Cancer Isn’t Genetic: It's Real Root Causes

But before we dive into that , since you haven't been on the program before , would you mind just taking a moment and tell us a little bit about your background , your journey and how you came to be in this space ?

So that was a drug used to prevent miscarriage and stop bleeding in pregnant women and that was used for 40 years , probably up until 1971 . And so my parents , when I'm a teenager , my parents received a letter stating oh , you had been administered that medication .

The consequences of that medication are , you know , anatomical problems , hormone problems , infertility problems , cancer in both male and female offspring . You need to go to a cancer institution . Well , I lived in Texas . The largest cancer institution in the world is actually in Texas and more specifically MD Anderson .

So I started going to MD Anderson when I was a teenager , getting evaluated , and so that kind of catapulted me into where I am today . And so the consequences I had were I had dysplasia . Dysplasia is abnormal cells . Okay , they're not quite cancerous . I never had two periods in a row in my life .

I had to use very special infertility specialists to have my babies . I had 18 hours of back surgery to reverse the scoliosis that I had and a few other detours and curveballs along the way really the human frame differently .

And so when I went to medical , I went to college , got a degree in biology and Latin , and then I went to medical school in Chicago , went out to Harbor UCLA and did my residency , and even then I was trying to change the way we were doing things because we were . I was doing delivery of babies my first 60 days of residency and I was doing a PC .

Well , my , my resident told me I needed to do an episiotomy babies my first 60 days of residency and I was doing a PC . Well , my , my resident told me I needed to do an episiotomy and my first episiotomy repair took four hours . And I'm like , no , I cannot do this , I've got to learn a way to avoid episiotomies .

And so I said to myself , okay , what can I do ? I started researching , looking , and I'm like , no , you can talk to the patient , have them breathe and massage the perineum . And I never did episiotomy again and I delivered all these babies without cutting them .

And so I grew up really natural , eating liver and sauerkraut and all the things that are fashionable today . That's how I grew up and I started my practice 39 years ago , teaching people how to eat lifestyle medicine .

I hired a registered dietitian and she helped me with helping teach people how to eat , and then I took a different metabolic approach to people's weight loss and so , anyway , that started my process to where I am today and how I got into cancer is I wanted to prevent cancer on myself and so , luckily , I met this gentleman who had been diagnosed with sarcoma ,

and this was about 28 years ago 27 , 28 years ago and he was at a .

They have anti-aging conferences , which you may have been to before , and they had this conference and he was in his booth and he's telling me his whole life story about how he had sarcoma , which is a tumor , muscle bone , and they told him you need to amputate , and he says no , and he spent the next 11 years on a discovery odyssey , figuring out how to save

his leg and cure himself of cancer . So I said , oh , I need to learn everything this guy knows , and so , fortunately , he told me everything . I learned about mitochondria . Nobody was talking about mitochondria back then . I learned about coffee enemas . I learned about the bioenergetics of the body . I learned about herbs . I learned about coffee enemas .

I learned about the bioenergetics of the body . I learned about herbs . I learned about so much . And fortunately this gentleman lived in Sarasota and he'd come and see patients with me . So I started this journey a long time ago and then I worked with an oncologist and I loved him . He was just so great with my patients .

I said , hey , would you be interested in opening up an integrative oncology practice ? He said sure . So we flew to Mexico to look at a clinic with Dr Contreras at Oasis of Hope and we all worked together and that's what we started . Here was Oasis of Hope in United States . Well then , nobody wanted to go to Tijuana , so we parted paths .

We're still very good friends . In fact I just saw him a couple months ago and that's what birthed the Cancer Center for Healing .

So we have two clinics , the Center for New Medicine side and the Cancer Center for Healing side , and so when patients have been diagnosed with cancer they go to the Cancer Center for Healing side and then the Center for New Medicine is human optimization or longevity , because that's more of the buzzword today .

But human optimization , longevity , autoimmune , lyme disease , mold , all the chronic disease . Diabetes hormones were , you know , probably the best in hormones . So any chronic disease , but also if you just really want to prevent and optimize your system , and so it's like the perfect combination because we're medical .

So , like you know , we combine the best of conventional with the new , updated things that are on PubMed . Now , you know , like post electromagnetic field , which has been around for a long time , has over on PubMed .

