Cancer Prevention with Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Today I am speaking with Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD. Dr. Connealy is absolutely amazing, and I was so interested to have her on the podcast because of her incredible experience and philosophy on cancer prevention.
We discuss cancer rates, what she recommends for preventing cancer, cancer early diagnostics, how she treats patients in her clinics and much more.
ABOUT DR. CONNEALY:
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D. is a prominent leader in the field of Integrative Medicine. She utilizes the best of all sciences, including conventional, homeopathic, eastern medicine and modern medicine. She is the Medical Director of Cancer Center for Healing and Center for New Medicine. The combined 30,000 S.F. clinics have become the largest integrative medical clinic in North America, and have been visited by over patients 47,000 patients. Dr. Connealy's Website: https://www.connealymd.com/ Dr. Connealy's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connealymd/ Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction and Background 06:13 Taking a Holistic Approach to Healthcare 11:04 The Rise of Cancer and the Health of Children 31:39 Reducing the Risk of Cancer: Lifestyle Recommendations 32:09 Preparing the Body for Pregnancy and Raising Healthy Children 33:07 The Importance of Sleep, Water, and Reducing Plastic Use 35:21 Exercise and Mindful Eating for Optimal Health 37:18 Addressing Emotional Well-being and Trauma 46:19 Early Cancer Detection Methods: Full Body MRIs and Liquid Biopsies 52:30 A Comprehensive Approach to Cancer Treatment
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TRANSCRIPT:
[00:00:00.480] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Welcome to the Longevity Optimization podcast, where we discuss longevity, optimal health, nutrition, peak performance, cognitive excellence, and so much more. Doctor Keneally, it is such a pleasure to have you here with me today.
[00:00:14.320] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Well, thank you for having me.
[00:00:15.770] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Absolutely. I am a huge fan of your work. I think what you're doing is so incredibly important, and I just can't wait to dive into all things cancer prevention and, you know, really look at the stats today. But before we do that, will you tell us a little bit about your background?
[00:00:33.600] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Well, what part of my background? Professional or personal?
[00:00:37.840] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
You're professional!
[00:00:38.880] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Yeah, professional. Well, I went to college, got my degree in biology, and then went to medical school in Chicago at the Roslyn Franklin Chicago Medical School. And then I came out to California and did my residency at Harbor UCLA. And then I immediately opened up a practice in Beverly Hills about 38 years ago.
[00:01:02.570] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Wow. What was it that kind of inspired you to see the medical industry differently? Just before the podcast, we were talking about way back when you felt like something was wrong in the way you are currently practicing. You have such a different approach. So what inspired that?
[00:01:23.230] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
I grew up in Texas. I am number three of six children. And my mother was all about, like, nursing her babies for a year, and then that our food was, like, the most important thing. So we never ate out, and she made everything homemade, and we ate sauerkraut, bone broth, liver, organ meats. So we grew up like what everybody's talking about today, that's how I grew up. So we had raw milk, and we just. My mother cooked everything at home and everything natural, nothing in a can. We didn't have canned foods, frozen foods or anything. And I don't remember any of us really going to the doctor. And so when I was. I was number three of six children, and my mother started bleeding. And she went to the doctor, and the doctor gave her des, diethylstilbesterol, which is a very potent estrogen, to prevent the miscarriage and stop the bleeding. Well, many years later, when I'm a teenager, they had warned my parents that that drug caused cancer in both male and female offspring. Hormone problems, anatomical problems, infertility problems. So I started going to MD Anderson when I was in my teens as, like, 16 years of age, starting to get evaluated because they're like, okay, we've got to do pap smears, we need to do biopsies, we need to do all these things to see what's wrong.
[00:03:03.020] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
And so, and then I never had two periods in a row in my life. And so, you know, when you're young. That doesn't really affect you. But as you get older, you're like, you don't feel normal because you have no cycle. So I started going to physicians when I was in medical school, and of course, what did the first thing they want to put you on birth control. And so birth control, the first month of birth control was disastrous for me. And so I'm like, no, this is not the way to go. And I feel like my body really changed going on birth control. So I got off birth control and I found natural progesterone. And because when you have a problem, you know, you're going down the rabbit hole, and back then, you know, we didn't have Internet and we didn't have, you know, the source of information like you do today. And so I would inject myself with natural progesterone twice a month to regulate my cycles. Because your cycle is about 28 days. You have a period, you make estrogen and then you ovulate, and then you make progesterone. So I completely created a physiological cycle back then.
[00:04:19.200] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
I used injectable natural progesterone because that's all there was. There wasn't the progesterone that's available today. We have time release, sustained release progesterone. You have creams, you have sublingual, you have trochees, you know, you have other ways of giving progesterone. So I actually had the compounding pharmacist make me a natural time release progesterone to mimic physiology. And then that saved my life that I didn't have to do injectable progesterone. So I think a lot of it was my upbringing, and the other was my own personal experience in the medical field. And when you are, you know, when you have to go and start, you know, poking on your body and doing things, you're like, wait, this is just doesn't feel right. And so my journey has taught me to go way outside the box on everything. We have to look, what are the root causes causing all of these things?
[00:05:20.250] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah.
[00:05:20.740] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
And that's what any disease you're talking about get down to the why, where, when, and how this is happening. And that's our medical system is very much an algorithm. You get a, first of all, the doctor fills out the electronic medical record, which is very perfunctory. And they, you know, everything is according to that, and you've got to fill it out to the nth degree. And then you rarely have time to talk to the patient to know, really what even is going on, and then that patient gets a diagnosis because that's how a doctor is paid, is by a diagnosis. And then they get drug surgery or both.
[00:06:02.920] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah, absolutely.
[00:06:04.200] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Okay. So we're not, we're just treating sick people all the time and we're diagnosing, whereas we should be de diagnosing and optimizing and creating healthy people.
[00:06:16.520] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
I mean. Absolutely. And I have done some reading and I've kind of read that it takes about 17 plus years for something to be proven out in the science and that actually to work its way into medicine. Is that true?
