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Tom McCarthy is a husband, father, author, speaker, entrepreneur, and investor who has owned businesses in the training, software, financial services, and restaurant industries. Tom’s clients in his training business include some of the worlds leading companies such as Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Salesforce, Wells Fargo, and MetLife. His latest book,... Read More
Leigh Erin Connealy, MD is a prominent leader in the Integrative & Functional Medicine medical field (taking the best of all sciences, including conventional, homeopathic, eastern medicine, and the new modern medicine). She is the Medical Director of two amazing clinics “The Cancer Center For Healing” & “Center For New... Read More
- Dr. Connealy please tell us your story, what got you into doing what you do?
- Dr. Connealy please tell us about your 2 clinics – we understand that the combined clinics have become the largest & most advanced Integrative Clinic in the country.
- What can we do to prevent cancer?
- The Timeline to cancer is 8-10 years, An integrative approach.
Tom McCarthy
All right. I’ve just been chatting with our next guest, and she is a bundle of energy, her name is Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy. And she really is an icon in the functional, innovative way of treating patients. And we were just talking about… She’s over 30 years, 35 years as a physician, but much more than the typical physician. She’s got two clinics, one is called the Center for New Medicine and also she has the Cancer Center for Healing. And what she’s done is she’s gone far beyond where the traditional physician goes in really helping people renew their health and become these whole beings. She even talks about… Leigh Erin, you talk about treating the whole person not just a symptom or what the scan says; treating the whole person. And then you also have some very innovative ideas on cancer that I think we’ll jump into at some point in the interview, where you say cancer actually starts way before it even shows up in the body. So I am so excited to have you here. You treat so many patients. We were talking about the number of patients that you treat, and I had heard 65,000; but you say no, it’s probably well beyond that now. But welcome. Great to have you here.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Well, thank you, Tom, for having me. And I’m excited to share any information to all of the people listening.
Tom McCarthy
Yeah. So tell us first about your journey. You’re a medical doctor, MD, so you had traditional training. Did your wanting to go beyond that, did that start before you even went through medical school or did something happen during or after medical school that caused you to venture beyond into the new realms of medicine?
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Well, probably both. I knew I wanted to be a physician when I was 16, because I liked biology but I didn’t wanna be in a lab with Bunsen burners. So I’m like, “What can I do that I can talk to people, and no science.” And so I said, “Oh, I can be a physician.” I had babysat for a medical doctor as a teenager, so I’m like, “Okay, I can do that,” and so I decided to do that. But at the same time, I had learned that my mother, I’m number three of six kids, had taken DES. DES was a drug given in the ’50s for about 42 years to women to prevent miscarriage and prevent bleeding. My mother started bleeding, she goes to the doctor, she gets DESS, which is a very potent estrogen. Well, they found out that that drug caused cancer in both male and female offspring as well as hormone problems, anatomical problems, all kinds of infertility. So, anyway, so they told my parents I need to go to the closest cancer hospital where… I grew up in Houston, Texas.
So I went to MD Anderson. Here I am, 16 years old, and MD Anderson is like a city. And it was a city back then and now it’s a country, basically. It’s so huge. with the tunnels and everything. I mean, it’s massive. Anyway, so you can imagine daunting for a 16 year old to go… And it’s a teaching hospital, so you have 13 people in the exam room. Anyway, to make a long story short, I went there to get PEPs and biopsies and all kinds of things. And so, anyway, never had two periods in a row in my life, so I had to learn how to navigate that. And that’s a whole story in and of itself. But I’ve been through lots of health detours because of the DES. But I’m here today having overcome lots of health detours. Okay? And that’s a whole nother talk because it’s a very interesting journey. My last thing, I had 18 hours of back surgery in Germany two and a half years ago, and for scoliosis, ’cause that was one of the complications of DES. I didn’t wanna do surgery because surgery, you wait till it’s last resort. But I had a 63 degree curve and I said like, “No, all the… I’ve done everything, and I need to go do surgery.” I found the best guy in the world, I flew to Germany and got it done. It was very successful. Although the recuperation was a whole nother story. So you don’t learn from reading just a book, you gotta read the book to understand basics and foundation and principles. But when you live it, it’s a whole nother lesson. And I always say experience is the oracle of truth.