Now , you know , like post electromagnetic field , which has been around for a long time , has over 1000 PubMed studies , but a conventional doctor knows nothing about it . Right , like you mentioned , ketogenic . Ketogenic was first utilized for epileptic patients . Well , now on patients who are pancreatic cancer and glioblastoma .

That's the first thing I do , but that's not the only thing I do , okay , and so so we do a very exhaustive analysis , one to prevent disease , and I tell people the top three killers are medications and errors . You know Johns Hopkins produced that study and then heart disease and cancer , and so you want to not have the top three things , right .

So I focus on prevention and optimization . But patients , sometimes they don't know about it . Like I had a nurse today . She says , oh my God , I should have known you 20 years ago . And so she has lots of , lots of .

She has she's a textbook case she has B-cell lymphoma but she has 10 other very serious medical issues and so and now she's a nurse and you know COVID made her awaken and see , you know other ways of taking care of you . So we combine the best of conventional . So you know you asked me earlier if we do CT scans and all that .

Yeah , so we do lots of blood work , way more than the conventional doctors , because we know the blood work we need to order . And then we do imaging all kinds , whether it's whole body , mri , ct scans , ultrasound , all those things .

But we also do a very detailed analysis of your nutrition heavy metals , microorganisms , viruses , bacteria , fungi and parasites , toxicity , all the things that interfere with the body's functionality and healing capability .

But just starting off the fundamentals of cancer , like when I went to medical school , cancer was viewed as a disease of genetics , basically mutation , not hereditary necessarily , although that plays a role . But basically the theory of the origin of cancer was gene mutations that drove cancer . And then today we're seeing ideas , a second model based

on metabolism , which is not new Otto Warburg famously did it early on but it's the idea that there are metabolic abnormalities in the mitochondria and elsewhere that drive cancer . And if you look at cancer you can see they're both . They're both gene genetic abnormalities and they're metabolic abnormalities , no question about it .

I guess the question is what's your view on that and which is primary and which is secondary ? What's , what's the root there , do you think ?

They're minding its own business , but we're being bombarded with hundreds , if not millions , of different interactions that are compromising the mitochondria , which are the powerhouse engines of our cell .

And then we also have inside the cell the nucleus , the cytoplasm and all of its organelles , and so you know , a cancer cell I mean a cancer cell is birthed because a normal cell in the right conditions can become a normal cell and abnormal conditions can become a cancer cell . So these inciting mechanisms are the body and the cells are acidic .

And when you have acidity because your pH of your normal blood is about 7.43 , when your body becomes acidic , you immediately have hypoxia . And when you have hypoxia , which is low oxygen , anaerobic metabolism , you have fermentation of sugar and you make lactic acid and everything grows and all the toxins cannot be disposed of in your body .

And so you have this going on . And I tell people , from one cancer cell to tumor is about eight to 10 years in the conventional world .

So we have so much opportunity to prevent it , and my number one goal would be to prevent diseases all diseases but the community isn't interested in and doctors are reactive , they're not preventive , precise and personalized about their care , and we're not taught in medical school .

We're taught to treat , and I tell people we need to fix patients so that they can conduct productive lives , and so people don't realize , like I had a patient who had a brain tumor recently and she'd gone to Cedars-Sinai and the doctor told her oh , this just started three months ago .

Well , no , no cancer , no heart disease situation just starts a couple months ago . This is many years . Metabolic , mitochondrial assaults to the body , and so we have to change the environment of the cell . All right , and the mitochondria now , mitochondrial medicines , like big now , because you know everyone's talking about it .

But this is something that I've been focusing on for , you know , over 25 years , and so my treatments are very different because I'm trying to change the cellular energy of every cell . And so you know , people don't realize that when the body is acidic , and then you want to know , well , what's causing our body to be acidic .

Okay , we have a beautiful buffering system . Okay , we have an amazing buffering system , but now we're being bombarded with so much pollution . So I tell people we're living in the great poisoning . The air , the water , the food supplies , literally everything that we are utilizing and doing and drinking and eating has potential toxicity .

Doing and drinking and eating has potential toxicity . Then you look at the nutritional deficiencies Even if you eat perfectly , it's probably very difficult to have 100% , you know , vitamin sufficiency . And then you have a lot of the patients have viruses .

