This protocol was derived by the author’s personal experience, which is often how we move forward in health. It’s amazing what you can find when you are desperate for yourself or your loved ones. This is certainly true in Lymeland. The sick and infected are the ones who find answers.
This is the first time a 90% cancer prevention threshold has been achieved using six or fewer readily available, over-the-counter agents—making it both scientifically sound and practically achievable for the majority of people.
The author then traces hidden sources of carcinogens that drive cancer:
processed meat at 3 daily servings elevates colorectal cancer risk to levels comparable to heavy smoking
sugar-sweetened beverages create a metabolic environment that systematically promotes cancer growth
advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) caused by high temperature cooking, food additives and ultra-processed foods (UPFs) operate as independent carcinogens multiplying cancer risk beyond sugar and processed ingredients alone, driving chronic inflammation, promoting tumor cell growth and immune evasion and creating hypoxic conditions
fast food
synergistic combination of the 4 carcinogens listed above creates catastrophic AGE accumulation – a continuous state of cellular damage and malignant transformation
By eliminating the carcinogen listed and adopting Mediterranean-style eating, overall cancer is reduced 50-66% across multiple cancers – which rivals or exceeds pharmaceutical interventions.
Dosage Protocol: Nine Agents Daily
Vitamin D3: 1000-2000 IU
Curcumin: 500-1000 mg + piperine
EGCG: 400-800 mg
Omega-3 (EPA/DHA): 1000-2000 mg (500-1000 mg for prostate)
Aged Garlic Extract: 2.4 mL daily OR 600-900 mg standardized extract
Another ill-conceived effort to reform the Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) pathway directly threatens access to countless safe supplements and natural products. Action Alert!
THE TOPLINE
Rep. Pallone’s GRAS reform bill would eliminate the self-affirmed GRAS pathway and replace it with an FDA pre-approval system—raising costs, reducing competition, and threatening access to many safe, natural supplement ingredients.
The bill gives FDA broad new powers to retroactively challenge existing ingredients and to reassess GRAS substances without considering dose, opening the door to EU-style bans on nutrients essential for health.
While transparency reforms are needed, abolishing the “self-GRAS” pathway entirely would overwhelm FDA and harm consumers, all while failing to address the real problem: the risk assessment approach used by the agency itself that has allowed many dangerous food additives to remain on the US market.
Over the last few months, we’ve been telling you about federal bills aimed at reforming how food and supplement ingredients come to the market through the “Generally Recognized as Safe” (GRAS) pathway. These bills have come on the heels of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. identifying the elimination of dangerous food additives as a priority, asking the FDA to explore eliminating the “self-GRAS” pathway, whereby companies certify an ingredient as GRAS and add it to food without notifying the agency.
We’ve argued that many of these proposals, however well-intentioned, are misguided. Yes, we all want safer food. Yes, some unscrupulous companies may take advantage of the self-GRAS pathway to sneak bad ingredients into food. But the truth is that the US GRAS system is the primary mechanism used to get micronutrients—like vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and thousands of botanicals—as well as food additives like dyes, preservatives, thickeners and a whole host of other additives that have technological, rather than nutritional, functions, onto the US market.
This means that if you set up roadblocks and pre-market approvals for the food additives that any health-conscious consumer might have concerns about, you also threaten consumer access to thousands of entirely safe, natural ingredients which come to the market as GRAS—including many of the ingredients in supplements you care about. Changing the entire regime into a de facto pre-market approval system, with the FDA as the gatekeeper, is, as we wrote in our white paper on this topic, like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. It will have the effect of reducing consumer access to some of the healthiest ingredients that are both know to be safe and proven to be of benefit to health. It will also impact the smaller, more innovative manufacturers and suppliers the most by creating regulatory barriers that are only accessible to big players. This is exactly what we don’t want because it ends up depriving citizens of choice.
A Push for Reform That Misses the Mark
A bill introduced by Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) to reform the GRAS system makes many of the same mistakes as the other bills we’ve covered previously (here and here). Rep. Pallone’s bill proposes eliminating ‘self-GRAS’ entirely, requiring companies to submit detailed notifications to the FDA on new GRAS substances; only after the FDA has issued a written statement to not object to the GRAS notice can that ingredient be used. This is a pre-approval system for GRAS ingredients, plain and simple, which will increase costs, decrease competition, and eliminate many safe, healthy ingredients from the marketplace.
