Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Wherever you may be,
Speaker 1: you are tuned in to the Vitamin D Podcast with
Speaker 1: me your host, Dawn Day. I'm here to help you
Speaker 1: shine a light on your life, get that spirit to
Speaker 1: spread off the ground of your soul and find that
Speaker 1: voice that you know is sitting in the back of
Speaker 1: your throat but just can't seem to find its way out. Sometimes,
Speaker 1: when we're trying to get that spirit to grow, just
Speaker 1: adding deposits to your life bank account, you realize that
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, you've got to go ahead and change
Speaker 1: it up. Maybe some cattle came out and trampled your fields,
Speaker 1: Maybe there was a drought, maybe there was a flood.
Speaker 1: Whatever it was, though, you have the option to get
Speaker 1: up and find another plot to grow on. When those
Speaker 1: times come up, it can seem like the world rending.
Speaker 1: It feels it's worse sensation and when everything's feel as
Speaker 1: though it's going backwards. But those same moments are opportunities
Speaker 1: to create something that is closer to your vision. Now,
Speaker 1: with that being said, I had the opportunity to sit
Speaker 1: down and talk with none other than Ananda Luis, the
Speaker 1: television host, a carpenter, former model, and social activists came
Speaker 1: on the show to talk about her life, her fight
Speaker 1: against breast cancer, and for a woman's health, about getting
Speaker 1: involved in your own health, understanding that you have a
Speaker 1: part to play in your own life, how to check
Speaker 1: yourself before you wreck yourself, and just trusting yourself more
Speaker 1: in gentle The amount of discipline I have to have
Speaker 1: now doing the protocols, doing the treatments, committing to all
Speaker 1: the hours a day being away from my child. I
Speaker 1: could have spread that out across like ten years and
Speaker 1: done it in a more balanced, you know, a little
Speaker 1: bit out of time way. Now I have to concentrate
Speaker 1: it in you know, four or five months, and really
Speaker 1: hit it hard. You're in for a special treat So,
Speaker 1: without further ado, it's time for your dose of vitamin D.
Speaker 1: Get your vitamin D right with me, and get excited
Speaker 1: about Hello. Good morning, good morning. How are you doing.
Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm good. Sorry for all the scramble again here.
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened with the technology. I was
Speaker 1: blaming on technology. I'm grateful that you arrived. And here's
Speaker 1: the thing. I knew that we were going to encounter
Speaker 1: each other. I didn't know when, and I say that
Speaker 1: because Porsha Scott, she's my agent, so years ago and
Speaker 1: I remember I think she said that you were decorating
Speaker 1: or you were put the count and renovations with her, Yeah,
Speaker 1: painting and helping her with some upgreating. Just hearing her
Speaker 1: name fills my heart was joy love and it's so interesting.
Speaker 1: And then I, um, I saw your video and I
Speaker 1: saw your story and I said, oh, this is how
Speaker 1: we're going to connect. It'll be it'll be this, it'll
Speaker 1: be this, It'll be magical. So first of all, thank
Speaker 1: you so much, thank you for you being you. Oh well,
Speaker 1: you're welcome my own. That's the thing. I could say,
Speaker 1: you're welcome for kind of what I have to do.
Speaker 1: But I appreciate the acknowledgement. Yeah, you know, because I
Speaker 1: think sometimes we forget to do us, and sometimes doing
Speaker 1: us as being uncomfortable and and this this stage that
Speaker 1: you're you're experiencing right now and being able to come forth,
Speaker 1: it means a lot for someone like me, because as
Speaker 1: you come from someone like you is exactly why I
Speaker 1: did it. Other women who looked like me, who you know,
Speaker 1: we reflect each other in the world. I needed you
Speaker 1: to hear what I did wrong, so you could avoid
Speaker 1: some of these mistakes. You know, the pitfalls are important
Speaker 1: to share. Hello, and it's how you put the pieces
Speaker 1: back together right, Yes, yeah, always, So I want to
Speaker 1: I want to pay a beautiful picture with you today. Um.
Speaker 1: And you know many people will know you and recognize
Speaker 1: your face, your voice, your energy, whether it's on MTV,
Speaker 1: whether we're watching teams, some just the host with them.
Speaker 1: Most that was the aspiration for every little black girl
Speaker 1: was like, oh my gosh. In the music industry, I
Speaker 1: can do that. So cool. Um, But I came across
Speaker 1: I I've run the digital cons and for all of
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey FM loved it too. I saw your video
Speaker 1: of and you came forth to say how you've been
Speaker 1: diagnosed with stage three breast cancer, and immediately it struck
Speaker 1: a chord because my mother passed away from stage four
Speaker 1: breast cancer. Wow when this was back in but she
Speaker 1: was first she I didn't think about it. She was
Speaker 1: pretty much sick my entire life. My mother had fake
Speaker 1: hair down her back. I remember as a kid, I
Speaker 1: was like three years old, and I remember seeing her
Speaker 1: in the mirror and cutting her hair off. I remember
Speaker 1: going to school, but my mom that strength that you
Speaker 1: exhibited in that video, and you said like, I'm doing
Speaker 1: this for my son. I'm speaking like there was not
Speaker 1: an option of not to fight. Yeah. Yeah, as long
Speaker 1: as you're live, if you're drawing breath, there's something you
Speaker 1: can do, and you better do it. Hello, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, we know this life is temporary. I
Speaker 1: hope we all understand that. By now, I mean we
Speaker 1: that enough experience with it. We are born, and we live,
Speaker 1: and then we die. That is the nature of the
Speaker 1: human bodies that we get to inhabit. Right. I believe
Speaker 1: we are the light within the body that goes on.
Speaker 1: But I also think while we're here having this experience,
Speaker 1: we need to keep some things in perspective. We're not
Speaker 1: going to live forever no matter what we do, what
Speaker 1: our options are. For me anyway, what what I look
Speaker 1: at as my choices and my control, my authority in
Speaker 1: my life is how I live while I'm here. Um.
Speaker 1: And even when you confront something, uh, you know that
Speaker 1: typically is scary that happens in your body, like a cancer,
Speaker 1: And I stay typically scary because I haven't really been
Speaker 1: assaulted by the fear. I understand it to be. What
Speaker 1: is normally, Um, how people are, you know, how people
Speaker 1: receive it. It wasn't my particular experience, and that probably
Speaker 1: helped me with how I handled it. But when when
Speaker 1: that typically happens, we get thrown off, you know, we
Speaker 1: start forgetting what we know. Uh. What I have always
Speaker 1: known up until the point of diagnosis and asked it
Speaker 1: is that I don't come from here, right, and that's
Speaker 1: not to do some weird like where aliens descended on
Speaker 1: the planet. I don't believe that. But my spirit doesn't
Speaker 1: come from here. I get to go, you better say,
Speaker 1: get to leave and go somewhere else. I came from
Speaker 1: somewhere else. This is a temporary situation and how you
Speaker 1: choose to live it is a testament of who you
Speaker 1: are and what you believe. And I don't believe in
Speaker 1: abandoning my fundamental understanding of myself, my God, my experience
Speaker 1: just because something looks scary or you know, gives me
Speaker 1: a challenge for me, that's the double down time. But
Speaker 1: did I believe this before? I better believe it even
Speaker 1: more wholehearted me. How I better go even harder on
Speaker 1: it now. And because this is the test of what
Speaker 1: it really is, right, So I don't know. Definitely, this
Speaker 1: experience has caused me to uh amplify my understandings and
Speaker 1: get real clear on things, real fast. But it also
Speaker 1: has just fortified what I have always known to be true.
Speaker 1: You know what I knew to be true back then
Speaker 1: in those days when you watch me on TV. The
Speaker 1: reason I was able to get through some of those challenges,
Speaker 1: it's the same thing. I know who I am, and
Speaker 1: I know what I can do, and even knowing that
Speaker 1: isn't gonna save my life forever, I get that, right,
Speaker 1: But in the context of what I'm dealing with, I
Speaker 1: absolutely know that there are things that I have control
Speaker 1: over that I can do differently. There are reasons that
Speaker 1: this happened in my body, and it's not some weird,
Speaker 1: scary mystery. It's a process, and every process can be reversed.
