Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked?

A friend recently got diagnosed with stage 4 GBM. It's the 4th person I know who has it, and it's getting old, so I want to help, bio-hacking style.

I stumbled upon these guys who built a helmet that rotates strong magnets to create oscillating magnetic fields in the brain. They claim the oscillating magnetic fields cause cancer cell death through mechanisms I don't understand at all.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-46758-w

Did anyone try to build one of these?

-- Other avenues:

1. taking vortioxetine

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2024/09/ant...

2. getting infected with the zika virus (probably the best thing to do IMO)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37324152/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33002018/


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Created 4mo | Jan 10, 2025, 1:50:13 AM


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