If you think about all the viruses that cause the infectious part of cancer , right , like Epstein-Barr , cytomegalovirus , mycoplasma I mean a lot herpes . All these different viruses contribute to an inflammatory infectious process , even like , for example , pancreatic cancer . I mean a lot of it is .

You know , obviously there's many things , but one of the infections you should be checking is H pylori , because H pylori can contribute not only to stomach cancer but also pancreatic cancer .

So when we look at a patient , we're looking at everything that could be contributing to the perfect storm , and so what I really see is that patients I go through a very detailed analysis from the time they were conceived to where they are now , and I do an exhaustive analysis .

I go through birth to 10 , 10 to 20 , whatever age they are , then I go through exposures . I go through have you been exposed to mold ? All these questions , because everything matters . And then I go through a detailed lifestyle . How much do you sleep ? 50% of the population sleep . Well , sleep is the elixir of life .

What water , and what kind of water are you drinking ? We have to drink purified water . We have to eat foods that nourish , strengthen and heal the body . We have to avoid insecticides and pesticides , and I'm going to tell you it's impossible to avoid them completely because they're everywhere .

I mean , look at glyphosate poisoning okay , and now they're trying to get exempt from you know being . You know that they it's causing that . So we can't allow that to happen . Because look at glyphosate , it's horrible . And how ? What percent of the population has glyphosate ? Probably over 95% . And so then you have to look at the body .

If they're moving , like a lot of people aren't moving enough , we have 800 muscles . Exercise produces energy , so oxygenation , lymphatic tissue , et cetera , helps the immune system . And then one of the biggest questions that doctors don't ask is what's going on in the mouth , and the mouth is the gateway to many diseases . And we used to use mercury fillings .

Now we don't . Mercury is a very serious toxin If you have a root canal , it's a chronic infection . If you have periodontal diseases , chronic infection , chronic infections suppress the immune system and cause chronic inflammation . And then we have to look at stress .

And I usually ask patients so , tell me what has been your stress for the past eight to 10 years , and I will tell you that . And stress is part of life and stress makes you strong , but it's extraordinary stress , okay . So I ask , I go really ask deeply , because rarely people don't have any . They always have some extraordinary stress .

And so like , for example , if someone's diagnosed with breast cancer , usually you ask them okay , what's your problem ? How long have you been married ? And who in your family like that you don't get along with . Like I had a 40 year old the other day come in and her mother was there , her husband was there and I said tell me about your stress .

And she kind of like , well , you know , I don't really have that much stress . And then the mother piped in immediately and said well , you kids are trying to take over the business , meaning not take over in a negative way , trying to learn the business so they can take it over .

So we've been doing that for probably the past six years and so so , and they're you know the father's saying , look , look , I want to retire . Right , he wants to rest and he's trying to give it to the , to the younger kids , to , you know , transfer the power . And so then I said , ok , do you have any brothers and sisters ?

She goes , well , I have a brother . And I said are you very close to the brother ? Yes , and I said how is he doing ? Well , he's had a meth addiction for 10 years . So here is unspoken , really not probably talked about , not conscious of like , how is this possibly affecting me ? And so you really .

That's why I believe emotional work has to be part of any healing program , whether it's cancer , heart disease or any other medical problem . In fact , we added that to our physicals now . So when you're a new patient here , we always do something called Evox . Evox is the Latin word for voice , so your voice

is a frequency , and so you just start talking about yourself and the frequency is displayed on a computer and it tells the practitioner the things that need to be reframed or transitioned , because I tell everyone that an emotional disfrequency is stored as unfavorable in our body , and so breast , for example , is unrest in your nests , and if you have lungs , that's

grief . If you have pancreatic cancer , someone's stolen your joy , etc . And if you have lungs , that's grief . If you've had pancreatic cancer , someone's stolen your joy , etc . And so there was a very famous German doctor . His name was Dr Hammer , and Dr Hammer developed cancer himself at the age of 50 . And he's like wow , why do I have cancer ?

And he was a conventional doctor in Germany . And so then he started asking all of his patients well , why do you think you have cancer ? And they would say well , you know , this happened to me and this happened and this happened .

And so he developed something what we call here in the United States called recall healing , and then other people called it different things , but he would talk patients out of their cancer and he had a very high success rate .

