The Immune System Is Your Body’s Defense Against Cancer

• Inflammation is at the root of cancer — In Soon-Shiong’s words, your body “must inhibit the thing called P53 … and protect your body from … cancer. And if it persists and causes inflammation and inhibits P53, it begins to have the hallmarks of an oncogenic virus.”

• The rise of modern diets contribute to cancer — Soon-Shiong noted that ultraprocessed foods and other toxins keep a person’s gut in disarray. That scenario can worsen the immune system’s struggles. Excess linoleic acid from canola, soy, or similar oils triggers chronic inflammatory signals in many individuals.

These signals disrupt the cellular environment that NK cells and T-cells need for normal function. Meanwhile, diets that rely on refined sugar and cheap filler starches can further undermine metabolic health, though the problem runs deeper than sugar alone.

• Manmade chemicals in the environment also contribute to cancer — These include PFAS, red dyes, pesticide residues, and continuous exposure to microplastics and endocrine disruptors that hamper the body’s inherent defenses. Extra stress placed on immune cells can push them toward a suppressed state, giving malignant cells the opportunity to thrive.

• Standard antibody-based COVID shots have not cleared the virus from the body — Soon-Shiong wonders if repeated boosters further embed these spike protein fragments. He believes the shot keeps your immune system busy without resolving the underlying threat.

• COVID-19 gets into every cell of your body — Soon-Shiong also noted that spike protein, either from infection or the COVID shot, penetrates all of your cells, including the cells lining your blood vessels. As he explains in the interview:

“It goes wherever you have the thing called the ACE2 receptor, which is in the blood vessels. So, wherever we have a blood vessel in your body, it’s where it’s going to go and it has an ACE2 receptor on that blood vessel. That’s where it can go because that’s the purpose of the spike protein — to penetrate, to hijack that ACE2 receptor and get into their cells.”

• Spike protein results in different adverse health events down the line — Once spike protein enters your body, that’s when different complications arise, depending on the tissues affected. According to Soon-Shiong:

“That’s why it gets in the pancreas. That’s why you have brain fog. It disrupts the blood vessels of the brain and causes mitochondrial dysfunction. It’s why in the colon, which is high in the GI tract, is a high ACE2 receptor [organ].

That’s why pancreas has a high ACE2 receptor where — that’s why you people have in the heart — you have dysfunction, you, you’ve seen young people have sudden heart attacks.”

• Viruses have caused cancer in other contexts — Hepatitis leads to liver cancer, while HPV can spark cervical and throat cancers. A suppressed immune system cannot remove these intruders. That same risk appears in the post-COVID era.

Individuals with persistent inflammation are more likely to see T-cells go dormant, as Soon-Shiong described. The body basically loses its first responders against malignant transformation, whether the intruder is an outside virus or a mutated cell from within.

• Your immune system is key to fighting cancer — Soon-Shiong notes that T-cells and NK cells handle the main job of seeking and destroying aberrant cells. If those protective warriors vanish, standard treatments may buy time, but fail in the end.

“It’s … job is to kill … anything that threatens the body, whether you, the body has infection, if you have TB, you have HIV, if you have hepatitis, you have COVID. These cells are there to recognize these infected cells and kill it.

As you and I are sitting here today, our stem cells are growing in order to replenish parts of your body, your heart, you, if you didn’t have that, you wouldn’t have a heart at the age of 14. You need those stem cells. But mathematically, there are some cells that are transformed and your body recognizes that through these natural killer cells and kills it,” he says.

• Immune system cells protect your body from tumor growth — In Soon-Shiong’s words, your immune system cells are “nature’s first responder.” He continues:

“That’s how we are all protected, and we are [in] the state of equilibrium or balance. On the other hand, the moment either the tumor finds a way to hide from these cells, or your body’s, or the tumor causes these cells to be suppressed.

And that’s why I call this the suppressor cells. And there are certain cells in your body called Treg cells or myeloid-derived suppressor cells … that, when they get upregulated, you’ve lost your protection.