Speaker 1: That's what I believe. And you know what stands out
Speaker 1: to me so much is that as you speak on
Speaker 1: that and this decree that you've made over your life,
Speaker 1: is that you've chosen to walk in your authority. You
Speaker 1: chose and you you made a choice. And I think
Speaker 1: when we're looking to spare, we looking confusion, we feel
Speaker 1: like we're lost it's because we don't have a choice, right,
Speaker 1: or we don't have enough information. Yeah, we just don't know.
Speaker 1: Fear is a lot of time based on that you
Speaker 1: cannot see, just don't know. It's the fair of the unknown.
Speaker 1: We don't know what's gonna happen next. I knew what
Speaker 1: was gonna happen next. I had to do what I
Speaker 1: knew to do next, so there was no unknown, and
Speaker 1: I knew that if my body started this process, there's
Speaker 1: an environment in my body that I somehow contributed to.
Speaker 1: Not saying it's all my fault. But you know, when
Speaker 1: we talk about blame and fault, I think we've gotten
Speaker 1: this to this place where we don't want to be
Speaker 1: blamed for something, right. But I look at it as well,
Speaker 1: if you blame me, that means it's my responsibility. When
Speaker 1: something is my responsibility, I control it. I like controlling things,
Speaker 1: So I think responsibility is a really powerful place to
Speaker 1: come from. And it's a good way to switch that
Speaker 1: blames thing. Right, if somebody blames you for something and
Speaker 1: you switch it to okay, let's let me play along,
Speaker 1: all right, I did do that. Now what can I
Speaker 1: do to get myself out of it? Then? You have
Speaker 1: a place to start from instead of being stuck it. Well,
Speaker 1: they're blaming me, they're staying into my fault. Okay, what
Speaker 1: if it is? So? What what if it is? That
Speaker 1: means you can do something? And and so when I
Speaker 1: looked at it like that, when I said to myself,
Speaker 1: this happened for a reason, I might be part of
Speaker 1: that reason. I might be a huge part of that reason.
Speaker 1: When you look at how cancers or any other chronic
Speaker 1: illnesses start in the body, they start with an environment
Speaker 1: that's been created. We're we're we're in control of these bodies.
Speaker 1: What you put in your mouth, the energy you allow
Speaker 1: yourself to be around, how you speak to people, how
Speaker 1: you allow people to speak to you, all of that matters.
Speaker 1: And so if you look at all those things as
Speaker 1: different variables creating this environment, you understand that you have
Speaker 1: some authority there. So when I walk in that authority,
Speaker 1: it's because I know it to be true. It's not
Speaker 1: a false sense of understanding or a game on playing
Speaker 1: in my mind. I create my future with exactly how
Speaker 1: I think, what I choose to do. If I get
Speaker 1: up and work out, as opposed to getting up and
Speaker 1: having a cup of coffee. That makes a difference in
Speaker 1: my body, those little changes, right, my body can't take coffee.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have known that until I have this experience
Speaker 1: and did all the testing that I've done. I used
Speaker 1: to drink eight cups of coffee the day just to
Speaker 1: get through the day, like most people do. That was
Speaker 1: creating an acidic condition in my body I had no
Speaker 1: awareness of. But it doesn't matter if you know it
Speaker 1: or not. Your body's gonna do it right. Your awareness
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Do your body. Um, So those little things
Speaker 1: have gone such a long way for me. And when
Speaker 1: I saw the difference that I could make in the
Speaker 1: environment in my body, uh, I knew I I could
Speaker 1: do something other than what they were telling me to
Speaker 1: do to start to fix this problem. Now is that
Speaker 1: all I had to do. No, But if you don't
Speaker 1: even start there, if you don't even start with inability
Speaker 1: to do your part and a desire to do your
Speaker 1: part and understanding that you have a part to play,
Speaker 1: then you're just lost in fear and and the lack
Speaker 1: of belief in what you can do because you're not
Speaker 1: aware of it. So awareness, to me is absolutely at
Speaker 1: the beginning of all this now and That's why I
Speaker 1: encourage women who I who I talked to, and subsequently
Speaker 1: I've met a lot of women who are also going
Speaker 1: through breast cancer fight right now, and we share information
Speaker 1: and that the first thing we talk about is what
Speaker 1: are you doing? Like, what are you taking, what are
Speaker 1: you how are you detoxing? And in addition to what
Speaker 1: your doctors saying, which I'm all for doing what it
Speaker 1: is that's comfortable for you, of listening to your doctor
Speaker 1: and do what they say, is that that's good. So
Speaker 1: in addition to that, what else are you doing? Because
Speaker 1: more and more, you know, best cancer centers around the
Speaker 1: country are acknowledging that when a patient fasts before chemo,
Speaker 1: or when a patient takes CBD before chemo, whatever the
Speaker 1: things that they're acknowledging are, they know that there's an
Speaker 1: impact being had. And so even if it's a little
Speaker 1: bit of a help to me, that's help still as
Speaker 1: a build And even as you're saying that I can
Speaker 1: hear ice cube in my ear, check yourself before you
Speaker 1: wreck yourself, and that awareness is tapping in and say one,
Speaker 1: let me assess, am I feeling differently? But that whole
Speaker 1: notion of go go go, whether that coffee was so
Speaker 1: you can stay up for this thing. When did I say,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, stop, pause, yes, let me do a
Speaker 1: simplature check. So what was what was that experience? What happened?
Speaker 1: When was your moment that you decided to pause and
Speaker 1: to literally check yourself. I think it was in the biopsy,
Speaker 1: because you know, I had been refusing the mamograms for years.
Speaker 1: Did your mother have of cancer? My mother had breast
Speaker 1: cancer thirteen about thirteen years ago, and I went through
Speaker 1: her journey with her. She opted standard care um and
Speaker 1: did all the things they told her to do, and
Speaker 1: I looked from you know, outside, because I was in
Speaker 1: the experience with her, but I wasn't her, and so
Speaker 1: I was still looking from outside, looking at her experience
Speaker 1: and knowing I saw her do mamograms my whole life.
Speaker 1: You know, she did them for almost thirty years, just
Speaker 1: like she was told to. The radiation exposure was different
Speaker 1: with them because the machines were different. But I didn't
Speaker 1: know that at the time. I saw her doing mamograms
Speaker 1: all this time, and I saw her still getting breast cancer,
Speaker 1: and I knew as I mean, it's pretty common knowledge
Speaker 1: that radiation and the human body is not a good
Speaker 1: A right can cause cancer. We hear the extremes of
Speaker 1: like nuclear power plant problems where people have fall up
Speaker 1: with these smaller amounts of exposures to radiation also can
Speaker 1: cause problems. I knew that, and I directly connected her
Speaker 1: diligence with her mamograms to her getting breast cancer. Now
Speaker 1: that's not a completely incorrect line of thinking. Where I
Speaker 1: wish I had understood better. And one of the biggest
Speaker 1: reasons I wanted to share that part of my experience
Speaker 1: with with other women, um and I guess people in
Speaker 1: general because men get breast cancer too, was because my
Speaker 1: thinking was often this way, we need to do ramograms
Speaker 1: even though there is this small amount of exposure to radiation,
Speaker 1: because the risk out or the reward outweighs the risk. Right,
Speaker 1: The risk of that little bit of radiation is nothing
Speaker 1: compared to the reward of finding out what's going on
Speaker 1: in your body so that you can be proactive, maintain
Speaker 1: more control, and not find out about something when it's
Speaker 1: further down the I know I'm lucky in the sense
Speaker 1: that I didn't wait until it was a stage four right,
Speaker 1: because that's a harder process to deal with in the
Speaker 1: body a stage three isn't great, so it's in my
Speaker 1: limbs and that does make it more difficult. There are
Speaker 1: more things you have to do. There's a deeper dig uh.
Speaker 1: And I wish I had found it earlier. I would
Speaker 1: have if I'd been doing mamograms. And that's the part
Speaker 1: I needed women to understand. Yeah, there's a risk, but
Speaker 1: there's a way bigger reward. And it's so interesting because
Speaker 1: I had to, Um, it's a conversation that maybe isn't
Speaker 1: talked about too much. And as I was looking at
Speaker 1: your video and you said wow, I never said that
Speaker 1: I was loud because your your emotions were enraged. And
Speaker 1: I just think of like the shame aspect because like
Speaker 1: even though I said with my mother, I still did
Speaker 1: not undersunderstand the gravity of what breast cancer was, even
Speaker 1: at three years old, even at the point when I
Speaker 1: was in eighth grade, even to the was last point
Speaker 1: when I was in school, like just when I graduated.
