Today I welcome Logan Sneed – an incredible stage 4 Glioblastoma brain tumor survivor who wrote the #1 best selling book “Thank You Cancer.”
Logan has conquered the odds and achieved the impossible. Heās here to talk about how the worst things we have to go through in life can actually be a gift to us by forcing us to create the best versions of ourselves. How transforming your mind and your diet can increase longevity, fight off disease, and create a new you.
Logan is a perfect example of how the power of the mind shifts our perspective and can save our own life. And to top it off… Logan has gained all of this incredible wisdom by the age of 23.
More about Logan Sneed:
Logan Sneed is Brain Cancer survivor that was diagnosed with a stage 4 Glioblastoma Brain Tumor March 26th, 2016. Logan has been through brain surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. Logan has taken these obstacles and has grown in numerous ways mentally, physically, and emotionally. The day Loganās life changed was the day that he began the Ketogenic diet. Doctors told him nothing would help this. Might as well give up.
They were wrong. The ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting has saved his life and helped me transform physically and internally. Logan has had MRI check in's and they have seen some of the best results they have ever seen. Logan could be living my life in a sense of no faith and simply giving up. That is not an option for him. Logan has had things thrown at me day in and day out. But that is a blessing and that has helped me develop the best version of himself.
Logan has become a top selling author with the book “Thank You Cancer.”. He has built multiple 6 figure businesses and is now keynote speaking across the country and a world renowned influencer on social media, working everyday to change lives and achieve the impossible.
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Dr. Pompa:
How many of you are doing this on a daily basis? Yeah, well, wait until you hear this next story; it might change your mind that we know that this, in fact, causes brain tumors. Glioblastoma is happening in young kids today. This story proves what the science is already showing. The fastest cancers are brain tumors and brain cancers, especially in the younger generation.
I donāt think that we change this until we hear a story like this. This is a real story. Youāll see how the perfect storm changed this young manās life, but now heās changing lives. This is an episode youāre not even going to want to watch. You better share this on. You better make your kids watch it because that generation is the one whoās doing most of this. Stay tuned.
Ashley Smith:
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Cellular Healing TV. Iām Ashley Smith. Today, we welcome Logan Sneed, an incredible Stage Four Glioblastoma brain tumor survivor who wrote the Number One bestselling book, Thank You, Cancer.
Logan has conquered the odds and achieved the impossible. Heās here to talk about how the worst things we have to go through in life can actually be a gift to us by forcing us to create the best versions of ourselves. How transforming your mind and your diet can increase longevity, fight off disease, and create a new you. Logan is a perfect example of how the power of the mind shifts our perspective and can save your own life.
To top it off, Logan has gained all of this incredible wisdom by the age of 23, wow. Letās get started and welcome Logan Sneed, and of course, Dr. Pompa to the show. Welcome both of you.
Logan Sneed:
Awesome, thank you so much, Dr. Pompa, for having me on here. Iāve heard nothing but great things about this. Iām really excited to be on here.
Dr. Pompa:
Iām excited to have you. I donāt know if it was Facebook or Instagram, but I watched some of your inspirational messages that you have. Theyāre always really good.
Logan Sneed:
Oh, wow, thank you.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, we need to give yourāwhat is it, Facebook or Instagram I see you most on? I think Instagram.
Logan Sneed:
Yeah, I would say definitely Instagram for sure.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, based on your age, I would say Instagram. Anyway, your posts do pop up. They always intrigue me. I have to say you have a great message being 23 years old. One of the only ways to have a great message is to have great adversity, which you did. Letās start there. First of all, I want you to tell your story, but what was it like being diagnosed with cancer because that sets up your story?
Logan Sneed:
Yeah, taking some steps forward, being diagnosed with brain cancer, brain cancer especially was reallyāitās almost like visualize yourself walking out of a room. Suddenly, youāre walking into this room, and in probably five minutes, your life is completely changed forever. You walk out feeling like you added probably 200 pounds onto your back. You feel lost; you feel destroyed; you feel everything. Thatās what that felt like.
Going back into the time leading up to this, it was just a random day. It was a great day. I was actually in one of the best moods I think Iāve ever had in my life. I was like, man, Iām feeling great today. Itās going to be a new dream, new whatever. I was like, whatever, Iām going to go to the gym.
