Welcome to Grounded Wellness, your go to podcast for
simplified and trusted information on how to live a
more non-toxic and holistic life.
We're your hosts. I'm Bethany McDaniel, founder of
Primarily Pure, biohacking enthusiast and mom of three.
And I'm Courtney O'Connor, holistic esthetician with over
15 years experience in the healing power of touch and
holistic skin care rituals. Have you ever been surprised by
a cancer diagnosis, either for yourself or someone you care
about? It's happening more often, even
to seemingly healthy people, and there's a reason for it.
Today, we're talking to Doctor Lee Aaron Kennealy, the medical
director of the largest integrative medicine clinic in
North America. She's here to explain why cancer
rates are rising, especially in younger people, and what we can
do to prevent and treat it. Doctor Kennealy's approach goes
way beyond just treating cancer. She focuses on addressing the
root cause and preventing it from happening in the 1st place.
Let's dig in. Good morning and welcome to
Grounded Wellness. Doctor Kennealy.
I'm so excited to have you here. Thanks so much for making the
trek out to the farm. Well, this could be a better
place. We're grounded and I know.
And we have liver smoothies. We're drinking my liver smoothie
recipe this morning and. Believe it or not, it does taste
good. Don't be scared.
Yeah, the liver is well hidden with berries, mint leaves, raw
milk. Well, you have quite the story
of personal healing and you also own the largest integrative
medicine center in North America.
And I want to get into all of that.
But first I want to talk about the epidemic of raising of
rising cancer rates, especially among young people in the United
States. You have even said that one in
two people will get a cancer diagnosis in their lifetime.
What is going on and how did we get here?
Right. Well, we are in a serious
pandemic of cancer because it's not just in the United States,
all over the world. And the scary part is the
amount, the incidence of which is the number of new cases of
cancer in young people and even in children.
It's not. So the number one cause of death
in children is cancer. But now we have 18 year olds, 20
year olds, 25 year olds, 30 year olds, 3540 I consider young with
an explosion of cancer and the current statistics are about one
in two people have cancer. They say.
I've read that and by the time in 20-30 they said 100% of
people will have cancer. Now, that's probably not true,
but I know that a very large Cancer Institute in California
did their own independent studies because they are
building a new hospital. So they wanted to study what the
prevalence of cancer was, and they expected it to increase 30%
over the next five years. So that is an, you know, an
outrageous number of people. Nixon declared war on cancer in
1970 and then every subsequent president has declared war on
cancer. And where are we?
And that really goes for the entire medical system, OK.
Because there are more unhealthy sick people then there are
healthy people. If you look at our children, the
babies first, you know, autism in in the state of California
it's one in 22. Elsewhere it's 31 in 34137.
OK. And that is so much more than
than that number. Was, well, when I went to
medical school, we did not even really have.
We had maybe a paragraph on autism.
Now there's libraries on autism, OK, and there's autism centers.
And with the outrageous increase, why aren't we saying,
wait, stop, we got to figure this out and we've got to
prevent this, not treat it, OK. And first of all, there's no
medicine for autism, OK? There's no drug for autism.
Like there are no drugs for other diseases, right?
And the medical paradigm is you get a drug or surgery or both.
There's nothing really in between.
That is what the what the paradigm is.
And so, but if you look at children, our elementary kids,
60% or more have one or more chronic illnesses.
Our teenagers have the highest rate of anxiety, depression and
suicide in the history of man. And then 25 and 30 year olds are
getting cancer. So obviously everything we're
doing is contributing. People always want to look for a
magic bullet to fix something or 1 cause.
Well, no, there's usually not one cause and one magic bullet
for anything. I always use the analogy of
chocolate chip cookies. If you forget the flower, you're
not going to have chocolate chip cookies.
So there's many, many factors involved in this outrage.
You know, if you just look at first of all, OK, because I grew
up a long time ago when life was really simple and much more
natural and much more, you know, people didn't have the food
availability, the fast food availability like we have today.
You didn't go to the doctor all the time.
You rarely went to the doctor. You played outside.
You didn't have technology. You, you know, you had a very,
very simple life. And now today, it's very
complicated with technology and food that we don't even know
what is in the food, OK? You really need to be a forensic
scientist to do like an analysis of everything that you're doing
every single day. Because I tell people, every
single decision you make is a healthcare decision.
Think about it, Every single decision, OK?
Let me say the same thing about skin care.
Like what you eat is your skin care.
You know your your habits are your skin care.
It's not just. What you're putting on to your
skin care, you're right, everything.
So, so we all need to really kind of stop and take a moment
of peacefulness and start being mindful and conscientious about
everything we're doing. And that one we're say doing.
It's also everything we're thinking, everything we're
doing, everything we're executing, we need to just
really saying, is that beneficial to me?
Is this going to augment my life and my existence?
And so, but the causes I think for this outrageous increase, if
you look at first of all, your microbiome is about 75 to 80% of
your immune system. All right, so now we have an
attack on the microbiome by one we use lots of antibiotics.
All right, people take antibiotics and doctors
prescribe antibiotics for pretty much everything and and mothers
go to the doctor and they really want antibiotics for their kid
instead. They want a quick fix.
Yes, instead of like OK, nurturing the child and giving
them things to augment their immune system, make sure their
diet is good, etcetera. So that's really what a mother
should do. I know I've had kids.
I've never used an antibiotic on any of my kids, so I've done it
before. So then if you look at what the
average person is ingesting, so if you just look at your water
supply, so your water supply is full of toxicity, OK, You cannot
drink your tap water. You cannot.
I don't care where you are. It's not healthy.
So it's got pharma water. So it's got pharmaceuticals.
So you're ingesting birth control pills, chemotherapy
that's from. People flushing medications down
the toilet. Or no one taking them, they're
taking them. And so think about it.
So that's why it's very important what you put down your
water system because it's just being reprocessed.
And yes, and then you think about there's over 85,000
chemicals now allowed in the environment.
You look at about all the insecticides, pesticides, I mean
the biggest thing is glyphosphate, which is weed
killer made by Monsanto. And I was reading yesterday or
the day before, there's over 54,000 lawsuits now against
Monsanto because of its cancer causing effects.
It started with lymphomas, but now I think they're finding that
it has to do with many other cancers because you know you're
ingesting it and it's going to alter the microbiome.
But that's just one thing. And if you look at paraquat and
all the other insecticides and pesticides.
Are we getting anywhere with these lawsuits?
Is that are they still just? Really good.
So much. Money that it's not even phasing
them. I mean, because I think by now
so many people are aware of the dangers of Roundup, but it's
still everywhere. Yeah, It's still being used and
it's still pervasive in our environment.
And when we do the testing, we do environmental pollutant
testing in the office and it detects the concentration of
glyphosphate. And I would say mostly everybody
has glyphosphate. So hard to avoid.
Yeah, it's very hard to avoid. That's why yourself care is the
new healthcare, OK? You've got to learn how to take
care of yourself and create this, you know, protective
universe in your own, you know, living sanctuary.
And kind of optimize detox pathways and do what we can to
minimize toxins, right? You know that we can control
because there's a lot that we can't.
Right. So the other thing is a lot of
people are eating foods that have preservatives, flavorings,
dyes, sweeteners and other chemicals that they probably
aren't even aware of. And some of the food isn't even
real food. OK, so if you think about all of
that, your body has to everything is like AQR code
going into your body to turn on or off your cells, right?
And for your cells to work for you, you have to have energy.
And you get energy from nutrient dense food, OK.
And if you eat food that is basically taking away from you,
like processed food, fast food, things with lots of chemicals,
you're creating nutrient depletion and you're inhibiting
your Krebs cycle of energy. So every doctor in medical
school takes biochemistry. And part of biochemistry is
something called the Krebs cycle, and Doctor Krebs invented
it, and it's how your cells make.
