24: A Natural At Home Injectable That Helps Kill Cancer (Mistletoe)

You’ve maybe seen it hanging in doorways every December but mistletoe isn’t just a holiday decoration. Across Europe, mistletoe extract has been used for decades in integrative cancer care, and now, more survivors in North America are starting to ask: Can it really help with blocking and healing after cancer?

In this episode of The Flourish After Cancer Podcast, Dr. Megan Bernard, ND, breaks down what the science actually says about mistletoe (Viscum album) and its role in supporting cancer recovery. You’ll learn where it’s used, what the research shows, and how survivors can make informed, balanced decisions about whether it’s right for them.

🔗 Episode Relevant Resources:

• The Blood Work Clarity Guide For Cancer Survivors: https://flourishaftercancer.com/bloodworkclarity
• The First 4 Steps To Staying Cancer Free: https://flourishaftercancer.com/presentation

⚠️ This is a must-listen if:

• You’ve heard about mistletoe therapy and want to know if it actually works
• You’re looking for evidence-based ways to improve quality of life after cancer
• You’re curious about how integrative therapies fit with conventional treatment
• You want clarity—not hype—on natural approaches to cancer care

💊 In this episode, you’ll learn:

• What mistletoe extract (Viscum album) is and how it’s used in oncology clinics in Europe
• The research behind mistletoe’s effects on immunity, inflammation, and quality of life
• What clinical trials say about symptom relief, fatigue, and potential survival benefits
• Why mistletoe is not approved as a cancer treatment in North America (and what that means)
• How survivors can discuss mistletoe safely with their oncologist or integrative practitioner
• The balanced truth — where mistletoe fits in, and where it doesn’t

💡 You’ll leave this episode with:

• A clear, science-based understanding of mistletoe therapy
• Confidence in how to evaluate integrative options post-treatment
• Realistic expectations — and the knowledge to make empowered, informed choices
• Practical guidance for combining natural and conventional support

I’m Dr. Megan, a licensed naturopathic doctor. My team and I have worked with hundreds of women globally to rebuild their health after cancer and reduce recurrence risk using science-backed nutrition, lifestyle, and targeted supplement strategies—so they can feel confident, strong, and free to enjoy life again.

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Episode Transcript

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So lectins one of the four components in missile toe, the role of lectins.

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And what they are is that they are proteins that will bind to cell surfaces, so the surfaces of cancer cells, and they will trigger apoptosis, which is this program.
Cell death is basically a clean death to the cancer cells.
A messy death to the cancer cells causes a lot of extra inflammation.
We want this clean program, cell death, apoptosis to these cancer cells.

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Because they're easy to clean up.
It's easy to get rid of, and it just makes less inflammation in the body.
These lectins, they also stimulate immune processes, so they will increase T-cell activity, they'll increase NK cell activity.
They'll also encourage the release of specific tumor targeting cytokines.
These will all go have a very beneficial impact on killing cancer cells, and a lot of what happens with missile toe is there's not really any negative side effects.