I was in such a good mood. I was like you know what, Iām going to Facetime my girlfriend, just tell her hello and see how sheās doing. By the way, Iāve never Facetimed and driven my car at the same time, never in my entire life until this one day.
I was Facetiming her. I was like, oh, hey babe; hope youāre doing well. Iām going to the gym. I hope your day is going great.
Suddenly, I started slurring. I couldnāt say what I wanted to say. She thought I was playing a joke and so she started laughing. It was like the wordās right here on my tongue and I couldnāt get them out. Suddenly, as sheās seeing me on the phone as Iām driving, I started seizing. Iāve never had a seizure in my entire life. I knew what they were, but Iād never even thought anything about them.
I was having a seizure. Obviously, sheās freaking out as sheās witnessing this stuff. Thankfully, it drove off the road into a ditch. There was no damage to the car, no injuries.
Dr. Pompa:
I see why you said youāve never Facetimed before because if you werenāt Facetiming, who knows; meaning, that she knew this was going on, praise God. Go ahead.
Logan Sneed:
Thank you for saying that because I think every single podcast Iāve ever been on has been like, oh my gosh, why are you Facetiming? I said, hold on, you donāt actually get it. If I wasnāt Facetiming, I donāt think Iād be on the podcast; I might be dead.
Yeah, she called the ambulance because she knew where I was going and everything. They took me out. They obviously had to analyze. I donāt remember any of this stuff. I was just knocked out, knocked unconscious, and voila, Iām in the hospital.
My parents came in. They said, okay, whatās going on with your son? Do you know, is he doing any drugs or anything? They were like, no, gosh no. Heās never done drugs in his life.
They drug test me, nothing. They, okay, has he ever had this? Theyāre like, no. Okay, we have no idea whatās going on here, but weāll have to figure this out. They said, we may have to do an MRI because something could be in there. What happened was is theyāit was like aā
Dr. Pompa:
By the way, you never had one symptom: no headaches. The typical brain tumor symptoms, you had never had before this?
Logan Sneed:
Okay, Iāll elaborate on it a little bit later on, yes, I had significant symptoms of severe headaches every day for six years. Iām going to be straight with you that I thought that headaches were normal. I thought everyone just had a headache, and Advil, and itās gone. Now, Advil never worked for me ever, but I just sucked it up every day and just said, yeah, headaches are normal. I had that every single day for six years.
Dr. Pompa:
Okay, weāll get back to that because thereās a lot of teaching points there.
Logan Sneed:
Yeah, oh for sure, yeah, absolutely. That was the only thing; that was the only symptom. It was not like horrific, crazy things at all.
Yeah, the next day, it led to an MRI. Going into this MRI, I still was blowing this off like it was a bunch of nothing. Really, itās just Iām all good. My mom was basically shaking 24/7. My dad was as well.
I come out of the MRI, then they started sending it to a neurologist. The neurologist, the next day, we met up with him. He said, okay, looking at this, it looks like thereās a mass in your brain. He said, I canāt tell you if itās a tumor, I canāt tell you if itās just a mass. They can just sit there and thatās it.
Weāre going to have to look more into this. He said, this is definitely big enough that I would really recommend brain surgery. I want to hook you up with a surgeon that you guys can chat with tomorrow.
Then the next dayāagain, this is all within less than a week. The next day, Iām going to meet up with this brain surgeon here in Austin. As soon as I meet up with this guy, as soon as I walk into his officeāor excuse me, as soon as he walks in, he goes, hey, Logan, itās good to meet you. Hey real quick, bud, I wanted to let you know that if weāre going to be doing a brain surgery at where your tumor or your mass is located, you probably wonāt be able to speak or hear after this surgery. I just want to give you that warning before we go into this.
Iām like, wow, geez. First off, I donāt even know the guyās name. Heās saying surgery. I probably wonāt be able to speak or hear after this surgery. This is all within less than a week. Iām like, wow, Iām going to be borderline mute basically is what that is.
Dr. Pompa:
Why do you think he started with that statement instead of just hearing your story? Why would you start there? Was he just trying to blow you out?
