Healthy Living by Willow Creek Springs

Send us Fan Mail What if the next meaningful step in cancer care is not another buzzword, but a simple shift toward better testing and smarter nutrient control? Joe Grumbine sits down with Dr. Robert Hoffman for a candid, science-first conversation about keeping cancer in check by targeting what tumors need to grow, and why patients often have to push the system to get the most rational options. W...

Send us Fan Mail A broken bottle of luxury skin care that eats through carpet. A beloved horse with a frisbee-sized wound that’s “supposed” to end in euthanasia. Two founders who refuse to accept that harsh chemicals and empty promises are just the price of looking good. That’s where our conversation with Natalie Novak and Ron Webb begins, and it quickly turns into a deep dive on regenerative skin...

Send us Fan Mail Most people treat health like a scoreboard: no pain, no problem. But what if that’s exactly why so many of us hit midlife feeling stuck, tired, and quietly unfulfilled even when nothing looks “wrong”? We sit down with Dr. Kyle Hulsebus, a third-generation chiropractor and health and human potential specialist, to make a bigger definition of wellness feel usable. His anchor idea is...

Send us Fan Mail AI can sound certain while being dangerously incomplete, and we open with a perfect example: a confident answer about methionine that falls apart the moment you compare it to published research and real patient outcomes. From there, we get very specific about cancer metabolism, why many tumors show a strong dependence on the amino acid methionine, and how methionine restriction tu...

Send us Fan Mail A cancer diagnosis has a way of stripping life down to one brutal question: who’s really driving your health decisions? Joe Grumbine sits down with returning guest Richard McCuen, a military veteran who’s been through grief, injury, and a pancreatic cancer scare that forced him to rebuild his life from the ground up. We talk about what changed after watching cancer up close, why “...

Send us Fan Mail Trust isn’t a soft concept, it’s the invisible system running everything from your closest relationships to the way a factory floor performs. Joe Grumbine sits down with leadership coach and continuous improvement specialist Rob Carroll to unpack why so many teams feel stuck even when they have smart people, good tools, and clear goals. When trust breaks, execution drags, costs cl...

Send us Fan Mail You can love your job, love your routine, and still be slowly drained by it. We talk about why taking a break is not a fancy indulgence but a real health strategy, especially when life feels like a constant grind of responsibilities, bills, and never-ending to-do lists. When we don’t step away, stress starts to chip at our peace, our mood, and even our ability to be present with t...

Send us Fan Mail A voice in her head said, “You have to stay” and Shannon Presson did something wildly uncharacteristic: she canceled her flight, sat down to breakfast, and trusted the moment. That one choice led to a new home, a new life, and eventually a new way of helping people navigate change when the old map stops working. We sit down with Shannon, author of The Unexpected Story, to explore...

Send us Fan Mail Cancer news can feel like a nonstop parade of miracle cures, but the lived reality is messier, harder, and far more human. We sit down with Dr. Robert Hoffman to talk about what it means to find an oncologist who won’t emotionally check out, won’t rush you onto a conveyor belt of protocols, and will fight to keep you from relapsing. That leads us straight to Dr. Tom Song’s unusual...

Send us Fan Mail A mom with Alzheimer’s looks at her daughter and asks a question that’s tender, impossible, and weirdly practical: “How will you name them all?” That one line becomes the heart of our conversation with psychologist and author Sarah Vosburgh, whose memoir *Who Will Name the Bees?* traces the months from moving her mother into memory care to the day she died, while also reaching bac...

Send us Fan Mail Cancer gets framed as a mystery, but a lot of the confusion is self-inflicted. We sit down with Dr. Robert Hoffman, a lifelong cancer researcher who helped shape my own treatment path, and we push on a simple question that too many papers dodge: where are the controls with normal cells? When researchers skip that step, they can mistake general cell stress for a cancer-specific wea...

Send us Fan Mail A mental health “diagnosis” can be subjective, but the consequences are real and sometimes irreversible. We talk with Miriam Putnam, a holistic mental health advocate, board-certified wellness coach, and freedom from stress counselor, about what she saw firsthand inside a system that often defaults to labels and pharmaceuticals even when people are begging for deeper answers. If y...

Send us Fan Mail Hair loss rarely happens all at once and that’s exactly why it catches so many people off guard. I sit down with Dr. Alan J. Baumann, MD, a board-certified hair restoration physician and founder of Bauman Medical, to get past the hype and talk about what actually drives thinning, shedding, and baldness, and what you can do before it becomes a “heroic” problem. We dig into the idea...

