Born to Heal: Holistic Healing for Optimal Health

Learn about the Healing Power of Prolonged Fasting: HERE

What if the one food you’ve been told to avoid isn’t always the problem, and when prepared the right way, could actually support your healing?

In this episode, Dr. Katie Deming brings back Monica Corrado, a traditional foods educator, author, and ancestral nutrition expert to dig into what’s actually true about dairy, cancer, and the gut.

They break down the difference between the dairy you’ll find on grocery store shelves and the kind traditional cultures prepared for centuries. They cover everything from Holstein cows versus traditional brown cows, to A1 versus A2 casein, to why raw milk dairies may be held to stricter safety standards than conventional pasteurized dairy.

You’ll also find out why some people feel sick after trying raw milk for the first time, and why that reaction may have more to do with drinking too much of a potent, microbially live food too quickly than with the milk itself.

Chapters:
00:06:08 - Why Modern Dairy Changed
00:07:18 - The Problem With Store Dairy
00:08:24 - The Dairy That May Heal
00:09:12 - The Raw Milk Difference
00:10:05 - How Culturing Removes Sugar
00:11:18 - Why Raw Milk Scares People
00:15:21 - How Milk Quality Got Lost
00:18:11 - Drinking Dead Bacteria
00:20:29 - A1 vs A2 Dairy
00:24:19 - What Better Dairy Looks Like
00:26:09 - Making Dairy Cancer Friendly
00:30:08 - The IGF-1 Question
00:36:10 - Why Kefir Is Different

Dr. Katie also shares what she’s observing in her own practice about IGF-1 levels in patients who are eating long-cultured dairy, a question her fasting community has been asking about for a long time.

By the end, you’ll understand what kind of dairy may support your microbiome, why long culturing matters, and how Monica recommends making yogurt or kefir at home.

Press play and learn how an ancient food you may have written off could become one of the most overlooked tools in your healing toolkit.

Chef Monica's Books: https://simplybeingwell.com/2nd-ed-gaps-complete-book

Work with Dr. Katie One-on-One — a Fasting Consult to build your personalized fasting plan: https://l.bttr.to/L05ab

Or a Health & Healing Consult for a deeper conversation about your diagnosis, your options, and what’s worth exploring next: https://l.bttr.to/Abcf1

Join Dr. Katie for a three-day guided reset to slow down, listen to your body, and practice a more loving relationship with yourself—with daily live calls, expert support, and community alongside you: https://tinyurl.com/ye22r9km

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DISCLAIMER: The Born to Heal Podcast is intended for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for seeking professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Individual medical histories are unique; therefore, this episode should not be used to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease without consulting your healthcare provider.

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Learn about the Healing Power of Prolonged Fasting: HERE

What would happen if you got quiet enough to finally hear the truth you've been carrying your whole life?

Lauren Monusco arrived at her 10-day water fast on the edge of a nervous breakdown. 

Dr. Katie Deming and Lauren take you inside the real emotional journey of a prolonged fast, and it's probably not what you'd expect. She knew something was deeply misaligned, but she couldn't see what it was until she finally stopped long enough to look.

She'd spent years pushing through the discomfort from a high-pressure career, managing the symptoms, and holding everything together on the outside. But the biggest breakthroughs didn't come during the fast itself. They came during refeeding, on the other side of boredom, discomfort, surrender, and ten days of genuine stillness.

Chapters:
00:04:18 - Everything Started Falling Apart
00:05:32 - The Fast That Felt Aligned
00:08:34 - Fear of What Would Surface
00:11:48 - The Moment Surrender Changed Everything
00:14:42 - Boredom, Discomfort, and Facing Yourself
00:16:07 - Seeing Her Life From a Different Perspective
00:17:10 - The Pattern She Could No Longer Ignore
00:21:42 - The Fight That Changed Her Marriage
00:25:20 - Releasing Years of Emotional Trauma
00:27:18 - Finally Speaking Her Truth
00:30:08 - The Lightness That Came After Letting Go
00:37:22 - Discovering Her Authentic Self
00:41:08 - What Healing Actually Looks Like

Dr. Katie also explains what may be happening in the nervous system during prolonged fasting that can create space for this kind of clarity. 

Lauren's story is a powerful example of what becomes possible when you stop running from yourself and start getting honest, first with yourself, and then with the people you love most.

Press play to hear Lauren share something she almost didn't say out loud, and it's the kind of honesty that reminds you what real healing actually looks like.