[00:06:31.130] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
That's funny you say that, because we have new breast imaging that's been FDA approved, etcetera, and so no one has the. No one has the machine. And it should be like, rapidly in doctors offices or hospitals or clinics or wherever. Right. Because what we're doing for breast imaging isn't even that great these days. Okay. A mammogram, they rely on the standard of care is a mammogram. Sometimes they order an ultrasound and over 50% of mammograms have dense breasts, so you're going to be missing 50% of pathology. And so it's going to take years for that imaging to get available to the end user. So it takes. So we're probably about, you're right, 20 years behind. All right. And what we should be doing, because I always use the analogy of the way the cell phone used to be when it first came out. You're probably too young to even remember that. But it was this big box. Okay. And you carried it, right?
[00:07:30.870] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Oh, wow.
[00:07:31.420] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Yes. It was a very, you know, very cumbersome big box. You could only call and receive, and then it slowly got a little smaller. But it can't do the trillions of functions that a cell phone can do today. Well, medicine has changed. Just, for example, just take hydrogen water. You know the amount. Thousands of studies on hydrogen water. What doctor uses hydrogen water? Besides me? I don't know of any.
[00:07:59.990] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah.
[00:08:00.380] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Okay. That is ridiculous. Whether it's red light or PMF, all these are scientifically studied, but the doctor's office doesn't have them. Now, I'm not going to say all the doctor's office, because there are doctors, functional integrative doctors that are adding that to their armamentarium treatments. But it should be here is now the new natural allopathic protocol.
[00:08:29.160] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Well, I mean, that would be amazing, but. And I don't even know if you want to go here, but the ability to charge for PEMF or red light is significantly different than the ability to charge for a drug or a surgery or so maybe that has a role in the whole thing.
[00:08:46.770] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Well, we, in the medical system, we get stuck in an algorithm. We get stuck. We won't look at anything else else. And for example, I had a consult with a patient. She's getting her chemotherapy in Texas. And so she said her doctors told her, no, you cannot take anything when you're getting this chemotherapy. And I go, let me send you the study. It was done by memorials long kettering by the head guy of radiation oncology, that antioxidants and vitamins only enhance your vitamin cancer and staying well.
[00:09:23.620] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah.
[00:09:24.220] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
And so it's online on, these studies are all online. And he's not the only doctor. Simone is not the only one. But there's other people. So they get stuck in the way they do things. All right. And the patient has to demand a different way of care. Right. And I say that self care is the new healthcare.
[00:09:47.580] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah.
[00:09:48.110] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Okay. So it's better. You're better off taking charge and reading and studying how you need to take care of yourself, and that is going to be your best bet. And then find a good functional integrative doctor who's broad spectrum, not just focusing on one thing. Because when you're a functional integrative doctor, you should be an endocrinologist, an immunologist, a toxicologist, a pathologist. You should be a gastroenter, you should be, you should know all those different things, because usually most people, even the simplest patients, usually have multiple things going on. Because we're living in a world that's very polluted between the air pollution, water pollution, food pollution, EMF pollution, stress pollution. I mean, we have so much today that didn't happen 40 years ago. I mean, people are way sicker today than they were 40 years ago. I mean, when I went to elementary school, no one had add, no one had diabetes, no one had cancer, there was no obesity, there was no one was going to the doctor that the parents weren't going to the school. Oh, here's my medicine for my kids.
[00:11:01.360] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah.
[00:11:01.810] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Which is. That is the norm today.
[00:11:04.850] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
So sad.
[00:11:05.550] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
And our children, okay, from birth to 35, are telling us they're the canaries in the mines, telling us something. We have a 911, and we should, the medical profession should be in outrage, and the public should be in outrage with what is going on because autism is one in 35. In the state of California, it's one in 22.
[00:11:30.250] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Wow.
[00:11:30.710] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Okay. Overall, I hear different statistics, but 32, 34, 35, then our elementary kids, 60% have one or more chronic illnesses. Our teenagers have the highest rate of anxiety, depression, and suicide. And then about five years ago, I started seeing an outrageous increase in young people with cancer, and so that should not be happening. And I would say the bulk of my new patients are under 40.
[00:12:04.440] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Wow.
[00:12:05.260] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Yes. That's frightening for cancer. Okay. And so that is frightening that we have allowed that the statistics are one out of two people when we know how to prevent and have early detection of most all diseases. The Brown Institute just reported that pharmaceutical drugs are the number one cause of death. Okay? Now, if you look on CDC, it's under number three. It's heart disease, cancer, and they say unexplained accidents, which is errors in hospitals and medication.
[00:12:44.130] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Wow. Okay.
[00:12:46.140] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
But the Brown Institute just published this thing. There's a very well known gentleman who used to be part of the Cochrane collaboration group, which is the highest form of examination of the literature in the world. And he got fired because he wasn't blessing the medications in his assessment papers when they looked at a particular substance. Let's just say statins. Okay. Or let's just say antidepressants, a group of drugs. Okay? So Peter Ghosh is his name. Director Peter Ghosh, and he was one of the original founders of the Cochrane collaboration group. So now he is doing something different, but in the same realm. And so we, you know, all of us together. You know, I was talking to you earlier about the young people are so committed to transforming the future of healthcare and humanity. And so I have great hope that we are going to change things. I really. It's going to take time because you're fighting such a hundred years. I mean, look, when the first drug came out 100 years ago, so you're just fighting a system that is just allowed to be in place. Instead of saying, why don't we look at everything, you know, when something new comes out, okay, we're all observing.
[00:14:19.020] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah.
[00:14:19.500] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
So there's an evidence base, there's an observational base, there's scientific base that you have to look at everything. And medicine is ever evolving, and so we need to be looking at these new things. And I find doctors since COVID I would say, now physicians, they call me and say, oh, can you tell me and teach me about x? And I go, what happened to you? And they're like, oh, well, during COVID I. I had an awakening, okay? Or I got a book, the lies I taught in medical school by Doctor Lefkin. And he's like, can you do a review on this book? So forth? So he got four chronic diseases and fixed him. Fixed all the conditions himself. And so physicians are. But they have to go back to school.
