The Cancer, The Cure, and The Con

What Fighting for My Life Taught Me About the American Healthcare Racket

Kind of a Van Morrison day today, off and Into the Mystic.

So while navigating cancer, it has become painfully clear to me how dysfunctional our healthcare system is and I don’t mean the obvious stuff. Yes, it’s overpriced. Yes, it’s slow. Yes, it’s broken. But what people don’t talk about is how deep the rot goes. How Big Pharma rigs outcomes. How “cures” get buried if they can’t be monetized. How medicine became market, and patients became marks.

This isn’t inefficiency. This is design. The system isn’t failing. It’s doing exactly what it was built for: turning sick people into recurring revenue. And if you stumble across science that disrupts that cycle? You’ll find yourself ghosted, gaslit, or outright gagged.

The Illusion of Choice

You think you’ve got options. You don’t. Your doctor’s hands are tied by formularies written in backrooms by insurance companies and pharma lobbyists. Your oncologist isn’t working off a playbook of healing he’s navigating a minefield of liability, policy, and profit.

There are therapies out there that work. Some better. Some safer. But if they’re not FDA-approved, if they don’t come wrapped in a patentable molecule, they vanish like smoke. Patients are told “this is your only option” when in reality, it’s just the only option that’s billable.

The Suppression Game

We’re not talking snake oil here. We’re talking real, research-backed treatments like RSO oil, off-label drugs, metabolic therapy, hyperbaric oxygen. These aren’t fringe. They’re inconvenient. Inconvenient to a system that wants patients dependent, not cured.

If cancer remission is bad for business, then disruption is treated like treason.

There are stories, too many to ignore, of promising therapies shelved, clinical data buried, doctors blackballed for trying to color outside the corporate lines. People don’t die because we lack the knowledge. They die because the cure doesn’t fit the business model.

Clinical Trials or Financial Traps

You hear “clinical trial” and think hope. But most trials are structured not to find truth, but to find profitability. They aren’t neutral. They’re funded by the same companies that stand to gain from selective outcomes. If your biomarkers don’t match the trial’s revenue target? You’re out. If the trial goes south? The results never see daylight.

You want a clinical trial? Great. Just hope your survival lines up with their shareholder value.

Living on the Fringe to Stay Alive

That’s how people end up on the fringe. Not because they’re desperate fools, but because they’re rational survivors. When the center lies to you enough, you stop trusting the center.

So we fast before chemo. We track glucose and ketones like our lives depend on it, because they do. We microdose psilocybin. We fly to Thailand for treatments not legal here, not because they’re dangerous, but because they’re unprofitable.

And sometimes, it works. Not because we believe in magic, but because we believe in our biology more than the system pretending to care about it.

The Science That Got Silenced

Let’s talk Warburg. Otto Warburg discovered that cancer cells devour glucose even when oxygen is present, a phenomenon now known as the Warburg Effect. He won a Nobel Prize for it. Then the system nodded politely and locked it in the archives.

Because Warburg’s work said cancer was metabolic. That it could be starved. That mitochondria mattered. That maybe, just maybe, cancer wasn’t some mysterious genetic beast, but a cellular energy glitch.

Fast forward to Dr. Thomas Seyfried. He picked up that torch and published Cancer as a Metabolic Disease, laying out how dietary interventions, fasting, and metabolic targeting could cripple cancer’s energy supply.

But there’s a problem: you can’t patent a fasting protocol. You can’t bill $50,000 a month for ketosis. So the science gets ignored. Dismissed. Buried under the weight of billion-dollar drug ads and white-coat gas lighting.

And yes cancer is costing me $50,000 a month, let that sink in.

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"They poisoned me with chemo... then handed me a sugar shake to wash it down."

(Ensure: brought to you by the same system that thinks cancer loves kale but dies from corn syrup.)

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This System Doesn’t Want You to Heal

I’ve sat in rooms with doctors who told me diet didn’t matter. That sugar was harmless.

That mitochondrial function was irrelevant. And I watched them say it with a straight face because that’s what their training demanded. Because deviating from the pharma-fed script means risk. Means lawsuits. Means lost funding.

So the lie continues. And people die.

Not because they didn’t fight hard enough.
But because the system never intended for them to win.

Dragging the Truth Into the Light

This isn’t just about me. It’s about every patient who’s been lied to, overcharged, and left to rot while CEOs collect bonuses. It’s about the truth getting smothered by stock prices. It’s about science being weaponized not to heal, but to extract.

The system isn’t broken. It’s rigged.

And if we don’t start dragging that truth into the daylight, if we don’t speak it loud and clear and constantly, nothing will change. The cancer isn’t just in our bodies it’s in our institutions.

So yeah, I’m fighting for my life.
But I’m also fighting for the truth.
Because if the system won’t save us,
we sure as hell better save each other.