Work with Dr. Katie One-on-One — a Fasting Consult to build your personalized fasting plan: https://l.bttr.to/L05ab

Or a Health & Healing Consult for a deeper conversation about your diagnosis, your options, and what’s worth exploring next: https://l.bttr.to/Abcf1

Join Dr. Katie for a three-day guided reset to slow down, listen to your body, and practice a more loving relationship with yourself—with daily live calls, expert support, and community alongside you: https://tinyurl.com/ye22r9km

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DISCLAIMER: The Born to Heal Podcast is intended for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for seeking professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Individual medical histories are unique; therefore, this episode should not be used to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease without consulting your healthcare provider.

A thought-provoking podcast explores cancer through the lens of holistic medicine and functional medicine, discussing causes of cancer, metabolic health, and unconventional approaches like water fasting, fasting and autophagy, and...

Learn about the Healing Power of Prolonged Fasting: HERE

What if the next step after cancer surgery wasn't more treatment, but something different entirely?

Dr. Katie Deming welcomes Merlin Hagan. After his prostate was removed, Merlin's doctors checked his PSA, a blood marker used to monitor prostate cancer activity. It should have dropped to undetectable levels.

But it didn't. His PSA kept climbing, and doctors recommended radiation and hormone therapy next. Merlin wasn't ready for that, so he went looking for another option.

PSA Prostate-Specific Antigen, a protein made by the prostate. Rising PSA levels may signal changes in the prostate, including inflammation, enlargement, or possible prostate cancer activity.

He had never fasted before in his life, yet he committed to a 21-day water fast under medical supervision. 
What happened next surprised not just him, but his doctors too.

Chapters:
00:06:02 - PSA Still Rising
00:06:47 - Finding the Fast
00:08:01 - The Hardest Part of Fasting
00:09:05 - Dealing with Food Cravings  
00:11:00 - The Diet Shift Before Fasting
00:13:26 - Relearning How to Eat
00:16:41 - Eight Weeks After the Fast
00:17:33 - The Unexpected Weight Loss
00:18:26 - Blood Pressure Changes
00:19:41 - Prostate Surgery Complication
00:20:38 - The First Sign of Healing
00:22:21 - The PSA Results
00:24:54 - Hormone Therapy Decision

Merlin walks through the entire experience: the prep week, the difficult first few days, and the mental shift that carried him through the fast. He also shares how a major complication from his surgery unexpectedly started improving near the end of the fast.

But the moment that changed everything came at his follow-up appointment. Merlin walked in with new PSA results.

Press play to hear what happened when his numbers finally started moving.

Work with Dr. Katie One-on-One — a Fasting Consult to build your personalized fasting plan: https://l.bttr.to/L05ab

Or a Health & Healing Consult for a deeper conversation about your diagnosis, your options, and what’s worth exploring next: https://l.bttr.to/Abcf1

Join Dr. Katie for a three-day guided reset to slow down, listen to your body, and practice a more loving relationship with yourself—with daily live calls, expert support, and community alongside you: https://tinyurl.com/ye22r9km

Follow Dr. Katie Deming on Instagram

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DISCLAIMER: The Born to Heal Podcast is intended for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for seeking professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Individual medical histories are unique; therefore, this episode should not be used to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease without consulting your healthcare provider.

A thought-provoking podcast explores cancer through the lens of holistic medicine and functional medicine, discussing causes of cancer, metabolic health, and unconventional approaches like water fasting, fasting and autophagy, and...

Learn about the Healing Power of Prolonged Fasting: HERE

What if your sugar cravings have nothing to do with willpower, and everything to do with what your brain has been quietly taught to need?

Dr. Katie Deming sits down with Matty Lansdown, scientist, nutritionist, and emotional eating specialist, to explore why so many people feel completely out of control around sugar.

Matty has spent nearly a decade working with people who've tried every diet, every rule, every "fresh start Monday," and still can't seem to break free. If you've ever felt like you "know better" but still can't stop, this episode is for you.

What he's found goes much deeper than food. Dr. Katie brings her own perspective too, including how prolonged water fasting has shown her just how much of our eating is driven by things we've never stopped to examine.

Chapters:
00:02:08 - Why Sugar Feels Impossible to Quit
00:08:21 - The Hidden Dopamine Traps Everywhere
00:12:46 - Are Your Cravings Emotional or Physical
00:14:06 - Why High Achievers Ignore Their Bodies
00:15:28 - The Emotional Trigger Behind Your Cravings
00:17:14 - How Fructose May Influence Energy Storage
00:23:18 - The Flavor Science Designed to Keep You Eating
00:27:41 - The Dark Side of Processed Food Engineering
00:31:02 - The First Step to Breaking Sugar Addiction
00:33:11 - How This Small Habit Changes Everything
00:36:06 - The Difference Between Abstainers and Moderators

Learn what researchers and experts believe may be happening in the brain when you reach for something sweet, and why ultra-processed foods are designed to be hard to resist. You'll also discover why cravings are often signals pointing to something unmet, something emotional, something worth understanding.