Tom McCarthy
Well, it gives you empathy, too, for the people you’re treating.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Empathy, compassion, humility, true understanding what patients go through. And so it has taught me that dimension that you can’t teach in medical school or training, you just can’t. So, you know, a lot of medicine, you go to the doctor and the doctor really doesn’t truly listen to you, unfortunately, because if they haven’t really gone through something that has stopped them in their tracks… The ascension of life only happens in the valleys.
Tom McCarthy
Right. Yeah.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
And so these have taught me. But I always tell people two cardinal rules: you can’t become your diagnosis and you can’t own the diagnosis, it is a learning episode for you to help and bless someone life. And that episode is never short because then you don’t learn. If it’s only three months, you just don’t learn, it’s not long enough. So maybe years of the learning, and that’s just okay. And you just have to understand that life is about learning, okay? Whether it’s about learning as art or a science, but it’s also understanding enduring that process.
Tom McCarthy
Yeah.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Okay?
Tom McCarthy
No, I 100% believe that. So disease, dis-ease, it can be a beautiful learning process. It’s uncomfortable but it really does make you look at things in a way where you’ve gotta… it’s right there in front of you, and sometimes it’s scary, and… ’cause otherwise you just continue on with the same patterns, right, if these valleys don’t happen? Yeah.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Right. Exactly. So, anyway, so then I grew up kind of natural. I say that ’cause my mother used to quote Adelle Davis, which was a very famous nutritionist during her time. And then when I… Medical school, you basically are learning the foundational principles of how to apply them to a practice; even though we don’t do that today. We just pathology, drug, and that’s the extent of most treatment today. And so then I went and I applied for a job, and the doctor was this Russian pathologist, internist out of Texas. And I was in California, I was in Los Angeles. And so he said, “Well, let me show you and teach you some things.” So, anyway, my eyes just opened because of his outside the box thinking.
So I said, “Oh, whoa, I didn’t learn this.” So then he started teaching me lots of things, and then that led me the path. That was 35 years ago, and I set up my first practice in Beverly Hills with a registered dietician who was a recovering anorexic, because I’m like, “You’re only gonna be able to help people if you’ve had…” You know? Had problems. Anyway, so then that grew to what I’m doing today. So back then they didn’t have functional medicine conferences, and they didn’t have…. They didn’t have. So I would call people, call people, talk to people, and you would just start learning from all these people you’d meet in your path. Now they have very organized functional medicine, integrative, anti-aging medical conferences and stuff. So it’s been a very long, evolving journey to where I am today. And it’s not something you learn in a weekend or a year, you learn over years, and the patients teach you things. And the good thing is I’ve had the fortunate experience that my patients are passionately interested about doing things a different way.
Tom McCarthy
Yeah. That’s the great thing now. I think, like you, the path you took was probably a pretty lonely path 35 years ago, there weren’t many physicians taking it. But now there’s many more, fortunately; still not enough, still has to grow. But there’s many more patients, that’s why this Global Energy Healing Summit. So many people come here as they wanna take some control. They don’t feel like they are… not getting the care, ’cause, I mean, all doctors care, but they’re not getting the answers, it’s not working, they’re still stuck. And so when you get stuck enough and you run into enough walls, all of a sudden you look, “Hey, wait a minute. Where’s that door? Where does that go?” And so that’s happening now. So you’ve got two centers. Tell us about your centers. And then what I wanna dive into after that is: How can we prevent cancer? What are some things that you can do? But tell us about your centers first of all.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Okay. So we have the Center for New Medicine, and that’s for human optimization or any chronic illness; it could be high blood pressure, diabetes, autoimmune, arthritis, any chronic illness. Then the Cancer Center for Healing, I developed about… Oh, I think it’s been probably 13 years ago, because I was seeing the increased risk and I was personally interested in early detection and prevention because of my personal story. And I’ve always wanted to… “How do I prevent cancer since now I’m high risk?” So we started that, and now where we are today. So the Cancer Center for Healing is separate because a lot of the patients have to come and stay a week or two or three, or whatever, depending on the extent of their disease. And so cancer today is the second leading cause of death, heart disease is number one. Despite the prescription use of statin drugs, we still have heart diseases as number one and not decreasing. Second of all, we have cancer. It’s one in two men and about 41% of males. I mean 41% of females, excuse me. And then the third leading cause of death, published by John’s Hopkins is the system: the medications, the errors, and those kinds of things. Okay?