Speaker 1: Oh we went to Howard together as well, we're both alone.
Speaker 1: So I had said, I know, yes, Um, So it
Speaker 1: wasn't until and I think, like you said that awareness
Speaker 1: but having that conversation, but when I hear you say
Speaker 1: that I knew the next step. I'm looking at myself
Speaker 1: and when I was twenty five, my mother had first
Speaker 1: um I think she was probably thirty, yeah, thirty five
Speaker 1: because I was a few years old when she had it,
Speaker 1: so she how many years that's from somethody pretty much
Speaker 1: my entire life, because let's see, probably from eight eight
Speaker 1: and she passed away in twelve. She had went into
Speaker 1: a remission for a few years, and it came back
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight, and the doctors were coming
Speaker 1: in and they're like, oh, you know, the students and
Speaker 1: so forth, because she was doing well. But it's interesting
Speaker 1: what you said, and I'm sure that this play is
Speaker 1: a part and some of the other things that you
Speaker 1: talked about, which stress would do, because once life came,
Speaker 1: she lost. I think my mother had lost her fight
Speaker 1: in a way, her sense of going and why and
Speaker 1: how you said that fight for your son. My mother,
Speaker 1: Janice Hill did everything for her daughter. She lives for us,
Speaker 1: and I think we got to the point that she
Speaker 1: just got tired. Yeah, well that happens. But I think
Speaker 1: as beautiful is that what you said and how you're saying,
Speaker 1: how you know the next step? We'll speaking to someone
Speaker 1: like me. I didn't know what the next step was.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm twenty five. Do I go ahead and
Speaker 1: get that mammogram? Because again that exposure and who do
Speaker 1: you talk to year olds now who has the insurance
Speaker 1: to say, Hey, I'm stepping into a mammogram? Yeah? Not Nie,
Speaker 1: Well what did you decide? Well, when I was in
Speaker 1: New York site, I was working at w B L
Speaker 1: S and I remember it was right before I moved
Speaker 1: out to l A, and they had a program set
Speaker 1: up and they knew that since I was high risk
Speaker 1: since my mother had it three times. My grandmother had
Speaker 1: ovarian cancer at a cousin that had kidney cancer, so
Speaker 1: that cancer, Jean, It's surrounding um my oldest aunt breast cancer.
Speaker 1: And I found out my youngest aunt, who died months
Speaker 1: after my other, had breast cancer as well. So it
Speaker 1: was a situation where they said, hey, you need to
Speaker 1: go just get checked. And so since then, I've had
Speaker 1: a mammogram once each year. But I didn't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I really know how to properly do
Speaker 1: the assessment. And so that's what I was wondering. Did
Speaker 1: you feel a pain, How did you know? That something
Speaker 1: was going on. I had. I had discharge out of
Speaker 1: my right nit bul right side is where everything's happening
Speaker 1: for me, um, and I had a not right kind
Speaker 1: of above into the right right about here on my breast.
Speaker 1: And you know what's funny is even with those symptoms,
Speaker 1: I was like, it's fine, it's left over from breastfeeding.
Speaker 1: I breast spent my son for three years. And you know,
Speaker 1: this was the way after three years. But we tend
Speaker 1: to tell ourselves it's okay. We gotta keep going. For
Speaker 1: all those reasons that you mentioned that your mom Janice,
Speaker 1: did she put her children first? All mothers did, I
Speaker 1: know do that? And it's just an instinctive. That's what happens.
Speaker 1: When the baby comes back your body, you go and
Speaker 1: even you know when you have however, you have your baby, um,
Speaker 1: this this maternal instinct kicks in and you will give
Speaker 1: your life for this child. You will put down everything
Speaker 1: you need to, you will do whatever. And part of
Speaker 1: where I think we need to come to some better
Speaker 1: balance as women as mothers on that is continuing to
Speaker 1: keep ourselves on that top list of priorities, because if
Speaker 1: we're not healthy and we're not okay, we can't be
Speaker 1: here for them. So as much as my son is
Speaker 1: my motivation, my own life is my motivation too, because
Speaker 1: without me being here, I can't take care of him,
Speaker 1: and it's difficult to do because it's our instinct, you know,
Speaker 1: it's our fundamental instinct as moms to prioritize our kids.
Speaker 1: And that's not a bad thing. It only becomes a
Speaker 1: dangerous thing for ourselves when we get lost and way
Speaker 1: down at the bottom of that list. And I absolutely
Speaker 1: did that to myself. I mean, yes, I was against mamograms,
Speaker 1: but also once I found that lump, and once I
Speaker 1: had that discharge and got serious about let me go
Speaker 1: check this out, I lost my insurance for other reasons.
Speaker 1: And so insurance becomes an issue for a lot of women,
Speaker 1: even a woman you know, like me, who from the
Speaker 1: outside you would think I got what stuff altogether and
Speaker 1: at least I have my insurance covered, right, That's not
Speaker 1: always the case. So, I mean, there are so many
Speaker 1: reasons that can come up in the life of a
Speaker 1: woman when it comes to her care, her care of
Speaker 1: her health, of her breast or her body, for overies
Speaker 1: of her womb, all these different parts that we have
Speaker 1: as women. That need special care. Uh. And I really
Speaker 1: just want to encourage women to not let anything stop
Speaker 1: you from taking good care of yourself because you're the priority.
Speaker 1: You know, nothing else matters if you don't prioritize yourself.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I get to learn that the hard way,
Speaker 1: but I only have to learn it once right, it
Speaker 1: will not happen. And it's so beautiful because you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes we look at life and we'll see all these
Speaker 1: great things that I have, and then you wonder why
Speaker 1: all these backwards You're like, oh my gosh, everything keeps
Speaker 1: going wrong. But when you turn it around and how
Speaker 1: you say, like changing your perspective or realizing even something
Speaker 1: I study improv at the Groundlings, it's amazing. I love
Speaker 1: it if that whole notion of someone blames you for something.
Speaker 1: And just like the Groundlings has taught me, it's a
Speaker 1: it's a matter of a yes, and how do we
Speaker 1: grow and build upon from this? So let me receive
Speaker 1: because if I'm blocking, which I feel like stressed us
Speaker 1: any type of attention, nothing is moving, Toxins aren't moving
Speaker 1: out of your body appropriately. Um stuck and and understanding
Speaker 1: that whole yes and that ability has allowed to flow
Speaker 1: and It's just interesting when we talk about caring for self. Right,
Speaker 1: and even as you just said on here, you said,
Speaker 1: I'm a light, right, your light cannot be constricted. The
Speaker 1: sun doesn't ask for permission to I. So who are
Speaker 1: you if something is giving you a signal? How dare
Speaker 1: you try to contain whatever life, your body or whomever
Speaker 1: is speaking to you? Because in that lesson, that is
Speaker 1: actually a blessing experiencing that I do find the beauty
Speaker 1: and trials and tribulations because now you're gifted to speak
Speaker 1: a language that not many people can speak nor understand,
Speaker 1: because now you can speak to me about a person
Speaker 1: who I need to consider. This is a top priority,
Speaker 1: not to be scared. Why it's important to take those
Speaker 1: mammigrants Because I'm not sure if I have the name
Speaker 1: of the test correctly. But as I was watching your video,
Speaker 1: you said, um, I think you had to have two
Speaker 1: pet scans or pet that were like the P E
Speaker 1: T s. I've had three now when I did that video,
Speaker 1: I had to but I the third one sense. So
Speaker 1: what is that about? Well, that's how you basically are
Speaker 1: able to look into the body and see if cancer
Speaker 1: has gone anywhere else outside of the original localized spot
Speaker 1: UM and see what the metabolic activity is. An interesting
Speaker 1: thing is to me when I look at how they
Speaker 1: test for all this stuff. UM. When I was going
Speaker 1: through my mom's situation and she was doing chemotherapy in
Speaker 1: the standard way, they were giving her UM, you know,
Speaker 1: for like snaps and stuff, they would bring around these
Speaker 1: trays of like granilla bars and had grape juice and
Speaker 1: all this other stuff on it, which even then, thirteen
Speaker 1: years ago, in my mind, I was like, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but that can't be how she's supposed to eat with
Speaker 1: the fact that sugar fuels cancer. And you know that
Speaker 1: the industry knows it because in pet scans they give
Speaker 1: you radioactive sugar basically, and you that you fast for
Speaker 1: well eight hours whatever, and then you either injected or
Speaker 1: you drink this stuff, depending on the kind of scan
Speaker 1: you're doing. But um, it goes into your body and
Speaker 1: your cancer cells because they're greedy and they feed themselves
Speaker 1: first and they want sugar. They suck up all that
Speaker 1: sugar and that's what lights them up. That's what the
Speaker 1: scan actually detects. This radiated sugar then lights up in
Speaker 1: the cancer cells because they're the ones eating it first.
