Curing Cancer Naturally

This episode will open your eyes to the healing potential of holistic medicine, metabolic science, and spiritual hope. Whether you’re facing illness or want to prevent it, you’ll walk away empowered and equipped. Only 5–10% of cancers are inherited.

The rest? Largely driven by diet, toxins, metabolism, and lifestyle. In this powerful episode, Dr. Josh Axe unpacks the real root causes of cancer and shares miraculous healing stories—including his mom, Tammy Peterson, Jordan Rubin, and others who beat the odds with natural and faith-based therapies. Discover the science, strategies, and spiritual truths that challenge the conventional cancer narrative. You’ll Learn:

What really causes cancer (hint: it’s not just DNA)
How fasting, keto, and oxygen therapies helped reverse aggressive diagnoses
The best diets for fighting and preventing cancer
Top anti-cancer herbs, supplements, and therapies
Why faith and emotional healing are crucial to recovery

Cure Cancer Naturally by Dr. Brant Peters is a wellness-focused book that blends nutritional science with holistic healing. It offers a program aimed at putting cancer into remission through natural methods, emphasizing the role of diet and lifestyle. The book includes:

A cancer cure program based on scientific research
101 anti-cancer recipes using ingredients believed to support healing
Insights into why conventional medicine often uses the term “remission” rather than “cure”
160 pages of content, published by Universal Power Publishing in June 2017

You can find it on www.amazon.com or explore more about Dr. Brant Peters’ work on www.thriftbooks.com

If you’re curious about evidence-based natural therapies for cancer, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center also offers Evidence-Based Holistic and Natural Medicine for Cancer Patients that complement conventional treatments.

Would you like a sneak peek into one of the recipes or a summary of the dietary principles it promotes?

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What are some key principles of the anti-cancer diet?

Great question! The anti-cancer diet isn’t about magic foods—it’s about building a lifestyle that supports your body’s defenses and reduces inflammation and toxin exposure. Here are some of the most widely recommended principles:

Core Principles of an Anti-Cancer Diet

Eat a rainbow of plant-based foods Fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, nuts, and seeds are rich in antioxidants, fiber, and phytochemicals that help fight cellular damage.
Limit red and processed meats Frequent consumption of beef, pork, bacon, and sausages has been linked to increased cancer risk, especially colorectal cancer.
Avoid processed and sugary foods Refined grains, soda, candy, and packaged snacks contribute to inflammation and obesity, which are risk factors for several cancers.
Choose healthy fats Favor sources like olive oil, avocados, nuts, and fatty fish over trans fats and highly processed oils.
Stay hydrated with clean water Filtered water helps flush toxins and supports cellular health.
Cook smart Avoid charring or burning food, which can produce carcinogenic compounds. Opt for steaming, baking, or sautéing instead.
Support detoxification Herbs like turmeric (rich in curcumin), cruciferous vegetables (like broccoli and Brussels sprouts), and intermittent fasting may help your body eliminate toxins more efficiently
Maintaining a healthy weight Obesity is a known risk factor for many cancers. A balanced diet and regular physical activity are key.

If you want, I can help you build a sample meal plan or share a few anti-cancer recipes that follow these principles. Let’s make healthy taste amazing.

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Explain how these principles help prevent cancer.

Absolutely—let’s break it down . Each principle of the anti-cancer diet is rooted in how food interacts with your body at the cellular level. Here’s how they help reduce cancer risk:

1. Antioxidant-Rich Foods Combat Free Radicals

How it helps: Free radicals are unstable molecules that damage DNA and promote cancer. Antioxidants (like vitamins C, E, and beta-carotene) neutralize them.
Sources: Berries, leafy greens, carrots, sweet potatoes, green tea.

2. Anti-Inflammatory Ingredients Reduce Chronic Inflammation

How it helps: Persistent inflammation can lead to DNA damage and tumor growth. Anti-inflammatory foods calm the immune response.
Sources: Turmeric (curcumin), ginger, omega-3s from fish, olive oil, nuts.

3. Fiber Supports Gut Health and Detoxification

How it helps: Fiber feeds beneficial gut bacteria, which produce compounds that protect against colon cancer. It also helps eliminate toxins through digestion.
Sources: Whole grains, legumes, fruits, vegetables, seeds.

4. Avoiding Processed Meats and Sugars Limits Carcinogen Exposure

How it helps: Processed meats contain nitrates and nitrites, which can form carcinogenic compounds. Excess sugar fuels inflammation and insulin spikes, which may promote tumor growth.
Better choices: Lean proteins like beans, lentils, tofu, and wild-caught fish.