Tom McCarthy
Yeah. Prescription drugs. Third leading cause of deaths per year are the prescription drugs that are supposed to help people.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Yeah, there’s 10 prescriptions written for every man, woman and child in the United States. Okay?
Tom McCarthy
Wow!
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
So people don’t realize that United States ranks 43rd in the world in healthcare, and we spend twice as much. We need to focus on prevention, personalized, precise, proactive medicine today because we would really help people live their life and become excellent exceptional humans; which is kind of what I want to do with every patient, is that their life is not interrupted by a disease or a chronic illness. And it can be done. Yes, there’s some extenuating circumstances: accidents, emergencies. Emergencies, U.S. is the place to be for an emergency, okay? But for chronic illness, we have to have a whole body systems approach when we take care of a patient. You know, the story of the blind man and the elephant.
You get five blind men: one person touches the trunk, another one touches the leg, the one touch a tusk, and then they all get together and say, “Oh, well, what a did you say?” Well, you have to have the whole elephant to know what the true experience of an elephant is. So we need to be, as physicians… And physicians are very bright, smart people, but we need to be looking at the whole body. And, unfortunately, medicine, there way it is today, it’s an electronic medical record that has to be perfunctorily filled out. And it’s not is:
How is the patient living every day? And the doctor has no time to discuss: “Tell me about your life.” And because there’s a book called “Your Body Keeps Score,” your body does keep score. So we need to know everything from really in-utero to where you are today to understand. And prevention and early detection specifically for cancer… Cancer is a 10-year disease. So by the time you feel a lump or you feel a pain, or you feel something and it shows up on an ultrasound, a PET scan, a CT scan, it started about 10 years ago. So from one cancer cell to a tumor takes about 8 or 10 years. So that means we have eight or nine years of opportunity to-
Tom McCarthy
To reverse it.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
To reverse it, okay? So we can do that today. That’s available today. Okay?
Tom McCarthy
So just because it started, it doesn’t mean it has to continue the process. You can interrupt that process, where it doesn’t result in-
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Correct. And reverse it.
Tom McCarthy
Reverse it. Yeah.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
And reverse it. Yes. So everything is about the bio terrain, the ecology, the landscape, the garden, whatever word you wanna use, of your cells, of your each individual cell, because cancer starts with one cell in the right of abnormal conditions, okay? And so if we just did that… And there’s blood tests, there’s blood markers that are routinely ordered and can be routinely ordered. I know they’re not routinely ordered by physicians, okay? And so there’s markers that clearly tell, then… that’s on a conventional, like on a Labcorp, or Quest, or anything. So there’s lots of great information you can take, but you’ve gotta order it correctly. Like, let’s just take one example: C-reactive protein. It’s a nonspecific marker.
It was on the front page of “Time” and “Newsweek” a dozen years ago about fire in the body. Okay? C-reactive protein, it’s a nonspecific marker for inflammation. Inflammation is the red light on your engine on your car saying, “Something’s not right. Check engine.” Well, if you’re driving along and you see that, you immediately go and get checked. Correct? And you go see, oh, okay… You don’t keep driving another 100 miles, you get it checked, okay? And so, anyway, but that C-reactive protein, for everybody listening out there, should be about 0.5. If it’s elevated, you know that there’s something not okay. And everything starts with inflammation in the body. So these are markers. The other thing is if you’re pre-diabetic or diabetic, which is a large group of the population, we know you’re predisposed to all chronic diseases; heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s, all those diseases; because sugar paralyzes our cells. We’ve seen this on the microscope, that if your hemoglobin A1c, which is a reflection of your sugar over 90 days, that it paralyzes the cell to take care of you. And that’s why diabetics are high risk for eye diseases, and amputations, and heart… and every illness, okay? Because your cells can’t take care of you. All right? So I would order, on any person, a broad spectrum, that I talk about in my book, that can be done really at any lab. Then-
Tom McCarthy
Hey, Leigh Erin, what’s the name of your book? Just so everybody…
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Yeah, it’s a “Cancer Revolution.”
Tom McCarthy
“Cancer Revolution.”
