My guest today is Douglas R. Levine, DC, founding Executive Director of “Life After Cancer Network” a non-profit cancer survivor’s organization dedicated to the natural restoration of health to people who have had cancer, their families and caregivers. I invited him to be a guest after receiving an email promo from him for a new free mobile app to help people get and stay healthy and cancer free for people who are interested in cancer prevention, hair testing, detox, and overall health. He wrote, ” I was shocked to see what my own hair results yielded last year…TOXIC! I reached out to a Life After Cancer Network provider and he showed me how to detox naturally.” So we’ll be talking about how to survive cancer, and prevent having it in the first place. Dr. Levine is a licensed Chiropractic Physician in New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts. He has been in private practice in Bergenfield, New Jersey since 1983. He holds a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Natural Science/Mathematics from Thomas Edison State College in Trenton, NJ. He also received his Master’s Degree in Human Nutrition from the University Of Bridgeport, Connecticut. He received his Doctor of Chiropractic from New York College, Old Brookville, New York. Dr. Levine has written the best selling book ‘Answer to Cancer – A guide to living cancer-free’, sold worldwide to educate and create public awareness about the importance of natural strategies for lowering a person’s risk of getting cancer as well as preventing it all together. www.lifeaftercancernetwork.org

 

 

TOXIC FREE TALK RADIO
Preventing and Healing Cancer with Natural Care and Detox

Host: Debra Lynn Dadd
Guest: Douglas R. Levine, DC

Date of Broadcast: August 12, 2014

DEBRA: Hi, I’m Debra Lynn Dadd. This is Toxic Free Talk Radio where we talk about how to survive in a toxic world and live toxic free. It’s Tuesday August 12th, 2014 here in Clearwater, Florida. We might have a little rain here in. Here in Clearwater, August is known as foggy August because this is our big rain month. But what it does, it’s a cool spring process. Nature’s air-conditioning and it’s great.

So today, we’re going to talk about cancer, some toxic chemicals and detox, and how we can prevent cancer by paying attention to the toxic chemicals that cause cancer.

My guest is Dr. Douglas R. Levine, D.C. and he is the Founding Executive Director of Life After Cancer Network. It’s a nonprofit cancer survivor’s organization dedicated to the natural restoration of health—so people who have had cancer, their families and caregivers. So they also address people not getting cancer in the first place.

I invited him to be a guest after I received an email promo from him about a new free mobile app that they have to help people get and stay healthy and cancer-free. And in that promo, he said that he was shocked—he did the hair testing. And then he said that he was “shocked to see what my own hair results yielded—toxic. I reached out to a Life After Cancer Network provider, and he showed me how to detox naturally.”

So I thought, “Here’s a man after my own heart.” He’s looking at the causes of cancer being related to toxic chemical exposure, so of course I had to have him on the show.

Welcome, Dr. Levine.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Hey.

DEBRA: Hi. Are you there? Can you hear me?

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Yeah, I’m here. Yup.

DEBRA: Oh, I thought—now, I’ve got you. How are you today?

DOUGLAS LEVINE: I’m well, thank you.

DEBRA: Good. So, tell us how you got interested—obviously, you’re a doctor of chiropractic.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Yes.

DEBRA: So how did you get interested specifically in helping people with cancer and how did you find that—I mean, usually the track is not, “Let’s look at carcinogens and natural health.” Usually, the track is something like using toxic chemicals in order to try to kill the cancer.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Yes.

DEBRA: So, how did you get into doing what you’re doing?

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Okay. That’s a good question. It started from my own personal experience of having cancer. I’m a cancer survivor. At the age of 19, I was in college and I noticed that my body was going through some changes. I started to suffer from night sweats, severe headaches, rapid weight loss. I couldn’t sleep at night. It got to the point where I lost about 30 pounds in two weeks. I knew something was wrong.

And then I realized one day, I woke up and I had a baseball-sized growth over my clavicle which is right near the shoulder.

So, I went to Columbia Presbyterian. They did some biopsies and they diagnosed me with having Hodgkin’s disease. So here I am, a 19-year-old with Hodgkin’s disease, feeling very confused, shocked. I decided to go through the standard treatment which was surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.

