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Pete Spence's story

I was told I had 12 months.

That's not a story you get to argue with. But it is one you get to decide what to do with. So I made a choice: if I was going to fight this, I wasn't going to fight it quietly, and I wasn't going to fight it just for me.

I've spent the time since then treating myself as the test case — trying repurposed drugs, targeted supplementation, and a complete overhaul of my diet and lifestyle, all aimed at getting past the wall, the blood brain barrier, that stops most treatments ever reaching a tumour like mine. Some of it might be doing something. Some of it might be doing nothing at all. I won't know for certain, and that's the honest truth of it.

What I do know is that if any of it is working, that knowledge shouldn't die with me. So I track everything — every meal, every supplement, every number — obsessively, precisely, the way you'd want someone to if the whole point was that another person could actually follow it after I'm gone. That's what became MaxedHealth — not a product, not a pitch, just the tool I built to keep an honest record of what I'm doing to myself, in case it helps someone else do it better.

Brain tumours kill more children and adults under 40 than any other cancer, and get just 1% of national cancer research funding to fight back with. I can't change that number on my own. But I can make sure my own attempt at beating the odds isn't wasted, whichever way it goes.

If any of this has moved you, there are a few ways to help:

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