Speaking to the problems with this bill, ANH General Counsel Jonathan Emord said, “Regrettably, Congressman Frank Palone’s bill eliminates all future self-GRAS but grandfathers all prior self-GRAS determinations, leaving in the market the very subset of unsafe food additives in need of removal. The bill is underinclusive and overinclusive, failing to direct government to target demonstrably unsafe food additives for market removal, whether FDA approved or self-GRAS—the approach ANH advocates in our white paper on the subject).”
A Dangerous Expansion of FDA Power
Further, the FDA is handed the authority to require a GRAS notice for any ingredient considered GRAS before the enactment of the bill, giving the agency arbitrary authority to go after ingredients it doesn’t like. You can bet that natural substances and supplements that compete with drugs are on the hit list.
The Precautionary Principle Problem
The bill also requires the FDA to reassess 10 GRAS ingredients every three years, looking at, among other things, whether the ingredient is carcinogenic or can cause reproductive or developmental issues—without specifying that the assessment should be based on the intended use and dose. This pushes us directly into the problems caused by relying on the precautionary principlewhich dominates assessments by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), thatwe wrote about previously, that have been catastrophic for consumer choice in Europe.
Emord also spoke to this issue: “This bill invites all new food additives to be assessed for carcinogenicity and mutagenicity without regard to dose. That undermines the historic toxicological basis for adulteration law—in effect, the Paracelsian Principle—wherein dose determines toxicity. Without that limitation on the exercise of government power, FDA may well adopt the Precautionary Principle as used in the EU, which gives essentially unbridled discretion to the government to remove food additives on cancer or birth defect grounds without having to prove those effects result from the form or dose levels actually being recommended. That approach would, if applied to existing food additives and other GRAS ingredients, cause many to be banned that are health enhancing, such as those containing selenium. That is because many substances we commonly consume, and are essential for good health, become carcinogenic or mutagenic at high dose levels. It is a foundational truism of toxicology that everything—even water—is toxic at some dose level.
The upshot is, under bills like Rep. Pallone’s, we risk losing access to safe, health-promoting ingredients due to a misapplication of the precautionary principle. This is a principle that gathered momentum decades back as a means of limiting exposure to environmental chemicals like pesticides and air pollutants to which exposure has no benefits, only the potential for risk. So when regulators now apply this same principle to substances like nutrients that have distinct benefits, they risk using the inevitable uncertainty in the science to eliminate exposure (altogether or at least a beneficial levels), so depriving us of benefits.
Transparency Is Needed—But This Isn’t It
None of this is to say that there aren’t problems with the current GRAS system. We’ve laid out these issues in detail in our recent white paper, Reforming GRAS: Food Safety Without Sacrifice. Notably, the drive towards more transparency is crucial. It is not acceptable that companies can self-certify an ingredient as safe and add it to our food without any transparency or accountability. That’s why, among other recommendations in our white paper, we call for the creation of a GRAS Transparency Register, making all GRAS determinations public for review by independent experts, consumer groups, and researchers.
The Real Source of Harmful Additives: FDA Approvals
There’s a common misconception that the self-affirmed GRAS pathway is the main culprit behind the flood of harmful ingredients in our food supply. But many of the additives most often cited by critics—Red 40, Yellow 5, titanium dioxide, potassium bromate, aspartame, sodium nitrite, and BHA—have actually been reviewed and approved by the FDA, either as food or color additives or through the GRAS process itself. These substances were greenlit despite substantial evidence of health risks. The real issue, then, is that most harmful additives were approved through official FDA channels—not industry exploitation of loopholes.
A Better Path Forward
Abolishing the self-GRAS pathway altogether, as proposed by Rep. Pallone’s bill as well as other bills, would wreak havoc on the food and dietary supplement industries and create an enormous workload for the FDA, which the agency would likely be unable to manage given current staffing. Creating another de facto pre-market approval system undermines the original purpose of the GRAS pathway: to streamline the introduction of safe ingredients, including many natural ingredients, into food.