Logan Sneed:
I have no idea. Youāll hear something crazy with that. Brain surgery, when somebody has a mass in their brain, whether they know if itās a tumor or whatever, they need to get it out as soon as possible, especially when itās huge. Mine was a perfect egg is what it was, a perfect egg. Thatās exactly what the picture looked like. When somethingās that big in somebodyās brain, it needs to be out immediately.
He said word for word, he said, āReal quick, I wonāt be able to do the surgery tomorrow or the next day. Itās going to have to be probably about two weeks. Iām going on vacation with my family, but Iāll be back.ā Weāre like, oh my God, is this guy serious?
We left there, and thankfully, my parents donāt have the mindset of saying like, oh yeah, heās probably right. They said you know what, weāre not going to work with that guy. Thereās got to be somebody out there whoās better because geez, heās got one of the most serious jobs in the world and he canāt evenāmy life is on the line and heās basically just putting in 50% effort basically.
We get connected with the Number One brain surgeon in the world, Dr. Raymond Sawaya. This guy is aāheās a machine. We go in there, and I say, hey, Dr. Sawaya, am I going to be able to speak or hear after this surgery? I want to just be straight up with it. He said, Logan, he said, dude, if Iām doing the surgery, donāt sweat it; Iāve got you. Youāre going to be fine.
Iām like, wow. I was like, hey Doc, Iām not going to name this guyās name, but he literally told me the complete opposite. I said you guys have the same exact job, the same life is on the line, and youāre giving me two completely different answers. I said, Iām happy with your answer, but I was like, Iāve never seen this before.
Anyways, that gave me confidence. It gave me hope in the sense of going into this of like, alright, okay, if weāve got to do brain surgery, letās do it. As soon as we meet up with this guyāand this is whatās different, too. The other surgeon said two weeks are fine for us to wait; this surgeon said, no, we have to have surgery tomorrow morning. Be here tomorrow morning at 5:30 in the morning. Weāre going to have to get this thing out. Iām like, oh my gosh.
Dr. Pompa:
Everything was way opposite, way opposite. Can I sleep in until 7? No way. The other guy, oh, two weeks.
Logan Sneed:
Yeah, exactly. That day, it was more of like I was doing trial and errors, testing. I was basically doing almost a workout at the cancer center, MD Anderson. I was doing all these workouts of how I could function, everything.
That meant next day, brain surgery. It was a seven to eight-hour brain surgery. They woke me up in the middle of the surgery and asked me questions to see if I could still speak or hear because, for those that are curious, the tumor was at the temporal lobe in the brain which is linked to the speaking, hearing capability. Surgery was phenomenal. I was able to speak and hear the whole time. He removed 100% of the tumor. It wasnāt 95%, it wasnāt 97, it was 100% of the tumor.
I was confident. I was like, cool, the tumor is gone. Letās move on. Life is still going.
Two weeks later, obviously, we had to wait for diagnosis, we go into the room waiting for the doctor to come in. This doctor comes in. Itās very eerie energy sheās giving off. She didnāt even want to make eye contact with me. Right then and there, Iām like, okay, somethingās really just not right here. Obviously, my parents sensed that.
She sat down, looked down, and went, scratched her head, goes like this. Then, Logan, Iām really sorry, but this is going to be a Stage Four Glioblastoma brain tumor. It looks like that you have about one to ten years left to live. Iām really sorry to say this, but thereās nothing that weāre going to be able to do about this. Weāll try the chemotherapy; weāre going to try radiation, but itās really about all we can do. Iām really sorry to tell you that.
In my head right there, man, thatās another one shot to the chest of like, oh my God. Okay, Iāll be dead here pretty soon. Iām going to take up time, space, money, energy. Iām like, whatās the point of even being alive? I feel useless. Itās just no point.
Right then and there, obviously, I felt done. We go into thisāmy parents are likeāthey stayed very calm, very strong. Iāve got to give them that.
My dad goes, okay, well, thank you for the diagnosis and everything, but whatācan we do something about it? Is there anything besides chemo and radiation that we can maybe bring into play, maybe food he should or should not eat, just I donāt know, anything, maybe cut out some sugars, or eat more broccoli, anything? She goes, Iām sorry, thereās nothing we can do.
He goes, okay, well hold on. He said this word for word. He said, āSo youāre telling my son that he can go have a beer and a burger and thatās it? We canāt do anything about it?ā She goes, yes sir, thatās what Iām telling your son.
