228: A Whole Body Approach to Treating and Preventing Cancer

Transcript of Episode 228: A Whole Body Approach to Treating and Preventing Cancer

Dr. Pompa:
Cellular Healing TV fans, exciting few weeks, you are on location with me at SOPMed, the Society of Progressive Medicine. You know why we’re here? Bringing together MDs, NDs, DCs, all types of practitioners to mastermind, bring the best of what we believe people need to get well today, and as a matter of fact, even this very evening tonight we have the leaders coming together in this profession to meet on the future of alternative medicine. You’re on location, so I’m going to be bringing you some exciting interviews with some of the leading practitioners in the area that you’re going to want to hear from, cancer researchers, doctors, I mean, stem cells, you name it. You’re going to hear some exciting interviews right here. The next few weeks, stay tuned to Cell TV for these exciting interviews that I know that you’re going to love, and it’s going to definitely affect and change your life.

Ashley Smith:
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Cellular Healing TV. I’m Ashley Smith, and today we welcome a very special guest, Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy. Dr. Pompa and Dr. Connealy are having an incredible conversation about modern cancer prevention and detection from treatments to testing and prevention, to how implementing nutrition and lifestyle interventions can be more important than ever. We’ll dive deep into the best testing on the market, effective detox treatments, and how getting healthy is a process that takes addressing your whole body from top to bottom. Most importantly, we’ll learn about how resolving emotional conflicts and living a love-filled life can be one of the best cancer fighting medicines. Dr. Connealy is an advocate for making your life great today and encourages you to never give up on yourself or anybody else because nothing is impossible no matter what you were told. If you or someone you know has been touched by cancer or if cancer prevention is a top priority, you cannot miss this episode.

Before we get started, let me tell you a little bit more about Dr. Connealy. Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy attended the University of Texas School of Public Health and then attended the University of Health Sciences Chicago Medical School. She completed her post-graduate training at the Harbor/UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. Dr. Connealy began practicing medicine in 1986. In 1992, she founded the Center for New Medicine in Irvine, California where she serves as medical director and has successfully treated many patients with cancer and other chronic conditions. Her practice is firmly based in the belief that strictly treating the health problems with medications does not find the root cause of the illness. Let’s welcome Dr. Pompa and Dr. Connealy and get right into it. This is Cellular Healing TV.

Dr. Pompa:
Dr. Leigh, welcome to Cellular Healing TV.

Dr. Connealy:
Thank you, great to be here.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, your first episode and, gosh, what a more better topic than cancer. We’ve had so many people request this topic, actually, so I wanted to have you on this show. Here we are live with each other at the SOPMed Conference. You just came off stage and just briefly. It was just a little TED Talk. You’re talking about what you’re going to talk about next, but we’re going to talk about here and bring them the information. Thanks for being here.

Dr. Connealy:
Yeah, it’s great that you are spreading this incredible and valuable information to the world.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, well, let me just put this up right now because they saw me holding it. This is your brand new book, The Cancer Revolution, and there you are, Dr. Leigh Connealy. Awesome, when did it hit the presses?

Dr. Connealy:
Yeah, about a year ago and still—because it’s such a relevant topic and since it’s timeless and it’s also not just for cancer also, Dr. Pompa, it can be used as a life manual. I talk about everything about eating and emotion and exercise and purification and water and sleep. There isn’t any topic that I don’t talk about and talk about the references out there substantiating why we need to be living like this.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, because you’re talking about cancer, I would find the book almost not credible if you didn’t talk about it at all. All of those things, actually, I believe will lead to cancer if done incorrectly, so it’s good you address them. Talk about your story. I know that you said from stage that, look, this career chose me. I didn’t choose it. You could’ve done a lot of things, but talk about that because you are a product in the 1950s of DES. That’s part of this story.

Dr. Connealy:
Right, for our listeners out there, everybody has a story, and that’s why I always—and I know Dr. Pompa was saying something about his mess becomes your message. Something like that. Anyway, we all do. We become passionate about something because of why (trouble)? Trouble creates treasure and triumph, so anytime you have trouble, welcome it. Learn it. Of course, you’re going to have a pity party in the beginning.

Dr. Pompa:
I did.

Dr. Connealy:
You do, okay. I’ve had a lot of pity parties, but I’ve turned all those negative seeds into positive seeds. Here we are today with this talking about the cancer revolution. As Dr. Pompa says, I was born in the 50s, so now you know a little bit how old I am. I’m old enough now to even talk about life.

Dr. Pompa:
By the way, most people watching, I said DES. If you know what that is, okay, we’re dating ourselves even then.

Dr. Connealy:
Yes, so DES was a drug used in the 50s called diethylstilbestrol, and it was a very…

Dr. Pompa:
It was thing.

Dr. Connealy:
Yes, very, very powerful estrogen and there’s actually a movie about it called The Wonder Drug. Lots of pregnant mothers were given that, and they were given it because they were going to lose their baby. What mother would want to lose their child? Of course, they gave this very potent drug. I’m number three of six children, and I’m the only child that my mother took the drug. Sixteen years later, my parents received a letter stating that DES causes cancer and causes heart—excuse me, anatomical problems, hormone problems, all different myriad of problems. I started going to MD Anderson Hospital when I was 16 years of age. They said you need to be seen now because you may even have cancer now. Anyway, can you imagine a 16-year-old going into the ivory tower monstrosity of MD Anderson? First of all, at 16, you didn’t go to the doctors. Even at that time, you didn’t even go to the doctors, but to go to a cancer institution, it was quite dramatic.

Dr. Pompa:
Were you inspired? I mean, did your mother tell you? I mean, obviously, you heard conversations about DES. Maybe your mom even said, inspired you to do something about it. I mean, 16 years old going there, you knew a lot to choose I’m not going to be this, or I’m not going to get cancer. How did that happen so young?

