Scott Inhibiting SCOT
It's About Your Mitochondria
My dad doesn’t like the picture of him that I used in our about section, but when I look at him sitting in the chemo chair, I see the courage of a top gun fighter pilot and I can’t help but hear the song Danger Zone playing in the radio background of my head which gives me hope.
On Wednesday we received the remission word. On Thursday, I had my emotional break down. I wasn’t ready to say goodbye to him yet, he is my first Valentine and the reason I’m a successful human being. My life without his help in it would be very different today. Life is a beautiful, precious, fragile gift. Dad has encouraged me to share what we did for him in addition to chemo- Scott inhibiting SCOT. It has been a group effort with dad leading and setting the positive hopeful tone, me doing the research, mom putting what I’ve found into practice, Court keeping the snow shoveled (LOTS OF SNOW TO SHOVEL THIS YEAR), and Jenny sitting with him. He has encouraged me to do more with what we’ve learned, so here we are. It has been a strange winter, but spring has begun, maybe a bit more, depending on where you are. We will keep doing what we have been doing, Scott inhibiting SCOT, because we want the cancer to stay in remission.
As I was researching what to do about what Covid did to my mitochondria; I heard a scientist say that I needed to fix my mitochondria. Once your mitochondria are damaged that’s a bit easier said than done, but with time (in my case) the things I was learning about fixing my virus damaged mitochondria became more and more doable; things like limiting sugar intake, shifting to a low carb diet, fasting (autophagy), and exercise. Oddly enough, Guy Tenenbaum’s video landed in my lap, the day after my dad’s cancer diagnosis. Guy just so happened to be telling his story about how he survived terminal stage 4 prostate cancer primarily by changing his diet and by fasting and by inhibiting SCOT. The mitochondrial dots were connected for me, so I shared what I had found with mom and dad. We are calling all of this a God thing because no one could have orchestrated everything that has happened to us and provided everything we needed to heal in the same way that He ultimately can.
We have learned that cancer as a metabolic disease is not a new concept. It’s an old one that got put on the back burner because of an emphasis that was placed on genes and their role in cancer.
Mitochondria are in your cells, and their job is to produce energy. If they are healthy, you are healthy. Children usually have lots of mitochondria and lots of energy, the elderly tend to have fewer mitochondria and less energy than children. In the 1920’s Otto Warburg described how cancer cells use fermentation to do what they do. Cancer cell fermentation metabolism is a wonky and impaired process that results in less bang for your glucose $$$. In other words, it changes the way the cells work so that less energy is produced for you and more growth is given to it.
In the 1950’s and 60’s most of the cancer drugs developed were based on Warburg’s findings, but in the early 1970’s oncogenes were discovered, and researchers began to think that cancer was a genetic disease rather than a metabolic disease. However, the idea of cancer as a metabolic disease has reemerged and seems to be “simpler” than the cancer as a genetic disease idea seems to be. This is the key factor in why we are here and talking about this now. I don’t know about you, but the idea of cancer as simply being an unavoidable in your genes thing makes me feel a bit hopeless, and gives me a sense of despair, like there is nothing I can do about it except wring my hands or consider cutting out body parts that I can possibly live without to avoid getting it. As was stated in our previous post, what we choose to believe about all of this really does matter. Cancer is complex and there are many things that can cause it, but as was stated in the cancer section from Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-By-Step-Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness by Jon Barron, the human body is capable of preventing and reversing cancer, and that should give us hope. As we have said before, Hope is the beginning of healing, and healing can begin when you believe that something can be done, and you then do what needs to be done. I find it interesting that Jon Barron makes a cancer connection to a compromised immune system. This reminded me of something my thin and healthy, immunology professor, once said about calorie restriction preventing disease. But what can you do if your weight is already down, or your health is fragile due to your age? There are diets that mimic fasting which may be helpful especially since strict fasting is hard for people to do continuously. This has been the work of Dr. Valter Longo at the University of Southern California. Dad was not able to fast, but he has been on a Mediterranean type of diet, and according to mom, he will be staying on this diet from now on. An occasional nacho run may be permitted as a treat here and there. I also can’t help but think of fasting as a religious thing, it still is for some Christians, especially those of us who are in the season of lent. It doesn’t really seem to be a popular American Christian thing to do though which gives me more to wonder about.
Truth is more likely to come out of error if it is clear and definite, than out of confusion, and my experience teaches me that it is better to hold an understood and intelligible opinion, even if it should turn out to be wrong, than to be content with a muddle-headed mixture of conflicting views, sometimes called impartiality, and often no better than no opinion at all.
We’ve covered a lot of ground today. I hope that you have noticed there’s a lot of useful information in the links I’ve provided. Take a look at it all as you can and at your own pace. Mull over what I’ve shared until it makes sense to you. I would like to emphasize this link in particular-
Your Best Strategy Against Cancer | Healthy Keto™ Dr. Berg (drberg.com)
What can you do to prevent or reverse cancer? We can’t tell you that, but we can share with you what we are doing, what our results have been, and give you some information that you may not have heard before. Information that will hopefully help you decide what to put in your own health care protocol and give you some much needed Hope. Feel free to say hello, share your thoughts, or ask questions in the comments section.
If you are a cancer patient, my dad has a question for you- “What about your diet?”
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Sometimes the healthcare system just can’t do everything we want or expect it to, and I think that it took a long illness and the chaos of the Covid pandemic to remind me that as wonderful as modern medicine and science are, they are not perfect and can’t quite guarantee us everything that we would like them to. Looking to the healthcare system first and foremost has become almost automatic for too many of us, let’s not let it take God’s place as first and foremost in our lives. Remember to- Pray first.
From The Daily Office, Anglican Book of Common Prayer 2019
Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love’s sake.
Amen.