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They don't target healthy cells.
They specifically go and target cancer cells. 13 00:01:26,820.037105751 --> 00:01:27,570.037105751 Welcome back. 14 00:01:27,570.037105751 --> 00:01:37,770.037105751 So today I'm going to talk about missile toe because we're getting close to the holidays and missile toe is very holiday like it makes you think of Christmas and I dunno, kissing under the missile toe, I suppose. 15 00:01:38,220.037105751 --> 00:01:43,950.03710575 And missile toe also has a huge role to play in functional medicine when it comes to cancer recovery. 16 00:01:44,190.03710575 --> 00:01:46,590.03710575 So I thought it was a very fitting topic to talk about. 17 00:01:46,920.03710575 --> 00:01:49,530.03710575 In fact, maybe I'll just talk about it every year 'cause it's just such a great topic. 18 00:01:50,100.03710575 --> 00:01:53,370.03710575 For today, what we're gonna cover is I'm gonna talk about. 19 00:01:54,60.03710575 --> 00:02:05,330.03710575 Basically how this injectable therapy, it has to be injectable is how can help someone who has gone through cancer treatment or who is currently in cancer treatment, which is mainly what it's studied for. 20 00:02:05,720.03710575 --> 00:02:07,760.03710575 We'll talk about what does the research actually show. 21 00:02:07,760.03710575 --> 00:02:13,70.03710575 We'll talk about its safety and we'll go through basically if this might be beneficial for you or not. 22 00:02:13,70.03710575 --> 00:02:18,590.03710575 When it comes to helping yourself through your cancer recovery, recurrence prevention, or actually through cancer treatment. 23 00:02:19,250.03710575 --> 00:02:23,270.03710575 I'm not sure if you guys know this or have you ever heard of missile toe before? I'd be curious to know. 24 00:02:23,270.03710575 --> 00:02:30,790.03710575 You can send me a message on Instagram if you like, but missile toe is actually used quite regularly in, in Europe. 25 00:02:31,495.03710575 --> 00:02:34,255.03710575 Mostly the German speaking parts of Europe. 26 00:02:34,285.03710575 --> 00:02:38,485.03710575 They use mistletoe regularly alongside their cancer support system. 27 00:02:38,485.03710575 --> 00:02:46,585.03710575 So they're integrative, they have more integrative medicine there where they're using it alongside people who have chosen to do chemo, radiation, immunotherapy, whatever it might be. 28 00:02:46,705.03710575 --> 00:02:50,640.03710575 They often also recommend that they do missile toe injection therapy, which is pretty cool. 29 00:02:50,660.03710575 --> 00:02:52,435.03710575 And that's in the conventional SE setting. 30 00:02:52,705.03710575 --> 00:02:55,825.03710575 So they go to the hospital, cancer center, whatever it might be. 31 00:02:56,170.03710575 --> 00:03:01,240.03710575 And they are prescribed their treatment, their conventional treatment, their chemo, radiation, immunotherapy, whatever. 32 00:03:01,630.03710575 --> 00:03:06,100.03710575 And they're also suggested and prescribed missile toe therapy as well, which is pretty cool. 33 00:03:06,520.03710575 --> 00:03:10,480.03710575 And I'm not a hundred percent sure on why we don't do the same thing here. 34 00:03:10,480.03710575 --> 00:03:17,20.03710575 I think it might be partly because we just have different guidelines when it comes to doing research papers. 35 00:03:17,365.03710575 --> 00:03:23,785.03710575 Or perhaps it's just more about coverage of getting it covered through insurance and medical care and things like that. 36 00:03:23,785.03710575 --> 00:03:25,135.03710575 I'm honestly not quite sure. 37 00:03:25,165.03710575 --> 00:03:28,975.03710575 I'm sure there's a bunch of different reasons contributing to the big factor of not having it. 38 00:03:29,455.03710575 --> 00:03:40,15.03710575 But I just thought it was very interesting that it's something very regularly used in German, mostly German speaking parts of Europe, but it's something that many of us haven't even heard over in North America. 39 00:03:40,555.03710575 --> 00:03:57,955.03710575 I would say it is probably one of the strongest natural products that we can use when it comes to supporting someone through cancer treatment, and I would even argue after cancer treatment as well when it comes to helping to rebuild their body back up, particularly their immune system and helping them with producing their risk of cancer over time. 40 00:03:57,985.03710575 --> 00:04:08,35.03710575 Even though, and again, I'll get to this soon, there isn't a whole lot of research on post-cancer treatment, the benefits of missile toe, but I just think just based on the mechanism of action. 41 00:04:08,425.03710575 --> 00:04:13,165.03710575 There's just so many benefits of how missile toe can help someone to rebuild after cancer treatment as well. 42 00:04:14,125.03710575 --> 00:04:17,5.03710575 Why don't I start by talking about how missile toe is used. 43 00:04:17,5.03710575 --> 00:04:21,535.03710575 I'm gonna go into like what is missile toe, the all the like different kinds you can get. 44 00:04:21,835.03710575 --> 00:04:24,565.03710575 And I'll go a little bit more into the research as well. 45 00:04:24,565.03710575 --> 00:04:29,125.03710575 And there probably will be other, another couple of things that'll pop up in my head too, but. 46 00:04:29,815.03710575 --> 00:04:33,595.03710575 So basically missile toe needs to be used as an injectable. 47 00:04:33,595.03710575 --> 00:04:40,225.03710575 I have come across people before who are like, I heard missile toe is great and I've been taking this missile toe tincture, or these missile toe pills. 48 00:04:40,555.03710575 --> 00:04:51,535.03710575 And I have to say, unfortunately, the best way, and pretty much the only way that missile toe truly works to impact the immune system and help to kind of fight cancer is it has to be injectable. 49 00:04:51,895.03710575 --> 00:04:57,85.03710575 And that can be done either through subcutaneous injections, which is something you can learn to do at home. 50 00:04:57,565.03710575 --> 00:05:00,145.03710575 Or through IB delivery of the missile toe. 51 00:05:00,625.03710575 --> 00:05:06,805.03710575 Typically, IB delivery of the missile toe might be more of a harder hitting, faster acting solution. 52 00:05:07,15.03710575 --> 00:05:13,935.03710575 Something where someone might have a very aggressive tumor type or they just really wanna nip it in the bud for whatever reason it might be. 53 00:05:14,205.03710575 --> 00:05:23,835.03710575 They will do ib missile toe and then a afterward they might go into subcutaneous injections of missile toe at home after they've received like their big part of the IV treatments. 54 00:05:24,855.03710575 --> 00:05:38,995.03710575 The IV side of it is kind of new, not brand new, but kind of new where there's no, there is some guidelines around how often and basically how often and how long people should receive the IV therapy missile toe. 55 00:05:39,505.03710575 --> 00:05:47,155.03710575 But generally speaking, I see people receiving missile toe by IV if, if cost allow, because it can sometimes be expensive. 