Speaker 1: And fast. Right, so they're using the fact that cancer
Speaker 1: feeds on sugar and absorbs it, you know, the most
Speaker 1: and first in your body to actually test and see
Speaker 1: how much cancer is in your body. But they're feeding
Speaker 1: it to you in chemotherapy. I mean, it's like the
Speaker 1: craziest contradiction. And yet, you know, we we have a
Speaker 1: lot of faith and how they do stuff, which I'm
Speaker 1: not saying don't have. I I'm on the fence because
Speaker 1: I have this vast amount of respect and gratitude for
Speaker 1: doctors and especially first responders and nurses, everybody in the
Speaker 1: medical industry, right, what they sacrifice, what they go through
Speaker 1: to even be there and get the degrees that and
Speaker 1: and certificates they have to be able to help us.
Speaker 1: And when I am in an emergency situation, please take
Speaker 1: me to an e er and not a herbal doctor. Right.
Speaker 1: If I break my leg, please go let them reset it,
Speaker 1: don't go get me supplements. I understand the value of
Speaker 1: of medicine, and at the same time, when I see
Speaker 1: in some ways how they treat chronic illnesses and what
Speaker 1: what I perceive as a lack of understanding about the
Speaker 1: human body that they're treating in terms of what it's
Speaker 1: power is and what its ability is. To not harness
Speaker 1: that and use it to help the human body doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense in my mind. It's part of the reason
Speaker 1: I couldn't go UM the standard protocol route with with
Speaker 1: my situation, because I just we don't think enough a
Speaker 1: life for me to be able to embrace what you're
Speaker 1: talking about. You know, if I sit with one of
Speaker 1: the leading on colleges in l A and I want
Speaker 1: to talk to him about food and he says food
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with this, I'm like, don't know
Speaker 1: what else we can talk about, because for me, that's
Speaker 1: the exact opposite of what I know to be true.
Speaker 1: If that's true, stop telling diabetics to avoid sugar. Food
Speaker 1: ain't got nothing to do with it. So I think
Speaker 1: we have too many examples of how we eat having
Speaker 1: a direct core lation with the health of our bodies
Speaker 1: to ignore that any longer. And I can understand UM
Speaker 1: the difference in thinking. Where I draw my line is,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with how I think because my experience
Speaker 1: has to be dictated by my understanding, and I'm open
Speaker 1: to receiving the understandings of other people, especially experts and
Speaker 1: I'm still the one who's gonna decide what President Bush say.
Speaker 1: I'm the decider. I am the decider when it comes
Speaker 1: to my body and my life. Uh. And I I
Speaker 1: hold onto that, you know, with everything, because that to
Speaker 1: me makes the difference between if I'm going to be
Speaker 1: happy with my outcome or not. And either way, no
Speaker 1: matter what I do, the end result down the line
Speaker 1: is that I'm gonna have to get out of this
Speaker 1: body at some point. So for me, the point is
Speaker 1: how do I want to live in the body? How
Speaker 1: do I want to treat the body? I think I
Speaker 1: can make this body last a lot longer not destroying
Speaker 1: it and by supporting it and by helping it do
Speaker 1: what it's designed to do. You know, your immune system
Speaker 1: fights cancer all the time. The reason most people haven't
Speaker 1: been diagnosed when we all have potentially cancer aus cells
Speaker 1: in our bodies is because their immune system attacked and
Speaker 1: the maclefages ate it up. It did its job right
Speaker 1: some reason, for some reason, I should say in my
Speaker 1: body that wasn't the case. I wanted to find out
Speaker 1: what the reasons were why my body couldn't do what
Speaker 1: it's supposed to do, what it's designed to do what
Speaker 1: it's divinely and intelligently created for doing. I wanted to
Speaker 1: find out what I was doing to stand in the
Speaker 1: way of that process. I want to get out of
Speaker 1: the way and then see what the process would be
Speaker 1: right to me, that's what's logical. And then if I
Speaker 1: have to go through and start destroying stuff, tear and stuff.
Speaker 1: If if that is the case, then I'll consider that.
Speaker 1: But that wasn't the first step for me. When you
Speaker 1: talk about first steps, like what do I do next?
Speaker 1: For me, the first thing that I needed to do
Speaker 1: was the least damage. Since I already had a system
Speaker 1: that was turning on itself to a certain extent, I
Speaker 1: needed to do the least damage and try to figure
Speaker 1: out how to slowly turn this big old ship or
Speaker 1: round to start going in the right direction again. Because
Speaker 1: at some point we were going in the right directions
Speaker 1: right and then something happened. What was that something? And
Speaker 1: you know the scientist in me, And I've had a
Speaker 1: scientist in me since I was a little girl. Remember
Speaker 1: one of the worst whoopings I got was trying to
Speaker 1: make my own shampoo, and I used my grandma's cleaning products.
Speaker 1: So I used to soa and hydrogen peroxide because I'm
Speaker 1: using cleaned out words, and I put lemons. I squeezed
Speaker 1: lemon juice in it, because you know, Lemon's clean things too,
Speaker 1: and made a shampoo and washed my hair with it
Speaker 1: and turned my whole head red, and yeah it was.
Speaker 1: I probably still have a mark on my legs and
Speaker 1: then worse, but I used So I have always thought
Speaker 1: out myself to be a scientist and listen, if I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be anybody's guinea pig, it's gonna be my own, uh,
Speaker 1: because I'm smart and I trust myself, and I trust
Speaker 1: that if I try something on this body that I'm in,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna know if it's working or not. Your body
Speaker 1: is constant communicating with you, constantly telling you if what
Speaker 1: you're doing is right, if what you're doing is not right,
Speaker 1: if it feels good or not. Like we have all
Speaker 1: these signs and and and indications of things that we
Speaker 1: have not really learned how to interpret. We have plants
Speaker 1: around us that we are told and at least in
Speaker 1: the Bible, we've been given these plants to heal, to
Speaker 1: feed ourselves, to use. So you know, to me, it
Speaker 1: makes sense to start with what I know to be true.
Speaker 1: What I know to be true is that we are
Speaker 1: healing bodies. We have potential for um for healing ourselves.
Speaker 1: We see it all the time. You cut your finger.
Speaker 1: You don't know how that heals up, It just does. Right.
Speaker 1: You don't even know how your heart is pumping to
Speaker 1: keep you alive all day long. You trust that it's
Speaker 1: doing it. You don't know how your breath works, but
Speaker 1: it does. And so within all these standard kind of
Speaker 1: um that the body's natural functions are powers right that
Speaker 1: if we harness in the right way, I believe we
Speaker 1: can use to help ourselves. That does not mean we
Speaker 1: don't need medicine. We do, but I think we need
Speaker 1: it in a different way than how we're using it currently. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And the first thing that comes to my mind is
Speaker 1: just thinking of discernment. You have to be in and
Speaker 1: and and along the lines of supporting how I was saying,
Speaker 1: you know, you have to make a choice. These things
Speaker 1: can come at you. But just like anything, you apply
Speaker 1: what applies to you and you walk through it received
Speaker 1: and how can I build? And it was so amazing
Speaker 1: of how you're saying how important it is to know
Speaker 1: your authority and know the power you have over your life,
Speaker 1: because when you're in despair, you just forgot who you were. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: fear paralyzes you. It's set fight or flight. You know.