Iām like, wow, I feel likeāagain, my life is on the line. Iām talking to somebody and thereās no answers. Whatās the point of your job? Whatās the point of my life here? I left there again, what I was saying is I added 200 pounds onto my back. Thatās when my life changed forever.
Obviously, when that happened at first, it was the most horrific thing Iāve ever experienced in my life. Iāll vividly remember every single second about that. In that time period, and it was like maybeāit was probably about five to eight weeks. I was still thinking like, what can I do? Iām like thereās something more. I was like, thereās got to be something out there. I donāt know what it is, but thereās got to be something.
My dad was getting a little bit better. I can elaborate on my diet before and how itās changed, but Iāll elaborate on this. I went from white bread, wheat bread, to now Ezekiel bread because I love bread. I thought those things were really essential, so I had Ezekiel bread. I went from egg whites to I was like okay, weāre going to bring in some eggs because I think it will make it [00:13:25] good, so little things.
Then one day, I was down here in Austin paddleboarding with a friend of mine whoās actually one of my biggest life mentors. He said, Logan, heās like, have you heard of this ketogenic diet? I said, no. I was like, what is that? Heās like, well, I was just in Hawaii. Thereās a whole community of people there who actually do this. Every single person there does this. Theyāve done it all their lives, and all of their ancestors, and family, and everything.
Heās like itās a high fat, medium protein, low carb diet. He said itās really interesting because thereās been recent research on Glioblastoma tumors specifically and potentially shrinking or preventing tumor regrowth. I was like, wow. I was like, wait, hold on. I was like, really? He was like yeah.
Dr. Pompa:
Do you know thatās Thomas Seyfriedās book?
Logan Sneed:
No, I didnāt actually. I had no clue who he was, anybody. This was almost four years ago, so this was when keto was a bunch of nothing. It was very new.
Dr. Pompa:
I was teaching keto five years ago, one year before, actually.
Logan Sneed:
Yeah, thatās crazy.
Dr. Pompa:
Itās now in vogue.
Logan Sneed:
Yeah, I was like, wow. I was like, okay, this is interesting. I went home that day. I stayed up until 3 am just searching the ketogenic diet. I watched probably every video you could think of online. I was like, okay.
I was reading itābecause hereās the thing, too. In that day that I had the seizure was actually my Day One of a journey of lowering body fat percentage, start shredding down, see more lean muscle because I always had a mindset of getting swole. Iām going to just load up on carbs like boom, 4,000 calories, protein and sugar smoothies like crazy.
I saw in this, in the results that people could get from keto, you could shred body fat. I was like, wow. I was like, wait, shred body fat. Okay, I can feel amazing in my brain, and my energy, and then I can potentially prevent cancer from coming back? Iām like, wow.
That next day, I went full throttle, 100%. I didnāt become a master in one day, and I wouldnāt say I still am a master, but I literally went full throttle. Itās been four years and absolutely no tumor regrowth. Itās been such a journey of things getting better and realizing that these things have actually been a huge gift in my life, so yeah.
Dr. Pompa:
Thatās incredible. I have to ask this question, especially regarding your age. What side did you always put your cellphone on, you know what Iām saying? Because we know Glioblastomas are linked to EMF exposure and so many young people are getting them now like never before. When we buy a phone, we actually check and we agree when we hit Agree that weāre agreeing that we know that thereās research linking cellphones against our head to tumors on that side. Did you use the left side because you said left, yeah, left side?
Logan Sneed:
Okay, hereās the thing. The question was, how did this tumor come about. Doctors said word for word, āWe have no idea. This not in your DNA. Iām sorry, we donāt know.ā
Yes, I would do hour-long phone calls in middle school and early high school with girlfriends up until 3 am in the morning with the phone like this to my head on the left side. I would just lay down like that on the bed. It makes it super easy, super simple. I would do that for hours on end.
Dr. Pompa:
People listening, use speakerphone, distance is your friend. Even if you were here, you would have a better odd. The fact you were laying on it, of course, man.
Logan Sneed:
Itās even like Air Pods.
Dr. Pompa:
Oh, yeah, Air Pods.
Logan Sneed:
As Iām on here, Iām using the cord.
Dr. Pompa:
Oh yeah, I tested them. They have to be wired. Those Air Pods are like thousands of times higher than we know cellular damage. I had it measured. I proved it to my kids.