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
So it’s a great book for really any disease. Whether you have Alzheimer’s, heart disease, there’s great guiding principles. People can use it as a guidebook, ’cause it… I talk about sleep. I talk about water. I talk about toxicity. I talk about all the principles that any physician should be addressing on any given patient. And I always tell people there’s no finish line to heath. Health is a constant discovery place. But once you do an evaluation, you can’t manage something that you don’t measure. And this doesn’t have to be a lengthy, difficult process. So like my patients who come to me and have been seeing me for years; if I took 30 of my friends that see me, and there are 50 to 85, none of them have cancer, none of them have heart disease, none of them take a medication. So that’s because they have been doing it. So how often do they see me? Once a year.
Tom McCarthy
Yeah, well, because they’re taking responsibility too. That’s the other thing I think that’s missing in the U.S. healthcare system is we go to the doctor and say fix me. I mean, you can do some things, but if I don’t do the work, like… ‘Cause you’re with me for whatever. If I go, you’re gonna see me for an hour or whatever; and then the 23 other hours, I’m doing whatever I do. But you really… That’s why I love your book, it shows people how to empower themselves too.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Right. Well, self care is the new healthcare. Don’t rely on this system to get you well; you need to rely on yourself, like you said, taking responsibility. All right?
Tom McCarthy
Yeah. Yeah.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
And so if you don’t… My new line for 2022 is: Discipline or disease.
Tom McCarthy
Oh, that’s good. Discipline or disease. Both Ds. Choose which one you want. Yeah. Great. I love it. Yeah. And discipline becomes easier once you… It’s hard in the beginning to eat a little bit differently or to exercise a little bit differently, but then eventually it gets… Or meditate. Like, I meditate back in my office here in one of these chairs every day. And at first it was like, “How the heck can I sit here for 20 minutes? This is nuts, right? And now it’s so easy.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
No, it’s not-
Tom McCarthy
It’s so easy.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Because meditation is medication.
Tom McCarthy
Yeah. Yeah. Breathing correctly is medication, sleep is medication, but it’s healthy medication. So you’re teaching people how to really get the natural medicine in their mind and body. I love it. I love it.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Right. Exactly.
Tom McCarthy
How can we prevent cancer? What are some things that you teach your patients?
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Well, probably the first thing I would tell anyone, and what I’ve learned… I did not learn this early on, I didn’t learn it until I was about 45 ’cause I was personally going through a divorce. And divorce is in a very emotional, tumultuous time, and so I’m like, “Okay, I play a part just as much as the other person, and I’ve gotta figure out why I’m making decisions and why I even need a divorce.” So I met a life coach and then I started learning about the spiritual, emotional, psychological component of myself. And now that has… I have now learned so much about that avenue through lots of books, through lots of self-treatment of myself. And it’s absolutely fascinating. And so I would say the first and foremost thing that every person; I don’t care if you’re 20, I don’t care if you’re 80; is to get and partner with someone who can do very good emotional, psychological, spiritual assessment, and not lengthy. Okay? Because if something takes you three years to get well; well, you don’t have three years. You need to get well now. Right?
Tom McCarthy
Right. Right.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
And so what I’ve learned, and I talk about this in my book, is we use something called EVOX. And vox is the Latin word for voice. And we’ve all had trauma in our life, all of us; and I just told you about the book, “Your Body Keeps Score;” so we all have. And actually, it’s not just from your mom and dad and how you lived, we actually can trace now nine generations of transfer of emotional, spiritual, psychological DNA. So you might have had great parents, but it could have been somebody before you. And so you use the EVOX. The EVOX is you put your hand on a cradle, it looks like a mouse with a hand, and you start talking about yourself: “Hi, I’m Tom McCarthy, and I live on X, Y, Z Street, et cetera, et cetera.” And so the brain is patterned on the computer and it says in a pie, like, “Oh, you had a problem with abandonment,” okay? And so then the practitioner resolves that unresolved emotional conflict, okay? And then you go through your ancestry, your mom and dad, anyone in your family. And it takes about five sessions, some people need 10. And then unfortunately sometimes we need tuneups because a detour happens in our life, which it’s just part of life. And so you might need a tuneup, okay? But you get pretty good. And I’ve had the most unbelievable patients, because they tell me, “Oh, no, I don’t need that,” and I go, “No, you do need that,” okay? And let me tell you one example and then I… And then after they do it, they go, “Dr. Connealy, if you need any patient to convince them to do EVOX, I will tell them. This was the most…” You know? And it doesn’t matter if you’re 70, 40, 80, life is all about discovery about self.