Speaker 1: We're given this, this ability to the fight or flight.
Speaker 1: It's this reflex in our bodies, right, naturally built in
Speaker 1: and I think it's it's probably been there from the
Speaker 1: very beginning when our ancestors running from lions and not trying,
Speaker 1: you know, trying not to get eaten. So there's there's
Speaker 1: a necessity for it that I think is much more valuable,
Speaker 1: probably back then then now. But because it's built into us,
Speaker 1: we have of this ability to to trigger ourselves into
Speaker 1: this fight or flight, right, And so when fear hits us,
Speaker 1: our bodies don't know the difference between a fear of
Speaker 1: an illness or fear of a lion. Right, it stirrups
Speaker 1: and it comes in and go, Yeah, locks you up,
Speaker 1: just like that, locks you up, and you can either
Speaker 1: run or you can freeze. And our evolution, I think
Speaker 1: as human beings has allowed us, you know, these great brains,
Speaker 1: we have, these control centers of our bodies. We have evolved.
Speaker 1: I believe we have evolved to the point where we
Speaker 1: can think through, uh, with our awareness and our consciousness,
Speaker 1: overcome this fear frozen dynamic that happens, this fight or
Speaker 1: flight and and go be an observer of it and say,
Speaker 1: I see what's happening. I feel that fear trying to come.
Speaker 1: Can you just say, I see, I see it. I
Speaker 1: see I see I see you coming fear. You know,
Speaker 1: I've had those moments. It's funny to me because I think, Uh,
Speaker 1: what I don't want to do is give the impression
Speaker 1: that I never have any you know, bad moments or
Speaker 1: or moments where I'm I actually don't have moments where
Speaker 1: I'm doubtful, but what's the right word, Moments where I'm
Speaker 1: shook by something. Right, I have moments like that. But
Speaker 1: what I do in those moments determines how I get
Speaker 1: through those moments. And what I do in those moments
Speaker 1: is recognized them as what they are. You know, this
Speaker 1: the tour that was that I found in my breast
Speaker 1: was not in my windpipe, was not in my uh,
Speaker 1: you know, my bowel system. It wasn't in a place
Speaker 1: that was going to cause me uh immediate uh an
Speaker 1: emergency level harm. Right, wasn't going to in my life
Speaker 1: right now, there are things that you experience on a
Speaker 1: daily basis that may have that may do that. Right,
Speaker 1: this wasn't one of those things. And so when I
Speaker 1: felt or observed this fear that exists around it, I
Speaker 1: had to put it in context. I had to put
Speaker 1: it in perspective and say, uh, let's get some fact straight.
Speaker 1: You can't do nothing to me right now. You have
Speaker 1: been here for years, because that's the truth. If you
Speaker 1: have a tumor the size of the one I found
Speaker 1: in my breast that has been growing, that did not
Speaker 1: just pop up overnight, that has had a track record
Speaker 1: in your body that you have been unaware of. It's
Speaker 1: been there and I didn't know it, and I was
Speaker 1: just fine, right, So I was just frying this whole
Speaker 1: time without the awareness of it. I'm not gonna let
Speaker 1: the awareness of it all of a sudden spin me
Speaker 1: into some chaos in my mind that freezes me and
Speaker 1: stops me from being able to think clearly and have
Speaker 1: the discernment you're talking about, and remember who I am.
Speaker 1: Forget right, don't. You're not gonna let me. You're not
Speaker 1: gonna get me to forget. And I think I've had
Speaker 1: enough experiences in my life and things that were much
Speaker 1: more life threatening immediately where I was able to live
Speaker 1: past them obviously and look back and say, ha, ha,
Speaker 1: you didn't get me, and there's reason you didn't get me.
Speaker 1: And I'm still here and I'm gonna keep a pushing.
Speaker 1: And so you know what I do in those moments
Speaker 1: of panic is take a breath. When we talk about
Speaker 1: breath as one of the tools of control in our bodies,
Speaker 1: it is so real and it is so powerful, and
Speaker 1: we have, you know, examples of it throughout history. You
Speaker 1: can look back to, like personal examples, you you can
Speaker 1: hear about in text and you find us more in
Speaker 1: India probably, but Yogis who were able to bring their
Speaker 1: heart beat down to the point where people would think
Speaker 1: they were dead, or bring their breath down to the
Speaker 1: point that their bodies, you know, their heart rate actually change,
Speaker 1: their blood pressure actually diminished. So all these things in
Speaker 1: our bodies we have control over, and there's a way
Speaker 1: we have control over them. Breath is one of those ways.
Speaker 1: So when I start panicking, the first thing I have
Speaker 1: trained myself to do is take a very deep breath
Speaker 1: all the way into my abdomen, fill it up, hold
Speaker 1: it almost until I get lightheaded and then slowly let
Speaker 1: it out, and that triggers these autonomic nervous systems, these
Speaker 1: parasympathetic nervous systems. All the different titles of the systems
Speaker 1: and our bodies, these routes that our bodies take to
Speaker 1: do things. You can get some control over them. You
Speaker 1: can calm yourself down to the point that you can
Speaker 1: think again. Everything slows down a little bit, because you know,
Speaker 1: when you're panicking, you're like this anything breaking out, your
Speaker 1: body sweat and aren't again. You have to stop that process.
Speaker 1: Be easy, yeah, yeah, so that the right information can
Speaker 1: get to you. We are receptors. Were living in a
Speaker 1: big old battery. This body is a big old battery.
Speaker 1: It charges up, it receives information. We are magnets. All
Speaker 1: of that is real Energetically. You can figure all that
Speaker 1: out for yourself. I'm just telling you it's true for me,
Speaker 1: and because I know that. I know that when you
Speaker 1: block those things right, you're stopping the magnetic cre energy.
Speaker 1: You're stopping things from getting to you. And so if
Speaker 1: you can just recognize that you're the one doing it,
Speaker 1: then you can be the one to stop doing it.
Speaker 1: And when you do that, things become in the moment,
Speaker 1: because really you we're just taking this life moment by moment, said,
Speaker 1: when we look too far ahead, that panic is too much.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take it's moment by moment. What can I
Speaker 1: do right now? What's happening right now? What's the threat
Speaker 1: right now? What's real right now? And when you can
Speaker 1: stay in the moment, present, right now, you realize you
Speaker 1: have so many options to determine the next moment. And
Speaker 1: for me, that's where the majority of my healing, of
Speaker 1: my UH bringing into my environment, the other options, whether
Speaker 1: their treatments or people or UH energetic work, all the
Speaker 1: things that I need and have meeted over these last
Speaker 1: two years have come to me because I've been able
Speaker 1: to slow down, calm down, and not let that panic
Speaker 1: be bigger than me. Wow, and here it is so
Speaker 1: beautiful that you what you said to right so when
Speaker 1: you mentioned the fact about the fear right the confusion,
Speaker 1: and you said, when I take a minute, I can breathe,
Speaker 1: I can see right Well, I just have to feed.
Speaker 1: I have to keep digesting your words. That was the
Speaker 1: first thing that you talked about being the light. We'll
Speaker 1: see when you cast on the light, you can see
Speaker 1: I can't if I'm so busy. But here's another thing
Speaker 1: that I thought was beautiful. I had a young lady
Speaker 1: on the previous episode on the podcast carm Alone right
Speaker 1: just so, she talks about this whole situation of just
Speaker 1: like anything with a yang and a yang, you have
Speaker 1: a good and bad. And while we understand these things,
Speaker 1: of these notions from the doctors, we have to choose
Speaker 1: what we're going to inflame or engulf ourselves in. Yes,
Speaker 1: But just like with anything, if you step too close
Speaker 1: to the sun, or if you put your hand in fire,
Speaker 1: it will get burned. And it goes to the whole
Speaker 1: notion of just handle with care, use what's applicable to you.
Speaker 1: Do you hold the fire in your hand or do
Speaker 1: you use it as a guiding light? Do you let
Speaker 1: the sun blind you in your eyes or do you
Speaker 1: put shade on? How do you take control of your life?
Speaker 1: So even in this moment, if you're saying, you know
Speaker 1: I'm gonna harness who Ananda is, I'm gonna walk and
Speaker 1: knowing who I am at a point that I can
Speaker 1: briefe to know how to choose to move forward with
Speaker 1: what that I do? How do you how important is gratitude.