At a certain height, 0.5, DNA damage starts to happen. We were 1,000, 2,000 full above that when they put in an Air Pod. They all stopped using them after that.
Logan Sneed:
Yeah, itās crazy.
Dr. Pompa:
Man, itās unbelievable just that your message. Youāve got to get this message out. Thatās obviously why you are on this show. What a difference.
You were willing to change your diet, which obviously thereās research showing cancer, these cells will multiply and feed on sugar. It wasnāt like sugar lead to your diet. Itās always a perfect storm: EMF exposure, feeding bad cells, creating more bad cells. Of course, the perfect storm occurs.
Logan Sneed:
Yeah, elaborating with that, itās almost like you take all the variables, you put it together. The tumor was six years old. It was in my brain for six years and I had no idea. Suddenly, the seizure was that one day that we found out.
Six years before the diagnosis, I had a traumatic injury in a basketball game where it was a long story short, but I was taking a charge. I was trying to block the guy from dunking. He elbowed me, maybe on accident, I donāt know, elbowed me. Then as Iām coming down, my headās going down on the ground. Boom, his foot is smashed right into my head. My eye was swollen shut for a week. It was a traumatic injury.
Then over the years, Iāve had scars and stitches here up on the left side of my face, which has also been a potential starting point of that tumor. Then obviously, adding to that, I would have severe inflammation all of the time, not only because of the amount of sugars and carbohydrates I was eating but with the amount of training that I was doing. I was doing two to three workouts a day every single day for an entire year and then years upon end.
Then I was doing poor recovery. I was like, alright, I need six hours of sleep, no more, thatās it. Iām getting up at 5 am. Just severe inflammation with severe stress on a daily basis with the EMF and all those things.
Dr. Pompa:
I want people to hear this because, see, this is one of the things I train on. Itās always the perfect storm; meaning that, why doesnāt everybody get brain tumors? Itās because itās a perfect storm; meaning, physical, chemical, emotional stress.
If you remember the movie, itās three storms come together and a catastrophic storm occurs. If it was two storms, itās a bad storm. You might have headaches, but not a brain tumor. When itās three, man, the bottom falls out, catastrophe. Thatās exactly what I see day in, day out when I deal with very sick and challenged people.
You were overtraining; thatās a physical stress, alright. Your body doesnāt know the difference of physical, chemical, or emotional stress. The EMF is, itās a wavelength stress. Itās similar to a toxin; itās a chemical stress.
Of course, the standard American toxic diet, so we have chemicals and toxins. We have physical stress. I donāt even know the emotional stress that was going on in your life, but it didnāt matter because you already had three storms. Then you had the EMF massive exposure. Three storms, bam, a diagnosis will come.
We find that people have cavitations when they have a wisdom tooth pulled out on the side where they get cancer, breast cancer, brain tumors. That can be a part of the storm. Root canals, silver fillings, metal, which creates part of a perfect storm. Then they put their cellphone there. These perfect storms to my point is it could be many different things, many different things, Logan.
Logan Sneed:
Yeah, 100% Iām with you on that.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, and thatās what I want people to hear. Alright, well, this is an important point, though. Whatās the difference between you and the person who just goes in even with the first guy and says, okay, two weeks, alright, doc, where you were going, no way, right? That would have been me, no way.
Whatās the difference or whatās the difference of you and somebody who goes, wait a minute? Your family just started asking questions about cause, but then thereās other people who just go, okay. Iām just unlucky because thatās what doctors think. What do you think the difference was?
Logan Sneed:
Yeah, I will say this, Iāve always had that mindset of pushing to be my ownāpushing beyond my limits in many different facets of athletics, sports. Iāve always had that my whole life. I think what it really was is that we were like, okay, this doctor may not be an idiot, but I donāt think the doctor can tell me when Iām going to be dead. A doctorās not going to determine my life. I think thatās what really sparked it is a doctorāthe doctor saying Iāll be dead and I donāt have that mindset of listening to somebody whoās going to tell me that because Iāve always had an entrepreneurial mindset where I never ever wanted to work for somebody. I always wanted to be my own CEO, my own entrepreneur, all of those sort of things.
