Dr. Pierre Kory, Dr. Paul Marik, and Dr. Tess Lawrie famously championed the repurposed drug, Ivermectin, saving hundreds of thousands of lives during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Today, faced with the aftermath of Spike Protein disease afflicting millions, they are all working feverishly on a solution.
Part I of this series reviewed how to repurpose compounds like Vitamin D and Ivermectin to combat Long COVID, Vaccine Injury, and Cancer. Furthermore, we explained how Spike Protein disease and cancer bear an uncanny similarity in that they both impair the mitochondria, the energy factories of the cell. Finally, in Part I, we noted the solutions to cancer and spike disease were also similar, as depriving the cell of glucose seemed to help resolve both conditions.
In Part II, we will explore this further through another case history and selected interviews with Dr. Paul Marik. Next, we review the key to removing Spike, which also kills cancer, the process of autophagy. Finally, we will check Dr. Marik’s list of the Top 10 repurposed anti-cancer drugs and later the Top 10 anti-spike compounds. Before getting into the science, let me review Guy Tenenbaum’s brush with death.
Guy Tenenbaum is a 71-year-old French American real estate developer who lived the good life near Miami, Florida, raising a family, retiring with plenty of money, and enjoying spending time in restaurants with good friends. However, the dining came at the price of his health, as he developed obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, and eventually Stage 4 Prostate Cancer. We summarize his story and remarkable recovery below.
After two years of progressive rib pain, Guy insisted he get testing instead of continuing to mask the pain with pills [02:04].
“(The doctor said) you have to take these pills for (pain) – stupid! Then I insisted (on testing), and he sent me for PSA finally, which was 57. And he called me right away and told me you need to go to the hospital and do a biopsy. I saw two doctors, one urologist, and (the other) an oncologist. The urologist told me, ‘okay, we can do nothing, it’s too late – why did you wait so long’ [02:54]?”
Guy explained in broken English, with his thick French accent, that he had gone to his doctors for the symptoms since 2015, and they never suggested he do anything more.
“[03:28] Then I went to the oncologist, who told me, ‘You know it’s too late – there’s nothing to do for you – you will disappear soon – three months.’ He told me I have six metastases in my bones here [pointing to left ribs].”
His two-year history of left rib pain was unrelated to his heart but represented the bone metastases from his Stage 4 Prostate Cancer. He had to inform his wife and family of the grim prognosis.
“It was the worst week of my life [04:05 – 04:11],” he explained while choking back tears. A polite man, he apologized for breaking down during the interview. “Sorry, it’s so painful when I think about (this).”
Following the news, he traveled to Strasbourg, France, his birthplace, and sought a second opinion, where he underwent CT scanning and other studies. The doctor gave the same prognosis. In his broken English, Guy interpreted what the second opinion physician told him, “No chance, no chance – I cannot give you anything because you are already dead [05:21] – but don’t worry because we have a good medication to treat the pain.”
Guy then did what others might. He went to a restaurant to go out with a bang and to enjoy a fine last meal. But that was just before his transformation from one who passively accepted the diagnosis to one who chose to fight and do his own research.
“I went to the best restaurant. I was with a friend of mine. Afterward, I ate a big cake because (I) was finished – And the day after I came back to the USA, and I think it’s impossible, I will not accept [05:54]!”
Guy reasoned that because no one else would rescue him, it was up to him to save himself. So he began researching PubMed, including articles from Nobel Prize-winning scientists. For example, he studied Dr. Thomas Seyfried and the Metabolic Theory of Cancer.
He studied the work of Dr. Otto Warburg and Dr. Wilhelm Brunings [06:41]. But most significantly, he discovered the key, autophagy, related to the work of 2016 Nobel Prize winner Dr. Yoshinori Ohsumi [06:54]. Many studies built on Ohsumi’s foundational work and applied it to cancer. Recent studies on cancer show how autophagy, the lysosomal clean-up of cellular debris, is controlled by the mTOR pathway and turned on by fasting. Not only can fasting help fight cancer, but fasting can enhance chemotherapy and radiation effectiveness and dramatically lessen its toxicity.
Guy immediately put this knowledge into practice by fasting and consuming a ketogenic diet when he did eat. “[07:40] I had to understand what happened, and when I understood, I find the solution, like I said autophagy.”
When asked what specifically Guy did, he responded, “[11:54] The first one, and I think the most important was fasting, and I fast a long, long time. I fast one time 45 days, another time three days and one meal a day after one month. I did this almost eight months in the last one year and a half.”