Tom McCarthy
Yeah. And what you’re saying is so important for people because I think if I said to even a fairly enlightened doctor, “How do you prevent cancer?” they go, “Eat right, exercise, don’t eat this, eat that.” But you’re really talking about the mind and the emotions, and that is so important. I remember back in the day, I was involved in running Tony Robbins’ company and there was a person coming in and the functional blood test, and whether you’re… It was like alkalinity or acidity, and all that. And someone could be eating really, really well. but if they’ve got acidity in their mind, right?
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
That’s correct.
Tom McCarthy
It doesn’t matter what you eat. It doesn’t matter what what you eat. Yeah. ‘Cause your mind will trump your diet. And so I love that you-
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Trump everything. Trump everything.
Tom McCarthy
Yeah. I love that you’re starting with that first. That’s really beautiful. I love that. Yeah.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Yeah. So I would tell people, “Don’t even go pass go” And this doesn’t apply to cancer, Tom, that applies to any chronic illness. There’s an emotional, psychological, spiritual… I kind of group all those together for every illness. ‘Cause the last time I look is the head is connected to the body, okay? And our thoughts become things.
Tom McCarthy
Yeah, absolutely.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
And so there’s a great book I read years ago by Dr. Lakhovsky, who is a… He was an oncologist, and he wrote this book in 1934, I believe, and it was called “The Secret of Life,” and it was talking about how all living things can receive and transmit energy.
Tom McCarthy
Yeah.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
And so we’re doing that 24/7 without knowing it because we live 95% in our subconscious.
Tom McCarthy
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, no, it’s all stuff I teach too in what I do. Yeah, so-
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Oh great. So we’re on the same page. But, anyway, so we have to start with that. And then I start with the eating. Okay? So food is information to tell your cells what to do or not do, to turn on chemical reactions. So if you eat dead, devitalized food without nutrition, you cannot turn on the biochemistry of your body. And if you do the bad information, it’s gonna turn on bad reaction and bad epigenetics, okay? So you have to use food. You do not choose food that is not going to serve your body well. Okay? So you have to… That has to be a priority. And it’s not that difficult in this day and time because we have lots of availability, a lot more than we did 30 years ago. Okay? But the food today is… An apple today is a lot different and nutritionally devoid than an apple 50 years ago, okay? Because of the soils, because of the air pollution, because the use of insecticides, pesticides.
Organic farm can be here but the inorganic farm is over here, so they’re spreading, unfortunately, poisons, right? So you’ve gotta eat foods that are gonna nourish, strengthen and heal your body. Then you’ve gotta drink water ’cause you got… And you must drink purified water ’cause all the water is not healthy. There’s pharma water, toxic water, everything. So you gotta have a good purification system somehow, some way. And then you’ve gotta move. We have 800 muscles, movement is medication; also you talked about. So you gotta move your body. We sit all the time. So now unfortunately we gotta make time to move, okay?
Tom McCarthy
Right. Right.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
And so because we’re sitting on computers, and everybody’s sitting on computers, so you’ve got to allow yourself to move every chance you get. Every chance you get, you need to move. You should be happy about washing dishes, washing a load of clothes because it’s movement, okay? .
Tom McCarthy
Hey, that’s good what’s you just said. You should be happier to wash the dish, right?
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Yes.
Tom McCarthy
Be happy that-
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
That’s how I think: “I’m getting to stand up. I’m exercising. I’m doing stuff.” I look at cleaning as I’m exercising, so-
Tom McCarthy
Yeah, that’s good.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
And actually a long time ago, everybody was doing that stuff, right? Because they were moving. You had to move for everything.
Tom McCarthy
Yeah, absolutely.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
And then unfortunately in this day and time, we do have to do some kind of cleansing, daily cleansing, because our world… The number one, I would say, issue on top of emotion… not on top but in this category is the toxins, The environmental toxins are outrageous, okay? Last year, 2021, they had the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, and every speaker doesn’t talk to each other and they say the number one problem we have is environmental pollution.