I was like, well, hold on. Now, I want to be an entrepreneur. Okay, now this personās threatening my life basically that Iāll be dead soon, so Iām really pissed off. Thatās as simple as what it was; I got really upset. I didnāt get upset emotionally, but I got upset; I got super mad about it. Because I got mad about it, it gave meāI was like you know what, Iām going to go figure it out. Forget that. Itās going to happen.
Dr. Pompa:
By the way, I call you a three-percenter. When they interview people who beat a brain tumor, cancer, even change the world for anything, when theyāre interviewing these people, they say exactly what you just said. They said I made a decision in that moment that Iām not going to be that. Thatās what you just said.
Your vision in that moment that you were going to do whatever it takes. Youāre not going to believe that person. Youāre not going to let that person dictate your life. You were going to beat this.
Iām telling you, thatās the mindset of a 3-percenter; a 97-percenters, they go, oh my gosh, and they take it on. They take that diagnosis on. Theyāre defeated in it. They make a decision to die. They make a decision to listen to their fear, which is calling out.
I always say this when I teach on that 3-percent/97-percenters, 3-percenters still go through times of fear, but we choose otherwise. Three-percenters still go, oh my gosh. What were some of those moments in your life in this journey I should say that you went through discouragement, and doubt, and maybe even maybe I will die? Did you have those moments?
Logan Sneed:
Yeah, I think I definitelyāIāll explain this. Stress was a huge thing in my life ever since Iāve been born. I think everyone has that. I definitely went through a time ofāwhen keto was so new, okay, it was brand new. I say brand new, at least for the world almost, it was brand new.
I was posting so much on social media. It got to a point where I was getting so much social media hate. People were like, youāre scamming people, this diet is ridiculous, I donāt know what the heck youāre telling people that you could fast here, it makes no sense. I was getting comment after comment after comment.
Iām like, oh my gosh. Iām like this is horrible. It hurt me; it hurt my heart. I was like, maybe theyāre right. Maybe I should just stop doing this. I donāt know. I almost listened to them, but obviously, I didnāt.
Iāve gotten these other times where people say, well if you do what youāre doing all the time, if you keep fasting like that, youāre going to starve yourself. If you keep doing keto with that, youāre really destroying your muscles and your body and yadda-yadda-yadda. At first, I definitely was rethinking things, but then Iām like, you know what, hold on. I was like life is never going to give me a path where thereās no obstacles like that. In order for me to get from point a to point z where I want to go, I have to go through that or I can run from it.
I was like, you know what, Iām going to go through that. Hey, God forbid it doesnāt work and I die tomorrow by getting hit by a bus, so be it. It is what it is. Iām doing everything I possibly can. Yeah, thatās the thing is those things definitely happened, but I used those things. I just kept my tunnel vision of where I really want my life to go.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, you said another thing three-percenters say. A lot of people justāthey want to go around adversity and hard things. You said I just knew you had to go through it and you did. Thatās how you come out the other side like you are, a better person.
Tell us about that transition in your mindset. Obviously, you had the transition into at one point to this is a gift, and not only a gift, the greatest gift of my life because thatās what happened through my illness is there was times as I was saying what was very hard going through it. There was times where I doubted. Maybe Iām not going to get better.
Ultimately, at a certain point, I made a decision to get better and I stuck to that. I also made a decision and a realization that this is the greatest thing thatās ever happened to me. As a matter of fact, I needed this to even be here today; I needed that. How did that transition look for you?
Logan Sneed:
Yeah, it was likeāIāll elaborate. My diet back then, I thought that eating straight carbs and just 4,000 calories, I thought that was the proper way of doing things. I thought thatās how you got swole, you got healthy. I thought fasting, I thought that was the worst thing that you could possibly do. I was the last person you could ever expect that would ever do fasting, but there was a calling of like, okay, either you want to die or you want to do something different.
I said, okay, I would rather do something different, so I did a 180. Now, Iām at this 180; Iām in this route here. Iām like, wow, okay, things are different for sure. I said again, I donāt know if itās going to work, but Iām going to make it work.
What kept the consistency and what kept that vision is a quote that goes, āIt always seems impossible until it is doneā by Nelson Mandela. Until you actually do it, youāllāit will always be impossible in your mind. Until you actually do it, you wonāt actually know. I saw that.
