuticals are designed to keep you sick, thus keeping you a customer for life. The day your dad starts his ketogenic diet, start him on Berberine. He has to do all of it: diet, supplements, exercise.
Greek yogurt, lots of butter, raw cheese--are these really problems if you're ketogenic? No these are fine... as much as you like. Just no sugar and few carbs.
It's refreshing to see this perspective. In my research on repurposed agents, I consistently find that the success of any metabolic protocol depends on this very foundation. If the nutritional environment isn't optimized, we're essentially fighting with one hand tied behind our backs. Thank you for highlighting this, Dr. Marik
We’ll never be able to thank you enough Dr Marik, you, your work and your continuously growing global network of uncompromised medical freedom fighters are a wonderful gift to humanity…
Like celestial blades of light, piercing the thick shroud of the medical industrial complex and its almost religious, dogmatic conscription to established practices. You educate us all towards better health and longetivity.
Your light and that of the others like you, brings warmth to us all!
My father was a pediatric cardiologist who practiced at SF Kaiser in the 1950s-80s. His recommendation to keep his patients healthy? Stay off the junk; try to eat real food. I see his advice has some teeth in it now. No pun intended; thanks for this article, Dr. Marik!
Thank you for your work benefiting humanity, Dr. Marik.
What’s the status of your sepsis protocol? I read an article you wrote explaining it in 2017, I think, and it made a lot of sense to this non-medical person. Then I saw various articles “de-bunking” it, and was very frustrated with their dishonesty, thinking, “but Dr. Marik addressed this or that and this de-bunker is ignoring it.”
The point about glutamine being overlooked is what most people miss when they start keto for health reasons.
Everyone focuses on cutting glucose. But Seyfried’s argument, that you need to restrict both glucose and glutamine simultaneously to starve most tumors, is much harder to implement practically. Glucose restriction is mechanical. Glutamine restriction requires a different approach entirely.
I’ve been following a ketogenic protocol for 7 months, primarily for metabolic health, but reading the research on the Warburg effect changed how I think about food as a long-term strategy, not just a weight tool.
Has Dr. Marik seen meaningful differences in outcomes between patients who also address glutamine versus those who only do carbohydrate restriction?
It very difficult to restrict glutamine in the diet. It is in almost all proteins. We suggest using drugs that block glutamine such as mebendazole and EGCG.
This is simply excellent. It contains pearls to achieving not only prudent ways to reduce cancer susceptibility, but to maintaining overall general and cognitive health. We would all do well by studying and incorporating Dr. Marik’s information into our daily lives.
We are all fortunate that Dr. Marik’s tradition of brilliant and innovative thinking now accrues to the direct benefit of all of us.
Thanks my friend. Greatly appreciate your comments. Paul
Thank you for your work, Dr. Marik. I followed your work through the FLCCC and your guidelines on repurposed medication in Covid care. Your book on cancer care was my first resource when I was diagnosed with cancer in 2024. Your work has impacted my life multiple times and I’m grateful for you!
Thanks for the feedback my friend.
Do you have a book or books that would help someone follow the proper diet. I have been a vegetarian for 46 years and have tried to follow an alkaline diet. I am 77 years old and take no medications, not even an aspirin. I look much younger than 77 so I felt I was doing the right thing for my health and body. I would like to read up on proper Ketogenic diet and perhaps is there one that would work for a vegetarian??
See my 2nd post on what to eat and what not to eat. I think I will post it on Thursday. The best book on a Ketogenic diet is by Jason Fung. Available at Amazon. I would not recommend an alkaline diet.. it is of no benefit
Karen, since you’re staying healthy and didn’t mention a cancer diagnosis, your diet seems to be a prevention diet that works for you and your genotype. As long as you are supplementing B-12 and a handful of essential ammino acids which are not present in almost all plants, you seem to be on the right track for you. Dr. Marik is primarily presenting a cancer-support metabolic strategy, which is often different that the anti-cancer strategy. The cancer-support strategy is more strict, depending on your genotype. Now, if you want to guard against excess carbs and the resulting insulin intolerance (A1C test indicates this problem), choosing low-glycemic foods in your diet would be a reasonable option. You can find lots of guides on this on the internet. Here’s a brief discussion on the lower-carb vegan option (you really can’t obtain keto (ketosis) on a vegan diet, unless you drank unfiltered EVOO for most of your diet. https://www.signos.com/blog/low-glycemic-vegan-diet
Intermittent fasting plus a Whole Foods plant based diet allows for some ketosis without the harmful long term effects of over processed animal products.
I simply don’t have words to convey how thrilled I am to see this information and to be able to subscribe. Having lost my husband and soulmate to cancer about a year and a half ago (esophageal and brain tumors), and seeing all the horrific things that he went through, I will feel compelled to share this and your upcoming information with all of my friends, family and subscribers. May God bless you.
Thank you my friend. Yes, we need to make people aware they have choices.
I am so sorry for your loss, Karon. ❤️
From covid to cancer Dr Paul Marik is truly a HERO to all of humanity.
My husband reversed his type 2 diabetes because of you! He's now in excellent health: sunshine, low carb diet, saturated fats, exercise, and he supplements with a handful of vitamins. ❤️
Intermittent fasting is the most important approach combined with real foods. As regards vitamins I would take Vitamin D3 and K2, aged garlic extract and omega-3 FA
Excellent ADVICE. I could not have said it better.
