What if the most common nutrition advice given to people facing chronic illness, eat more plants, is actually working against healing?

Host Dr. Katie Deming sits down with Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, neurologist, nutritionist, and creator of the GAPS Protocol, to question whether the human gut is truly designed to rely on plant-based nutrition during healing.

They explore what traditional cultures prioritized for recovery, why some foods may be harder for the body to process than we think, and how modern dietary guidelines may be shaped by forces beyond patient health.

Chapters:
00:04:05 - What Your Body Can’t Digest
00:06:20 - The Food That Actually Builds You
00:08:25 - The Truth About Vegan Diets
00:10:15 - Who Controls Your Food Choices
00:13:40 - The Profit Behind Your Diet
00:17:45 - Why Doctors Stay Silent
00:22:10 - Treating Symptoms or Healing

If you're facing chronic illness, supporting someone who is, or trying to understand what your body needs during recovery, this episode challenges conventional thinking around food and healing.

Press play and learn what may be missing when certain foods are removed, and why that matters most when your body is under stress.

Connect with Guest: https://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

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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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What if everything you've been told about fasting and muscle loss is wrong?

Dr. Katie is joined by a recent fasting client Paul Suchoski. Paul was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and told by every doctor he consulted not to fast. He did it anyway, completed 30 days of supervised water fasting with Dr. Katie Deming, and his body composition scans showed something nobody expected.

Chapters:

00:04:02 - Why He Rejected Chemo
00:05:06 - Choosing a 30 Day Fast
00:06:33 - Unexpected Energy 
00:09:12 - Stress Driving Blood Sugar
00:12:00 - Blood Pressure Drops During the Fast
00:13:28 - The Scan That Measured Everything
00:14:40 - Visceral Fat Falls Dramatically
00:17:05 - Growth Hormone and Fat Burning During Fasting
00:20:58 - The Accident That Revealed Cancer
00:25:34 - Strength and Recovery After the Fast

Dr. Katie and Paul break down the real numbers from his InBody scans and explain what the body actually does when you stop eating for 30 days.

But the physical results weren't even the most surprising part. Stay until the end to hear what happened to Paul mentally and emotionally, and it may matter just as much as anything the scans revealed.

Press play and learn what a 30-day water fast actually does to the human body

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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What if the tumor isn't the real problem, but just the loudest symptom of something deeper going on in your body?

Dr. Katie Deming sits down with Dr. Michael Karfeldt, co-author of Breast Cancer Breakthrough, to explore why the tumor is often the last part of the problem, not the first. What they uncover in this conversation might surprise you, especially if you think you're already doing everything right.

They get into the hidden factors most doctors never check for, things lurking in your mouth, your home, and even your family history that could be quietly driving disease. Dr. Katie shares what she's seen firsthand in her own practice that finally confirmed what Western medicine never taught her.

Chapters:

00:06:05 - The Hidden Drivers of Cancer
00:10:00 - The Modern Toxic Load
00:13:30 - Trauma and Loss of Self
00:17:38 - The Dental Link
00:19:00 - What Fasting Reveals
00:24:05 - Silence, Identity, and Healing
00:27:30 - Parasites and the Terrain
00:31:00 - Why Regular Cleansing Matters
00:35:00 - First Steps After Diagnosis
00:39:15 - The Fear That Sabotages Healing

And if you've ever wondered why fear itself might be working against your healing, Dr. Karfeldt's answer to that question alone is worth the listen.

Press play and hear the one thing Dr. Karfeldt wants every newly diagnosed woman to know. It's simple, it's powerful, and it's nothing like what you'd hear in a conventional oncology office.

Connect with guest: https://www.thekarlfeldtcenter.com/
Pick up a Copy of Breast Cancer Breakthrough: https://a.co/d/0di58YxZ

The Cure and Prevention of All Cancers: https://a.co/d/0avviSxp

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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What if the "healthy" foods you're eating every day are actually starving you?

Dr. Katie Deming sits down with holistic nutritionist and teaching chef Monica Corrado to explore the nutrition philosophy behind the Deming Fast. 

This kicks off a brand new series called Inside the Deming Fast, and this first conversation zeroes in on something most fasting programs completely overlook: what happens after the fast ends. The refeeding phase isn't just a transition back to normal eating. It's the most powerful rebuilding opportunity your body may ever get.

Chapters:
00:04:03 - Rebuild With the Right Materials
00:06:06 - The Anti-Inflammatory Reset
00:08:04 - From Modern Food to Ancestral Healing
00:09:53 - Clean Animal Foods as Foundation
00:12:41 - Why Lectins and Oxalates Matter
00:14:28 - The Hidden Cost of Plant Antinutrients
00:18:26 - Rethinking Fats for Healing
00:19:00 - Processed Oils vs Stable Animal Fats
00:23:39 - Malnourished Yet Overfed
00:26:53 - Foundational Foods That Rebuild
00:30:23 - The Power of Liver and Organ Meats
00:41:14 - Is Fertility a Sign of True Healing?