We need lawmakers to hear from YOU, their constituents, that real reform means not throwing the nutrient baby out with the GRAS bathwater.
I continue to marvel at the many silver linings of the disastrous COVID era. One such silver lining is the plethora of information not only about successful cancer treatments but the truth about the very nature of it. Since a recent paper shows that chemotherapy the current poison treatment of choice that oncologists get a direct cut from, has a 97.9% failure rate in the U.S. over five years, these treatments are just in time as the American Cancer Society Projects diagnoses to exceed 2 MILLION in 2025.
Due to the fact ‘the powers that be’ have proven to be unbelievably corrupt hooligans, people have begun to realize that they in fact have a brain they can use for themselves!
This awakening has brought many to the conclusion they can research, learn, and experiment just as well as those in a fraudulent, indoctrinated medical machine for profit which spews out mostly corrupt people with a few letters after his or her name. (There are always rare exceptions and thank God for them!)
The world has already been regaled with the success of the Joe Tippen’s Protocol, Dr. Marik’s success, Dr. Makis’ success, Mel Gibson’s testimony of 3 friends healed of stage four cancer, a major review paper showing high dose IV vitamin C (75-100g, 2-3X week for 6-8 cycles) as a promising anti-cancer agent, and entire websites dedicated to high level guidance based on research for the layman who is interested in cancer treatments. (COVID mania also exposed the ‘good guy’ doctors who were and continue to be tenaciously persecuted for daring to think for themselves)
Fast for 42 days, consuming nothing but water and occasional coffee or tea
Take 1,000mg of aged garlic(scientists believe it’s responsible for 30% of his recovery). Go here for research on how aged garlic:
reduced stomach cancer by 52% due to reducing IGF-1, activating autophagy, suppressing a master switch controlling inflammation & cancer stem cell survival, and enhancing Natural Killer Cells by up to 300%.
even 17 years after stopping it, subjects still had a 34% lower cancer mortality
has an anti-aging effect, slows heart disease progression, improves brain health, and beats EGCG and curcumin due to its bioavailability, clinical results, and track record.
causes blood levels peak within hours but clinical benefits usually appear:
2-4 weeks – improved blood pressure and inflammation markers
3 months – max cardiovascular benefits
6-12 months – cancer prevention and longevity benefits
Tenenbaum continues to take aged garlic now with meals for better absorption. After his drastic self- experiment his PSA dropped from 58 to 0.1 and scans showed his bone metastases were healing. Six years later, he remains cancer-free.
It’s important to note that aged garlic is quite different from regular garlic or even odorless garlic due to the proprietary aging process which converts harsh compounds into gentle, beneficial ones, which have no odor and cause no irritation. It would require 10-20 cloves of raw garlic a day to achieve 1,000mg. I must add as a personal side note that I actually took 16 cloves of crushed garlic daily, broken down into 4 doses when I first got Lyme/MSIDS, based on the advice of a Master Herbalist. I did it for 2 weeks and it nearly killed me. First, I smelled like I came straight out of Shanghai (the kids banned me from the car), and second my stomach revolted toward the end. It was just too harsh. I will state it made me herx initially, so it gave some benefit.
Due to Tenenbaum’s success, there are now two clinical trials now in the works testing prolonged fasting and fasting-mimicking diets in prostate cancer patients.
The following tables are helpful comparing autophagy effectiveness:
This seminal work has shown there there appears to be an autophagy threshold for cancer suppression, growth factor starvation, insulin suppression, Warburg effect reversal, and sustained immune activation, which the 42 day fast meets but the 16 hour intermittent fast doesn’t.
This analysis demonstrates that dose-response matters dramatically in fasting-induced autophagy:
Milder Ways to Induce Autophagy for the average Joe
Let’s say you don’t have cancer but you want to incorporate helpful aspects of Tennenbaum’s protocol in a more sustainable manner for prevention or other issues?
