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Hey everyone, it's Dr. Josh Axe and today I'm gonna be bringing you something really powerful. Recently I had the honor of speaking at the Health Optimization Summit. This is one of the largest summits in the entire country where I shared my personal story of how to heal from everything from cancer to autoimmune disease and promote longevity. And I talked about the miraculous way God healed my body and can help heal your body. This talk goes beyond other things you've heard me talk about. I go really in depth on the healing diet ever created on the top nutrients and herbals and therapies to help reverse disease at a cellular level. If you want to heal your cells and reverse any condition and optimize your health and longevity, I believe this is one of the most important messages I've ever shared. So whether you're struggling with fatigue or chronic illness or just want to live with more energy and purpose, I hope this bonus episode encourages you and equips you with real tools to reclaim health. And I want to mention this was an event that people paid a lot of go to, but I did want to offer it for free for you right now while this video is still up. Take a listen to this right now.
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It is great to be here. I love Europe. I love being in London. I Was doing tea yesterday with Dr. Will Cole over there and another friend of ours, Chris Motley, and sending my wife pictures from the Ritz Carlton. We were doing tea time and she was very upset, very upset. And she immediately started texting me plane tickets to fly back here actually in about four weeks. So we may be back very, very soon. And, and my daughters, my. My daughters love it here as well. I have a 2 year old and 5 year old at home and they are big foodies. And my whole family's mad at me right now that I'm. I'm here and they're not. So we're, we're gonna be making a trip back here soon. Okay? Today I'm gonna be diving into how to reverse irreversible conditions and how to heal body, mind and spirit. And I was in a situation about three years ago where I went from being in really great physical shape to losing over 40 pounds and having my life on the line. And it all happened via. I went in for a natural health procedure, just a really simple medical procedure, and something went wrong during the procedure. I had a back pain. I had injured my back trying to do too much. Sometimes I think health enthusiasts probably do that. We try and push our body a little bit past where we should. And I was doing that with weightlifting, doing some Olympic level lifts, and ended up herniating and bulging some discs in my back. And I did a lot of things to help recover and heal to the point where I felt like I was about 95%, but still had a little bit of a nagging issue. So went and got a procedure done using my own cells. But something went wrong. And we were living between Nashville, Tennessee and Puerto Rico at the time we were in Puerto Rico and. And after the procedure, I just felt worse and worse and worse, and the pain was just crippling. Finally one day I woke up and I just. I couldn't move. I mean, it was. The pain was just so bad. I had to have an ambulance come pick me up. They brought me, got an mri and the report came back that had a spinal infection. And the infection had gone from my disc into my bone. My whole L5 vertebra was lit up. I'm not. Some of you may be able to tell here. You see that kind of white area there on the mri kind of here in this area here. And that was an infection that was actually in my bone. And then there was an abscess by my spinal cord. And so I had to take a medical flight. They put me on a gurney on A plane flew me from Puerto Rico to Florida and I met with an infectious disease doctor who said, Josh, this is way beyond serious. You could die from this, but most likely you're going to be permanently disabled. And for me, being in the health and fitness industry for a long time, this is happening three years ago and getting this diagnosis, I was, you know, I had 48 hours where, because this diagnosis was so serious and I know how bad this infection was, I kind of felt like my, my life is over in a way because I had gone from being so physically fit and active to him telling me, you're most likely going to have to have rods put in your spine, have your spine fused. And what's crazy is, I mean, just a couple months before I was throwing my 2 year old daughter in the air in the pool, I was cycling, I was running, I was, you know, lifting weights and just had just a minor injury. And to go from that to this was very hard. So 48 hours, very mental battle. And then I just spent some time in prayer and I felt like God really impressed upon me that I would be healed completely. And for me, I always listen to the great physician more than any other physician. And so that's sort of where I put my hope and my focus on spending time in prayer and focusing on everything I could to regenerate and heal. And so that's what I did. And so I started reading studies on how do you regenerate and heal tissue? And I came across a lot of different things and some of the things I knew about, but there are other things I really dug into deeper. One of the things was hyperbaric oxygen therapy. I spent a lot of time researching a lot with red light therapy, a lot with peptide therapy, stem cell therapy. And I did everything I could to heal. I mean, I was in a hyperbaric chamber like every day for 90. I was doing IVs. I mean, my, you know, I was doing Jensen Silver, I was doing methylene blue. I mean, for, for 90 days, my, my urine was just, you know, bright blue and doing everything I could to heal. And I went through this process. And by the way, it took me an entire year before I walked again. So all of 2020, half of 2022 and a lot of 2023, I didn't walk at all. And, and, but I just kept going and going and