Broad genetic testing to determine your individual SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphism) is a great way to fine tune your dietary intake. Some of us metabolize excess saturated fat into glucose, others excess protein, others have methylation issues. None of these can be well understood without the genetic testing (3×4, Nutrition Genome, etc.)
Good fats (EVOO, Avocado Oil, Cod Liver Oil) are critical to maintaining blood sugar, especially when you are taking in more carbs than normal.
Transitioning to a carb restricted or even ketogenic diet is not easy for most, and switching overnight leads to failure for many as they crash hard due to terrible metabolic health. While it may be tempting in the face of a cancer diagnosis to turn on a dime, you need a very committed attitude and strong constitution to do that.
Instead, phasing in fats and phasing out carbs over two weeks works better for a lot of people, and increases their chance of making it on the low card path.
What’s the right balance of fat, protein, and carbs? For clinical ketosis, around 85% fat, 10-12% protein and 3-5% carbs. That’s only two servings of Brussels sprouts of carbs…
Again, many thanks for your work. You have basically described the diet I have followed for many years. I only wish I could have convinced my late husband that cancer feeds on sugar.
Indeed I am filled with gratitude to have been intuitively eating this way for decades. With 6 family members having had cancer I started young in my desire to avoid the same route. Then I worked at the first Whole Foods Mkt in the late ‘70’s, where we were convinced we would save the world using food as medicine. It is a blessing to have lived to see the days when our brilliant dedicated Medical freedom doctors are sharing this vital information for all to use. Thank you Dr. Marik, you are a gift to these times.
Thank you for this thoughtful and clinically relevant piece! Really appreciated that you addressed a question patients ask frequently but often receive fragmented or overly simplistic answers to: what to eat during cancer. The emphasis on nutrition as supportive care, rather than as a standalone treatment, is especially important, and your effort to translate complex metabolic and inflammatory concepts into practical guidance makes the article accessible and useful. What stood out to me most was the focus on metabolic context and the recognition that cancer-related nutrition is not one-size-fits-all. Factors like treatment phase, weight trajectory, appetite, and metabolic health all matter, and your discussion begins to reflect that complexity. One area that might strengthen an already valuable piece would be to more clearly distinguish where evidence is strong versus where it remains evolving, particularly around more specific dietary strategies or restrictions. That added transparency could help readers balance curiosity with appropriate caution, especially in a space where patients are often vulnerable to overly definitive claims. Thank you for contributing to a more nuanced conversation about nutrition in oncology care. This supports patients in making informed, sustainable choices while navigating a very challenging time.
This is a way of eating that supports energy, metabolic stability, and overall function for pretty much everyone — not just people dealing with cancer.
Thanks, Doc, I really enjoyed this article, and appreciate all the work that went into it. I will use the information to help folks who previously have not learned these valuable lessons. The food industry is killing kids with all of the huge boxes of packaged, processed foods, labelled as “healthy”, and many parents are deceived by the labels, buying and feeding their children what they are told to be “healthy” snacks. I have been fortunate and blessed with a fairly solid understanding of how to use food as medicine… daily, and grow much of the food we use, fermenting vegetables, especially cabbage, and using garden grown wild herbs regularly, like dandelion, milk thistle, and Lamb’s Quarters. God bless you, Doc, and thanks again.
Hi Dr. Malik: I really like your work. I am an influencer and would be glad to do an audition video for you and your studies. I like your graphics and you are the best writer of all the numerous doctors I follow. I have another post to you explaining my show. Please respond and let's work together. Thanks, edwardopellegrini.substack.com
Doctor is it true hormone fed breast cancer should not consume diary? Er positive her 2 negative and do like natural plain yoghurt with nuts though have stopped eating it. Would appreciate your advice on this. Thanks
Shame thus bridges psychology and epistemology. It is the same structure that governs both the child’s withdrawal and the institution’s rigidity. We can reframe the Four Questions of Shame as inquiries into both the human soul and the scientific mind:
What areas of companionship are so fundamental to us that we fear their destruction more than death itself? The fear of being cast out from the shared field of meaning—whether familial or disciplinary—drives our conformity. To challenge the dominant ontology is to risk exile from the intellectual tribe.
What punishment cuts so deep that we choose self-destruction over truth? The threat of professional abandonment—the withdrawal of recognition from peers and institutions—makes many scientists collude in reductionism. Emotional and intellectual self-betrayal becomes the price of belonging.
Why do we fear certain inner states—such as shame—so deeply that we sacrifice experience, cognition, and intimacy to avoid them? Because feeling—like complexity—was rendered unspeakable in our early ontological education. The child learns to suppress affect just as the student learns to suppress life in theory.