56 00:05:47,530.03710575 --> 00:05:50,260.03710575 Two to three times per week for six to eight weeks. 57 00:05:50,260.03710575 --> 00:05:58,420.03710575 And then you're always having to make sure that people are up to date on their blood work, making sure that everything is looking well because the missile toe mainly it can impact the immune system. 58 00:05:58,820.03710575 --> 00:06:01,940.03710575 That's basically the kind of main one we wanna look at for the blood, blood work. 59 00:06:01,940.03710575 --> 00:06:10,400.03710575 But we also always check kidney, liver function, things like that is well, the main way that we recommend our missile toe to our, our flourishers to our clients. 60 00:06:11,45.03710575 --> 00:06:17,765.03710575 As we consider more subcutaneous injectable therapy, it is just easier for people to do because it can be a lot to go through cancer treatments. 61 00:06:18,95.03710575 --> 00:06:25,445.03710575 Go get the IV missile toe on top of the cancer treatments and that's just like you're constantly in and out of clinic spaces or hospitals or whatever it might be. 62 00:06:25,715.03710575 --> 00:06:37,875.03710575 Whereas whatever you can do the subcutaneous injection therapy, it is something you can go to the office of a prescribing doctor who can help you with the missile toe and they will teach you how to inject yourself. 63 00:06:37,875.03710575 --> 00:06:39,855.03710575 And I know it seems super scary and. 64 00:06:40,440.03710575 --> 00:06:43,320.03710575 I have actually a needle phobia myself. 65 00:06:43,320.03710575 --> 00:06:46,440.03710575 I really don't like getting needles, which is kind of funny. 66 00:06:46,740.03710575 --> 00:06:52,80.03710575 I used to give needles all the time when I had my brick and mortar clinic, and it was definitely something I had to work toward. 67 00:06:52,740.03710575 --> 00:06:56,160.03710575 But if anyone comes at me with a needle, I just don't like it whatsoever. 68 00:06:56,430.03710575 --> 00:06:58,20.03710575 But I can give needles no problem. 69 00:06:58,20.03710575 --> 00:07:04,110.03710575 And I feel like it kind of helped me to be a little bit nicer about giving needles, 'cause I know how pointy they are and how uncomfortable they can be. 70 00:07:04,530.03710575 --> 00:07:06,960.03710575 But if you don't like needles, I myself. 71 00:07:07,380.03710575 --> 00:07:12,570.03710575 I don't like needles and I still feel like I could give myself a missile toe injection. 72 00:07:12,960.03710575 --> 00:07:20,700.03710575 The needle is very small, very thin, and it's about the same size as a, an insulin injection basically. 73 00:07:20,940.03710575 --> 00:07:26,490.03710575 So if you are afraid of needles, don't kind of poo poo it and think you can't do it, you can totally do it. 74 00:07:26,820.03710575 --> 00:07:28,410.03710575 I've also had clients who. 75 00:07:29,85.03710575 --> 00:07:34,275.03710575 We'll get their a loved one or a family member or a friend or who, whomever it might be to inject for them. 76 00:07:34,545.03710575 --> 00:07:37,545.03710575 It's just easier if you can do it at home as opposed to going to a clinic every day. 77 00:07:37,545.03710575 --> 00:07:45,495.03710575 I do know there were, we did, we did have some clients who would come in regularly to get the injections done in office, but as much as we could get them to do it at home. 78 00:07:45,495.03710575 --> 00:07:49,245.03710575 I think just the more time you can spend outside of a medical facility, the better. 79 00:07:49,425.03710575 --> 00:07:50,655.03710575 So that would be the more ideal. 80 00:07:51,195.03710575 --> 00:07:56,955.03710575 And there are things like you can get numbing creams, you can put ice on the area to numb it as well, so that you don't even feel the little, the prick of the needle. 81 00:07:57,735.03710575 --> 00:08:08,505.03710575 But the way that it is prescribed, so missile toe, and I'll get into the different types in a sec, but you start at a low dose and then you slowly increase over time and you're constantly looking, and this is subcutaneous injection. 82 00:08:08,505.03710575 --> 00:08:12,735.03710575 So at home injections, you're constantly looking for a little red.to 83 00:08:12,735.03710575 --> 00:08:13,125.03710575 form. 84 00:08:13,365.03710575 --> 00:08:16,725.03710575 A little red dot can be a good indication that you're at the right dose for you. 85 00:08:16,755.03710575 --> 00:08:20,535.03710575 You stay at that dose until the little red dot goes away around the injection site. 86 00:08:20,895.03710575 --> 00:08:23,865.03710575 And then once that little red dot goes away, you increase your dose a little bit. 87 00:08:24,225.03710575 --> 00:08:30,315.03710575 It's just a sign that there's an immune reaction going on, and that's the main mechanism of missile toe is to get that immune reaction. 88 00:08:31,605.03710575 --> 00:08:40,545.03710575 But let's get into, what the heck is missile toe? So missile toe is the, I guess it would be a Latin name or the botanical name is Viscom album. 89 00:08:40,635.03710575 --> 00:08:45,945.03710575 There are different types of missile toe, but Viscu album is a type that we want for cancer support. 90 00:08:46,395.03710575 --> 00:08:49,605.03710575 It is called what's it's called, a semi parasitic plant. 91 00:08:49,845.03710575 --> 00:08:51,555.03710575 Meaning that it gets, some of its. 92 00:08:52,95.03710575 --> 00:08:56,915.03710575 Food and support It's water basically from the plant that it's being grown on. 93 00:08:56,915.03710575 --> 00:09:03,545.03710575 So it has to grow on another plant and it eats up some of its resources, but it also makes its own resources too. 94 00:09:03,545.03710575 --> 00:09:09,425.03710575 So that's why it's semi parasitic is 'cause it gets some from whatever plant it's growing on and then it gets, it makes some itself. 95 00:09:10,115.03710575 --> 00:09:22,235.03710575 And there are different trees that missile toe grow on and the different types of tree can contribute different parts and components that aid in its medicinal properties. 96 00:09:22,505.03710575 --> 00:09:33,725.03710575 And for ti particular types of cancer or stages, you actually want to look for a certain tree type that the missile toe is growing on based on your particular cancer diagnosis. 97 00:09:34,640.03710575 --> 00:09:54,710.03710575 The choices are made because there are certain types of cancer that require certain pathways or immunomodulatory impacts or inflammatory impacts, and certain trees will have certain components that they'll give to the missile toe to impact those pathways in specific ways to better go impact that cancer type that you were diagnosed with as well. 98 00:09:55,70.03710575 --> 00:09:56,990.03710575 So kind of interesting, kind of cool. 99 00:09:57,230.03710575 --> 00:10:02,570.03710575 But there are, the four main trees we look at are apple, pine, fur, and oak. 100 00:10:03,680.03710575 --> 00:10:06,320.03710575 They have, honestly, you know what? I can't think of what it is. 101 00:10:06,500.03710575 --> 00:10:08,870.03710575 This might, I don't know if it's a Latin name or the German name. 102 00:10:08,930.03710575 --> 00:10:10,220.03710575 It's something I haven't thought of before. 