Tom McCarthy
Yeah.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
But it starts with how you live: the eating organic food, the water. But then you gotta take some steps, unfortunately: whether it’s sauna, whether it’s detox baths, whether it’s taking oral things to cleanse your body, something, which I talk about at length in my book. You have to kind of do that because we’re living in a world that we’ve never lived in before, okay? We’ve never lived in this world with technological, with toxins, with EMFs, and everything. So we’re more… Like, there’s more electromagnetic field pollution than ever before between your own personal technology, but the satellites all around, the cell towers, and everything. And there’s a lot of discussion, people say, “Well, no, that doesn’t do anything,” well, no, we’re all bio-energetic beatings, these are radio frequencies. There’s study after study, after study, after study documenting the effects of DNA damage and affecting your body. So I’ve been studying it for about 15 years. I’ve listened to many, many, many hours of lectures, and reading, and books. And the best book that I have read is called “Invisible Rainbow,” and it’s written by Arthur Furstenberg, and he chronicles electricity and medicine, medical illnesses, excuse me, and he chronicles it. And so what has changed in the last 30 years is electro pollution. And in Europe, that is a disease. Believe it or not. On their ICD, it is a medical problem. And our standards here are very different than what they are in other countries.
Tom McCarthy
Where there’s more of it?
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
No. They have stricter rules. First of all, they have a diagnosis. Second of all, they have stricter rules on electro pollution And, like, several countries don’t even allow 5G.
Tom McCarthy
Okay. Interesting.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Yeah. And why do we need 5G when the lower Gs work fine? So do we need to communicate more? No, we need to be more in community.
Tom McCarthy
Right.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
And we need to be out with nature. And we need to be connected with nature on a regular basis, whether it’s the sun, the ground, the dirt, the ocean, however you wanna get it. But we need to be more in community and not isolated, and we need to be in nature. Because when you grew up, I know you played outside all the time.
Tom McCarthy
Yeah. I didn’t have a cell phone and my mom didn’t even know where I was, right?
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Exactly. That is correct. So you were constantly, as a child, in nature. Because back long time ago, people didn’t eat well; they ate baloney sandwiches with miracle whip and-
Tom McCarthy
Yeah, that’s true.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
But nobody was sick. Nobody had ADD, no one had diabetes, no one had obesity, no one had cancer. No one had all the illnesses that we have today. I mean, very, very, very rarely, okay? And so what has changed? You have to think about more pollution. I was reading an article this weekend, and I was astounded… I mean, I knew that there was chemicals in it, but then I was reading about the factory and oh my goodness. Well, anyway, it’s Cascade. So Cascade is what you put in your dishwasher; which you should never use Cascade, just so you know. And it talks about the chemicals and the off-gassing from the BASF plant, how it off-gases ethylene oxide, and then benzene, and then plastics, and then on and on and on. And I was like, “No wonder we’re so sick.” We have all these invisible, colorless toxins everywhere. So people aren’t aware of it, right? So we’re not aware because we can’t see it, just like electro pollution. It’s invisible, colorless, you know?
Tom McCarthy
So what do we do? Like 5G, let’s talk about that. ‘Cause that’s a big issue right now. They’re releasing the new 5G. I think it just got approved and now… I don’t know what regulatory process it went through, so it’s out there and it’s-
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Right. Well, one of my-
Tom McCarthy
It’s impacting everybody. What do we do? How do we-
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Yeah, that’s a great question. Because it’s like I said, it’s something that I research all the time. But a couple of things: One, I know we have many scientists who are fighting that, just so you know. So last year, in December of 2020, a 10,000 page lawsuit was filed with the government about not allowing it. So there’s many scientists from all over the world saying that we should not be doing it, that we need to study it more, et cetera. All right? And so, you know, if you look at the passage of cigarettes and the dangers, that took 50 years, 50 years. Hand washing by Dr. Semmelweis who said, “It’s a great idea to wash our hands before we deliver a baby,” everybody, including his wife who was a physician, thought he was crazy, literally. That took 100 years. Tom, we don’t have 50 years, we don’t have 100 years. We need to be proactive.
