Renegade Remission: Holistic Healing and Nutrition for Chronic and Terminal Illness, Cancer, ALS, MS, Dementia, Heart Disease
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110. What to Eat After a Serious Diagnosis: The First 3 Nutrition Changes I'd Make
109. Just Diagnosed with Cancer? Start Here
108. Your Body Is Talking. Are You Listening? Why Intuition Matters for Healing
107. Are Your Relationships Helping You Heal—or Draining You? How to Tell the Difference
106. Are You Resting Enough to Heal? How to Give Your Body the Recovery It Needs
105. Could Stepping Outside Help You Heal? The Unexpected Power of Nature for Recovery
104. Feel It to Heal It: What to Do With Fear, Anger, and Grief
103. Why Joy Belongs in Your Healing Plan: What Just 5 Minutes a Day Can Do
102. A 5-Minute Forgiveness Meditation to Release Past Hurts and Heal
101. Can Forgiveness Help Your Body Heal? What Releasing Old Hurts Does to Recovery
100. The Mindset Shift That Helps You Keep Fighting When The Odds Are Against You
99. Is Emotional Suppression Affecting Your Healing? The Hidden Cost of Holding Everything In
98. The Truth About Fasting and Healing
97. The Healing Power of Small Movement: Why You Don't Need a Workout to Heal
96. One Relationship Can Change Your Healing Journey: Why Who You Surround Yourself With Matters
95. Overwhelmed by Conflicting Health Advice? Ask These 5 Questions Before You Decide
94. Can Food Really Help You Heal?
93. What People Who Heal Against the Odds Change First
92. Can the Body Still Heal Even When Doctors Say It Can't?
91. Could Your Daily Routine Be Sabotaging Your Healing?
90. What Your Cravings Are Really Trying to Tell You
89. The Fiber Paradox: Why More Fiber Can Make Some People Feel Worse
88. Why Preserving Muscle Matters So Much During Illness | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
87. Is Your Body Getting Enough Protein to Heal? | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
86. Why Your Body Can’t Handle What It Used To (And What It’s Trying to Tell You) | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
85. Feeling Dismissed by Doctors? How to Advocate for Yourself With Confidence | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
84. The Fear of Being a Burden: Why Accepting Help Is So Hard | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
83. Why Your Body Doesn’t Heal When You’re Chronically Stressed | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
82. The Truth About Supplements: What Helps, What Doesn’t, and What Matters Most | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
81. Five Choices that Change the Course of Illness | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
80. Sleeping More But Still Exhausted? Here’s Why | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
79. Why Your Gut Health Might Be Controlling Your Symptoms | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
78. Fats and Healing - What You Need to Know About Seed Oils | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
77. Are “Incurable” Diseases More Curable Than We've Been Told? | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
76. Can’t Stop Anxiety and Overthinking? Here’s What Helps | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
75. Why Some Days Feel So Much Worse - And What It Actually Means | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
74. Healing Feels Slow? Here’s What’s Actually Happening | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
73. Why Your Diet Might Be Increasing Inflammation - Even If It’s “Healthy” | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
72. Why Sugar Feels So Hard to Quit During Illness (It’s Not Just Willpower) | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
71. The Hidden Role of Sugar in Inflammation, Fatigue, and Chronic Disease Progression | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
70. How to Sleep Better With Any Diagnosis - The Science of Healing Rest | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
69. Why You’re So Exhausted During Illness And How to Get Your Energy Back | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
68. How Chronic Stress Disrupts Healing And What Helps Your Body Recover | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease It’s:
67. How to Release Fear After a Diagnosis And Accelerate Healing | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
66. The Mindset Shifts Seen in People Who Actually Heal | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
65. Why Purpose Changes How Your Body Heals — And How to Rebuild It During Illness | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
Ep 6464. The Healing Power of Hope: How Belief Changes Immunity and Inflammation | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
If you’ve ever had days where everything suddenly feels heavier, harder, or more overwhelming, this episode will show you why that happens in your body, and how hope can start shifting it in noticeable ways.In this episode of Renegade Remission, we explore something often dismissed as emotional or intangible: hope.You’ll hear a real survivor story from clinical observations in which reconnecting with creativity and meaning coincided with unexpected disease stabilization. From there, we break down the biology of hope, including how future-oriented thinking changes stress signaling, immune behavior, and even gene expression linked to inflammation.This is not about blind optimism or denying reality. It’s about understanding how the brain’s orientation toward the future acts as a physiological signal that can influence how your body responds over time.In this episode, you’ll understand:How hope influences stress hormones, immune signaling, and inflammatory pathwaysWhy future-oriented thinking can shift the body out of chronic threat modeWhat placebo and expectation research reveal about belief and physiologyHow meaning, purpose, and engagement affect disease outcomesA simple, structured practice to help your body re-engage with the futureListen now to understand how hope influences your body — and begin using a simple, grounded practice to gently shift your system toward possibility.DisclaimerThis podcast is for educational purposes only and does not offer medical advice. Consult your licensed healthcare provider before making any changes to your treatment or health regimen. Reliance on any information provided is solely at your own risk.This podcast explores stories and science around ALS, dementia, MS, cancer, mind body recovery, healing, functional medicine, heart disease, remission, integrative medicine, autoimmune conditions, chronic illness, terminal disease, terminal illness, holistic health, alternative medicine, natural healing, lifestyle medicine, and remission from cancer, offering hope and insights for those seeking resilience and renewal.