103 00:10:10,460.03710575 --> 00:10:13,700.03710575 But we have Apple, which is Type M, 'cause it's malice. 104 00:10:13,790.03710575 --> 00:10:20,120.03710575 Again, if you know M-A-L-I-S, if you know if that's actually a Latin name or a German name, I'd be interested to know. 105 00:10:20,630.03710575 --> 00:10:23,330.03710575 We have got Pine, which is Pinus and that's Type P. 106 00:10:23,780.03710575 --> 00:10:26,540.03710575 We've got Oak where, which is CORs and that's Type Q. 107 00:10:26,540.03710575 --> 00:10:29,955.03710575 And then we've got Fur, which is abi, which is Type A. 108 00:10:30,545.03710575 --> 00:10:50,555.03710575 Again, whenever you are prescribed missile toe, typically they wanna have information on what type of cancer were you diagnosed with? Because this Type M, type P, type Q, type A are going to be chosen based on your particular diagnosis, your overarching health, like are you in good health? Have you been hit pretty hard by treatment? And we kind of go, need to go a little bit softer. 109 00:10:51,95.03710575 --> 00:10:58,475.03710575 Because some of these components in these different types can be a little bit stronger, a little bit draining, or we need maybe something more stronger. 110 00:10:58,685.03710575 --> 00:11:02,885.03710575 And all that's chosen based on your disposition as well as the cancer diagnosis that you received. 111 00:11:03,815.03710575 --> 00:11:11,105.03710575 And the compounds, again, that are variable based on the type of tree that the missile toe is grown on or decides to grow. 112 00:11:11,930.03710575 --> 00:11:13,820.03710575 These are, there's four main ones. 113 00:11:13,970.03710575 --> 00:11:17,990.03710575 So there's lectins, visco, toxins, flavonoids, and polysaccharides. 114 00:11:18,200.03710575 --> 00:11:33,440.03710575 So these are all different components within missile toe that have different impacts, whether they're cell killing, so they can kill cancer cells, or they modulate the immune system, or they protect your vascularity, like your blood vessels in your metabolic health, helping you to improve your overall outcomes. 115 00:11:34,100.03710575 --> 00:11:35,270.03710575 So there's different types. 116 00:11:35,990.03710575 --> 00:11:39,680.03710575 Different mixtures of these compounds in the different types of missile toe. 117 00:11:39,680.03710575 --> 00:11:43,130.03710575 So apple and oak for example, they have more lectins. 118 00:11:43,370.03710575 --> 00:11:48,200.03710575 And then we've got pine and fur, they have more visco toxins and, and as well as flavonoids. 119 00:11:48,500.03710575 --> 00:11:50,510.03710575 So these have different impacts. 120 00:11:50,510.03710575 --> 00:11:53,350.03710575 And we'll go through what each of these mean actually right now. 121 00:11:53,770.03710575 --> 00:11:57,910.03710575 So lectins, one of the components, one of the four components in missile toe. 122 00:11:58,270.03710575 --> 00:12:02,25.03710575 There's different types of lectins, so different categories, subcategories of lectins, even. 123 00:12:03,70.03710575 --> 00:12:07,360.03710575 But we are just gonna talk about lectins in general and the role of lectins. 124 00:12:07,630.03710575 --> 00:12:12,70.03710575 And what they are is that they are proteins that will bind to cell surfaces. 125 00:12:12,70.03710575 --> 00:12:14,740.03710575 So the surfaces of cancer cells, for example. 126 00:12:15,310.03710575 --> 00:12:18,670.03710575 They will trigger apoptosis, which is this program, cell death. 127 00:12:18,970.03710575 --> 00:12:22,0.03710575 We want it, it's, it's basically a clean death to the cancer cells. 128 00:12:22,270.03710575 --> 00:12:25,840.03710575 A messy death to the cancer cells causes a lot of extra inflammation. 129 00:12:25,990.03710575 --> 00:12:31,780.03710575 We want this clean program, cell death, apoptosis to these cancer cells because they're easy to clean up. 130 00:12:31,780.03710575 --> 00:12:35,565.03710575 It's easy to get rid of and it just makes less inflammation in the body. 131 00:12:36,765.03710575 --> 00:12:44,475.03710575 Also these lectins, they also stimulate immune processes, so they will increase T-cell activity, they'll increase NK cell activity. 132 00:12:44,745.03710575 --> 00:12:54,435.03710575 They'll also encourage the release of specific tumor like tumor targeting cytokines, so they'll release interleukin one and six and TNF alpha. 133 00:12:54,735.03710575 --> 00:13:00,525.03710575 These will all go have a very beneficial impact on killing cancer cells. 134 00:13:01,515.03710575 --> 00:13:05,475.03710575 A lot of what happens with missile toe is there's not really any negative side effects. 135 00:13:05,685.03710575 --> 00:13:07,455.03710575 They don't target healthy cells. 136 00:13:07,455.03710575 --> 00:13:12,565.03710575 They specifically go and target cancer cells which is very nice, very interesting. 137 00:13:13,225.03710575 --> 00:13:14,725.03710575 So again, that's one that's lectins. 138 00:13:14,905.03710575 --> 00:13:21,205.03710575 They really stimulate the immune system, certain immune cells, the NK cells, the T cells, they, they're parts of the immune system. 139 00:13:21,535.03710575 --> 00:13:23,635.03710575 And then they also can cause cells to die. 140 00:13:24,55.03710575 --> 00:13:24,865.03710575 And real quick. 141 00:13:25,255.03710575 --> 00:13:33,475.03710575 The reason we wanna target the immune system is because it is one of our greatest defenses against finding and fighting cancer cells before they even become a problem. 142 00:13:33,655.03710575 --> 00:13:44,185.03710575 Or if they already are there, they're already forming tumors and growing, then we want to improve the immune system so it can go and do a better job at finding those and killing them off before they become a problem. 143 00:13:44,190.03710575 --> 00:13:48,805.03710575 Your immune system's very good at identifying cells that are not healthy, that are not your own, that are things. 144 00:13:48,985.03710575 --> 00:13:52,885.03710575 They're identifying cells that have basically been mutated and switched. 145 00:13:53,260.03710575 --> 00:13:55,480.03710575 And that's why our immune system's very important. 146 00:13:56,110.03710575 --> 00:14:06,790.03710575 There's also a lot of times where treatment isn't effective because you're, you're the, the, the tumor cells have become kind of, they're very good at hiding from the immune system. 147 00:14:06,790.03710575 --> 00:14:17,550.03710575 So if there's anything we can do to boost or modulate the immune system to be more honed in and targeted on finding and fighting cancer cells, then we're gonna have everything from your. 148 00:14:17,925.03710575 --> 00:14:23,265.03710575 Your treatments work better and target the cancer cells better to just having better cell death over time. 149 00:14:23,475.03710575 --> 00:14:25,395.03710575 So that's why the immune system is very important. 150 00:14:26,175.03710575 --> 00:14:26,925.03710575 That was lectins. 151 00:14:26,925.03710575 --> 00:14:28,695.03710575 We've also got visco toxins. 