"Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish."

— Chuck Palahniuk

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Facing the Diagnosis

In 2020, Chris Tew was walking seven miles a day and summiting mountains. By 2021, he couldn’t climb a flight of stairs.

After surviving a rough bout of COVID, something still felt wrong. Tests revealed the real reason: multiple myeloma—a blood cancer that had taken over nearly 90% of his bone marrow. He received the diagnosis on his 69th birthday. He knew what it meant. He had watched a friend die from the same disease.

And yet—four years later—Chris is not just alive, but thriving. He walks, hikes, laughs, and teaches. His recent scans show no measurable cancer.

Not because he rejected medicine.

But because when the standard cancer protocol plateaued, he dared to place a new bet.

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​A New Bet, Made in Chaos

Chris’s journey started with trust in his care team at the Huntsman Cancer Institute. And he still holds deep respect for them. They were compassionate, brilliant, and thoughtful. He underwent years of treatment: radiation, chemo, induction therapy, a stem cell transplant using his identical twin’s cells. He tracked his cancer through his M-spike—starting at 4.0, then dropping to 1.0, 0.75, and finally stalling at 0.24.

The plateau felt like a dead end. His doctors were out of ideas. Worse, the treatments were harming him. One of the drugs, Kyprolis, damaged his heart. Another caused internal bleeding. When he started going blind in his only good eye, he drew a hard line: “I’d rather die than go blind.”

So, he stopped.

And that’s when Chris and his wife, a trained nurse, started placing new bets—small, asymmetric ones.

The Mindset of Medical Maverick

What makes Chris's story particularly compelling isn't just the outcome—it's his approach. With 45 years in the medical industry, he brought a "healthy dose of doubt" to his treatment journey. His experience selling cutting-edge medical technology taught him that medicine advances slowly and that sometimes "standards of care" protect providers more than patients.

Chris's decision to quietly add these alternative treatments without informing his care team speaks to a larger truth about navigating serious illness: sometimes the person with the most to gain must take calculated risks that others might not approve of. As he puts it, "Sometimes you know you're getting bad advice, and if your inner voice, if the spirit tells you that this is not good, then you need to investigate it."

Chris’s Current Protocol (2024–2025)

His wife discovered a growing body of research into two low-risk, repurposed drugs:

• Fenbendazole (a well-known antiparasitic)

• Ivermectin (originally used in humans long before the horse-paste headlines)

There wasn’t a randomized trial backing them for multiple myeloma. But there was just enough anecdotal evidence, molecular logic, and spiritual intuition to act.

Chris began taking:

• 220 mg of Fenbendazole, 5 days per week, taken with butter for fat absorption.

• 36 mg of Ivermectin, 5 days per week.

• Alongside this, he continued dietary changes, light exercise, and deep prayer.

Two weeks after starting the protocol, his M-spike dropped to “non-applicable.” A statistical zero.

What Chris Teaches Us

Chris didn’t abandon science. He updated it. His entire life trained him for it—he spent decades in the medical technology space, helping doctors adopt new tools and challenge outdated standards.

“I routinely challenged the standard of care,” he said. “And I still do.”

That skepticism saved his life. He didn’t go rogue. He simply adjusted course when the conditions on the field changed.

“Sometimes you do know better. Especially when it’s your own body.”

This isn’t about finding the one cure.

It’s about finding the courage to pivot when the protocol stops working.

The Wisdom in Cancer's Wake

Perhaps most remarkable is Chris's perspective on what cancer has taught him: patience, compassion, love, faith, strength. Far from being solely destructive, his journey has been transformative. "Cancer's not all bad," he reflects. "It's given me strength and raised spiritual strength I never had before... I have never in my life experienced such an outpouring of love and compassion. And it's changed my soul."

For Chris, cancer became an unexpected teacher, leading him to start each day with gratitude and embrace a peace he'd never known before.

The Takeaway

I’m not saying everyone should take Fenbendazole (remember I’m just a lawyer that happened to make some money in the trampoline park business…and I got a C in Biology in college). I’m not saying everyone should ditch the standard of care.

I am saying this:

Changing your mind when the evidence changes isn't reckless, it's wise.

Your life may depend on changing YOUR approach to chaos, even if the system you find yourself in remains the same.

Intuition shouldn't be your last resort—it’s often the first whisper of a better way. And when the world around you is in disarray, your best shot at clarity might just come from the quiet place within.

To hear Chris's whole story, listen to the podcast episode here.

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