And there’s something in science called the precautionary principle. If we have a little information… We have more than a little because the document was 10,000 pages, submitted to the government. Okay? One of my patients was one of the many attorneys involved. Okay? But there are lots of scientists that are saying, “We have to really not allow this. This is radio frequency that we don’t even understand.” But all of this is all around us, between your smart meter, your iPad, your cell phone. So there’s a couple things you can do. Well, first of all, you need to live the rules of laws of the body that we need to: the sleep, the water, all that. Okay? Then the best thing to neutralize EMF is to be outside, so to get grounded every day. So walk on dirt, walk on grass, walk-
Tom McCarthy
Without your cell phone.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Without your cell phone. I never used my cell phone when I walk. I know a lot of people do, but I personally… I personally never carry my cell phone, though, because I don’t want it on my body ’cause I know that it… The studies show that guys who wear their cell phone, it decreases infertility. Well, I mean, you know, so if we know it affects fertility, okay, how many other things does it do?
Tom McCarthy
Yeah.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
So, anyway, so you just need to connect with nature. You need to take proper nutrition because it’s creating free radicals, it’s creating aging. So you’ve gotta take lots of antioxidants to protect yourselves, okay?
Tom McCarthy
What do you recommend with antioxidants?
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Well, personally, I use this comprehensive drink, it’s got everything in it, it’s a comprehensive nutritional formula, it’s a liquid. And then I take axathin every day, okay? Axanthin is a very, very powerful antioxidant. I personally take something to protect my mitochondria every day. So your mitochondria, the powerhouse engines of your cell that are the first under attack. So I take a mitochondrial protection. I take NAD. I take vitamin C every day. I take oils every day. So I take curcumin every day, resveratrol every other day. So I take all these things. But I get outside, I get sunshine, I do all that. I try to do it as much as possible. Then at night, what I do in my bedroom is I take… I have a kill switch, and I turn off the electricity to my bedroom, all right?
Tom McCarthy
Okay.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
So there’s no… Now, it’s still extraneously coming in through walls and windows. So you can buy paints now that completely shield you. And you can buy films for your windows, okay? So you can… I do have a little chi device that I put in my room that harmonizes the EMFs also, so I do that also. I am thinking seriously about investing in a canopy, a canopy that goes over your bed, or there’s an EMF sleeping bag, because your sleep is the most sacred time of repair, restoration and rejuvenation. So 50% of the population isn’t sleeping. So sleep is absolutely critical. So the time to really protect yourself is when you sleep. Now, I have some patients who have to wear EMF they’ll wear it around their body. So there’s things like that. But it is something to really, really address. People can say, “Oh, it’s not true,” and all that kind of stuff, okay? I just won’t go there because I know that that is not true. So I’ve done too much research on it.
Tom McCarthy
Yeah.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
But the more people really understand it, they can take proactive measures. I just don’t know… It’s hard, it’s not easy. I’m I’m not gonna say it’s easy ’cause it’s not. But the more that you’re with nature, the better off you are. I know that.
Tom McCarthy
I love that. And so nature’s an amazing protector and healer.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Yes. So hiking, getting out in the sun, all that kind of things.
Tom McCarthy
Yeah, getting out with the trees, and birds, and grass, and all that. I love it. I love it. So at your center, at the cancer center; if someone comes in, tell us about your four pillar approach to helping them.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Right. So the first thing is we… Our patients come to us for prevention and early detection and all the way to stage four. So we have 50% of our patients, unfortunately, who come to us after they’ve done everything and tried everything.
Tom McCarthy
Right. Right.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
So which I encourage people… I was doing a podcast the other day and I said, “If we could just create this contagious movement for really restoration of health,” okay? I go, “I would love… That would be a dream come true for me.” And so I really want people to hear that because I see, front row seat every day, such extreme suffering that probably didn’t have to happen. But people, conventional oncology; a surgery, chemo and radiation; patients may need that, especially in different aspects of their disease. But at any point in time, even if you’re gonna do a biopsy, a biopsy is an introduction to the body; so it’s injurious and immunosuppressive and very stressful, right? So I prepare my patients even for a biopsy, all right?
Tom McCarthy
Okay.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Yes, you may need surgery. Yes, you may need chemo. Especially if the disease has already gone out of its original location, we need to do chemo. Either conventional or low dose chemo is what I do ’cause it’s gentler on the body. But every part of the process, we need to be taking care of the collateral damage; at every step. So like, for example, I’ll give you something very simple: If I give you a statin drug, which is rare, but if I do, then I need to take care of all the problems that statin drug causes.