152 00:14:29,55.03710575 --> 00:14:32,145.03710575 These also have direct cancer killing properties. 153 00:14:32,145.03710575 --> 00:14:34,455.03710575 They're cytotoxic, they're kinda like bullets. 154 00:14:34,455.03710575 --> 00:14:37,5.03710575 They actually can put holes in the cell membrane. 155 00:14:37,5.03710575 --> 00:14:41,605.03710575 So the little encasing of these cancer cells cause them to die. 156 00:14:42,115.03710575 --> 00:14:44,655.03710575 It also encourages NK cell. 157 00:14:45,735.03710575 --> 00:14:46,485.03710575 Media death. 158 00:14:46,635.03710575 --> 00:14:52,515.03710575 So it causes the natural killer cells, the NK cells, to just go and kill cancer cells. 159 00:14:52,785.03710575 --> 00:14:56,265.03710575 And again, they don't harm the healthy cells, which is pretty darn cool. 160 00:14:56,715.03710575 --> 00:14:59,175.03710575 And a lot of these compounds, they don't work in isolation. 161 00:14:59,175.03710575 --> 00:15:02,625.03710575 So it's not like you just wanna pull out all the lectins and inject it into a tumor. 162 00:15:02,895.03710575 --> 00:15:04,275.03710575 They actually work all together. 163 00:15:04,275.03710575 --> 00:15:04,590.03710575 So like the. 164 00:15:05,310.03710575 --> 00:15:08,580.03710575 The the visco toxins, for example, work with polysaccharides. 165 00:15:08,820.03710575 --> 00:15:10,770.03710575 They help to strengthen the immune attack. 166 00:15:10,770.03710575 --> 00:15:11,940.03710575 They, they all work together. 167 00:15:11,940.03710575 --> 00:15:16,320.03710575 Honestly, I can just pull out these ones, work with this one and this one works with that one. 168 00:15:16,440.03710575 --> 00:15:23,620.03710575 They really all work together to give you this strong reaction against these cancer cells and boosting the immune system. 169 00:15:23,950.03710575 --> 00:15:28,60.03710575 'cause even if you think of it, your immune system is made of so many different components. 170 00:15:29,365.03710575 --> 00:15:32,635.03710575 We need to target all of them in order to have the greatest benefit. 171 00:15:32,785.03710575 --> 00:15:34,435.03710575 We don't wanna just push some buttons. 172 00:15:34,435.03710575 --> 00:15:39,175.03710575 If we've got a whole bunch of buttons available to push, it's way more fun to push them all so that we get a bigger reaction. 173 00:15:39,205.03710575 --> 00:15:39,505.03710575 Right. 174 00:15:40,555.03710575 --> 00:15:41,515.03710575 So that was lectins. 175 00:15:41,515.03710575 --> 00:15:42,985.03710575 We talked about visco toxins. 176 00:15:42,985.03710575 --> 00:15:44,545.03710575 We've also about flavonoids. 177 00:15:44,755.03710575 --> 00:15:47,635.03710575 You may have heard of one of the flavonoids and misto before. 178 00:15:47,845.03710575 --> 00:15:51,565.03710575 Have you heard of cetin? It seems to be a very popular one in the cancer world. 179 00:15:51,835.03710575 --> 00:15:54,205.03710575 So Cetin is actually in missile toe. 180 00:15:55,300.03710575 --> 00:15:56,890.03710575 Cetin is mainly like an antioxidant. 181 00:15:56,890.03710575 --> 00:16:05,380.03710575 It can help to protect against oxidative damage and if there already is damage in some of the healthy cells even, or even some of the T-cells, it'll help them to feel better. 182 00:16:05,530.03710575 --> 00:16:06,820.03710575 Kinda like a medicine I guess. 183 00:16:07,250.03710575 --> 00:16:12,320.03710575 It also helps to mediate inflammation because inflammation is a cancer growth stimulator. 184 00:16:12,320.03710575 --> 00:16:14,540.03710575 It causes cancer to start as well as grow. 185 00:16:15,275.03710575 --> 00:16:26,675.03710575 So anything we can do to diminish inflammation is gonna help to basically help the body to function better to work on getting those cancer cells, and that's what quercetin will do as is any, as an antioxidant. 186 00:16:27,425.03710575 --> 00:16:36,125.03710575 Also, it helps to stabilize other components in the bi flavonoids in general helped us stabilize other components within the missile toe to work even better. 187 00:16:36,365.03710575 --> 00:16:39,665.03710575 Helps to kill cancer cells through the apoptotic pathway. 188 00:16:40,295.0371058 --> 00:16:43,775.0371058 And a big part of how the flavonoids work. 189 00:16:44,105.0371058 --> 00:16:46,715.0371058 Is through the vascular and metabolic impact. 190 00:16:46,715.0371058 --> 00:16:49,85.0371058 So it helps protect your vascular system. 191 00:16:49,385.0371058 --> 00:16:54,915.0371058 It also helps to improve your metabolism and just the way the energy is produced in your body. 192 00:16:55,155.0371058 --> 00:16:56,925.0371058 And that helps people to feel better. 193 00:16:57,375.0371058 --> 00:17:08,85.0371058 And this is a big reason why missile toe is so beneficial, is because we see that people who do missile toe alongside their chemotherapy, their radiation, their surgery, whatever it might be, immuno immunotherapy. 194 00:17:08,700.0371058 --> 00:17:11,10.0371058 We see that they feel better throughout the treatment. 195 00:17:11,10.0371058 --> 00:17:14,940.0371058 They're more able to receive the full treatment because they don't have a lot of the side effects. 196 00:17:15,270.0371058 --> 00:17:25,200.0371058 If you think of how, a big reason why a lot of people have to stop their chemotherapy is that their immune cells drop and then they're, it's no longer safe for them to continue. 197 00:17:25,470.0371058 --> 00:17:26,850.0371058 Also, it's no longer effective. 198 00:17:26,880.0371058 --> 00:17:31,380.0371058 'cause if you don't have a strong immune system, a lot of chemotherapies won't even work and a lot of immunotherapies won't even work. 199 00:17:32,25.0371058 --> 00:17:45,285.0371058 So when people are doing this missile toe alongside their chemotherapy, their radiation, it's having this immune balancing impact and it's going to help them to receive the full treatment because we don't see the cell numbers drop as drastically for the most part. 200 00:17:45,915.0371058 --> 00:17:54,635.0371058 So people have less fatigue, they have less nausea, they have basically better outcomes and better blood counts whenever we look at their blood work as well, whenever they do missile toe. 201 00:17:54,815.0371058 --> 00:18:01,945.0371058 And a big part of that can be due to these flavonoids in the missile toe, including quercetin and its derivatives is what we can kind of say. 202 00:18:03,355.0371058 --> 00:18:07,735.0371058 The last component we'll talk about, one of the main components of missile toe is polysaccharides. 203 00:18:08,110.0371058 --> 00:18:12,880.0371058 Polysaccharides are a sugar molecule, and I don't want you to go thinking it's bad for cancer. 204 00:18:12,940.0371058 --> 00:18:15,100.0371058 It's a, it's a chemical structure of it. 205 00:18:15,310.0371058 --> 00:18:17,80.0371058 It is the organic chemistry. 