[00:15:11.670] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah.
[00:15:12.300] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
And that's what's not easy, because they're all busy paying their school loans, working 60 plus hours a week. They have children. They have a life. And to go back and go to a functional medicine course, an anti aging course, and a hormone course and a toxicology course, I mean, it takes a true passion to want to do that.
[00:15:35.830] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, I would say the majority of my friends are doctors, and they all have the same sentiment, you know, that either they weren't taught it in medical school, and a lot of, you know, obviously, all the integrative physicians. Yeah. They've all done extra schooling, nutrition, the whole nine yards, so. But it is exciting, because I feel like that there is an awakening there, and people are looking at, doctors specifically, are interested in root cause medicine. Right. It's all connected. It's interesting. There's so many specialties, right. But it's like one body. So a lot of times, if you heal one aspect, right, you can heal others. Um, I want to really dive into the cancer stuff, though, because this. You're like, a super expert on this. The stats are just terrifying. If will you tell us the stats again and let's talk about why.
[00:16:25.050] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Yeah. So it's one out of two people with cancer. It's the number one killer of people, one to 85, the number one killer in children. And so I think it's many different things. I always tell people, no disease is just one pathway. Okay. I think because I do it every day, you know, I see patients every single day. I think it's a combination of many different things. I think stress plays a very, very big role. And I always, when I see a patient, I go through their life from birth to wherever they are, and I talk about them with them, about their 24 hours day, and how do you live every day? And I evaluate your sleep, your water, your eating, your movement, your teeth, and stress. And I do think stress, unresolved emotional conflicts play a big role. Then, for the most part, people do not eat well. They're not conscious of what they're eating. Okay. Like, you see the outrageous increase in colon cancer in young people. It's rapidly growing in 30, 35, 40 year olds. And the first initial testing is until 45 with a cologuard. So you're missing. They changed the colonoscopy to 45 and cologuard, but you're still missing all those people that are being diagnosed at 35 and there's no screening for young people whatsoever.
[00:18:03.280] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
None whatsoever. A woman gets a pap smear, and that's about it. For men, there's nothing. Okay, so then, so their diet. I mean, our food. You have to become a forensic scientist to read labels, and you talk about all the chemicals, the sugar and the seed oils and GMO food and glyphosate, and it's not good. The food isn't good. You have to be very intentional with your food today. You kind of need to know the farmer who is growing your food, verifying it's organic. And so because I went to the farmer's market where I live in Laguna beach, and I asked the person, I said, is this organic? They go, no, but we don't use this, and we don't do that. And I was like, okay, no. So you have to really, really know. It wouldn't hurt to go visit the farm one time 100% and see what they're doing and see their passion. Okay, then our water. Our water. You cannot drink regular water at all. Tap water.
[00:19:07.060] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Absolutely.
[00:19:07.470] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Or shower water. It's loaded with pharmaceuticals. They call it pharma water. There is so many chemicals in the water, heavy metals in the water, parasites in the water. I mean, it is. You cannot drink water. And especially in the state of California, it's even worse. Okay, so everyone has to invest in some kind of water filtration and get a shower filter system that filters out as best as possible.
[00:19:38.550] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
What's your favorite water filter like? What's the gold standard?
[00:19:41.650] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Well, at my house, I have a whole house ecosystem, and then at the sink, I have another system with, it has all kind of hydrogen water and alkaline water and so forth. So that's what I have at home. And I think it's probably the overall the best system, and economically, too, for the average person. I don't have anything on my shower because my whole house is filtered water. And then.
[00:20:11.570] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Do you like ro?
[00:20:13.220] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Yes.
[00:20:13.810] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Okay.
[00:20:14.430] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Yeah, that's what I have. Yeah, absolutely. So mine just has the option to hydrogenate it.
[00:20:20.870] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
You know, I have a couple of machines, and I like the tablets, too. Yes.
[00:20:26.190] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
And then people are not active today. See, long time ago, people had to move to go do everything, and now people sit all day, and so sitting, you know, they say, is the new smoking. Right? Yeah, but it's. People just don't. They just don't move their body. They don't move the 800 muscles they have. So that is a problem. And then I think, electromagnetic fields. So I personally have been interested in electromagnetic fields for a long time. I made my daughter Alana do her 8th grade science experiment on how electromagnetic fields affect a living substance.
[00:21:07.770] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Oh my gosh, I love that.
[00:21:08.930] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
And so that was a long time ago. She's 30, went next month. And so I have read everything on emfs. It is the scariest thing. It shouldn't be allowed. And they say there's no scientific studies. That is not true. If you listen to Doctor Holly Johansen, who has a Noelle Price in physics, I mean, Martin Paul, I mean, all of the people, they talk about how first of all, what most people don't understand is that we are a bioenergetic, okay? So I tell people there's six features. You're a bio intellectual, you are a biospiritual, bio emotional, biochemical, biophysical and bioenergetic being. So we have to get all of that working together. All right? But the bioenergetics is what people really don't conceptualize and don't understand. But an EKG is an assessment of the electrical rhythm of the heart. Your EEG is an electrical rhythm of the brain. A muscle testing is an electrical stimulation of the muscle system. Your acupuncture points are the electrical system of your body. And every cell emanates 0.6 volts of energy. So if you were to cut your arm, you normally have -25 millivolts. You're gonna need -50 millivolts to fix that cut and cure that cut.
[00:22:39.480] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Okay? So if we, and we do not have the voltage today, because we have so many things robbing us of voltage, all right, so if you have scars, if you have tattoos, if you have yeast, if you have parasites, if you have heavy metals, electromagnetic field, all these things rob your voltage. So your whole body has to have voltage. And so that needs to be present first for you to heal. And so of course you need all the other parts. But voltage is something that most doctors are not even on their radar, even though an EKG, an EEG is done every single day. So the electromagnetic fields interfere with the bioenergetics of our calcium channels block. So it's very critical that we address that. And you know, people can ground, they can do pmf, they can do essential oils, there's all kinds of things to try to counterbalance. So I always say you have to create a counterbalance university and protection system in the civilization that we live today. Okay? And this is just, you know, because if we're doing so well, why is everybody so sick?