Of course he went to jail for this because it went against the conventional paradigm of medicine , but he had a very high success rate , continued to live till he was about 86 . And anyway , so I studied that because I saw physicians presenting that at a conference many years ago and I go , wow , this is really impressive .

And so they call it German new medicine . If anyone wants to look it up , it's called German new medicine and their hammer practitioners all over . So we basically incorporate that into our part of our , you know , healing protocol for anything , whether you have cancer , whether you like .

For example , I was reading an anti aging a friend of mine who runs something called the genius network , and he sent me this article on , like okay , you know , everybody's into biohacking for longevity to live forever , and so this guy is , he's the abundance guy .

You may know him , peter Diamandis , right , and he's talking about it , and he's a doctor , but he's never practiced , but anyway . So I'm reading this article in the New Yorker and it's talking about okay , get this scanned and that scanned and do this testing . And you know all these kind of testing .

I'm like wait , this article is not talking about the spiritual , emotional facets of a human being , which is , like you know , just as important as you know whether you have vitamin D , you know sufficiency , or whether you have high hemoglobin A1C or if you have a fatty liver .

Your emotional , physical , I mean your emotional , spiritual state is just as important , and so I think it's a big missing piece in our medicine today . And I think now , though , it's being talked about a lot . In fact , my patient today who is an ICU nurse .

She said you know , I've listened to all these podcasts and they all are saying the same thing how stress and emotional conflict is contributing , you know , to disease . And so you know , in you know , in my lectures , you know they've been talking about stress contributing to illness for hundreds of years .

It's just now we're in the forefront and I'm so excited because we're in exciting times . You know , they just built the first medical school . We're in exciting times . You know , they just built the first medical school I don't know if you saw that in Arkansas . Okay , I'm like whoa .

Okay , this is going to be great because I'm going to have a pool of doctors to pull from , because trying to find doctors who have the understanding of integrative , functional medicine is not easy to find .

And so now we're going to have , you know , there's a medical school that's going to be , you know , really producing doctors who understand healing from gardening and and addressing stress and emotional conflict and all these wonderful things that we're talking about and what your humanity , that is happening , and I mean it is happening so fast , it's it's just so

exciting . So I I feel really good that , after 39 years , everything I've been talking about , like , for example , plastics . I started talking about plastics literally 35 years ago and people thought I was crazy . In fact , one of my patients told her neighbor and said you know your doctor talks about plastic . That she's kind of crazy .

And then , of course , barbara Walters did a special on it and and she talked about plastics and then everybody believed it . But anyway , we've got to wake up and listen . I don't know if you've seen the book Rachel Carson Silent Spring written yeah , so you know that book . She talked about this . She tried to get everybody's attention .

So we all , as individuals and collectively and the community , really really need to help each other be the best version of ourselves . And it starts with your health . Because if you don't have your health , you never realize it until you don't have it . And there's I tell all the patients , there's no new healthy body for sale on Amazon .

And so you've got to respect and learn everything you can to take care of your health . And your health just isn't physical health I was talking to you before . It's a spiritual , emotional , intellectual , biochemical , biophysical and bioenergetic being , and we need to really understand that .

We don't ever have that opportunity to say how do we really work , and not just anatomically , but I'm talking about the 50 to 100 trillion cells and 100,000 chemical reactions per second , how that's playing . And then we're living in this petri dish that we really don't even know , all the facets of the petri dish and the interactions in the petri dish .

So , like you know , one of my pet peeves is electromagnetic fields , right , and so you know my daughter , when she was , you know my daughter Alana , and and she was in eighth grade . She's 31 right now , but she was eighth grade and I said , oh , you know what ?

I have a great science project how do electromagnetic fields affect a living substance and she got an award for that . And so , you know , there's now so much science and so much validation and so much chemical validation . It is a very serious issue and we have to be mindful .

We've got to do proper care of phones and iPads and Wi-Fi and all this thing , and really , nature is your healer when it comes to that .

And so we just got to really listen to all this when it comes to that , and so so we just got to really listen to all this , and we , you know , I always say that health is a secret because you know , you want to look up things .

You have to go down deep , and so that's what's so beautiful about podcasts like this is like you're getting the latest , greatest on what you know is really important , so I appreciate that .