Speaker 1: And what does happiness look like to you? Now? Gratitude
Speaker 1: is everything you look at the frequency of of energy, right,
Speaker 1: and we're energetic beings, like I said, but down here
Speaker 1: at the bottom and sadness and grief and and uh
Speaker 1: lack at lack, just lack is at the bottom, right,
Speaker 1: and you dig a bit, you're in the hole. And
Speaker 1: as you start to rise up the scale of energetics
Speaker 1: and frequencies at the top, uh, the top of what
Speaker 1: we can access anyhow, you know, I think there's another
Speaker 1: realm beyond us at the top of our realm. Love, gratitude, um, happiness, joy,
Speaker 1: all those things are really high frequencies. And when you
Speaker 1: look at what frequencies it takes to heal something, those
Speaker 1: are also really high frequencies. So they live up in
Speaker 1: the love and the gratitude and the joy and all
Speaker 1: that the good stuff and the stuff that makes you
Speaker 1: feel good. The reason it makes us feel good is
Speaker 1: because now increase your energetic frequency and your body. You're
Speaker 1: raising your frequency, there's an impact on your body of
Speaker 1: that because you're a battery, because you're energetic. So I
Speaker 1: find that gratitude it's right up there with love, and
Speaker 1: joy like it is one of the most important things.
Speaker 1: And I think it's because sometimes it's easier for us
Speaker 1: to um look outside of ourselves for things. I know
Speaker 1: that's true for me sometimes, so we don't always look within. Right,
Speaker 1: our our immediate human instinct, I guess, is to look
Speaker 1: outside and copy that. But look outside and do that,
Speaker 1: look outside and see that. So that's fine. Let's let's
Speaker 1: use what we got. When I look outside and I
Speaker 1: can project gratitude on something outside of me, that gratitude
Speaker 1: automatically comes back and becomes my experience. And so you're
Speaker 1: using the dynamics of seeing outside of you what you
Speaker 1: would like or what you can identify as something you're
Speaker 1: grateful for, and then receiving that full circle comeback of
Speaker 1: the gratitude you've just put out in the world. Because
Speaker 1: what you put out is what you'll get back. That
Speaker 1: is just a rule of nature, a law of nature
Speaker 1: that we are not going to change anytime soon. Let's
Speaker 1: work with it, right, what you put out is what
Speaker 1: you're gonna get back. So if I'm putting out gratitude
Speaker 1: even towards something outside of myself that I see as
Speaker 1: an object or a person or whatever that's gonna come
Speaker 1: back to me, and it comes back and and all
Speaker 1: kinds of forms. You can't predict how it's gonna come back.
Speaker 1: You just know that the law says it will come
Speaker 1: back to you. And when you know what you know,
Speaker 1: it's like doing math and class. When you know what
Speaker 1: you know. I know for a fact if I put
Speaker 1: it out there too, it's gonna come back to me
Speaker 1: plus two and I'm gonna get for I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: it because that's the truth. And when you know the truth,
Speaker 1: you can stand on that and say I already know
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. So all I have to do is
Speaker 1: my part. My part is putting out love. My part
Speaker 1: is putting out gratitude. My part is putting out joy
Speaker 1: because that's what I want to experience. And I know that.
Speaker 1: Like Dr Joe Dispenser, who has been vital for me
Speaker 1: on this path, is teachings anyway. He always says you
Speaker 1: the best way to predict your future is to create it.
Speaker 1: The truth and that is that you're creating your future.
Speaker 1: And so if you're experiencing something you don't like, or
Speaker 1: you know, whether it's a situation or person or whatever,
Speaker 1: Energetics come in all forms, right, people, experiences, etcetera. If
Speaker 1: you're experiencing something you don't like, um, get through the
Speaker 1: blame of it and saying well, whose fault is it? Whatever?
Speaker 1: Just know that all you have to do is say, well,
Speaker 1: what do I want experience next? Okay, I don't like
Speaker 1: what I'm experiencing. Now you have a choice to dwell
Speaker 1: on that or not. When you dwell on it, you
Speaker 1: just create more of it if you don't want experience,
Speaker 1: if you genuinely don't want experience. Because there's some people
Speaker 1: who are addicted to the habit of being sad, say
Speaker 1: the habit of being unhappy. Come on to the habit
Speaker 1: of being mistreated. They're addicted to that because it's easy
Speaker 1: way to help people too, write they're just used to it.
Speaker 1: We habit can be formed with anything you do repeatedly.
Speaker 1: Good habits, bad habits. You're forming a habit if you're
Speaker 1: used to being mistreated. You might be in a habit
Speaker 1: of being mistreated, and so you don't know what else
Speaker 1: it feels like, and that's what you're used to feeling.
Speaker 1: So that's what you're gonna can to you to attract
Speaker 1: was that's what you're thinking you want experience. As soon
Speaker 1: as you want to change something, all you have to
Speaker 1: do is say what do I want experience instead, and
Speaker 1: then experience it without having to have any external proof
Speaker 1: of that being what you know it actually is in
Speaker 1: your own thoughts. Everything starts with thought. In your thoughts,
Speaker 1: experience what you want to feel, and then open your
Speaker 1: eyes and walk through your life with that feeling, and
Speaker 1: it will show up for you because you are putting
Speaker 1: it out there and you will get it back. That's
Speaker 1: the math. Use the math in your favor. And when
Speaker 1: I remember that, even in those little moments that I
Speaker 1: go away with whoo whoo, I know what I can
Speaker 1: do say put out what I want experience right, And
Speaker 1: the way I'll do that to answer your question fully,
Speaker 1: I'll use music. I will uh listen. I talked to
Speaker 1: myself a lot because I'm I'm I live alone right now.
Speaker 1: So when I need some encouragement or else, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be over you. So listen, or I get in the
Speaker 1: mirror and I can listen. I know you don't feel
Speaker 1: like it today, but here's what you obut to do.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get up, You're gonna go get these ivy bags.
Speaker 1: You're gonna go do this act. Whatever it is you
Speaker 1: gotta do today, You're gonna do it, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: work and you are gonna heal and you're gonna be Okay,
Speaker 1: suck it up, buttercup, and let's get to it. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you have to be your own general, your own sergeant,
Speaker 1: your own drill sergeant, you know. And I think we
Speaker 1: depend too much on what we need from other people,
Speaker 1: when everything we need is right inside of us, and
Speaker 1: when we reflect it, we get more of it. So
Speaker 1: it seems like it's coming from other people, but it's
Speaker 1: really coming from us. And let me tell you my
Speaker 1: biggest my biggest experience with that truth is when I
Speaker 1: shared this video because I, without really knowing it, without
Speaker 1: it being my focus, I was putting out all of
Speaker 1: this love and consideration and compassion and and and energy
Speaker 1: to people I care about, right to the world, specifically women,
Speaker 1: specifically women who look like me. I was putting that
Speaker 1: out there, and all of a sudden, this wave of
Speaker 1: it came back at me. Come on, and it is
Speaker 1: has been so beautiful and it has been so sustaining
Speaker 1: without you know, I mean, total strangers. We're talking about
Speaker 1: people I have never never willed me deciding choosing to
Speaker 1: send me love, to to pray for me, to hold
Speaker 1: me up um as the result of what I initiated, right,
Speaker 1: And so the point there is you initiate it and
Speaker 1: then you receive it back. And if we can start
Speaker 1: to think like that, we no longer hold other people
Speaker 1: as accountable for what we're experiencing. We know what I'm
Speaker 1: experiencing is up to me. And maybe I'm not experiencing
Speaker 1: it right now because I didn't put it out there
Speaker 1: to begin with. Maybe it doesn't exist outside of me
Speaker 1: because I didn't create it to get it back. So
Speaker 1: then where do you start. You start with creating it
Speaker 1: and then putting it out there, and then wait, because
Speaker 1: it's coming back to you. Just watch it come back
Speaker 1: to you will receive it. It's a law of nature
Speaker 1: that you can't change. You have my brain on fire.
Speaker 1: I can't contain. I don't know what this is. But
Speaker 1: whatever this is that you give to me, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I have went down to the point of even when
Speaker 1: you talked about from a biblical stance, if we want
Speaker 1: to go there, because I think messages are a different way.
