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Leigh Erin Connealy, MD

Well, it’s my privilege and honor to be with you today, Michael.

Michael Karlfeldt, ND, PhD

Well, you are a lady who has done a lot. You are a prominent leader in integrative medicine, utilizing all the best sciences, including conventional homeopathy, Eastern medicine, and modern medicine. Dr. Connealy is the medical director of the Cancer Center for Healing Center for New Medicine. The combined 30,000-square-foot clinics have become the largest integrative medical clinics in North America and have been visited by over 47,000 patients. The Center for New Medicine focuses on a precise and personalized approach to patient care that includes prevention, early detection of cancer, internal medicine, autoimmune disease, natural hormone replacement, chronic issues, and even esthetics.

Dr. Connealy’s clinic focuses on treating the patient with a disease, not the disease of the patient while determining the origin of the illness. Dr. Connealy is the author of two books, The Cancer Revolution and Be Perfect Healthy, that have both revolutionized the landscape of medicine. I have both books on my bookshelf. They are awesome. If you don’t have them, I suggest you get them right now. In 2017, she was named one of the top 50 functional and integrative doctors in the country. She writes for many publications, including Townsend Letter, a prominent medical magazine. She serves on the board for Dr. Josh Axe, ACAM, and ACIM Connect. Well, I am so excited to chat with you today, Dr. Connealy.

Leigh Erin Connealy, MD

Great to be here with you.

Michael Karlfeldt, ND, PhD

First and foremost, why did you get into cancer? Out of all things, because that was not your original direction.

Leigh Erin Connealy, MD

Well, I am number three of six children. My mother started bleeding, and she went to the doctor, and the doctor said, ”Oh, we have this medication that will prevent the loss of your baby and stop the bleeding.” That was in the fifties. It was a drug called DES, or diethylstilbestrol. When I was a teenager, my parents received a letter. I grew up in Houston, Texas. The letter stated that drugs cause cancer in both male and female offspring, hormonal problems, anatomical problems, and many other things depending on when they are given in utero. I had to start going to the Anderson Hospital to get checked because they said I needed an immediate check and get pap smears, biopsies, and all that. I did all that, but I had some problems. We fix problems. I went to college, and then I went to the UT School of Public Health to do my thesis on DES. I always wanted to become a doctor and went to medical school, finished medical school, and went out to California, Harvard, and UCLA. I started practicing medicine. I worked in the ER, and I worked at an urgent care and family practice. And then I decided I needed to do something more.

I started my first practice in Beverly Hills about 37 years ago. I focused at that time on weight loss because weight loss was a good way to get patients and is still a good way to get patients. I studied with a pathologist internist, and he was from Houston, Texas. He taught me a ton of endocrinology and all the things that I did not learn in medical school or training. I started growing my practice. I had lots of hormonal problems already because one of the side effects was that I never had two periods in a row. I went to the doctors, and of course, they gave me the birth control pill, never telling me the good, bad, and ugly of the birth control pills. I went on the birth control pill because I didn’t know what I knew now.

That changed my whole system. I got off the pill, and then I found the magic of progesterone, and progesterone saved my life. I was able to cycle my body because I never had a cycle, while women determine that cycle. It taught me so much about hormones and how they ruin your entire existence. One of my messages, and I know we’re talking about cancer, is that hormones are the natural drugs that rule every second of every day of your life. When people think about hormones, they think about testosterone for men and estrogen for women. Well, there are hundreds of hormones in the body, so we have to fix all the hormones, and we have to get that whole endocrine system magically working for each patient. Even in a cancer patient. I always thought about how I could prevent cancer. I am just devouring everything. But no one’s talking about prevention. No one. Years ago, I was at an anti-aging conference, and I met this gentleman, and he had sarcoma. Sarcoma is a tumor of muscle and bone. He had been told that he had to have surgery to amputate his leg to remove the sarcoma when he was 22 years old. Well, no one wants to get rid of their leg at 22 years of age. He said, I am signing out. We told the surgeon, I am done. I am not going to get the surgery. He spent the next 11 years, not months. Dr. Karlfeldt. I always make the point to patients that healing sometimes takes time and learning takes time. He spent 11 years learning how to cure himself of cancer. He traveled the world all over, everywhere. He was young, but he was very brilliant. He became one of my mentors 29 years ago. He told me about everything you have to do. Well, he knows because he has done it himself. Ever since then, I have been working on myself because, to be a great clinician, you have to master yourself first before you go and take care of somebody else. That is where it is. I had an oncologist friend, Dr. Howard Bone, and he was great. When I had a patient with cancer, I’d send them to him. I asked him one day, “Oh, would you be interested in setting up a clinic with me?” He said, “Sure.” I said, “Let’s go down to Mexico and visit one of the clinics that I know about.”

