A combo of fasting plus vitamin C is effective for hard-to-treat cancers in mice

Yes, I get that. But actually designing experiments that measures the latter case using mice is extremely difficult and probably impossible. Especially because you are designing these experiments in order to see how these cures might work on humans.

Most likely your unfounded and uncited oversimplification.

He personally does not make any money from that, as he donated all his shares.

Just think of the savings in postage fees alone.

Instead of writing a snarky comment you could bother learning that the Fasting Mimicking Diet consists in something more than water and air.

Agreed. If he thinks he's figured out something that can help a lot of people, it would make sense for him to try and apply what he's learned.

Doesn't have to be shady. In your own research, you are the easiest person to fool.

I try to focus eating during a 6 hour window. I'm not overly strict with myself. Sometimes it ends up 16/8, but on average I'm likely right around 18/6. So I eat most weekdays between 1:00P and 7:00P.

18 hours of the day not eating, 6 eating. It's usually called time restricted eating/feeding or an eating window with the idea being you'd do it every day. This is in contrast to extended/prolonged fasting, which is typically 24hr+.

In general IF (intermittent fasting) is a catch-all phrase, and not a particularly helpful one.

Depends whether it weakens 'you' or the cancer and which succumbs first!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6938162/

Quick take from the abstract: "The vulnerability of cancer cells to nutrient deprivation and their dependency on specific metabolites are emerging hallmarks of cancer. Fasting or fasting-mimicking diets (FMDs) lead to wide alterations in growth factors and in metabolite levels, generating environments that can reduce the capability of cancer cells to adapt and survive and thus improving the effects of cancer therapies. In addition, fasting or FMDs increase resistance to chemotherapy in normal but not cancer cells and promote regeneration in normal tissues, which could help prevent detrimental and potentially life-threatening side effects of treatments. While fasting is hardly tolerated by patients, both animal and clinical studies show that cycles of low-calorie FMDs are feasible and overall safe. "

I would disagree and make the important distinction that many chemo treatment recipients get very thin.

Like saying "I don't have time to take a shower, because my bath takes an hour"

Fasting doesn't have to mean fewer calories. It could mean eating all of your daily calories in a 6 hour window, instead of 3 times per day.

This is incoherent. He speaks on cultural/political/economic issues that he has very little actual interest or knowledge on and comes to very obtuse and banal conclusions. The IDW's schtick is to make your "common sense" feel scientific through flawed logic and appealing to your identity by saying words/phrases like "reason", "logic", and "free speech", without actually practicing the tenets of any of them.

The IDW constantly touts the need for experts, who stand in the face of political correctness, while hypocritically not being experts themselves in the subjects they always want to talk about on public platforms.

To relate this back to technology, it's very similar to designing apps. Everyone feels like they are an expert app designer, simply because they can identity that something feels off about an app, and because they use apps everyday. In fact, they aren't expert app designers, and they are simply identifying problems that most people can identify, and have no real solutions to offer. But because the pain of using the app is shared by many people, a lot of people latch on to loud mouth non-experts for pointing out the obvious and making them feel smart.

In what way?

> Figure3 shows plasma levels following a 36g dose of liposomal vitamin C, for both subjects. This resulted in peak plasma levels, in the region of 400mML21. A 95% interfractile range (34–114), which contains 95% of the distribution with a mean of 74 corresponds to a calculated standard deviation of 17.4. We note that, under these conditions, an outlier measurement of 400mML21 would correspond to a deviation of 10.3 s with a theoretical p-value of 1.6610213 (i.e. p,0.0000000000001). With this high dose, both subjects exceeded their bowel tolerance, leading to diarrhoea. This intolerance presumably arose from the high intake of phospholipid, without food buffering, in fasting individuals. However, our observations using hourly doses suggest that daily intakes of this magnitude are tolerable without bowel effects, as long as the dose is spread throughout the day. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1359084080230542...