206 00:18:17,80.0371058 --> 00:18:33,190.0371058 I guess I might be completely wrong with choosing the right words here, but it is, the molecular structure is that a saccharide is a sugar molecule, so we got polysaccharides, they're large sugar molecules, and the sugar molecules can have immune modulating impacts on the body. 207 00:18:33,580.0371058 --> 00:18:36,160.0371058 So again, you're modulating the immune system. 208 00:18:36,160.0371058 --> 00:18:40,930.0371058 You're having certain things risen to be more cancer, like getting rid of cancer. 209 00:18:40,930.0371058 --> 00:18:43,720.0371058 You have certain things being put down, like lowered. 210 00:18:43,990.0371058 --> 00:18:47,950.0371058 Then that's going to impact inflammation and lower inflammation a lot of the time as well. 211 00:18:48,580.0371058 --> 00:18:52,810.0371058 And another part is that it helps with the stabilization of the whole missile toe molecules too. 212 00:18:52,810.0371058 --> 00:18:55,960.0371058 So the polysaccharides helps to kind of put all the components together. 213 00:18:56,560.0371058 --> 00:19:01,210.0371058 So again, we've got the lectins, we've got the visco toxins, we've got the flavonoids, we've got the polysaccharides. 214 00:19:01,540.0371058 --> 00:19:08,590.0371058 They all have some sort of either immune modulating impacts, inflammatory impacts or direct cell killing impacts. 215 00:19:08,770.0371058 --> 00:19:13,90.0371058 And in the Big S scheme of things, it helps people to feel better throughout treatment. 216 00:19:13,450.0371058 --> 00:19:20,170.0371058 That is the main outcome we see when we look at the research is we don't necessarily see survival impacts a lot of the time. 217 00:19:20,500.0371058 --> 00:19:29,140.0371058 Although there are, there are a lot of methodological, methodological, I think is the word, problems with the methods in these research papers where they either. 218 00:19:29,695.0371058 --> 00:19:35,125.0371058 A lot of the research on missile toe and cancer is really only done in terminal cancer cases. 219 00:19:35,125.0371058 --> 00:19:49,275.0371058 So someone with super advanced disease where they're only expected to have like six months to live, they're given missile toe alongside their reg regular conventional treatment plan, or they're compared to a group that is not given missile toe, just the conventional treatment plan. 220 00:19:49,545.0371058 --> 00:19:51,945.0371058 And we do see increased length of life. 221 00:19:52,665.0371058 --> 00:19:54,105.0371058 But it's limited. 222 00:19:54,105.0371058 --> 00:20:01,95.0371058 It's small, and a big reason is because they're doing it in studies that we're looking at terminal cases, which is really hard to treat anyway. 223 00:20:01,515.0371058 --> 00:20:09,905.0371058 We really need to do more research long term in people who have maybe better prognosis with their certain cancer diagnoses. 224 00:20:10,760.0371058 --> 00:20:26,270.0371058 And a lot of the research, again, is really poorly done in terms of they only study people for a year or six months, and really, missile toe ideally should be something that you're administering mostly on and off for pretty much your whole life until a certain point. 225 00:20:26,270.0371058 --> 00:20:31,550.0371058 But at least we recommend whenever we're advising people to do missile toe or not, we're like, you gotta commit to this for. 226 00:20:32,90.0371058 --> 00:20:34,850.0371058 At least one year, year, if not two years. 227 00:20:34,850.0371058 --> 00:20:44,720.0371058 Otherwise, it's not really worth taking because we need to see the long-term benefits and the long-term impacts on your immune system in order for it to really be helping you with reducing the risk of cancer coming back again. 228 00:20:45,230.0371058 --> 00:20:54,110.0371058 So again, the studies are usually done on terminal and very advanced cancer cases, which is not really reflective of a lot of the people that we're working with, especially in recurrence prevention. 229 00:20:54,680.0371058 --> 00:21:02,510.0371058 It is often not studied long enough to truly know if it's helping people to improve the length of life or not and reduce recurrence risk. 230 00:21:02,960.0371058 --> 00:21:06,950.0371058 They often use the wrong doses, they're just not doing the proper protocols. 231 00:21:06,980.0371058 --> 00:21:16,130.0371058 'cause again, as I mentioned very, very quickly at the beginning, when you administer missile toe, it is you're starting at a lower dose and then you're increasing the dose over time. 232 00:21:16,130.0371058 --> 00:21:17,780.0371058 And it's an individualized approach. 233 00:21:17,780.0371058 --> 00:21:22,670.0371058 You can't just say, at week three, person should be at 50 milligrams of missile toe. 234 00:21:23,0.0371058 --> 00:21:32,870.0371058 Three times a week, we really have to look for your unique immune reaction, which is very hard to study in a standardized, randomized, controlled trial, whatever it might be. 235 00:21:33,100.0371058 --> 00:21:37,780.0371058 Any sort of trial with humans, it would be hard to study that because we were looking at unique doses over time. 236 00:21:38,665.0371058 --> 00:21:52,975.0371058 Ideally we would probably be looking at monitoring people's immune cell count breakdowns, using flow cytometry, looking at like their different types of white blood cells as well as maybe looking for that red circle, the immune reaction and kind of marking them based on that. 237 00:21:53,305.0371058 --> 00:22:01,705.0371058 But whenever we're looking at studies and research papers, they're often looking at doses and comparing it across the board as opposed to unique indicators. 238 00:22:01,765.0371058 --> 00:22:02,725.0371058 So it's hard to study. 239 00:22:02,755.0371058 --> 00:22:07,735.0371058 That's the problem with a lot of natural stuff, is it's hard to study 'cause it's based mostly on your unique reaction. 240 00:22:08,785.0371058 --> 00:22:10,885.0371058 So wrong doses, they'll often use the wrong forms. 241 00:22:10,885.0371058 --> 00:22:18,245.0371058 They won't even use like Bicu album or they'll apply a q to a type Q missile toe when it should have been Type M or something like that. 242 00:22:18,485.0371058 --> 00:22:20,675.0371058 It's just the paper are kind of crappy. 243 00:22:21,175.0371058 --> 00:22:23,455.0371058 They're, they could be better, I guess, is what I could say. 244 00:22:24,355.0371058 --> 00:22:31,225.0371058 Generally speaking though, we don't look specifically at subcutaneous missile toe all the time. 245 00:22:31,225.0371058 --> 00:22:33,445.0371058 Mainly for helping people to survive. 246 00:22:33,685.0371058 --> 00:22:35,755.0371058 It's more of helping their treatment to work better. 247 00:22:36,175.0371058 --> 00:22:39,85.0371058 And in IV form though, it is a little bit harder hitting. 248 00:22:39,85.0371058 --> 00:22:55,980.0371058 So this is something where if we do have a more advanced case, it can potentially, not maybe according to the research, but potentially through what I've learned through clinical experience it can pente potentially help people to do much better and live much longer when it comes to maybe a terminal or a, a really tough prognosis. 249 00:22:57,480.0371058 --> 00:23:02,340.0371058 The nice part about missile toe is that there's not really any reactions. 