going. And you can see, this is my post MRI right here. You can see there's absolutely no, no sign of infection. In fact, the radiologist was saying, we've never seen a Disc heel like this before. We've never seen a back heel like this before. And the thing that was, that I was aware of is the other person I knew who had gone through this same rare issue had to have their spine fused. And so that's typically what has to happen. And through the power of God, the power of regenerative medicine, my body was able to completely heal. And so you can see here, this is just a little bit after there with my daughter. Once I was finally up and walking again, back in the pool together. And so I share this story to share this. Your body has an amazing capacity to heal, no matter what you're struggling with. Maybe it's an autoimmune disease, maybe it's inflammatory bowel disease. Maybe you've been diagnosed with what doctors call an incurable, irreversible condition. I'm here to tell you your body can heal in an incredible way. Your liver is new every single year. At the least, if it's injured, it can regenerate in 150 days, 100% completely new. Your intestines every three to five days. Your stomach two to nine days. Your bones six to eight weeks, muscles three to four weeks. If you get it in its perfect healing condition. Now, sometimes as we age our body, the condition, the environment becomes less friendly for complete regeneration. However, today there are so many things you can do via the power of food as medicine. Peptides, red light therapy, oxygen. Things you can do to get oxygen in the cells, get nutrient in the cells, drive mitochondrial regeneration and completely heal your body. And I've experienced this. I have a. I have an online practice where I see thousands and thousands of people and we see on a regular basis people who have autoimmune disease like Hashimoto's thyroiditis. And their doctors have told them, you've got, you're gonna, this condition's irreversible. You're gonna have to be on this pill the rest of your life. They completely reverse it, get off all their medication. I see it with type 2 diabetes consistently, I see this. We see this with a lot of autoimmune disease, IBD, cancer. I experienced that with my own mom in reversing her cancer. And so all that being said, if a doctor ever tells you you have to be on this drug the rest of your life and your condition's irreversible, 99% of the time, it's incorrect. Your body can heal. Now, one of the areas of medicine I'm incredibly interested in supporting people in is reversing organ age. So Many of you have heard of biological age or chronological age where maybe you're like, I did a recent test and I'm 44 years old, but biologically closer to early 30s, like 34 years old, based on my cellular health and. But now we can actually do tests to see how old are your individual organs. And there's a study out of Stanford University and they discovered that there are. You can look at certain biomarkers together and determine organ age. And based on that organ age, it's a great predictor of mortality and longevity. So for instance, in the study, they found that if you have certain markers for heart disease, as you'll see here, somebody with an older heart has a 250% higher risk of dying of heart disease. Somebody with an older brain has 180% increased risk of having brain issues. I can tell you I had my father in law passed away about a year and a half ago, 60 years old, physically fit, but had a heart attack. And for him, you know, going back and looking at sort of some of the warning signs with him, he, I believe the rest of his body was fairly healthy. His heart was just aging too quickly. So one of the things I'll get into here at the end is how do you reverse the age of one specific organ system? Because most people, your issue isn't that every single organ is unhealthy. Most of you have one or two organs. They're age, aging faster than your other organs. And your focus should be on a form of personalized medicine to help you reverse the age of that organ. And that's what we're going to go through some today here as well. If you think about it like this, I believe the Bible is clear on this. I believe the scientific literature is clear on this. We were Created to live 120 years with great health. The Bible talks About Moses was 120 years, his eyes did not dim, which means he was physically able to actually bear children at 120 years of age. We see today, we've seen people live to be 117 years, possibly somebody who lived to be closer to 120 to 122. So it is possible for us to live 120 years. However, most people are doing about over 40 years of damage to our cells and organs. To where in the United States and Europe is very, very similar to this, but about 77.8 years. That's called about 78 years. And men is less than that. Women are a few years longer than that, but on average 77.8 years. So we're doing 42.2 years of damage to ourselves, if you think about it in that way, in terms of poor diet and a number of other factors. Now, here are four keys to cellular regeneration and healing your body that you have to focus on. And we're going to go deeper into some of these things. We need to reduce toxicity, optimize your nutrient absorption. We need to focus on boosting cellular energy. And then here's the key. This is so critical. You need a personalized diet created just for you. I mean, this is something I learned very early on in practice that somebody, if I have a patient come in with inflammatory bowel disease and autoimmune disease versus I have a cancer patient come in, their diet should be radically different. I'm in a cancer patient. I will tend to do things like certain juice vegetables, and I will do some raw foods and things like that for healing ibd. I would never give them a single raw food. You know, it's all soups, it's all herbal teas. And so a lot of people like. And this happens even in the