And so I and I had 14 , and when I was six years ago , I had 14 hours of back surgery and four hours like three months later , so anyway . So I thought like I really need to optimize myself . So I flew out to see him and he taught me really literally everything about voltage .

And then , of course , you continue to learn , because once you learn something like it never stops . And so every one of our cells emanates 0.07 millivolts of energy .

You have to have minus 25 volts for your cell to function , and so if your voltage or the energy , just like a battery , a battery has to have energy for it to work in your flashlight or anything else that you have , and so when your voltage is low , your body can't take care of itself . So what makes your voltage low ?

All right , is what you really want to ask . So toxins make your voltage low . Emfs make your voltage low . Nutritional deficiency , bugs , viruses , bacteria , fungi and parasites , heavy metals , acidity will make your voltage low . In fact that's one of the things in chemistry when your pH goes down , your voltage goes down .

Your oxygenation will go down also , and then also like scars and tattoos . People don't realize that scars once you get a surgery , that it blocks all the acupuncture meridians which are part of the electrical

wiring system of our body . And so we now , just like when I how I learned it when I went to work with Dr Tennant and and I my voltage was low . So now what do I do ? Very focused on the providing the energy . And it's not energy to go run , it's the energy of the cell , and so I do different therapies .

You'll , if you ever come and visit you , can see all the frequency devices that we have . In fact , it's becoming much more popular now . You know that of energy things , and so we do . We check the voltage using something called the meridian energy assessment device . You have meridians .

Meridians are acupuncture points and they're like a wire or string of pearls to your organs and glands . So we look at the flow of energy , or qi in Chinese medicine , see what it is , and then we want to one unblock all those , but also we want to provide energy immediately to the cells . So all of our patients get .

We use biocharger and we use biomodulator as , and I also use a device called CellSonic that's from Europe , and so we use all these things to really charge . That's why when any patient comes here within a week they feel so much better , especially the cancer patient .

They feel so much better because their literal energy and then the energy of the cell is very important . One of the things what you can do to increase your voltage of your body immediately get in nature , get your feet barefoot . Your electrons you'll get electrons from the Earth's magnetic field . So you wanna ground .

It'd be nice to ground , take off your shoes in the middle of the day and go walk out barefoot or on sand . Just it has to be a natural substance that's connected to the Earth's magnetic field , and so that's another good way to do that . Being around , running water , trees , sunshine , all those things help .

But of course sometimes we need a little other help . You know like that's why I have patients do other things to help charge their body , especially if they've had very serious challenges to their health . So it's a very unspoken thing but people don't understand . You know , when you do an EKG , it's an electrical assessment of the heart .

If you do an EEG , it's an electrical assessment of the brain . When you do nerve conduction studies , that is the electrical assessment of the nervous system . So , and then people , just you have , like I was reading not too long ago about how cells there's that energy between the cells they know how to talk to one another .

Okay , because that magical membrane , it has its own voltage , and so we've got to make sure that our cells are charged with all the right nutrients , all of the right , like the membrane , like you've got to have phosphatidylcholine and essential fatty acids , okay , for that membrane to be healthy , and so .

But you've got to get rid of all the toxicity that is in the body . And it's way , you know , it's interesting patients , they always look at me and they go Am I toxic ? And I said , well , you know , we're going to do a test that proves that you have toxicity , because most people really are disbelieved , like you really think I have toxins , you know .

And so anyway , there , and so I do , like environmental toxins and heavy metal toxins , but also when you're growing parasites or fungus or any other bug . They have their own metabolic activity . Okay , like , for example , fungus produces acetaldehyde . Okay , which is the byproduct of alcohol . You feel awful ?

Okay , and there was a gentleman that I met , I would say , a year or so ago , and he came up with the cell suppression theory of cancer and he had cancer himself . It was an unusual form of cancer that involved the muscle , and so he took a deep dive .

He has no medical background , but he read and studied and he wrote a book called Cancer Resolution my book's Cancer Revolution . He wrote a beautiful book about how fungus is probably the biggest cause for cancer .

Now , of course , we all know there's many other things , but in his theory he does a very , very good job and he got 200 scientists and MDs to listen to him and gave him a very high rating . So we have to really look at his work because it is a big part of the contribution of cancer .