Monica Corrado and Dr. Katie walk through the food guide they built specifically for people focused on healing, covering which foods rebuild the body at a cellular level, which ones trigger inflammation.

Dr. Katie and Monica break down what antinutrients actually do inside the body and why learning about them could change the way you shop, cook, and eat for good.

Monica also sets the record straight and why cutting fat out may be one of the most damaging things the low-fat era ever taught us to do.

Plus, Dr. Katie also shares what she's personally learned from working with Monica, including how she eats now, what's always cooking in her kitchen, and why getting the food right turned out to be the first step she had to take with every single client before anything else could work.

Press play and learn the four refeeding pillars that prevent you from sabotaging your fast. 

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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Have you ever walked out of a doctor's office feeling judged instead of cared for?

If you've ever chosen a healing path that didn't match what your doctor recommended, you may know exactly what doctor shaming looks like. Host Dr. Katie Deming names what so many patients feel but rarely talk about, and explains why it happens in the first place.

Sometimes it's blunt, like a doctor implying you're a bad parent for skipping a certain treatment. Other times it’s subtle, a colder tone, a sudden disconnection, or even conditional care when you’re labeled “noncompliant.”

Chapters:
00:04:30 - When Your Doctor Changes Toward You
00:07:00 - Shame Is a Fear Tactic
00:08:00 - Why Doctors Are Wired This Way
00:10:13 - The System Needs Predictability
00:12:06 - Doctors Aren't the Enemy
00:13:21 - What Shame Does to Your Nervous System
00:18:30 - The Breath Technique That Calls Your Power Back
00:21:21 - The System's Discomfort Is Not Your Verdict

Doctors go through decades of conditioning that rewards certainty and compliance. And when you understand why the system reacts the way it does when you choose your own path, it becomes a lot easier to stop taking it personally.

A dysregulated nervous system clouds your thinking, shrinks your decision-making, and erodes your voice in the room where your care is being decided. Dr. Katie connects this directly to healing, because fear and shame get in the way of recovery.

Press Play and Learn how to reclaim your authority without abandoning the care you need.

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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What if the biggest obstacle to your healing isn't your diagnosis... but the fact that you were never taught you had a choice?

From the time we're young, we're conditioned to follow the rules, trust the experts, and do what we're told. And when it comes to your health, that conditioning kicks into overdrive. 

Dr. Katie Deming opens up about why so many people hand over their power the moment they walk into a doctor's office, and what it actually costs them. As a radiation oncologist who walked away from the system, she's seen both sides of this story firsthand.

This kicks off a brand new series on reclaiming your authority. Dr. Katie explores the hidden forces that keep you from speaking up for yourself, including the pressure from well-meaning family, the fear of being labeled "non-compliant," and the people-pleasing patterns that run deeper than most of us realize. 

She also shares her own turning point, the moment a simple parable changed everything about how she saw her career and the medical system she'd spent her life in.

Chapters:
00:03:00 - The Illusion of One Right Way to Heal
00:06:00 - Your Values Determine Your Healing Path
00:11:00 - When Survival Conflicts with Meaning
00:15:00 - The Cost of Following Your Truth
00:19:00 - How We’re Conditioned to Hand Over Our Power
00:23:00 - Reclaiming Authority Without Rejecting Guidance
00:26:00 - Healing as Growth Not a Single Destination

Learn the difference between following a path and actually choosing one. Dr. Katie breaks down why your values matter more than any protocol and why healing isn't a single destination you arrive at. It's a practice you return to every single day.

Stay until the end to hear the one question Dr. Katie believes matters more than "what should I do" and why the answer could reshape every health decision you make from here on out.

Press play and learn how to stop outsourcing your power and start becoming the author of your own healing journey.

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.

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What if the mathematics of nature itself could recalibrate your nervous system and unlock your body's deepest healing potential?

Dr. Katie sits down with Banah Winn, creator of the Golden Ratio Frequency, to explore how sound based on the same pattern found in DNA, breath, and spiral galaxies can create profound shifts in your body and mind. 

Banah shares his journey from meditation and energy healing in Sedona's vortexes to discovering a frequency formula that's helped millions find coherence in a chaotic world.

Chapters:
04:02 - Healing inherited trauma in the body
06:27 - Golden ratio as nature’s baseline
12:51 - Two frequencies that can disrupt cancer cells
13:30 - Instant vagus nerve activation in meditation
14:39 - Why fasting makes the frequencies hit harder
16:30 - What fasters report when they use it daily
20:00 - The 10 minutes a day rule
29:11 - Why group singing amplifies healing
33:22 - The hundred monkey effect and non-local consciousness
35:00 - Stay coherent after the event, no crash back to baseline

You'll discover why most sound healing approaches fall short, how these specific frequencies work differently than traditional meditation music, and what happens when you combine them with practices like fasting or deep introspection. 

If you've been feeling scattered, overwhelmed, or stuck in patterns you can't seem to break this a must listen.