[00:24:00.880] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Oh, you know, most certainly not doing.
[00:24:02.920] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
So well, yeah, we're not doing so well. When you look at the iq of our teenagers today, it's lower than, you know, the years before, so. And I just don't understand why everybody's just not concerned about, you know, what they're seeing. Okay, and why are we normalizing all of these diseases in everyone?
[00:24:27.130] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
I couldn't agree more. I always, you know, say, just because it's common doesn't mean it's normal. I mean, like, normal is literally the last thing I want to be at all. Like, if it's normal, I want to run so far away from it. Because normal is no energy, feeling horrible, sleeping poorly. It's just across the spectrum. I don't want to be normal at all. I've heard that a cancer cell has a different voltage than a healthy cell, right?
[00:24:52.110] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
So, yeah, there's the whole electrical properties of cancer. So Otto Warburg, 100 years ago, got a Nobel prize, that cancer is an acidic, okay? So if you're acidic, you have lower energy. If you are in the intensive care unit and you're checking the arterial blood glasses of the patients, which is done routinely every single day, you're trying to get that patient alkaline right away, because if they're acidic, they're not doing well. And so a cancer cell is, when it's acidic, you get hypoxia, right? And then if you have hypoxia, you have the cell is, you know, creating acidity and creating a fermentation process. So our normal krebs cycle of energy creates an aerobic process with oxygen, creating 36 ATP. But a cancer cell is creating an anaerobic glycolysis and producing two ATP. So the energy is drastically lower based upon the acidity. So what creates acidity in our cells? Stress, toxicity, medications, bad foods, toxic foods. I mean, everything is contributing to that. So you grow bugs. When your body's acidic, you flourish yeast, okay, you can create parasites, more parasites, meaning your body should defend these things. But if your physiology is not right, then you are going to succumb to illness.
[00:26:34.990] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
And obviously your immune system, your immune system is a function of all those things too, though, right? Because everything is related to your immune system. So if you look and do a. An immune system assessment, it'll say, oh, the patient's, you know, exposed to toxins, viruses, you know, so forth and so on. But if the cell is not happy, right? And that happiness is that they've got the right energy with the nutrients that they have, the minerals they have. There's no toxins, there's no heavy metals. There's no, you know, all these things that are polluting the system. And then stress. Stress changes the biochemistry of our whole system and our endocrine system. And so, you know, you have this fertile ground. But if it's only one cell in that condition, you know, your body's compensating all the time, right?
[00:27:30.900] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah.
[00:27:31.410] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
It's constantly trying to take care of itself. So you don't feel one cell. Right. And then one cell grows to two to four to eight to twelve to 24. Right. And so you don't feel anything until it gets sizable to feel, or you get abdominal pain, or you get, you know, bloody stool. Well, that usually happens ten years later. Right. So from one cancer cell to tumor is about ten years in that unchecked condition of acidity, low oxygen fermentation with sugar. And then all of those things are allowed to grow. Right. And the average doctor doesn't, like, look at you and examine you physically, like, for example, just taking toenail fungus, okay? People think, oh, toenail fungus. Okay. Use this topical stuff. And I always tell every patient, toenail fungus is not topical. It's a whole body problem. Your toes grow from the inside out. So if you don't change. So what do fungus live on? Dead, decaying matter, which is toxicity. So if you don't get rid of dead decaying matter, the fungus grows. And so if we don't approach the patient from the holistic approach, that you have to address every single facet of the person to get their body in homeostasis, which is not easy because of, you know, maybe if you're living, like, in a field in Montana and you're growing your own everything yourself, and.
[00:29:14.300] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
And you're grounding every day and the air is perfect, and, you know, you're probably, probably gonna be a little bit better. Right? But I always tell people we live in and of this world of 8 billion people, and so whatever's going on in other countries is happening here. So whatever pollution they have, it comes here. I mean, the classic example is the japanese nuclear explosion. Okay? Many people say hasn't even been completely rectified. And so just that alone. But all that pollution and water comes here, right?
[00:29:53.590] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, my five year plan is we're gonna live in the middle of nowhere, grow our own food, no emfs, biological home, builders going to assess everything, build the home, um, because it's difficult. You know, I do, um, a really intense amount of labs, and I do a total toxic burden. I have not eaten a piece of inorganic food in over a decade. But I still have, you know, some amounts very low. So, you know, as you are super familiar with, the total toxic burden, there's the high section, the medium, and the low section. Right. So patients that we have come in, and when I see any labs, everyone has an obscene amount of toxins in the high range. And they don't. The words sound like heavy metals and molds and mycotoxins and environmental toxins. I think a lot of people think.
[00:30:42.220] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Oh, I don't have those.
[00:30:43.260] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
I don't have metals. That would be crazy, right? No, it's not crazy because it's everywhere. So I had glyphosate, a little bit of glyphosate in. In the medium section. And I do everything. Water filtration, organic food, farmers markets. I mean, we exclusively shop at either erewhon or farmers markets or only. I mean, I don't eat a single processed food, have it in over a decade, maybe longer, and I still have it. So it's airborne. Right, right. So even doing all the things, which is unfortunate that we have to do all the things right takes a lot of time, energy, and education. But I would love to walk through, let's just say if you wanted to be optimal and have the best fighting chance of not getting cancer in your life, not being those one and two statistics, what would you do starting today and changing your lifestyle, environment, et cetera.
[00:31:35.350] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Mm hmm. Well, first of all, people need to decide that's what they want to do.
[00:31:39.950] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah.
[00:31:40.240] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Okay.
[00:31:40.520] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
It's a hard time.
[00:31:41.190] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Most people are oblivious to their health because we're not taught from birth that you're a miracle, and you have to steward this miracle.
[00:31:50.510] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
I love that.
