SAMA HOOLE: Doctors recommend immediate surgery. Survival rate is good. Jobs refuses. He's going to beat it with diet. His chosen diet: Fruitarian. Only fruit. Nothing else. His logic: Fruit is pure. Natural. Cleansing.

His biographer reveals: Jobs regretted the diet decision. Called it one of his biggest regrets. --Sama Hoole

2008: Steve Jobs diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Rare form. Treatable.

Doctors recommend immediate surgery. Survival rate is good.

Jobs refuses. He's going to beat it with diet.

His chosen diet: Fruitarian. Only fruit. Nothing else.

His logic: Fruit is pure. Natural.… pic.twitter.com/yqHgMuv2Fe

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) November 29, 2025

2008: Steve Jobs diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Rare form. Treatable. Doctors recommend immediate surgery. Survival rate is good. Jobs refuses. He's going to beat it with diet. His chosen diet: Fruitarian. Only fruit. Nothing else. His logic: Fruit is pure. Natural. Cleansing. His doctors beg him to reconsider. Jobs: "The body can heal itself with proper nutrition." Nine months later: Cancer has spread. Jobs finally agrees to surgery. Too late. The delay was fatal. 2011: Jobs dies at 56. His biographer reveals: Jobs regretted the diet decision. Called it one of his biggest regrets. Where did these beliefs come from? That fruit heals and meat is poison? Victorian religious movements that thought meat caused moral corruption. Rebranded as "wellness" and sold to Silicon Valley. Jobs had access to the best medical care in the world. He chose fruit instead. Jobs revolutionised technology by ignoring conventional wisdom. He died following conventional "wellness" wisdom that's 200 years old.

Victorian sexual purity theology, rebranded as biohacking.