Written by Jon on July 27th, 2010

Cancer sucks. Think that’s a naughty thing to say? Consider this: I was speaking at a conference last week when I glanced out into the audience. I saw a muscular dude with a t-shirt that said, in huge letters no-less… “F - - K CANCER.” There were NO dashes in his version… that was added by me for your sake. I mentioned from the stage that I loved his shirt. Sure, it was profane, but I hate cancer so much I didn’t care. Afterwards we struck up a friendship. He was an Aussie rugby player and one super-nice guy. We hit the gym together and managed to come to agreement on the fact that American football is superior. (A bit of levity in an otherwise somber article never hurts, right?) What perfect timing… his t-shirt, that is. This week, it is ALL happening. An ...

A Candle In A Dark Week; Defeating Inflammation

Written by Jon on June 27th, 2009

A Candle In A Dark Week Unless you hitched a ride on NASA’s Lunar Orbiter, you’ve heard the news. In a single day, we lost two people that almost everyone in this country, if not this world, felt as if they knew personally. In the same week, there was a candle flickering in the darkness. A candle fueled by science. By research. By hope. We lost Farrah Fawcett to cancer. But this week a promising new cancer drug has a large number of folks highly optimistic. And of course we lost Michael Jackson. We don’t know why yet. I wonder if we ever will. But still, the candle burns. The light here is a light of reckoning. A light that says, “You are but dust in the wind.” To dust, we return. In a sense, at least. You are also the stuff of stars. I’m not talking ...

Tags: Cancer, Every Other Day Diet, Inflammation, Nutrition