Dr. Katie Deming, M.D. | Conscious Oncologist
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Cancer healing beyond fear-based care.
Born to Heal follows Dr. Katie Deming as she examines cancer healing beyond Western medicine. Recent episodes center on prolonged water fasting, refeeding, animal foods, sound frequencies, doctor shaming, and choosing treatment from alignment rather than fear.
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Born to Heal is a cancer-focused holistic health show shaped by Dr. Katie Deming's move away from conventional medicine toward integrative healing conversations. Its center of gravity is prolonged water fasting, especially how fasting is supervised, measured, emotionally experienced, and followed by careful refeeding. The show is not casual wellness chatter. It often speaks to people facing frightening diagnoses, medical pressure, or difficult treatment choices. Recent episodes ask whether a long fast necessarily burns muscle, what body-composition scans can show, and why visceral fat may matter in a healing protocol. Food is a major battleground. Conversations with Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride challenge plant-only assumptions and make a case for animal foods, cholesterol, gut repair, and nutrient density. The show also spends serious time on what happens after a fast. Monica Corrado's appearance frames refeeding as foundational rather than secondary, with attention to fats, dairy, liver, gut restoration, hormones, and the nervous system. Born to Heal has a clear distrust of fear-based authority. Episodes on doctor shaming and treatment alignment focus on the emotional cost of judgment, compliance pressure, and decisions made from panic rather than self-trust. The spiritual side is present too. A conversation with Bona Nguyen connects sound frequency, breath, attention, and stillness to the body's healing state. Bonus episodes broaden the frame with Peter Krohn and appearances by Dr. Katie Deming on other shows. The register is earnest, intimate, and at times provocative. It favors authority-reclaiming over institutional certainty. It also treats healing as physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual work, not simply a treatment plan. Listeners should expect strong claims and alternative frameworks, especially around fasting, nutrition, and conventional medicine. For the right audience, that directness is the appeal.
Made for: For listeners exploring holistic cancer support, prolonged water fasting, integrative nutrition, and patient-centered treatment decisions. It especially fits people who want emotional and spiritual language alongside practical protocol talk.
What sets it apart: Born to Heal stands apart by making fasting and refeeding the operational core of its cancer-healing conversations. It combines patient stories, body-composition details, nutrition debates, and authority-reclaiming themes in one consistent framework.
Your Body Knows How to Heal Join Dr. Katie Deming, M.D., a seasoned Radiation Oncologist, Healthcare Leader, and inspiring Tedx speaker, as she bridges the gap between Western Medicine and Holistic Healing.Our bodies intrinsically know how to heal, but we've been conditioned to believe that we need to look outside ourselves for that power.Learn how Dr. Katie's transformative experience as a doctor within the Western medical system made her realize that our healthcare system is broken and keeps people sick. This pivotal moment ultimately inspired her to leave Western Medicine for Integrative Oncology and embark on a...
Mistletoe meets 30-day water fasts when your health curiosity takes the road less conventional.
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A direct, food first argument for recovery that will appeal to listeners open to a hard line.
The episode takes a hard look at a common healing reflex: cutting out the foods the body may actually need to rebuild. Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride argues for animal foods, fats, cholesterol, cravings, and the gut microbiome as part of repair, not the enemy of it.
A numbers-first fasting story about fat loss, muscle retention, and a personal shift.
A supervised 30-day water fast gives this episode its tension, because it ties cancer, body composition, and physical strain into one blunt question: what happens to the body when food drops away?
A grounded conversation about healing, attention, and how frequency is felt in the body.
Born to Heal frames sound as a healing practice, and the conversation with Bona Nguyen keeps that idea grounded and easy to follow. Dr. Katie Deming moves from the way sound is said to affect the body to attention, emotional state, and the nervous system, then into Bona's use of…
Calm health science for everyday choices.
Osteopathy from the treatment room outward.
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Joel Prudis, a Montana rancher with a PSA of 5.7 (and 6.55 on a second lab) and an MRI lesion, says a urologist's "you probably have cancer" without an exam led him to decline a biopsy.
Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride says fat is not optional and true hunger returns as a craving for animal foods.
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