ATPATP is the currency of life. And so if you don't have ATP,
you're not around. And so your body's constantly
making energy, but every single thing that you ingest, if it's
not good for you, it's taking away from and straining the
mitochondria. So the mitochondria, you have a
cell and inside the cell you have these little powerhouse
engines called mitochondria. And the mitochondria are your
energy factories and they make ATP, which is the currency of
life. And so we're constantly now
under attack between everything that we're exposed to.
You have to air now on the side of caution so much because
nothing really is great. If you look at the air now, the
air, I noticed in the clinic that everyone has high aluminum,
OK, So that's coming from the atmosphere, from the atmosphere,
from the air pollution. Not to mention the nanoplastics,
OK, all of us are loaded with plastics.
If you look at the fish, you can look at all the nanoplastics and
mercury. So you can't even eat fish if
fish is considered a great protein.
But now when anybody eats fish, you can see how high their
mercury levels. Are I remember that with my
husband and I, both of us high mercury and he stopped eating
tuna because he was eating tons of tuna and the next time we
came in his mercury was down. Right, so ever anyone and and I
used to eat fish a lot, but when you see all these patients with
elevated levels of mercury, which is very toxic to your
body, all metals are but you, you, you, you, you can't eat the
the fish anymore, unfortunately. Probably a scallop or shrimp or
sardines. Yes, the smaller the fish, the
lesser concentration. Because they haven't accumulated
all those heavy metals over a lifetime.
Right. So it's heavy metals and
plastics, but there's plastics. So if the fish have plastics,
we're John any different than the fish, OK.
And so, so we all have to be just really very conscious about
how we're living and do everything in our power because
everyone needs to make health their number one value.
Think about if everyone made health every day, they're not.
And it's not that difficult to make health your number one
value, right? And because if you don't have
your health, you yourself don't like yourself, you don't feel
good about yourself, you're not happy, OK?
You're not a good employee, OK? You can't run a company.
You can't be a good family member.
And more importantly, you can't be a good community member.
And we thrive in community. And we're in an existential
crisis in health. We're really in a precipice of
just terrible, you know, outcomes.
And we've got to. Everyone should be in public
outrage about what is going on, honestly.
OK, I've been doing this for 38 years.
OK, So I started my medical practice with lifestyle medicine
38 years ago in Los Angeles, OK. I started with a dietitian, OK?
And I interviewed a dietitian who had battled anorexia.
And I said, what perfect person, OK, Because she's had the
extremes. And let's face it, you learn
from being sick yourself, OK? I mean, that's how I've learned.
It's being going through my own curve balls and detours.
And anyway, she was just amazing.
So she and I were a team and I focused on metabolism at that
time, which was very, very long time ago.
Nobody was even talking about, right.
OK. And so and then, you know, of
course I went from that to that to to where I am today.
And so we've always had lifestyle analysis as part of
how we see a patient because you don't just say, hi, how are you
doing? Tell me about your family
history and allergy. OK, what's going on?
Oh, I have a pain. OK, a pain.
Oh oh, you can take some Tylenol, ibuprofen, whatever.
Matching up the medication with the symptoms.
Exactly. Let's do some blood work.
Oh, I don't really see anything. And you know, OK, let me know if
it doesn't come back, OK. And so, but we we never like,
well, you know, how do you sleep?
How much water and what kind of water?
I ask everybody. So what kind of water?
Because everyone must have some kind of water purification.
Then I asked them, tell me what you eat daily.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner. And then people always think I,
I eat healthy. They say to me, oh, I eat
healthy and I'm like, OK, well tell me what you eat.
And then when you examine what they eat, I go, well, no, you,
you cannot eat like that. Let me tell you why you are
driving your insulin crazy with eating all these carbohydrates
for breakfast and how you eating but the food?
Pyramid tells us you need those six to 10, whatever it is,
servings of grains per day. And as I hear you talking about
these things, it's really, they're so basic, right?
But we're so disconnected. Like you were describing life
back in the day. We were outside, we were, you
know, in the sun. We were grounding.
We were eating pure foods, like such basic things.
But we've been so conditioned to just think that it's normal to
do the opposite of all of that. And that's why, like, if there's
not just one cause for cancer, like it we're just living in
extreme disconnect from the way we were meant to live.
And everything is contributing to this rise in cancer.
Is that is that kind of right? Yeah, well, everything you know,
you, you talked about being connected.
So we're disconnected, connected.
Yeah. OK, because, you know, now you
have your cell phone. OK, so you think you're
connected, but you're really not.
Because, you know, back in the day, people picked up the phone
and then they met you on the corner and then you went to the
library and so people were connected.
Now today, I mean, you know, I love having a cell phone, OK,
Because it's a tool for me, all right?
But I don't make my phone as a possession of my body and that I
have to have a Yeah, exactly. It's really a tool of
technology. And I think I you mentioned
talking about being connected and disconnected, but the Emfs,
the electromagnetic fields are very, very serious.
OK? We are electrical beings, OK.
So I always tell every patient, you have these electrical fields
coming from cell towers and, and phones and iPads and computers
and everybody, you know, all the wires going back and forth.
It's creating lots of free radicals, all right.
Not to mention, we don't really even quite comprehend all of the
things that it's compromising in the production of our
neurochemicals or hydrochloric acid, all the things that we we
have our body supposed to live according to these laws of
Mother Nature that you were born, your body was born with.
OK, if you think how your gastrointestinal system works,
right? You chew your food, your body
makes these incredible enzymes, then your esophagus.
And the saliva, yeah, yeah, every part of.
It and then the esophagus is has this natural propulsion to go to
your stomach and then your stomach has this natural
movement to digest and absorb all your nutrients.
And then it goes down to the, you know, the small intestines
and then the liver, gallbladder, pancreas all chime in and
produce all of these nutrients. And then the large intestines
has this natural motility and you're like, that happens
because of electricity. All right.
And so we have to think how we are living and ground every day,
be in nature every day, because the Earth's magnetic field is
how we recharge ourselves. Yeah.
And for anyone who thinks that is like too out there, like just
go barefoot for 30 minutes a day and you will feel such a
difference. I know I do like any time that
I'm trying to wind down from a stressful day at work.
I've been on a lot of calls, maybe your zoom meetings.
I, I crave it now. I crave the ground and I feel
infinitely better after I spend time with my bare feet on the
ground. Right.
Well, the nature is sentient, OK?
And there's this treatment called forest bathing.
Yes. OK.
So that's just immersing yourself into, you know,
glorious trees and all the nature around you, whether it's
flowers or plants or trees or anything, even animals, OK?
They're they're, they're energetic beings, OK.
And so so we now have artificial lights, artificial everything,
and then we're all stressed out because of that abnormal
environment every day. And so that's why you feel so
much better. I mean, if you look at someone's
blood under the microscope, once they ground, you'll see how much
it improves. Yes, there's actually changes
there's. Actually changes because your
blood is flow supposed to be like this free floating.
It's a living organ and it's just free floating all around.
And when your body is is is stressed and you know, not
flowing properly, it all clumps together and what they call a
ruleau formation. And so it's it's just a
beautiful thing that we're just not masterfully learning.
We should all be masters of our self and.
I think we've all learned to just outsource that outsource,
You know, if we're feeling off, we outsource that.
We go to the doctor. We get A and we go get a monster
drink. Right, we take the quick fix
instead of really tuning in and assessing things and thinking,
OK, what? What's not?
What's out of balance right now? Like what can I be doing
differently? Right.
And then the other big thing that's influencing rates of
cancer is being overweight and obese, OK.
And that's something that's even become taboo with the whole body
positivity movement, which I think is, you know, there's some
good in that. We shouldn't dislike ourselves
and, like, sit in that place of feeling shame about how we look.