That had been there for about 60 years. He went with me, which was rare for a conventional oncologist. We went down there, and we opened up the Cancer Center for Healing.  It was Oasis of Hope before that because Dr. Contreras partnered with me. We are the Cancer Center for Healing. Dr. Fong got sick, so he had to leave. I just continued to where we are today, and today we’re seeing patients from all over the world, and we get patients too late. They wait. They rely on just conventional surgery, chemo, and radiation, which I will let everyone know. You may need one of those. But we have got to focus on this as a society for all medical problems with prevention. I know you are all about that. I know everybody is going to be talking about prevention. But in our clinics, we are experts at that. I always train everyone. I always teach this. This isn’t something I keep a secret. I want everyone to know what I know, just like you do. Because that’s how we’re going to create the salvation of our nation: by health. Health has to be your number one value because if you don’t have health, you don’t have yourself, you don’t have a family, you don’t have a job, and you don’t have a life.

We all, as an entire world, need to be concerned about restoring the treasures of health to every single human being. That’s my mission. People come to me with stage four cancer and have tried everything. But then I have the patient who says my mother got sick, my father, and so and so. I do not want that. Tell me the roadmap. We do that. We do everything from human optimization to early detection prevention to end-stage cancer. You and I share some patients. We have got to change the trajectory of medicine. 100 years ago, all doctors used homeopathy and natural remedies until they revamped the medical schools and then indoctrinated the system. We are here. Here is what you do: It is just cookies. But that is not how we treat patients. Because every individual is unique, no matter how you do your fingerprint or how everyone’s unique on the planet, every cell is unique, too. We’ve got to treat patients with that. What is appalling to me is that you go to that conventional doctor, whether it’s an oncologist or a regular, and they do not say what matters; they just say you need your surgery, your chemotherapy, and radiation, not how you are living day to day that created this perfect storm of cancer. This is what’s appalling to me because, as of 2023, there are 1.2 million PubMed articles written every year, and they are all on this stuff. I think you can look up anything and find it. You think about how you look up something, and you go, Oh, they probably won’t have it. Oh, I did it for an experiment. I went on ChatGPT, and I said, “Oh, natural solutions for breast cancer. What did they say? Change your diet and exercise.” Two of them were emotions and stress. Now what doctor talks to a patient about these things? None of them. My patients continually complain. I always tell patients, Have you ever read a book that says you can eat anything you like, even a cooking book that is not related to health? Even a cooking book does not say, “Just eat cereal for breakfast and Hamburger Helper for dinner.” We’ve got to eat. The patients feel like they are crazy. That interferes with the whole healing process. We’ve got to form alliances with doctors and say, “Look, I know this isn’t part of your paradigm, but let me do it and become collaborators and corporators in the medical field and take care of the patients.”