Tom McCarthy
Which is a lot, right?
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Which is a lot, okay? But if I do that, then I need to say, “Tom, you need to do one, two, three, four, five so you can take that medicine,” all right?
Tom McCarthy
Right. Right.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Okay. So when you have surgery, we need to prepare the patient. Chemo, you’ve gotta do all the things to protect your body. Because what does chemo do? It destroys every system in your body. Okay?
Tom McCarthy
Yeah. Yeah.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
And especially your immune system, which is what you need to do to fight cancer. And radiation’s the same. So it’s the first thing is we look at all your data, all your information, assess where you are, get you on a healing journey, okay? Not a sick journey but a healing journey, okay?
Tom McCarthy
Love that. I love that.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
So that’s all the things we’ve talked about. Then we address, okay, the cancer. We’ve gotta get rid of the cancer. That might involve chemo; in our case, low dose chemo. It might involve surgery with the preparation, we do that. Then we look at the immune system. The immune system is what went wrong to begin with for you to get the cancer, so we’ve gotta address all facets of your immune system and then we have to look at all the underlying causes. What caused this imbalance ecology garden landscape to begin with? Was it mold? Was it candida? Was it fungus? Was it parasites? Was it acidity, like you were talking about earlier? Was it toxicity, stress? Everything. Okay? We have to go through and eliminate all those. Now do you have a DNA problem that you’re making… not DNA, your DNA that you’re born to. Do you have a dysfunction in your liver, that you don’t detox? What are the fundamental chemical reactions that are taking place erroneously in your body? Everybody’s got something. So you do a DNA assessment to make sure that all the chemical reactions… Because now they’re saying it’s not our genetics that causes the problem, it’s the epigenetics. The epi means on top of your genetics. So it’s the millions of things that are affecting all of these chemical reactions taking place every nanosecond, so-
Tom McCarthy
Which, by the way, that’s exciting that it’s not just your genes, right? That you can turn genes on, turn them off. If you have a cancer gene, it doesn’t mean it has to be expressed. I mean, that really is very, very empowering. And you’re one of the doctors that really is helping people turn off that cancer gene or turn on the gene that is protective. So I love it. Leigh Erin, this is so cool what you’re doing. I mean, you’re helping so many people. How do people that want to get your help… You showed the book. But how else can they find you? What resources do you have? How do they find your clinics?
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
So if you just go to connealymd, that will bring you to my Instagram. We have “Be Perfectly Healthy” podcast We-
Tom McCarthy
Okay. So Connealy is C-O-N-N E-L-Y- M-D?
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
M-D. M-D. Uh-huh.
Tom McCarthy
Dot com?
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Yes.
Tom McCarthy
Okay, so connealymd.com.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
They’ll find all the information. I would highly recommend everybody go to my Instagram; because Instagram, every day I’m talking about a topic and things. We all need empowering information and educating information every day to help us, right? Even you do, even I do. Even though we do it, we wanna hear it all the time, right?
Tom McCarthy
Yeah. Yeah.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
So people love our Instagram page. Then our “Be Perfectly Healthy Podcast,” we go in lengthy discussions about so many things, okay?
Tom McCarthy
I love it. I love it.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
And then people can sign up for our newsletter. We starting, I think next week, a worldwide cancer conversation.
Tom McCarthy
Huh. Great.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
So people can sign up for that, also because we wanna educate people on really all the possibilities that they can do. And also I find that our community is a great environment for patients to share, and survive and thrive together.
Tom McCarthy
Yeah, that’s outstanding. And not only for the people listening but the people you love, right? Leigh Erin and her clinics and all her resources are great information for a family member, or a friend that you know is suffering with a chronic disease or cancer. A wonderful place to send them to is connealymd.com so they can get that information too. Leigh Erin, thank you so much for being with us. It really has been a lot of fun. Your energy and your passion for what you do is really contagious. So thank you for all the things you’re doing for people that really need you, that need that bright light that you’re shining. Thank you so much for everything you do.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
Well, thank you, Tom, for sharing your journey with me today.
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