Speaker 1: And we talked about that thing we experienced. Thing, it's
Speaker 1: just a different language or a different vibation. Neighbors, honor myself.
Speaker 1: I have to love on you to receive that. M
Speaker 1: Gandhi be the change that you want to see. Even
Speaker 1: when you said I I I that I have to
Speaker 1: see I I can see me. Stop playing with me, Ananda,
Speaker 1: you better come on here. And you know, wow, somebody
Speaker 1: can listen to this and say, oh, is it just
Speaker 1: about how dealing dealing with cancer and how to get
Speaker 1: over cancer? No, this is about loving yourself, honor ring yourself,
Speaker 1: because everything that you said, you can apply it to
Speaker 1: any aspect of your life. Because if I know who
Speaker 1: I am, I know who's I am. I know the capacity.
Speaker 1: I am not going to put five gallons of water
Speaker 1: in one gallon and a jug because I know the capacity.
Speaker 1: But just like we talked about the eye and being
Speaker 1: the light this little lot of mine, I'm gonna let
Speaker 1: it shine. What can I need to do even in
Speaker 1: the midst of darkness, I I can still see, Ananda,
Speaker 1: you better do it. And I was gonna go into
Speaker 1: the next thing, but you already went there because you
Speaker 1: know I had you know, you know I'm from Detroit,
Speaker 1: And when the whole Clark's Sisters the film came out,
Speaker 1: I just went in and listened to the soundtrack. And
Speaker 1: you know there's a track. You gotta name it, you
Speaker 1: gotta claim it. And even in the what you said,
Speaker 1: you said, I'm gonna speak this over and even in
Speaker 1: this situation, I think that's when it comes to the gratitude,
Speaker 1: when you have to look self in the face and say, I,
Speaker 1: I see you m what does your picture look like?
Speaker 1: How I see myself um completely healed and helping other
Speaker 1: women from here on out, Like I absolutely see this
Speaker 1: as an opportunity disguised as a as a burden. And
Speaker 1: again that's perspective, right. I don't believe I would have
Speaker 1: had um the passion for this having just watched people
Speaker 1: I love go through it, because I did watch people
Speaker 1: I love go through it and and didn't have the passion.
Speaker 1: Sometimes passion has to come from being burned by your
Speaker 1: own experience, right, And and and so we go through the
Speaker 1: fire and we end up uh healed by it in
Speaker 1: some respects. So I feel like this can happen to anybody.
Speaker 1: I'm not special or unique, um, And maybe it happened
Speaker 1: to me because I have gifts that I've been able
Speaker 1: to use in other capacities in my life that I
Speaker 1: can now apply to this and move forward with this
Speaker 1: passion for helping women and people understand their bodies better,
Speaker 1: understand controlling and and um refusing fear better and a
Speaker 1: real passion for helping especially women who look like me,
Speaker 1: understand their choices when it comes to this realm of
Speaker 1: breast cancer because we're not being told everything. Uh. And
Speaker 1: I don't think that's some conspiracy. I think there's capacity.
Speaker 1: Doctors do what doctors do there in their specific realm.
Speaker 1: It's up to you to go to all these different
Speaker 1: realms and figure out what's possible for you because you're
Speaker 1: the one that's going to benefit from collecting all that information.
Speaker 1: But is there a place that helps us do that? Um. Also,
Speaker 1: the the treatments I'm getting are ridiculously expensive. And when
Speaker 1: we look at the disparity and healthcare, we can look
Speaker 1: at it as a racial disparity, But what I'm learning
Speaker 1: is it's really a financial disparity that comes down to
Speaker 1: race because of the financial disparity that exists between racism.
Speaker 1: So I think that when you can pay for it,
Speaker 1: you can get it and the treatments that exists that
Speaker 1: that we don't necessarily have access to. I have every
Speaker 1: intention of opening up some access to because if it's
Speaker 1: just about money, there's enough money on the planet, there's
Speaker 1: enough money within our people, um, and it's just a
Speaker 1: matter of how we use it, directing it to the
Speaker 1: right thing. And I absolutely plan on starting a nonprofit
Speaker 1: that doesn't do research, because we have enough research. I'm
Speaker 1: living things right now that are working to heal this
Speaker 1: breast cancer out of my body, and other women need
Speaker 1: to have access to these things, and we need to
Speaker 1: pay for that access, and so we've got to pay
Speaker 1: for access. Let's do it. Let's get some money together
Speaker 1: and pay for the access and start saving some lives,
Speaker 1: and not just for the sake of longevity, but for
Speaker 1: the quality of that life to be how we want
Speaker 1: to live in the bodies we want to live in
Speaker 1: the way that we want to live our lives. That's
Speaker 1: the real living, right, not just sitting here on the
Speaker 1: planet this in a body, but powerfully existing and thriving
Speaker 1: in your life the way that you want to. And
Speaker 1: it's possible, uh, and I'm living it. And so if
Speaker 1: I can use this experience to help other women have
Speaker 1: the same experience. That's that's what I'm gonna be here for.
Speaker 1: And you had to ask me, why am I thanking
Speaker 1: you for being you? And nonlest thank you? Well, listen,
Speaker 1: our jobs is to be ourselves. I could thank you
Speaker 1: for being you too, but you're just doing your job.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, let's thank each other for doing our jobs.
Speaker 1: But let's not forget that that's not why we do
Speaker 1: our jobs. It's not for the thank you. It's because
Speaker 1: that's what you're here for. You're here to do what
Speaker 1: you're doing, and so my gratitude about it should have
Speaker 1: nothing to do with whether or not you do it.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm that's a word. Well, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for this impactful conversation and and and the passion, yes,
Speaker 1: the passion of just being an energy source and and
Speaker 1: just exuding that. So I guess I'm sure someone is
Speaker 1: listening or watching and they want to know how do
Speaker 1: I keep up with you? Uh? You know, I wish
Speaker 1: I could say I'm more socially uh able, I'm a
Speaker 1: little I'm a little not able where it comes to
Speaker 1: the social media. Is the one I can do best
Speaker 1: is Instagram. So that's really kind of where I live
Speaker 1: the most. Um, I'm a figure out the other ones
Speaker 1: at some point. But they make it so easy just
Speaker 1: to post everywhere for one place, but I choose I
Speaker 1: keep it easy. I got enough to do. I've been
Speaker 1: threat but all day long, every day, so mainly it's Instagram.
Speaker 1: My my Instagram handle is I'm like I am Anno
Speaker 1: Lewis um and I you know, I'm not as active
Speaker 1: as I probably will be once this is all over.
Speaker 1: I post one i can and right now that's a
Speaker 1: little sporadic, but I do plan on starting to share
Speaker 1: a little more of the preventative side of things. And
Speaker 1: in terms of what else we can do, Yes, get
Speaker 1: your mamograms. Yes, get their early detection so you know
Speaker 1: what's going on in your body. And also I know
Speaker 1: that sugar feeds this. I have lived that myself, um,
Speaker 1: And so what else should we be doing? Right? I
Speaker 1: know that I've had these panels of tox uh chemicals
Speaker 1: found in my body. And one of the things I've
Speaker 1: been doing wrong is eating too many potato chips and
Speaker 1: French fries. Well, that was staple food for me, and
Speaker 1: I know it is for many other people. But do
Speaker 1: you know how much acrylamite is created by cooking potatoes
Speaker 1: at those high temperatures that then you eat the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so much that I'm learning that I
Speaker 1: feel like it's a it's a really unique uh experience
Speaker 1: that I'm having right and and one that needs to
Speaker 1: be shared, one that needs to be known by other people,
Speaker 1: UM so that they can not end up where I
Speaker 1: ended up to have to learn all this. So eventually
Speaker 1: I will start um just doing quick you know, hey,
Speaker 1: what is this? How do you how do you avoid it?
Speaker 1: What should you be eating? Or I want to look
Speaker 1: at labels. When you look in at labels, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff on there that could be going in
Speaker 1: your body causing a problem with your immune system. So
Speaker 1: I'll be starting to do a little more of that
Speaker 1: sharing and just not telling people what to do, but
Speaker 1: telling them what I've learned, because that's the real benefit. Like,
Speaker 1: if you're learning something, tell somebody so they can benefit too.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean they're gonna do it, but it means
Speaker 1: that you have given them now this extra layer of
Speaker 1: understanding that's possible for them to pull from if they
Speaker 1: choose to. UM. So I'll be doing that on Instagram.