250 00:23:02,550.0371058 --> 00:23:04,260.0371058 There's not really any side effects. 251 00:23:04,440.0371058 --> 00:23:08,880.0371058 So some people will have generally mild cases of like flu-like symptoms. 252 00:23:08,880.0371058 --> 00:23:12,270.0371058 You might have the chills or a bit of a headache, but it's very short-lived. 253 00:23:12,270.0371058 --> 00:23:25,980.0371058 It might only happen for a day, and if that's the case, that just means the dose was a little too high and we can either, if you're opt for it, depending on how bad you're feeling, we can either just try the dose again and sometimes those side effects go away, or we just decrease your dose a little bit and then they will for for sure go away. 254 00:23:26,670.0371058 --> 00:23:35,750.0371058 Sometimes there might be like an injection site reaction, so it might be really itchy at the part where you had to inject it, or there are very rare cases of allergic reaction. 255 00:23:35,750.0371058 --> 00:23:37,790.0371058 And then knock on wood, I've never seen it. 256 00:23:38,100.0371058 --> 00:23:44,700.0371058 But it can be possible 'cause with anything you take, anything you inject, there's always a possibility for an allergic reaction. 257 00:23:44,705.0371058 --> 00:23:44,755.0371058 Alright. 258 00:23:45,660.0371058 --> 00:23:46,770.0371058 So things we gotta look out for. 259 00:23:46,770.0371058 --> 00:23:47,880.0371058 And that's kind of the main reason. 260 00:23:48,60.0371058 --> 00:24:09,830.0371058 Whenever we're recommending missile toe therapy, we often, we have a network that we work with that helps us send them to doctors either in their area to prescribe the missile toe for them or more local or just closer so that they can go to an actual doctor's office to learn how to inject and have someone there with them while they're injecting the first time in case there is any sort of immune reaction or allergic reaction. 261 00:24:10,175.0371058 --> 00:24:15,5.0371058 Again, like knock on wood, it's really not something we see, but it's better safe than sorry. 262 00:24:15,5.0371058 --> 00:24:18,605.0371058 So even though we work with people all over the world, we work completely online. 263 00:24:18,605.0371058 --> 00:24:20,135.0371058 We don't have a brick and mortar anymore. 264 00:24:20,705.0371058 --> 00:24:25,175.0371058 We do see, we do send people to certain resources in person. 265 00:24:25,205.0371058 --> 00:24:30,95.0371058 We have a good network of that kind of thing to make sure that they're getting the best care and these resources are available to you. 266 00:24:31,340.0371058 --> 00:24:37,220.0371058 The thing I just wanna make sure is very clear is at flourishes after cancer, we are very conventionally minded. 267 00:24:37,220.0371058 --> 00:24:44,840.0371058 We do believe that chemo, radiation, surgery, immunotherapy, all these different types of treatment have a very large role to play in helping someone through cancer treatment. 268 00:24:45,395.0371058 --> 00:24:56,615.0371058 There are definitely weaknesses and cons with a lot of treatments, and that's why I think functional medicine needs to be put into place a little bit more often because we can truly help to overcome these weaknesses and cons of certain treatments. 269 00:24:56,855.0371058 --> 00:24:58,385.0371058 But it's honestly, it's the best we've got. 270 00:24:58,385.0371058 --> 00:25:07,145.0371058 It's, we can't just ignore some of the downsides or can't ignore it for some of its downsides when there's so many great parts and we don't have anything better a lot of the time. 271 00:25:07,745.0371058 --> 00:25:13,295.0371058 That being said, we do not encourage people to do mistletoe instead of their conventional treatment. 272 00:25:13,295.0371058 --> 00:25:18,815.0371058 It definitely should be prescribed alongside whatever best treatment is for the person who is receiving the treatment. 273 00:25:20,120.0371058 --> 00:25:28,880.0371058 So I just wanna make sure that it's clear that we're not saying that mistletoe is a replacement for chemotherapy or replacement for radiation because of its amazing immune modulating impacts. 274 00:25:29,30.0371058 --> 00:25:42,80.0371058 It is a thing to use in alongside a lot of these therapies and can make them work even better, have fewer side effects, have fewer impacts like cancer stem cells, which I'm not sure if I've done an episode on yet, but I will assume. 275 00:25:42,590.0371058 --> 00:25:47,780.0371058 We, we can help to target these things with better functional medicine alongside the conventional treatments. 276 00:25:47,780.0371058 --> 00:25:49,670.0371058 And missile toe is a big one that can help with that. 277 00:25:50,990.0371058 --> 00:25:53,600.0371058 So basically just missile toe helps you feel better throughout treatment. 278 00:25:53,900.0371058 --> 00:25:56,60.0371058 It makes your treatment possibly work better. 279 00:25:56,360.0371058 --> 00:25:57,740.0371058 It may help improve the survival. 280 00:25:57,740.0371058 --> 00:26:02,60.0371058 The research is a little bit of weak, a little bit weak, but there's a lot of weaknesses within the research. 281 00:26:02,440.0371058 --> 00:26:05,380.0371058 And overall it changes the environment in your body. 282 00:26:05,380.0371058 --> 00:26:09,970.0371058 It changes the tumor microenvironment, it changes the whole environment in your body. 283 00:26:10,360.0371058 --> 00:26:14,840.0371058 If you haven't heard my tumor microenvironment it's something to do with the neighborhood. 284 00:26:15,80.0371058 --> 00:26:16,460.0371058 It's episode 22. 285 00:26:16,790.0371058 --> 00:26:29,840.0371058 I recommend you go over to episode 22 next where you listen to the conversation I had around the tumor microenvironment and how it can really play a role in helping to keep cancer from coming back or even to tackle cancer if you're in active cancer. 286 00:26:30,80.0371058 --> 00:26:34,760.0371058 And missile toe is a big part of helping to influence the tumor tumor microenvironment. 287 00:26:34,940.0371058 --> 00:26:39,110.0371058 So that's why I bring up that episode is the missile toe can have a big impact there too. 288 00:26:40,400.0371058 --> 00:26:44,510.0371058 So things just to kind of close out here is it's very safe. 289 00:26:44,540.0371058 --> 00:26:48,560.0371058 There's not really even any interactions with medications, not even immunotherapy. 290 00:26:48,560.0371058 --> 00:26:58,370.0371058 That was something even like five years ago, I think at this point we were cautious about, we were kind of like, should we do missile toe with immunotherapy? 'cause immunotherapy has an impact on the immune system, as does missile toe. 291 00:26:58,370.0371058 --> 00:27:03,860.0371058 Will they have problems with one another, but we now have enough information to say that, nope, there's no problems. 