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How To Biologically Engineer Your Life After A Cancer Diagnosis

Breast Cancer Breakthroughs Summit

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<h6>Jennifer Simmons, MD</h6>
Let us just have an awesome interview with Ryan Sternagel. He is the Founder of The Stern Method. We talked about a whole bunch of things. First, we talked about how to find a practitioner and create a team and the importance of making sure that your integrative practitioner, because you are a conventional practitioner, is going to be pretty much the same no matter where you go. You are going to find a medical oncologist. You can find a radiation oncologist, a breast surgeon, and a plastic surgeon, those people are generally the same for everyone. Not just a matter of personality. Do you like working with that person? Does that person resonate with you to that person? Does that person hear you? Does that person respect you and your opinion, that kind of thing? 

But more importantly, find a holistic, integrative, and naturopathic functional person that you can work with who is familiar with cancer. Who is not intimidated by your cancer diagnosis, who understands the conventional medical world, and who knows how to make the most of that? Because some of you will need conventional medical treatments. We want to make sure that if you are getting us commercial medical treatment, you are getting the most of those conventional medical treatments. How we eat, how we supplement, and how we support you best through conventional medical care. That is going to come from someone familiar with cancer, familiar with cancer care, and knows how to help you get the most out of your situation.

We talked about that. Then we talked about the overwhelm of a diagnosis and how it can feel overwhelming to get information. But now it can also feel overwhelming to try to find the right information because, while it used to be readily available, now it is not so much. It is difficult to find what is right for you. The importance of trusting the relationship that you have with your holistic doctor, your integrative doctor, your naturopathic doctor, with your functional medicine doctor. Trusting that they are going to guide you in the right direction for you because you are a viable individual. Because the thing for someone else is not necessarily the thing, but also dialing into your intuition. If you have thoughts or feelings about something and this is happening again and again, maybe that is something that is for you. 

Being able to dial into your intuition and trust your intuition is very important. We talked about the fact that Ryan was very fortunate to be able to build his own house and build a nontoxic house. But not everyone is in that situation. The things that you should be thinking about in your house are things. Certainly, everyone knows a thing about food and should eat organic food and drink clean water. But what are you cleaning your house with, and what is your house made up of? What is the paint like? Do you have Crestwood in your cabinets or your floor? Because that is off-gassing insulation in your cabinets, your pillow, and your mattress. All of these things will be off-gassing, and you are breathing on them. He mentioned making sure that you are changing the filter on your furnace, that you are minimizing the EMF that you are using and that you are conscious about the wifi.

We talked about some low-hanging fruit and using nontoxic paint, but also using an air filter, having a ceiling fan, changing your furnace filter, opening your windows, and thinking about things that you are doing a lot. You are breathing all the time. Make sure that your air quality is good, and then turn off your wifi as much as possible. But just when at night, when you sleep, but as much as possible. If you are not using your wifi, turn it off and keep your cell phone in airplane mode. Most of the time, we do not read email all the time. It was a brilliant discussion, and I hope that you tune in and will listen to it all. It is Dr. Jenn. 

Welcome back to The Breast Cancer Breakthroughs Summit. I am your host, Dr. Jenn Simmons. Our next guest has had a life-altering experience that I do not wish on anyone. But he has taken that experience and contributed so much to the world and to his community that I always say that things happen for a reason, and I know that this led him to his life's purpose. Next, we have Ryan Sternagel with us. He is the founder of the Stern Method, The Anticancer Revolution, and Going Integrative Plus, which is a platform for aiding in forming and inspiring families, preventing or reversing chronic disease, and succeeding on all fronts. Ryan, welcome. I am so glad to have you here. I do not know if you have gratitude for the reason that you are here, but I would love it if you would share your story on how you came to be in the cancer space and the integrative medicine space.

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Ryan Sternagel is the founder along with his wife Teddy of The Stern Method, a platform informing and inspiring families going through cancer to succeed on all fronts. In May of 2014 their son Ryder was diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer of the nervous system eleven days before his first birthday. The Sternagels consulted countless doctors and health experts of all disciplines to employ an integrative approach that cut the amount of conventional treatment Ryder received in half through an integrative mix of super nutrition, complementary therapies and energy medicine along with a whole lot of prayer and healthy lifestyle changes. Ryan hosts The Anti-Cancer Revolution and The Great Work of Healing podcasts to share these strategies with those that need them.

Ryan Sternagel

Dr. Jenn Simmons was one of the leaders in breast surgery and cancer care in Philadelphia for 17 years. Passionate about the idea of pursuing health rather than treating illness, she has immersed herself in the study of functional medicine and aims to provide a roadmap to those who want to know real health.

How To Biologically Engineer Your Life After A Cancer Diagnosis

Jennifer Simmons, MD

Ryan Sternagel

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