5. Cruciferous Vegetables Activate Detox Enzymes

How it helps: Veggies like broccoli, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts contain glucosinolates, which help your liver neutralize carcinogens.
Bonus: They also contain sulforaphane, a compound shown to inhibit cancer cell growth.

6. Maintaining a Healthy Weight Reduces Hormonal Risk

How it helps: Excess fat tissue produces estrogen and inflammatory cytokines, which are linked to breast, ovarian, and other cancers.
Strategy: Balanced meals, portion control, and regular movement.

7. Hydration Flushes Toxins and Supports Cellular Repair

How it helps: Water helps transport nutrients, remove waste, and keep cells functioning optimally.
Tip: Aim for filtered water and limit sugary drinks.

These principles don’t guarantee immunity from cancer, but they create an internal environment that’s less hospitable to its development. Think of it as building a fortress from the inside out—one bite at a time.

Want to explore how to apply these principles in a weekly meal plan or get a few recipe ideas that follow this framework?

How do these principles relate to overall health?

They’re deeply connected—like roots feeding the whole tree . The principles of an anti-cancer diet don’t just target cancer prevention; they elevate your entire health ecosystem. Here’s how:

Cardiovascular Health

Low saturated fat & high fiber diets reduce cholesterol and blood pressure.
Omega-3s from fish and flaxseeds support heart rhythm and reduce inflammation.

Brain Function & Mental Clarity

Antioxidants protect neurons from oxidative stress, which is linked to cognitive decline.
Stable blood sugar from whole foods helps prevent mood swings and brain fog.

Immune System Strength

Micronutrients like zinc, selenium, and vitamins A, C, and D boost immune response.
Gut health from fiber and fermented foods supports 70% of your immune system housed in the digestive tract.

Weight Management

Whole, nutrient-dense foods are naturally lower in calories and higher in satiety.
Reducing processed foods helps regulate insulin and fat storage.

Hormonal Balance

Cruciferous vegetables help metabolize excess estrogen.
Healthy fats support hormone production and reduce inflammation.

Cellular Repair & Longevity

Nutrients like polyphenols (found in berries, green tea, and dark chocolate) activate pathways linked to cellular repair and anti-aging.
Reduced toxin exposure means less DNA damage over time.

In essence, these principles create a ripple effect: better digestion, clearer skin, improved energy, deeper sleep, and even enhanced mood. It’s not just about avoiding disease—it’s about thriving.

Want to explore how to turn these principles into a daily routine or a grocery list that supports your goals?

Can you suggest a daily routine based on these principles?

Absolutely! Here’s a vibrant, energizing daily routine built around anti-cancer diet principles that also supports overall health, longevity, and vitality :

Morning Routine

6:30 AM – Wake Up & Hydrate

Drink a glass of filtered water with lemon to kick start digestion and detoxification.
Optional: Add a pinch of turmeric and black pepper for anti-inflammatory benefits.

7:00 AM – Movement & Mindfulness

Light exercise: yoga, walking, or stretching (20–30 minutes).
5 minutes of deep breathing or meditation to reduce stress hormones.

7:45 AM – Anti-Cancer Breakfast

Meal Idea: Overnight oats with chia seeds, blueberries, walnuts, and a splash of almond milk.
Why it works: High in fiber, antioxidants, and omega-3s.

Midday Routine

12:00 PM – Nourishing Lunch

Meal Idea: Quinoa bowl with steamed broccoli, kale, chickpeas, avocado, and tahini dressing.
Why it works: Cruciferous veggies support detox; legumes and grains provide plant protein and fiber.

12:30 PM – Sunlight & Movement

Take a short walk outside for vitamin D and circulation.
Bonus: Natural light helps regulate circadian rhythm and mood.

2:00 PM – Smart Snack

Snack Idea: Green tea + a handful of almonds or carrot sticks with hummus.
Why it works: Green tea contains catechins that may inhibit cancer cell growth.

Evening Routine

6:30 PM – Anti-Inflammatory Dinner

Meal Idea: Baked wild salmon (or tofu) with roasted sweet potatoes, garlic sautéed spinach, and a side of fermented veggies like kimchi.
Why it works: Omega-3s, fiber, and probiotics all support immune and gut health.

7:30 PM – Wind Down

Herbal tea (like ginger or chamomile).
Light reading, journaling, or gratitude practice to reduce stress.

