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A Healthier Gut Microbiome and Cancer Care: Why I’m Still Watching It After the Neurologist Said “Not for Parkinson’s”

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A Healthier Gut Microbiome and Cancer Care: Why I'm Still Watching It After the Neurologist Said "Not for Parkinson's" When you're dealing with cancer, you start paying attention to everything that might help. Dave has lung cancer, and we're always looking for anything that might augment his treatment at City of Hope. You can read a recent news story about this topic here: A healthier gut microbiome may be the key to cancer care . Right now, we're getting ready for "zapping surgery" tomorrow — an image-guided ablation to destroy the larger tumor while hoping the immune system can handle the smaller ones. It's minor on paper, but cancer is cancer, and it still makes me nervous. Dave has done well with surgery in the past, even though Parkinson's adds some risk and a previous surgery left a hole in his upper jawbone, so this one brings up some pause. A few years ago, we asked our neurologist about CNM-Au8, a gold nanocrystal t...