But there are also real concerns with being overweight and obese.
Yes, because you're you're that is an endocrine organ in and of
itself. So it's stores toxins, creates
inflammation, creates free radical, creates lots of burden
for your body and for your body's organs to process I.
Don't think a lot of people think of fat as an organ.
Yes, and and also muscle as an organ, right?
Providing positive benefits. Exactly so.
And we have really a tremendous amount of young people and older
people, but a lot of young people, even children are
overweight and obese. And then and people like you
said, they like, oh, well, isn't it OK to be a little overweight?
Well, no, not really. It isn't OK and so.
And it sounds like it kind of exacerbates things like if you
if there is extra weight that's going to produce more
inflammation and it and. More storage of toxins cuz your
your fat becomes a storage depot for toxicity.
OK. And then all it's it's it's
metabolizing every day. So all those metabolic wastes
have to go through your liver to be processed.
That's why people, so many people have fatty liver today.
So fatty liver today is probably about 40% of the population.
It's even in 10 year olds already.
They did a study in San Diego and found that elementary kids
had a 10 or 11% incidence of fatty liver.
And so that means if you have fatty liver, it means you can't
metabolize what you're ingesting every day.
All right? So then you just you can't lose
weight, OK? You feel toxic, you feel swollen
and you're storing more inflammation.
And I always tell patients that fatty liver, if you don't take
care of fatty liver, it leads to cirrhosis.
I can fix fatty liver, but I can't fix cirrhosis.
What is cirrhosis? So cirrhosis is hardening and
fibroticness, the liver shutting down like it has no capacity to
take care of itself because just all fibrotic like a rock.
And so, so it would behoove anyone, but the problem in
medicine today that I see on a regular basis is that one, it's
under diagnosis. And #2 if you get a diagnosis,
because there's no medication for it, doctors don't discuss it
with the patient. OK.
And it's very easy. Well, for me, it's easy to fix.
I know for, you know, the average, you know, doctor, they
just don't know. In fact, I've listened to.
Just kind of ignore that. Put it on a.
Shelf yes, because I'm reading people's scans and I'm like oh,
did you see it? This you have fatty liver and
they look at me like what no one told me and I'm so I sit next to
them and show them and highlight on the imaging that you have
fatty liver. And I always try to, you know,
go a little extreme because I'm telling them like, look, this
leads to cirrhosis. And so again, I can't fix
cirrhosis, but I can fix and revert your fatty liver.
You're, you're a creature that is turning into good cells or
bad cells 24/7. All right, you get a new tube, a
new body every two years. So you're a living organ, so you
can repair and regenerate and restore function back to your
body. So you so you can see there's
many different contributing factors.
All right. And today there's no screening
for cancer until you're really a woman gets a Pap smear, she gets
breast imaging around 40, give or take.
And now all the breast imaging is changing to a new technology
called QT technology. So traditionally women get a
mammogram. Well, mammogram is, is a imaging
of your breast with radiation. They do ultrasound sometimes and
then they do Mr. is. So there's problems with the
mammograms because of the radiation.
And for every 10,000 mammograms, you save one life and Mris,
there's the gadolinium dye, which is not really good for you
long term. And in fact, now the, the papers
you signed a consent that oh, that if you this may be a
problem. And so you're signing that I'm,
I'm OK with that. So anyway, but now they have new
non-toxic, it's called QT technology, which we can talk
about in a minute. So there's pap smears for men,
for men, boys, young men, there's really nothing.
OK, the first the real thing for a man is a cola guard at 45
years of age. OK, because colon cancer is so
high now they're make they change from 50 to 45 and I'm
like, well, what about all the 30 year olds?
And what about 35 year olds? So we're missing all those.
There's that massive increase in the last decade or even less in
young people getting cancer, but all the screenings are set up
for when you're older. Right.
Sounds like so the screenings really aren't really working.
Yeah, OK. And only one life saved for
10,000 mammograms. Right.
Wow. So in some countries they've
said, you know, let's do you know, especially I think
Switzerland is like, no, let's offer other things, you know,
other types of imaging. They tend to be ahead of us out
there, right? Switzerland, Germany.
Yeah. Well, they're much more a
combination of more conventional with integrative options.
Yeah, OK. Because.
Integrative medicine. We want to hear more about
integrative medicine and what that is for anyone who may not
be familiar with that term, and also your personal health story
and how you ended up in the world of integrative medicine.
So integrative medicine is kind of a new buzzword and no one
really understands it. So really it's kind of
integrative, holistic with the WWHOLISTIC medicine and it's
combining the best of conventional because there are
great things about conventional medicine.
If you follow up a letter today, the ERS in the US are the best.
If you have a car accident, the ERS are the best.
OK, if you're going to have the imminent heart attack, I mean,
there's nothing like a hospital in the United States of America.
But chronic illness is a whole another story.
But conventional medicine is basically the doctor does a
history and physical blood work scans, you know, PET scan.
So we do have like amazing technology today that we can
really look at the human body and we it's pretty amazing.
OK, so we combine that like, and let's say you had a serious
infection, I would give you antibiotics.
I wouldn't go. OK, let me make this natural
potion for you. OK, So we have to use medicines
in the right context and you need to know the medicines in
order to properly utilize them. OK, So if you came in for
elevated blood pressure, for example, and I would say, oh, we
can't do natural right now today because it's your first visit,
your blood pressure's 200 / 120 and I don't want you to have a
stroke because I can fix the blood pressure.
But stroke, it's long, long, long term process.
So here's the medicine. So let's help.
How are you sleeping, water, eating, etcetera, etcetera, draw
the blood, are you 30 lbs overweight, etcetera, and all
the contributing causes. And there's so many natural
options to reduce blood pressure that you don't need medicine.
But I would give you the medicine.
I'll see you in a week. Let's see how you're doing.
Let's start making these lifestyle interventions and then
go from there. So that's combining conventional
with, I call it new, updated, really medicine or healthy
medicine, OK. Taking the good and but using it
in kind of a different way than most conventional settings.
Right. And so like if I have a patient,
for example, high blood pressure, which is quite common
in about 30% of the population, I will get to all the root
causes, but I usually will use an Ayurvedic herb for you to
control your blood pressure. OK.
And then I would get you an exercise that address your
stress and all the other daily, how do you live 24 hours every
day? And so that's what medicine is
not preventive, proactive, preemptive or personalized in
their approach. And that's the way we have to do
it. In the beginning it takes a
little time, but think about you launch a patient and then they
are mastering their self-care themselves everyday and
executing what they what you are teaching them because doctor
really means to teach. Wow, there's not a whole lot of
that happening. And how did you come to know all
of this? How did you end up in this
world? Well, I did not pick it.
It picked me. OK.
So I was born in the 50s in Texas and my mother started
bleeding. I'm number three of six
children. And she went to the doctor and
back then they gave her a medication called DES.
You're too young to know about that.
That was called diethylstilbestrol and diagnosed
Tobestro was given to pregnant women to prevent miscarriage and
stop the bleeding. So Fast forward, I'm a teenager.
My parents received a letter stating that that drug caused
cancer in both male and female offspring.
Hormone problems, infertility, anatomical problems.
So you need to go to a Cancer Institute right away.
While I was living in Houston, TX, went to MD Anderson
Hospital. And did you have any issues?
The worst thing fortunately I ever had was something called
dysplasia. So you have normal cells,
dysplasia and cancer. And so I turned that dysplasia
to normal, OK. And I have been on a mission of
health probably ever since then. Of course, my early mission is
very different than my mission today because one, I've lived a
lot of little things, OK, like all of my children were.
I never ovulated in my whole life, OK, By myself.
I never had a period every month ever in my whole life.
And so I had to take fertility pills to, to get pregnant.