[00:31:51.340] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
And so we go through life, you're waking up expecting to walk and talk and eat and move and feel, et cetera, et cetera. Right. So you're expected that. So instead of taking this miracle for granted, we need to teach mommies, like, first of all, how to prepare their own temple for that baby to come. So that would be the first thing I would do is have mothers who want to have a child get ready. And then once you have that baby, you teach that baby how to take care of themselves. Right. And what's good and feeding the foods. Cause, like, you know, look at what parents feed their children. I'm, like, astounded at what parents feed their children. So. Because it starts back then, right?
[00:32:34.720] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah.
[00:32:35.320] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
So, but if you wanted to start today and you're 30 years of age, I would take inventory of what you're doing and really understand. What are you doing? Okay. Is it working? Is it a good thing? Is it a positive force, or is it a negative force in your life? Okay, so the first thing you got to start is your day starts when you go to sleep. So most people don't sleep well. So about 50% of the population doesn't sleep well. So get your sleep. Honor your circadian rhythm of ten to six, give or take 30 minutes. Right. So ten to six get 8 hours. And then ideally, if you could wake up and go, you know, look at the sun, that would be awesome. Okay. And then start your day making sure your water that you have, like I say, everyone has to have purified water. Probably the least expensive thing would be, like, aqua. True. All right. And then there's ones that are a little bit more expensive, but when you think about, you're buying water and you're spending money on water anyway, okay. And then you should never buy anything in plastic.
[00:33:40.020] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
So it's not, you know, plastics is, like, the number one pollutant, so.
[00:33:44.940] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
And it's everywhere. It's every single organ. It's in the, you know, the placenta and the breast milk and the testicles and the. It's crazy. And it's like, we wonder why it is. It's so heartbreaking to me just hearing the fertility stats, and it's just so sad. Me and my husband both, as, you know, we just got married. We want to have babies. And we both went and got, like, a full fertility assessment. And my fertility is that of, like, a mid 20 year old, and I'm 33.
[00:34:14.360] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
That's awesome.
[00:34:14.930] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
And that's because of the life I've lived. And I've been avoiding all these things and preparing to have babies. But it's just so sad that many women don't know, and women leave the home with, I think, about 200 chemicals, known, toxic chemicals per day. And I had to throw everything out. I had to throw out the perfumes. I had to throw out the makeup. I had to throw every last thing. I just had to overhaul. But it's so sad because so many people don't know that these products and toxins are harming them, right?
[00:34:44.660] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
So what I do myself in the morning is I drink a green juice, and I put vitamin C in there and minerals and silica and my active b's. Okay? So that's the first thing I do every morning. And then I go work out, because I find that if I don't work out in the morning, it's not gonna get done. So. And you don't have to run marathons. You don't have to do triathlon training. If you could just go get 30 minutes of intense exercise. And for women, women need to learn how to do weights because they don't. They're. They're real good at the aerobics and running, but the weights is what you need to be doing. So you need to do a combo, go on YouTube, get a jet, whatever, but, you know, devote yourself to that 30 minutes. And on the weekends, try to do an hour on a Saturday and a Sunday because your day is, you know, more relaxed and you're not working. And try to get outside in the sun. So I try to get outside in the sun every day. And then what are you eating? Okay, so be paying attention to what you're eating, what, everything that's going in your mouth.
[00:35:53.890] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
I tell people, every decision you make is a healthcare decision. Yeah. And so what are you eating? So I'm very particular about everything because I know, you know, I'm reading what you're reading, right. So I make sure I make my own breakfast. I bring it to work. I bring my own food to work. And then my husband cooks dinner because we buy groceries. And then we prepare for the week. And we mostly eat at home because at restaurants, they're using seed oils and they're not using the best products because they're trying to make money. So it's an economic decision for them. And then I talked about movement. And then probably the most important thing that everyone needs to do is set their mind.
[00:36:45.260] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah.
[00:36:46.080] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
So everybody can have different ways of doing it. Some people like it in prayer, some people do it in affirmations, some people have a daily devotional. But I think you need to set your mind. So I have several ways that I do that. So every morning I read a devotional, and then I have my affirmations for patients. I've written out affirmations because they're not used to doing that. So you become what you think about most of the time. So if you say, thank you for invincible healing each and every day, thank you for perfect harmony in my body, perfect homeostasis, you know, your body becomes what you're talking about. So when you're driving, when you're doing meaningless tasks, you can be doing affirmations, right. I'm getting stronger and stronger every day in every way. So just these little things. Because you have programming that has been going on since you were in utero from whoever you were around, mom, dad, whoever. And not all of our programming was good. No. Parent was a perfect parent. Okay. And then the worst case scenario is people were abused or traumatized or the parents said, you can't do this.
[00:38:02.600] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
You don't. You'll never amount to anything. You'll never, you know, whatever it is that they say, that they use the negative words. So people have these recordings, subconscious recordings, for their entire life, because, again, we're not conscious of what we're thinking. So if you become conscious with every single thing. But I find. I tell people it takes about a year to change. Like you said, you got rid of plastic, so you have to change your home. And that can't happen overnight. So. And all of these things, I find inpatients take about a year because they have to understand why they're doing it. It's not just go do it, understand why they're doing it. Okay. And so. And then people get stressed, oh, my God, this is so much. Because I know when we have a new patient and our new patient to do list now, these are cancer patients, unfortunately. And unfortunately, we're behind ten years. So I tell all the patients, you're going to be completely overwhelmed, but we're going to do this in a stepwise fashion, if I can. Some of them are emergencies, so it's not like that. And I have to tell them, like, how much are you willing to do?
[00:39:18.650] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
So I usually will get them to say, okay, you tell me where you want to go. Okay. And how fast you want to go. So some patients will be, oh, no, I'll do Erwin. Anything you tell me to do. And then some patients are, you know, no, I can only do one thing. There's no way I can do these ten things. So I will, you know, slowly. And then we have our staff who can support their healing journey. Right?
[00:39:43.290] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah.
