Hello, social media world and fellow fighters!

We’re new to this group, so I wanted to introduce ourselves and share how we ended up here—deep in the world of metabolic therapies, learning everything the hard way, and doing everything we can to make cancer boring.

Den was originally diagnosed in October 2022, we were handed the standard grim prognosis (full details at www.selfrescuesociety.com if you're interested), which we refused to accept. We had helped a friends mother a year prior and had come across Dr. Thomas Seyfried’s work on cancer metabolism from the infamous Cross-Fit video and we immediately devoured Cancer as a Metabolic Disease. We decided Dec 2022 we had to figure out how to actually implement this—not just in theory, but in the real world, for real people, for us.

Dr. Seyfried connected us with Daniel Orrego, who helped us navigate some early hurdles. From there, we built a metabolic protocol for humans—one we could actually track, refine, and adapt as needed and then we tested it on ourselves.

It worked. Den reached No Evidence of Disease (NED) in 4 protocols.

No chemo. No radiation. Just full commitment, a ridiculous amount of data collection, a healthy go fund me and some good old-fashioned survival instinct. Since that diagnosis, we’ve been able to meet one-on-one with hundreds of people, helping them implement their own Press Pulse Protocols. But let’s be honest: this is not easy for people. It’s a full-time job. And when paired with Standard of Care, it often drags out the process rather than accelerating it, or complicating it completely.

Instead of taking time to recover in Summer 2023, we jumped headfirst into helping , building projects, taking calls, answering questions, coaching, supporting. Not paying attention to our own health.

And now? We’ve become the model for what happens when you take your eyes off the disease. Den’s sarcoma came roaring back.

Den now has a 7.5 cm x 6.7 cm x 7.0 cm tumor sitting in his pulmonary artery. It has overtaken his right hip and 7 cm of femur so, his hip is broken and mobility is gone, and there’s not a lot of space left to breathe.

So here we are again. More protocols. More HBOT. More tracking.

The first time around was a messy and anxiety producing process and we always said, "If there's a next time, we'll change a few things." (Careful what you say out loud.)

We’ve learned so much from doing this ourselves and from the hundreds of people we’ve helped along the way and intend to put good use to this info in these next protocols. Things like: fasting isn’t always an option the way it was for Den and is no longer an option for us. Exogenous ketones can have a big role in glucose management. We are ever learning how to adapt protocols when things don’t go as planned. If we can give anything back to this movement, it’s boots-on-the-ground feedback from actually doing this. Not theory. Not speculation. Real-world metabolic application and survival. So here we go again. We know what to do. We just have to do it.

We’ll be posting detailed updates at www.selfrescuesociety.com and sharing insights wherever we can on these social platforms. When we first started, there wasn’t a groundswell of people doing their own protocols—it was just us. It’s amazing to see how much this has grown, and we’re looking forward to connecting, sharing, and learning from all of you.

Alright. Back to work.

Nicala & Den

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