The patient has the best healing journey because you and I both know that whatever we say to the patient affects them directly, and we have to take the fear out of them because they are scared. We have got our job to say, “Look, let’s look at the good in this. Let’s look at all the things, all the possibilities. Let me help you be excited about your healing potential.” That’s something we have to change, and I know we’re changing it, but it’s too slow because the patient is sick today. We’ve got to be open to the universe and to everything that’s out there. Every doctor has to get out of their closed mind and be open to it, even though they have never heard of it. Go do their homework because I have lots of doctors as patients, and I will tell you a story because this is a very funny story. You have to hear it because it’s so profound. I had this lady doctor come in to see me, and she’s only 34 years old. I go, “Wow, what cancer does she have since she had melanoma?” I am like, she works at Kaiser; she’s a conventional doctor. Like, what is she doing here? I review all the charts and all the records, and so I go in and say, Hi, how are you? It was nice to meet you and everything. I said, But I am just curious, like, why did you come here? Because you are conventionally trained. You work at Kaiser; you go to Kaiser,” and she says, “Well, I was on the Internet, and I was listening to all these integrative, functional doctors talk about health. I thought they were all wrong. They just don’t know what they are talking about. “She decided, I am going to go check on all she said. It led her down a rabbit hole until she realized that everything we were saying was correct.

Now, she is working on becoming a functional, integrative doctor because she thought we were all on the wrong path. If anybody goes to your chosen studies, they are going to find the secrets of health. That’s why I know why you are doing this. It’s so that people have the knowledge, the understanding, and the possibilities. I am not saying they may not need conventional medicine. We do conventional medicine. We work with the patient. We do a chart just like any doctor. We do probably better physical exams because I hear all the time patients tell me, “Oh, my doctor never examined this.” Our bloodwork is completely different from that of a conventional oncologist. Our treatments are going to be completely different because we have to restore the health of the patient. If a patient has cancer, that cancer started ten years ago, from one cancer cell to a tumor. That means we have nine years of opportunity to prevent cancer, and we don’t. We have all that working knowledge to prevent cancer, and we don’t. We’ve got to make sure everyone is aware and starts researching and studying it. There is so much written on it. You mentioned my book, Cancer Revolution. You’ve written things for every one of us. I continue to write things. We have a cancer conversation. We do this ad nauseam. We are educating and urging people. Because self-care is the new health care.

Michael Karlfeldt, ND, PhD

I couldn’t agree more. I am curious. This gentleman, who traveled, became your mentor. You’ve learned so much since then. That was like your foundation. But I would love to hear what that foundation was that he gave you from all that and his 11 years of learning about sarcomas. It’s hard.  everyone out there, I mean, sarcomas are, so what did he learn and what did he tell you?

Leigh Erin Connealy, MD

Yes, the first thing is that you have to change your mind. If you don’t change your mind, your emotions, and your psychological spirit, you can’t change the cells. If you listen to Bruce Lipton’s The Biology of Belief, we become what we think about most of the time, and most of us are living in our subconscious and unconscious. We have recordings from In Utero, and they say we go back nine generations to who we are. We all have these recordings that we’re aware of and not aware of all the time. We’ve got to be in that mindset 24 hours a day and live consciously. I learned all of these years ago, meaning I didn’t learn at all. I’ve been learning it, and I am still learning it. But I learned in medical school that we didn’t learn anything about stress and emotion. our idea of psychiatry when I did psychiatry, as here’s these drugs, and here’s an ECG. And so no one talked about mindfulness and meditation and all this breathing and tapping and on and on.