I mean , you talked about the metabolic and the mitochondrial theory , but the fungal theory ? Now , years ago , I will tell you , I was going to be interviewed on a TV station in Texas and I met Dr Simoncini .

Now , dr Simoncini , he's an Italian doctor and I'd never met him before and he was there and he started talking to me and he wanted to show me all of his cases .

So he pulls out his computer showing me all of his cases , how he injected sodium bicarb in tumors and in the body and all kinds of things , and he created a website called cancerfunguscom and I'll never forget it . I mean because I started looking at fungus 25 years ago when I met him saying , oh , that's another thing I got to look at .

And then I had a doctor , a gastroenterologist . She was the only guy who lectured at the American Academy of Gastroenterology , lecturing on parasites , and I'm like , okay , we took that in medical school , but I don't remember that much , you know , and in the US doctors don't think you have parasites .

So , anyway , he taught me he's still in Santa Monica and so he taught me . But then it made me go deep , deep , deep dive , and so now we have a whole nother way of I mean just diagnosing and treating parasites , way more than what he taught me . Because , like , you have to like , learn that , and then you've got to take it to .

You know anything you learn , you've got to keep learning about it . And so now you know , you see how many people have parasites and I will tell you that most people have parasites .

It's a big problem and doctors , I guarantee you , they're barely teaching at medical school now and so so you know , I was reading and I sent it to my doctor staff about like somebody , this little 12 year old girl went swimming in a swamp , or lake , rather , and she got a parasite in her brain and from the , they said from the water .

Now you know , we can get parasites . Anywhere you go out to eat , you can get parasites contaminate . Look what the recalls . But look at the recalls , they don't find Right . So you've got to be protective . But I will tell you , with our immune systems , as challenged as it is today , we probably all have probably some parasites and then fungus .

A lot of people have fungus because why ? They've all taken antibiotics , like everybody . Doctors give antibiotics , patients want antibiotics even though they probably shouldn't have them . But anytime you take antibiotics once , what do you do ? You destroy your microbiome , which is 80% of your immune system , and you grow fungus .

Not 100% of the time grow fungus , but you grow fungus . If you're pre-diabetic or diabetic , you're going to grow fungus because they live off of that . They live on fungus like sugar . And so how many people ? A lot of people say you know there's what 95% of people metabolically unhealthy , right , I'm sure you've read that in all your reading .

So fungus is something I see . And there was a famous book you should look up called the yeast connection . Do you remember that book ? It was written a long long time ago . In fact , I was going to look up what the yeast connection . Do you remember that book ? It was written a long , long time ago .

In fact I was going to look up what year it was , but the and he talked about the yeast connection and so so people have yeast and absolutely you can figure out on testing If people have yeast .

There's actually a way because people , if I , you know , I do a lot of bioenergetic testing and so I can tell because it's less expensive and you want to find out lots of information fast . It's not something I learned in medical school .

You learned in medical school and when , first , when I went to a conference and they had it , I thought , whoa , this is woo for me . So I was like not interested because it was like not in my comfort zone and zone . And then of course , it comes in your path again and I'm like , okay , I gotta , I need to learn this .

And so then you know , many years ago I learned and I'm like

, oh my gosh , this is indispensable because you know when you get your blood work done . Okay , how accurate do you think it is ? How accurate do you think it is ? So , okay , yeah , I mean , the labs aren't always accurate , okay , so you have scans , like scans . Are scans perfect ? No , you're a radiologist , you know scans aren't perfect .

Okay , are they great in identifying things ? Absolutely . But I always tell patients it's never what a doctor sees , it's what we don't see . So I want , I am always want , to look for the invisible in patients , and so , because that is you know where you're going to find the treasures of a lot of what's wrong . So so it .

You know , the lump or bump on a patient is just the top of the iceberg . What lies beneath is where the doctor should be looking with any disease , whether you , if you have a heart , if you have heart disease , calcifications in your arteries .

Rob and I were just talking about the calcium score , which I have been doing on my patients for , I don't know , over 30 years , and so cause I don't want my patients to have a heart attack , but it's 50% of cases . The number one symptom what Sudden death ? So who wants that for somebody , right ? And so I've been doing calcium score .

I don't have in our whole clinic one heart attack a year in our clinic , okay , and if patients follow us , they don't get cancer either .