What I realized from my experience is that I lost a tremendous amount of weight, my treatment ended, and I didn’t know what to do after that like many survivors back then and even now. What I did was I started to do some research on my own. I start to research things like toxic exposure, eating healthy, things that I really wasn’t aware of.

I eventually got some very good health advice from a local chiropractic physician down the block from me to the point where I became a chiropractic physician.

That translated into wanting to help people naturally. I then wrote a best-selling book called After the Cancer on cancer survivorship, prevention. And as expected, I knew that book would sell a lot of copies because there are people eager out there trying to figure out what they can do to prevent recurrence and prevent cancer altogether.

So, I basically belonged to a club that I never really had any intention of joining. And as a result, I had become a member with the 13.7 million cancer survivors that are alive today in the United States.

DEBRA: Well, I think that probably everybody knows somebody with cancer who had either not survived or survived.

And I can say that in my own life, my first experience with cancer was with my mother—no, actually my grandmother. Both my grandmothers died of cancer. My mother died of cancer at age 51. DEBRA: My best friend is a cancer survivor. I have another good friend who is just recovering from breast cancer. I knew another woman who was in an organization that I belonged to and she died of breast cancer. It’s just like it’s all around.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: It’s an epidemic and the numbers—I do talks all over the country to physicians and to the general public.

And when they are brought to the statistics that you do not see in magazines, newspapers, or radio, they were amazed to see that 1.6 million people this year got cancer. That’s just this year. And by 2020, those numbers are going to jump to 2.2 million people a year.

There’s not going to be enough cancer centers or oncologists to treat all the people. This epidemic is continuing to increase.

So, it’s becoming a huge problem. No one’s really talking about it. No one’s actually trying to deal with issues or preventions, reducing risk factors, all these things that are affecting people’s health.

So, [pledge] practicing is actually my cause to help people because the federal government is not getting involved. No one is getting involved. Someone’s got to get involved, and that’s me.

DEBRA: Well, I’m glad that you’re here and I’m glad you’re doing what you’re doing because it’s been very clear to me for more than 30 years that there are chemicals, very specific chemicals called carcinogens (those are the chemicals that are known to cause cancer. We all know that cigarette smoking causes cancer, that’s pretty widely known), but there are all kinds of carcinogens that are in all kinds of products that we’re using every day that we’re not even aware of.

And so, for me, it’s really important to know where those toxic chemicals are and to reduce our exposures to them and I think that by doing—not that that’s the 100% solution. But by doing that, it greatly reduces our risk of getting cancer.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Yeah, I absolutely agree with you. For your listeners, there are different ways you can get cancer. I’m going to break it down as simply as possible.

Cancer is basically a disease where cells lose their intelligence. They go out of control, and they start to embed themselves in normal tissue and literally take over the body.

A risk factor is anything that increases a person’s chance of getting a disease. Now, risk factors can be what’s called modifiable or non-modifiable. A non-modifiable risk factor is something that we cannot change. For example, as we age and more cells keep dividing, just the mere fact of getting cancer as we get older, that risk factor goes up because we’re just getting older.

The median age of getting cancer is 66, if you’re born a man or a woman. If you’re born a woman, you have a hundred times greater chance of getting breast cancer than if you are a man. So yes, men do get breast cancer.

Another non-modifiable risk factor is if you’re born Caucasian or if you’re African American. If you’re an African American male, you have a greater risk factor of getting prostate cancer than if you are a Caucasian male. The other side of it is that Caucasian women have a greater chance of getting breast cancer than Asian, African American, or Hispanic women.

DEBRA: So that has a lot to do with it. I need to interrupt you about for a second because we need to go to the break. But when we come back…

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Sure.

DEBRA: …we’ll talk more about this.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: You bet.

DEBRA: And I also want you to tell us specifically about the carcinogenic chemicals that people are people exposed to everyday.

You’re listening to Toxic Free Talk Radio. My guest today is Douglas R. Levine, Doctor of Chiropractic and Executive Director of Life After Cancer Network. His website is LifeAfterCancerNetwork.org. I’m Debra Lynn Dadd and we’ll be right back.