Well, that didn't even work. So I had to go to infertility
specialist. And fortunately I was able to
have three children. And so it, you know, fortunately
for technology, it helped me, OK, because when you have the
desire to have a child, it's like, I got to have a baby right
now, OK. It's like a crazy possession.
And so fortunately, I was able to have babies, but I found
hormones because I didn't have a regular menstrual cycle.
So the doctors in the beginning wanted to put me on birth
control pills. And I was on birth control
pills. And I'm like, Oh my God, these
make me feel horrible. And so then I found natural
progesterone and I was forced to learn about hormones because
hormones rule your life. And if your hormones aren't
right, and I'm not talking about just female hormones, I'm not
just talking about testosterone hormone.
I'm talking about the Orchestra of Hormones.
So many. And there's so many and it's so
complicated and it's so, so critical to every single human
out there to make sure your hormones are optimized because
it will decide the decisions you make each and every day.
OK. And so I'll just go through a
little bit of hormonal just because we're on a little Segway
on that. So you have your thyroid
hormone, you have your pancreas, which makes insulin, Glucagon.
Men have testicles, women have ovaries, and then there's the
adrenals. And then you have your master
hormone back up here with the hypothelemic pituitary axis.
And so you have all these flooding hormones.
Most doctors don't really know hormones.
I'm only an expert out of default, OK, and only my own
personal. And I tell people, reading a
book and living it are two different things.
It's like trying to explain someone what it's like to have a
baby. You'd never be successful until
they have that baby and then experience their whole life
change. So, so I, but I and I teach
doctors on hormones all the time.
I give lectures on it. It's not like I keep it a
secret. I'm teaching all the time.
Anybody wants to learn, I'm there to teach them.
And so, but hormones rule your entire existence, your emotions,
your thinking patterns, I mean your mood, your there isn't
anything. And so you have to get that
fixed. And they're so easily disrupted
by these endocrine disrupting chemicals.
And there's, yeah, like you said, it's an orchestra.
It all plays off of each other. And I think that most people
understand hormones in terms of like estrogen, testosterone, and
maybe maybe people are thinking about cortisol or progesterone.
But really, it is. There's so much more to.
There's so much more to and they all work together.
It's not like they all work separately.
They it's all this, they work all together in orchestra.
So for example, when how you listen to orchestra and you know
how they, you know the, the, the strings play and then the
percussion. So you see the difference.
So that's your exactly how your body is.
So if you're division in one hormone, it's like a vacancy.
Yes, exactly. So some hormones are just
critical to your existence. I mean, you can't live, you
know, if you don't, if you don't have your thyroid, you're,
you're dead because your thyroid is responsible for the voltage
and energy of every single cell in your body.
And so, so unfortunately, doctors, you know, they learn
it, but they don't learn it. Do you know what I'm saying?
It's like, it's like my patient told me she had mold and she
asked her doctor about mycotoxins and he looks at her
like, what are mycotoxins? OK, but that's kind.
Of because they didn't learn that in medical school, right?
Well, you. Learn it.
But it's probably one day. Yeah.
OK. And then you never learn
anything until you really have it.
I hate to say it, I. And even then, I mean the
textbooks you know are are outdated from the start, right?
Yes, that's right. We're.
About way behind the current research.
Exactly. And a lot of the textbooks are
influenced by pharmaceutical companies.
So, and as you were talking about DESI, just I started
thinking like how many of these interventions have been
recommended over the years only to five to 10 years later we
realize, oh, that was actually really bad.
Yeah, well, they used DES for 40 years knowing it's Uncle Jenna
potential. Yes, just like thalidomide,
that's a old drug. You're too young to know that
drug too. And it was a drug also.
And the babies were born without arms.
Yes, I've heard. Of that OK, so and I mean we're
still making. So it's so important to be your
own advocate when it comes to your health and well and.
You need and you really need to avoid medication.
Yeah, OK. You.
They should not be the first. It can't.
Be your first option to take care of yourself.
It really can't. Yeah, OK.
And so you've learned all of this by being your own
experiment, and now you are helping so many people to
optimize their bodies. And what about when it comes to
cancer care? How does your approach, your
integrative approach to cancer, differ from the conventional
medicine approach? OK.
So if you're diagnosed with cancer, so we have to understand
that cancer is a 10 year disease.
So from one cancer cell to a tumor is about 8 to 10 years.
So that means we have 8 years of opportunity to prevent, yes, to
prevent this drug disease. And that's not the typical
understanding of cancer, right? It's kind of like they go, you
know, notice a symptom, maybe go in all of a sudden, maybe
someone has a few months to live.
And it's like, wow, you were so unlucky.
This came out of nowhere. Right.
And then young people, they're being diagnosed at stage 3 and
4. That's usually the first
presentation, unfortunately, Yeah.
So that's, you know, very, very scary.
And when they're already diagnosed, young children, I
mean, young people, their their DNA is rapidly dividing.
So that means the cancer tends to be more aggressive.
So that's the only time being old is good for you.
Yeah. So but it's very aggressive if
you're young. So it's that's why we have to
completely change the paradigm. They really need to go back and
really learn. But we're about 20 years behind
and so in our clinic, what we do.
So if someone's diagnosed with cancer, surgery, chemo and
radiation are usually prescribed.
OK. And are those the only legal
options for a doctor to give to a patient in a conventional
setting? I I'm not sure if that's true.
That's a good something about. That yeah, that's a good
question. Yes, you have to tell the
patient what their options are, OK.
And people are, you know, people do need surgery and they do need
chemo sometimes, and they do need radiation sometimes, OK.
But I usually tell them, OK, yes, you need surgery, but we've
got to take care of the garden and the terrain that this cancer
came in. Yeah, I love this.
Let's talk more about the terrain.
So, so you have to tell the patient everything because you
you have a responsibility to an ethical responsibility.
So, but in the conventional oncology, it's surgery, chemo,
radiation, OK. And that's what their tool kit
is, OK? They don't know anything beyond
that if. You went to Memorial Sloan
Kettering or MD Anderson, they pretty much say the same thing,
OK, Because there's something called the NCCN guidelines, OK,
and ASCO, So they make up the guidelines, OK, for oncology.
So, and sometimes I'm really for what the oncology is going to do
because sometimes you get cases that are so extreme and I have
to combine the best of what they do with the best of what I do.
So if you have cancer though and you use surgery and human
radiation, there is a very high failure rate in solid tumors,
OK. There was a a study in 2018 in
journal and translational medicine, I think it was that
basically is there 90% fail rate if you just do that.
So you can't just do that. You can't do, you have to
understand why, where, when and how and get to why this is
happening and why the terrain or the garden of every cell is not
working for you to take care of you.
OK? So what we do is I, I get all
the information, look at the pathology, I look at everything
the patients experience. I go over their life from in
utero to where they are. So if they're 50, I say, OK,
what happened every decade, OK. And then I go through sleep,
water, eating, dental because dental is huge.
OK Root canals are infections, mercury fillings, receding gums,
chronic infections. Because your mouth is a gateway.
So most doctors don't talk about the mouth with their.
Patients and those things you mentioned, root canals and other
things can cause those lingering affection, infections that
weaken the immune system over time.
Correct. And then stress.
Yeah, I asked the patient. So tell me what's been your
stress for the past 10 years? So then I will order very
expensive blood to work and typical oncology they order a
chemistry and ACBC. So a chemistry looks at your
electrolytes, kidney, liver, ACBC looks at your White County
if you're anemic and all your blood indices OK in your bone
marrow. So, but what about all the other
things, right? The hemoglobin A1C, the C react
approaching the D, the hormones, the immune system and it goes on
and on. And there's blood tests for all
this at LabCorp Quest, OK. And that's what I love about
your approach. It is so comprehensive and it's,
it makes me sad to think about the people that don't have, you
know, access to any of that or. Knowledge.
