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. He’s 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 Logan’s 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 don’t think that we change this until we hear a story like this. This is a real story. You’ll see how the perfect storm changed this young man’s life, but now he’s changing lives. This is an episode you’re 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 who’s doing most of this. Stay tuned.
Ashley Smith:
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Cellular Healing TV. I’m 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. He’s 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. Let’s 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. I’ve heard nothing but great things about this. I’m really excited to be on here.
Dr. Pompa:
I’m excited to have you. I don’t know if it was Facebook or Instagram, but I watched some of your inspirational messages that you have. They’re always really good.
Logan Sneed:
Oh, wow, thank you.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, we need to give your—what 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. Let’s 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 really—it’s almost like visualize yourself walking out of a room. Suddenly, you’re 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. That’s 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 I’ve ever had in my life. I was like, man, I’m feeling great today. It’s going to be a new dream, new whatever. I was like, whatever, I’m going to go to the gym.
I was in such a good mood. I was like you know what, I’m going to Facetime my girlfriend, just tell her hello and see how she’s doing. By the way, I’ve 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 you’re doing well. I’m going to the gym. I hope your day is going great.
Suddenly, I started slurring. I couldn’t say what I wanted to say. She thought I was playing a joke and so she started laughing. It was like the word’s right here on my tongue and I couldn’t get them out. Suddenly, as she’s seeing me on the phone as I’m driving, I started seizing. I’ve never had a seizure in my entire life. I knew what they were, but I’d never even thought anything about them.
I was having a seizure. Obviously, she’s freaking out as she’s 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 you’ve never Facetimed before because if you weren’t 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 I’ve ever been on has been like, oh my gosh, why are you Facetiming? I said, hold on, you don’t actually get it. If I wasn’t Facetiming, I don’t think I’d 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 don’t remember any of this stuff. I was just knocked out, knocked unconscious, and voila, I’m in the hospital.
My parents came in. They said, okay, what’s going on with your son? Do you know, is he doing any drugs or anything? They were like, no, gosh no. He’s never done drugs in his life.
They drug test me, nothing. They, okay, has he ever had this? They’re like, no. Okay, we have no idea what’s going on here, but we’ll have to figure this out. They said, we may have to do an MRI because something could be in there. What happened was is they—it was like a—
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, I’ll elaborate on it a little bit later on, yes, I had significant symptoms of severe headaches every day for six years. I’m going to be straight with you that I thought that headaches were normal. I thought everyone just had a headache, and Advil, and it’s 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, we’ll get back to that because there’s 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, it’s just I’m 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 there’s a mass in your brain. He said, I can’t tell you if it’s a tumor, I can’t tell you if it’s just a mass. They can just sit there and that’s it.
We’re 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 day—again, this is all within less than a week. The next day, I’m 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 office—or excuse me, as soon as he walks in, he goes, hey, Logan, it’s good to meet you. Hey real quick, bud, I wanted to let you know that if we’re going to be doing a brain surgery at where your tumor or your mass is located, you probably won’t be able to speak or hear after this surgery. I just want to give you that warning before we go into this.
I’m like, wow, geez. First off, I don’t even know the guy’s name. He’s saying surgery. I probably won’t be able to speak or hear after this surgery. This is all within less than a week. I’m like, wow, I’m 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. You’ll hear something crazy with that. Brain surgery, when somebody has a mass in their brain, whether they know if it’s a tumor or whatever, they need to get it out as soon as possible, especially when it’s huge. Mine was a perfect egg is what it was, a perfect egg. That’s exactly what the picture looked like. When something’s that big in somebody’s brain, it needs to be out immediately.
He said word for word, he said, “Real quick, I won’t be able to do the surgery tomorrow or the next day. It’s going to have to be probably about two weeks. I’m going on vacation with my family, but I’ll be back.” We’re like, oh my God, is this guy serious?
We left there, and thankfully, my parents don’t have the mindset of saying like, oh yeah, he’s probably right. They said you know what, we’re not going to work with that guy. There’s got to be somebody out there who’s better because geez, he’s got one of the most serious jobs in the world and he can’t even—my life is on the line and he’s 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 a—he’s 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 I’m doing the surgery, don’t sweat it; I’ve got you. You’re going to be fine.
