Healthy Living by Willow Creek Springs
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Navigating Cancer Treatment: Fasting, Spirituality, and Finding Balance
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Ever wonder what it really takes to face cancer head-on? The journey isn't just about medical treatments—it's a comprehensive battle requiring unwavering dedication.
My energy levels are improving, which creates both opportunities and challenges. With more strength returning, I'm able to engage more fully in life, but I'm careful not to dilute the focused energy that healing demands. This delicate balance represents one of the core challenges of recovery—how to heal while still living.
For my second round of chemotherapy, I implemented a rigorous preparation protocol: three days of a fasting-mimicking diet transitioning to a complete fast, supplemented with specific amino acids that don't feed cancer cells. I increased oxygenation through chlorine dioxide and ozonated glycerin while carefully managing my nutrition. The result? A significantly smoother treatment experience with reduced medication needs and faster recovery. Within days, I was hiking up mountains again—dizzy and woozy, but determined.
The physical signs of treatment are now unmistakable. My wife recently shaved my head as my hair began falling out, marking the first time in my life as a "bald-headed dude." But these cosmetic changes pale in comparison to the encouraging progress: the tumor continues to shrink, which I'm documenting for Dr. Hoffman's case study. There may even be opportunities to present my experience to the NIH.
What many fail to understand is that there's no single magic bullet. The improvements I'm experiencing stem from the comprehensive approach—the disciplined implementation of multiple healing modalities working in concert. The "miracle" wasn't handed to me; I was given the formula and committed to following it with extraordinary dedication. That's why I now allocate 85% of my resources to healing (down from 95%), allowing me to gradually resume some work while maintaining my primary focus.
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Well, hello and welcome back to the Healthy Living Podcast. I'm your host, joe Grumbine, and this is another subscriber episode and again, I've been a little delinquent. But as my healing is progressing, I get more and more energy to do more and more things, and I'm trying to balance this journaling with doing the things, and that's one of the things that I'm seeing, again, a double-edged sword. As I'm having more energy and taking on more, I'm also diluting the energy that I'm putting towards my healing, and I'm mindful of that. And, like I said before, there's been a big spiritual battle and I keep getting hit with more things and the people that are helping me are having struggles and trying to drag me into not intentionally, not harmfully, but it's just how things happen. And as I am more engaged with more people, they're, you know, wanting more from me in the sense of even just asking questions about how things are sharing and all of that. But also, as we're working on the Gardens of Hope little conflicts, little headaches, and I'm just holding my ground we're going to finish one thing and then we'll take on another thing and, little by little, the people that are actually actively engaged are beginning to embrace it and I'm not willing to put more energy into it. So if I have to put something on hold, I put it on hold.
Speaker 1:So I had to prepare for the second round of chemo, and that involves fasting and it involves oxygenating and a lot of the things that I do. I modulate in a different way and so three days prior to the chemo I shift into a fasting mimicking diet and a straight fast. The last day I do a straight fast. The fasting mimicking diet provides nutrients. I take the hominix medical food, which provides amino acids, because I can't let my protein levels go down too much because then the cancer will start feeding off of my muscle mass, and so as I get lower in my weight I take more of this amino supplement that doesn't have methionine. And I bulked up a little bit this time, took on some potatoes and a little bit more of the foods that are in the yellow zone, but I took additional enzyme to prepare for it. I drank a lot of extra water. Towards the end I upped my chlorine dioxide and glycerin intake with the ozonated glycerin so that I'm super oxygenating, and this time the chemo went a lot smoother. I was a lot stronger to begin with and so I also had the doctor take on a or remove half the nausea medication from my IV drip. Fortunately that seemed to work. I got some nausea but I mitigated that with a little bit of cannabis.
Speaker 1:Yesterday I got up early and went on a morning hike. I went up to the top of my mountain and prayed at my altar and sang and whistled with my bone whistle and took some pictures of the sunrise happening. And it was a difficult hike. I was pretty dizzy and just kind of woozy but, and on the third day of my fast and so but I made it up there and everything went relatively smooth and it was beautiful. Took back a rock and um came, came back and broke my fast. It was nice. I really enjoyed the meal when you break a fast after not eating really for three days. I took a little nap. Then yesterday we had a number of people over volunteers and support and whatnot I took a second nap for maybe an hour or so and that was it the last time. I was in bed pretty much the whole time for the two good two days afterward and then I started feeling better. So I'm definitely in a much better place than I was the last time.
Speaker 1:I am preparing for this. I have the pump on me and I've figured out how to strap it to my side now so I can do more things without just carrying it around, and now that I'm sleeping back in my bed it's a lot easier. Now that I'm sleeping back in my bed, it's a lot easier. I'm sleeping more, getting up in the middle of the night less. I haven't been taking my somnific capsules for the last several days and I'm still sleeping okay. I even slept in a little bit today. I got up, made the coffee and then I didn't get up until probably 7.30, which was the latest I've slept in in forever.
Speaker 1:So today my wife shaved my head because my hair's been falling out. I started looking like a mangy dog and it was time. So now, for the first time in my life, I'm a bald-headed dude and, you know, have to get some hats. I don't, it's fine, it doesn't bother me, but I don't particularly care for the look. So I'll be wearing hats more than not, probably. But you know, that's where we're at. The tumor continues to shrink. I'm documenting it. Dr Hoffman is going to do a case study. I sent him all the pictures up until last Thursday or last Sunday. I may have an opportunity to present to the NIH. I may have an opportunity to present to the NIH. I'm going to use this thing to really teach people what I did.
Speaker 1:Still, everybody thinks it's one thing or another that caused this, and they don't get it. It's everything and it's all the effort I put into doing everything that caused this to behave the way it did, and that's where the miracle comes from. It's not that if I just sat there and said, oh, give me the miracle that it would happen. The same. The miracle I was given was the formula to solve this, and then it's my job to do it. And more and more people are coming to me through this podcast and through just word of mouth and asking for help, and I offer it.
Speaker 1:A lot of people don't follow through, and I think that's most of the time. Most of the failure for most things is it's hard. It's hard to do this diet, it's hard to remember to take these supplements, it's hard to give time to do this infrared sauna treatment. Everything is literally. I allocate 85% of my resources now, down from 95% before, because now that I'm feeling better, I have more energy to work with and so I can allocate some of that extra energy to not just documenting this through the podcast, but other things that I'm doing.
Speaker 1:I've been fortunate enough to get a little bit of work, so now we're filling orders and making products and, like I said the last time, the fundraiser has been very helpful but it's not even close to covering what we need and I have the opportunity to make products and bring them to the world.
Speaker 1:I'm doing that and, you know, hopefully people will find value in my consultation and decide to you know, consultation and decide to you know, offer some support that way as well. But meanwhile I'm in God's hands, doing it the way I believe is the best, and so very grateful for all the support and just going to keep on marching. All right, I hope you're having a great day and, you know, if you're listening to this and you want to support it, let somebody else know about it or leave a comment. There's a place to leave a comment in the platform. Maybe decide to come on and be a guest. So many things that we can do to get this messaging out and cause this very difficult thing to be the blessing that it can. All right. Well, thank you and we'll talk soon.