So in fact I'm compiling that number as we speak , the amount of people that come here for prevention , and so you know we have all the information right now to prevent disease , prevent suffering , to provide precision medicine , to provide personalized medicine , because medicine is becoming very personalized now right Through all kinds of texting .

If you look at , if you look at how people methylate like that's an important part of our workup is methylation right , because it's how your body is processing DNA every day . And if you have a methylation defect , then you've got to address that and you've got to look at the different genes that that's associated with and customize .

And one out of two people has it . So why isn't everybody checked , right ? In fact , they even have a prescription medicine that is a vitamin for that defect , for MTHFR , right ? So why , if it's 50% of the population , why isn't that like standard order for everyone ? Because you would change the trajectory of their life if you fix their methylation issues right .

So anyway , and then you know , one other thing I talk about is the immune system , and you know people , it was interesting . There was this there's a guy at that park , I don't know where he practiced , he's originally from South Africa . You probably know who I'm talking about , but he's from South Africa .

You probably know who I'm talking about , but he's from South Africa . He was a transplant surgeon and then you know he's been talking about everything's the immune system . I'm like , wait a second .

The immune system has been part of the body for a long time , and so we have to look at how your T cells , b cells , natural killer cells , all your immune cells , are working . Because whether you're dealing with aging , cancer , heart disease , autoimmune , any other disease , we have to look at the immune system .

And so you know it's things that we think are groundbreaking . They're really not groundbreaking . We just thought a drug for every ill was going to be the answer to our you know ill , was going to be the answer to our you know , medical problems , and it's not .

I know we have a hard stop coming up what there's people have written in to ask questions , but I've only got time for one question that probably one of the most popular questions people ask me to ask you was , given the high number of patients who've had cancer , cancer survivors . They're recovering , they're past their cancer .

The question was living a healthy lifestyle . Are there any anything they shouldn't do that other people should do , in other words , any supplements they should avoid as a cancer patient , or any anything they should do differently ? Obviously , everything is personalized and when we get in , but

just as a global recommendation , is there anything , any ?

You got to have some fat . You got to , you know , use all the vegetables and the fruits , fruits instead of like buying pasta , which is not a vegetable , okay . And then you've got to move . Most people are not moving .

You've got to move your body because exercise and having muscles are amazing for longevity , okay , and the amount of things exercise does to your body is endless . Okay , and I'm not saying you have to go be run a marathon or do a triathlon , but you've got to move . Take every opportunity to move , like , enjoy washing dishes , washing clothes , any reason to move .

I would recommend that you do that . Then I would tell you to take inventory of your stress . Now , it's very hard to do alone , so be vulnerable and ask your best friend do you think I'm stressed ?

Do you think that there's something bothering me that I haven't really given attention to , because what I've learned in 39 years is that emotional conflict results in the body , and that could be anything , anything that you can think of . And we inherit not only the time we live .

If you read the book the Body Keeps Score , we go back 15 generations and that's why I learned that from Gabor Mate , who's a famous psychiatrist and he's amazing .

And so really do self introspection and learn how to be happy inside , because happiness is an inside jump , not an outside job and learn how to turn everything that's unfavorable in your life into good . And it can all be done like that , and that is like critical , critical , critical .

Now one more thing is that you can detoxify yourself at home by making an Epsom salt , baking soda , clay bath . Okay , you can bake coconut oil on , put it on your body , and coconut oil , castor oil , all these things I talk about my book , but we do have to cleanse every day , unfortunately . A bath is easy to do . Plus , it's very relaxing to the body .

And if you know of Epsom salts , you know it's named after a city in England and Epsom salts are magnesium and sulfate . So magnesium is involved in over 400 chemical reactions in your body . Poorly absorbed orally , sulfate is part of a lot of the biochemistry . A lot of people have sulfur deficiency , so you can't detox if you don't have sulfur .

And so then the clay nature uses clay . Animals use clay to cleanse themselves , so just that . And then you get to relax because you could be listening to classical music , solfeggio frequencies or anything to calm your insides .

If we all did that , try to learn everything that you can . We're in the era of information overload , right ? So even if you listen to 10 or 15 minutes of something , you're going to get a pearl and really take care of yourself and never give up on yourself and never give up on anyone else .