The two drugs are Ivermectin and Fenbendazole, both initially discovered and used as gastrointestinal anti-parasite drugs. They kill parasites, mainly in the gut. They are basically animal dewormers. Ivermectin is used on many animals, but most famously on horses, and Fenbendazole on dogs. But Ivermectin has also been used as an antiparasitic for humans for many decades.
So there is plenty of data on that. But over recent years, in part thanks to the COVID pandemic, research has shown them to also kill cancer, in the lab, in mice, and even in humans. And all with no serious side effects.
Approved for human use in 1987, [Ivermectin] has been instrumental in tackling some of the world’s most harmful tropical diseases, such as Onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis (also known as Elephantiasis), strongyloidiasis and scabies. It also effectively fights parasitic infestations in animals, which can be economically devastating to the livestock industry… Ivermectin is one of the safest drugs known. It is on the World Health Organization’s list of essential medicines, has been given over 4 billion times around the globe, and won the Nobel Prize for its global and historic impacts in eradicating endemic parasitic infections in many parts of the world.”
WHO Guidelines for Scabies: “the majority of side effects are minor and transient”
Prof. Jacques Descotes, Toxicologist and Expert on Safety of Ivermectin: “severe adverse events are unequivocally and exceedingly rare”
LiverTox Database: Not considered toxic to the liver
Nephrotox Database: Not considered toxic to the kidney
PneumoTox: Not considered toxic to the lungs
The standard dose of Ivermectin as an antiparasitic in humans is 0.2mg/kg per day. That’s 17.2 mg for a 190 lb. man. But it’s extremely safe even at much higher doses, as much as 10X higher:
The key thing to understand about Ivermectin is how safe it is, which means there really isn’t a downside to taking it, even as a prophylactic. And as you can see from the footnotes so far, there’s a lot of information out there in the medical literature about Ivermectin. But more importantly, there are at least nine (9) research papers on the anti-cancer properties of Ivermectin published in medical and pharmacological journals over the past five years.
To summarize the findings as briefly as possible, Ivermectin has at least 15 anti-cancer mechanisms of action.
There is evidence that Ivermectin can treat almost every type of cancer, most-importantly including colon cancer, even Stage 4 colon cancer. Ivermectin has been shown to kill cancer cells, both in vitro (in petri dishes) and in vivo (in living organisms, primarily mice):
In Vitro Studies:
breast cancer, ovarian, prostate, colon, pancreas, head and neck, melanoma – inhibits cell proliferation, induction of apoptosis, autophagy, reversion of tamoxifen resistance, inhibits metastases
glioblastoma – growth inhibition, apoptosis, and anti-angiogenesis
In Vivo Studies (done on immune deficient mice):
acute myeloblastic leukemia – reduce tumor volume up to 70%
glioblastoma – reduce tumor volume up to 50%
breast cancer – reduce tumor volume up to 60%
glioma – reduce tumor volume up to 50% (at 0.24mg/kg), however at human dose equivalent to 0.8mg/kg tumors were not detectable!
colon cancer – reduce tumor volume up to 85%
median dose employed was equivalent to 0.4 mg/kg in humans from 10 to 42 days (oral, intraperitoneal or intra-tumoral)
the in vitro and in vivo antitumor activities of Ivermectin are achieved at concentrations that can be clinically reachable based on the human pharmacokinetic studies done in healthy and parasited patients
There’s not much research on the use of Fenbendazole in humans, and while there is no hard data on its side effects…
…most people have NO side effects. The main complaints of the small group of people who did experience side effects were:
* Mild diarrhea
* Mild stomach discomfort
* Elevated liver enzymes
…According to a study available from the European Medicine Agency, doses up to 500 mg per person did not result in serious adverse effects. This suggests that Fenbendazole may be safe for use in humans at this dose level. Additionally, single doses of up to 2,000 mg per person were reported to cause no serious adverse effects over ten days.