[00:39:43.800] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Because they were living this way, and now you're telling them literally, to live opposite. Okay. So they have, you know, like you said, you went through your pantry. You can't do all that in a day or a week. You know, you got to slowly, slowly eliminate all the negative forces that are affecting your system. And they're emotional, I think that is, we have all of our patients do emotional work, and it really doesn't matter what you have. I think every patient needs to do some kind of emotional work because I think you probably know the book. Your body keeps score, right? And so your body knows and has kept track of everything. And so you've either framed that emotional trauma or turbulence, whatever word you want to use, as a positive thing or a negative thing. So if it's stored as a negative thing that's usually result in disease. And I find that every disease has an emotional component. We're talking about cancer, but so does heart disease, so does fibromyalgia. So does all the other things. There's an emotional component, I would say, to every disease. So a lot of people in the beginning, they want to shy away from that.
[00:40:59.660] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
It's the hardest part. Right.
[00:41:01.020] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
It is the hardest part. Okay. But. And I tell people, you can't do it by yourself. You have to do it with someone. Because we're subjective. You know, we need an objective person looking at everything. And so. But a lot of people are afraid and scared to process that unfavorable emotional conflict. But I will tell everyone that's the most important thing anyone can do because no one had Disneyland life. Okay.
[00:41:35.300] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah.
[00:41:35.680] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
And if they could one set their mind, and if they reflect back on their life and they had trauma and struggles that really they harbored on, then they. It's very possible that they haven't, you know, learned how to manage it, handle it, and turn, you know, I listened. I don't know if, you know, thich nhat hanh. Thich nhat Hanh was a famous vietnamese buddhist, and he died a couple years ago at 93 or four or something like that, but he was amazing. And years ago, I listened to a cassette tape, how to turn negative seeds into positive seeds. So. And that is really the true goal in life, is you have these detours, curveballs, you know, turbulence in your life. But how do you transform those into something good? And so, you know, but you can't. Usually, you can't do that by yourself. I think it's someone else. It could be a friend, it could be a professional. But I think going to someone who. You're a clean slate, and they help you get through that. We do something called Evox, and usually in five sessions, you've made major progress because each session of Evox is like three to five therapy sessions.
[00:42:59.890] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Wow.
[00:43:00.450] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Yeah. So it gets to it very quickly, and the process is very favorable to the patient and very effective.
[00:43:09.240] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah, I couldn't. You said so many things that I just completely relate with. Yesterday, I literally, I made a post. It was like, five things to, you know, start improving your health. And the last one was take note and mention of every emotion that you have and how. What you're doing throughout the day. You are so right. People just. They let life happen to them. Right. They move through the same motions, have the same types of thoughts which evoke the same emotions. But if you don't even notice how you're living, how are you possibly ever going to change it? So I agree with that so completely. And I think that the stats say what are like, 80% of doctors visits are related to stress.
[00:43:47.620] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Yeah.
[00:43:48.090] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
At least.
[00:43:48.560] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
And they've been saying that for long, long, long time. Okay. And if you just google the physiological effects of stress. Okay. It's all right there.
[00:43:59.810] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Totally.
[00:44:00.410] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
And so people just. And people are more stressed today because the demands of the human are extreme now today. Okay. Meaning there's just everything is more complicated and difficult. So if you want to get a. I remember the first time I bought a car and I was 16 years old, and I just went across the street and met with the president of the bank. And I said, oh, you know, I work at Eagle grocery stores. Can I, you know, can I buy a car? How can you do? He goes, yeah, sure. You can do. Just get a co. Get your mom to cosign or dad to cosign and you'll be fine. Well, that could never happen today.
[00:44:37.480] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Okay.
[00:44:38.350] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
So everything is so many more steps. They said the computer was going to make things easier. No, it's made everything much more complicated. Yes, there are some great things about it, but it also has made things very complicated for people today. So. And just life in general. But I think you can simplify it, too. I think you can, because, like, everything, things that you need to do, a lot of it can be done just very simply, like. So if you don't have an infrared sauna, so you do a detox bath. Right. You can do skin brushing. So a lot of things, you know, liver flushes, a lot of things you can do at home, and they're all natural, but you do need to be mindful of what you're purchasing. And is this going to enhance my life? Because so much out there, if you do not look at every single little thing and every single ingredient, you are most likely buying something that's probably not good for you, unfortunately. Unless it's just a pear or a tomato or an apple or something. That's one ingredient.
[00:45:47.390] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Absolutely. I only eat one ingredient, food. So I agree. I want to talk about early diagnostics. I do a full body MRI every year. What are your. And I also do. I would love your opinion. I also do a liquid biopsy. It's called the Grail test. So it's supposed to prescreen for 50 different types of cancers. We know that catching it early. Right. Is so important. What's your opinion on mammograms? I've heard some really interesting things about them. What age should women probably do? One? Is that the best option? Should we be doing mris? If we can. What's your.
[00:46:28.120] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Well, so if I were. If a patient's gonna come in and see me and they really wanna prevent cancer, so I tell them, okay, let's start with this blood test. And I do a very comprehensive blood test. I don't. I do something very different than most doctors do. Probably something you're familiar with. Okay. And then in looking at their hormones, hemoglobin, a one C CRP, everything. And then one of the things that I do is bioenergetic testing. And so I talked about before, you have acupuncture points all over your body. I take the top 50 points, and I look at the flow of energy flowing through, or lack thereof, and what is blocking that? Most people have toxicity, okay? And then most people have fungus or yeast, and then most people have parasites.
[00:47:25.040] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
And that's living in the gut, right?
[00:47:26.970] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Well, parasites can live anywhere. So parasites can live in the brain, they can live in the liver. They can live in the pancreas, kidney, anywhere.
[00:47:35.570] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
How do they enter? Is it through the gut, though?
[00:47:37.470] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Yeah, yeah. You're ingesting them in through air or water or through your dogs, through your animals. I mean, there's lots of ways that people eating them. You know, you go out to eat, fly on a plane. Right? So parasites, you know, I didn't really start working on parasites till about 25, 28 years ago. And I went to dinner with a gastroenterologist from Santa Monica, and he's like, we're at dinner, and he's talking about his parasite testing and everything. And I'm like, oh, my God, I'm not doing that. I've got to do that.
[00:48:15.220] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah.
