Born to Heal: Holistic Healing for Optimal Health

What if losing weight on a GLP-1 drug and losing weight through fasting produce the same number on the scale, but nearly opposite effects inside your cells? Host Dr. Katie Deming believes some of the most popular weight loss drugs on the market may be quietly blocking one of your body's most essential repair processes. Not because they're failing to work, but because they work in a way t...

Learn about the Healing Power of Prolonged Fasting: HERE What if the moment that shattered the life you carefully built became the moment that showed you what healing really is? This episode is a little different. Instead of sitting in the host seat, I'm the one answering the questions. My dear friend and colleague, Dr. Nasha Winters invited me onto her podcast, Tend the Terrain, for a conver...

Learn about the Healing Power of Prolonged Fasting: HERE What if the secret to deep healing isn’t doing more, but going further? Most people assume that repeating short fasts is just as powerful as completing one long fast. Stack enough three-day fasts together and you’ll eventually get the same result, right? It’s a reasonable assumption, but it may be costing you the deeper healing you’re workin...

Learn about the Healing Power of Prolonged Fasting: HERE What if one of the most studied alternative cancer therapies in the world was used across Europe and South America, yet still out of reach in the United States?   Dr. Katie Deming sits down with Dr. Nasha Winters, a globally recognized authority in integrative oncology and co-author of Mistletoe and the Emerging Future of Integrative Oncolog...

Learn about the Healing Power of Prolonged Fasting: HERE What if the prostate treatment your doctor recommended wasn't your only choice? Joel Pruttis came to Dr. Katie Deming with a rising PSA, a lesion seen on his prostate MRI, and a urologist telling him he probably had cancer. But something about it didn't sit right, so he paused, did his research, and made a choice many people in his...

Learn about the Healing Power of Prolonged Fasting: HERE What if the one food you’ve been told to avoid isn’t always the problem, and when prepared the right way, could actually support your healing? In this episode, Dr. Katie Deming brings back Monica Corrado, a traditional foods educator, author, and ancestral nutrition expert to dig into what’s actually true about dairy, cancer, and the gut. Th...

Learn about the Healing Power of Prolonged Fasting: HERE What would happen if you got quiet enough to finally hear the truth you've been carrying your whole life? Lauren Monusco arrived at her 10-day water fast on the edge of a nervous breakdown.  Dr. Katie Deming and Lauren take you inside the real emotional journey of a prolonged fast, and it's probably not what you'd expect. She...

Learn about the Healing Power of Prolonged Fasting: HERE What if the next step after cancer surgery wasn't more treatment, but something different entirely? Dr. Katie Deming welcomes Merlin Hagan. After his prostate was removed, Merlin's doctors checked his PSA, a blood marker used to monitor prostate cancer activity. It should have dropped to undetectable levels. But it didn't. His...

Learn about the Healing Power of Prolonged Fasting: HERE What if your sugar cravings have nothing to do with willpower, and everything to do with what your brain has been quietly taught to need? Dr. Katie Deming sits down with Matty Lansdown, scientist, nutritionist, and emotional eating specialist, to explore why so many people feel completely out of control around sugar. Matty has spent nearly a...

Learn about the Healing Power of Prolonged Fasting: HERE What does a 27-day water fast have to do with learning to be alone with yourself? Karen Hannon joined Dr. Katie Deming's water fasting program after a cancer diagnosis, deep research, and a drive to do everything possible to heal. What she didn't expect was that the most important work had nothing to do with any of that. Karen open...

What if going without food before chemotherapy could help protect your healthy cells while leaving your cancer cells more exposed? The research behind this has been building for over a decade in peer-reviewed journals and major institutions, yet many patients never hear about it as part of their treatment plan. Dr. Katie Deming breaks down why the standard advice to keep eating through treatment m...

 What if going without food for two weeks felt less like deprivation and more like coming home? Guest Faith Laux pictured herself scooting down the stairs on her hands and knees, too exhausted to function.  What she actually felt around day six is something she struggled to put into words, and you have to hear her describe it herself to understand why. Faith shares the fear going in, the rollercoa...