Press play and learn the first step that has nothing to do with restriction, willpower, or cutting anything out cold.

Connect with Matty: https://mattylansdown.com/

Work with Dr. Katie One-on-One — a Fasting Consult to build your personalized fasting plan: https://l.bttr.to/L05ab

Or a Health & Healing Consult for a deeper conversation about your diagnosis, your options, and what’s worth exploring next: https://l.bttr.to/Abcf1

Join Dr. Katie for a three-day guided reset to slow down, listen to your body, and practice a more loving relationship with yourself—with daily live calls, expert support, and community alongside you: https://tinyurl.com/ye22r9km

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DISCLAIMER: The Born to Heal Podcast is intended for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for seeking professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Individual medical histories are unique; therefore, this episode should not be used to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease without consulting your healthcare provider.

A thought-provoking podcast explores cancer through the lens of holistic medicine and functional medicine, discussing causes of cancer, metabolic health, and unconventional approaches like water fasting, fasting and autophagy, and...

Learn about the Healing Power of Prolonged Fasting: HERE

What does a 27-day water fast have to do with learning to be alone with yourself?

Karen Hannon joined Dr. Katie Deming's water fasting program after a cancer diagnosis, deep research, and a drive to do everything possible to heal. What she didn't expect was that the most important work had nothing to do with any of that.

Karen opens up about her 27-day water fast and what actually shifted when she finally put down every distraction and got quiet with herself.

Dr. Katie has guided countless people through prolonged water fasts, and she's noticed something that surprises nearly everyone who shows up. If you've been doing all the things and still feel like something's missing, this conversation might point you toward what that something actually is.

Chapters:
00:04:08 - Why Fasting Alone Doesn’t Work
00:12:05 - Calm Your Nervous System
00:16:05 - Living with Constant Fear
00:18:05 - Stepping Off the Merry Go Round
00:22:05 - Learning to Trust Your Body
00:24:05 - Stop Forcing Outcomes
00:29:05 - Feeling Safe During the Process
00:33:05 - The Power of Being Seen
00:36:05 - Learning to Receive Support
00:39:05 - Healing Continues After the Fast
00:41:05 - Integrating What You Learned
00:43:05 - Would Karen Do It Again?

Karen shares what it felt like to go from constant noise and anxiety to a sense of peace she didn't know was possible. She talks about the moment it clicked and what daily life inside the fasting program actually looked like.

Press play and learn what becomes possible when you finally stop your world.

Work with Dr. Katie One-on-One — a Fasting Consult to build your personalized fasting plan: https://l.bttr.to/L05ab

Or a Health & Healing Consult for a deeper conversation about your diagnosis, your options, and what’s worth exploring next: https://l.bttr.to/Abcf1

Join Dr. Katie for a three-day guided reset to slow down, listen to your body, and practice a more loving relationship with yourself—with daily live calls, expert support, and community alongside you: https://tinyurl.com/ye22r9km

Follow Dr. Katie Deming on Instagram

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DISCLAIMER: The Born to Heal Podcast is intended for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for seeking professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Individual medical histories are unique; therefore, this episode should not be used to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease without consulting your healthcare provider.

A thought-provoking podcast explores cancer through the lens of holistic medicine and functional medicine, discussing causes of cancer, metabolic health, and unconventional approaches like water fasting, fasting and autophagy, and...

What if going without food before chemotherapy could help protect your healthy cells while leaving your cancer cells more exposed?

The research behind this has been building for over a decade in peer-reviewed journals and major institutions, yet many patients never hear about it as part of their treatment plan.

Dr. Katie Deming breaks down why the standard advice to keep eating through treatment may be missing an important piece. She explains the biology in plain language, so you can understand what is actually happening in your body during chemotherapy.

You will hear what early human studies found when cancer patients fasted around their chemotherapy cycles. These are small but meaningful studies, and the results showed signals that researchers and clinicians are continuing to investigate.

Chapters:

00:04:12 - The Advice That Might Be Missing
00:05:58 - Why Chemo Damages Healthy Cells
00:10:02 - How Fasting Changes the Battlefield
00:12:18 - What Early Human Cases Revealed
00:14:36 - Fewer Side Effects and Faster Recovery
00:17:05 - The Study That Tested This in Patients
00:19:22 - Why Dose Reductions Matter More Than You Think
00:21:40 - The Truth About Weight and Muscle Loss
00:24:05 - The Drug Almost Everyone Gets
00:26:18 - Are Steroids May Work Against You?
00:31:02 - The Tumor Response
00:33:25 - What We Still Do Not Know
00:36:45 - The Question to Ask Before Your Next Cycle

Stay until the end to hear the specific question you can ask your oncologist at your next appointment, a question that could change how your treatment feels from the very first cycle.