Speaker 1: I am on Facebook two. I don't know what my
Speaker 1: handle is on there, but I'm not that hard to
Speaker 1: find as a little girl on a donkey. It's me
Speaker 1: at seven on a on a donkey in Tijuana. That's
Speaker 1: the picture right now. Um and what else in my
Speaker 1: on Twitter? But I'm not that active. Instagram is really
Speaker 1: my favorite place, and that's the jam. Okay, so we're
Speaker 1: I'm Ananda Luis on Instagram. Check it out. Um, Well,
Speaker 1: that was it. I guess that's amazing. When when you
Speaker 1: decide to come back, I would love to have you
Speaker 1: back to discuss maybe some of the foods, because I myself,
Speaker 1: I've I'll say vegan is primarily adopted a vegan diet,
Speaker 1: and I'm saying whether it was with the fire boards
Speaker 1: that I had and the pain going away, but also
Speaker 1: looking at the fact when it comes down to cancer.
Speaker 1: So I would love to even explore more conversations. Um,
Speaker 1: because you know, just dealing a mid let, you put
Speaker 1: anything your body and people need to know that the fuel. Well,
Speaker 1: there's so much bad information, right and it changes so frequently.
Speaker 1: Just like the mamogram recommendation do it Fordy, do it
Speaker 1: thirty five? Like we have so much bad information, or
Speaker 1: let me not call it bad, let me say it's
Speaker 1: changing information. Right, And maybe it's changing because even what
Speaker 1: they're understanding is changing too. I'm fine with understanding is changing,
Speaker 1: but we've got to have some fundamental under some fundamental
Speaker 1: truths to go with. Right. Meat has been proven to
Speaker 1: be carcinogenic in some ways. Right, and again, depending on
Speaker 1: your body, some people's bodies handle meat better than others.
Speaker 1: My body doesn't handle meat well, which it sounds like
Speaker 1: maybe yours doesn't eat I'm a vegan right now because
Speaker 1: I went through this whole keto eating, which I needed
Speaker 1: to do to starve out the cancer cells from all
Speaker 1: the sugar that you would get from a high carb diet.
Speaker 1: But now I've shifted into this maintenance plan where it
Speaker 1: is high fiber, high starch, very low oil. When you
Speaker 1: think about how our ancestors would have eaten, they didn't
Speaker 1: have uh oil presses, right, They weren't able to pull
Speaker 1: out this much oil from olives. You know how many
Speaker 1: olives got to eat to have this much oil. So
Speaker 1: when we're pouring all this oil on our food, we're
Speaker 1: clogging up our system in ways that it's not used
Speaker 1: to handling small amounts of naturally occurring oil. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: you're actually eating at alive, But what you're also getting
Speaker 1: is the fiber and all those other micronutrients that come
Speaker 1: in the all of your not just extracting um, you know,
Speaker 1: the basically the juice from it. It's like taking an
Speaker 1: orange is opposed to having or eating an orange is
Speaker 1: supposed to having a glass of orange juice. Well, you
Speaker 1: might have eight oranges and a glass of orange juice.
Speaker 1: That's too much sugar for your body. Right, The orange
Speaker 1: itself has the fiber and all the micronutrients that the
Speaker 1: orange as a whole plant, the whole fruit will have.
Speaker 1: That's what our body understands. So things like that are
Speaker 1: super important when you talk about your health. Because I
Speaker 1: thought I was healthy. I thought I was eating in
Speaker 1: a way that was good from my body. I didn't
Speaker 1: understand that the little things I was doing, like French
Speaker 1: fries every week, were as bad as they were because
Speaker 1: it was eating vegetables to you know, some things we
Speaker 1: have to completely eliminate, and the discipline of that becomes difficult.
Speaker 1: But when you think about you know, well, when I
Speaker 1: think about the amount of discipline I have to have
Speaker 1: now doing the protocols, doing the treatments, committing to all
Speaker 1: the hours a day being away from my child. I
Speaker 1: could have spread that out across like ten years and
Speaker 1: done it in a more balanced, you know, a little
Speaker 1: bit out of time way. Now I have to concentrate
Speaker 1: it in you know, four or five months and really
Speaker 1: hit it hard because things have gone further than I
Speaker 1: would like them to have gone. So I really do
Speaker 1: want to emphasize to people, and I'll be doing that
Speaker 1: through the I G how you can start to be
Speaker 1: proactive in prevention so that you don't have to take
Speaker 1: all this time away from your life to heal yourself.
Speaker 1: M I like that be in your life. So you
Speaker 1: have to step away because you gotta put the time
Speaker 1: in either way. That's what I'm learning. You got put
Speaker 1: the time in either way. Yeah, just go keep dropping Jims. Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. I appreciate this time. Thank you
Speaker 1: for speaking life And is there anything else if you
Speaker 1: could leave an inspirational moment that you would want to
Speaker 1: say to anyone um, something that you would say the
Speaker 1: greatest lesson you learned through this or just in life
Speaker 1: for where you are right now I've learned so much.
Speaker 1: Let me see if I can narrow it down. I
Speaker 1: would say one thing that we haven't here, because we
Speaker 1: hit on so many of the things that I would
Speaker 1: use as an answer. One thing we haven't hit on
Speaker 1: is the fact that we are creative beings. Where you know,
Speaker 1: if you believe that we're creating the image of our creator, um,
Speaker 1: then the keyword there is creator and we are all creative.
Speaker 1: One of the things that's helped me the most is
Speaker 1: really tapping into my creativity. Now we're all born with it,
Speaker 1: but we live these lives, especially in our society, where
Speaker 1: it's kind of pulled out of us right where we're
Speaker 1: judged for our creativity, where you're told you can't sing,
Speaker 1: or you ain't talented, or you someone else's opinion comes
Speaker 1: into play. Don't do it for them, do it for you.
Speaker 1: If you want to sing, get in your shower and sing. Right.
Speaker 1: If you want to dance, move the furniture and dance
Speaker 1: around your house. Don't let anything stop you from the
Speaker 1: flow of creativity that is supposed to roll through your body,
Speaker 1: because it's beneficial and it can o you and it
Speaker 1: can help you. Because you're tapping into your truest self
Speaker 1: and your truest nature and don't deny it. You know.
Speaker 1: I've had to open up to it, and the way
Speaker 1: I've done it is through song and music with a
Speaker 1: group called um the Jam Nation. It's just a bunch
Speaker 1: of people who can freestyle, you know, we freestyle music together.
Speaker 1: And of course now we can't do it because of COVID,
Speaker 1: but all up until January we were getting together every
Speaker 1: week and just having these amazing jam sessions. And the
Speaker 1: deeper you dig into yourself, the more you find, just
Speaker 1: like in the earth, right, the deeper you dig, the
Speaker 1: bigger the jewels, and so dig That's what I would say,
Speaker 1: dig into yourself because you are a treasure and there's more.
Speaker 1: The deeper you go, just keep digging. Wow. Now I
Speaker 1: enjoy that. You know, it's good when you walk away
Speaker 1: from somebody or a conversation and you feel more energized
Speaker 1: than you were when you walked into it. You know,
Speaker 1: it feels good to feel good, and it feels good
Speaker 1: knowing about the importance of loving yourself and when you
Speaker 1: decide to step up in the forefront to to be
Speaker 1: the healer for self. I love that and I love
Speaker 1: this conversation. I hope if you're out there and you're
Speaker 1: dealing with any type of obstacle, that you understand that
Speaker 1: you're worthy. You're worthy of knowing yourself, You're worthy of
Speaker 1: checking yourself before you wreck yourself. So I want to
Speaker 1: continue to send words of positivity and good energy of
Speaker 1: healing and understanding towards Ananda's way, And if you like
Speaker 1: to do the same, you can make sure you follow
Speaker 1: her on social media as I am Ananda Lewis on
Speaker 1: Instagram and Ananda Lewis on Twitter. As always, you can
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Speaker 1: If you're looking to get even more Vitamin D in
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Speaker 1: remember you are your greatest asset.