[00:48:15.610] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
So then, then that led me to many other stages of how to research and study parasites and how to diagnose them, because a stool test will not find most parasites, okay? Because I said they live anywhere, right?
[00:48:31.110] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Right.
[00:48:31.740] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
So stool testing, but everything has an energy signature. A tomato does. A parasite does. A virus does. A fungus does. So everything has an energy signature, right? So when I look at someone, I can tell the energetics of the substance. All right? And then the other thing that I learned years ago from a gentleman who had sarcoma, which is a tumor of muscle and bone, and he was 22 when he was diagnosed. And they said, we need to amputate your leg. So he's like, no, I don't want to amputate my leg. So he spent the next twelve years on a discovery odyssey studying cancer. So I meet him at an anti aging conference, and he's telling me his whole story. And I'm like, oh, I need to learn everything he knows. And so then he's the one that developed something called the cancer cascade. So, as I said earlier, from one cancer cell to tumor is about ten years. So the features of cancer are what? Acidity, immune system malfunction, toxicity and viruses and angiogenesis. So we can see if you need those substances. There's something brewing, simmering, fermenting. All right. Now, the other thing that I do is I do a liquid biopsy.
[00:49:53.090] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
I use two different labs. One is RGCC from Switzerland and Greece. They have multiple locations, they're in already 25 countries. And Dhatar, which is a company out of India. So those are the best liquid biopsies. Gallery is not accurate at all. I would never use, I know many people are using it, but I would never. I had a patient come in from Florida several months ago, and she had had, she had endometrial cancer, but the year before, she had gallery hmm, okay. And it was negative. And then here she is with endometrial cancer. She came to see me because she didn't want to do the chemotherapy. And I said to her, I said, okay, if you don't want to do chemotherapy, let's do a special blood test called signaterra, and that will determine if we need to do chemotherapy. And I said, there's many ways you can do it. You can do fractionated, low dose or regular dose. Okay? But I said, that should maybe guide you need more information for you to make that decision. So sure enough, her signet terror was positive. So I set up a meeting with her. She goes, well, why didn't my oncologist do this?
[00:51:05.970] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
And I said, well, I'm not sure, because it is a FDA approved process to do an oncology. So I'm not really sure. So of course, the oncologist calls me and says, oh, you know, you did signature on this patient, because I told her, go to your oncologist, get him to do a PET scan. And then she's got a huge tumor. Oh, my gosh, yes. And she died like two months later. Cause she says, I'm just not going to do any treatment. So. And it actually had morphed into a different cancer from the endometrial. It had mutated to a different cancer. So gallery I've done it on people just to see, because I do any new cancer testing early detection, because I want to see. Okay, let's see if it works. Well, you spend thousand dollars, it's not going to tell you it's not good. I would never. I would never entrust your life with that test.
[00:52:01.720] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Okay, well, I'm switching immediately and never doing gallery again, so thank you for that.
[00:52:06.520] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Yeah, I've done too many of them now to, you know. No, I, you know. Yeah, I just can't. I would never rely. And my job is to make sure, make sure, make sure.
[00:52:19.650] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah. What about the full body mris that I've. So many people.
[00:52:22.870] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Yeah, I think it's great. I do think. Cause, you know, one of my patients, she's a nurse practitioner, and she got the full body MRI just like you did it for yourself. And she had found a brain tumor. Okay. And so she was a functional nurse practitioner. So she came to see me and she had already seen a very evolved neuro oncologist surgeon, so who uses incorporates natural things and so forth. So she came to see me because she was going to have surgery in a month. And I said, okay, let's, you know, let's find everything, clean everything out. You know, let's. Whatever we have to do, let's clean down below the iceberg. Right? And we did that. She got into a great, amazing state of mind, and she did repurpose drugs. I don't know if you know what repurposed drugs are. Repurposed drugs are drugs that are used for other things. So, like, you know, aspirin.
[00:53:23.780] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Like off label.
[00:53:24.770] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Yeah, off label.
[00:53:25.790] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Right.
[00:53:26.710] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
So there's over 310 drugs in the literature that starve cancer. So I started her on repurposed, a combination of repurposed drugs. So fortunately, when she went to surgery, her tumor had shrunk 30%.
[00:53:41.650] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Oh, my gosh. Amazing.
[00:53:42.870] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
And then the doctor removed it, and then now she's been on just her whole plan and sees me like every six months.
[00:53:51.630] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
I love that. Well, with that, what do you do?
[00:53:56.610] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
So the full body MRI, it's gonna show lumps and bumps. Right. And then you gotta figure out what those lumps and bumps are.
[00:54:03.770] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Right.
[00:54:04.250] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
But we don't want to wait till you have a lump or bump.
[00:54:07.670] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Right.
[00:54:08.200] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
I want you to live a life of no cancer, no heart disease, and no pharmaceutical drug overdose.
[00:54:16.780] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
I agree.
[00:54:17.330] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Which are the top three killers. Okay. We know how to prevent cancer, and we know how to get people off drugs. Okay. We can do that today.
[00:54:24.420] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Okay. Yeah.
[00:54:25.690] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
And so the whole body MRI is going to show something that happened ten years ago. We went in, I would like to not see anything on MRI.
[00:54:34.360] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
I agree.
[00:54:34.990] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
You see, so. But I think, you know, I think it's better than nothing for people today, you know? But at the same time, that is not how I would do prevention. All right. That probably wouldn't be my number one go to. It would be, let me see. Let's do all these other things, because I feel like prevention's so easy.
[00:54:59.640] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah.
[00:55:00.820] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
You know?
[00:55:01.270] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Absolutely.
[00:55:01.790] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
It's very hard to treat patients.
[00:55:06.140] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah.
[00:55:06.780] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Okay. If I would say one thing, I would like everyone to imagine themselves to be the most healthy, vital, functional, you know, happy person they could be.
[00:55:20.070] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah, absolutely.
[00:55:21.490] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Look how the world would change.
[00:55:24.190] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah.
[00:55:24.890] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
If you and I, and we taught everybody how to live this incredible life.