Dr. Connealy:
First of all, at 16, luckily, I already knew I wanted to go to medical school. I was good in science, so I was blessed to have that gift of thinking like that. I was really good. I went to a Catholic school, and I was really good in biology and chemistry. I thought, okay, what could I do? I’m not really good in a lab with Bunsen burners, but I love to talk to people. I’m like what can I do? Oh, I can be a doctor, so I knew right then and there that I wanted to be a medical doctor, luckily. Not everybody knows at 16 years of age what they’re going to do, so I knew right then and there that I wanted to become a medical doctor.

Going through the experiences I have had has taught me so much about patience. It’s taught me so much about real life medicine. All of us today, we are in the era of information. We can read over anything. It doesn’t matter if you’re a doctor or not a doctor. Now we can read about anything. We can learn and become a master about everything.

Dr. Pompa:
University of Google.

Dr. Connealy:
Yes, but there is nothing like real life experience. There’s nothing like it.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s how I learned everything.

Dr. Connealy:
That’s how I have learned, and now, when I see a patient, I’m able to have, number one, instant rapport because I love my patients. Interesting story I’ll tell you because this is a segue. I was in Grand Canyon in a hike.

Dr. Pompa:
Grand Canyon?

Dr. Connealy:
Yes.

Dr. Pompa:
Okay.

Dr. Connealy:
Grand Canyon, you have to travel ten miles a night.

Dr. Pompa:
Were you on a donkey, or just walking?

Dr. Connealy:
No, walking, hiking. There was other people invited, and this other person who I didn’t know was a medical doctor. We’re walking ten miles. Of course, what do you do? Talk about who you are, what you are, what you like, and so forth. The doctor, he was a physiatrist, which is a doctor who focuses on physical therapy and rehabilitation of the body in all physical ways, and so he didn’t know anything about integrative complimentary medicine, what we’re talking about today and why this conference is happening. He says, “Well, tell me. Give me one sentence that summarizes your practice.” I said, “Love is the medicine for everything.”

Dr. Pompa:
I heard that yesterday. Someone at the conference said that.

Dr. Connealy:
I teach all my doctors and all my staff that. If we just learn to love the person that we’re seeing, then that is what will open up everything. We have all these fancy tests and diagnostic and scans and CTs and all this stuff, but the patient has all the answers so if you just sit down and talk to the patient and get to know the patient. Of course, you can’t do it all in one visit. Every visit will reveal something, but everybody has an amazing story to tell, good and bad. We aren’t just made up of this physical person. We’re made up of a mind, body, spirit, and we’ve got to put that all together. We are living, unfortunately, in a world of disconnectedness and social isolation, unfortunately, that everybody is in their own world. We don’t even know how to say hi to one another. We don’t even know how to look at and give eye contact to one another.

Dr. Pompa:
Right, it’s true.

Dr. Connealy:
We’re all inextricably connected to one another, and we need to help one another. There isn’t a study that doesn’t show that the social community connection is what’s going to keep us all alive. That’s the thing.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s going the other way.

Dr. Connealy:
It is, but it isn’t.

Dr. Pompa:
It has to come back, yeah.

Dr. Connealy:
It has to come back. What we do is we hopefully learn. Okay, we’re doing it this way, and we’ve got to change. If you are a human being that cares, then you see—intuitively you see what we have to change.

Dr. Pompa:
I mean, last night we were at the mastermind with all the leaders in our industry. I heard that message, and I heard it mostly from the big cancer doctors that were in the room. There was many, you, Dr. Jimenez, Tony, that we’re going to interview, Dr. Bush. All of you resonated that love, and yet, all of you are treating cancer. There’s got to be something here. If I asked you the classic question that they’re probably going to ask, what do you think the big causes of cancer are today? I could think of a lot, but what do you think they are?

Dr. Connealy:
I talk about that in my book, but I would tell you first and foremost—well, there’s so many things. I think they’re all important, but I think unresolved emotional conflict.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I knew you would start there.

Dr. Connealy:
That’s good. Anyway, unresolved emotional conflict and everybody will say, well, what do you mean? A lot of us really aren’t aware that we may or may not have emotional conflict. I will tell you that every single cancer patient that I have asked after their visit, well, why do you think this happened, every single patient hands down will tell you I’ve been taking care of my mother who has dementia for ten years. My son just died. Not just died but died five years ago. I am going through a divorce, a myriad of reason.

I begin and end in my treatments with emotional peace. I tell people stress starts in the head and ends in the body, and there are lots of scientific information and validation. Now they have proven as of a year ago that in—with PET imaging, that the parahippocampus, when a patient’s diagnosed, it is all lighted up. Then after the resolution of the cancer, the parahippocampus is all calmed down. Now, that’s brand new. Of course, now, that has led to another extreme avenue, but there are many, many doctors who’ve talked about it. One of the most famous doctors is Dr. Hamer. Dr. Hamer was an oncologist in Germany, and he got cancer himself. He got testicular cancer at around 50 years of age, which is highly unusual. You usually get cancer, testicular cancer, in your early 20’s.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, younger.

Dr. Connealy:
Younger. He’s like, wow, why do I have cancer? He started asking all of his patients just like I do. What happened to you? What happened to you? Every single one of them suffered some conflict and trauma. Of course, now, the advances we’ve made in helping people have emotional peace and resolution are amazing, and they can move forward with their life. I can tell you story after story.

Dr. Pompa:
You actually do that in your clinic?

Dr. Connealy:
Yes.

Dr. Pompa:
Matter of fact, tell them where your clinic is before I forget.

Dr. Connealy:
Yes, well, my clinic for the cancer side is Cancer Center for Healing, and then we have Center for New Medicine for patients who just want to get healthy or optimized, or they have some mysterious illness that no one can figure out. We take care of patients with cold to cancer or just to be optimized.

Dr. Pompa:
By the way, in one of my favorite places in the whole world, Laguna Beach.

Dr. Connealy:
Yes, in Laguna, yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
I love it there.

Dr. Connealy:
Orange County, Orange County is great.

