I AM HealingStrong

Dr. Michelle Jorgensen practiced traditional dentistry alongside her father for years, until numbness in her hands, memory lapses, and gut issues left her unable to hold her own instruments. After test after test turned up no answers, a fellow dentist suggested checking for mercury. Her levels came back off the charts, which she connects to years of drilling out silver fillings without protection....

Sue Becker, a food scientist and the founder of Bread Beckers, started milling her own grain in 1991 and soon began teaching others to do the same. She tells Jim Mann how white flour changed the American diet and why she believes freshly milled grain made such a difference for her family. Then, in November 2006, Sue was diagnosed with colorectal cancer after a tumor had ruptured her colon. A group...

Jim Mann finally gets his “man-to-man conversation” with Tara Mann, a fellow Greenville, South Carolina native and no relation, as far as they know. Tara spent about 11 years as a pharmaceutical rep. Then a documentary about the Gerson Therapy opened her eyes to holistic healing. She walked away at the height of her career, and in 2012 she and her husband Steve founded Cancer Crackdown. The nonpro...

Tulsy Ball spent years producing documentary television for networks like Discovery Channel, History Channel, and Nat Geo. While developing a show about chaga harvesters in Alaska, he learned that compounds from this odd-looking birch mushroom had been studied for breast cancer, the same disease his sister was facing. At the same time, he was dealing with his own health crisis after years of stres...

Sandy Ingram co-leads the HealingStrong group in Victorville, California, alongside Dan Cook. She was first diagnosed with breast cancer in late 2015. She chose a lumpectomy and declined radiation, a decision shaped partly by watching her mother go through radiation in the 1980s. In 2019 she found Chris Wark’s program and bought the whole thing, then put it in her closet because she wasn’t ready f...

What if part of your healing journey runs through the dentist's chair?  In this episode, host Jim Mann sits down with Kim Blaise, who has spent over 20 years in dentistry and founded Oral Biologics, a free platform that connects patients with vetted biologic dentists across the country.  Kim explains biologic dentistry as a philosophy built on the belief that the body is designed to heal, and...

Marlice Alves returns to the I AM HealingStrong podcast six and a half years after her diagnosis with acute myeloid leukemia. Marlice is a longtime nurse and leads a HealingStrong group in northern Rhode Island. This time she and host Jim Mann talk about the Heal-a-Thon, a grassroots fundraiser where HealingStrong groups raise support in their own creative ways. Marlice shares how her daughter&apo...

When Maria Schenkel first joined Jim Mann, she was days away from a mastectomy. Months later, she returns to share what happened next. She walks through the pathology results that surprised her, including a primary tumor that had not doubled in size and partial necrosis, along with lymph involvement that brought hard new decisions. She explains why she chose to continue her own integrative plan ra...

Three Words: A Couple's Journey from Cancer to Wholeness streams globally from September 25 through October 4, 2026.  Learn more at threewordsdoc.com or get tickets and watch the trailer at https://buytickets.at/globalstoryfilms/2412234 . David and Kathi Peters return to the podcast almost three years after their first appearance (Episode 116), this time to talk about the documentary they&apo...

Mark Mateya, a Carlisle, Pennsylvania attorney and former studio musician, was diagnosed with large B-cell lymphoma after a routine biopsy on a small arm growth came back malignant. After a rocky first appointment with an oncologist who initially confused his chart with another patient's and warned that forgoing chemo would be "suicide," Mark declined chemotherapy and found Chris Wa...

We have made it to the final podcast of the Top 10 Tour, celebrating 100,000 downloads. We're revisiting our most-downloaded conversations ever: Jim's talk with John A. Richardson Jr. John shares the story of his father, Dr. John Richardson Sr., who left a conventional medical career in the 1970s to treat cancer patients with laetrile, a compound found in apricot seeds. He walks through...

The Top 10 Tour continues with one of our most-downloaded conversations of all time. John Richardson — president of the Richardson Nutritional Center and Operation World Without Cancer — joins Jim Mann to tell a story that's been in his family for over fifty years. His father, Dr. John A. Richardson, became a Bay Area folk hero in the 1970s for offering laetrile to his patients, and a nationa...

After being diagnosed with cancer as a young man, Chris turned to research, whole food nutrition, and radical lifestyle change, and has spent the years since helping others do the same. In this conversation, Chris and Jim talk about what he calls the "beat cancer mindset": taking full personal responsibility for your health, forgiving yourself and others, and choosing daily to trust God...