Press play and learn the science behind why these frequencies feel so clean and pure, and how collective resonance can shift not just individual healing but our shared consciousness.

Listening to the Golden Ratio Frequency: https://fun.banahwinn.com/golden 

Connect with Guest: https://www.youtube.com/@Banahwinn

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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What's the difference between eating a ketogenic diet and actually being in ketosis?

You're adding avocado to every meal and swapping bread for lettuce wraps. You feel like you're doing everything right. But without actually testing your blood, you could be miles away from the metabolic state that triggers real healing in your body.

Host Dr. Katie Deming sits down with Dorian Greenow, founder of Keto Mojo, to explain why numbers matter more than guesswork.

Dorian shares his personal journey from being 47 pounds heavier and on antidepressants to transforming his health through a well-formulated ketogenic diet. He explains the science behind glucose-ketone tracking and why it's especially crucial for anyone healing from cancer or chronic illness.

Chapters:

06:16 - Guidelines Flip the Pyramid
11:40 - Are You Actually in Ketosis
12:59 - The Glucose Ketone Index
14:53 - Why Tumors Light Up on Scans
16:17 - Glioblastoma Survival Doubles
22:51 - The Truth About GKI 1
27:05 - Prolonged Fasting Muscle Myth
41:16 - Statins, Cholesterol Controversy and the Oreo Test

Dr. Katie and Dorian discuss the striking results from a glioblastoma study that doubled median survival using ketogenic therapy. They break down what therapeutic ketosis actually looks like and your oncologist may not be addressing critical information about metabolic health and cancer.

You'll learn what your glucose and ketone numbers really mean, how to use them to optimize your healing, and why the new dietary guidelines finally recognize what holistic practitioners have known all along about metabolic disease.

Listen and learn how to stop guessing and start measuring your way to better health.

https://keto-mojo.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.

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Have you ever ever felt like one "small indulgence" spiraled into weeks of poor food choices?

Dr. Katie Deming shares her own recent experience with sugar cravings over the holidays and how she used a three-day fast to reset her body and mind.  She opens up about her history with sugar addiction and why, for some people, sugar isn't just food but a switch that changes everything from cravings to decision-making to self-trust.

Chapters:
05:00 - When sugar quietly takes control
06:25 - This wasn’t lack of discipline
08:00 - Why eating feels harder than fasting
09:30 - Fasting as a nervous system reset
11:20 - The first 24 hours and quieting the noise
12:55 - Cravings fall away and clarity returns
15:30 - Reading your body’s inflammation signals
20:55 - Structure over willpower for long term healing

You'll hear why fasting can actually feel easier than eating when cravings are running the show, how a short fast quiets the "food noise" in your brain, and what Dr. Katie does to set herself up for success when she starts eating again. 

She also breaks down the difference between structure and restriction, and shares simple tools for managing cravings when they pop back up. This is not about developing the willpower, but creating clarity and coming back into alignment with your body.

Whether you're healing from cancer, managing inflammation, or just tired of feeling controlled by food, Dr. Katie offers a compassionate, medically-informed approach to resetting your relationship with eating. Her honesty about her own struggles makes this feel less like advice and more like a conversation with a trusted friend who actually gets it.

Press play and learn how short fasts can help you reclaim authority over your body without shame, without drama, and with more ease than you might expect.

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 the chaos you're experiencing right now isn't random, but part of a pattern you could learn to navigate with more peace and clarity?

You're not imagining it. The world feels more unstable than it used to. Whether you're healing from illness, watching relationships shift, or simply trying to make sense of everything happening around you, there's a reason you feel unsteady. 

Dr. Katie Deming shares why this particular time is so intense and what's actually happening beneath the surface of all this upheaval. But more importantly, she offers you something practical to work with.

Chapters:
04:29 - Why Everything Feels Like It’s Falling Apart
06:30 - Using Frequency as Protection
11:29 - How to Let Emotions Move Without Overwhelming You
14:56 - The Brain Technique That Helps You Process Fear
18:30 - Why Suppressed Emotions Affect the Body
22:24 - Why the World Feels So Unstable Right Now
29:30 - Choosing Peace in the Middle of Chaos

She reveals how your emotional state directly impacts your ability to heal, make good decisions, and protect yourself from the erratic energy around you. Dr. Katie walks you through specific tools you can use right now to process difficult emotions without pushing them down or being overwhelmed by them. 

They're techniques she uses herself and teaches to her patients who are navigating some of the hardest moments of their lives. You'll discover why certain emotions keep you trapped in cycles of fear and anxiety, and how to shift into a frequency that actually serves your wellbeing. 

Dr. Katie explains the science behind emotions, brain activation, and something most people have never considered: how planetary shifts and solar activity might be affecting your mood and behavior right now. 

This isn't you pretending everything's fine when it's not, but learning to find your center when everything around you feels shaky.

Stay until the end to understand why carrying your past forward is optional, and how letting go of what no longer serves you is the most important work you can do right now.

Listen and Learn how to use your frequency as your shield in these challenging times.

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...