221. Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy: On the Immune System, Cancer Prevention and Environmental Toxins

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka — Episode 221: Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy on the Immune System, Cancer Prevention, and Environmental Toxins (Nov 25, 2025)

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Overview

This episode features Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD, a trailblazer in integrative and functional medicine, and author of "The Cancer Revolution." Hosted by human biologist and biohacker Gary Brecka, the conversation dives deep into the critical role of the immune system in health and longevity, cancer prevention, environmental toxins, and practical strategies to achieve optimal wellness. Dr. Connealy shares her personal and professional journey, offering holistic and actionable insights that blend conventional and alternative medical wisdom.

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Main Discussion Points and Key Insights

1. The Immune System: Our Internal Police and Health Barometer

• Surveillance & Policing Function
  • Dr. Connealy: “Your immune system is affected by environmental toxins, stress, electromagnetic fields, chronic infections… Like you said, it’s the surveillance system.” (00:00)
  • Gary Brecka: “We don’t realize how much policing of our own physiology the immune system does. As it loses its function, communities start to misbehave.” (00:15)
• Immunofatigue & Aging
  • The leading theory of aging is "immunofatigue" — the slow overwhelming of the immune system over time. (16:19)

2. Conventional vs. Integrative Medicine: Historical Perspective

• Origins of ‘Alternative’ Medicine
  • The Flexner Report (1910) led by Rockefeller and Carnegie shifted medicine toward patentable drugs, sidelining natural and homeopathic approaches. (02:51)
  • Dr. Connealy: “All doctors knew how to make potions…they said, oh, that’s all quack. We’re going to start building new medical schools and teach them what to think and how to think.” (03:11)
• Medical Industrial Complex Critique
  • An intentional, profit-driven shift towards modern pharmaceuticals has shaped current medical practice. (03:44–03:46)

3. Dr. Connealy’s Journey: From Patient to Integrative Pioneer

• Personal Health Catalyst
  • Diagnosed in adolescence as high-risk for cancer due to prenatal exposure to DES, she underwent regular screenings from age 16. (05:23)
  • Overcame additional health challenges like scoliosis and infertility, fostering her understanding of the interplay between environment, hormones, and systemic health.
  • “My journey started a long time ago…that’s how my journey started.” (05:22)
• Transition from Classical to Functional Medicine
  • Early influences included a natural food upbringing and critical experiences in medical training that highlighted the need for less invasive, more empathetic approaches. (10:47)
  • “The first thing you have to think about as a doctor is how do I not harm my patient?” (12:16)

4. Diagnostics and Foundations of Health

• Comprehensive Testing
  • Dr. Connealy employs extensive lab panels (e.g., Cyrex immune function panel) to assess inflammation, immune health, hormones, and metabolic markers overlooked by standard care.
  • “Doctors are obsessed with cholesterol…and so that would be that. But they don’t check the C-reactive protein…the non-specific marker for inflammation…They don’t check immune status.” (15:25)
• Goal of “De-diagnosis”
  • “We try to teach the patient how to create health...Our goal is to de-diagnose you.” (14:39)

5. Daily Health Practices for Immune Optimization

• Morning Routine: Green juice with supplements, weight training, affirmations, sun exposure, and strategic meal timing.
• Mindset and Stress
  • Positive Mental Attitude (PMA): Start each day with gratitude and affirmations as a foundational element for immune health.
  • “Setting our mind and being conscious of our thoughts...is paramount to how the day is going to go.” (21:19)
  • Chronic stress locks the body in sympathetic overdrive, raising inflammation and promoting disease.
• Sleep Hygiene and EMF Management
  • Emphasizes quality sleep preparation, lowering EMF exposure (sleeping in a Faraday cage, turning off electricity in the bedroom).
  • “I personally turn off the electricity to my bedroom and I sleep in a Faraday cage.” (42:49–43:01)

6. Cancer Prevention & The Cancer Revolution

• Ten-Year Cancer Development Timeline
  • Cancer typically unfolds invisibly over a decade before manifested diagnosis. (30:42–31:04)
• Holistic Approach to Cancer Care
  • Critiques conventional protocols (surgery, chemo, radiation) for being solely destructive and not supportive of the host (the patient).
  • “Every one of those aspects is damaging to the system...You may need one of those, but should not do it alone.” (31:05; 51:30–52:21)
• Role of Voltage and Cellular Health
  • Cancer is a manifestation of low cellular voltage and acidity; optimizing cellular energy is key.
  • “If we don’t have voltage, then we can’t have energy for the cell, just like a battery.” (32:14–32:49)
  • Methods: Grounding (barefoot in nature), sunlight, breathwork, time in nature ("forest bathing"), and devices like biomodulators and biochargers.

7. Environmental Toxins & EMFs

• Mitigating Toxic Load
  • Encourages detox practices: Epsom salt baths, infrared sauna, fasting, reducing EMF exposure, and using mineral supplementation.
  • “We’re living in the great poisoning...a lot of testing and cleaning protocols can be done.” (44:55–45:32)
  • “EMFs cause disruption in these calcium ion channels...this is carcinogenic...it’s a pervasive problem.” (41:00–41:44)

8. Diet and Nutrition

• Eat Real Food
  • “The number one thing you need to eat is real food.” (49:02)
• Balanced Protocol — No One Size Fits All
  • Emphasizes eating quality proteins, vegetables, fruits, and good fats; supports ketogenic diet for certain cancers but individualizes dietary advice.
  • “If you eat like our ancestors ate...meat is a phenomenal source of nutrition...it is quite straightforward.” (49:26–50:22)

9. Immune Support Therapies

• Supplementation/Adjunctive Therapies
  • Thymosin alpha peptide, BRM4 (rice bran), medicinal mushrooms (Ganoderma, turkey tail), vitamin D, vitamin C, bone marrow peptides, and mitochondrial extracts.
  • “All these things...can incredibly help and enhance the immune system.” (46:19)

10. Self-Care as the New Healthcare

• “Self care is the new health care.” (26:00)
• Women are disproportionately affected by autoimmune diseases due to chronic stress and caregiving roles; prioritizing self-care is critical.