Julie DeKam was diagnosed with stage 3 invasive ductal carcinoma in December 2015 after insurance requirements delayed proper imaging and a thermography doctor misread her lump as hormonal. She underwent a double mastectomy and six rounds of chemo, then discovered Chris Wark's Square One program and fired her oncologist when he pushed further treatment. She went all-in on a plant-based, holis...

Dr. Kelly Turner (PhD, Radical Remission & Radical Hope author) joins Jim to discuss her 15 years researching unexplained cancer recoveries. After discovering 1,000+ documented "spontaneous remission" cases in medical journals, she found these healings aren't random. Survivors share 10 common factors (diet, exercise, stress reduction, intuition, positive emotions, and more) that...

This is a Healing Strong podcast episode featuring Kathy Gilkey, a Florida-based follicular lymphoma survivor. Kathy was diagnosed with follicular lymphoma in 2017 after finding a lump under her arm. She declined chemo and radiation, instead following a protocol from a fire captain whose wife had stage four kidney cancer: 100 days of juicing (about 90% greens with apple), no solid food. Her tumor...

Dr. Jimenez cites a 2024 Lancet study reporting a 79% rise in cancer among young adults globally between 1990 and 2019, with a 28% increase in deaths, across 17 cancer types. He attributes this to environmental toxins, obesity, diet, and early-life exposures, and names three top toxicities he targets in treatment: aluminum, glyphosate, and EMF radiation.  He walks through daily detox practices (co...

Part of the Top 10 Tour: 100K Strong When David Peters was diagnosed with stage four prostate cancer, he and his wife Kathi made an immediate decision: go all-natural. As professional filmmakers, they're now documenting their own healing journey — including treatment at Hope4Cancer in Mexico, biological dentistry to remove mercury amalgams, and the RGCC ("Greek") test that pinpoints...

What if healing depends as much on your mindset and spirit as it does on your treatment plan? In this episode, host Jim Mann sits down with Dr. Francisco Contreras, who is the director, president, and chairman of Oasis of Hope Hospital in Tijuana, Mexico. He talks about his new book, The Art and Science of Undermining Cancer .  Dr. Contreras shares the philosophical foundations his father built th...

Summary: Brad Corley was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer (Gleason 9) on December 10, 2021 — one day after retiring from a 38-year career. After bone scans and consultation with a New Orleans oncologist, the cancer was deemed metastatic and incurable but treatable; doctors gave him a 3-7 year outlook. Brad and his wife Becky had already begun shifting toward healthier living before the diagn...

Naturopathic doctor Jennifer Gramith joins Jim to demystify the lymphatic system — a network most people only associate with cancer surgery and lymph node removal. She explains how the lymphatic system serves as the body's primary filtration and immune defense, why a "congested" lymph system contributes to fatigue, allergies, and chronic illness, and how assisted lymphatic therapy w...

Melissa Rausch of Simi Valley, California, was diagnosed in 2019 with triple-positive breast cancer, one of the more aggressive types, and did everything her doctors told her to do.  She endured 16 weeks of hard chemo, hospitalizations, a lumpectomy with unclear margins, and radiation with severe side effects. Then in November 2020, the cancer spread to her bones and her oncologist said the word s...

Jutta Thorsness, a German-born Idaho resident and Healing Strong group leader, shares the winding journey that led to her triple-negative breast cancer diagnosis It began with sleepless nights caring for her ailing mother overseas, a mysterious lump on her ribcage, and a German healthcare system that wanted her in chemo before she could ask a question. Jutta shares how she declined all three oncol...

Ashleigh Lindemann spent 17 years in pain before anyone could tell her why. Starting at age 15 with what turned out to be endometriosis, she navigated misdiagnoses, eight prescription medications out of Cleveland Clinic, and 17 surgeries, including the hip surgery that finally uncovered the answer hiding in plain sight. Refusing to accept a lifetime on Cymbalta and Neurontin, Ashleigh took the slo...

David Sanders was a young, active guy from Atlanta, a biology major turned nonprofit professional turned MBA, when years of mysterious, unexplained symptoms finally led to a diagnosis in 2018: Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis, a rare disease most commonly seen in infants. For David, it had already progressed through multiple systems in his body. The diagnosis, as scary as it was, was almost a relief,...