longevity and wellness industry. We see everybody's going carnivore, everybody's going keto, everybody's going vegan, everybody's going, whatever this new diet is, that's not the best way to heal. And just because you had a friend go carnivore or a friend go keto and it worked for them, does not mean that same diet's gonna work for you or created and designed specifically for you. When you look at the oldest forms of medicine, Chinese medicine, Ayurveda practitioners were able to read a tongue, look at symptoms, feel a pulse, look at what was going on with that individual person, and customize a diet just for them. I know this is something that I do today in my clinic. I know Dr. Will Cole, a friend of mine, this is something he does in his clinic. But very few practitioners really dial it into that degree. And that's what everybody needs if they're going to fully heal and be at their best. So let's start here with toxins and go over one thing we need to eliminate, and that's toxin overload. PFAS are so prevalent in modern society that 99% of Americans have them in their blood. These forever chemicals, everybody. Another study showed that umbilical cord blood in children, 99% of them had chemicals that they were getting via, via the umbilical cord. Over 80% of people in the United States have had recent exposure to glyphosate. According to Recent biomonitoring studies and the average American consumes a staggering 22 teaspoons of sugar a day. And nobody thinks 8, 22 teaspoons of sugar a day because you're not like, well, I'm not sitting there like lapping in like teaspoon, teaspoon, teaspoon. But it's in ketchup, it's in pasta sauce, it's in lunch meat. I mean it is hidden everywhere. And so, and sugar is really a metabolic toxin in terms of, there's a. So the idea here is a little, of course, sugar you're going to find in fruit and those sort of things are fine. Added sugar is the problem. So we see this toxin exposure. We've got metabolic toxins like sugar, processed seed oils. By the way, it's not all seed oils. Sometimes we say all seed oils are bad. Flaxseed oil is not bad. Raw pressed sesame oil is not bad. I mean, you know, so there are some good seed oils. Chia seed oil is fine. So you can do some seed oils if they're cold pressed in quality seed oils, artificial sweeteners, pathogens, these are toxins to our body. Epstein Barr virus, long Covid mold, parasites, bacteria, environmental toxins, pesticides, all these things here. And then here's another one that people forget. And this is something I'm very adamant about as I've worked to help people heal. And that is negative mindset, childhood trauma, not dealing with those issues of the past. Vices, addictions, negativity. These things make us sick. I've spent a lot of years studying the Bible, studying German new medicine, studying Chinese medicine and understanding how do we heal the root of illness. And I actually believe of all these things I could list, the most damaging to our physical health is our spiritual and mental health, which we'll talk about a little bit today as well. So here are the top five ways, just really simple ways everybody can reduce toxic exposure. Okay, filter your water. I did a podcast episode on this. You should go back and listen to it. It's kind of shocking at how bad the water is in some areas. In the United States and Europe, I mean, they found estradiol, so estrogen in your water. What that's going to do? That's going to cause men to have lower testosterone, women to have higher levels of infertility, breast cancer risk, every health hormonal issue you can imagine. So filter your water and listen. I think whole house filters are great. If you can afford that, great. But if not, that's okay. The biggest thing is you're drinking water, okay, get a Berkey, a roar, Reverse osmosis, but some sort of water filter. One of the greatest ways to reduce toxicity. The next one is avoid conventional meat and dairy products. Now I think some people are trying to buy everything organic and that's great. But if you're on a budget, you want to prioritize what you're buying organic. By far the most toxic is meat and dairy. It's called the law of bioaccumulation. What happens is you have these animals in these feedlots and, and they eat tons and tons and tons of grains sprayed with glyphosate, they're injected with growth hormone, they're given antibiotics regularly every day of their life in their feed. And then when we consume their milk and meat products, you're getting all of this antibiotic residue, GMO residue, all these hormones in your food supply. So, so pro produce, hey, that's kind of important. It's not even near as important as meat and dairy products if you're going to buy organic. Now the next most important are those dirty dozen sort of foods. But basically, here's the principle. If something has a peel on it, it's not as important to buy organic. For instance, if you're buying a grapefruit, you're taking the entire peel off, it's going to be far less toxic than if you're buying lettuce that's been sprayed because you're eating that outer shell of the thing that you're eating or strawberries or something like that. So if you're prioritizing there, and by the way, a study came out that found that if you have to buy food that's non organic baking soda, washing it with baking soda removes around 97% of the pesticides. I mean, it's incredibly powerful. So just one minute soaking baking soda, your produce gets rid of the majority of pesticides on your foods. Non toxic cleaning products, ditching plastics, eating. We talked about this, the dirty dozen. If you're going to go organic, and these things are the big needle movers and listen, there's a lot of things. There's EMF that has a form of toxicity. Again, we talked about added sugar, but I would say focus on the majors. I would say these and added sugar are probably the things that are making us the most ill when it comes to toxicity.
