by Simon Yu, MD | Oct 1, 2025 | Chronic Disease, Therapies
You may be cursed to live a lot longer than you bargained for. That is exactly what I told one of my patients. He was a retired college professor, divorced and living alone. He was a self-claimed liberal, a cynical, sarcastic professor with multiple medical problems...
by Simon Yu, MD | Feb 1, 2024 | Cancer, Self-Help, Therapies
Theory: Metabolic therapy is an important part of overall cancer therapy but not a cure for all cancer. Let me explain. Metabolic therapy for cancer has been championed by Professor Thomas Seyfried from Boston College in his book, Cancer as a Metabolic Disease in...
by Simon Yu, MD | Jul 14, 2019 | Cancer, Chronic Disease, Parasites/Fungi
Co-Author: Frederick T. Guilford, MD. Is it possible to treat cancer as a neglected infectious disease? Is cancer a metabolic disease, with tumors growing – and metastases spreading – like a metabolic parasite? It may sound farfetched, but there is growing...
by Simon Yu, MD | Nov 16, 2018 | Cancer, History of Medicine, Parasites/Fungi, Therapies
Parasites are masters of deception, masters at creating fields of distorted reality. I had never heard of the term, “reality distortion field,” until I was in Baden-Baden, Germany for Medicine Week earlier this month. I gave a lecture at the Complementary Oncology...
by Simon Yu, MD | Apr 15, 2016 | Cancer, Chronic Disease, History of Medicine, Therapies
The 10:1 ratio of bacteria living in the human body to human cells has been promoted like the Gospel. Nobody had questioned this ratio until recently. Calculations of human microbiomes suggest a very different ratio (Science News, Feb 2016 by Tina Hesman Saey). This...
