Hey Friends!
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Switching it up with a little writing today as we record Podcast Season 4 MAGIC. I'm so excited and I've got treats for this group locked, loaded, and ready to go. I posted this on social but I think it is a great reminder that TODAY is the day to DIG into your health and vitality. Know your numbers: HRV, Mineral balance, Sleep Scores, Insulin response, and gut microbiome. Who is doing this that is in this group?!
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I'd love to know!
I was filled with cancer on November 17th in 2006.
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These pictures are 14 weeks apart: Fitness does not equal ROBUST HEALTH.
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Yes, that is me playing stripper-cowboy from the musical, "The Full Monty at 26 Years Old.
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I'm in amazing shape and I was filled with cancer.
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Testicular cancer had spread to most lymph nodes in my abdomen.
I was eating the standard American diet.
I had an autoimmune condition I was suppressing with immune modifiers.
I was eating Advil with breakfast and most meals.
I had undiagnosed Lyme disease.
I had NO tools to deal with my emotional trauma.
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This list could go on and on.
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When I started to have pain, I went to a clinic and a doctor in NYC told me it was not cancer.
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So I did nothing. I waited until I was having challenges standing or sitting without pain.
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Today I understand that with some simple labs markers that may be used to detect testicular cancer include alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG)...we could have possibly changed the course of this story.
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I'm so thankful for how it unfolded with all the chemotherapy, years of function medicine, and 4 surgeries from 2006 to 2015. Pressure makes Diamonds, and SHIT...have I grown as a human from this experience.
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It's like if Titanic had missed the Iceberg and just ended the movie while Leo and Kate went their separate ways.
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Boring.
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My closing: Listen to your body. Love the journey. Health is not fitness. We are sicker than we have ever been and that is directly connected to the health of the planet.
Don't be a dick.
Move, listen, breathe, speak with empathy and hold the idea that you never know what someone else may be held in the container.
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More to come in November with men's health awareness.
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But let's be real...we can stop coming up with days and months to honor disease states and just agree we all need to focus on the planet and the way we interact with each other in a global community and reexamine the medical system which is incentivized to make more money when you are sick.
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