I’m like, wow. I was like, hey Doc, I’m not going to name this guy’s 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 you’re giving me two completely different answers. I said, I’m happy with your answer, but I was like, I’ve 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 we’ve got to do brain surgery, let’s do it. As soon as we meet up with this guy—and this is what’s 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. We’re going to have to get this thing out. I’m 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 wasn’t 95%, it wasn’t 97, it was 100% of the tumor.
I was confident. I was like, cool, the tumor is gone. Let’s 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. It’s very eerie energy she’s giving off. She didn’t even want to make eye contact with me. Right then and there, I’m like, okay, something’s 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, I’m 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. I’m really sorry to say this, but there’s nothing that we’re going to be able to do about this. We’ll try the chemotherapy; we’re going to try radiation, but it’s really about all we can do. I’m really sorry to tell you that.
In my head right there, man, that’s another one shot to the chest of like, oh my God. Okay, I’ll be dead here pretty soon. I’m going to take up time, space, money, energy. I’m like, what’s the point of even being alive? I feel useless. It’s just no point.
Right then and there, obviously, I felt done. We go into this—my parents are like—they stayed very calm, very strong. I’ve got to give them that.
My dad goes, okay, well, thank you for the diagnosis and everything, but what—can 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 don’t know, anything, maybe cut out some sugars, or eat more broccoli, anything? She goes, I’m sorry, there’s nothing we can do.
He goes, okay, well hold on. He said this word for word. He said, “So you’re telling my son that he can go have a beer and a burger and that’s it? We can’t do anything about it?” She goes, yes sir, that’s what I’m telling your son.
I’m like, wow, I feel like—again, my life is on the line. I’m talking to somebody and there’s no answers. What’s the point of your job? What’s the point of my life here? I left there again, what I was saying is I added 200 pounds onto my back. That’s when my life changed forever.
Obviously, when that happened at first, it was the most horrific thing I’ve ever experienced in my life. I’ll vividly remember every single second about that. In that time period, and it was like maybe—it was probably about five to eight weeks. I was still thinking like, what can I do? I’m like there’s something more. I was like, there’s got to be something out there. I don’t know what it is, but there’s got to be something.
My dad was getting a little bit better. I can elaborate on my diet before and how it’s changed, but I’ll 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, we’re 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 who’s actually one of my biggest life mentors. He said, Logan, he’s like, have you heard of this ketogenic diet? I said, no. I was like, what is that? He’s like, well, I was just in Hawaii. There’s a whole community of people there who actually do this. Every single person there does this. They’ve done it all their lives, and all of their ancestors, and family, and everything.
He’s like it’s a high fat, medium protein, low carb diet. He said it’s really interesting because there’s 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 that’s Thomas Seyfried’s book?
Logan Sneed:
No, I didn’t 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, that’s crazy.
Dr. Pompa:
It’s 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 it—because here’s 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. I’m 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? I’m like, wow.
That next day, I went full throttle, 100%. I didn’t become a master in one day, and I wouldn’t say I still am a master, but I literally went full throttle. It’s been four years and absolutely no tumor regrowth. It’s 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:
That’s incredible. I have to ask this question, especially regarding your age. What side did you always put your cellphone on, you know what I’m 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 we’re agreeing that we know that there’s 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, here’s the thing. The question was, how did this tumor come about. Doctors said word for word, “We have no idea. This not in your DNA. I’m sorry, we don’t know.”
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:
It’s even like Air Pods.
Dr. Pompa:
Oh, yeah, Air Pods.
Logan Sneed:
As I’m on here, I’m 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, it’s crazy.
Dr. Pompa:
Man, it’s unbelievable just that your message. You’ve got to get this message out. That’s obviously why you are on this show. What a difference.
You were willing to change your diet, which obviously there’s research showing cancer, these cells will multiply and feed on sugar. It wasn’t like sugar lead to your diet. It’s 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, it’s 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 don’t know, elbowed me. Then as I’m coming down, my head’s 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, I’ve 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, that’s it. I’m 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. It’s always the perfect storm; meaning that, why doesn’t everybody get brain tumors? It’s because it’s a perfect storm; meaning, physical, chemical, emotional stress.