Thanks for the feedback..
He can stay on the metformin. He should try stop smoking.
Hi can you please tell me what supplements and vitamins he takes? My father has type 2 diabetes. Thank you
Agree 100%
Hi Petra. It’s going to sound daunting, but after a while it all becomes second nature, especially since you begin seeing results almost immediately. The first thing I would do is start watching Dr. Ken Berry’s videos on Youtube. In the meantime, get your dad on a diet of protein (include lots of wild caught fish, too), saturated fats (tallow, coconut oil, full fat dairy products like real cheeses, grass fed cream, grass fed butter, pasture eggs), absolutely NO vegetable oils and avoid any olive oil other than the expensive ones since a lot of the cheaper olive oils are adulterated with vegetable oils, and no more than 20 carbs a day. Carbs are more than just sugar, so he should avoid vegetables like potatoes, beets, peas, that are high in carbs. We often use cauliflower as a great substitute for potatoes. You can mash them as a sub for mashed potatoes: just add butter, sour cream, and cream; or it’s a great sub for macaroni instead of pasta. There are hundreds of keto recipes online. After a month on this diet, my husband’s weight loss was noticeable and his glucose levels have consistently in the range of 97 to 109 every day. But there’s more: he needs to begin some kind of regular exercise program, maybe beginning with walking. And then there are the supplements and vitamins: D3 (10,000 IU), K2, B complex (the methylated kind), potassium, melatonin, Berberine (the poor man’s Jardiance), vitamin C, vitamin E, and magnesium glycinate. Get him off statins. I highly recommend the following books: “Rethinking Diabetes” by Gary Taubes, “Big Fat Surprise” by Nina Teicholz, and “The Case for Keto” by Gary Taubes. Also check out Dr. Marik’s writings on how he reversed his own type 2 diabetes. Lastly, include intermittent fasting in your dad’s program and avoid vegetable oils like the plague. They are in everything. You have read the ingredients of everything you buy. Vegetable oils are highly inflammatory because they contain linoleic acid. You can read a lot about seed oils on Dr. Mercola’s Substack.
Thank you very much for your thoughtful reply. 🥰 my dad takes metaformim for years now can he and should he get off that medication? I should add he also smokes cigarettes daily. I suppose any step is a good step foe improvement? He is 65.
Quitting smoking is definitely a good idea.
Berberine is a great substitute for Metformin. Berberine has zero side effects because it lives in nature. Think of it this way: for every molecule that comes out of a factory and is only designed to manage symptoms, God has already made molecules that either prevent or eliminate disease. Pharmaceuticals are designed to keep you sick, thus keeping you a customer for life. The day your dad starts his ketogenic diet, start him on Berberine. He has to do all of it: diet, supplements, exercise.
Greek yogurt, lots of butter, raw cheese--are these really problems if you're ketogenic? No these are fine... as much as you like. Just no sugar and few carbs.
It's refreshing to see this perspective. In my research on repurposed agents, I consistently find that the success of any metabolic protocol depends on this very foundation. If the nutritional environment isn't optimized, we're essentially fighting with one hand tied behind our backs. Thank you for highlighting this, Dr. Marik
Agree it the foundation on which all else is built.
We’ll never be able to thank you enough Dr Marik, you, your work and your continuously growing global network of uncompromised medical freedom fighters are a wonderful gift to humanity…
Like celestial blades of light, piercing the thick shroud of the medical industrial complex and its almost religious, dogmatic conscription to established practices. You educate us all towards better health and longetivity.
Your light and that of the others like you, brings warmth to us all!
A tremendous substack!
Very best regards,
Dave & Family x
Thanks Dave. Much appreciated.
Fantastic details! You are a BLESSING to those of us who advocate for ourselves 💖🙏🏻
Thanks my friend.
Excellent article! Thank you.
Thanks for the support,
My father was a pediatric cardiologist who practiced at SF Kaiser in the 1950s-80s. His recommendation to keep his patients healthy? Stay off the junk; try to eat real food. I see his advice has some teeth in it now. No pun intended; thanks for this article, Dr. Marik!
Thanks. Paul
Thank you for your work benefiting humanity, Dr. Marik.
What’s the status of your sepsis protocol? I read an article you wrote explaining it in 2017, I think, and it made a lot of sense to this non-medical person. Then I saw various articles “de-bunking” it, and was very frustrated with their dishonesty, thinking, “but Dr. Marik addressed this or that and this de-bunker is ignoring it.”
Its complicated like most things. The protocol still stands.. see
https://imahealth.org
is possible download it like a pdf ?
thank you Dr Marik!
The point about glutamine being overlooked is what most people miss when they start keto for health reasons.
Everyone focuses on cutting glucose. But Seyfried’s argument, that you need to restrict both glucose and glutamine simultaneously to starve most tumors, is much harder to implement practically. Glucose restriction is mechanical. Glutamine restriction requires a different approach entirely.
I’ve been following a ketogenic protocol for 7 months, primarily for metabolic health, but reading the research on the Warburg effect changed how I think about food as a long-term strategy, not just a weight tool.
Has Dr. Marik seen meaningful differences in outcomes between patients who also address glutamine versus those who only do carbohydrate restriction?
It very difficult to restrict glutamine in the diet. It is in almost all proteins. We suggest using drugs that block glutamine such as mebendazole and EGCG.