It's mostly knowledge. Because right?
So you can go to your doctor and say, you know what?
I read about this test, I want you to do this.
I've read that these things affect so.
And if you don't find a Doctor Who will partner with you, you
need to go to the new Doctor. OK.
Because every doctor should be in partnership with you and want
you to heal. Yeah.
OK. And if they don't, you need to
find a Doctor Who wants you to heal.
And it just makes so much sense. If you're not fixing the garden
where the cancer grew, maybe you'll be able to eradicate it
short term. But what's to stop it from
coming back? Right.
So the garden that we have today and that goes for really all of
us, OK, none of us are exempt. We're all living in this
universe. So if you look at what's inside
our body, because, you know, I measure it, so it's not like
it's something I just think this up.
So for example, heavy metals and heavy metals, we were talking
about earlier about mercury, but there's lead, there's cadmium,
there's uranium, there's aluminum, OK?
So these are so toxic to how your DNA is made every day.
Then if you think about chronic infections, viruses, bacteria,
parasites and fungus, OK, a lot of people have a lot of them.
OK, I'll be honest, most people, if I check most people, most
people have viruses. If you've had mono, the virus
either goes attack, OK, attack, OK.
And that's just one virus. If you have herpes or HPV, it's
attack, OK, The immune system tries to get it.
So viruses are asleep or awake. You want to keep them asleep
with what? An astute immune system, all
right, and you're eating and all that kind of stuff.
And then fungus, Well, a lot of people have fungus.
How do we get fungus? Well, fungus comes from toxicity
of the body and eating a lot of sugar and carbohydrates.
You know you have this environment to grow yeast.
And what about moldy foods or a moldy environment?
It's moldy environment more than anything, OK.
And they say that 95% of buildings and homes probably
have mold, OK, Because they don't build them the same way
they did long time ago. Yeah.
All right. So.
We just dealt with the whole mold.
Well, and then let's face it, a lot of homes have leaks in them
and they just don't know it. If you don't go and look, you
know you. Don't find visible.
And so you have to know because mold is so immunosuppressive and
takes over and suffocates your cells.
So when you have low oxygen from the suffocation of the bugs and
all the toxins, what happens is your body makes acidity, and
then acidity interferes with the energy body.
You know what the Krebs cycle of energy that your mitochondria
make. So you just have this constant
vicious cycle. So we all have to purify our
bodies, OK? We all have to get rid of the
bugs. There's all kind of natural
things to get rid of bugs, OK, and and then eat foods that
nourish and strengthen and heal our body.
You know, cleansing sauna. It's been around for a very long
time. I've had a sauna in our clinic
for over 25 years. OK.
The Finnish have been doing it for a little long time In
Europe. You go.
I went to speak at the Integrative Medicine week in, in
Baden, Baden. They have spas everywhere and
the whole family goes. It's it's like what you do after
work is you go and you do sweating and the special waters
and everything and every that's what you do and there's.
Studies showing that saunas decrease all 'cause mortality by
like staggering numbers. And that's a simple thing to do.
So people like, probably the greatest investment you can make
in your health is sweating with a that.
Was the first big health investment we made and it's paid
off tenfold, right? Yeah.
So you're addressing the full lifestyle, full health history,
all of these things, encouraging the people to eat better foods,
drink pure water, detoxify their environments.
What role do the products we use play in our our health and our
system? The products you're talking
about, skin products that we love everyday.
Cleaning products, yeah. Yeah, well, remember, every
decision you make is a healthcare decision.
So whatever you're cleaning your stove with your counters with,
think about it, it's going inside your body.
You have to think about that because what are you going to
do? You bring out an apple, cut it
on the counter. So it's getting in the apple,
right. So, so everything I always think
of like think about your shower water, OK, you got to have a
shower filter because your bathing and your, your skin is
very large organ absorbing all of the chlorine.
And if you don't have a shower purifier, OK, then you have to
think about the products you're using, like your soaps, your
shampoos, conditioners. And women love their products.
And so we've got to make sure that they have products that are
not intoxicated. You just got to think that your
skin is eating this, OK. And so and they've done studies
that if you women use pure products, the chemical load is
less and less, you know, effect on the body.
Yeah, I think people think sometimes if it's not something
you're ingesting, it's not that big of a deal.
But like you said, it is. There's proof of it.
There's certain medications that are applied to a skin as a means
of absorption. So it it really does make a
difference. And the average woman applies
168 different chemicals to her body every single day.
That's a lot of chemical accumulation.
So with breast, breast cancer, which as we know is the number
one cancer, and this month in October being breast Cancer
awareness month, I just can't help but think about how much
awareness there has been around surrounding breast cancer and
how that has really gotten us nowhere in the quest to
eradicate breast cancer. Why do you think that is?
Right. It's so true and we've allowed
it to just now proliferate even more.
And I think first of all, our medical system has no
prevention, OK, young women have, like we I said earlier, we
have no screening for women a 25 year old 3030, but the first
time it recommended any kind of screening between 35 and 40.
But we've only had mammograms and sometimes ultrasound as a
tool to look for cancer. So now we have brand new breast
cancer screening and that's called QT quantitative
transmission. You basically put your breast,
each breast in water and they run sound waves through the
breast to detect the tiniest, tiniest little mass now.
And they do each breast, it takes about 30-40 minutes
depending on the size of the breast.
There is no radiation. There are no dyes, there is no
toxicity. It's a brand new FDA.
It's not really brand new. It's actually been around.
But like anything new, it takes years to get into the medical
system because it's FDA approved now.
And so, but that's going to be the new way.
And I think women, typically young women don't get screened
early because of breast or dense and mammogram isn't good on
dense tissue, right? And over 50% of the population
has dense tissue. So you're going to miss it,
you're going to miss 50% of the cancer.
So you've got to do it ultrasound.
But now that we have QT, it's going to be the far better
option. It's 40 times the resolution of
an MRI. And is this something that a lot
of oncologists are utilizing or not really yet?
Not yet. It's like anything new that
comes out. I learned about it by two breast
surgeons who stopped doing breast surgery to now focus on
prevention of breast cancer. So which is great because here
these people were chopping off people's breast.
OK. And now they're all about and
now they're really on the mission to get the, this new
screening, non-toxic screening out to the.
Public. That's amazing.
Yeah. And then there's nothing talked
about really. You know, when you talk about
all these breast cancer philanthropic groups, they don't
talk about prevention. All they're talking about
treatment. And then they have pictures of
women lose their hair and all this stuff.
And I'm like, wait, that's not what I want to go through,
right? But that doesn't create a
lifelong patient. Yeah.
Right. You don't get a lifelong patient
if you are a lifelong customer. You know, for the pharmaceutical
companies, if we are preventing and when we think about these
organizations that are so focused on quote, breast cancer
awareness, what is what is that even doing?
Like just being aware of it, you know, and they're raising money,
but all of that is being sent to pharmaceutical companies to
develop new drugs. So they don't have any interest
in preventing it. Right, exactly because the if
you think there's a drug called Avastin which is blocks
angiogenesis, which is blood supply to the cancer and then
they said oh it's the greatest drug, but it doesn't extend
life, OK. And really none of the treatment
protocols today, very little extended life unfortunately so.
And a lot of times I think people decide they're not even,
it's not even worth it to go that route and experience all of
these symptoms for the remainder of their life.
Well, it's a very, it's a very invasive process, Yeah, when you
undergo these treatment protocols.
Yeah. And another thing that I think
has gotten a ton of awareness is skin cancer.
You know, awareness about sunscreen use is that an all
time high has been for decades. Meanwhile, skin cancer rates
have continued to skyrocket. What are your thoughts on that?
Well, it is the. It is the number one.
The answer is skin cancer. OK, solid tumors is breast, but
skin cancer in and of itself is the number one cancer.