That was the first big thing. The second big thing was that you had to change your diet. You’ve got to clean. You have to fast from time to time. Sometimes you need to do wheatgrass. You just need to partner with the doctor who can get you on the right protocol. Sometimes I tell people to go fast, but if they are too skinny, they cannot fast. Regress has been used for years. I had grown up with people who did wheat grass, so that wasn’t foreign to me. I grew up with people who drank, brought me food, and rolled. My mother was bone broth, sauerkraut, tongue, and all kinds of things. I grew up like my ancestors. But we have to have a doctor customize the eating plan because, if you talk to Siegfried, sometimes people need to go ketogenic. Some people need to eat warm foods, eat meat, eat protein, and all that kind of stuff. There is no one-size-fits-all approach. I always tell patients we have to fix the eating program according to their bloodwork. For example, if you have high hemoglobin A1C, you probably need to do keto. Because if you have high sugar, your cells are paralyzed and can’t take care. You’ve got to get your sugar down with what you eat. Keto is one of the best eating programs. I’ve been around for a long time, but it’s not sustainable the whole time. But it is a good way to get you there, and then you recalibrate it. But when a patient comes in, you’ve got to go down 100 healing parts. You can’t go down with one. You’ve got to go down to 100. Because you are making up for the lost time. Once you get your body, mind, and spirit all in the same alignment, you have wiggle room, but not when you have a diagnosis. You’ve got to be laser-focused and address everything. For example, if we have inflammation, which is reflected by your C-reactive protein, that’s another avenue you have to address. The regular doctors don’t even order hemoglobin A1C; they don’t even order CRP, which is foundational for any single patient. The other big thing was coffee enemas. Coffee enemas have been around for years. And people are still doing them to this day. They started as one because that’s how they would be trained in the military. The nurses had this great idea.

The doctors would probably do less of it. Well, it helped with their pain so much. Now we have learned all the beautiful things about coffee. He taught me a lot about energy. Bob Victor. Yes. That was the biggest thing I learned about the energy of the body—what we were not taught in medical school about the energy in the body. Then he taught me about electroacupuncture porting control, according to both. That was bizarre for me. I was like, “Why does this sound woo-woo?” But then, when I started, did you know that I brought it to patients? I was like, “Oh my gosh, this is so revolutionary.” He taught me about pancreatic enzymes. He taught me about the scenario for cancer. The scenario for cancer is a deficiency of pancreatic enzymes, viruses, immune system dysfunction, miscommunication, toxicity, and normal-day toxins. Chemo is toxic, and radiation is toxic. How is the cell going to take care of you if you don’t clean the body because your body makes something called superoxide dismutase? Now it makes many things to neutralize toxicity, like glutathione and folic acid, into oxidants. But we have something special in all of our cells called SOD, or superoxide dismutase. That enzyme cleans up the internal garbage of the cell, and then vitamin C, and there are hundreds of thousands of studies written on the power of vitamin C. He taught me about Chinese herbs and how valuable Chinese herbs are, kind of like herbal chemo for some of these patients. He taught me about vascularity because cancer has vascularity. This is another thing. Now, they do address it with a drug called Avastin, which is a very popular drug. But if you look at the clinical studies, that efficacy drops after three months.

Michael Karlfeldt, ND, PhD

You froze again. Right after Avastin, the efficacy drops after three months.

Leigh Erin Connealy, MD

Yes. Drugs have a place, but they have to be working. Because drugs work, and then they do not work, like chemotherapy. There is something called chemoresistance and chemosensitivity. Chemo resistance means it does not work. Everybody at the beginning of their journey has chemoresistance, no matter what. The practitioner needs to give you things that increase your chemosensitivity. Doctors and oncologists don’t do that. But you do. I do.  Chemosensitivity is the ability of the chemo to work and destroy it. But when there is a cancer population at any given time, some are resistant and some are sensitive. We have to equip the body at all times, every day, so we can have all the cancer-fighting mechanisms in place for the patient. There is just an immense amount to study continuously. He taught me about hypothermia, and I went to Germany. He knew Dr. Dallas. Dr. Dallas had a clinic, and he said, “Do you want to go to Germany with me?” I said, “Yes.” I went to Germany, studied with Dr. Dallas, and went on rounds with him every day for two weeks. People from all over the world were there to see him, and they did hypothermia; they did low-dose chemo; they did ADTA inoculation. They did all kinds of things that we weren’t even doing in the United States.