Guy was afraid if he did not fast, he might not survive the cancer [12:31]. So Guy also added nutrients like green tea, turmeric (which contains curcumin), protein, cruciferous vegetables, other greens, etc.
He says it worked, and he is now cancer free. He started a YouTube channel to help others, and he reports many have written him thanking him as they found similar benefits.
He explains, “We gave our subscribers what we are doing, and we have results. There are plenty of people who said you saved my life, you saved my wife’s life, you saved my brother’s life [16:29].”
Guy remarks that he doesn’t understand why everyone with cancer doesn’t fast and take the nutrients he did. “But why each people with cancer don’t do that. I don’t understand. They don’t want to live.”
The interviewer interjected, “[16:58] I think they do want to live. They’re confused and they don’t understand how it works probably. And they’re being told something completely different. And unfortunately, they are going with a different route, and that’s unfortunate.”
Indeed. My friend with brain cancer added overnight fasting and avoided sugar and processed food. In addition to taking curcumin, he added four repurposed drugs – Mebendazole, Atorvastatin, Doxycycline, and Metformin. In addition, he added other supplements, including Vitamin E, Boswellia serrata, Omega 3, Vitamin D3, and Melatonin.
Evan did this in addition to the standard of care. He received the repurposed drugs and supplements through the Care Oncology Clinic, a second opinion that I cannot recommend strongly enough. And now Evan has defied the survival odds at almost four years with a condition where the average survival is 12.7 months with only the standard treatment.
Guy also beat the odds by not accepting the standard treatment that would likely have meant his death within three months. He visited Dr. Thomas Seyfried in Boston to personally thank him for his ketogenic diet which saved his life.
Two years after the first interview, Dr. Berg interviewed him again in 2022, four years after his oncologists gave him three months to live. Guy’s appearance is remarkable for a cancer survivor. Here is someone the medical establishment threw away as being untreatable and incurable. And here he is today, cancer free, due to his determination to review the literature himself, and based upon the science, finding a way to survive despite his doctors.
“[02:40] I find the publication on PubMed, Nature, and all this it’s written what we have to do. And I don’t understand why oncologists don’t know that. My oncologist told me to keep doing what you are doing because it works. But they are not interested in doing the same. That is why I need you to spread the word (looking at the interviewer).”
I could relate. I, too, want to spread the word because far too many people are dying of cancer and not receiving proper care, but only profitable care.
Proper care would involve educating patients on the appropriate diet and nutrition, the right supplements, and the suitable repurposed drugs to suppress cancer stem cells. And proper care would not involve sending a patient home to die with hospice and opioids if the patient wanted to fight to stay alive.
But I digress.
So now, we turn to repurposed drugs and supplements for Spike Protein disease. And allow me to quote the great Dr. Paul Marik, the second most highly published Critical Care Specialist in the world, yet undoubtedly the most caring. He developed the Vitamin C Sepsis protocol to save patients in the throes of septic shock from almost certain death.
When one listens to him explaining how he saved his first patient with IV Vitamin C, one can understand the intense empathy of this physician and only wish today’s oncologists had 1/10 of this quality.
Dr. Marik will tell you, "The spike protein is one of the most toxic substances that human beings can be exposed to [02:00].”
It seems another great physician, one of the most highly published cardiologists in the nation, and the founder of the Cardio-Renal Society of America, Dr. Peter McCullough, said almost the same, “This is far and away the most lethal, toxic, biologic agent that has ever been injected into a human body in American history, and it’s going strong, with no mention of safety by our officials, with wild enthusiasm by our hospitals and hospital administrators, with doctors supporting it [1:37:08].”
And interestingly, both Drs. McCullough and Marik were victims of unrelenting and vicious attacks on their careers after speaking out against the narrative, with McCullough being fired from Baylor Scott and White Health System and Marik being suspended from Sentara Hospital System after he sued for the right to prescribe Ivermectin.
However, Dr. Marik and Dr. McCullough are speaking out now more than ever with Dr. McCullough’s recent interview on Epoch Times with investigative reporter Jen Jekielek and now his interview with Dr. Paul Marik.
“[02:09] Spike causes profound inflammation. It activates clotting. It causes autoantibodies. It causes damage to the endothelium of blood vessels. And it has some really bad effects on genes, and on the genes involved in cancer suppression. Spike protein actually activates many genetic pathways which lead to cancer, and it’s a form of cancer called Turbo Cancers – and this is related to the Spike Protein.”