So there's basal cells, squamous cell and Melanoma.
And people, yes, you're right, people lather on sunscreen.
I personally don't use sunscreen unless I'm going out for a very
long period of time. But your first hour you should
not have sunscreen. You need to let the sun enter
your eyes and through your skin because remember light is light
and most of the sunscreen sold are toxicity.
OK and so they are. They shouldn't.
You shouldn't be using chemical sunscreens at all.
And then Melanoma. People think that it's caused by
the sun, but it's not Because if you think when you get diagnosed
with Melanoma, it's on an area of the body that sun doesn't
even get to. Yep, so.
I have a friend who does that. She tests the the cells in skin
grafts and finds Melanoma. And a lot of times it's not in a
place where the sun ever touches.
Right. So sun is medicine, OK, And
light is life. And so we're we're trying, we're
now avoiding sunshine, but sunlight needs to be part of our
daily life. I tried to go out in the middle
of the day and go take a walk and get sunshine.
Yeah. So the light.
Is a lot of bones to pick with dermatologists because I had a
negative experience with a dermatologist for acne in high
school and, you know, being prescribed antibiotics after
antibiotics to treat my acne. So many things that I think
they're getting wrong. And I think sun exposure is
another one. This idea that we have to wear
UPF clothing and cover every inch of our body every time
we're out in the sun. It's just so, so flawed.
Obviously, we have to have a healthy respect for the sun and
we don't want to burn, but that's not going to happen
within the 1st 5 minutes we get outside.
We we want to experience the benefits of the sunlight and the
vitamin D and then we can go in the shade when we need to cover
up. We can wear sunscreen when we're
out in the sun for long periods of time.
Yeah, but like you said, not a chemical based sunscreen,
something like zinc oxide that's going to create that physical
barrier. One more question.
Vitamin B17, it's not considered a vitamin in the US.
It's not allowed in the US. What can you tell us about B17?
Well, B17 years ago, there was a study done in Memorial Sloan
Kettering and showed how it worked.
And then of course they got rid of it.
And so it is actually a nutrient that is looked at in the testing
that I do to see if it's going to kill your circulating tumor
cells. So it's one agent that has the
possibility of killing circulating tumor cells.
And so, but there's many agents. So, you know, years ago there
was a Doctor Who had a clinic in Mexico still exists and he used
to be my former partner and they used B17 for everything and like
it worked, got rid of people's cancer.
But today we're living in an environment that.
You need more. You need many more bullets,
yeah, in order for to kill. Cancer.
That's very interesting, though, yeah.
What about apricot seeds? Yeah.
Apricot seeds is B7 where the B. 7 is form right?
Yes. Exactly.
Yeah, I just started taking those.
Yeah. So we use those apricot power in
our in our clinic. That's what we use is the seeds
to give to patients. What are some of the next level
things that you offer at your clinic for cancer patients?
So one of the things we do, so if a patient needs chemotherapy
and the only time that I recommend chemotherapy is that
people have tumor burden. So a little lump typically
doesn't need chemotherapy. Are there extenuating
circumstances? Yes.
You have to look at the pathology to see if a patient
warranted. They have special tests now
called Mammaprint and they tell you if you are, if chemotherapy
is going to help you. And so, but 70% of breast cancer
patients don't need chemotherapy.
But if it's already gone outside of the original location and
it's gone into your lymph glands or to your liver, your kidney or
your bones, we know we have to shrink the problem from here to
here. OK?
So we have to use something. Now, if patients don't want to
do chemotherapy, yes, there are other things they can do.
I, I don't, I always tell people I don't negotiate with cancer.
I want you to do everything. I will take care of the
downside. But right now we're 10 years
behind. Let's institute.
So in our clinic, we do something called fractionated
chemotherapy. So cancer cells have something
called insulin like growth factors.
So insulin is what we're responsible for, sugar to the
cell, right? And so cancer cells have more
than a normal cell. So we prime the body by giving
your body insulin so it turns on the insulin.
Like growth factors. We bring your blood sugar to
something called the therapeutic moment, which is about 40, and
then we give you the chemotherapy so they're ready to
eat it. So the incidents like a Trojan
horse to bring chemo to the cancer cell, preserving the
other cells. And you have them fast prior.
Fast the day before and the day because they found at USC in a
study that if people fasted, their side effects were 50% less
or more. Is that just because of because
autophagy is activated and your body's more primes?
And it doesn't have to do exactly and it doesn't have to
do anything else. Whereas if you're eating and
everything, it's consumed with taking care of what you're
ingesting. So if you're in fasting, your
body's in a clean up state. So we always have, whether you
do conventional or you do fractionated.
I tell the patients to fast the day before and the day off.
And I've told patients to fast for other reasons too.
I'm curious, would you recommend, I've heard, I think
Doctor Thomas Seyfried, I'm not sure if I'm saying that correct,
but he recommends like a seven day fast every year for
everybody. Is that like what are your
thoughts on doing periodical fast just to do some cleanup?
I think it's really good. I think people, I always ask
patients, have you ever fasted? Yes, no.
What can you do? What do you think you can do?
Some people say one day, some people say 30 days.
The longest I've ever had a patient do is 30 days.
That's a long time. I don't really advocate that,
but I've, I've partnered with the patient with what they think
they can do and what they want to do.
And I have seen it do incredible things.
But like for example, the patient wants to lose weight.
I'll say I want you to fast two days a week.
And if I can't get somebody C reactive protein down and
getting their triglycerides down, I will tell them, look, I
have seen this change, and I've also seen that help people lose
weight because, you know, I would say a large percent of the
population is trying to lose weight.
Yeah. So we got to look for all the
tools to help them lose weight. And I think a lot of people
would think that, oh, not eating two days a week sounds extreme,
but really when you understand how the body works and that the
body, you know, you can, you can burn your own fuel when you're
not consuming food, it's really not that extreme at all.
And I'm a fan of fasting. That's why I'm curious about
this personally because I just think it's it's so fascinating
and amazing how the body can do so much when you just give it a
break from digesting foods. And I've experienced profound
benefits from periodical fast in my life too.
Right. Well, there's a great
documentary called The Science of Fasting.
If anyone has any questions, concerns, and wants to see the
science, it's fabulous. So.
Now the other things that we do, we recommend hyperbaric oxygen
and or ozone. So we do ozone intravenously and
because cancer, we know under Warburg got a Nobel Prize that
cancer is a anaerobic, sugary, acidic environment.
And so I got to change all of that.
So it thrives in lack of oxygen, high sugar, acidity.
Right, so, so we so we give them things to alkalinize their body.
We use them a special powder of sodium, potassium bicarb then we
do like. Which is is that baking soda?
It's like. Baking soda.
So I I started out with baking soda and I tried it myself and I
was like, oh, I don't know if anybody could do this every day
because it just doesn't taste good.
So I found a product that is magnesium sodium bicarb and it
tastes so much better. And then of course I have them
do either detox baths with clay and Epsom salts and baking soda
or infrared sauna depending on what they have.
So. What's the ratio?
Of so, I usually do a cup of two cups of Epsom salts, a cup of
baking soda, and 1/4 cup of clay.
Yes. So.
It feels amazing. I noticed that when I do the the
detox bath I sweat like almost as much as I do with a sauna.
It's really powerful. Yeah.
And your skin is skin, believe it or not, is a purification or
Yeah, OK. And then ozone is very, very
synergistic with chemotherapy. So.
But ozone, like I do a blood test called Phi, which stands
for hot phosphohexoisomerase. It's an indicator of anaerobic
metabolism. So I know that if patients
numbers are really high, I need to give IV ozone or I use
something called EBU. EBU is where we hook you up to
machine and it's a closed unit and we put your blood through a
filter and then we ozonate it. So, and it goes back in, goes
back terrified. Exactly.