Hyperthermia is common in Germany. It’s covered under their insurance plans. In the United States, very rarely, hypothermia is used. It’s very different than radiation. Hypothermia is the heating of body parts for the whole body because we have three heat shock proteins, 27, 72, and 90, that kill viruses and cancer. Hypothermia is a very innocuous and harmless procedure to works in conjunction with everything else we are doing. If anybody’s looking for a one-shot deal, it does not happen with cancer. You have to have all the arrows in the quiver that you possibly can have because every cell in the tumor has its world. One cell is doing something different than the next one, and the next one is in the same tumor. There is heterogeneity in its function and output. That’s why you can’t rely on one methodology. You can’t go; I am just going to do the surgery because if you don’t try to change the terrain, the soil, and the environment of every single cell, the cancer will come back. That’s the problem because if you do surgery, it’s injurious and immunosuppressive. If you do chemotherapy, it’s injurious and immunosuppressive. If you do radiation, it’s injurious and immunosuppressive. Every doctor along the way shouldn’t be developing this collateral support plan so that they can do surgery; they can do a biopsy. They can do chemotherapy; they can do radiation. I am sure that you and a lot of the people that you are interviewing are doing that, but it’s a very serious situation. We need to support the energy and the physiology of the patient regularly.

Michael Karlfeldt, ND, PhD

Yes, the biggest thing is that patients say they have been diagnosed with cancer. They go to their oncologists. They are given these few options. We can either start with chemo and radiation, or we’ll do surgery and then chemo and radiation. You have these few options that are given, but as you mentioned, nothing is said about nutrition or even ChatGPT. Like you are saying, ChatGPT is smart enough to know that you need nutrition, and that’s the scary part: doctors don’t even know the science that’s out there, and they are still just kind of stuck in the same standard of care model that existed 40 years ago. We have that component, and then we are bringing them into toxic therapies, that are immunosuppressants,s, and then we are expecting that the body is going to magically just be fine after you have not fed it nutrition. We haven’t supported its ability to detoxify these heavy metals and toxins; these chemicals are involved. When it’s being given to you and they come in hazmat suits, they put it directly into your blood. You don’t think that you need to detoxify from some of that, and you don’t think that you need to support your immune system. Your immune system doesn’t play a role in supporting your ability to fight cancer when you are done with chemotherapy. It’s just so sad that information is not part of the standard of care. It should be there and needs to be there. That’s why we keep pushing this information, all of us.

Leigh Erin Connealy, MD

Yes, the biggest thing is that patients say they have been diagnosed with cancer. They go to their oncologists. They are given these few options. We can either start with chemo and radiation, or we’ll do surgery and then chemo and radiation. You have these few options that are given, but as you mentioned, nothing is said about nutrition or even ChatGPT. Like you are saying, ChatGPT is smart enough to know that you need nutrition, and that’s the scary part: doctors don’t even know the science that’s out there, and they are still just kind of stuck in the same standard of care model that existed 40 years ago. We have that component, and then we are bringing them into toxic therapies, that are immunosuppressants, and then we are expecting that the body is going to magically just be fine after you have not fed it nutrition. We haven’t supported its ability to detoxify these heavy metals and toxins; these chemicals are involved. When it’s being given to you and they come in hazmat suits, they put it directly into your blood. You don’t think that you need to detoxify from some of that, and you don’t think that you need to support your immune system. Your immune system doesn’t play a role in supporting your ability to fight cancer when you are done with chemotherapy. It’s just so sad that information is not part of the standard of care. It should be there and needs to be there. That’s why we keep pushing this information, all of us. I’m excited about the big changes we can make to them.