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Memorable Quotes and Moments

• On Affirmations — Dr. Connealy: “Thank you, God, for invincible healing today...Thank you, God, that I was literally able to wake up today and live and discover life.” (22:08)
• On Holistic Practice — “Our goal is to de-diagnose you.” (14:39)
• On Cancer Screening — “People think you just wake up one day and have cancer, but actually cancer is about a 10 year process.” (31:04)
• On Lifestyle Simplicity — “If you eat like our ancestors ate...meat is a phenomenal source of nutrition” (49:26–50:22)
• On Ultimate Human — Dr. Connealy: “To live in equanimity...Living in this beautiful, harmonious spirit each and every day.” (53:54–54:10)

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Key Resources and Recommendations

• Books Mentioned: "The Cancer Revolution" by Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, "Healing is Voltage" by Dr. Jerry Tennant, "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson, "The Cancer Revolution."
• Practices: Daily gratitude, green juice, strength training, grounding/earthing, sun exposure, fasting, holistic detox, individualized nutrition.
• Testing: Broad lab panels including immune system function (e.g., Cyrex labs).
• Environmental Actions: EMF reduction strategies, making bedrooms EMF-free, regular detoxification.
• Immune Support: Peptides, medicinal mushrooms, vitamins, bone marrow and mitochondrial support for advanced cases.
• Clinic Info: Cancer Center for Healing, Irvine, CA.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:00–03:46 — Immune system overview & medical history (Flexner Report)
• 04:03–10:07 — Dr. Connealy's health journey and formative experiences
• 14:27–16:19 — Foundation and philosophy of her practice
• 18:19–23:46 — The immune system and the psychology of health
• 25:17–26:14 — Gender differences in disease, caregiving, self-care
• 27:05–29:11 — Dr. Connealy’s daily routine for optimal health
• 30:42–35:24 — Cancer development timeline and cellular voltage
• 36:15–38:59 — Tools for restoring voltage: grounding, nature, biochargers
• 40:34–45:32 — Purification, toxins, and EMF awareness
• 46:19–46:57 — Immune therapies, peptides, and advanced support
• 49:02–50:54 — Dietary approaches to cancer and overall health
• 53:54–54:41 — Concept of equanimity and "living in harmony"
• 51:23–53:06 — Cancer Center for Healing: patient approach

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Conclusion and Takeaways

Dr. Connealy advocates a return to foundational health through whole foods, environmental mindfulness, supportive supplements, comprehensive lab work, and, above all, self-awareness and self-care. Her integrative, patient-centered philosophy addresses not only disease but the root causes that erode vitality. This episode is essential listening for anyone desiring practical, holistic steps to fortify their immune system, prevent illness, and navigate—or prevent—cancer with empowerment and clarity.

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Connect with Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy:

• Instagram: @ConnealyMD
• Website: centerfornewmedicine.com
• Clinic: Cancer Center for Healing, Irvine, California

Book Recommendations:

• "The Cancer Revolution" — for a comprehensive, integrative cancer prevention and therapy guide.

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Transcript

[Dr. Connealy]

We're living in the great poisoning because your immune system is affected by environmental toxins, stress, electromagnetic fields, chronic infections, all these things are having an influential factor on your immune system. Like you said, it's the surveillance system.

[Gary Brecke]

We don't realize how much policing of our own physiology the immune system does. It's not only protecting the community, it's also policing the community. And as it loses its function, communities start to misbehave. Where do you see the immune system's role in things like cancer?

[Dr. Connealy]

People think you just wake up, up one day and have cancer, but actually cancer is about a 10 year process. And if you were being diagnosed with cancer that relying on the conventional surgical, chemo, radiation, it's not a good protocol because every one of those aspects is damaging to the system.

[Gary Brecke]

Most conventional treatments were just attacking the cancer. Forget that there's a human being here and it's okay to try to build them up while you're also trying to tear down the cancer.

[Dr. Connealy]

Do the grounding, do the things that help balance our human electrical field.

[Gary Brecke]

The truth is the earth has a magnetic field and when you connect with.

[Dr. Connealy]

It, we discharge into the earth the other things. They call it forest bathing. Just being around nature. That is true medicine.

[Gary Brecke]

If I want to live a cancer free life, what does that look like?

[Dr. Connealy]

I think the most simple thing that anyone can do is.

[Gary Brecke]

Ultimate humans. Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human podcast. I'm your host, human biologist Gary Brecke, where we go down the road of everything, anti aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. And today, coming to you live from Saudi Arabia, which is why I'm in a suit, because I just got off the stage in Saudi Arabia. You know, we, we have a phenomenal physician, MD, author on the, on the podcast today. I'm so excited to go down the road with. In fact, we started a podcast before the podcast even started. And I said, let's just save this for the audience because it's so good. But welcome to the podcast, Dr. Connealy.

[Dr. Connealy]

Thank you for having me.

[Gary Brecke]

I'm super happy to have you. And you know, before we started the cameras rolling, you said we can talk about everything from functional wellness to stage four cancer and everything in between, which I find really fascinating. You know, you made a statement about a report that came out historically and we were talking about the fact that it's called alternative medicine. Now, anything that's other than mainstream medicine, pharmaceuticals, synthetics, chemicals, anything other than that status quo, is called alternative medicine. But it wasn't always that way.

[Dr. Connealy]

That's correct, actually, prior to the Flexner Report.

[Gary Brecke]

And what was the Flexner Report?

[Dr. Connealy]

The Flexner Report came out in, like, 1910, and Rockefeller and Carnegie basically said, oh, we can patent medicines. And so before that came out, all doctors knew how to make potions and compounded and used homeopathy because there were no medications.

[Gary Brecke]

Right.

[Dr. Connealy]

And so they said, oh, that's all quack. We're not going to do that anymore. We're going to start building new medical schools and we're going to teach them what to think and how to think.

[Gary Brecke]

And so this was cognitive. I mean, it was. It was commissive. It was intentional.

[Dr. Connealy]

It was very intentional. And they basically said, all the way we practice then is not going to be. We are going to be doing a new way, new paradigm in medicine.

[Gary Brecke]

And the new paradigm in medicine happens to line our pockets.

[Dr. Connealy]

Right. Well, we have.

[Gary Brecke]

It's just a coincidence.

[Dr. Connealy]

Yeah. Well, we have the medical industrial complex, and they influence every aspect of our lives.

[Gary Brecke]

I'm surprised to hear you say that as an MD. You know, not many MDs are as woke to that as you are. I hate that word, woke, but as aware of that as you are. Right.

[Dr. Connealy]

Well, my journey started a long time ago. I was number three of six children, or I am rather number three of six children. Grew up in Houston, Texas. My mother was pregnant with me and she started bleeding, and she went to the doctor and they said, we have a medication called des, Diethylbestrol. It's a very potent synthetic estrogen. So that was given to my mother to prevent miscarriage and stop the bleeding. When I'm a teenager in Houston, my parents receive a letter stating this medication caused increased incidence of cancer, hormone problems, infertility, anatomical problems, et cetera.

[Gary Brecke]

In her.

[Dr. Connealy]

No, in the offspring, both male and female offspring of mothers who consume des.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

Wow.

[Dr. Connealy]

So they said, you need to go to a cancer institute to get evaluated and checked. So I grew up in Houston, Texas. The most famous institution probably in the world is MD Anderson. It's actually a country in and of itself. And so I was a teenager going to get exams by a plethora of people because they'd never seen anything. So they wanted to examine you, do biopsies, et cetera. So that's how my journey started.

[Gary Brecke]

And this was at what age?

[Dr. Connealy]

16.

[Gary Brecke]

16. You're already doing cancer screening?

[Dr. Connealy]

Yes.

[Gary Brecke]

Wow.

[Dr. Connealy]

Okay.

[Gary Brecke]

Because of this medication that was cancer screening.