“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]. Source
For Average Risk Individuals
Daily: 16:8 Time-Restricted Eating
Fast 16 hours (e.g., 8pm – 12pm)
Eat 8 hours (12pm – 8pm)
Quarterly: 4-5 Day Fasting-Mimicking Diet
Every 3 months (4x per year)
1,100 cal day 1; 500 cal/day days 2-5
Expected Results:
✅ Cancer risk reduction: 40-60%
✅ Sustainability: Excellent (85-95%)
✅ Evidence level: Strong (multiple human RCTs)
For High-Risk Individuals (Family History, Genetic Risk)
Daily: 18:6 Time-Restricted Eating
Fast 18 hours (6pm – 12pm)
Eat 6 hours (12pm – 6pm)
Monthly: 48-72 Hour Water Fast
Once per month
Water, tea, coffee only
Quarterly: 4-5 Day FMD
Every 2-3 months
Expected Results:
✅ Cancer risk reduction: 50-70%
✅ Sustainability: Good-Excellent (70-85%)
✅ Evidence level: Very Strong
Optimal Combined Protocol (50-70% Prevention)
DAILY FOUNDATION:
✅ 16:8 Time-Restricted Eating (minimum)
✅ 18:6 TRE for high-risk individuals
✅ Eating window: 12pm – 6pm or 10am – 6pm
✅ Black coffee, tea, water allowed during fast
QUARTERLY INTENSIVE:
✅ Fasting-Mimicking Diet 4 times per year
✅ Day 1: 1,100 calories (plant-based)
✅ Days 2-5: 500 calories/day
✅ ProLon kit or DIY version
✅ Schedule: Jan, April, July, October
OPTIONAL MONTHLY BOOST (High Risk):
✅ 48-72 hour water fast once per month
✅ Or extend one FMD to 7 days
SYNERGISTIC ADDITIONS:
✅ Aged Garlic Extract 2.4g/day
✅ Green tea 3+ cups/day (especially lung cancer prevention)
✅ Curcumin 500mg BID with piperine
✅ Whole food, plant-based diet during eating windows
A dangerous provision has been included in a Congressional spending bill that could spell the end of your access to full-spectrum hemp products. Action Alert!
A provision in the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee’s FY 2026 spending bill would ban all ingestible hemp products containing “quantifiable amounts” of THC or THC-like cannabinoids—effectively outlawing many CBD and full-spectrum hemp oils that contain small, non-psychoactive amounts of THC.
While the measure is framed as targeting unregulated, intoxicating products like delta-8, it goes far beyond that by threatening the entire hemp industry and cutting off consumer access to safe, beneficial full-spectrum hemp products.
The provision still faces hurdles, including reconciliation with the Senate version of the bill and ongoing political uncertainty, but urgent grassroots opposition is needed to prevent it from becoming law.
If you rely on hemp, CBD, or full-spectrum hemp oil to support your health, listen up!
A dangerous provision buried in a House spending bill threatens to ban most of the hemp products currently available on the market. Just as research continues to confirm the remarkable healing potential of hemp and CBD—showing their impact on the body’s endocannabinoid system, which influences everything from mood to immunity—some in Congress are moving to strip away our access. We must raise strong grassroots opposition to stop this misguided policy.
The House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee’s spending bill for FY 2026 contains a deeply troubling provision that effectively bans the production and sale of all hemp-derived products that contain “quantifiable amounts” of THC (one of the psychoactive components of hemp that provides the “high”) or cannabinoids with similar, THC-like effects. What “quantifiable amounts” means specifically is to be determined later by regulators.
Put in plain terms, this would ban all ingestible hemp products with any level of THC in them. This means that many CBD oil and full-spectrum hemp oil products would suddenly become illegal.
The goal of the amendment is to close a loophole created by the previous Farm Bill that has allowed unregulated, intoxicating hemp products on the market. Recall that the 2018 Farm Bill legalized hemp at the federal level, defining it as a cannabis plant with less than 0.3 percent THC. In the six years since that bill became law, some companies found a way to stay within the guardrails put in place by the new law but still be able to chemically synthesize psychoactive or intoxicating products from legal hemp plants. These products include members of the THC family like delta-8 and delta-10. Delta-8 occurs naturally in the hemp plant at miniscule levels, but higher levels of delta-8 THC are produced artificially in the laboratory by chemically converting CBD through a process called isomerization.