9:30 PM – Sleep Prep

No screens 30 minutes before bed.
Optional: Magnesium supplement or Epsom salt bath to relax muscles and support sleep.

Weekly Add-ons

Intermittent fasting (12–14 hours overnight) to support cellular repair.
Meal prep Sundays to stock up on anti-cancer meals and snacks.
Digital detox day to reduce stress and inflammation from overstimulation.

Would you like me to tailor this routine to your lifestyle or dietary preferences—like vegetarian, gluten-free, or time constraints?

I can make it feel like it was designed just for you.

What are the health benefits of each meal suggestion?

How to cure cancer is quite the controversial topic, with a war between allopathic and alternative medicine, cancer treatments range from raw juicing and lifestyle change to radiation and chemotherapy. Teal Swan takes us to the metaphysical roots of cancer where science has been unable to venture. Posturing that cancer is an antagonistic ally and an opportunity to change and Find YOUR AUTHENTIC TRUTH?

WHAT IS YOUR AUTHENTIC TRUTH?

By Teal Swan

And your authentic desires and authentic needs and authentic purpose and authentic expansion.

To the degree that it is more than willing to fight the parts of me that are currently in opposition to those things.

Step 1. I would therefore, consider myself to be in an incredibly intimate relationship, almost like an arranged marriage.

From this day forward, I get to figure out how to be in complete harmony not only with the cancer itself, as an entity, but also with the very important messages that it has to share with me.

And I would make those changes instantly.

I would make those changes, so as to ensure, that I am governing myself with my freewill.

Step 2. In alignment with my authentic self.

I would seek to understand the area of my life that I so obviously feel completely out of control about.

This would obviously greatly depend upon what area of the body the cancer had manifested itself in.

I would dedicate myself to total and complete awareness of all the layers involved in that perspective of powerlessness.

I would dedicate myself to go directly into that pain instead of away from it.

I would uncover the beliefs fueling that powerlessness the traumatic and painful memories of the experiences that caused those beliefs.

And I would seek to resolve those experiences and change those patterns.

By doing that I would become perfectly aware of the needs that I actually have, of the desires I actually have, and then I would go in the direction of them.

Which brings us to

Step 3. Like we said, cancer is an antagonistic ally.

It’s going to tell you aggressively what changes you need to make.

And so, I would make those changes.

No matter what.

For example, if this message that cancer had to bring me is that my career was not in alignment with my authentic desires of truth,

I would quit my career.

If this message that the cancer had is that there is something about my living environment that I needed to change I would change it.

The message that cancer had for me, was that I’m miserable in my current relationship, and that it’s not doing anything good for me.

In fact, it’s holding me away from my expansion, I would end the relationship.

But here’s the thing; I would not do those things to get away from cancer.

I would do those things because I am developing such a close relationship with cancer, that I’m listening to these very important truths, and making adjustments so that I am living closer to my own self.

Closer to my own personal truth.

Which I so obviously, having manifested cancer, have fallen completely out of.

Cancer can be difficult to overcome.

Not because cancer itself is difficult to overcome.

It’s because what cancer requires you to do in order for there to no longer be a purpose for it to be there,

It’s very difficult.

Look at what you’re doing in your life.

So much of what you’re doing you don’t enjoy doing.

but you’re just doing it so that ___________.

You see; “So that I can have security.”

“So that I’m not alone.”

And what cancer does is require you to let go of that safety net entirely.

When you get a diagnosis of cancer you have to do what somebody has to do when they’re given a week to live.

I mean get to the point where a doctor looks at you and says:

“Dude, I give you days and there’s nothing else I can do for you”

At that moment you would truly decide to live.

But you would be doing things that caused you joy.

Your number-one priority would be doing what you love the most.

If you get a cancer diagnosis, you’ve got to do that straight out of the gate.

What you’re facing having to do is potentially give up your entire life for a brand new one.

And I know that is easier said than done.

One thing that I would deeply understand Is that I am in no position to bargain with cancer.

So often people who come down with cancer begin to bargain with it.

Cancer doesn’t bargain.

Like I said, it is the most antagonistic ally.

It’s message that it has to share with you is:

“There is stuff that needs to change and you change it immediately or else!”

I would also understand that cancer cannot occur within a body that is in a state of harmony.

It has to occur within a body that is in a state of civil war.

Therefore my goal and prerogative would be to end that war.

Step 4. I would not opt for surgery.

Unless the tumor that I had was preventing me from doing the previous steps that I have just mentioned.

Also, I would make sure that all the different aspects of my consciousness, all my various fragments, including the parts of my body, we’re in alignment with the decision, to do that before I went under the knife.

