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Last updated: November 2025

Talk With Death

I'm actively running Talk With Death, a course for people who've received a cancer diagnosis. The work helps participants move from fear, anger, or despair into a different relationship with mortality: one that opens into presence and gratitude for ordinary life.

Each cohort is small and deliberately paced. The transformation isn't about positive thinking or fighting harder. It's about washing dishes with full attention. Noticing textures. Being here, with Death as a companion and guide, rather than an enemy.

If you or someone you know is facing cancer and wants to explore this work, you can learn more at Talk with Death. I'm currently taking participants for the next cohort starting on 14th December 2025.

Clinical Psychoneuroimmunology

I'm halfway through year two of the clinical Psychoneuroimmunology Master's program at the Pruimboom Institute in the Netherlands. The curriculum is dense: perhaps the most information-rich training I've undertaken. Some days I'm exhilarated by how much we're finally able to explain about chronic illness. Other days I'm simply trying to keep up.

The core insight of cPNI is that the boundaries we draw between psychological and physical health are convenient fictions. The immune system responds to loneliness. Trauma reshapes autonomic regulation. Inflammation disrupts neurotransmitter synthesis. These aren't metaphors. They're measurable, reproducible phenomena.

I'm learning the interactions beneath patterns I've observed for years: why illness so often follows periods of meaninglessness, why some people recover when they shouldn't, why the body keeps a score the conscious mind has tried to forget.

The challenge isn't the science itself but the volume. Every week brings new research, new mechanisms, new clinical applications. I'm integrating what I learn into my own situation in real time, which gives the work an urgency most students probably don't experience!

Living With Grade 4 Brain Cancer

I'm currently managing a grade 4 astrocytoma using cPNI-informed interventions. These aren't alternative to medical treatment. They're complementary approaches based on what the research shows about the relationship between physiological state and disease progression.

My current protocol includes:

Cold exposure: Four hours daily of controlled hypothermia at 14°C. Cancer cells are more vulnerable to cold than healthy cells, and there's emerging evidence that sustained cold exposure postively affects metabolic pathways relevant to a 'cold' tumour from an immunological perspective behaviour.

Infrared sauna: Twice weekly. Heat stress triggers protective cellular responses and may affect inflammation pathways implicated in cancer progression.

Dietary intervention: Strict ketogenic protocol combined with periodic fasting-mimicking diet cycles. Cancer cells preferentially metabolise glucose; metabolic flexibility may create an environment less hospitable to tumour growth.

Targeted supplementation: A protocol specific to grade 4 astrocytoma, addressing inflammation, mitochondrial function, and known vulnerabilities in glioblastoma metabolism.

This is n=1 experimentation. I can't know which interventions are helping, or if any are. The lack of progression of my condition will ultimately tell that story. But I'm applying everything I'm learning and documenting the process carefully.

Bioelectrical Signalling Research

I'm designing a research study investigating grounding (earthing) sheets from a cPNI perspective. The hypothesis is that reconnecting with Earth's electrical field affects inflammation, autonomic regulation, and sleep architecture: all factors relevant to immune function and disease progression.

The body is fundamentally an electrical system. Cells communicate through ion gradients and electrical potentials. Chronic inflammation disrupts these signals. There's preliminary evidence that grounding affects cortisol rhythms, heart rate variability, and inflammatory markers, but the mechanisms aren't well understood and the research quality has been mixed.

I'm working on study design and seeking ethics approval through cPNI International. The goal is publishable research that either validates or refutes the claims around grounding with rigour the existing literature lacks.

This matters because if the effect is real, it's a low-cost, zero-risk intervention relevant to every inflammatory condition. If it's a placebo, the wellness industry should stop selling expensive sheets. If it's real, everyone should know about it.

I, for one, wake fully refreshed after sleeping in a silver-lined sheet imagining it conducting electrons away from my body, purportedly to 'reduce inflammation' and 'improve my vagal tone'!

Details on the study protocol and participant recruitment will be posted here once ethics approval is secured.

If you're interested in participating when the study opens, sign up below to be notified: