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The Warburg Effect: Why Cancer Loves Sugar
Cancer cells burn sugar even when oxygen is present. This isn't a defect—it's a survival mechanism. Understanding the Warburg effect reveals why cancer is fundamentally a metabolic disease.
Postbirth Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Origin of BLPs?
Breastmilk contains psychoactive endocannabinoids that provide neuroprotection after birth trauma. Could lack of breastfeeding create Backward-Looking People?
Fat, Fibrosis, and Cancer: The Same Phenomenon
When cells make too many free radicals, they have three survival options: make fat, make fibers, or divide. Obesity, fibrosis, and cancer are all the same phenomenon.
Estrogen, Menopause, and the Fat-Burning Connection
Estrogen turns on fat burning via AMPK. This is why women historically live longer than men—and why menopause changes everything.
The Citicoline Discovery: Modulating High-Dose Cannabis
Janet Sweeney discovered that citicoline can completely modulate the negative effects of high-dose cannabis, allowing therapeutic doses without overwhelming side effects.
Calcium: The Universal Activator
Calcium plays a fundamental role in every activation in the body—from muscle contraction to cell death. This probably originates from prebiotic chemistry in the primordial ocean.
The Hydrogen Peroxide + Cannabis Protocol
From Australian skin cancer cases: combining hydrogen peroxide with cannabis oil caused tumors to shrivel within one hour. The rationale: overwhelming cancer cells with free radicals.
The Placebo Effect and the Endocannabinoid System
Dr. Bob believes the cannabinoid system is responsible for the placebo effect. The mind-body connection may work through endocannabinoid modulation.
The Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction: Life in a Petri Dish
A chemical reaction so strange it was rejected for decades—because it proved life could emerge from chemistry.
G.O.D.: Generalized Open System Dynamics
Dr. Bob's playful acronym for the physics that governs all living systems—and why it might be what people have always meant by 'God.'
Stem Cells and Cancer: The Continuum
Cancer isn't a foreign invader—it's your own stem cells losing their way on the spectrum between health and disease.
Two Types of Cancer: Active and Dormant
Not all cancers are the same. Understanding the difference between aggressive and dormant cancer changes everything about treatment.
Retrograde Transmission: The Feedback Loop
Endocannabinoids are unique—they signal backwards, from the receiving neuron to the sending one. This changes everything.
The Two Endocannabinoids: 2-AG and Anandamide
Your body makes two main endocannabinoids with different roles—one is the workhorse, the other is the stress responder.
Pregnenolone: Your Body's THC Brake
Your body has a built-in mechanism to prevent THC overdose—a hormone that acts as a dimmer switch on CB1 activation.
The Neutrophil Nuke: Your Immune System's Nuclear Option
Neutrophils kill pathogens by releasing massive amounts of free radicals—a nuclear explosion at the cellular level.
The 13% Scandal: Why Doctors Don't Know About the ECS
Only 13% of medical schools teach about the endocannabinoid system. This isn't an oversight—it's a scandal.
Exercise: The Endocannabinoid Booster
The 'runner's high' isn't from endorphins—it's from endocannabinoids. Exercise is one of the best ways to boost your ECS.
Charlotte Figi: The Girl Who Changed Everything
How one little girl with severe epilepsy transformed the conversation about cannabis medicine forever.
Jeanne Calment: The Oldest Human Ever
She lived to 122, smoked, drank wine, and ate chocolate. What can the world's oldest person teach us about longevity?
The Mind-Blowing Mathematics of You
Your body produces its own weight in ATP daily. Your DNA could stretch to the sun and back 400 times. The numbers that prove you're not a thing—you're a process.
You Make Your Body Weight in ATP Daily
You produce 150-200 pounds of ATP every day. You don't accumulate it—you cycle it. The numbers that prove you're not a thing, you're a process.
The Bathtub Analogy
Dr. Bob's simple image that explains homeostasis, disease, and why most pharmaceutical approaches fail. Inflow, outflow, balance.
Flow-Dependent Structures
Whirlpools, tornadoes, candle flames—and you. How energy flow creates organized structures from chaos.
The Psychedelic Visualization of Cellular Biochemistry
What if psychedelic visions aren't hallucinations—but windows into cellular reality?
Why Ants Never Made iPhones
The evolutionary split that gave vertebrates cannabinoid receptors—and the adaptability to create civilization.
The Berlin Wall as Phase Change
No army invaded. No election changed it. The system itself reached a tipping point.
Short-Term Memory Loss is a Feature, Not a Bug
The cannabis "side effect" that's actually essential for mental health.
The Story of the Beggar and the Yogi
A powerful parable about untapped potential. For twenty years a beggar sat on a crate filled with gold, never knowing what he already possessed.
Your Immune System Has Two Speeds
Dr. Bob Melamede's revolutionary theory: Your immune system runs on two fuels—carbs for attack, fat for repair. Learn which mode you're stuck in.