Dr. Pompa:
I love the life. I love that area. We had that conversation before you all came on. Okay, so do you think it’s part of a perfect storm? I think when we look at—there was always emotional conflicts, I mean, all the way back through history, right?

Dr. Connealy:
That’s right.

Dr. Pompa:
Some emotions more, some traumas even more with wars and horrific things, but yet, cancer is exploding. Is it a perfect storm? What’s happening? Why is it exploding the way it is?

Dr. Connealy:
Lots of different reasons and we talked a lot about that. I spent five hours talking about that to doctors yesterday. We talked about emotion, and I think, unfortunately, there’s a lot more emotional turmoil because we have deterioration of the family. The family unit is being lost. I have so many young people. I have 20-year-olds, 22-year-olds, 24-year-olds, very young people who have a very serious form of cancer. I believe that that connectedness, the complete disintegration of the family—I mean, I’m not the only person that talks about it. Lots of people talk about it. I’m one of six kids, so back then, long time ago, though, we all hung out together all the time.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s true.

Dr. Connealy:
We hung out with nature all the time. Now, kids are isolated. They’re on video machines or cellphones and all these other things. Now, we talk about the other causes of cancer. Our food has dramatically changed. We have a lot of genetically modified food. The nutritional values of the food has changed quite a bit. We have overwhelming toxicity from toxic water to chlorine to fluorine to heavy metals to irradiated food. Everything in the air, water, and food that you eat, there is toxicity, if you go into a new building and you have a new building, sick syndrome. Then we have problems with the mouth. A lot of people—a lot of doctors forget about that the mouth is connected to the body, and we have now so much research that shows that heart disease and cancer is related to infections or root canals in the mouth.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s one of the first places that I look when I evaluate somebody who’s mysteriously not getting well or sick, right here. We’re going to be interviewing Dr. Tom Levy, so stay tuned for that in an up and coming show. Toxins, traumas, and thoughts when you talk about the family unit, that’s where, when you have a good family unit, we’re developing thoughts, positivity. That love that you talked about it. Toxins, traumas, thoughts, when you put those three together, it’s a perfect storm. Science shows that affects our DNA. That affects the proteins we make. That affects who we become and who we are, and that’s what you’re seeing today.

Dr. Connealy:
Right, I tell people we now know that emotional DNA is inherited nine generations back.

Dr. Pompa:
Absolutely, yeah.

Dr. Connealy:
I don’t want people to think, oh gosh, I’m not a good person. I’m bad, etc. It’s not that. He has problems. I’ve had problems. I’ve been working on myself for years now because it takes years. I heard another doctor yesterday whose cancer…

Dr. Pompa:
It does take years, so does the detox, by the way, the emotion and the…

Dr. Connealy:
Cancer doctor talked yesterday. He says I started four years ago looking at my emotional balance. He takes care of cancer patients for 28 years. I decided probably 15, 16 years ago to start detox. I call it purification because detox is like, oh, detox. Every patient looks at you like, oh, my God, what am I going to do? I say purification, and they think they’re an angel. The emotional part, I really started probably—like really hard, I mean, I know I was 40 when I started. Then I really, really delved in probably about seven years ago, but it’s been a process. Everybody think health is an event. It’s not an event.

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, so glad you said that.

Dr. Connealy:
This is a process. Don’t think you’re just going to get yourself well in a day or two, and you’re going to go on this eating program, and you’re going to do that. No, it’s a way of life, and don’t be hard on yourself. You’re going to eat a cookie, or you’re going to eat a piece of chocolate, or you’re going to eat something, and then you’re going to like, oh, my God, beat yourself up. No, don’t do it.

Dr. Pompa:
We call that feast days. We’re good with that.

Dr. Connealy:
Yeah, exactly, fun days, right?

Dr. Pompa:
That’s right.

Dr. Connealy:
It’s a process, and it’s also an evolving process. Self-mastery takes a long time, and if you’ve got it all figured out, then you don’t need to be here.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I’m not the expert in the emotion stuff, but yet, I recognize it. I mean, I’m the expert in chemical detox, which you use CytoDetox. You’re a big fan of CytoDetox, which they all know, but the emotional stuff, you have to put it all together. Like you said, if you’re not addressing all of those—and here’s the thing that frustrates me on my end. Oh, I detoxed heavy metals, or I did detox two months, three months. It’s a process. My goal is to teach you the process so you continue. No different with the emotional stuff and our thoughts. We have to keep that progression going if we’re going to beat the odds.

I want to talk about what you do in our clinic. First of all, let me back up. I think about the viewer right now is saying, well, wait a minute. First of all, what test can I get done if I want to make sure I don’t have cancer, prevent cancer? What testing is good or what testing even if you have cancer? Let’s start with tests, and then I want to talk about some of the things that you’re doing in your clinic that are completely different that they need to know about testing.

Dr. Connealy:
Okay, that’s a great question. I tell people, if a doctor’s not testing, he’s guessing. We do lots of investigative work, and so let’s talk about that. A lot of my patients today—now, because cancer is in about 1 in 2 men and 41% of females, I tell people it is a national emergency. Prevention never sells because think, well, I feel great.

Dr. Pompa:
It doesn’t sell. It never sells.

Dr. Connealy:
I feel great. No problem.

Dr. Pompa:
No one thinks they’re going to be the one.

Dr. Connealy:
You wouldn’t believe how many patients go, gosh, Dr. Connealy, I was running six miles a day. I live life. I did this. I did that. I feel great, and then, all of a sudden, their life changed. One second changed their life. I don’t want you to be that. I want you to have the peace and comfort of knowing. Look, I’ve gone to a doctor. I know.

People don’t realize cancer takes ten years to develop by it’s seen—by the time by an ultrasound, an MRI, a CT scan, or a PET scan. Okay, often times, it doesn’t have symptoms. It’s insidious disease.

Dr. Pompa:
Not even fatigue.

Dr. Connealy.
Right, yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
I mean, people have to understand. You can feel perfect and be developing cancer right now only to come out five, ten years from now.

Dr. Connealy:
Exactly, even heart disease. The top two killers are heart disease and cancer. When I see a patient, I make sure you don’t have those two problems. The third is probably doctors.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s not probably. It is, actually.

Dr. Connealy:
No, because the doctor of today, they’re really smart and brilliant, but they have to learn the new modern way of taking care of patients. I have gone back to school because what I learned in school—can you imagine? Would you use a cellphone came out 30 years ago? No, you’re going to use the cellphone that does a million different things, right?

Dr. Pompa:
You mean like the ones that look like little bricks? Do you remember those?

Dr. Connealy:
Yeah, no, boxes. Okay, I’m older than you, probably. It’s boxes. No, it was huge box and sat…

Dr. Pompa:
I remember the brick. That’s the one I remember. It was this fat and that high.

Dr. Connealy:
Oh, no, mine was way bigger, anyway.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, okay. They were strapped on walls, actually.

Dr. Connealy:
I always use that analogy. Would you use an old cellphone? I use a great little new cellphone, so you would too. Why wouldn’t you use the new modern way of cancer—and guess what? Medical knowledge is doubling about every nine months. Okay, I can’t even keep up. That’s why I have amazing team. You go to this conference. You go to this one. You go learn this, and then we collaborate together because united we can deliver.

If you come into my clinic—and a lot of patients come to me like, Dr. Connealy, my mom had cancer, my sister had, my brother. All these people had cancer. I want to make sure I don’t have cancer. First of all, I do all the blood tests on you. Let’s face it. I need to make sure that everything’s good. Not just that you don’t have cancer, but I want to make sure is your liver working, your kidney working? Do you have high sugar? Do you have good Vitamin D levels? Do you have inflammation? Does you thyroid work?

Do all the other hormones work? Hormones are the natural drugs. Everybody thinks, hormones, oh, my God, I’m going to get—no, hormones are the natural drugs to your body. Are you toxic? Do you have the right nutrition? Do you have the right antioxidant? What does your gut look like? Do you have bacteria? Do you have fungus? Do you have parasite? What does your mouth look like?

I go through an exhaustive list. Obviously, this is not accomplished in one visit, but if you want to be well, I need to address you from head to toe. Not just your heart. I zone in. I’m your quarterback for making sure that everything is working.

Dr. Pompa:
I mean, the system today is you wait ‘til you have cancer, of course. Then you go in, and you go to the expert in that particular area, typically. How’s that working out?

Dr. Connealy:
Right, first of all, like I said, there’s ten years of health opportunity to prevent cancer. What kind of testing do we do? Then I’ll talk to you—we’ll talk about if you have cancer.

Dr. Pompa:
If you have it, okay.

Dr. Connealy:
There’s a couple of things you can do. One, your blood tests a lot of times—I tell the people the CRP, which a very common blood test called C-reactive protein…

Dr. Pompa:
C-reactive protein, love it.

Dr. Connealy:
A lot of people don’t know. Any slight elevations of it, slight, not a lot, slight elevations indicate that something already is going on in your system.

Dr. Pompa:
So above 1, .5, what do you like?

Dr. Connealy:
Yeah, you should be less than 1.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I agree.

Dr. Connealy:
Ask your doctor. It’s a routine test. You’ve got to check your Vitamin D level. Vitamin D influences…

Dr. Pompa:
What level do you like above that?

Dr. Connealy:
Vitamin D?

Dr. Pompa:
Mm-hmm.

Dr. Connealy:
I like about 50 to 70.

Dr. Pompa:
Okay, I agree.

Dr. Connealy:
I would say 99% of the patients that come to see me, 99% have low Vitamin D levels. Now, the 1% that are normal are taking it, so Vitamin D influences thousands of genes in your body, cancer prevention, cancer treatment.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s a hormone.

Dr. Connealy:
Yes, it’s a hormone and a vitamin. Then there’s the hemoglobin A1c. The hemoglobin A1c is a reflection of your blood sugar over 90 days. What happens when your sugar’s high? If you’re pre-diabetic or diabetic, which is 80% of the population, you have a higher predisposition to cancer. That’s three blood test any doctor—you can order it yourself online.

Dr. Pompa:
HbA1c, 5?

Dr. Connealy:
Five would be great.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, me too, yeah, exactly.

Dr. Connealy:
They show that anything higher than that you already have microscopic damage to the cell, so your goal is about 5.0. I know people out there, and they’re diabetic. They’re like, oh, my doctor’s happy at 6. I’m like, well, he obviously hasn’t read the papers, and he needs to care about you to get you optimal. My goal is to get people optimal; not perfect, optimal. There’s no such thing as perfection. I don’t try to be perfect. I’m sure he doesn’t try to be perfect. We’re just trying to be as good as we can be today.

Now, the other tests that you don’t know about, okay, there’s a blood test, a panel called the cancer profile, and it will tell you if you’re fermenting, simmering, brewing cancer, okay. It has its profile. Then there’s the liquid biopsy from a great lab in Greece of all places. Okay, they’re in 14 countries. They’re not just in Greece. They’re in 14 countries. It’s called RGCC. They can tell you if you have circulating tumor cells. If something is a millimeter or two in size, that is like two pencil lines, you can already be releasing circulating tumor cells.

Why is that important? That is the future of oncology because circulating tumor cells are responsible for 95% of metastasis, so this is important if you don’t have cancer or you do have cancer. This is the future of modern medicine, and we’ve been doing it a very long time.

Dr. Pompa:
The RGCC, if you went to their—if they went to their regular doctor and asked them for it, would they get starry eyes?

Dr. Connealy:
They would probably get—but there’s over 800 doctors utilizing that lab in America today.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s not that many, actually, though.

Dr. Connealy:
It’s not that many, but you can seek it out. I tell people seek and be curious about yourself. Don’t take health for granted, your most important asset. In today’s world, you may be doing everything great, but you do not live in a perfect world. That is the thing is just because you think, oh, my God, I juice, and I do sauna, and I do this and that, don’t take that as a measure of whether or not. He needs to be checked. I need to be checked. Everyone listening out there, we need to be checked because there’s one in two chances that something is probably going on.

It’s not that you’re bad. That has nothing to do with it. We’re living in a world that we’ve never lived in today, literally. The technological advances, the industrial advancement, there are a lot of hazards. Just listen to the news. Read Science. Read Discovery. Read Nature. I mean, it’s in every journal. Okay, it’s not just he and I talking about it. It’s everywhere in every kind of magazine.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, what about the—there’s the ONCOblot. There’s thermography. What about some of these?

Dr. Connealy:
Okay, yeah. ONCOblot was a company that was testing cancer. It checked the ENOX2 protein, which is demonstrated on every cancer. That company, the owner died, and so that’s not available. It was great test that we used, but now it’s been replaced with a—the new company is called IvyGene, which shows DNA fragments of cancer, so that’s very good.

Dr. Pompa:
Ivy.

Dr. Connealy:
Ivy, I-V-Y.

Dr. Pompa:
They can hear it, yeah.

Dr. Connealy:
Yeah, so the other thing is he mentioned thermography. I’ve been using thermography for years. Thermography is a thermal. You can do a thermal image of your body from head to toe, and so this will tell me heat variations, like for women out there, breasts. Breast imaging is beautiful. First of all, there’s no radiation. Number two, no touching. Number three, it’s just a camera that takes a picture of your breasts, and it will tell me physiological vascular images of the breasts. If you’ve had a mammogram, a mammogram will miss somewhere between 20 and 50% of pathology.

Dr. Pompa:
How do you feel about mammograms? They’re told that they should get one every year.

Dr. Connealy:
Right, the standard of care—because I am a medical doctor, the standard of care is to get mammography. Okay, now, the new information, it’s not that new, actually, but the information is saying, if you get routine mammography, you’re probably 25% increased risk of cancer. I do everything on an individual basis. I do not do one-size-fits-all for any patient. Every individual is an original. You can’t treat every single patient the same, and every single treatment and recommendations are not going to be the same. Mammogram can have potential danger because they’re carcinogenic. They are. They’re radiation just like CT scans, just like PET scans. If you do any kind of scanning, you must do protection, which we’ll talk about in a second. You must do body cellular protection if you’re going to get those scans, which is what I do on every single patient.

Now, the other thing you can do is you can do—we were talking yesterday about bioenergetic testing. Bioenergetic testing, we all have a biofield. Yes, you see Dr. Pompa, 3D physical. If you looked at every single one of his trillions of cells resonate with this beautiful bioelectromagnetic energy and all the cells resonate differently, okay, they all have this beautiful photonic light that exudes. The new field in the United States—now, it’s not new because in Europe they’ve been doing it a long time. Actually, in the United States, we’ve been doing it probably over 30 years now, and it’s assessing the biofield just like—very much like an EKG. When you go to the doctor and get EKG, it’s an electrical energy assessment of your heart. It tells me, oh, is his heart working or not? Is it showing any kind of variations, okay? It may be normal, but he still may have heart problems, okay.

Then there’s something called the quantitative EEG of your brain. It actually checks the measurements of all your lobes, okay. It says what’s in balance and what’s out of balance, and then we know how to fix it. We can check the whole body now doing bioenergetic testing.

Dr. Pompa:
You do that in your clinic.

Dr. Connealy:
Yes, we do it in our clinic. We’ve been doing it. I’ve been doing it personally on myself because I’m so into cancer prevention because of my own issues. I’ve been doing it for about 20 years, and I learned from a mentor. This has been around since 1940, and so it’s not a new—it’s new, but now, as you know, everything gets better.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it gets better.

Dr. Connealy:
Everything gets better, and it’s more fine-tuned. We have all of these options to know before you see it on an ultrasound, before you see it on a scan. Don’t wait because the cure for cancer…

Dr. Pompa:
Prevention.

Dr. Connealy:
Is prevention, thank you. The cure for cancer is prevention.

Dr. Pompa:
Got it. Hey, I got that one right, all right. Yeah, I mean, that’s really important here. It’s the message that’s so important that everyone goes yeah, okay, yeah, let’s go on now. Tell me what I need to do if I have cancer. All right, let’s talk about that, so let’s talk about some of the things that you’re doing that are really different. I mean, I believe we should prevent. That is the most important.

Okay, but now I have concerns. I was diagnosed with these bad cells, whatever cancer diagnosis you may have had. What do you do? What are you doing that’s different?

Dr. Connealy:
Right, first of all…

Dr. Pompa:
We’re not telling you to replace your treatments, right?

Dr. Connealy:
Right.

Dr. Pompa:
A lot of these things go right along with it even.

Dr. Connealy:
Right, okay, the conventional treatments for cancer are surgery, chemo, or radiation, or some combination thereof. I will tell you sometimes people need surgery.

Dr. Pompa:
Mm-hmm, absolutely, I agree.

Dr. Connealy:
Sometimes people need chemotherapy, and radiation, I’ll reserve.

Dr. Pompa:
Fair enough.

Dr. Connealy:
Anyway, with that said, so if you have a lump or bump, remember that’s just the top of the iceberg. I just tell people, if you need surgery or chemo, you need me because I’m going to protect you through the process. Plus, I’m going to get you well from head to toe, whether it’s emotional, whether it’s eating, whether it’s purification, whether it’s your sleep, whatever. You’re fixing your nutrient. Maybe it’s fixing your gut. Maybe it’s fixing whatever, okay? Then if you do surgery, think about it. Surgery is an invasive, injurious, inflammatory, immunocompromising process.