Marik goes on, “[03:20] Probably the best studies are done by this really brave pathologist in Germany. In the US, if someone dies unexpectedly, you can’t look for Spike; it’s not allowed. But Dr. Arne Burkhardt in Germany has done over 75 autopsies on patients who’ve died post-vaccination, and the findings are astonishing and, to be truthful, scary. Because basically, the body is packed with spike protein – in a way that’s completely unbelievable. There’s spike protein in the brain, spike protein in the heart, spike protein in the vasculature, and it actually causes a disease of blood vessels which you see with Syphilis. It causes necrosis, which is death of the wall of the blood vessel. It’s called medial necrosis, and the blood vessel ruptures.”
Marik compared the toxicity of spike protein to that of Cyanide. “[04:25] Cyanide kills you quickly. Spike protein kills you slowly, so it’s as toxic as Cyanide – but this is a slow, progressive organ dysfunction leading to death.”
Marik explained that if your goal were to design a drug to treat COVID-19 it would be Ivermectin because it has all the properties you would want in a drug to combat the disease [04:50]. Conversely, Marik explained that if your goal were to design a drug that would disable people, it would look like Spike Protein.
Dr. Marik did not hold back when asked about the relative risks of spike protein disease in those with long COVID compared to those jabbed.
“[07:24] When you get the jab, the amount of spike protein is exponentially higher than with natural infection, and that’s why we see all these complications from the vaccine.”
“Most people with long COVID, the average is four months, and then they get better. We know with the vaccine, these people have such a load of spike protein, that two years, three years after the jab, they’re still highly symptomatic, and I think it’s related to the load of spike protein [08:02].”
Dr. Paul Marik co-authored a recently published landmark paper with Dr. Tess Lawrie on managing spike protein diseases that was published in the Journal Microorganisms. In their paper, the researchers note, “Clearing of spike proteins can also be accomplished by increasing autophagy, which clears proteins and recycles their amino acids [1].”
They further report, “Autophagy can be upregulated by fasting and calorie restriction [2], especially if protein is reduced [3]. Autophagy in many instances does not require the complete cessation of food intake (protocols are available at https://COVID19criticalcare.com/treatment-protocols/, accessed on 15 April 2023). Sharply decreasing protein intake can upregulate autophagy pathways [4], and this can be accomplished while still eating, which makes this more approachable as a protocol. Regular fasting was also associated with better outcomes from acute COVID-19 [5].
When asked by journalist Jen Jekielek what could be done to rid the body of spike protein, Marik answered, “Autophagy – an evolutionary process which was discovered in yeast [14:51].” And my readers should all know by now it was discovered by 2016 Nobel Prize winner Dr. Yoshinori Ohsumi, and it is the same process that helped Guy Tenenbaum survive his Stage 4 Cancer. And autophagy is activated when a person fasts.
“[15:02] And so what the body does when it detects foreign protein, misfolded protein, dysfunctional protein, it destroys it, because it figures out this is not good, I want to get rid of it.”
Marik simplifies and summarizes, “”[15:33] So it’s the garbage disposal system. You know it collects the garbage and then puts it through the slicing machine and trashes it. It’s an ingenious system and it’s evolved over millions of years. And it’s how the cell deals with these toxic proteins. So what you want to do is embrace it and enhance the ability of the cell to break down these proteins.”
“Many of these drugs are toxic. So what we really want to do is embrace the ability of the host to heal itself. And so you want to enhance autophagy, and the most potent method of activating autophagy is called intermittent fasting or Time Restricted Feeding [16:33].”
“Whenever you eat, you switch off autophagy through the mTOR pathway. So glucose and insulin proteins switch off this process. However, when you deprive the cell of glucose and protein, it switches on autophagy [17:10].”
Marik notes that autophagy is essential for brain clearing during sleep – glymphatic flow. Lack of autophagy during sleep impairs this and increases the risk for neurodegenerative conditions. Likewise, deficient autophagy also sets the stage for the early development of malignant tumors.
Autophagy has many uses, not the least of which is getting rid of spike protein. Autophagy also reduces aging, neurodegenerative disease, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and risk for cancer.
“[19:18] But the implications are much further. It (autophagy) prevents aging. It prevents Alzheimer’s Disease, and it likely reduces the risk of cancer; it reduces the risk of metabolic syndrome and diabetes. So we started this journey looking at intermittent fasting to get rid of spike protein, but as you know, the implications are now far-reaching. And that’s why we’ve gone on this new journey.”