But the main reason that this is not the strategy that I personally would take with cancer, should I get it, is because these methods,

Whether it’s surgery or radiation or chemotherapy is no different than trimming back the top of a brush or a plant without realizing that the root is still there.

Because oftentimes mainstream medical science today doesn’t recognize that root.

Don’t see it.

Obviously, if they saw it, because these are not evil people, they would instantaneously do something about it.

Step 5. I would give my body my emotions and my mind the most support that I possibly could for healing.

My focus would not be about what I can do against cancer.

It would be what I can do for my body and my being.

I would especially focus on how to support my immune system.

This means removing as many etiological factors as I can.

This means being in a healthy environment free of toxins.

Doing what I need to feel emotionally nourished.

Doing activities I enjoy.

Eating a super healthy diet.

especially one that doesn’t create acidity in the body.

Especially high in vitamin C.

I would be sleeping,

I’d make sure I was being touched in soothing ways.

I’d be exercising in life nourishing ways.

Also surrounding myself with people

with whom I have emotionally intimate relationships.

I would focus on doing lots of cleansing, so as to reduce the toxicity in the various systems of my body.

I would move to a place where I can legally juice raw cannabis and drink it every day.

I would also do other forms of juicing.

To super dose my body with life supporting nutrients.

I would enhance the healthy communication and therefore unification factor in my body by interacting with fungi.

especially taking certain mushrooms such as: cordyceps, reishi, maitake, turkey tail and agaricus mushrooms.

I would also take high doses of curcumin and flaxseed oil.

I would also take probiotics.

I would sleep with and wear fluoride crystals first and foremost.

As well as, Selenite and pytalight crystals.

I would do oxygen therapy.

I would do enemas, dry brushing and drink ionized water daily.

I would use frankincense, clary sage, turmeric, lavender, thyme, chamomile and holy basil essential oil.

And make sure to get sunlight every day.

I would also stay open to trying any other life and health supporting methods that I feel resonate with me or may come across my path at the time.

I would support the body to create resolution physically, while doing the much more important psychological and emotional resolution so as to complete the healing cycle.

Cancer is a complex healing mechanism that occurs only when there is a need for it.

It’s very difficult for us to accept that we need cancer in any way.

But it wouldn’t manifest if we didn’t.

Cancer is something that happens when there is a much needed change that we need to make.

And because of not making that change we’ve reached a state of internal toxicity and negativity

regardless of whether we’re conscious of it or not, that is no longer sustainable.

Here’s the good news, when it comes to the physicality of cancer, The body has no problem getting rid of it.

Cancer can vanish in 24 to 36 hours.

This is why oncologists, all of them, have tales of miraculous healing.

They can’t really explain it.

A person had cancer that was gonna kill them one minute, and it was completely gone the next minute.

I have personally seen people go from a death sentence, to completely cured overnight.

In my opinion, death fright is one of the worst things that doctors could possibly do to someone.

When it comes to cancer, it is death Freight that is preventing so much of the healing the people need to experience.

When a person is in the state of death-freight the body cannot heal and stress chemicals are preventing healing.

The body goes into a freeze state that paralyzes most of the functions within the body.

People waste away as a result of it.

Because they cannot take in energy or nutrients and they can’t let go of energy in a free state.

They can’t sleep either and that also impairs the immune system.

The worst thing you could do

If you want somebody to physically heal from something, is to put them in a state of fear.

Especially one as extreme as the fear of dying.

And it is my hope that doctors will hear this.

Cancer is not something that you have to fight.

In fact, if you address cancer as if it is something to fight you are much less likely to survive.

Although in today’s world with today’s very limited medical understanding of cancer, It is perfectly understandable why cancer terrifies the crap out of you.

It is also not something that you have to be afraid of.

Because cancer is not here against you.

It is always here for you.

It is an antagonistic ally that is calling you in the direction of your personal truth.

That is calling you back into a state of free will.

So that you feel like you are the governing agent in your life and that you are governing your life in a way that makes you enjoy life.

It is calling you to make changes in alignment with your currently bulldozed personal truth.

If you make these changes, there is no longer a reason for cancer to be there, and so it won’t be.

If you are making these changes, than it is a guarantee that you are going to be stepping into a place of governing your life

according to your free will.

Which means you have gained control of your life.

Which means there is no longer any room

for any other governing entity to come in and take control.

Have a good week.

Subtitles by: Tanya Duarte www.tanyaduarte.com