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DEBRA: You’re listening to Toxic Free Talk Radio. I’m Debra Lynn Dadd. My guest today is Douglas R. Levine, D.C. Founding Executive Director of Life After Cancer Network and author of Answer to Cancer. And you can find that book on Amazon. If you to go ToxicFreeTalkRadio.com and read the description of this show, you can link right through and get his—what is it, 459 pages?

DOUGLAS LEVINE: It’s four hundred—and actually, I had to shave it a little bit. I’ll have to say it with a volume two I think.

DEBRA: So you were telling us about the risk factors…

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Modifiable and non-modifiable, right. Modifiable.

DEBRA: Yeah, yeah.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: So those non-modifiable risk factors are things that we can’t change. What we do have control over are things that are modifiable.

A modifiable risk factor is, basically, if you’re a smoker, you need to stop smoking because it causes cancer. If you are above your normal BMI or body mass index, that is a risk factor for getting cancer or for recurrence. And then we have things like environmental pollutants, alcohol, prescription drugs, food additives, contaminants. All those things are risk factors.

So those are things that people need to take a closer look at, understand that being exposed to these things daily, weekly, monthly, yearly puts you at risk of getting things like breast cancer, colon cancer, leukemia, all these different things. So people need to be aware of this.

DEBRA: I think one of the things that has changed the most in the way I view things having—I got interested in this subject because I became very sick from toxic chemical exposure. It was an immune system problem, not cancer. But the thing that I realized is that we tend to think that this is the way life is, that what you see on TV and how we all live. That’s the normal life and then it’s normal to get cancer. People get cancer and people get heart disease, and this is the way it is. But it isn’t that way.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: It isn’t that way. It isn’t that way.

DEBRA: It isn’t that way. It’s not normal.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: It is not normal.

DEBRA: It’s not normal that you should go through life, and then when you’re 55 or 65 or whatever, then you’re going to get sick and you’re going to go in a rest home, and you’re going to have a big hospital bill, and that’s what your life is going to be like because your body just wears out or something.

It really is the way we live and there are so many things that we can do. And that’s what this show is about, really. It’s to identify those things that cause harm to us and to have more information about the things that are good things that we can do.

But the first thing I think is just changing your mind about being able to see that there’s another way to live and it’s not “normal” that we’re going to all end up getting cancer just because—it’s like I think that there are all these statistics that say, “This is the way it is.” And then people go, “Well, yeah. That’s the way it is,” instead of thinking outside the box and saying, “We could create something different.”

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Right! It’s not sticking with conformity. It’s being a non-conformist. To me, a non-conformist [inaudible 00:13:30] can be conformity in a way because it’s getting people back to basics, it’s getting people to eat health, think health, and do healthy things.

As we instruct people through our network and I instruct people even in my own office, the body has rules and the body has laws that govern it, and the body is self-healing, the body is self-regulating. However, if you start to break those laws and if you start to expose the body to things that are not good for it, it’s going to revolt and you’re going to get sick.

So it’s making a conscious choice about what you think every day, what you read every day, what you eat every day, and what you want to expose your body to is going to ensure that you stay healthy for the long term.

I always tell people I don’t mind getting older, I just want to have a good quality life. People don’t realize that men have a one in two risk of getting cancer in their lifetime, and women, one in three. And that number is getting close to one in two.

One in six men gets prostate cancer. One in eight women gets breast cancer. I mean, these numbers are staggering. And these numbers are going to continue to rise unless people start to become educated about the healthy things that they can do in their life.

DEBRA: Tell us about some of the things—we only have a couple of minutes before we need to go to break, but tell us about some of the things that you changed in your life to not be exposed to carcinogenic chemicals.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Eating. Number one is food. Basically, if people have a chance to eat produce from local farmers, I encourage it because they haven’t been adulterated with pesticides.

I encourage people to eat organic. That’s one of the things that I’ve done immediately. People need to be aware of the benefits of eating organic. And, yes, it’s a little bit more money. That’s true. But we’re talking about putting food in our body and that’s the gasoline that runs our machine.