And so, the question then is, how do we understand this balance? How do we increase the killers and how do we decrease the suppressors?”

• Traditional cancer treatments only provide short-term results — Chemotherapy and radiation, which often crush immune cells, produce a short remission in many. “But then, so often you watch it roaring back,” Soon-Shiong says.

That’s because the protective cells died along with the original tumor. The correct approach, he says, involves subtle stress on the tumor to expose it, followed by immunological activation to finish the job.

• Teach your own body to create a “bioshield” — Soon-Shiong references a product he’s currently developing called “BioShield.” While it is injected into your body, it’s not a vaccine, but rather a training mechanism for your immune system cells, which will help purge cancer cells from your body. He explains:

“A tumor has molecules that is foreign to the rest of your body. And if you educate your T-cell, you recognize as molecules that is foreign to the rest of your body that T-cell can remember. Now you have a memory T-cell … We now have bladder cancer patients who have lost their bladder in complete remission for nine years …”

1. Clean up your diet and eat more whole foods — If you constantly rely on frozen dinners, fast food, or packaged snacks, it’s time to shift. Aside from being nutritionally lacking, these are loaded with dyes, additives, and inflammatory vegetable oils that confuse your immune system.

Swap them out with fresh produce, grass fed meats, and whole ingredients you recognize. Cook meals at home and store them in glass or stainless steel instead of plastic.

2. Cut your exposure to harmful chemicals — If you are a parent, office worker, or anyone constantly touching printed receipts, using fragranced cleaners, or microwaving in plastic, you are surrounded by chemicals that disrupt your immune cells. These chemicals don’t just sit on the surface — they enter your bloodstream and quietly weaken your immune defenses.

3. Spend enough time outdoors and get sufficient high-quality sleep — If your schedule has you staying up late, glued to screens, or skipping daylight, your immune system isn’t recharging.

Go outside each morning for natural light — it resets your body clock. Sleep at the same time each night in a cool, dark room for seven to nine hours at a consistent schedule. Even missing just an hour or two of deep sleep affects your immune system’s ability to function at its best.

4. Don’t get the COVID shot — If you already got the shot, don’t get any more boosters or mRNA gene therapy shots. Following this strategy immediately ends the assault on your body. But if you’ve already developed a shot-related injury, the next section contains more in-depth tips.

• Protect your health with these protocols — I recommend you go over the I-RECOVER program by the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC). It provides extensive information about how to treat long COVID² and post-vaccine injuries.³

• Get rid of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) in your home — In addition to the measures discussed by the FLCCC, I recommend reducing your EMF exposure in your home. Research has shown that manmade sources, such as your Wi-Fi router and 5G towers “can disturb the homeostasis of free radicals leading to dysfunctions such as the ‘cellular stress response.'”⁴

• Minimize linoleic acid (LA) intake — Your fat intake matters because your mitochondria contain cardiolipin, which influences mitophagy and overall mitochondrial quality control.

To promote proper cardiolipin function, boosting omega-3 fat intake is important while simultaneously cutting back on omega-6 fat. However, don’t make the mistake of eating too much omega-3, as eventually it will cause the same damage as eating too much omega-6. For a more detailed explanation on this balance, read “Linoleic Acid — The Most Destructive Ingredient in Your Diet.”

• Optimize your vitamin D level — This nutrient plays an important role in supporting your immune system. Research shows that low vitamin D levels are linked to an increased risk of cancers.⁵ Vitamin D attaches to the vitamin D receptor in your cells, creating a cascade of signals that affect how cancer cells grow, develop, and survive.⁶ Studies have also confirmed that vitamin D helps prevent respiratory infections, including COVID-19.

I recommend raising your vitamin D level to a range between 60 ng/mL and 80 ng/mL. To know if you’re hitting that range, you need to get tested. For more information about the benefits of vitamin D for cancer, as well as tips on how to optimize it properly, read “More Evidence Showing Vitamin D Combats Cancer.”