If you remember the movie, it’s three storms come together and a catastrophic storm occurs. If it was two storms, it’s a bad storm. You might have headaches, but not a brain tumor. When it’s three, man, the bottom falls out, catastrophe. That’s exactly what I see day in, day out when I deal with very sick and challenged people.
You were overtraining; that’s a physical stress, alright. Your body doesn’t know the difference of physical, chemical, or emotional stress. The EMF is, it’s a wavelength stress. It’s similar to a toxin; it’s a chemical stress.
Of course, the standard American toxic diet, so we have chemicals and toxins. We have physical stress. I don’t even know the emotional stress that was going on in your life, but it didn’t 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% I’m with you on that.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, and that’s what I want people to hear. Alright, well, this is an important point, though. What’s 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.
What’s the difference or what’s the difference of you and somebody who goes, wait a minute? Your family just started asking questions about cause, but then there’s other people who just go, okay. I’m just unlucky because that’s what doctors think. What do you think the difference was?
Logan Sneed:
Yeah, I will say this, I’ve always had that mindset of pushing to be my own—pushing beyond my limits in many different facets of athletics, sports. I’ve 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 don’t think the doctor can tell me when I’m going to be dead. A doctor’s not going to determine my life. I think that’s what really sparked it is a doctor—the doctor saying I’ll be dead and I don’t have that mindset of listening to somebody who’s going to tell me that because I’ve 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 person’s threatening my life basically that I’ll be dead soon, so I’m really pissed off. That’s as simple as what it was; I got really upset. I didn’t get upset emotionally, but I got upset; I got super mad about it. Because I got mad about it, it gave me—I was like you know what, I’m going to go figure it out. Forget that. It’s 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 they’re interviewing these people, they say exactly what you just said. They said I made a decision in that moment that I’m not going to be that. That’s what you just said.
Your vision in that moment that you were going to do whatever it takes. You’re not going to believe that person. You’re not going to let that person dictate your life. You were going to beat this.
I’m telling you, that’s the mindset of a 3-percenter; a 97-percenters, they go, oh my gosh, and they take it on. They take that diagnosis on. They’re 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 definitely—I’ll explain this. Stress was a huge thing in my life ever since I’ve been born. I think everyone has that. I definitely went through a time of—when 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, you’re scamming people, this diet is ridiculous, I don’t know what the heck you’re telling people that you could fast here, it makes no sense. I was getting comment after comment after comment.
I’m like, oh my gosh. I’m like this is horrible. It hurt me; it hurt my heart. I was like, maybe they’re right. Maybe I should just stop doing this. I don’t know. I almost listened to them, but obviously, I didn’t.
I’ve gotten these other times where people say, well if you do what you’re doing all the time, if you keep fasting like that, you’re going to starve yourself. If you keep doing keto with that, you’re really destroying your muscles and your body and yadda-yadda-yadda. At first, I definitely was rethinking things, but then I’m like, you know what, hold on. I was like life is never going to give me a path where there’s 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, I’m going to go through that. Hey, God forbid it doesn’t work and I die tomorrow by getting hit by a bus, so be it. It is what it is. I’m doing everything I possibly can. Yeah, that’s 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 just—they want to go around adversity and hard things. You said I just knew you had to go through it and you did. That’s 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 that’s 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 I’m 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 that’s 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 like—I’ll 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 that’s 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, I’m at this 180; I’m in this route here. I’m like, wow, okay, things are different for sure. I said again, I don’t know if it’s going to work, but I’m going to make it work.
What kept the consistency and what kept that vision is a quote that goes, “It always seems impossible until it is done” by Nelson Mandela. Until you actually do it, you’ll—it will always be impossible in your mind. Until you actually do it, you won’t 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 it’s been the same exact answer: hey Logan, it looks great; nothing here. We’ll see you in four months. Great doc, we’ll see you then. I keep coming back and I keep coming back. Hey doc, here’s the answers. Hey doc, this is what it is.