How do these fears become weaponized in the service of upbringing and education? When teachers, mentors, or institutions use ridicule, exclusion, or silent disconfirmation to enforce orthodoxy, they replicate the phylogenetic structure of shame: control through the fear of relational death.
Shame, then, is not merely an emotion but a strategy, a memory, a scar, a reflex—an epistemic posture. It governs both the developing child and the self-image of modern science.
To understand shame is to understand the terms under which not only the self, but knowledge itself, was first allowed to exist.
The question now is whether life science can survive its own shame—whether it can rejoin the living body it long ago disavowed.
Clearly, If we consume corpses along with growth hormones, toxic additives, and other carcinogenic elements that create a toxic bloodstream we will develop cancerous conditions in the human anatomy and physiology. If we consume what is appropriate for humans and not the USDA corporate diet, we can prevent and recover from chronic and degenerative dis-eases. As a Naturopathic Practitioner and hygienic nutritional consultant for the past 54 years I have studied how corruption has reached the food industry and how it has spread throughout the political, medical, military industrial complexes.
Thank You, Dr. Marik. It appears that I don’t have to make any changes if I get cancer, though with beans, bicycling, green tea and a vegetable garden I’m hopeful to die of old-age, instead.
I’ll group this with Part-1 in my next blog post, for the benefit of any who might take it to heart.
The most comprehensive supplement to a healthy or unhealthy diet that I have found is HEAL QUICK* Miracle 2000 GOLD. Companies such as Nature’s Plus, Buried Treasure and others do offer food-sourced products which are available at health food stores that value quality.
Great idea when you dont have cancer.
Its a great idea when you do have cancer. So much information out there. LEARN
A few advanced points learned along the way:
Broad genetic testing to determine your individual SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphism) is a great way to fine tune your dietary intake. Some of us metabolize excess saturated fat into glucose, others excess protein, others have methylation issues. None of these can be well understood without the genetic testing (3×4, Nutrition Genome, etc.)
Good fats (EVOO, Avocado Oil, Cod Liver Oil) are critical to maintaining blood sugar, especially when you are taking in more carbs than normal.
Transitioning to a carb restricted or even ketogenic diet is not easy for most, and switching overnight leads to failure for many as they crash hard due to terrible metabolic health. While it may be tempting in the face of a cancer diagnosis to turn on a dime, you need a very committed attitude and strong constitution to do that.
Instead, phasing in fats and phasing out carbs over two weeks works better for a lot of people, and increases their chance of making it on the low card path.
What’s the right balance of fat, protein, and carbs? For clinical ketosis, around 85% fat, 10-12% protein and 3-5% carbs. That’s only two servings of Brussels sprouts of carbs…
Thanks I agree
Again, many thanks for your work. You have basically described the diet I have followed for many years. I only wish I could have convinced my late husband that cancer feeds on sugar.
Thanks. With much appreciation
Indeed I am filled with gratitude to have been intuitively eating this way for decades. With 6 family members having had cancer I started young in my desire to avoid the same route. Then I worked at the first Whole Foods Mkt in the late ‘70’s, where we were convinced we would save the world using food as medicine. It is a blessing to have lived to see the days when our brilliant dedicated Medical freedom doctors are sharing this vital information for all to use. Thank you Dr. Marik, you are a gift to these times.
Good for you Rebekah. Keep spreading the word!
Great resource Dr.!
Fatty fish for DHA - also macadamia nuts and
Lamb.
I dont know about this.
Nice work here.
Thanks Daniel My next post is on Fasting and FMD
I had written on this last year, but interested to see what updates we are seeing and other perspectives:
https://dfloramd.substack.com/p/dietary-strategies-in-cancer-the?r=11bw2f&utm_medium=ios
Thank you for this thoughtful and clinically relevant piece! Really appreciated that you addressed a question patients ask frequently but often receive fragmented or overly simplistic answers to: what to eat during cancer. The emphasis on nutrition as supportive care, rather than as a standalone treatment, is especially important, and your effort to translate complex metabolic and inflammatory concepts into practical guidance makes the article accessible and useful. What stood out to me most was the focus on metabolic context and the recognition that cancer-related nutrition is not one-size-fits-all. Factors like treatment phase, weight trajectory, appetite, and metabolic health all matter, and your discussion begins to reflect that complexity. One area that might strengthen an already valuable piece would be to more clearly distinguish where evidence is strong versus where it remains evolving, particularly around more specific dietary strategies or restrictions. That added transparency could help readers balance curiosity with appropriate caution, especially in a space where patients are often vulnerable to overly definitive claims. Thank you for contributing to a more nuanced conversation about nutrition in oncology care. This supports patients in making informed, sustainable choices while navigating a very challenging time.