[00:55:30.670] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Let's do it.
[00:55:31.470] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
And the functionality of humanity would be so amazing, and the corporation and collaboration of humanity, because if you're happy, you work better together. Right. So that should be our goal. And that's what a doctor's goal should be, is how do I make this patient better than when they come and see me in a week or two weeks or three weeks? Right?
[00:55:54.790] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah.
[00:55:55.220] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
What can I give them to do that they're gonna be better? So if I'm not really making strides in a month, I'm not on the right track.
[00:56:04.310] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
How do you treat patients in your centers?
[00:56:08.270] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
You mean for cancer or out for cancer? Okay, so, first of all, when a patient comes in with a diagnosis of cancer, I look at everything they have filled out. So I already have my questionnaire, which is very detailed, because I want to know as much about the person and their history and as much information, because I find that when I go and see them, there's a lot missing. So I really want them, in their quietness, to fill out their form and think of everything. Then I want them to have an accurate understanding of their pathology, so they have to fill it out on their form. So they're actually reading their pathology report and putting it on my form. So that means, oh, I should be studying this pathology, because the pathology report tells you a lot of incredible information, right?
[00:56:59.110] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah.
[00:56:59.560] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
So I do that, and then when I go in, I ask the patient, tell me how this all came about. And so they tell me, well, I felt a lump, or I. Five years ago, I injured my knee and so forth and so on. And it comes about, okay. And so then I go, well, okay, what work have you done? I've had this scan, that scan, so forth. So I go over the scans and tell them, I always translate what I see, because I find that physicians before didn't tell them what their scans are, did not go over their pathology report. And so I want them to understand, I said, this is your buddy. You want to know everything. Okay? So then I go over their daily life, sleep, water, eating teeth, and stress. Okay? And then I tell them, have you ever been in the hospital before? Because you want to know what kind of things they've had before? Because a lot of people have PTSD from prior, prior diagnosis and hospitalizations and everything. And then I tell the patient, we're going to do very comprehensive blood work. So our blood work is very elaborate.
[00:58:09.590] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
All right? And most doctors, oncologist, then 99% of them do a chemistry panel and a CBC. That's it.
[00:58:18.440] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Wow.
[00:58:19.070] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Nothing more. Okay.
[00:58:20.500] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Wow.
[00:58:21.200] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
And so I look at all your hormones, hemoglobin, a one C CRP, TD, vascular endothelial growth factor, TGF beta. I look at your c reactive protein, I look at viruses, and then I order an environmental pollutant panel on everyone. If you've had mold exposure, I do a blood panel of mold. Right. I do a t lymphocyte looking at your t cells, B cells, all your. It's an immune system assessment. So that's just their blood part. I do a blood test that looks at anaerobic metabolism because we talked earlier that cancer is an anaerobic metabolism. And then I do anagolase. I usually almost on all patients, they get some kind of circulating tumor cell testing. If they've already had cancer, they have circulating tumor cells. So I will look at that. Because surgery, chemo and radiation doesn't kill circulating tumor cells. That's responsible for 95% of metastasis. So you better be addressing that as soon as you're diagnosed, right?
[00:59:24.900] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah.
[00:59:25.540] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
And then, so my treatments and my further assessment is I do bioenergetic testing on everyone. I do voltage testing on everyone. I look at your blood under the microscope because your blood is a living organism. So I tell them what, everything we find there. Then my treatments. Oh, I do the voltage. I said, so we check the voltage of everybody and then talk to the patient. You know what it is? Most people, we rarely see anybody that has perfect voltage. Okay?
[00:59:58.310] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Yeah.
[00:59:58.940] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
And then my treatments can be intravenous. Vitamin C, high dose. Yeah, high dose, high b artisanate, which is cancer killing. Iv curcumin, which is cancer killing. IB, DCA, dichloroacetate, which is cancer killing. And then I do PMF, post electromagnetic field for every single patient, for the IV's and for the cancer itself, they do red light therapy. They do. I use weber indolaser, which is intravenous or topical or on your head, depending on what's going on and what you have. So lasers are just different frequencies of light that we. Because if we use curcumin, that's the photosynthesizer, and then we use the laser light to, you know, for enhancing the efficacy of the curcumin, and then we do hyperbaric, and we use seebeck. So a combination of both of those for oxygen therapies. We do ebu. Every patient needs eboo.
[01:01:01.010] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Love it.
[01:01:01.960] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
We do chelation most, I would say almost every person has heavy metals in their body. I've never seen anybody that doesn't. You probably see the same. And so a lot of times, to get the patient really jump started, I'll do a couple iv chelations, and then I do low dose chemo in the clinic. So we do fractionated low dose chemo, which has been around for about 70 years. So cancer cells have insulin like growth factors, right? So they have multiple insulin like growth factors. So we prime this cell with insulin. So we give the patient insulin, and we get the patient to a therapeutic moment, which is about 40, give or take. And then that's when we drop the chemo, the sodium bicarb, the homeopathics, you know, all we do, it's not just chemo. And then they get Weber endolaser after that. After they get. Yeah. Cause curcumin and low dose chemo, they're both anti cancer.
[01:02:01.100] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Right. I've done iv curcumin.
[01:02:03.070] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Good. Okay. And then, so that's the treatment that everyone, pretty much everyone gets when they get. I love it.
[01:02:12.850] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
It's a very multifactorial approach, which I think, you know, I'm so grateful that you're doing, and I'm so excited that I can share what you're doing and just help spread the message even more, because it's, I mean, so sad. We're living in really just crazy times, in my opinion. And people, you. You have to take care control of your health and start now. But if, you know, something were to happen, I hope people can come and see you.
[01:02:41.210] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Right. People can. Really. I think the number one thing that you and I both want to do is create this incredible awareness, and it would be so nice that if we could create this contagious revolution of creating health in every human.
[01:02:58.410] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
Absolutely. Well, it's been such a pleasure. I could talk to you for three more hours, but it's been a pleasure to have you.
[01:03:05.110] - Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Thank you
[01:03:05.840] - Kayla Barnes-Lentz
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