So, eating is the number one thing that people can start with. There are other things. Basically, one of the best detoxifiers in the world is exercise. Sweating is by far—and moving your body is something that benefits the body. So these things, again, help ensure to keep the body healthy.

After the break, I’m sure we’ll talk about things like home products, helpful products that people just take for granted, and they contain substances that are cancer-causing, so people need to be aware of that as well.

DEBRA: They do.

We’ll talk about that when we come back. But I want to tell you, there’s a book you may be familiar with, called Toxin Toxout.

It’s a new book that’s by the authors of Slow Duck by Rubber Duck and he was on—one of the authors was on the show.

The whole premise of the book Toxin Toxout was to test out all the different detox methods, and he said the number one thing to do to detox is exercise and sweat.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Number one.

DEBRA: That’s the number one thing that they found was most effective.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Yup.

DEBRA: So they’re in agreement with you. And I’m in agreement with you about not eating pesticides, about organic because I’ve seen a number of studies that show that if you just stop eating food that has pesticides on it within several days, a lot of those pesticides will just clear out of your body. You don’t even need to do anything to detox. Your body will just clear those pesticides.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: The body is self-healing. The body is self-regulating.

DEBRA: Yes. Yes, it is.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: And that’s it.

DEBRA: It is. It is. We just need to not defy it.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Right.

DEBRA: So we’re going to—yes. You’re listening to Toxic Free Talk Radio. I’m Debra Lynn Dadd. And my guest today is Douglas R. Levine, Doctor of Chiropractic, Founding Executive Director of Life After Cancer Network and author of Answer to Cancer. His website is LifeAfterCancerNetwork.org. We’ll be right back.

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DEBRA: You’re listening to Toxic Free Talk Radio. My guest today is Douglas R. Levine, Doctor of Chiropractic. He’s also the Founding Executive Director of Life After Cancer Network and author of Answer to Cancer. So Dr. Levine, you were going to tell us about carcinogens and household products.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Carcinogens and household products, there are many and probably too numerous to mention this show.

DEBRA: Give us some specific examples though.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Specific examples?

DEBRA: Like if you were to…

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Let’s see, things like ethylene-based glycol which is used as a cleaning agent. There are other things like compounds called terpenes, which are found in lemon, pine, orange oil. Those are carcinogenic compounds. People know that if they go swimming in a pool and they get water in their mouth, they spit it out because there’s chlorine in it. So these are things that are just not good for the body.

DEBRA: Yes. Well, let’s talk more specifically about heavy metals because that was what you mentioned in your promo piece.

And so let’s talk a little bit about how your network helps people identify these things. So one of the things that you offer is hair testing. That is specific for heavy metals to find out—and heavy metals, most of them cause cancer, right?

DOUGLAS LEVINE: There are many that have been associated with cancer and/or other health-related problems that people would not put two and two together.

DEBRA: Yeah.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: How hair analysis work is that hair is basically considered an excretory organ. That means that you have hair on your body. That hair follicle is in touch with your blood stream. So you have blood circulating through our body and hair will accumulate things like the normal minerals in our body. But it will attach itself or heavy metals will attach itself to hair, so hair can be used as a diagnostic tool for metals that have no physiological benefits to the body. These things are things like lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, nickel, and the list goes on.

So, what people do is they take a sample of their hair, usually from the head, about maybe a teaspoon worth and they send it to a lab. The lab actually breaks down your hair to see if you’ve had any heavy metal exposure.

We try to encourage people different ways to get the lead out, so to speak, so they can restore the normal physiology in the body. It uses a testing tool—I do it in my office, but there are other practioners throughout the country that do it. This doesn’t have to be through the network, but we have people all over the country that do it to try to educate people about toxic element exposure and it could affect their health.

DEBRA: When you were talking about this—obviously, I’ve known about hair testing for many, many years. In fact, I think I’ve had my hair tested more than once. But for the first time, when I was listening to you talk about this, I was thinking about,

“Well, if hair is a…”—what was it you called it? It was a…

DOUGLAS LEVINE: An excretory organ.

DEBRA: Excretory organ?

