The Medical Advisor

When you cannot speak for yourself, someone else must. In emergency departments, operating rooms, and intensive care units, clinicians need an answer fast—often before families have grasped what’s happening. Who decides whether a new medication is started, a breathing tube is placed, or treatment continues? Without a clear answer, the hospital moves ahead by default. Care advances incrementally, decision by decision, across hours and clinical teams. The breathing tube stays in. Sedation deepens. Each step is meant to stabilize, to buy time. Each one makes sense on its own. By the time families discuss wishes, the question is no longer whether to begin, but whether to stop.This default path carries real weight: pain, side effects, prolonged suffering, mounting costs, and the risk of treatment that overrides what the patient would have wanted or even violates their deeply held values. Health care proxy forms are state-specific, but most can be completed online in minutes. Why Most People...

Executive Summary Dr. Thomas N. Seyfried , Professor of Biology at Boston College, proposes a metabolic model of cancer that challenges the dominant genetic explanation and conventional oncology treatments. Rather than viewing cancer as primarily driven by gene mutations, Seyfried asserts it is fundamentally a metabolic disease centered on dysfunctional cellular energy production. This reframing draws on and expands the historical Warburg effect , emphasizing how cancer cells rely on fermentative metabolism of glucose and glutamine due to defective mitochondrial function.  Standard of Care: The Cut, Poison and Burn Method and Its Miserable Success Record Seyfried is not a fan of conventional medical cancer treatments. As he states in his groundbreaking book, Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: On the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancer, the majority of today’s health care practitioners are required to prescribe conventional cancer treatments like che...