[Dr. Connealy]

All kinds of screening. Okay. And like, you know, your menstrual cycles, your hormones, et cetera. And so they followed me for several years and so then they said, you know, you need to be checked every year because one of the cancers was a special kind of vaginal cancer.

[Gary Brecke]

And can I ask if you had complications from that that you're aware of?

[Dr. Connealy]

Yes.

[Gary Brecke]

Okay.

[Dr. Connealy]

Actually, so at the time, I was diagnosed with dysplasia. So you have normal cells, dysplasia and cancer, then I never had pre cancer.

[Gary Brecke]

Like Barrett's esophagitis.

[Dr. Connealy]

Exactly. Then I never had two periods in a row in my life.

[Gary Brecke]

Wow.

[Dr. Connealy]

Okay. So of course they want to put you on birth control pills. And then I found progesterone, and so I became a hormonal expert. Because your hormones were affected by everything.

[Gary Brecke]

Plus, you're starting hormones before. I mean, at that age, you don't even know what a hormone is. I mean, you know, training at all. But at least you have some kind of explanation. You have a villain for why things are not going like the rest of your friends.

[Dr. Connealy]

Right, Right. And so then I didn't. I didn't, you know, properly ovulate, so I had to go see infertility specialists to have my children.

[Gary Brecke]

So how many children do you have?

[Dr. Connealy]

I have three kids. Okay, and then which one's your favorite? Well, my daughter.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

I have three kids, too.

[Dr. Connealy]

So my daughter says, mine change all the time. And I told her, I said, no mother has a favorite child. You love them all.

[Gary Brecke]

My daughter would argue with that. She would say, it's your firstborn daughter. And then my middle son would say, it's always the second born. My third doesn't really care. So.

[Dr. Connealy]

Yeah. And then one of the other most impactful things is I had scoliosis that wasn't diagnosed until my college physical. And so I tried everything.

[Gary Brecke]

I remembered the college physical, just you bent over in front of the PE Teacher, and they're like, oh, you got scoliosis. I remember doing that.

[Dr. Connealy]

Yeah. But I'm a lot older than you, and so it was not as profound a physical, other than they did probably do good histories and physicals there because the doctors had time. Right. So that prompted me to look at the complete musculoskeletal aspect of a human, plus all the emotional aspects, spiritual aspects.

[Gary Brecke]

You started looking at this in college?

[Dr. Connealy]

No, no. Through the process of living. Because you go to doctors and they want to do surgery, and I didn't want to do surgery.

[Gary Brecke]

Oh, my gosh. Scoliosis surgery back then is. Yeah, back then, a lot of it was rods.

[Dr. Connealy]

Right. And I had. So I had done rotation in orthopedic surgeries, and so I Had got a consult just for exploration. And I said, no, thank you.

[Gary Brecke]

I'm fine without the rods.

[Dr. Connealy]

Right.

[Gary Brecke]

Yeah.

[Dr. Connealy]

And so then when I turned 60, I thought, okay, I better, like, figure something out, because as we age, things change. So I decided to contact all the Doctors in the UNs, and then I explored Europe and Germany. And the German doctors are amazing because they usually are combination natural, integrative, functional with, you know, the conventional. And I found a world class expert, and I flew to Germany six and a half years ago now.

[Gary Brecke]

A world class expert in scoliosis?

[Dr. Connealy]

Yes.

[Gary Brecke]

Okay.

[Dr. Connealy]

He trained the doctors in US at Mayo and everywhere else. Wow. And he was a mechanical engineer and a surgeon.

[Gary Brecke]

So helpful. Yeah.

[Dr. Connealy]

Yes.

[Gary Brecke]

He understands the rotary twisting of the spine, the compression, but also what happens if you quote unquote, correct, and put a normal kyphosis and lordosis into a spine that hasn't been normal its entire life. I mean, because, you know, I've. I've heard of very severe complications for people that have. Were asymptomatic with scoliosis and then had surgical correction and then became severely symptomatic.

[Dr. Connealy]

Correct.

[Gary Brecke]

Afterwards.

[Dr. Connealy]

Well, most back surgeries, probably 90% of back surgeries, patients still have the pain. So if you. If you read the book John Sarno by Dr. John Sarno, he talks about that.

[Gary Brecke]

He does.

[Dr. Connealy]

And he talks about the emotional aspect.

[Gary Brecke]

So what was the transition? Because you're. You're a classic trained medical doctor. Where'd you go to medical school, if you don't mind me asking?

[Dr. Connealy]

In. At Chicago Medical school.

[Gary Brecke]

Okay, so Chicago Medical school. Very classic medical school.

[Dr. Connealy]

Correct.

[Gary Brecke]

And you're a classic trained physician. What was the transition like for you to what I would call functional medicine? Because, you know, when I look at your CV and I look at the books that you've written and, you know, the cancer revolution. Be perfectly healthy. These are not targeting pharmaceutical intervention, you know, chemicals, synthetics. So what was the transition to functional medicine? Was it because in your practice you. You weren't having the outcomes you wanted, or is this related to your childhood journey?

[Dr. Connealy]

Actually, both. First of all, my mother was really natural. So we had raw milk, we ate liver, we ate good for pate, we ate sauerkraut, we ate organs. So that is how I grew up. W. Okay.

[Gary Brecke]

Organs are so nutrient dense.

[Dr. Connealy]

Yes. So I grew up like that. And then when I was in training and I remember delivering babies and my first baby that I had to deliver by myself, I had to do a piece.

[Gary Brecke]

Oh, that's gonna be so scary.

[Dr. Connealy]

And I had to do an episiotomy. And I. Okay, here I am. My attendant physician said, you know, okay, give the anesthetic, and then cut. And I was like, oh, my gosh, this is so barbaric. How could, like, a woman go through something like that? And then I'm a new young doctor, and I'm looking at the tissues, and I'm like, okay, now how am I going to put this all back together? So here I am sweating. The babies always come at 1 or 2 in the morning.

[Gary Brecke]

Yeah, always.

[Dr. Connealy]

And I'm sitting there cutting. I mean, cutting and sewing back up. And I was like, okay, no, this is not the way we're gonna deliver babies. So I went and read and studied and said, okay, like, I can get the patients to breathe, and I can massage the perineum. So never again did I do another pieziotomy. Really? Just by talking to the mother, asking them to breathe while I massage the perineum.

[Gary Brecke]

Wow.

[Dr. Connealy]

So. Because I just. Light bulb went off, like. Yes. And, like, I think the first thing you have to think about as a doctor is how do I not harm my patient? Okay. And you also have to put yourself in the patient's shoes. Right. Become the patient itself. And my journey has really taught me how. You know, in medical school, they teach you what to think and the knowledge that you need to know.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

Right.

[Dr. Connealy]

But living the book is a whole nother experience.

[Gary Brecke]

Right. And so you.

[Dr. Connealy]

So then I. So then I wanted to start out my practice. And so I had a physician who said, okay, I'm gonna give you $50,000 to start your practice. I believe in you.

[Gary Brecke]

That was nice.

[Dr. Connealy]

And so he was in Houston, Texas. He was an internist and pathologist. So we really knew the human body like no other. So he says, you know, you have to teach your patients lifestyle. Okay. And the best way to get patients.

[Gary Brecke]

What time frame is this?

[Dr. Connealy]

1986.

[Gary Brecke]

He was talking about lifestyle changes.

[Dr. Connealy]

Yes.

[Gary Brecke]

Good for him.

[Dr. Connealy]

About keeping record. Like, patients would keep record of their eating and their exercise and how to look at their blood work and how to look at their metabolism and assessing thyroid function.

[Gary Brecke]

Way up there in 1986.

[Dr. Connealy]

Yes. And so he taught me a lot. Okay. And then I remember studying this. I don't. You may not remember this book, but it's called the Scarsdale Diet. Okay, I do remember that. Yes. And so anyway, so I started studying every, you know, eating book, because what is the number one thing that usually people need to address is their weight, right?

[Gary Brecke]

Yes.

[Dr. Connealy]

And so anyway, I hired a registered dietitian who was a Recovering anorexic. So I'm like, what perfect person to assist and help and support patients. So she and I were a team along with my staff. And then patients started asking me, oh, Dr. Connealy, do you know about DHEA and do you know about this? And do you know about that? And I'm like, no, let me go explore. And then one thing led to another to where I am today.

[Gary Brecke]

Wow.

[Dr. Connealy]

Exploring, like everything that.

[Gary Brecke]

What's the foundation of your practice today? How would you describe your practice?

[Dr. Connealy]

Well, we treat everything from human optimization to stage four cancer.

[Gary Brecke]

Wow.

[Dr. Connealy]

And our goal is to de. Diagnose you.

[Gary Brecke]

Wow. What does that mean?

[Dr. Connealy]

So what that means is the typical medical doctor gets paid by how many diagnoses and the more the diagnosis and time, the better the reimbursement is.

[Gary Brecke]

Right.

[Dr. Connealy]

And so you might have hypertension, you might have diabetes or cancer or whatever. And so we try to teach the patient how to create health. And I'm the teacher, I'm the educator along with my team. I don't do it by myself. And so I do an elaborate history and physical and then I do elaborate blood work, looking at everything from common things to uncommon things.

[Gary Brecke]

So what are some. So common things are like chemistry and.

[Dr. Connealy]

Doctors are obsessed with cholesterol.

[Gary Brecke]

Right.

[Dr. Connealy]

And so that would be that. But they don't check the C reactive protein, the non specific marker for inflammation, even though pre diabetes and diabetes is high. They don't check hemoglobin, A1C.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

Wow.

[Dr. Connealy]

They don't check vitamin D levels.

[Gary Brecke]

Insulin.

[Dr. Connealy]

They don't check. Yeah, fasting insulin and fasting sugar. They don't check your sed rate, which is another marker for inflammation. They don't check thyroid and complete thyroid function. They don't check like DHEA sulfate, which is the hormone of stress, immune and.

[Gary Brecke]

Longevity and a precursor for other hormones.

[Dr. Connealy]

Yes. And then, you know, pregnenolone and then in women, another precursor for hormone. Right. Estrogen, progesterone, testosterone in both males and females. They don't check immune status. You want to know what the immune system. Because all diseases are related to the functionality of the immune system.

[Gary Brecke]

Wow, that is such a fascinating statement. You know, I talk about a question that I got on a podcast. It was either podcast or stage talk not too long ago. And it was, it was a fascinating question. They said if you were to put the top 50 leading experts in the world in a room, PhDs, the MDs, the, the researchers, and you were to ask them to agree on one theory of aging. What, what theory would that Be. And I was like, wow, that's a really tough question. And I said, I think they would all agree on the theory of immunofatigue, a slow, progressive, overwhelming of the immune system. So I want to draw attention to that because I think most people think the immune system's sole role is to protect us, which. Which it does, you know, from things, pathogens, viruses, bacteria, what have you. But a large role of the immune system is to police ourselves. Right. It actually, we don't realize how much policing of our own physiology, the immune system does. Senescent cells, circulating tumor cells, you know, effectively supporting good DNA methylation, all of these things that are going on. The immune system is that watchdog. So it's not only protecting the community, it's also policing the community. And. And as it loses its function, right. Community starts to misbehave.

[Dr. Connealy]

Right.

[Gary Brecke]

Just like if you don't have rules and regulations in any community, you know, that would come unravel.

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[Gary Brecke]

Can we go. Can we unpack that for a minute?

[Dr. Connealy]

Sure.

[Gary Brecke]

So where do you see the immune system's role in things like cancer, onset of cancer, stage one to stage four. Where do you see the immune system's role as a part of somebody's wellness journey?

[Dr. Connealy]

Well, with any, actually, anybody. The immune system. The immune system. Okay, so I do an immune function panel by a lab called Cyrex, and Dr. Vajani, who's been the head of that laboratory, has been around for a very long time. And so this is a phenomenal way to look at your T cells, B cells, your natural killer cells, and all the different ratios. And so you talk about immune system and cancer. So we talked about it earlier that the immune system plays a role in aging, whether you're going to get an infectious disease, heart disease, Alzheimer's, any disease. Right. And so we want to look at the immune system to see all the different things that we can do to correct it, to optimize that's what I'm interested in.

[Gary Brecke]

So this Cyrex panel will tell you not just like a CBC tells you. Here's your neutrophils and basophils, eosinophils, monocytes, all of that. And we usually use those as markers to tell what kind of infection you have. If you have an infection, is it bacterial, is it viral, is it something different? But this is a much deeper dive.

[Dr. Connealy]

Yes.

[Gary Brecke]

This is actually looking at the complex structure of the immune system.

[Dr. Connealy]

Correct.

[Gary Brecke]

And how do you weigh the health of the immune system? How do you say, wow, here's. We're going to zero in on this, and this is something that we need to fix.

[Dr. Connealy]

Right. But because your immune system is affected by environmental toxins, stress.

[Gary Brecke]

So happy you say that.

[Dr. Connealy]

You know, heavy metals, electromagnetic fields, chronic infections, all of these things impact the immune system. So you're. First of all, there's the aging part of working. We start aging around 30, so we need to start paying attention then. And then the immune cells, depending on all the different environment of the patient. We have the epigenetics, everything that's influenced the genes up until this point, whether you're 30, 50, or 80 years, you know, what you eat, what you put in your mouth, what you're exposed to. So all these things are having an influential factor on your immune system. Like you said, it's the police, it's the surveillance system. So it's taking everything in, your entire environment in. And so then we want to remove the offending things so that the immune system can take care of you, and then we can do immune support also. There's all different things we can do to.

[Gary Brecke]

So what are some things that we can do to support our immune system? Because if you're listening to this podcast and you buy off on the fact that the immune system has this role in policing ourselves, which it does, and you've evaluated it. What does a healthy immune lifestyle look like?

[Dr. Connealy]

Well, I would say the first and foremost thing is your state of mind. So you need to have a PMA every day, regardless of what curveballs and detours are thrown at you. So a PMA of a positive mental attitude. Okay. And because, you know, no day is going to come without something. There's always something. Okay. But setting our mind and being conscious of our thoughts and how we're going to live today is paramount to how the day is going to go. So the first thing you could possibly do before you literally leap out of bed, you should be talking about affirmations. Affirmations. Thank you, God, for invincible healing today.

[Gary Brecke]

Wow.

[Dr. Connealy]

Thank you, God, for divine protection of my children today. Thank you, God, that I was literally able to wake up today and live and discover life.

[Gary Brecke]

Just that gratitude right out of the gate. So instead of grabbing onto the past and bringing yesterday's problems forward, you wake up and you start with gratitude and a positive outlook rather than. It's fascinating because certainly not so many years ago that would have been considered just straight voodoo science. But we know now that the way that we think and we frame things has an influence on our nervous system. Even our autonomic nervous system, the one that's controlling, heavily influencing the immune system, also heavily influencing whether we're in the state of fight or flight, or we're in the state of rest and digest and the patterns that we think about all the time. Joe Dispenza talks about this a lot. You know, frame how our nervous system follows up and says, well, we have a lot to worry about today. Things are a disaster. There's so much to be afraid of. Let's stay in fight or flight, right? Let's lock ourselves into sympathetic. So we are ready for this fight.

[Dr. Connealy]

Ready for the tiger.

[Gary Brecke]

Yeah, ready for the tiger. Right. I'm laying in the cage in the cave, and I woke up and there's a cyber tooth tiger right in my face.

[Dr. Connealy]

Right.

[Gary Brecke]

And so the immune system, because of the way the autonomic nervous system works, because of the way that we think, you know, the. The autonomic nervous system gets locked in this state. What does that do to the immune system?

[Dr. Connealy]

Well, when you're in a sympathetic nervous system, like you talked about, there's two aspects, the sympathetic and the parasympathetic. The parasympathetic, when rest and healing take place, sympathetic is you're in just extreme rigor, and, you know, your body's making tons of cortisol. And then what does cortisol do? Creates lots of inflammation, creates the progression of diseases.

[Gary Brecke]

So you can help arm your immune system by waking up in the morning and consciously practicing positive affirmations. Love that. Agree totally with that. And it's. And because there's no measurable way to track your thoughts, people don't put a lot of credence into that. But we really do have a lot of control over the state that our body is in. Like, do I feel safe in my body? You know, I have a theory that the reason why the vast majority of autoimmune disease is found in women, about 82% of autoimmune disease affects women Is because they bear the weight of the world on their shoulders. They have a tendency to have what we used to call in the mortality space caregiver syndrome. Right. Where they just put the needs of other people in front of them. Their spouse, their career, their. Their kids, what have you. And eventually this, this sort of gotta perform, gotta perform, gotta perform. I have so many people to take care of things. The family will fall apart without me. Self care becomes non existent and then bang, they get hit with an autoimmune disease out of nowhere.

[Dr. Connealy]

I agree with you. The mother is the ultimate caretaker. Right? And like you said, you know, way I grew up, my mother was home and with the six kids. But I'm a woman that's been working.

[Gary Brecke]

Six kids a lot. She had caregiver syndrome for sure.

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[Dr. Connealy]

But I worked annoying also. Caregiver. Okay. But you're right, it's a tremendous commitment, a tremendous dedication, and especially in this day and time with the health concerns of humanity now, people are taking care of their parents, they're taking care of their children. And so that's why this movement of functional integrative medicine is critical. And I say you mentioned about self care. Self care is the new health care.

[Gary Brecke]

Love that.

[Dr. Connealy]

And so it's very important that we teach all of this to people because we are all living together, we're all interconnected, and so we directly affect each other.

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[Gary Brecke]

So how does it. So now I. How do I progress throughout the day? Okay, yeah, so I wake up.

[Dr. Connealy]

So you wake up.

[Gary Brecke]

Affirmations.

[Dr. Connealy]

And so like, personally, I wake up and have a green drink.

[Gary Brecke]

Okay.

[Dr. Connealy]

And then. No, just a juice. Green juice.

[Gary Brecke]

Oh, green juice.

[Dr. Connealy]

So I do a green juice and I put vitamin C and coenzyme Q10 and curcumin, and my Little silica and everything. And then I go to the gym. And I go to the gym, do a workout, primarily weights. And then I come back, shower, make organic coffee, catch up on emails for about 10 minutes, and then get ready for work. And usually on the way to work, I use it as a time of just calmness and peacefulness, continue affirmations of gratitude.

[Gary Brecke]

Wow.

[Dr. Connealy]

And then I meet with my team at 8am, go through whatever issues we need to do. And then I start seeing patients at 9am, and then from 9 to 1231, see patients. And then I usually go outside and get sunshine.

[Gary Brecke]

Good for you.

[Dr. Connealy]

And so then start patients 2 to 5 by 30, and then I go finish up whatever, lots of charting and lots of messages, et cetera. And then I'm able to go home. My husband nicely cooks dinner for me.

[Gary Brecke]

Oh, that's a good hobby. Is he with you in Saudi right now?

[Dr. Connealy]

No, no, no, he isn't.

[Gary Brecke]

You came solo?

[Dr. Connealy]

Yes. And so. Well, I didn't come, so I came with my daughter, but.

[Gary Brecke]

Okay.

[Dr. Connealy]

And so then I eat dinner quietly, have a nice good dinner quietly. And then I usually. I like to do some breathing. So breathing reset my nervous system. And so I usually go in the living room and do some breathing and relaxation. And I have a healing blanket. I have all these little different things that I use at my house. And then I always tell patients that your day begins when you go to sleep.

[Gary Brecke]

It does. I totally agree with that.

[Dr. Connealy]

And so you need to prepare for your sleep. So I get prepared all the vitamins and everything that.

[Gary Brecke]

What do you take for sleep? Magnesium or.

[Dr. Connealy]

Magnesium. And I take 5 milligrams of melatonin.

[Gary Brecke]

Okay.

[Dr. Connealy]

I take pancreatic enzymes. I take my progesterone.

[Gary Brecke]

Great for sleep.

[Dr. Connealy]

Yes. And so that's pretty much what I take. Hydrogen water before bed.

[Gary Brecke]

Oh, good. I'm a huge fan of hydrogen water. We got hydrogen water on the table right here. I'm a huge fan of H2 tap. I take them every day. And it's made a game changer of a difference for me on the road, especially with. Especially changing time zones so much, because we're what, seven hours ahead here? All right, So I feed myself in the same window. So I won't start eating today until 1 o'. Clock. And then we have this podcast. So I probably won't start eating until 3 o'. Clock. And I think it's okay to be hungry. People just so afraid of hunger. We eat at the first pang of hunger. We just constantly feed ourselves from six in the morning. Till 11 o' clock at night, you know, a lot of times. But I want to unpack the cancer revolution because everybody listening to this podcast, if they haven't been affected by cancer, they know someone that's affected by cancer, very likely a family member. Just given the statistics of 1 in.

[Dr. Connealy]

5 and 10, 1 and 2 people.

[Gary Brecke]

1 and 2.

[Dr. Connealy]

Yeah, right.

[Gary Brecke]

5 and 10, 1 and 2, you know, so there's virtually no chance that someone listening to this has not been exposed to this disease. What is the cancer revolution about? What, what makes it unique?

[Dr. Connealy]

Right, so cancer revolution is a book of literally how cancer works. Okay. And people think you just wake up one day and have cancer, but actually cancer is about a 10 year process and you won't develop a tumor manifestation. Probably about year eight at a billion cancer cells, about the size of a marble.

[Gary Brecke]

Okay.

[Dr. Connealy]

And so in our conventional world, their screening for cancer is really cologuard at 45 for a men and a woman mammogram, around 40 years old and cologuard. And that's really the only cancer screening really that we have. Right, and so this is all exhaustive list of testing that can be done to prevent cancer and or possibly diagnose cancer. Yes, exactly. So I go through all the laboratory testing and then I go through all the imaging testing and then I talk about every chapter. It's going to be one on sleep, on movement, on stress, on purification application, on immune system, on voltage and everything.

[Gary Brecke]

Wow. Can we, can we talk about voltage for a minute? Because that's fascinating to me. Are you talking about scalar energy? Are you talking about the absence of EMFs, you know, electromagnetic frequency that interrupts.

[Dr. Connealy]

Well, that is our cells, that is one energy. Electromagnetic fields are one energy, but the actual cell has a voltage.

[Gary Brecke]

So and it's cancer is a decrease in voltage.

[Dr. Connealy]

Correct. Because your ph is about 7.43. And so when the cells become acidic and we go into a very inefficient form of the oxidative metabolism of the cell, we have typically oxidative phosphorylation, named after Dr. Krebs, the Krebs cycle.

[Gary Brecke]

And so I hated him in biology class, but now I love him because I hated learning the Krebs cycle. But so much comes down to the Kre cycle and mitochondrial function.

[Dr. Connealy]

Exactly.

[Gary Brecke]

It's unbelievable. I've actually had to go back and relearn it.

[Dr. Connealy]

Right. So it's a very inefficient form of glycolysis. And so you normally make 36 ATP and the inefficient form is 2 ATP. And so you have something produced called hypoxic inducible factor, which makes lactic acid. So our body becomes acidic. And so when our body becomes acidic, the voltage of the cell goes down. So all of our cells emanate.07 millivolts of energy. And so if we don't have voltage, then we can't have energy for the cell, just like a battery. And so it's very important to cause these patients now they're 10 years into cancer, maybe 12 years. Right, right. Because they might have been diagnosed five years ago and they're now fighting for their life. So we're really behind. Right. So it's very important to, you know, provide the energy that the cell needs.

[Gary Brecke]

How do I restore voltage back to a cell? Because first of all, I totally agree with you. We know that cancer is a drop in, in voltage and in voltage. Just to explain it to folks, you know, there's a two layered membrane, membrane around the cell. It's called the phospholipid bilayer. And, and the charges across this membrane are how cells exchange nutrients and eliminate waste and bring things into the cell and throw things out of the cell. And as you lose voltage, it's like losing the battery power in your car. And eventually it doesn't have enough power to turn the engine over to crank start it. Right. And this is a slow progressive. You don't have a rapid drop in voltage. Just over time the voltage is dropping and the cell is becoming metabolically sick. And the commonality with all cancers is that they were at one time a healthy cell. Right. It's a shift in the metabolism of the cell. And so if I want to live a cancer free life and I want to improve the voltage in my cells, what does that look like? How? I mean, we have positive affirmations. It's just that that's a great lifestyle, you know. Tip. But how when you find that you have this reduced voltage or you know, without even checking that this person has been in a constant state of stress, you know, they have high inflammatory markers, high sensitivity C reactive protein, SED rates, what have you. Where do you start on walking somebody out of that?

[Dr. Connealy]

I think the most simple thing that anyone can do is go outside, take their shoes off and be barefoot on sand grass.

[Gary Brecke]

You're in danger of a man hug for me because I tell people to do that all the time. And I get, I get so much flack for talking about grounding as it being voodoo science. But the truth is the earth has a logos current. I Mean, it has a magnetic field and when you connect with it, we discharge into the earth. Exactly, right, yeah.

[Dr. Connealy]

So that's the simplest thing anyone can do. Everywhere, anytime can do that.

[Gary Brecke]

Yeah. I mean, if our combustion engine wasn't recharging the battery while we were driving, the car, eventually starting that car would just drain the voltage. Right. Now it can't operate. And it's a very good analogy for what happens in the drop in voltage in cells and so touching the surface of the earth. And what else?

[Dr. Connealy]

Well, the other things that you can do, just sunshine, just getting in. Sunshine provides energy to the cell because all the cells have biophotons. And then the other things be around nature. Nature is. They call it forest bathing.

[Gary Brecke]

In Eastern medicine, they have forest bathing.

[Dr. Connealy]

Just being around nature. The trees, the grass, the clean air, all of it's amazing that just that alone is electrons running water, waterfalls.

[Gary Brecke]

That's why we feel so good by the ocean.

[Dr. Connealy]

Yes, right.

[Gary Brecke]

All those ions in the air, I mean, it's medicine.

[Dr. Connealy]

Right. So that is true medicine. Now, if I have a patient in the clinic, I will use something called the biomodulator. And the biomodulator was a device developed by Dr. Tennant. And Dr. Tennant had. He's 86 or 87 years old now. He was an ophthalmologist who got an eye infection from one of his surgical procedures. And he was sick for like six years.

[Gary Brecke]

Wow.

[Dr. Connealy]

And he slept 18 hours a day and studied three hours a day. And he wrote a phenomenal book called the Healing is Voltage. And so he created a biomodulator, which is a device that has the frequencies built in and with. Basically it looks like a charging station, kind of like a Tesla. And so people. I have patients do that. And then I also in my clinic have something called the biocharger. Also.

[Gary Brecke]

I'm familiar with that too. It kind of reminds me of the old. The little lamps that I had in the 80s that you put your hands on.

[Dr. Connealy]

Yes, exactly.

[Gary Brecke]

Remember those? They had like the glass bubble and the stem in the middle. And it was the coolest thing because you'd put your hand on there and you wouldn't feel the electricity, but you'd see it, all the static electricity going into your hand. And I mean that those in lava lamps were like the rage in the 80s. If you have one of those, you had a cool bedroom.

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[Gary Brecke]

So restoring the voltage. And you talk about this in the book.

[Dr. Connealy]

Yes.

[Gary Brecke]

And fundamentally where does we talked about mindset. We actually talked about basic principles which I love that you as a classically trained MD have found your way back to a lot of the basics. Touching the surface of the earth, sunlight, breathwork, grounding. I agree with you on forest bathing. I have no evidence to support it other than I know that when my wife and I go, we have a log cabin in Colorado and when I go out there, if I throw on a 20 pound rucksack or 15 pound rucksack and I go for a three mile walk in the woods, when I get back I feel like I won the lottery. Like I took a limitless bill. I'm just clear, I'm focused. It's hard to describe. Like my emails make more sense to me. I feel more stress, resilient. And so it's no surprise to me that Eastern medicine has had this for centuries where they would actually prescribe forest bathing. And I think our connection with nature and our connection with each other is just so sadly missing that this aids in the drop in voltage. And what else does the book explore? Because I think it's so necessary for people to read this book.

[Dr. Connealy]

Yeah, I talk about the immune system and all the different things that affect the immune system and all the different things that you can do to support and enhance the optimization of the immune system.

[Gary Brecke]

And what would be like top three.

[Dr. Connealy]

Besides the basics that we already talked about? Okay, so number one would be purification. You gotta get the toxins out. So people can do baths, Epsom salt, baking soda, clay baths. They can do infrared sauna, they can do liver flushes, they can do cleansings. There's different, all different kind of cleanses out there, but a lot of times people do.

[Gary Brecke]

Lowering the toxic load.

[Dr. Connealy]

Yeah, exactly. People can do fasting. Fasting is, you know, doesn't cost anything. It's simple to do you can do intermittent fasting, two day a week fasting. I've had patients do. Yes, all different kinds of fasting. Okay. But fasting also can have a stress level. So you want to make sure that you pick the patient that can do it and handle it, as opposed to just one size fits all with patients. Right. So then also addressing people, you talked earlier about the electromagnetic fields, and I think people aren't really aware of electromagnetic fields. Computers were rushed in. Cell phones, satellites, et cetera, have been rushed into 5G wifi. Yes, everything. And there hasn't been really a check and balance, just like many other things. And so I think that that has a profound effect as you're talking about the energy of the cell. And so these are an energy. Okay. And they're affecting the cell. Okay. They're actually affecting the calcium ion channels like you were talking about the influx and efflux of the cell membrane. And so we know that EMFs cause disruption in these calcium ion channels. And so we're bathing in it, we're living in it. Okay. We have it attached to us. And this is carcinogenic. And so it's a pervasive problem. And so I don't think it's gonna go away. No. But I think that you can create some safety measures. Like you sleep. It's the time where everything happens. The magic happens when you sleep.

[Gary Brecke]

I totally agree.

[Dr. Connealy]

So if you could create a sanctuary. So I personally turn off the electricity to my bedroom.

[Gary Brecke]

That's great.

[Dr. Connealy]

And I sleep in a Faraday cage. I do too, in fact. Fabric, right, Exactly. So you do the same thing, right?

[Gary Brecke]

Yeah.

[Dr. Connealy]

And so I like here because I was very concerned about the electromagnetic fields. So I brought my meter and actually I checked our entire room and actually they're very low EMFs. And it's probably because of the walls are very thick. The cement walls kind of. Kind of dampen. Yes.

[Gary Brecke]

Commercial construction does too, because conduit helps to.

[Dr. Connealy]

And so then, so then I did bring a cocoon to sleep in.

[Gary Brecke]

Is that the Dr. Mercola one?

[Dr. Connealy]

No, actually. So one of my patients, she's a patient, a friend and founder of some. A company called Tech Wellness. And she is a freak too. About elect.

[Gary Brecke]

Like you and I.

[Dr. Connealy]

Yes, about electromagnetic fields. And so she said, I'm going to make this for you because I told her I can't sleep in hotels. And so anyway, so I think people just don't look at things like an enemy. I feel like it's like it lowers your vibration. Right. So look, how do we cooperate with this. And what can we do? Like, drinking hydrogen water is great for this kind of thing. Taking magnesium, making sure you're taking plenty of minerals. But just be aware. And like, I don't personally wear a cell phone like most young people do.

[Gary Brecke]

Right.

[Dr. Connealy]

You probably don't wear your cell phone, probably. But if you do, you should have it in a little slip that is like a Faraday cage. So. Because men can wear their cell phones. So you can wear it, but put it in a little Faraday slip. Okay. And then do the grounding, do the nature. Do the things that help balance our human electrical field. And so it's a very, very. Unfortunately, like, it's a bigger problem than people realize.

[Gary Brecke]

Yeah, I would agree with that.

[Dr. Connealy]

Okay. And I just don't feel like it gets the attention that it deserves. And people.

[Gary Brecke]

And you unpack this in the book.

[Dr. Connealy]

Yeah, I do. I talk about this, and I talk about what people can do. Right now, we talk. We're getting on the. Let's go back to the immune system. All right. But we're talking about everything that affects the immune system. Okay. So environmental pollutants. We're living in the great poisoning. Okay. I don't know if you know the book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. She talked about all this in the nature in the 50s. And then everybody was like, you know, pooh, poohed her and said she's crazy. And then now, of course, she's been vindicated. And so we're living in the grape poisoning. So we have to be aware. We have to be aware of what we can do. And there's lots we can do. Like I said, we talked about sauna, we talked about bathing, et cetera, purification. And then there are things that I use for the immune system. Like, so thymosin, alpha peptide, for example, is a great help for the immune system. I use thymus. I use injectable thymus. I will use. I use a particular formula from Japan that is called BRM4. And it's got rice bran, arabinol, galactans, along with things to increase natural killer cells, B cells, and T cells. Okay. I use Ganoderma lucidum. I use turkey tail. I use vitamin D, vitamin C. All these things that can incredibly help and enhance the immune system.

[Gary Brecke]

Yeah.

[Dr. Connealy]

And then sometimes I have to use other things, like bone marrow support, for example. You can do bone marrow peptides. Right, you can do that.

[Gary Brecke]

Which of the bone marrow peptides, Bone.

[Dr. Connealy]

Marrow peptides, I use from a company out of New Zealand called Ancestral Nutrition. But then I also use Mito organelles, which are actually the life cell extraction from the mitochondria from animals, actually, and just kind of like similar to organ meats, but this is extracted and it's a company from Malaysia.

[Gary Brecke]

Okay.

[Dr. Connealy]

That they use. They, they have a formula for thymus and they have a formula for bone marrow.

[Gary Brecke]

And then finally, let's just unpack the diet because as you said earlier, this is the foundation. Right. And I think that most people, there's a saying that the dosage determines the poison. Right. I mean, we've all heard that. I don't believe that the dosage determines the poison. I believe that the cumulative dosage can determine the poison. Right. Nobody got mercury poisoning from a single piece of tuna fish. They got mercury poisoning because they had a small amount of mercury and they ate it over a long period of time. Right. So very often it's not the dosage, which I think is a big issue with the way that our regulatory system works. We have these things called. Generally regarded as safe. The grass rules. And it said, says, well, I can give you a small amount of this toxin with no effect. Right. You know, you could probably lick lead paint on a wall and live a happily life if you just did it one time. Right. But if you're exposed or if your child that's putting lead based paint, you know, toys in your mouth and chewing on them, then this is. Can be catastrophic. Right. So a lot of these things accumulate over time. And I agree with you. The best defense that we have is our immune system. I mean, healthy immune people with very healthy, strong immune systems don't get cancer and they don't get sick. But what is the, what are the general dietary. I mean, I see that you're a fan of meat, which I love that too. I haven't found anything we disagree on. Yeah, yeah.