Even if I have a patient who comes in for a facelift, they go, Dr. Connealy, I need a pre-op for a facelift. I go, okay, well, guess what? We’re not only going to do a pre-op. We are going to prepare you for this surgery so that you heal beautifully. I have my patients do hyperbaric oxygen, IV vitamin C. I have a whole nutritional protocol to prepare them for not only facelift surgery but for cancer surgery. Sometimes people need to have surgery, okay, unfortunately. Tumors are immunosuppressant, so sometimes you have to, or maybe sometimes the tumor is impeding with your intestines or some anatomical part of your body.

Then there’s chemotherapy. Chemotherapy we’ve been doing for 50, 60 years. Nixon declared war on cancer in 1970. Now, we have not made any advancements in cancer in the success…

Dr. Pompa:
Since the war on it.

Dr. Connealy:
Since the war on it. Now we need to say time out. Okay, we need to probably look at things differently. We need to integrate the surgery and chemo with all of these other lifestyle interventions, whether it’s what we talked about, whether it’s dealing with the emotions. When I have a patient that comes in, I do all their bloodwork, okay, and I tell them, first and foremost, you got to relax. You have this diagnosis. You can’t unring the bell. Do not become your diagnosis.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s very important.

Dr. Connealy:
Do not own the diagnosis.

Dr. Pompa:
Very important, thoughts.

Dr. Connealy:
Don’t become the label, don’t. This is an episode of life that you’re learning, okay? You’re learning about, and now, you are going to now get the microscope out and look at everything you do. There’s no way that I can tell you in one or two visits everything I know, so that means you’re going to have to go and do lots of research. If things sound the same on many places that you read, then there must be some validity and truth to it, okay? I’m not the only doctor. Dr. Pompa is not the only doctor saying these things. We’re all singing the same song, so you have to change.

Dr. Pompa:
It must be truth.

Dr. Connealy:
We all have to change. I have to change. He has to change. Everyone out there listening needs to change. We are here. We are all here to improve and become enlightened better human beings. I do a complete bloodwork to see everything that’s going on, and then I always do a nutritional analysis on everything, which is very, very—and by the way, just so people out there know, do you know your insurance covers all these things? Your insurance covers all of this stuff, all of this bloodwork I do, all the nutritional assessment I do, so there is no reason you shouldn’t be doing just that alone. Okay, then a lot of the lifestyle recommendations, you can learn very easily now because there is Google now. There’s so much information.

Dr. Pompa:
Podcasts like this everywhere.

Dr. Connealy:
Podcasts, you can learn all this stuff. Let’s say you can’t afford all the treatments. There is the information online to learn about, but the first and foremost thing I have every single person do is to meet the nutritionist so they can get their personalized plan. I will tell you there’s no one-diet-fits-all. There isn’t.

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, that’s my message, diet variation.

Dr. Connealy:
Okay, everyone goes, oh, my God.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s this diet. It’s that diet.

Dr. Connealy:
Yeah, so there’s a wave on ketogenic. Then there’s the Paleo, and then there’s this.

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, speaking my language.

Dr. Connealy:
I’m like, oh, my goodness, people are going to get so like, okay, what diet do I really do?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, you know what I—the magic, I’m telling you, the science shows it’s actually in the change. All of those diets can be very, very good, but really, the magic’s in the change.

Dr. Connealy:
Yeah, first of all, you don’t want to use diet, the word diet. It means temporary.

Dr. Pompa:
That means watching your waistline, your calories, right?

Dr. Connealy:
Yes, it’s a bad word.

Dr. Pompa:
Bad word.

Dr. Connealy:
It’s a bad word. Just look at it as you’re going to be transforming yourself, okay. Information incites transformation. You’re changing yourself. You’re going to create a new you, and it’s going to take time.

Dr. Pompa:
Do you find this, though, especially because someone comes to you as the cancer doctor, the medical doctor, and you’re telling them about their emotions and their diet? I would almost sense that many people would be like, yeah, now give me the real thing.

Dr. Connealy:
Yeah, they do.

Dr. Pompa:
Give me the real treatment. Hit me with that pill. Even if they’re there for alternative more so, right, it’s like, yeah, but give me the magic thing that’s sitting over there in the bottle. I mean, I find that.

Dr. Connealy:
That’s true. People will say, okay, now but, really, how I going to fight this cancer?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, diet.

Dr. Connealy:
Let me tell you, the pill for every ill is over.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it is.

Dr. Connealy:
Okay, it’s over. I’m telling you it’s over.

Dr. Pompa:
Done.

Dr. Connealy:
For example, let’s just hypothetically say you have back pain, right, and you take ibuprofen, right? You take it like a really pure, dye-free, gluten-free ibuprofen. That ibuprofen will turn against you, okay? It will take care of your back pain.

Dr. Pompa:
Momentarily.

Dr. Connealy:
Momentarily, but it will create a cascade of other health problems. No medicine is really designed for you to take that long, and then, more importantly, a symptom is a sign telling you I need to check this out.

Dr. Pompa:
Something’s wrong, mm-hmm.

Dr. Connealy:
All right, there is something wrong. That’s why you have the perception of a discomfort. It’s a sign that something isn’t right, right? Take a 6-year-old who’s perfectly healthy. They have not one symptom in the world, for the most part, okay? If you have a symptom, that’s a sign. Now, granted, some things are—we have this innate ability to heal ourself, and some things just go away in a day, or two, or three. If something persists, you need to get it checked out and figure out and say, okay, I can’t take ibuprofen or, God forbid, other stronger pills forever. It is just not going to fix the problem.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s the old analogy of your oil light comes on. You would take your car to the mechanic and say what’s going on? For our body, a headache is an oil light, right? It’s like you wouldn’t snip the wire going to the oil light, but you’ll still take the medication, or the Tylenol, or whatever it is for the headache.

Dr. Connealy:
Right, let’s talk about treatments, okay?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, exactly. That’s where I was going. You read my mind.

Dr. Connealy:
Yeah, there’s several things that we do that are different and can really be amazing. One of the things we do is, if a patient has tumor burden and they have tumors in their body or one tumor, we use something called IPT, insulin potentiation therapy with chemotherapy.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I know it.