Michael Karlfeldt, ND, PhD

That’s exactly where it needs to go. I mean, the pressure is not going to come from the pharmaceutical companies; it is not going to come from the AMA; it is not going to come from the medical doctors. It’s going to come from the people. If the people are educated and recognize that this is what we’re looking for, this is what we need, and this is the type of care that we want, then the system has to change. It has to be modified; that’s why it’s so important that people listen to these things. You have so many communication outlets. You get your books, and you get your talks. You have so much out there, and there are so many doctors, that dude. To listen to all of that and then bring that to your doctors, question your doctors. Well, how about this? While I am doing this, I am not thinking that when you go to a medical oncologist, what they say is the be all, end all, and that you have to accept everything that they are saying. You are allowed to question them. You are allowed to find a second opinion. You are the one shopping for your doctor.

Leigh Erin Connealy, MD

That’s exactly right. Did you hear me?

Michael Karlfeldt, ND, PhD

Yes.

Leigh Erin Connealy, MD

That’s the thing. You got it. We all need to question everything. When you go to the grocery store, you need to look at and study the ingredients. If you buy something at CVS, look at the label to make sure there’s not a bunch of chemicals you are ingesting with the ibuprofen, or ask if a lot of people take baby aspirin. Well, baby aspirin has tons of chemicals in it. You need to buy real aspirin, which is not what Willow Barksdale said. Because I went to CVS and found the aspirin, which has all ten chemicals, I was like, “Oh my God, people have no idea what they are buying, but it is just like a chemistry lesson on the block.” People need to be paying attention too. I picked up a bag of potato chips. “Oh, my God, the amount of bad oil and everything is an atrocity.”

You have to think food is like a QR code to go to your body to turn on that cell. If you put chemicals on it, you are destroying the cell, you are gumming up the membranes with all these bad oils, and you are not getting the nutrients you need for the cell to work for you. Since we have bastardized food for the last 100 years, people have no clue what they are putting in their bodies. They have no clue. You have to eat foods that have one ingredient.

Michael Karlfeldt, ND, PhD

Yes. The closer to God the food is, the better it is. You do so many different things. There’s so much that is done at your clinic, and I just want to be kind of close with what is one of the things that have caught your eye lately that you brought in and you are excited about this type of therapy, and what is one of those? We have talked a little bit about the foundation and all that started you. I am just curious: what is your latest little arrow in your quiver?

Leigh Erin Connealy, MD

Wow. Well.

Michael Karlfeldt, ND, PhD

I know there’s a lot, so it’s hard to isolate one.

Leigh Erin Connealy, MD

The first thing I make sure of is that most of the patients have changed their eating and their understanding of eating by the time they come in. That started about five years ago. That means it’s good. Then the biggest thing, I think, is that you have to change your thinking, and that takes a while. We always do most of the work you probably do too, so everyone gets emotional work. But you get it. That’s a huge thing. I would say that the single most important thing is how you think and how you direct your cells every day. There are supplements. I want the pancreatic enzymes and vitamin C you need to keep your body alkaline. I do have an array of IVs, of course; a lot of people know about IV vitamin C. I do IV curcumin. If a patient has a tumor burden, I usually put them on an IV of artemisinin. I also love intravenous DCA with oral supplementation, and there’s an array of IVs that I use. We do logos chemo. The only time we recommend chemotherapy is if patients have to revert. We can now go without chemo. I’ll tell the patient that we can do that. But once the cancer is traveling to a new nest or destination, a lot of times it’s very difficult. I know you’ll hear testimonial cases about patients who have reversed their stage toward stage three cancer. I am all for it. But do it with the supervision of a physician who can watch you very closely so you don’t get into danger. Because I have patients that came to me who did that, and now they are grasping at straws because they weren’t partnering with the physician to say, No, this is too dangerous, and this is why it’s too dangerous. There is a gentle way to do chemotherapy, and that is with fractionated chemo using a lower dose and then doing all the collateral support. One of the biggest things that I added that I’d known about for years was that I just couldn’t find the right person to do it. That is live blood cell analysis. Looking at your blood under the microscope, and it’s a living moment of looking at your blood under the microscope. Now, we’re seeing things that we haven’t seen before. You can look at all your cells and see what they are doing and not doing. You can look at the functionality because it’s a lie-sit moment. And because of COVID, because of vaccines, because of many things, and because of environmental changes, we’re seeing things that we have never seen before. I have collaborated on this with other people because there are a few people who do white blood cells. That tells you something you can’t do with regular blood work. That’s one big thing. The other big thing is voltage to the body, and if you don’t have voltage, which is energy, just like a battery, then the cell can’t take care of you. I worked with Dr. Tennant and took his course and everything. I read his books because he was very kind to me. Do you know Dr. Tennant? I added that to my protocol that I wasn’t doing, let’s say, two years ago because he had mastered the biomodulator. Adding scalar energy changes the dimension of that. Making sure that your cells have energy is critical to you. I read a lot because the bottom line of everything is: Does the cell have energy? I am not saying I have the energy to run a marathon. I am talking about energy and voltage for every cell. That is something that I’d be separated from doing on every single patient and then repurposing drugs. There are about three drugs that help stop cancer. I’ll individually assess and decide which drugs a lot of people know about, like ivermectin. Ivermectin is very good at starving cancer, but the other top one is metformin. There is a statin drug, there’s an antibiotic, and there’s an anti-inflammatory. We have to customize with each patient what we’re going to do. But those can be helpful. There is a great book called Starving Cancer that helps understand how drugs interfere with metabolic pathways. That’s the whole point of doing certain IVs, like DCA. It removes the lactic acid that the cancer cells produce and is also creating. Changing it from an anaerobic metabolism to an aerobic metabolism. We have to change the cell. It’s not just about destroying tumors; it’s about changing the soil. Everybody is just not getting this.

