Are Docs Catching Up?

In today's issue:

• Are doctors finally catching up and using AI to save lives?
• How fasting supports cancer treatment by stressing cancer cells

At the Cleveland Clinic, when a patient walks in with chest pain and everyone’s thinking heart attack, an AI system quietly watches the vitals like a paranoid security guard who never blinks: heart rate, temperature, and oxygen.

Patterns humans miss when things get loud.

Dr. James Morrison says it flags sepsis faster, the deadliest hospital killer in America.

Sepsis is a life-threatening medical emergency that happens when the body overreacts to an infection and starts damaging its own organs.

Last year, they saw over 30,000 sepsis cases. About 2,000 deaths. Then the AI showed up, and hundreds of lives started being saved.

At Duke Health, spine surgeon Dr. Brett Rocco uses AI like GPS for surgery. A 3D, real-time map of the spine, FDA-approved, and already used in over 100 surgeries.

Less time under anesthesia, less bleeding, and less recovery hell.

In Ohio, the Cleveland Clinic is testing a neurological AI trained on brain waves.

Dr. Imad Najm’s epilepsy team can see seizures nearly a minute before they hit.

What are your thoughts here? Is this real hope, or are we unknowingly part of a large-scale experiment?

Fasting and Cancer

Cancer feels random, unfair, and out of our control.

But there is a part of the story we never talk about: Cancer cells are not like normal cells; they eat differently, and they grow differently. They're addicted to sugar, and doctors know this so well that they use sugar to find tumors.

They inject a tiny amount of radioactive sugar, and tumors light up like a Walmart parking lot on Black Friday.

That only works because cancer cells are greedy for glucose. This has been known since the 1920s, when Otto Warburg won a Nobel Prize for showing that cancer burns sugar fast and sloppily.

But this doesn't mean sugar causes cancer by itself; it means cancer depends on high sugar and high insulin to thrive. Healthy cells can switch fuels, but cancer cells struggle when sugar drops.

If cancer depends on sugar, why is nutrition barely discussed in cancer care? And why do hospitals sell soda and cookies while using sugar to detect tumors?

Could this be a cultural blind spot?

This is where fasting comes in.

In studies from USC, the Netherlands, Italy, and Germany, short, supervised fasting before chemo helped healthy cells protect themselves while cancer cells became more vulnerable. Patients often had fewer side effects and felt more in control. Not cured, and not saved. Just less destroyed by the process.

This matters.

But fasting isn't for everyone; it must be supervised. Some cancers respond better than others. Anyone telling you fasting replaces treatment is lying, and anyone telling you this research is nonsense hasn't read the journals yet.

We live in a country where one in two adults will face cancer, childhood cancer is rising, and we treat it like bad luck. But we constantly raise insulin, fuel inflammation, and eat from the moment we wake up to the moment we sleep. Then we act shocked when disease shows up.

Constant eating is extreme.

Fear is natural, but so is hope.

Our bodies carry a quiet advantage.