Well this section is the cancer diaries so here we go, it’s been an interesting, frustrating, and eye opening time. I will say this again, and again. Our healthcare system in the US is a piece of shit, they are killing us for profit and they don’t care. Sure there are some great doctors and scientists doing great things, inside a broken system based on profit not outcomes. And oncology? I think some people should be in prison, not being dramatic, or crazy. They are literally killing people every day as cancer keeps increasing year after year.
I just completed Day 0 of my first chemo round, and I’m still fasting.
At this point, I’ve been fasting for over 96 hours, with plans to refeed at ~100+ hours, the afternoon after my chemo pump is removed. That’s four full days without food. Intentionally, strategically. This is part of the Kill Switch Protocol I’m following, which uses deep fasting and ketosis to weaken cancer cells while protecting healthy tissue from chemo damage.
I went into chemo in a fully fasted state, GKI under 1, with ketones at 5.2 and glucose at 65, a clear zone of therapeutic ketosis. I had prepared my body for this like a battlefield: metabolically quiet, glucose-starved, and protected.
But the moment chemo began things changed. I highly recommend anyone dealing with cancer personally or someone in your life, read this book please. I about walked out of chemo treatment yesterday because of what I found in this very well written book.
Chemo + Sugar: The Unavoidable Collision
The infusion started with oxaliplatin, a platinum-based drug delivered in a 5% dextrose solution (sugar water). This is standard protocol, and yes I argued against it. But the system doesn’t budge easily, and so I compromised by continuing to fast through the infusion and the attached 48-hour 5-FU pump.
My glucose spiked to 180 mg/dL. My ketones dropped. My GKI rose above 3.0 leaving the therapeutic zone I worked so hard to enter. It’s incredibly frustrating to build the terrain for weeks and watch it be sabotaged by protocol, not biology.
But this is why I fasted so long beforehand to absorb the hit and recover fast.
As of this morning, my glucose has dropped back to 101, and ketones are holding at 3.5. My GKI is heading back toward therapeutic territory and I’m still fasted, still hydrated, still focused.
One thing that caught me off guard: my tinnitus came back.
I had lived with it for about two years, a soft but persistent ringing in both ears. Over time, I got used to it. But I noticed something curious: when I entered deep ketosis last month, the tinnitus vanished. I didn’t even notice it was gone until it came back yesterday, within hours of chemo starting.
It’s louder now than before not painfully so, but noticeably sharper. One solid, consistent tone. Bilateral. And clearly tied to something that changed inside me fast.
Is it neuroinflammation? Glucose spike? Chemo’s cochlear toxicity? Probably some combination of all three.
It’s too early to say for sure, but I’m tracking it closely now. And if it resolves again once I return to full ketosis, I may have just stumbled into something other than my cancer protocol a possible metabolic pathway for treating tinnitus itself.
I’ll keep fasting until tomorrow afternoon. That’ll put me over 100 hours fasted, post-chemo, post-dextrose, and deep into the recovery zone. I’ll refeed gently: broth, eggs, soft proteins, fats. No sugar, no starch. Nothing that feeds the fire.
This is the hard part trusting that all this precision is doing what it's supposed to do: protecting what’s worth saving while the chemo hits what has to die. Or maybe its the chemo that will kill me?
I’ll share more soon on how refeeding goes and what I learn from this round. But for now, I’m focused. Still fasting. Still in this. I am deep in this now, fighting cancer and the system.
Let’s go!
Read this on Substack where it first appeared — if you’re into that sort of thing.