I know by what I’m eating, not only does it taste great, that I feel great and it’s giving me great results. By continued work ethic, I’m seeing actual results. It’s not even results that I’m thinking about; of course, I’m always very confident about what I think, but I’m seeing the results. I see a picture of my brain. Just a big hole there still, no problem. I’ll see you then. That’s what keeps it really rolling is seeing the results.
Dr. Pompa:
What did they say because in—did 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 didn’t 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. We’re not trying to fire her; we just want you to know so this doesn’t happen to a million other clients she may work with; I don’t know. They actually almost fired her. They had a huge board of director meeting. We never chatted with her again.
The other doctors, they said—not one of them. Okay, not one of them has said, wow, that’s interesting. Let me note this down here for real quick. We’ll look more into this. Not a single one of them; they said, okay, alright, well, just keep doing your thing. That’s it.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, they think you’re—they first thought you were unlucky and now they just think you’re lucky. That’s it; honestly, that’s the mindset. How much fasting did you do? You know obviously, I’m 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 not—it really wasn’t fast—I didn’t 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 fasting—
Dr. Pompa:
That’s 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 window—three-hour window.
Logan Sneed:
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that’s where I’m at now is anywhere from 18 to 21 hours is usually my fasting window. That’s what I do every day now. I feel great. You look back then and you’d never think that I’d do any of this stuff, ever.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s 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. That’s what scares the heck out of me, man. It’s 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. It’s 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 they’re 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. That’s mindset, that’s diet, that’s habits, that’s environment, belief, everything. If I’m doing that, I want to show the world what I’m doing and how I’m doing it. If they see what I’m doing and how it’s working for me, that could help them change their own life. That could help them see what’s possible.
I want to show the world, hey, this was my life, this was my story. It almost destroyed me. I don’t want anyone else having to experience this, so please, I’m not forcing anyone to do anything, but I’m saying, please look at what I did. Here’s what I’m doing now. I got from point a to point b.
I don’t want anyone going through this because people are doing it every day. I’d 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. It’s the least funded and it’s the most deathly. It’s one of those things that’s on silent that no one wants to talk about, no one wants to really accept it, and it’s hidden. People are having tumors right now and they don’t even know it.
Dr. Pompa:
Exactly; you’re writing a book. Obviously, you’re getting on as many podcasts as you can. I guess what I’m saying is we’ve 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. I’m thinking, oh my gosh, what did I say? He says to me, “Dr. Pompa, your authority doesn’t come from your years of school and knowledge; it comes from the victory God gave you.”
Logan Sneed:
Wow, that’s awesome.
Dr. Pompa:
I didn’t even know what he meant at the time, honestly. Now, I look back and I’m like, oh my God, he was so right. Now, your authority comes from the victory God gave you.
You don’t need schooling; you don’t 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? You’re 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. That’s my goal. I wrote my book, Thank You, Cancer, just showing people how—there’s a lot of things that I did not talk about on here because it’s—I could talk all day.
Dr. Pompa:
We’ll put a link for your book. Let’s make sure that everyone gets your book. Please buy this gentleman’s book, my goodness. There’s 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, that’s 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. That’s 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. I’ve 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, that’s for sure.
Logan Sneed:
Oh, that would be awesome. Yeah, man, absolutely. I don’t mean to scare anybody on here, but it’s about $1.4 million to go through brain cancer of chemo, radiation, surgery, MRIs, everything. Now, thankfully, I am on my family’s business insurance. My parents own a company. I’m an “employee,” so I’m 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 need—how are we going to get cellphones off people’s 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? That’s the point.
Look, I discipline and I do the things I teach and preach. You know why? Because I’m scared to death to go back to what—the way when I was sick. You’re 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 of—three-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. We’ll put a link for your book as well.
Logan Sneed:
Man, thank you so much, dude. Hey, I have your book. It’s amazing. It fits. It’s so cool because it’s about my story of like, okay, here’s what happened, and oh, and then here’s fasting. It’s a story and then information; it’s brought together. It’s 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, we’ll get the message out. Ashley will make that happen. Logan, thank you for being here today.
Logan Sneed:
Man, thank you so much. Absolutely, let’s keep in contact.
Dr. Pompa:
Yep, got it.
Logan Sneed:
Cool.
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