Dr. Connealy:
That’s been around, actually, a long time. It’s using very low dose, so it’s about 10%. It is combined with insulin. Insulin is a hormone that’s normally made by your pancreas, but we use the insulin. Cancer cells, what do they love?

Dr. Pompa:
Sugar.

Dr. Connealy:
Sugar, so that’s the cardinal rule in eating is get off sugar and carbohydrates. The insulin brings in the chemo, sparing normal cells and really going after the cancer. The amount of treatments is around somewhere between 8 and 12. I use a laboratory, RGCC, that I spoke about earlier that actually tells me what chemo to use. I just don’t go, okay, let me have a great idea today. Here’s the chemo we’re going to use. We actually know. We have chemo sensitive testing that tells me what’s the best chemo?

Now there’s studies. There’s a seven-year study out showing the success rate is almost double than using regular chemo. Also, if I have a patient that goes to a conventional oncologist, which I often do, is I will tell the patient, okay, so these are the things that I want you to do. Protect yourself while you’re getting chemo, and so that would be Vitamin C. That would be fasting. That would be coffee enemas, liver flush, all these other things.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, talk about all those things.

Dr. Connealy:
Active hydrogen, that’s a whole other subject. I do all these things, and most of my patients, they really don’t have any symptoms because they’re prepared to get the conventional chemo. Whether you do IPT or conventional, you still need to do all these other things so that—there’s a study that shows fasting—okay, fasting dramatically, okay, that’s easy. That doesn’t cause -inaudible-. You can look up the study online, and it shows that, if you fast, you dramatically decrease the side effects of chemo.

Dr. Pompa:
Yes, absolutely.

Dr. Connealy:
I tell people surgery, chemo, and radiation are just the first three steps of a hundred that we need to do. The other treatments we do, we use something called Salicinium.

Dr. Pompa:
Mm-hmm, I know it.

Dr. Connealy:
Salicinium is a vegetable glycome. All cancer cells thrive in a low-oxygen environment. Why do we have low-oxygen environment? We all eat bad. Maybe we have candida. Maybe we don’t exercise. Maybe we sit around too much. Maybe there’s pollution. There’s too much pollution in our body. Maybe we’re extremely stressed, and we’re very acidic. We have this environment, that cancer, so there’s a famous scientist, Dr. Warburg.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, Otto Warburg.

Dr. Connealy:
Otto Warburg got a Nobel Prize about how cancer cells do not use oxygen and are anaerobic, which means without oxygen, so just exercise alone helps prevent cancer, probably 50%. We use this Salicinium molecule that turns this low oxygen cell into anaerobic cell. Remember a long time ago when exercise, aerobics and everything, so there was actually a lot of good thought to that. Anyway, we do that. We saturate your body for a couple weeks, and then you go on an oral protocol.

Then there are the other treatments in our practice. We use something called PMF, pulsed electromagnetic field. There’s over 1,000 PubMed studies that change the electrical rhythm—not rhythm but the electrical energy of every cell in your body. It also makes every single thing work at the membrane, all right? Then we have lymphatic drainage. We use an amazing device called Hemo-Sonic. People don’t realize this. Your blood delivers the groceries. The lymph removes the garbage. You lymph is four times greater than your blood circulation, so your lymph is where the garbage accumulates. We’ve got to get this garbage moving out of your body, so this device eliminates and lets the lymph flow like a waterfall.

Then we do hyperbaric oxygen. Remember I was talking about low oxygen?

Dr. Pompa:
Pushes it up.

Dr. Connealy:
Hyperbaric has been used for years all over the world. I have a beautiful case that I’m presenting today about a breast cancer patient who had surgery, chemo, and radiation. Her lungs were damaged by the radiation, and she did hyperbaric, got rid of the cancer. She says, oh, I feel great now. Everything’s wonderful. She stopped doing everything. Cancer came back. She went back to her protocol, and the cancer went away.

You talked about magic bullet. There isn’t one magic bullet. There’s lots of magic bullets. I will tell you, you need to do everything because that is just the way it is.

Dr. Pompa:
I agree. I would. Ozone, what about ozone?

Dr. Connealy:
Ozone’s another great oxygen, okay? We do IV ozone. Ozone is used literally all over the world. There’s millions of cases, million studies have been done, and there’s lot of books on that too. You can do IV ozone. You can do rectal ozone. You can do vaginal ozone. It’s just basically, they put an IV in your arm, and you run through an ozonator. The doctor takes out blood, ozonates it, puts it back in, and does this for as any times as he or she thinks is necessary for the patient.

Ozone deactivates chemicals, optimizes the immune system, gets rid of bugs. It’s beautiful. It’s been around. Some people can’t get the IV, so sometimes we do rectal and/or vaginal depending on. Sometimes we do topical ozone. We use topical creams for all kinds of things. They use ozone in the hospital to sterilize. Now, they use ozone in cars and everything to get rid of all the chemicals and junk and everything.

Dr. Pompa:
Mm-hmm, bad smells.

Dr. Connealy:
Ozone is a wonderful molecule. Then we do lots of different IV therapies. We have a plethora of IVs. It might be IV Vitamin C. It might be IV curcumin, IV artesunate, IV Poly-MVA. We have so many anticancer IVs that I talk about in my book, and so there’s lots of different things.

Some of the new things on the horizon are light therapy. Obviously, light therapy laser has been around for a long time, and now, it’s amazing. The science is jut growing and growing and growing. Light therapy given to the patient either locally or IV will basically disable the cancer cell.

Dr. Pompa:
Dr. Jimenez was speaking about it last night a little bit. I guess he does that, their clinics, a lot.