What if the most powerful cancer practice has been around for thousands of years and medicine quietly buried it? An unexpected medical crisis forced her to stop eating entirely. For two and a half months, with no support from her doctors, her body did something they said wasn't possible. In this clip, Dr. Nasha Winters and Dr. Katie Deming challenges why the medical establishment pushed high-...

What if the cancer treatments you trust are built on the wrong foundation? Dr. Thomas Seyfried has spent decades building the scientific case that cancer isn't a genetic disease. It's a metabolic one. And that distinction changes everything.  He breaks down exactly why cancer cells can't survive without glucose and glutamine, why conventional oncology has largely ignored this, and w...

What if your cravings aren't a problem to fix, but a signal you've been ignoring? Dr. Katie Deming sits down with Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, a researcher whose work connecting nutrition, gut health, and chronic illness has reached people around the world. Together, they dig into why some of the most widely accepted dietary advice may be working against healing, not for it. Specificall...

What if the most common nutrition advice given to people facing chronic illness, eat more plants, is actually working against healing? Host Dr. Katie Deming sits down with Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, neurologist, nutritionist, and creator of the GAPS Protocol, to question whether the human gut is truly designed to rely on plant-based nutrition during healing. They explore what traditional cultur...

What if everything you've been told about fasting and muscle loss is wrong? Dr. Katie is joined by a recent fasting client Paul Suchoski. Paul was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and told by every doctor he consulted not to fast. He did it anyway, completed 30 days of supervised water fasting with Dr. Katie Deming, and his body composition scans showed something nobody expected. Chapters: 00...

What if the tumor isn't the real problem, but just the loudest symptom of something deeper going on in your body? Dr. Katie Deming sits down with Dr. Michael Karfeldt, co-author of Breast Cancer Breakthrough , to explore why the tumor is often the last part of the problem, not the first. What they uncover in this conversation might surprise you, especially if you think you're already doi...

What if the "healthy" foods you're eating every day are actually starving you? Dr. Katie Deming sits down with holistic nutritionist and teaching chef Monica Corrado to explore the nutrition philosophy behind the Deming Fast.  This kicks off a brand new series called Inside the Deming Fast, and this first conversation zeroes in on something most fasting programs completely overlook:...

Have you ever walked out of a doctor's office feeling judged instead of cared for? If you've ever chosen a healing path that didn't match what your doctor recommended, you may know exactly what doctor shaming looks like. Host Dr. Katie Deming names what so many patients feel but rarely talk about, and explains why it happens in the first place. Sometimes it's blunt, like a doct...

What if the biggest obstacle to your healing isn't your diagnosis... but the fact that you were never taught you had a choice? From the time we're young, we're conditioned to follow the rules, trust the experts, and do what we're told. And when it comes to your health, that conditioning kicks into overdrive.  Dr. Katie Deming opens up about why so many people hand over their po...

What if the mathematics of nature itself could recalibrate your nervous system and unlock your body's deepest healing potential? Dr. Katie sits down with Banah Winn, creator of the Golden Ratio Frequency, to explore how sound based on the same pattern found in DNA, breath, and spiral galaxies can create profound shifts in your body and mind.  Banah shares his journey from meditation and energ...

What's the difference between eating a ketogenic diet and actually being in ketosis? You're adding avocado to every meal and swapping bread for lettuce wraps. You feel like you're doing everything right. But without actually testing your blood, you could be miles away from the metabolic state that triggers real healing in your body. Host Dr. Katie Deming sits down with Dorian Greeno...

Have you ever ever felt like one "small indulgence" spiraled into weeks of poor food choices? Dr. Katie Deming shares her own recent experience with sugar cravings over the holidays and how she used a three-day fast to reset her body and mind.  She opens up about her history with sugar addiction and why, for some people, sugar isn't just food but a switch that changes everything fro...

What if the chaos you're experiencing right now isn't random, but part of a pattern you could learn to navigate with more peace and clarity? You're not imagining it. The world feels more unstable than it used to. Whether you're healing from illness, watching relationships shift, or simply trying to make sense of everything happening around you, there's a reason you feel un...