292 00:27:04,130.0371058 --> 00:27:08,630.0371058 There are a few things that you definitely don't wanna just go taking this, everyone needs to take it. 293 00:27:08,975.0371058 --> 00:27:12,485.0371058 No matter what, there are certain things we do wanna look at to make sure that they are safe. 294 00:27:12,485.0371058 --> 00:27:18,95.0371058 So definitely have inexperienced prescribing physician with the missile toe to kind of guide you on this. 295 00:27:18,405.0371058 --> 00:27:30,735.0371058 But generally speaking, I don't think we've come across any scenarios in the last couple years even where they haven't been able to do missile toe therapy because of a certain drug or certain diagnosis that they had. 296 00:27:31,425.0371058 --> 00:27:35,415.0371058 Even I, I, I guess maybe even like two years ago, up to two years ago. 297 00:27:36,120.0371058 --> 00:27:57,190.0371058 It was a big caution that if you had brain cancer or any cancer that has metastasized to the brain, that missile toe might not be a good fit because we were worried about the missile toe causing swelling of the tumor, and we don't want swelling of the tumor in a brain and, and within the skull because it would cause swelling and it just, it basically would be bad. 298 00:27:57,895.0371058 --> 00:28:01,195.0371058 So, but recently, our, recently we are again finding that it is safe. 299 00:28:01,195.0371058 --> 00:28:08,155.0371058 It doesn't really cause big enough swelling to have a problem if someone has brain cancer or a tumor that has metastasized to the brain. 300 00:28:09,205.0371058 --> 00:28:11,335.0371058 The biggest limiting factors are the cost. 301 00:28:11,335.0371058 --> 00:28:12,835.0371058 Sometimes it can be expensive, sometimes not. 302 00:28:13,630.0371058 --> 00:28:24,370.0371058 I would say for subcutaneous injection therapy, we're looking at starting around maybe $200 a month, and then as the dose increases, the price will increase. 303 00:28:24,550.0371058 --> 00:28:34,450.0371058 So as you start to adapt and have a higher dose, looking at maybe 300 to $350 per month for the injection, and everyone has different budgets, so that might mean different things to you. 304 00:28:34,525.0371058 --> 00:28:47,95.0371058 If the needle's very cheap, the appointments might be a little bit expensive, but you should typically only need a couple appointments in the beginning to get yourself set up, and then some check-ins along the way to answer any questions about dosing reactions that you might have. 305 00:28:47,815.0371058 --> 00:28:50,995.0371058 And injecting yourself can be a huge limitation too. 306 00:28:50,995.0371058 --> 00:28:54,895.0371058 As I kind of discussed in the, in the beginning, kinda hard to inject yourself. 307 00:28:55,825.0371058 --> 00:28:55,885.0371058 Iv. 308 00:28:55,885.0371058 --> 00:29:00,565.0371058 The IV missile toe therapy can be a lot more expensive because you are looking at much higher doses. 309 00:29:00,945.0371058 --> 00:29:05,565.0371058 In, in a IB bag as opposed to the smaller dose that you would self-inject yourself with. 310 00:29:06,615.0371058 --> 00:29:09,405.0371058 Again, there's not really a lot of research post-treatment. 311 00:29:09,405.0371058 --> 00:29:23,875.0371058 We do still talk to our clients about the lack of research, what the benefits are, but just based on the mechanisms of action that we have, through everything from human studies to cell cultures to animal studies, we can see that the impacts on the immune system. 312 00:29:24,415.0371058 --> 00:29:35,335.0371058 Why couldn't there be an impact long term on helping your immune system to work better to go and find and fight any cancer cells before they become an actual tumor again? So we go have that discussion around. 313 00:29:35,335.0371058 --> 00:29:41,765.0371058 There might not be a lot of research on mistletoe in someone who has finished cancer treatment and if, if it helps to keep cancer from coming back. 314 00:29:42,505.0371058 --> 00:29:49,315.0371058 But if you choose to take this, I think it could be a supportive part of your treatment plan, not the whole part, but a supportive part of your treatment plan. 315 00:29:49,615.0371058 --> 00:30:01,865.0371058 Would you like to take this as kind of the conversation that we have? Is it within your budget? Is it within your desires whenever it comes to your goals of keeping cancer away? All those kind of things need to be taken into, into account. 316 00:30:03,425.0371058 --> 00:30:10,765.0371058 The main way, as I mentioned that missile toe impacts your body and helps to fight against, against cancer, has to do with tackling your immune system. 317 00:30:11,110.0371058 --> 00:30:15,580.0371058 I do have a blood work guide that might be helpful in this situation. 318 00:30:15,580.0371058 --> 00:30:18,375.0371058 If you wanna look a little bit closer at your immune system in the strength of it. 319 00:30:18,985.0371058 --> 00:30:37,975.0371058 On this blood work guide, I talk particularly about the CB, C, the complete blood cell count and how you can look at your neutrophils, your lymphocytes, your monocytes, those different subtypes of white blood cells, and you can see how strong are they, what are the ratios, and that helps to give you a good idea of does your immune system need support or not, which could potentially lead you to think about mistletoe. 320 00:30:37,975.0371058 --> 00:30:43,435.0371058 There's a lot of different ways, but mistletoe being one of the ways to improve your immune system, so you can go find that handout. 321 00:30:43,435.0371058 --> 00:30:44,455.0371058 It's completely free. 322 00:30:44,455.0371058 --> 00:30:46,405.0371058 It's [e-mail]. 323 00:30:46,825.0371058 --> 00:30:49,165.0371058 Forward slash Blood Work Clarity. 324 00:30:49,435.0371058 --> 00:30:52,945.0371058 I'll put it in the show notes as well with a couple other resources that you might be interested in. 325 00:30:53,275.0371058 --> 00:30:57,305.0371058 But yeah, again, that blood work guide, it'll help to look at your immune system. 326 00:30:57,455.0371058 --> 00:31:00,65.0371058 And I also talk about a bunch of different things in that blood work guide as well. 327 00:31:00,65.0371058 --> 00:31:02,285.0371058 If you wanna kind of look further, I talk about. 328 00:31:02,870.0371058 --> 00:31:04,220.0371058 Looking at different vitamins. 329 00:31:04,400.0371058 --> 00:31:06,350.0371058 I talk about looking at blood sugar regulation. 330 00:31:06,530.0371058 --> 00:31:14,480.0371058 I talk about looking at inflammation, and it tells you all the different markers you can look at at blood work in order to see how is your body functioning underneath the surface. 331 00:31:14,660.0371058 --> 00:31:26,540.0371058 According to these numbers, we can take this information and the optimal ranges and help to work on deciding on the best nutrition or the best supplements for you when it comes to helping you to feel better and reduce your risk of cancer growing or coming back. 332 00:31:26,960.0371058 --> 00:31:29,90.0371058 So again, that's [e-mail] 333 00:31:29,630.0371058 --> 00:31:34,70.0371058 slash bloodwork clarity, and I'll put that link into the show notes as well. 334 00:31:34,790.0371058 --> 00:31:36,410.0371058 Well, that's all that I have for you today. 335 00:31:36,440.0371058 --> 00:31:39,680.0371058 Thank you so much for joining me, and here's to you Flourishing After Cancer.