So that's another thing that we do.
We do PMF on everybody, every, every person that has a human
magnetic field. And so because of all these
factors that are draining or everything's a lack of energy
and voltage, right. So PMF is pulsed electromagnetic
field. So all of them either lay on it
their whole body and or the body part.
OK. And then I use light therapy.
So I use light. It's called photobiomodulation.
So light is light. All of your cells have light.
They have a photonic light, believe it or not.
And so we intravenously will give you a substance like say
curcumin, which is like turmeric.
And then we use the lights, all the different lights, 5
different lights to activate the curcumin to work in your body.
All right, you can use it as a stand alone to help because it's
it works on many different levels to add energy to the body
antimicrobial and it it's incredible.
OK now you can also do it topically like I use it
topically for skin cancers. So instead of making a scar I
you will do it topically by applying a substance to activate
the pathological tissue and then it's laser on top and then it
just dries it and it goes off by itself do.
You ever use ozonated olive oil first in the campfire?
Yeah, we, we, I use that for many different things.
Yeah. And phenomenal healer for Scars.
I think that's another thing that everyone should have at
home is an ozone generator. Yes, a lot of.
They're not that expensive. Right, yeah, they're not that
expensive, right. That's one, that's the, that's
the self-care, you know, kit that would be helpful for people
to have. So we check the voltage of every
single person. So we, the voltage I talked
about earlier, I say this is a big deal because it's like
energy. You have to have energy for
every cell to work. So we know that you're not
making good energy because you have cancer, right?
So you can heal if you don't have energy.
So if you were to have surgery tomorrow, you're going to need
energy of your cells to heal from that surgery.
So we checked the voltage of every one of our patients and
then we charge them. We have something called the
biocharger, and then you sit in front of and receive
frequencies, and then we have something called the
biomodulator. So we'll charge the patients
once or twice a day and then sometimes when they go go home,
we give them essential oils to continue it unless they want to
do the biomodulator themselves. Gosh, that's so fascinating.
So for anyone listening, I am a patient at Doctor Kennealy's
clinic. She has the the Cancer Center
for Healing and then also the Center for New Medicine.
So my husband and I became patients at the Center for New
Medicine earlier this year. Just for optimization and just
general like healthcare stuff. And that is one treatment that I
have been looking forward to, to getting.
So hopefully one of these days we'll get in there for it.
But I just, I wish that every oncologist thought like you and
incorporated all of these things because this epidemic, it's not
going away. It's getting worse and worse and
worse, and we're just throwing more of the same things at it.
Yeah, and we're not the, the, the results aren't any better.
No, OK, if the results were better, it's great.
But you know, the results are, are abysmal, OK.
And the human suffering that we see is unnecessary.
So. But doctors, you know, they
don't know anything different. They don't have any.
They have nothing else in their toolkit to help cure and heal a
patient. So so they've got to go back now
are doctors yes. Are there doctors going back and
learning? But there's no like weekend year
course to learn all this it takes.
It's really up to them. It's yeah, it's up to the doctor
to take control of their own lives.
But there are doctors that are functional doctors.
But cancer is a whole nother level meaning of prevention and
treatment. And so that's something that
people have the doctor has to learn or the practitioner has to
learn, but you can't. It's not, you know, it's not
that difficult. It's you know, I always think
I'm not, I'm not going to find something on pub Med.
But sure enough, there's always the answer, you know, a
scientific article written about it, whether it's mistletoe or
whatever it is, you know, hyperthermia.
Hyperthermia is another thing that we use.
Hyperthermia is elevating your body to elevated temperatures.
So we make 3 heat shock proteins, 2772 and 90.
And This is why sauna is so good because heat kills viruses and
cancer. And so we use hyperthermia at
the clinic on a particular part of your body to elevate, not
just the body part, it will elevate the body to kill those
cells that's. Incredible.
So we'll add that also because when you have cancer, you better
have as many magic bullets as possible.
Never rely on just surgery, chemo and radiation because the
the the biopsy is injurious in immunosuppressive, the surgery
is injurious in immunosuppressive, the chemo is
injurious in immunosuppressive and radiation.
So what are you doing to counteract that the whole time?
So you're just, so there's something called circulating
tumor cells. So circulating tumor cells are
responsible for 95% of metastasis.
So surgery, chemo and radiation makes those cells very upset and
makes them, you know, want them to go to a new home, nest or
residence. And in the United States, very
few doctors check circulating tumor cells.
There's five articles a day on pub Med on circulating tumor
cells. They're performed all over the
world. But in the US, if an institution
does not have their own lab, they just don't check them.
Another blood test that's relatively new that I've only
been using in the past year that is available in the United
States. So let's say you had a diagnosis
and you want to make sure that it's still silent.
There's a blood test called Cigna Terra and that's looking
at circulating tumor DNA, which is DNA that's broken off from
the original tumor. So that's another test.
Now we can use for prevention. If you've had cancer, it doesn't
work. If you for prevention to prevent
cancer, it's used to monitor you.
If you've had cancer, it's amazing and just arm yourself
with information reading you're, you know, there's a book called
Outliers and what does it say 10,000 hours to become an
expert. And so we need to learn how to
be an expert on ourselves. Yeah, there's so much out there
which I think gives a lot of hope that, you know, you there
aren't just these three options of chemo, surgery and radiation.
There's a lot more. And if your doctor isn't, you
know, in the know about anything beyond those 3 conventional
options, like you said, maybe it's time to to find someone
else to establish care under. But how would someone find the
right person near them? You're in Southern California,
your Cancer Center for healing and Center for new medicine.
But for for those who are living in different states, maybe don't
have the means to travel to California, Where where would
they start in finding someone to see?
That's a good question. Well, first of all, we do cancer
conversation every two weeks, OK, So you can listen and it's
recorded. So you if you miss it, you can
listen to it. So then you can find a doctor or
start looking for a doctor that is doing things that we're
doing. OK, Then just Google, you know,
there's the Institute for Functional Medicine, there's
different groups of medical groups that are into integrative
functional medicine. All right.
And then and always partner with a medical doctor or a naturopon
that knows the best of both, OK, Because if you do have
something, I have seen patients that they've been seeing a
practitioner and it was way worse than they thought it was.
And so they but the practitioner didn't know that.
And so you want to make sure that you're, you know, a OK, OK,
you can't be, you got to make sure that that practitioner
really knows, OK. And because like we're talking
about cancer that and so cancer is a complicated conundrum.
All right, Other diseases are a little bit easier.
You can take your time about the investigation, but cancer is
something you want to one prevent.
And if you are are treated, you want to make sure that you're
armed with all the information modalities.
But a lot of it is something you do at home.
You know, there's a great book called Radical Remission, and
eight out of the 10 things that these are, people were all given
a death sentence and eight out of the 10 things were things
they did on their own. Well, let's talk about that a
little bit because I know we've we've talked about some really
doom and gloom statistics with one and two people now receiving
a cancer diagnosis in their lifetime.
I know I've also heard you say that 90% of sickness and disease
is caused by diet and lifestyle. So like you said, a lot of it is
are things that we can be just practicing in our everyday life.
And we've talked about a few things like infrared sauna, the
detox baths, the the baking soda.
I know I do half a teaspoon of baking soda at night.
Is that a good amount? Very good.
And you have the other mix that tastes a little better.
But what are some other just small tweaks and small little
hacks that people can tap into to prevent cancer and just
improve their health overall? Right.
Well, then I would say the number one thing every human
being needs to be cognizant of is their state of mind.
And there's a book called The Body Keeps Score.
And everybody has a journey. Some people have worse life
experiences, but mostly everybody has some kind of
trauma and drama. I don't.
I don't think I've ever met somebody.
Who doesn't? No one's exempt.