I think some of the things that give me the confidence, the consistency in how I felt is every time I go into these MRI check-ins, for the past four years, every single time itās been the same exact answer: hey Logan, it looks great; nothing here. Weāll see you in four months. Great doc, weāll see you then. I keep coming back and I keep coming back. Hey doc, hereās the answers. Hey doc, this is what it is.
I know by what Iām eating, not only does it taste great, that I feel great and itās giving me great results. By continued work ethic, Iām seeing actual results. Itās not even results that Iām thinking about; of course, Iām always very confident about what I think, but Iām seeing the results. I see a picture of my brain. Just a big hole there still, no problem. Iāll see you then. Thatās what keeps it really rolling is seeing the results.
Dr. Pompa:
What did they say because inādid you ever speak the doctor who said one to ten years? What was their comments about that? Here you are.
Logan Sneed:
Yeah, well, we actually did not speak to them. Okay, this is another funny story. We didnāt actually try and get this doctor fired by any means; we just gave in a word of saying, hey, this is how the diagnosis went; this is her tone; this is how she acted; and this is everything. Weāre not trying to fire her; we just want you to know so this doesnāt happen to a million other clients she may work with; I donāt know. They actually almost fired her. They had a huge board of director meeting. We never chatted with her again.
The other doctors, they saidānot one of them. Okay, not one of them has said, wow, thatās interesting. Let me note this down here for real quick. Weāll look more into this. Not a single one of them; they said, okay, alright, well, just keep doing your thing. Thatās it.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, they think youāreāthey first thought you were unlucky and now they just think youāre lucky. Thatās it; honestly, thatās the mindset. How much fasting did you do? You know obviously, Iām a big proponent of fasting. How long of fasting, how often, daily fasting, longer fasts?
Logan Sneed:
Yeah, when I started keto, at first, it was really notāit really wasnāt fastāI didnāt know fasting was part of it, so I did a fat coffee and two meals a day. Then over time, I went into the 16:8 where I just had a black coffee and then two meals a day. Then now, it took me to the sense of I was like, alright, 18 hours. Now, I did 18 hours and then two meals a day. Then I got to a point over the past year is where I do about 20 to 22 hours. I did and I still do probably about one and a half meals a day if that makes any sense. Now, my fastingā
Dr. Pompa:
Thatās what I do most of my days. Some days, I just eat one meal, but I do eat one and half. I typically eat that in a four-hour windowāthree-hour window.
Logan Sneed:
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, thatās where Iām at now is anywhere from 18 to 21 hours is usually my fasting window. Thatās what I do every day now. I feel great. You look back then and youād never think that Iād do any of this stuff, ever.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, thatās awesome. Yeah, man, obviously, God has a calling in your life. I see it clearly. This story is playing out with younger people your age. Thatās what scares the heck out of me, man. Itās hard for me to impact that generation. You have been called to bring your story to that generation; you really have.
Logan Sneed:
Thank you, yeah.
Dr. Pompa:
My book talks all about this. Itās where you have to literally get our bodies burning a different fuel. Most Americans are stuck as sugar burners only. The cells need sugar or fat, but theyāre stuck as sugar burners, which leads to cancer and leads to other health problems, obviously, hormone problems. We add this new cellphone problem to this equation and this is really becoming a massive epidemic. Looking ahead with what I just said, what is your aspirations and goals to bring this message to more people?
Logan Sneed:
Yeah, my goal is to create the best version of myself is what I call it: happy, healthy, wealthy, creating the best version of myself. Thatās mindset, thatās diet, thatās habits, thatās environment, belief, everything. If Iām doing that, I want to show the world what Iām doing and how Iām doing it. If they see what Iām doing and how itās working for me, that could help them change their own life. That could help them see whatās possible.
I want to show the world, hey, this was my life, this was my story. It almost destroyed me. I donāt want anyone else having to experience this, so please, Iām not forcing anyone to do anything, but Iām saying, please look at what I did. Hereās what Iām doing now. I got from point a to point b.
I donāt want anyone going through this because people are doing it every day. Iād say millions of people are holding their phone to their head right now. The brain cancer rate, which is the scary thing, is the fastest growing cancer in the world. Itās the least funded and itās the most deathly. Itās one of those things thatās on silent that no one wants to talk about, no one wants to really accept it, and itās hidden. People are having tumors right now and they donāt even know it.