Ep 6363. Your Daily Healing Visualization: A Guided Meditation to Reset Your Body and Mind in 10 Minutes | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
What if you had one simple practice you could return to every day — one that helps your body release what it’s carrying and gently move back toward healing?In this guided meditation from Renegade Remission, you’ll be led through a short, calming visualization designed to help you reconnect with your body, release emotional and physical tension, and create an internal environment that supports healing.This is not a complicated protocol or something you have to master. It’s a simple, repeatable practice you can come back to daily — whether you have five quiet minutes in the morning, need to reset during the day, or want to unwind in the evening.Through breath, awareness, and visualization, this meditation gently guides your body out of stress and into a state where repair, balance, and restoration are more accessible.In this episode, you’ll experience:A simple daily visualization you can return to again and again without overwhelmA guided process to release stored tension, emotions, and mental loadA gentle structure you can use as your “go-to” healing reset each dayThis is designed to be enough. If this is the only practice you return to, your body still benefits.Press play and give yourself seven minutes to reset, reconnect, and support your body — then return to this practice daily as a steady foundation for your healing.DisclaimerThis podcast is for educational purposes only and does not offer medical advice. Consult your licensed healthcare provider before making any changes to your treatment or health regimen. Reliance on any information provided is solely at your own risk.This podcast explores stories and science around ALS, dementia, MS, cancer, mind body recovery, healing, functional medicine, heart disease, remission, integrative medicine, autoimmune conditions, chronic illness, terminal disease, holistic health, and lifestyle medicine, offering hope and insights for those seeking resilience and renewal.
Ep 6262. Can Your Mind Influence Remission? What Science Says About Expectation and Healing | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
If you’ve ever wondered whether your mindset could influence whether your illness stabilizes, improves, or progresses, this episode will show you what research actually says about expectation, belief, and healing biology.In this episode of Renegade Remission, we explore a question that is often misunderstood and sometimes avoided: can what you expect or believe influence how your body responds to illness?You’ll hear a documented Radical Remission survivor story in which a profound shift in expectation coincided with unexpected physical improvement. From there, we break down the neuroscience of predictive processing, placebo research, and neuroplasticity to understand how the brain communicates with the immune system, stress pathways, and inflammation.This is not about blame, and it is not about thinking your way out of disease. It is about understanding how expectation functions as a biological input that can influence how the body responds over time.In this episode, you’ll understand:How expectation and belief influence immune signaling, inflammation, and stress pathwaysWhat placebo and nocebo research actually prove about the brain’s role in physiologyHow the brain’s “prediction system” shapes your body’s baseline stateWhy repeated thought patterns can reinforce either threat or recovery pathwaysSimple, pressure-free ways to support healing without forcing positivity or denying fearYou’ll begin to see expectation as one of many factors that shape the internal environment where healing occurs.Listen now to understand how your expectations may be influencing your biology — and begin experimenting with one small shift that creates space for possibility instead of inevitability.DisclaimerThis podcast is for educational purposes only and does not offer medical advice. Consult your licensed healthcare provider before making any changes to your treatment or health regimen. Reliance on any information provided is solely at your own risk.This podcast explores stories and science around ALS, dementia, MS, cancer, mind body recovery, healing, functional medicine, heart disease, regression, remission, integrative medicine, autoimmune conditions, chronic illness, terminal disease, terminal illness, holistic health, alternative medicine, natural healing, lifestyle medicine, and remission from cancer, offering hope and insights for those seeking resilience and renewal.
Ep 6161. Why You Still Feel Stuck (Even When You’re Doing Everything Right): The Hidden Role of Trauma and Stress | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease
If you’ve tried everything but still feel stuck in symptoms, this episode will help you understand how long-standing stress and trauma patterns in the body can influence inflammation, immune function, and your ability to heal.In this episode of Renegade Remission, we explore how trauma and chronic stress are not just psychological experiences, but biological patterns that shape how the body functions over time.You’ll hear a clinical narrative shared by Dr. Gabor Maté describing a patient with autoimmune disease whose symptom patterns began to shift after addressing long-held emotional and nervous system patterns alongside medical care. From there, we break down what research shows about how trauma affects the nervous system, hormone regulation, immune signaling, and inflammatory load.This episode is not about blame, and it is not about revisiting painful memories. It is about understanding how the body adapts to stress and how those adaptations can remain active long after the original stress has passed.In this episode, you’ll understand:How trauma reshapes nervous system patterns that influence inflammation and immune behaviorWhy chronic survival-mode activation can affect symptoms, flares, and recovery capacityHow stress hormones and immune signaling become dysregulated over timeWhat epigenetics research reveals about how stress patterns can shift, not stay fixedPractical, trauma-informed ways to support healing without overwhelm or re-traumatizationYou’ll begin to see how unresolved stress patterns are not a personal flaw, but a biological adaptation, and fortunately, one that can change.Listen now to understand how trauma and chronic stress may be influencing your body and begin with one small, safe step that helps your nervous system shift toward repair.DisclaimerThis podcast is for educational purposes only and does not offer medical advice. Consult your licensed healthcare provider before making any changes to your treatment or health regimen. Reliance on any information provided is solely at your own risk.This podcast explores stories and science around ALS, dementia, MS, cancer, mind body recovery, healing, functional medicine, heart disease, regression, remission, integrative medicine, autoimmune conditions, chronic illness, terminal disease, terminal illness, holistic health, alternative medicine, natural healing, lifestyle medicine, and remission from cancer, offering hope and insights for those seeking resilience and renewal.