Press play and understand what the research shows, and what it could mean for you.

Dr. Katie's LIVE Fasting and Chemo Workshop is May 12 at 4pm PT. You'll get the exact fasting windows, what to say to your doctor, and a step-by-step plan to follow. Save your spot today: https://tinyurl.com/3xe28922

Work with Dr. Katie One-on-One — a Fasting Consult to build your personalized fasting plan: https://l.bttr.to/L05ab

Or a Health & Healing Consult for a deeper conversation about your diagnosis, your options, and what’s worth exploring next: https://l.bttr.to/Abcf1

Join Dr. Katie for a three-day guided reset to slow down, listen to your body, and practice a more loving relationship with yourself—with daily live calls, expert support, and community alongside you: https://tinyurl.com/ye22r9km

Follow Dr. Katie Deming on Instagram

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DISCLAIMER: The Born to Heal Podcast is intended for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for seeking professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Individual medical histories are unique; therefore, this episode should not be used to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease without consulting your healthcare provider.

A thought-provoking podcast explores cancer through the lens of holistic medicine and functional medicine, discussing causes of cancer, metabolic health, and unconventional approaches like water fasting, fasting and autophagy, and...

 What if going without food for two weeks felt less like deprivation and more like coming home?

Guest Faith Laux pictured herself scooting down the stairs on her hands and knees, too exhausted to function. 

What she actually felt around day six is something she struggled to put into words, and you have to hear her describe it herself to understand why. Faith shares the fear going in, the rollercoaster of the first few days, and the unexpected moment when everything shifted.

Host Dr. Katie Deming explains exactly why days four through six tend to be the hardest and what's actually happening in the body during that window.

Faith was so connected to what she was feeling that when it was time to come back, she genuinely didn't want to leave. 

Press play and learn the one thing she did before starting that made the entire first week dramatically easier, and it's so simple you'll wonder why nobody talks about it.

Full episode: https://youtu.be/dPp3hFiIxqY?si=W_WRto45N8zfFF49

Work with Dr. Katie One-on-One — a Fasting Consult to build your personalized fasting plan: https://l.bttr.to/L05ab

Or a Health & Healing Consult for a deeper conversation about your diagnosis, your options, and what’s worth exploring next: https://l.bttr.to/Abcf1

Join Dr. Katie for a three-day guided reset to slow down, listen to your body, and practice a more loving relationship with yourself—with daily live calls, expert support, and community alongside you: https://tinyurl.com/ye22r9km

Follow Dr. Katie Deming on Instagram

Watch on Youtube

DISCLAIMER: The Born to Heal Podcast is intended for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for seeking professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Individual medical histories are unique; therefore, this episode should not be used to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease without consulting your healthcare provider.

A thought-provoking podcast explores cancer through the lens of holistic medicine and functional medicine, discussing causes of cancer, metabolic health, and unconventional approaches like water fasting, fasting and autophagy, and...

What if the most powerful cancer practice has been around for thousands of years and medicine quietly buried it?

An unexpected medical crisis forced her to stop eating entirely. For two and a half months, with no support from her doctors, her body did something they said wasn't possible.

In this clip, Dr. Nasha Winters and Dr. Katie Deming challenges why the medical establishment pushed high-carb nutrition on cancer patients, what that's actually doing to people, and what happens when you stop feeding the disease and start trusting the body.

Chapters:
00:04:15 - The Accidental Tool That Saved Her Life
00:06:45 - 3 Decades of Fasting and What Held True
00:08:30 - How Standard Cancer Nutrition Got It Wrong
00:10:00 - The Unexpected Emotional Detox
00:11:30 - Fasting and Your Mitochondria
00:13:10 - The Future of Integrated Cancer Care

That accidental discovery launched a 34-year long career in metabolic health.

Press play and learn why the oldest tool in medicine may be the one you've been missing.

Work with Dr. Katie One-on-One — a Fasting Consult to build your personalized fasting plan: https://l.bttr.to/L05ab

Or a Health & Healing Consult for a deeper conversation about your diagnosis, your options, and what’s worth exploring next: https://l.bttr.to/Abcf1

Join Dr. Katie for a three-day guided reset to slow down, listen to your body, and practice a more loving relationship with yourself—with daily live calls, expert support, and community alongside you: https://tinyurl.com/ye22r9km

Follow Dr. Katie Deming on Instagram

Watch on Youtube

DISCLAIMER: The Born to Heal Podcast is intended for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for seeking professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Individual medical histories are unique; therefore, this episode should not be used to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease without consulting your healthcare provider.