[Dr. Connealy]

I grew up in Texas.

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[Dr. Connealy]

We had our own cows.

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And you eat organ meat.

[Dr. Connealy]

Yes.

[Gary Brecke]

I still struggle with Paul Saldino keeps getting me to try to eat raw liver. I'm like, dude, I'll just take your.

[Dr. Connealy]

Supplement because you can fix your liver and cook it with onions.

[Gary Brecke]

Yeah. But you can't kill the taste. Well, with the, with the onions is good.

[Dr. Connealy]

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[Gary Brecke]

Yeah. You know how to do liver. But if you do it right.

[Dr. Connealy]

Right.

[Gary Brecke]

You can get by. So what are sort of the general garden?

[Dr. Connealy]

Well, I think this is the most, you know, talked about subject. Right. And so. And there's not a one size fits all. But I will tell you, like, for example, the number one Thing you need to eat is real food. Okay. Just real food. Okay. So you're going to eat eggs and you're going to eat meat, and you're going to eat vegetables, and you're going to eat fruits and you're going to eat good fats.

[Gary Brecke]

Right?

[Dr. Connealy]

Okay.

[Gary Brecke]

Pretty simple.

[Dr. Connealy]

It's really simple. And you get really full if you.

[Gary Brecke]

Eat produce a lot of GLP1.

[Dr. Connealy]

Okay. Exactly. And so it doesn't have to be complicated. I think we're making it all complicated. But it is quite straightforward. All right. And if you eat like our ancestors ate, we talk about meat. People really want to bastardize meat. But meat is a phenomenal source of nutrition and protein and amino acids and zinc and B vitamins and carnitine. So it's very important. I mean, fish is good. Unfortunately, it's a lot of nanoplastics and mercury in fish today. But lamb, you can do. Turkey, you can pick what you like and then have good fats. Olive oil and butter and ghee and coconut oil and avocados and then a beautiful array of fruits and vegetables.

[Gary Brecke]

Love it.

[Dr. Connealy]

And then if I have a patient with brain cancer, I will usually prescribe the ketogenic eating program. Okay. Or if a patient has pancreatic cancer, I will use pretty much a strict ketogenic. But again, you always address the patient with the problem, not the problem with the patient. And so you have to address everyone individually. I agree with that personally. Precisely. You know, as opposed to just there's one size fits all. Yeah, there really isn't.

[Gary Brecke]

So, Dr. Keneally, if my audience wants to know more about you, where. Where do they. Where do they find you?

[Dr. Connealy]

Well, a couple of ways is my.

[Gary Brecke]

Instagram is Connelium D. Okay, I'll put that in that. C, O, N, N, E, A, L, Y.

[Dr. Connealy]

That's correct. And then there is Cancer center for Healing, and then there's centerfornewmedicine.com and you.

[Gary Brecke]

Take new patients for cancer? Yes, at the Cancer center for Healing.

[Dr. Connealy]

At the Cancer center for Healing.

[Gary Brecke]

And where is that?

[Dr. Connealy]

That's in Irvine, California.

[Gary Brecke]

Okay. And so you take them as soon as they're diagnosed. Is that your preference for taking care of them?

[Dr. Connealy]

Well, ideally, I would love patients to come see us for prevention for all diseases, but that doesn't sell, really. Usually people have to be confronted with a serious diagnosis. But I do take any stage of cancer, and obviously, the earlier the better and is very, very important if you were being diagnosed with cancer, that relying on the surgery, the conventional surgical, chemo, radiation, it's not a good protocol because every one of those aspects is damaging, inflammatory, immunosuppressive to the system. Yeah. So you may need one of those or all three of those, but should not do it alone and combine it with all the supportive therapies that are going to help you for the harm and also the side effects.

[Gary Brecke]

Yeah. It's almost like we need to care for the host and go after the cancer. I mean, most conventional treatments, we're just attacking the cancer. We're not really caring for the host. We forget that there's a human being here and it's okay to try to build them up while you're also trying to tear down the cancer.

[Dr. Connealy]

And that's with any disease. Think about it. If you have heart disease, right. Most doctors want to prescribe statin, which comes with this cascade of side effects. But Again, this started 10 or 20 years ago and there's many different factors involved contributing to the disease. So you may need that stent to save your life, but then get to the why, where, when and how this all happened.

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[Gary Brecke]

Yeah.

[Dr. Connealy]

Wow.

[Gary Brecke]

I am so aligned with, with what you're saying. So I, I have a special group called the VIP group and they're the only folks that I let know who's coming on the podcast. And so I let them know that you were coming on the podcast. They have a whole, a couple of questions for you. So when, when the cameras stop rolling, we're going to go into the VIP group and I'll let them address you directly. If you're interested in becoming a VIP, you can just go over to the ultimatehuman.com forward/vip and be a member of my VIP group. This is where I pour myself in to this community. I'm trying to build community of like minded people to really change the world, to really influence humanity. But I wind down all my podcasts by asking my guests the same question. And there's no right or wrong answer to this question. And that is, what does it mean to you to be an ultimate human?

[Dr. Connealy]

To live in equanimity? Every day that's a new one. So tell me what equanimity that is like being.

[Gary Brecke]

I've heard of equality.

[Dr. Connealy]

Living in this beautiful, harmonious spirit each and every day.

[Gary Brecke]

Yeah.

[Dr. Connealy]

Yes. We've got to follow the rules and laws of Mother Nature, of the human miracle that we live in. But it's learning how to live effortlessly and peacefully and calmly with everything that you've got to do with each and every day. Like your schedule is very, very busy and you can easily be stressed, but their true goal is to live peacefully, calmly, harmoniously with yourself and with others each and every day.

[Gary Brecke]

I agree with that. What a great answer. Well, Dr. Connealy, I'm going to put links to your book in here and your institute, your Instagram. This has been phenomenal. I really appreciate you coming on the Ultimate Human. I didn't find a single thing that I disagree with you on. In fact, you validated a lot of what my audience is really passionate about. You know, back to the basics, diet, lifestyle, spiritual, well being, mindset, grounding, breath work, sunlight, whole foods connection, community. Phenomenal. The fact that you made this transition, if you will, from classically trained MD to a holistic functional medicine provider. I really commend you for that too.

[Dr. Connealy]

Well, thank you. And I appreciate all your efforts because it will take an entire faction to transform the future of health and human.

[Gary Brecke]

We're making headway. I mean, here we are in Saudi Arabia. You're listening to us here, so it's just absolutely amazing. Well, I hope you come back on the Ultimate Human podcast. And thank you so much for today.

[Dr. Connealy]

You're welcome.

[Gary Brecke]

And guys, until next time, that's just science.