From that, no one's exempt. I've never.
I mean, I listened to people's stories for 38 years.
I've never said, oh, this person's perfect.
Oh my God, they don't want me. I've never.
Met no emotional distress. So everyone has it and address
it, OK. And don't become a victim.
Become a hero of your journey and learn how to do that.
Don't become the problem. I always tell people to partner
roles. Don't become the problem, don't
own the problem. Everything is a learning episode
and learning episodes are not short.
And learn all the lessons, OK? Go help yourself and help
somebody else but really set your mind, OK?
Be in APMA positive mental attitude each and every day, no
matter what curveball thrown you, OK.
And I'm a very spiritual person. I grew up Catholic.
I don't practice Catholism now, but I have a very deep spiritual
practice. And I, that's how I live.
I don't know how other people can live without that because it
has to, it has a central role in, in how I function 24 hours,
seven days a week. And so I always turn a problem
into an affirmation of gratitude, OK, and a gratitude,
I mean, affirmation that's going to happen now, not that's going
to happen. That's going to happen now.
So that really does my system really good.
And that's what we all need to do and just be in constant
affirmations of gratitude. Like thank God I woke up today.
Thank God I have two feet and I can walk.
Thank God I get to drive a car. Thank God that I have a toilet
and a shower and I have food and I can make coffee and just these
basic, basic, basic things. We need to be thankful of many
people around the world, the 8 billion people.
A lot of people don't have what we have right this second.
OK, And then just really be in that and reset during the day.
And if you have an issue with a mom, dad, rape, you know, any
molestation, anything, go get help for it and learn how to
turn that negative seed into positive seeds.
Years ago, I remember I was driving to work and I was
listening to Tick Nahan. And if you don't know him, look
him up. And he was a Vietnamese
Buddhist. And and he was the cassette tape
was about how to turn negative seeds into positive seeds.
And I look that that just so resonated with me.
And because I didn't have a perfect childhood.
And so I didn't have a father figure in my life.
And I was always trying to be a plus plus plus plus, OK, because
I wanted my dad to recognize me. And but then I wouldn't be who I
am if that didn't happen. So your negative seeds become
your positive seeds, your weaknesses become your
superpower, literally. OK.
And so I know like I'd like, look like everything that
happened to me made me that elevated enlightened person, OK?
And I get like this I could spend hours on because it's
something the battlefield of the mind is real and it's 24/7 with
every single person. There's not a soul that doesn't
have it. We're not robots, OK?
And so it's something that you really have to just constantly
reengage, reengage, reengage because we get pulled over here
there and all the nonsense and then we got to get reset.
Then how do you live every day? OK, So what are you eating?
OK, we can't be eating food that's dead.
OK. We have to eat real food.
It's not that difficult, not that expensive.
OK, if you do it correctly and analyze it.
There's so many people that write about this.
Then water, like I said, you have to drink purified water.
You can't. And use glass.
Get rid of plastic out of your life everywhere.
Zip locks, everything. I might when I had my kids, I
wrapped everything in wax paper, paper bags, never used all the
other stuff. And so just get rid of plastic,
OK, That's like one thing in my book.
I talk about just get rid of plastics.
We're just inundated with it. And then move your body.
We are living in a world that you're nobody's moving.
You have 800 months. Sitting is the new smoke.
Yeah, and we're not moving. And so use every opportunity to
move. Don't send an e-mail to someone.
Go talk to someone, say hi to them.
Oh, I want to tell you about something.
Got to really, we got to get this done.
Don't, don't, don't send an e-mail or a text.
Go do it yourself. OK.
Enjoy washing dishes, enjoy washing clothes, enjoy walking
up and down the stairs and use, you use every opportunity to
move every single thing because we're not moving enough.
And then you have to have a purification routine.
OK, so a lot of it's at home, you have a sauna, but not
everybody has a sauna. So you need to do a bath.
You can do a skin brushing. Dry.
Brushing. What do?
You think about Castor oil? Oil packs.
Castor oil packs are phenomenal. They've been used for, you know,
years and years. It's the wonder oil.
It's great for your hair growth. If you're neat hair, it's great
for your hair growth. Your eyebrows.
I put it on my eyebrows every night.
And you can do jumping. Yeah, like a little jumping
little trampoline. Trampoline is very good for your
lymph circulation because your lymph removes the garbage out of
your body. It's four times greater than
your blood circulation. So.
And you can do jump rope. OK, you don't even need to have
a trampoline. Just get all.
Jump how many free options? Exactly.
And then I always call them exercise snacks.
So I was to go just get up, get up and do this 10 times just
like weird little things you can that's.
What I do when I've been like just sitting for a while
working, I, I take a break and I'll do 20 air squats.
Yeah, exactly. So just use your Bunny.
I saw somebody on TV the other day, they were doing chair yoga.
Like there's people that can't move and do chair yoga.
And I was like, Oh my God, that's a phenomenal idea.
Like it was perfect. So there's almost something out
there for everything. Lots of options.
Right. And then make sure you're
optimized nutritionally. Like there's very easy ways to
look at your nutritional status. In our clinic we use something
called Oligo scan that looks at the intracellular concentration
of your vitamins, minerals and heavy.
Finger it's. Very fast so because if you
don't have the optimum nutrient, your cells are dying.
And then if you if you can't do that, just look for the most
comprehensive natural replacement, OK, the most
comprehensive thing that you can find and do your own research.
Do your own. Don't I always don't take my
word for it. Go look up everything I tell
you. Go find it.
You'll find it. And I remember I was telling you
earlier, I had this lady Doctor Who came to see me and she was a
young doctor and had Melanoma. And I was like, she works for
Kaiser. And I'm like, wow, does she know
where she is? You know, I mean, I'm the
opposite of Kaiser, right? And so then she told me that I
said, well, why did you get interested in integrative
functional medicine? She goes, you know, I started
studying doctors talking about integrative functional medicine.
And I thought, they are full of it.
They don't know what they're talking about.
And in my quest to to prove them wrong, I realized they were all
right. And then I have to go unlearn
everything that I'm learning. And so and so that's where we
are. So, and it's not just for
medicine. Take every facet of your life
and really bother yourself to go read, educate, discuss.
I think that is an underrated thing.
Just be at this idea of engaging your mind and learning.
Being on a constant path of growth has to be so beneficial
for your health overall, right? Yeah, and then people, most
people don't sleep well. Yeah, OK.
Make sure you're getting 78 hours of good sleep and really
try to get out in nature as much as possible.
Yeah, basically live like people lived 200 years ago.
Yeah, exactly. And you'll be.
Good. Not even 200, about 100.
Yeah, even when I was a little girl, we had it was pretty.
It's. Gotten worse and worse.
Yeah, it's gotten worse. Couple.
Of decades. Yeah.
Well, I love what you said so much about our mindset and our
thoughts. You know, the Bible says hold
every thought captive. It's easier said than done, but
I think it's so important not to believe every stupid thought
that jumps into your brain. Half of them aren't true
anyways. And just kind of constantly
reframing things from a place of gratitude because there's always
something that we can be grateful for.
That's right. Yeah.
Well, thank you so much for joining us today.
This has been such a cool conversation.
And what a treat to just have have you here for an hour and a
half and to to be able to chat here at the farm.
So I really appreciate your time.
Where can people find you, follow along with you, and
continue to learn from you? Well, they can follow us on
Instagram, Keneally, MD and then you can look up the clinics
Center for new medicine and Cancer Center for healing.com.
And then you can read my book, the Cancer Revolution.
I'm coming out with the second book and 20 beginning of 2025
and then listen to cancer conversation and everything else
every other Tuesday. So we're constantly educating,
inspiring people to live better lives.
Wonderful. Thank you so much, Doctor
Kennealy. My privilege.
Thank you.