A thought-provoking podcast explores cancer through the lens of holistic medicine and functional medicine, discussing causes of cancer, metabolic health, and unconventional approaches like water fasting, fasting and autophagy, and...

What if the cancer treatments you trust are built on the wrong foundation?

Dr. Thomas Seyfried has spent decades building the scientific case that cancer isn't a genetic disease. It's a metabolic one. And that distinction changes everything. 

He breaks down exactly why cancer cells can't survive without glucose and glutamine, why conventional oncology has largely ignored this, and why managing cancer without toxic side effects isn't just possible. It's already happening.

Dr. Seyfried also explains why eating meat won't raise your glutamine levels the way most people fear, how nutritional ketosis can cut chemotherapy doses in half, and why a drug called DON could be a turning point in metabolic cancer care if the FDA ever gets out of the way. 

If you or someone you love is navigating a cancer diagnosis, this conversation could reshape how you think about treatment options. Don't wait to hear it.

Work with Dr. Katie One-on-One — a Fasting Consult to build your personalized fasting plan: https://l.bttr.to/L05ab

Or a Health & Healing Consult for a deeper conversation about your diagnosis, your options, and what’s worth exploring next: https://l.bttr.to/Abcf1

Join Dr. Katie for a three-day guided reset to slow down, listen to your body, and practice a more loving relationship with yourself—with daily live calls, expert support, and community alongside you: https://tinyurl.com/ye22r9km

Follow Dr. Katie Deming on Instagram

Watch on Youtube

DISCLAIMER: The Born to Heal Podcast is intended for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for seeking professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Individual medical histories are unique; therefore, this episode should not be used to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease without consulting your healthcare provider.

A thought-provoking podcast explores cancer through the lens of holistic medicine and functional medicine, discussing causes of cancer, metabolic health, and unconventional approaches like water fasting, fasting and autophagy, and...

What if your cravings aren't a problem to fix, but a signal you've been ignoring?

Dr. Katie Deming sits down with Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, a researcher whose work connecting nutrition, gut health, and chronic illness has reached people around the world.

Together, they dig into why some of the most widely accepted dietary advice may be working against healing, not for it. Specifically, they explore what happens when the body is deprived of the nutrients it actually needs to repair and rebuild at the cellular level.

Dr. Katie shares what she's observed firsthand in her own fasting practice, including something that surprised even the most committed plant-based patients who came to her for care. 

Chapters:
00:04:50 - The Signal Your Body Sends When Cleansing Is Over
00:05:18 - Why Your Hunger Might Be Misleading You
00:06:30 - The Refeeding Step Most People Get Wrong
00:07:27 - Why People Crave Meat After Prolong Fasts
00:09:05 - The Refeeding Approach That Changes Recovery
00:10:30 - The Hidden Risk in Nuts and Seeds
00:11:19 - The Cooking Oil Problem
00:14:00 - Why We are Conditioned to Fear Fat
00:21:30 - What Happens When Your Gut Loses Balance

Dr. Natasha brings decades of research to explain what's really going on inside the body when cravings show up, and what those cravings are actually trying to tell you. If you've ever felt confused by conflicting nutrition advice, this conversation will help you understand why.

The conversation takes a hard look at cholesterol, what it actually does in the body, why your levels may not mean what you've been told, and how the standard advice around it could be getting in the way of your healing. 

Press play because the final topic on the gut microbiome ties everything together in a way that reframes how you think about disease itself.

Connect with guest: www.drnatasha.com

Work with Dr. Katie One-on-One — a Fasting Consult to build your personalized fasting plan: https://l.bttr.to/L05ab

Or a Health & Healing Consult for a deeper conversation about your diagnosis, your options, and what’s worth exploring next: https://l.bttr.to/Abcf1

Join Dr. Katie for a three-day guided reset to slow down, listen to your body, and practice a more loving relationship with yourself—with daily live calls, expert support, and community alongside you: https://tinyurl.com/ye22r9km

Follow Dr. Katie Deming on Instagram

Watch on Youtube

DISCLAIMER: The Born to Heal Podcast is intended for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for seeking professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Individual medical histories are unique; therefore, this episode should not be used to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease without consulting your healthcare provider.

A thought-provoking podcast explores cancer through the lens of holistic medicine and functional medicine, discussing causes of cancer, metabolic health, and unconventional approaches like water fasting, fasting and autophagy, and...