As I pondered what Dr. Marik was saying, I immediately recognized that Guy Tenenbaum, in addition to curing his cancer with autophagy, had also cured his metabolic syndrome. He no longer had abdominal obesity if you review his photos before and after.
Dr. Paul Marik has famously stated that overnight fasting – to produce autophagy – was how he cured his Type II Diabetes and could go off all his diabetic medication. And I wrote a book about my own journey of healing myself from Insulin Resistance using overnight fasting in my Coffee Cure book, published years before the Pandemic. Dr. Marik notes, “[22:00] Coffee activates autophagy and has really important phytochemicals.” I use it during the 16-hour overnight fast, hence the title of my book. Marik cautions to avoid sweeteners or anything with glucose or lactose, like milk. Heavy cream is ketogenic and does not block autophagy.
Dr. Marik notes that 40% of all cancers are caused by Insulin Resistance [29:46]. IR was the likeliest cause of Guy Tenenbaum’s cancer. High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, and High Cholesterol are the three hallmarks of Insulin Resistance, and Guy had all three before his cancer developed.
“Insulin Resistance causes high Insulin, which causes Insulin Growth Factor which activates cancer – so there’s a direct correlation between Metabolic Syndrome, Insulin Resistance, and Cancer. Coronary Disease is not due to cholesterol. That’s a myth perpetuated by the food industry going back to the 1960s. Coronary Disease is caused by Insulin Resistance [30:13].” In my experience, as detailed in the Coffee Cure book, my decades-long problem with High Blood Pressure suddenly resolved after I reversed my Insulin Resistance.
Marik explains that processed food consumption, specifically corn syrup-containing foods, is the primary reason Americans suffer from Insulin Resistance – “[28:40] Fructose is different than glucose, and most of these things have high levels of corn fructose – and fructose is metabolized to fat in the liver – it causes a fatty liver (disease) which causes this process of Insulin Resistance.”
“[27:55] It’s these chemicals and additives and flavorings and preservatives in food that act on the pancreas to cause oxidative injury and insulin release that causes obesity, so rather than the obesity causing Insulin Resistance, she’s postulating that it’s this toxic diet causing Insulin Release that’s causing obesity.”
Fasting is recommended as the primary way to induce autophagy, the key to eliminating the dreaded spike protein. “[37:18] Intermittent fasting – you buy less food, you’re saving money, so no one’s making money out of this, but if we actually adopted this across the country, we could reduce our expenditure on health care by at least 50%.”
Moreover, Dr. Marik noted that we could eliminate most cancers by adding Vitamin D, Omega 3, Metformin, and some lifestyle changes.
“[39:29] There was a study recently published in a Peruvian Journal which looked at three simple interventions to reduce cancer – a prospective, randomized study – they gave patients 4000 units of Vitamin D, one gram of Omega 3 plus a simple home exercise program – and they reduced the risk of cancer by 50%. Just think of the implications. I would add one or two compounds – I would probably add Melatonin to that, and I would probably add Metformin and treat Insulin Resistance. You could eliminate cancer from this planet.”
But the problem is that it would also reduce Big Pharma’s profits – and this is something they will not allow.
“[40:25] They want you to take drugs forever that don’t cure disease, that just suppress symptoms.”
Dr. Marik explains that most physicians do not understand or use the most potent intervention to lower one’s risk of cancer. “[49:15] Most medical doctors don’t know because they’ve been isolated from this – it’s called brain-washing, propaganda, manipulation. So I use Vitamin D because the amount of data supporting the concept that Vitamin D deficiency causes cancer and that supplementing with Vitamin D reduces your risk of cancer is overwhelming. And yet, nobody knows about it, and nobody cares. Medicine is controlled by Big Pharma and the food industry is controlled by the Big Nutrition companies.”
Marik comes to the crux of the problem. “[49:45] And I think they are in cahoots to keep Americans as unhealthy as they can – by promoting bad food, which causes all of these diseases for which you take drugs which are not curative. They suppress the symptoms but do not treat the disease. So we need a reawakening because this current medical system is broken.”
Just ask Guy Tenenbaum, whose physicians were more interested in treating his rib pain with pain relievers rather than figuring out what was causing it. They were more interested in giving him Lisinopril to treat the symptoms of high blood pressure than getting rid of his Insulin Resistance which would have stopped the need for his prescription medication.
While Vitamin D remains Marik’s top choice as an anti-cancer compound, what are the other nine on his Top 10 list? In his soon-to-be-published and highly anticipated Cancer Monograph, Dr. Marik lists 20 drugs and interventions. These are his Top 10 recommended repurposed compounds and strategies:
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