Send us Fan Mail Grit gets praised like it’s the whole answer, but what happens when grit runs out and life keeps coming? Joe Grumbine sits down with Scott Lackey, a military veteran, inventor, Ironman athlete, and author, to talk about the moments that shake you down to your DNA and the surprising way those moments can become your greatest leverage for healthy living. Scott shares the inner wake-...

Send us Fan Mail Cancer doesn’t just grow, it learns. Joe Grumbine and Dr. Robert Hoffman dig into a hard truth that too many patients discover late: tumors can change their behavior, their markers, and their vulnerabilities, even when a treatment plan looks “stable” on paper. We start with what sparked the conversation, a metastatic breast cancer case where old numbers look fine and a new number...

Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever felt like healthcare is all process and no humanity, this conversation snaps that illusion in half. We’re joined by Winston Meikle, a lifelong nurse who started as a home health aide at 16, spent decades in critical care and the ER, and now leads hospital teams while teaching the next generation of clinicians. Along the way, he built a bold framework he calls The Po...

Send us Fan Mail A terminal diagnosis doesn’t have to be the loudest voice in the room. We sit down with Nicholas Kelly, a Cleveland-born registered dietitian, author, dancer, and longtime cystic fibrosis advocate, to hear how he’s built a life driven by compassion, creativity, and grit while living with CF. Nicholas breaks down cystic fibrosis in plain language: the thick mucus, the lung damage o...

Send us Fan Mail “Unexplained infertility” can sound like a verdict. Gabriella Rosa joins me to argue it’s often a sign we haven’t looked closely enough, or we’re asking the wrong questions. Gabriela is a Harvard-trained fertility specialist and founder of the Rosa Institute, and she brings a grounded, evidence-based approach to integrative fertility care that still respects the power of IVF when...

Send us Fan Mail A lot of people can teach mindset. Far fewer can tell you what it costs to rebuild a nervous system that learned fear before it learned safety. We sit down with Thayne Martin, creator of the “equation of life and abundant happiness,” for a conversation that moves from childhood sexual abuse and decades of depression, PTSD, dissociation, addiction, and shame to the moment everythin...

Send us Fan Mail A lot of recovery stories skip the messy parts, but Jonathan Crawford doesn’t. He takes us back to being told he was “the man of the house” at 10, growing up in South Central LA, and carrying pressure that quietly shaped his identity, emotions, and choices for years. When his sister dies by suicide, grief hits with nowhere to go and it becomes the spark for crack cocaine, denial,...

Send us Fan Mail “Complete remission” is the phrase everyone hopes to hear, and I just did. But once the celebration settles, the real question shows up fast: how do you keep cancer away when you know recurrence can happen years later and come back tougher than before? Dr. Robert Hoffman joins me to talk through the moment a clean Met-PET scan and a liquid biopsy finally bring real relief, and why...

Send us Fan Mail Your life can change in one play, one decision, or one diagnosis. When it does, the real question is whether you cling to the old story or build a better one with what’s left. We sit down with Don Kurz, a former Johns Hopkins lacrosse champion turned Studio 54 hustle regular turned entrepreneur and creative agency leader, to unpack how reinvention actually works. Don shares what i...

Send us Fan Mail He didn’t break in Vietnam. He broke years later in a quiet office, with stress piled so high that one more “push through it” simply wasn’t possible. We talk with Keith Cole, a Marine Corps Vietnam veteran who carried combat wounds, the trauma of notifying next of kin, and the weight of becoming a guardian for his younger siblings, then spent decades building a high-pressure caree...

Send us Fan Mail The scariest part of cancer isn’t always the diagnosis, it’s the not knowing if it’s truly gone. After aggressive head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and months of brutal chemotherapy, my U.S. PET CT and MRI looked “good,” but nobody could tell me with confidence whether I was in complete remission. So I flew to Japan for a carbon-11 methionine PET scan, a rare imaging tool that...

Send us Fan Mail A scan that can’t wait sounds like science fiction until you hear the numbers: carbon-11 has a 12-minute half-life, which means a carbon-11 methionine PET scan has to be made onsite, injected fast, and run immediately or the signal can vanish. That time pressure is exactly why we traveled to Japan to talk with Dr. Toshihiko Sato at the Utsunomiya Clinic, where they produce special...