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Yeah. Yeah, right. So basically, it’s like a suitcase for things that are going through the blood stream.

DEBRA: I’m going to write that down, “hair as an excretory organ.” I’ve done a lot of research on how the body detoxes, and so you think of the skin as an organ that detoxes, and the intestines, and all these things. But I’ve never thought of the hair as an excretory organ before.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Yup.

DEBRA: And so I was just imagining, you have these heavy metals in your body and so then it goes out in your hair, but we don’t—what we think about hair is we think about hair as being beautiful, “Are you having a good hair day?”

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Right.

DEBRA: I was just thinking about all the things that people do to try to control their toxic hair and how much more beautiful hair would be if it wasn’t full of heavy metals.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: That’s correct. That’s correct.

DEBRA: Wow! I’ve had people on the show, and I’ve talked to people that talk about detoxing your hair, but they talked about detoxing your hair from the modern toxic hair products and getting those out of your hair, but I’ve never heard one single person…

DOUGLAS LEVINE: It’s got to be done from the inside out.

DEBRA: Yeah.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: So the reason why there are these toxic metals in your hair is because it’s in your blood stream. And if it’s in your blood stream, it’s in the tissue of the body; it’s not just in your hair.

So, people never equate that if they have a high level of cadmium in their body and they get it from whatever exposure—from the air, from touching things, from food, wherever it comes from—it will increase a woman’s risk of getting breast cancer.

I’m trying to connect the dots for people that, sometimes, it’s not the blood test that they see. And these things are high or low, that something has to be causing these things to be high or low. So people will go to their regular medical physician. And if this number is low, then we’re going to give you something to make it high.

But it’s important to understand the whys of why people have these things going on in their body and a lot of this has to do with toxicity and they’re not even realizing that they’ve had toxic element exposure. They’ll just go on and treat the symptoms, but not really deal with the cause.

DEBRA: What you just said is probably just, in a nutshell, exactly what most of medicine is about—it’s to treat symptoms.

Actually, this week, I had a realization about that just on my own—like I’m much healthier than I’ve ever been in my life right now, but that doesn’t mean I’m perfectly healthy because I had many years of toxic exposure and damage to my body and things.

And particularly about diet, I just want to say—and I’m about to write this, but I’m going to say it today—people, they wonder what they should eat and they want to go on specific diets and they read about a diet and say, “Oh, I should go on that diet,” and especially if it’s a diet that’s supposed to help something, like you could go on the Thyroid Diet for example and that’s just to help the thyroid, but the thing is that a lot of times, people will go on a diet because they have a specific set of symptoms and they’re trying to alleviate their symptoms. I say, “If I don’t gluten or I don’t eat tomatoes, or whatever, I won’t have these symptoms,” but that’s only just alleviating the symptoms, whether it’s from a food or drug, or whatever. It’s only alleviating symptoms. It’s not addressing the underlying problem.

I finally reached this point in my life where I’m really getting down to healing the things that have been damaged by toxic chemicals.

We’ll talk more about that when we come back. You’re listening to Toxic Free Talk Radio. I’m Debra Lynn Dadd. And my guest today is Dr. Douglas Levine. He’s the Executive Director of LifeAfterCancerNetwork.org. We’ll be right back.

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DEBRA: You’re listening to Toxic Free Talk Radio. I am Debra Lynn Dadd. And if you were just listening to that commercial about water filters, today, actually is the last day of a special offer where they’re $20 off. You can go to ToxicFreeTalkRadio.com, look for the faucet, click through, and find out more about that. That’s the water filter that I use in my home.

I’m sure that Dr. Levine can tell you that there are many carcinogenic pollutants in water.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Absolutely! Everybody should have a filtration system just like the one you’re describing because safety first and prevention first. There’s nothing wrong with taking that extra step to protect yourself from what’s going on in the environment today.

DEBRA: Right, right. So tell us more about—oh, I wanted to finish what I’m saying about getting down to this level of really—I call it my “body restoration” project because it’s not about just trying to feel good, it’s about identifying what parts of my body have been damaged by toxic chemical exposure or poor nutrition or whatever that it is. It’s actually to recognize that damage has been done and what do I need to do in order to restore. And that’s a totally different questions.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: That’s a totally different question, yeah.