While the merits of cracking down on delta-8 and other products can be debated, what’s crystal clear is that this amendment goes far beyond banning delta-8 and similar products and takes a huge swipe at the hemp industry as a whole without any justification.
Some of the best and healthiest products are full-spectrum hemp oils that contain all of the nearly 500 known compounds known to be present in hemp, including cannabinoids (>60), terpenes (>140), and fatty acids that occur naturally in the plant. Among this morass of compounds are tiny, non-psychoactive amounts of THC. The real benefits of hemp come from the “entourage effect” of all these different chemicals acting together. For example, a 2015 study found that highly purified CBD was somewhat effective in treating inflammation and anxiety in mice, but was substantially more effective when the CBD was present in a full spectrum extract because it benefits from the synergy from the full entourage of typically associated compounds.
Banning, in one fell swoop, all hemp products with “quantifiable amounts” of THC is the very definition of throwing the baby out with the bath water and will take vital products out of our medicine cabinets.
Remember, too, that is not the only threat to CBD access. Because CBD has been approved as a drug, the FDA maintains that it cannot be a supplement, though the agency appears only to be going after CBD companies making illegal disease claims. The agency has saidthat it believes a new regulatory pathway is needed to deal with CBD. Whatever that pathway is, you can bet the agency will do its best to protect drug industry profits by making it next to impossible to have affordable CBD supplements.
There are still a number of hurdles before this can ever become law. Similar language was added to the Senate version of this bill, but Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) was able to remove it. House and Senate versions of the bill would need to be further negotiated and reconciled before being sent to the President for approval. The possibility of a government shutdown in the coming weeks further complicates matters.
There is no time to lose. We must oppose this terrible policy and kill it before the bill moves any further.
Action Alert!
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**Comment**
CBD oil has been a game changer for me and my husband. It helps us sleep much more soundly.
Funny how the ‘the powers that be’ always seem mostly concerned with safe, inexpensive, effective products, but are completely blind, deaf, and dumb to unsafe, expensive, and ineffective ‘vaccines’ and drugs.
I’m sure the goal is to ban this so we are all forced to use something Big Pharma greatly profits from.
Background: Fenbendazole (FBZ), an inexpensive and widely accessible antiparasitic drug used in veterinary medicine, has garnered growing interest for its potential as an anticancer therapy. Preclinical studies suggest that FBZ exerts its anticancer effects through a wide variety of mechanisms. While FBZ has shown promise both in vitro and in vivo studies, clinical evidence supporting its use and efficacy in treating metastatic cancer is currently limited.Case Presentations: This report highlights 3 cases of patients with advanced cancer – including breast, prostate, and melanoma. Two patients achieved complete remission, and one achieved near-complete remission after incorporating FBZ into their treatment regimens alongside other therapies (excluding chemotherapy). All three patients tolerated FBZ without any reported adverse effects, and remission was sustained during follow-up periods ranging from 11 months to nearly 3 years.
Conclusion: FBZ demonstrates potential as a novel promising therapeutic option for repurposing in oncology. Its ability to contribute to tumor regression and achieve disease remission warrants further clinical research to establish its efficacy and optimize its use.
For all my readers who are now familiar with our Cancer Stem Cells (CSC) Cancer Tree which was featured in the 2020 book, Surviving Cancer, COVID-19 and Disease: The Repurposed Drug Revolution, we have news! The tree has just been given a makeover by Dr. Paul Marik and the Independent Medical Alliance (IMA) artists.
Dr. Marik and the IMA have improved on the tree’s illustration as shown in their recent Substack here. But more importantly, they have helped reach a vastly wider audience. There is now much realistic hope that the word will get out to patient and oncologist alike. And once this has happened, we will witness improved clinically outcomes. We will witness the long-awaited paradigm shift in cancer care.
The timing is perfect as we are now in an era where cancer is overtaking heart disease as the number one cause of death. The timing is perfect because we are now witnessing a dramatic uptick in cancer cases as a result of widespread spike protein toxicity. And the timing is perfect because using the CSC model, we now have a God-given opportunity to intervene and prevent cancer recurrences following remission. (See link for illustrations, articles, and graphs of effective repurposed agents against cancer)
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