Dr. Pompa:
Exactly; youāre writing a book. Obviously, youāre getting on as many podcasts as you can. I guess what Iām saying is weāve got to get you in front of many people as we can, Logan.
Look, I was speaking in Africa years ago. I had a translator. Here I am with these leaders in Africa and very important people. After I was done speaking, the most important guy of this whole leadership conference beelined it to the stage. Iām thinking, oh my gosh, what did I say? He says to me, āDr. Pompa, your authority doesnāt come from your years of school and knowledge; it comes from the victory God gave you.ā
Logan Sneed:
Wow, thatās awesome.
Dr. Pompa:
I didnāt even know what he meant at the time, honestly. Now, I look back and Iām like, oh my God, he was so right. Now, your authority comes from the victory God gave you.
You donāt need schooling; you donāt need to be a brain surgeon; quite the opposite as you see. Your authority, God gave you victory. You have great authority in this area. The question is, what are you going to do with it? Youāre here, right. My point is that, man, we need you in front of as many people as we can; we do.
Logan Sneed:
Yeah, absolutely. Thatās my goal. I wrote my book, Thank You, Cancer, just showing people howāthereās a lot of things that I did not talk about on here because itāsāI could talk all day.
Dr. Pompa:
Weāll put a link for your book. Letās make sure that everyone gets your book. Please buy this gentlemanās book, my goodness. Thereās lessons learned here. Then you can have your kids read the book.
Logan Sneed:
I talk about depression, loneliness, diagnosis, everything all up in there. Yeah, thatās my book. Obviously, public speaking is my biggest dream of if I can speak in front of thousands of people and one life is changed in that talk, then viola.
Dr. Pompa:
I want to have you at one of my seminars talking about this right because stories tell, stories sell. Thatās how you inspire people to change something in your life. Oh, give me figures on brain tumors, and cellphones on my ears, and diet, blah blah blah. Tell the story, you change lives because people go, oh my God, this is reality now. Iāve read something about this. Now, I know that this is reality. I want you to speak to my doctors just to put fire under them, thatās for sure.
Logan Sneed:
Oh, that would be awesome. Yeah, man, absolutely. I donāt mean to scare anybody on here, but itās about $1.4 million to go through brain cancer of chemo, radiation, surgery, MRIs, everything. Now, thankfully, I am on my familyās business insurance. My parents own a company. Iām an āemployee,ā so Iām covered on that, but that is the average cost for brain cancer patients, $1.4 million.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, well, look, no, you should scare people because people needāhow are we going to get cellphones off peopleās head unless they get scared about something? How are we going to change their diet? How are we going to get them fasting? How are we going to unless we scare them, honestly? Thatās the point.
Look, I discipline and I do the things I teach and preach. You know why? Because Iām scared to death to go back to whatāthe way when I was sick. Youāre scared to death to have that brain tumor start to grow. Yeah, fear can be a driver.
Logan Sneed:
Exactly, yeah, 100%.
Dr. Pompa:
Fear can be a great driver. Man, I hope people get your book. You said you had times of depression; you had times ofāthree-percenters still go through depression at times; three-percenters still have fear, but three-percenters push through it because you made a decision, man. I so appreciate that story, Logan.
Logan Sneed:
Yeah, absolutely. Thank you so much.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, and thank you for being here and sharing your story. I want to put your Instagram page here so people can keep hearing your inspirational messages, follow you. Weāll put a link for your book as well.
Logan Sneed:
Man, thank you so much, dude. Hey, I have your book. Itās amazing. It fits. Itās so cool because itās about my story of like, okay, hereās what happened, and oh, and then hereās fasting. Itās a story and then information; itās brought together. Itās perfect, man. I really love it.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, awesome, Logan. I want to bring you on my Facebook or Instagram.
Logan Sneed:
Yeah, absolutely.
Dr. Pompa:
Ashley will connect you to my son, Daniel, who can make that happen. Because what I want to do is I want people to watch this. If we just do a little piece and get them to watch this and share this, weāll get the message out. Ashley will make that happen. Logan, thank you for being here today.
Logan Sneed:
Man, thank you so much. Absolutely, letās keep in contact.
Dr. Pompa:
Yep, got it.
Logan Sneed:
Cool.
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