DEBRA: Like the other day, we filmed several shows about—there’s a new book out called Missing Microbes. I had the author of that book on. We were talking about how antimicrobials and antibiotics are destroying the flora and fauna in our guts. He was saying we’ve lost like 30%. And there are information now about things that you can do to restore those natural microbes that we need to have for our bodies to function.

When I started learning that I thought, “Well now, when I’m eating, am I feeding my microorganisms?”

DOUGLAS LEVINE: It depends on what you’re eating.

DEBRA: Yeah. Every time you take a glass of water with chlorine in it, or chloramines, you’re killing your microorganisms. It’s that simple. That’s what those things are in there for—in the water. Those toxic chemicals are there to kill them.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: They kill them. That’s right, that’s right.

DEBRA: You drink that and it’s going to kill what’s in your gut. And then, we wonder why we have to take Tums and things like that.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Right! And you’re treating the symptom, not the cause.

DEBRA: Yeah. Yeah. So I’m really looking at restoration as being the—but if you’re looking at restoration, I’ve figured out there’s actually three steps. This is just a new thing for me this week.

The first thing you need to do is to you need to stop bombarding your body with toxic chemicals. Then, the second step is, once you’ve reduced that exposure, then you need to remove the toxic chemicals that your body has already accumulated.

And then you need to start the restoration project because if you don’t do those first two steps, it’s like trying to fill a bathtub full of water with the drain open. You’re just not getting anywhere.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Well, it’s the same way with cancer treatment. And if you have any survivors listening out there or any friends or family members, or anybody, this is the problem today with cancer.

Somebody goes through traditional treatment, they have radiation, chemotherapy, they’ve had surgery, they’ve been battered, they’re exhausted from their treatment. Their treatments finally end and now what do these people do?

DEBRA: Yeah. So what do they do? How do you help them?

DOUGLAS LEVINE: They contact our network because that’s why the network was created, to help renew and rebuild their bodies because nobody in traditional medical care is doing that right now.

Oncologists don’t do that. I appreciate what they do, but but they’re not helping people restore. It’s the practitioners in our network that help people. I help people, we have massage therapists that help people, we have acupuncturists that help people. And that’s why we’re here. We have nutritionists that help people. They need a place to go, so I created that place.

And it’s the same thing with what you’re saying, “Hey, I’ve been exposed to this. I understand that the damage has been done, what can I do to help myself?” That’s what you’re trying to do. I appreciate that. More people have to know more about what you do and about your book and support health rather than disease.

DEBRA: So, this is why I wanted to have you on the show because I know that you started making this network for cancer survivors, but I think that, in a sense, there are a lot of us who are survivors of toxic chemical exposure regardless of what the damage has been done.

I learned a long time ago that the thing that I needed to do to heal my body was the same thing that I needed to do to keep my body healthy in the first place. It’s the same set of things. It’s don’t be exposed to toxic chemicals, it’s get good nutrition, it’s get enough rest, the whole list of things.

It’s a well-known list of things. And if people would just start doing that list, then they wouldn’t get cancer, they wouldn’t get heart disease, they wouldn’t get whatever illness they’re concerned about. Whatever illness is in their family, they wouldn’t get it because the environmental factors have been removed. You just do the things that create health, and you’ll create health.

So I think that your network is applicable to everyone, whether they’re a cancer survivor or not.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: And that’s why we have the app, which is called Cancer Network. It’s a free app for any survivor, caregivers, friends, family members, where they can have direct contact right with all our network providers and it’s free for them.

DEBRA: So, tell us more about your app and your network. Tell us, what will people find when they go there?

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Well, if you are a survivor, a friend or family member, you can register right on our website and you can print out a survivorship plan.

Basically, it’s a series of questions that you answer basically yes or no. You’re going to get a print out of where you are and where you need to go to begin your journey back to finding your new normal again.

We are the only organization that offers this survivorship plan. There’s no organization in the country that does what we do.