Doctor Klover. Thanks for your comments. My next post is on fasting and FMD…. appreciate the support.
This honestly could just be called “What to Eat.”
This is a way of eating that supports energy, metabolic stability, and overall function for pretty much everyone — not just people dealing with cancer.
It’s foundational.
Great to see such a focused list of priorities. These specific food choices make a real difference in the long run. 🥦🥑
Thanks, Doc, I really enjoyed this article, and appreciate all the work that went into it. I will use the information to help folks who previously have not learned these valuable lessons. The food industry is killing kids with all of the huge boxes of packaged, processed foods, labelled as “healthy”, and many parents are deceived by the labels, buying and feeding their children what they are told to be “healthy” snacks. I have been fortunate and blessed with a fairly solid understanding of how to use food as medicine… daily, and grow much of the food we use, fermenting vegetables, especially cabbage, and using garden grown wild herbs regularly, like dandelion, milk thistle, and Lamb’s Quarters. God bless you, Doc, and thanks again.
Thanks for your comments, Paul
Hi Dr. Malik: I really like your work. I am an influencer and would be glad to do an audition video for you and your studies. I like your graphics and you are the best writer of all the numerous doctors I follow. I have another post to you explaining my show. Please respond and let's work together. Thanks, edwardopellegrini.substack.com
Doctor is it true hormone fed breast cancer should not consume diary? Er positive her 2 negative and do like natural plain yoghurt with nuts though have stopped eating it. Would appreciate your advice on this. Thanks
Shame thus bridges psychology and epistemology. It is the same structure that governs both the child’s withdrawal and the institution’s rigidity. We can reframe the Four Questions of Shame as inquiries into both the human soul and the scientific mind:
What areas of companionship are so fundamental to us that we fear their destruction more than death itself? The fear of being cast out from the shared field of meaning—whether familial or disciplinary—drives our conformity. To challenge the dominant ontology is to risk exile from the intellectual tribe.
What punishment cuts so deep that we choose self-destruction over truth? The threat of professional abandonment—the withdrawal of recognition from peers and institutions—makes many scientists collude in reductionism. Emotional and intellectual self-betrayal becomes the price of belonging.
Why do we fear certain inner states—such as shame—so deeply that we sacrifice experience, cognition, and intimacy to avoid them? Because feeling—like complexity—was rendered unspeakable in our early ontological education. The child learns to suppress affect just as the student learns to suppress life in theory.
How do these fears become weaponized in the service of upbringing and education? When teachers, mentors, or institutions use ridicule, exclusion, or silent disconfirmation to enforce orthodoxy, they replicate the phylogenetic structure of shame: control through the fear of relational death.
Shame, then, is not merely an emotion but a strategy, a memory, a scar, a reflex—an epistemic posture. It governs both the developing child and the self-image of modern science.
To understand shame is to understand the terms under which not only the self, but knowledge itself, was first allowed to exist.
The question now is whether life science can survive its own shame—whether it can rejoin the living body it long ago disavowed.
https://vegetativetraining.wordpress.com/shame-as-an-institutional-academic-reflex/
Clearly, If we consume corpses along with growth hormones, toxic additives, and other carcinogenic elements that create a toxic bloodstream we will develop cancerous conditions in the human anatomy and physiology. If we consume what is appropriate for humans and not the USDA corporate diet, we can prevent and recover from chronic and degenerative dis-eases. As a Naturopathic Practitioner and hygienic nutritional consultant for the past 54 years I have studied how corruption has reached the food industry and how it has spread throughout the political, medical, military industrial complexes.
Thank You, Dr. Marik. It appears that I don’t have to make any changes if I get cancer, though with beans, bicycling, green tea and a vegetable garden I’m hopeful to die of old-age, instead.
I’ll group this with Part-1 in my next blog post, for the benefit of any who might take it to heart.
Many thanks and many Blessings Dr. Marik
Is there a recommended meal replacement shake (similar to the Ka’chava and 310 Shake brands) that can be purchased in Canada?
You have two options. Ask a dietician in Canada.or Move the the USA.. I can give you directions Paul
The most comprehensive supplement to a healthy or unhealthy diet that I have found is HEAL QUICK* Miracle 2000 GOLD. Companies such as Nature’s Plus, Buried Treasure and others do offer food-sourced products which are available at health food stores that value quality.