Dr. Connealy:
Yes, right, exactly. That’s the new thing. The other thing is there’s ultra sound therapy, high-intensity frequency ultrasound, great for cancer. You can look at ultrasound therapy for cancer. Again, I really individualize every treatment. I talk about most things. I will tell you that every Monday at 4 o’clock—I’m all about community, whether it’s community in my office or community in the world. Just like Dr. Pompa is. That’s why he has his podcast. I or one of my team, we talk about all of this and what’s new. I’m at this conference today, so I’m going to talk about with my staff next week what we’re going to do, what we’re going to make better, what we’re going to—like I said, the medical knowledge is coming so fast.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it’s true. It’s why we’re here.

Dr. Connealy:
We’ve got to implement all these new things. Guess what? Someone is disastrously ill Monday morning.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no doubt.

Dr. Connealy:
They need this new information. You need this new information. Every Monday at 4 o’clock, we do a Facebook Live. You can just chime in, and we talk about everything. We take questions. It’s going to be amazing. I just instituted this six weeks ago.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s great, yeah.

Dr. Connealy:
I want people to know what we—what I know. I want you to know this.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s what I always say. I want you to know what I know. How do you use CytoDetox? You have to be careful with it. It’s such a strong binder. It could pull out chemo if you’re doing it with chemo. I always tell people stay away from that. How do you use it?

Dr. Connealy:
Right, that’s a good point. I tell people, when you’re doing chemotherapy, let the chemo do its thing, okay? Then, after that, the chemo doesn’t last forever, so after three to five days, you can start the Cyto. Now we use the CytoDetox for patients who don’t have cancer and then patients who do have cancer. Every single one of us has toxins. Don’t think you’re not toxic.

Patients, they’ll say, well—I’ll say you need to purify yourself. Now, they like that word better than—if I say detox, oh, my God, they get scared. What am I going to have to do, literally? I’m like, oh, no, it’s not like you think. It really isn’t like you think. Just starting to eat right is purification.

Dr. Pompa:
Yes, your body will start.

Dr. Connealy
Yeah, first of all, just purify thoughts. Just being in an attitude of gratitude dramatically will change your cells, dramatically. Your self-talk, I want you to just—every single morning when you wake up, before you jump out of bed—hopefully, you’re jumping out of bed. Just stay in bed, and I want you to think how many things you are thankful for. Your list will grow and grow. You won’t have any—you won’t be able to get out of bed.

Dr. Pompa:
Gratitude.

Dr. Connealy:
Whatever you’re thinking—and this has been proven. If you just read Bruce Lipton, The Biology of Belief…

Dr. Pompa:
Love that book.

Dr. Connealy:
You will understand. He has all this science proving that. He has beautiful YouTubes.

Dr. Pompa:
We’ve interviewed him here twice on this show.

Dr. Connealy:
Yeah, I read his book years ago. It is like what are you thinking every day?

Dr. Pompa:
Thoughts.

Dr. Connealy:
Guess what? We all think negative. He does. I do, everyone out there. You turn that negative. Immediately go, oh, thank you for the resolution of X, Y, Z, right? You always say things in the affirmative as if it’s already happened, okay?

Dr. Pompa:
Yes, that’s great.

Dr. Connealy:
If you don’t ask for it, it ain’t going to happen, so you might as well just start your day like that.

Dr. Pompa:
God, don’t you love her?

Dr. Connealy:
I learned this literally not that long ago, okay, unfortunately. I wish I would’ve known this 20 years ago, but I learned it probably 7 years ago. It is me, and it is of me. I live my life.

Dr. Pompa:
It is me, and it is of me. Love that.

Dr. Connealy:
I drive out every day. I’ve already done that in the morning. Now, when I drive out, I’m like, oh, my gosh, I get to drive a car to work. I am so lucky. People drive every day and don’t think…

Dr. Pompa:
Rich people drive cars.

Dr. Connealy:
Yeah, right. No, we get to drive a car. I’m so happy.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s what I mean. We’re rich. You live in this country. You’re rich.

Dr. Connealy:
Right, I go to work thinking or sometimes I have to take care of business, but when I get to work and I walk in my back door, I was telling him I am thankful that I get to work here. Yes, I built it, but I didn’t build it by myself. I built it with this amazing team.

Dr. Pompa:
She describes it as Disneyland or World. I don’t know which one.

Dr. Connealy:
Disneyland, yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
Disneyland, she’s like it’s—how many employees do you have there?

Dr. Connealy:
Fifty, maybe it’s over 50.

Dr. Pompa:
Fifty employees, sounds like a disaster to me. No, it sounds like Disneyland. She loves going to work all day. I’m just imaging people running everywhere.

Dr. Connealy:
I do. I do love going to work. It’s absolutely amazing. I love my staff. They are just wonderful because they’re so dedicated to our mission.

Dr. Pompa:
Imagine the contrast of going to the typical oncology clinic or cancer clinic where I would imagine just dreading going to work, and I’ve spoken to some of those people where they’re dealing with death in their minds every day. It’s not a great place, and often times, they retire from it quickly. You’re the exact opposite. You’re bringing hope.

Dr. Connealy:
Yes, I tell people I’m going to add life to your life today. Today is all we have. I don’t know about tomorrow. Tomorrow is a mystery. We don’t know. None of us know, but I’m going to make your life great today.

Dr. Pompa:
All right, last thing—don’t you just love her energy? Oh, my gosh, yeah, the camera girl is going, yep, I love her energy too. I do too. Anyway, leave them, Dr. Leigh, with hope. Maybe there’s people out there watching right now that are like I hear you, but you’re not in my situation. Leave them with hope.

Dr. Connealy:
Oh, well, you haven’t been in my situation.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s what I say.

Dr. Connealy:
Let me tell you how many things I’ve overcome, but that’s not what this is about. This is about you, and this is about you evolving. Nothing is impossible. Never give up on yourself, never, and never give up on anybody else.

Dr. Pompa:
I got to hug her. We’re going to end right there. Yeah, you’re just lovely. You are, really. Thank you for being on the show.

Dr. Connealy:
Oh, thank you.

Dr. Pompa:
Thank you.