So, we are really the first to offer some type of basics to restore people’s health and get them back to basics.

If people want more in-depth information, they can contact any of our network providers. They are here to help and they will guide people in every area of help, whether it’s nutrition, chiropractic, osteopathy, acupuncture.

The problem I have with natural healthcare providers and people that help cancer survivors is that it’s very fragmented in the United States. There’s somebody who does it in Missouri, there’s somebody who does it in New York or Florida. People are scanning through Yellow Pages or they’re going online, they’re trying to find somebody.

The network was designed to bring all these puzzled pieces together in one place, so that people can go to one entity, find somebody they feel comfortable with and move forward from there.

DEBRA: So, basically. these are the folks that even if somebody didn’t have cancer and wanted to prevent cancer and improve whatever their health issue is right now, these are the kinds of people who, when you go to them, and you say “detox” or “toxic chemicals” or “carcinogen”, they’ll know what you’re talking about?

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Absolutely. And there’s somebody here to help you.

DEBRA: Yeah. Yeah. Because I know that it’s sometimes difficult to find those people. You go to a lot of doctors or even alternative practitioners, and they don’t understand these specific issues.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Agreed.

DEBRA: So, I think it’s great, what you’ve done, because it’s so difficult to find these people and…

DOUGLAS LEVINE: I didn’t have it 30 years ago.

DEBRA: Yeah.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: I was looking for somebody. I went to somebody down the block. And I didn’t have it. I said, “You know, something…” one of my goals when I was writing the book was to create an organization like this for people because I didn’t want people to go through exactly what I went through—not finding somebody, not dealing with anybody credible, and not having research-based information that will help move them in the right direction.

DEBRA: Yes. That’s why I do what I do because when I became very sick from toxic chemicals more than 30 years ago, there were no resources at all. There were no books like mine. There were no websites to go to. There were no organizations like yours.

It was like a fluke that I even got the idea that toxic chemicals were making me sick. I just had to drag myself out of bed and go to medical libraries and start researching, “What’s these chemicals? And what kind of symptoms? Oh, I’m having that symptom,” and then I stopped using that product. I stopped using chlorine in the water and perfume and these things. My symptoms went away, but there were no resources at the time, none whatsoever.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Right.

DEBRA: But we have so many resources now. We have so many resources today. We have so many nontoxic products. We have so many practitioners who understand those that it’s really—this is a time that everybody should be learning to take care of their bodies in a toxic-free way and support our health, and we don’t. I think what we could greatly, greatly, greatly reduce the amount of cancer in the world and still have our grandmothers, and our mothers, and our loved ones who found us, instead of having them not be here because of cancer.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: It is a disease of lifestyle and the environment…

DEBRA: Yes, definitely.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: People need to recognize that, that it’s a preventable disease and it’s just understanding what needs to be done and actually doing it.

DEBRA: Well, thank you so much. Excuse me. Thank you so much for being here. I’m going to take a look at your network.

Again, you can go to LifeAfterCancerNetwork.org. And can they get your app on the website? They would do this.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Yes, if they go to the app site, they’ll see two icons, one for Android and one for the iPhone. And if you just press it, it brings you right to the store to get it.

Again, it’s free for all the survivor, caregivers, friends, family members. That’s why it’s there.

DEBRA: The Survivorship Plan, you just go to LifeAfterCancerNetwork.org and you’ll see that too.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Correct. Yup.

DEBRA: Yeah.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Thanks.

DEBRA: I’m going to take a look at that because I think that that’s a great idea about how are you going to survive the rest of your life?

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Right. That’s why we’re here. That’s the question I had 30 years ago and there was nobody to help me.

DEBRA: Like, “What’s the plan? How am I going to be healthy for the rest of my life?”

DOUGLAS LEVINE: That’s right.

DEBRA: Yup. Yup.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: People [inaudible 0:36:49]

DEBRA: I’m going to go take a look and see what you’ve got there.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Absolutely.

DEBRA: Okay, thank you.

DOUGLAS LEVINE: Debra, thanks.

DEBRA: You’re listening to Toxic Free Talk Radio. I’m Debra Lynn Dadd. Be well.