You have to change the terrain. But if you look at microbiology 101, all the sciences have now talked about that. It’s all about the terrain. If we don’t change the terrain if you have that, you mentioned heavy metal toxicity and all the toxins, and we’re all exposed to hundreds and hundreds of toxins. A regular doctor will say, well, of course, your body has a good system to destroy toxins. Well, no, it has a great system, but we have overloaded it to the point that it can’t work. The other thing we use is mistletoe, and I know you talk to other people about that. I won’t go into detail about that, but I use mistletoe. But again, it’s not one thing. First of all, you have to personalize your treatment plan for each patient. You have to build this. That’s where patients get overwhelmed, and they get very old. I tell them, yes, I tell them first visit, you will be overwhelmed. This will take a year for you to fully grasp and understand. But right now, you just have to do these things.

You need to go, and I tell people, go read, go study, go, listen, go, whatever. You have to get this understanding because they have lived their whole life thinking this way: work smart. But if the standard of care worked, why is everybody ill? Our babies are ill. Our elementary kids are ill; 60% have one or more chronic problems; teenagers have the highest rate of anxiety, depression, suicide, anger, and everything else. In the last two years, we have seen an exponential increase in young people with cancer, brain cancers, breast cancer, Hodgkin’s, and lots of early lung cancer that has nothing to do with smoking. If the 30-year-old canaries in the mines are telling us there’s a big problem, we, as medical professionals, are seeing it; I am telling you, the doctors are seeing it, but not saying anything and not creating this extreme awareness that we as a society must bring attention to. For our 60-year-olds, the launch is completely over. That’s when you have to take much more control of your health. You need to do so at the same time. Now, I tell people, it doesn’t matter that you are young. We had a study just recently that found that the US has the highest death rate of any country. For giggles, I looked up where we rank on longevity. We’re way down on the list. With what we know, we know what we can do. I know everybody on this. I know that you are going to be talking to people, and we collectively can change the trajectory of medicine and humanity.

Michael Karlfeldt, ND, PhD

I love it. You are such a warrior, and I love it. It’s such an honor to know you. The world feels blessed. The world is blessed by what you are doing. I want to thank you for spending this time with me and giving people directions as to where to go, what to look for, and what the foundation is. Thank you so much, Dr. Connealy.

Leigh Erin Connealy, MD

Well, thank you for having me.