In short
Becky Witt’s cancer journey and recovery, linking her Hodgkin lymphoma relapse to diet/lifestyle, mold exposure, and immune/gut dysfunction; then her shift into functional medicine and her family’s adoption story.
Guest background
Becky is a cancer survivor diagnosed at age 26 with a 20 cm lymphoma mass. She underwent ABVD chemotherapy (6 months), radiation (20 rounds), relapse treatment (additional chemo), and a BEAM stem cell transplant. She later became a naturopathic/functional-health practitioner and runs a clinic in Wisconsin, working with children and adults (including eczema, gut issues, and toxin/mold-related concerns). She and her husband adopted after a five-year wait.
Key claims
Cancer isn’t “bad luck”; diet/lifestyle and toxins (including mold) can drive immune dysregulation and relapse. Mold is often hidden, can affect the gut and liver/bile detox pathways, and may worsen outcomes. She also claims immunotherapy failed for her and that holistic gut/immune recovery helped.
Notable examples
Her home had a prior water event and later hidden black mold found under floors/behind appliances; she reports symptom flare-ups (POTS, bloating, pets affected) before diagnosis and an intuition-led move after transplant. She describes a 1-year-old patient whose suspected Crohn’s/ulcers improved after mold removal and gut work, and a family adoption of “Violet” after switching agencies.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOIntroducing Becky Witt
0:45 to 1:30
Host Cara Lynn introduces guest Becky Witt and hints at her inspiring story involving cancer and mold.
Becky's Early Health Struggles
1:30 to 3:00
Becky shares her experiences of being a sick child and her health issues during college.
“just going through life i met my husband in college we knew we were going to get married three months after dating and so we were together love at first sight love at first sight yeah Yeah, absolutely.”
The American Dream and Disconnection
3:00 to 4:00
Becky discusses how she and her husband pursued the 'American Dream' while neglecting their health.
“but never really put the pieces together because they're so common.”
Understanding Family Health History
4:00 to 6:00
Becky reflects on her father's lymphoma and its ties to food and health issues.
“lymphoma, which you could only get from undiagnosed celiac disease.”
The Diagnosis: Lymphoma
6:00 to 8:00
Becky recounts the day she discovered she had lymphoma and its emotional impact.
“He didn't tell me and nobody had told each other that they didn't tell me, but they suspected that it was lymphoma.”
Initial Treatment Journey
8:00 to 10:00
Becky shares her early treatment experiences, including chemotherapy and side effects.
“So I was still, I get the chemo on Friday.”
Advocating for One's Health
10:00 to 12:00
Becky emphasizes the importance of advocating for one's health during treatment.
“I felt like I was suffocating from the inside out.”
Life After Treatment
12:00 to 14:00
Becky discusses the challenges of returning to normal life after cancer treatment.
“Yeah, there's no like counseling for, okay, you've just gone through this huge traumatic event, held cancer, went through chemo and radiation and okay, you're done.”
Becky's Cancer Journey Begins
14:01 to 17:37
Learn about Becky's initial cancer diagnosis and treatment journey.
“I got my husband, I'm like, Jeff, put your head on my chest and see if you can hear this.”
Surrendering to the Process
17:38 to 20:29
Hear how Becky faced her darkest moments during treatment.
“So for a week, you feel like you're dying.”
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Discovering Mold: A Hidden Enemy
20:30 to 23:04
Explore the connection between Becky's health issues and mold exposure.
“So we were three hours away from family at this point.”
Uncovering the Cause of Illness
24:43 to 28:00
Becky discusses her recovery and the importance of a holistic approach.
“And so how did you find then that you had the mold?”
Becky's Health Journey: Overcoming Toxins
28:00 to 29:20
Learn about Becky's personal health struggles with toxins and how she transformed her life.
“So we worked on that, nutrition, detoxing, MTHFR gene.”
Mold and Its Impact on Health
29:20 to 31:00
Discover how mold exposure affects health through a compelling case study of a young patient.
“We see infants to people in their 80s and 90s.”
Testing and Treating Mold Exposure
31:00 to 32:40
Understand the process of testing for mold and the steps for treatment.
“So we start with an entire health history and environmental history because you can have mold in you from years ago.”
Identifying Mold in Your Home
32:40 to 34:20
Learn how to spot mold in your living space and the importance of proper inspections.
“And that's the tricky part was mold, though, because some people have no like signs that they have mold.”
Becky's Adoption Journey
34:20 to 39:20
Follow Becky's journey through adoption and her intuition-led decisions along the way.
“That's not going to be accurate and that gives people such a false sense of security.”
Functional Health Clinic Insights
40:40 to 42:09
Explore how Becky's clinic addresses health issues, focusing on prevention and treatment.
“I love that you've learned to listen to your intuition.”
Understanding Eczema and Toxins
42:09 to 43:38
Learn about the connection between eczema, toxins, and the immune system.
“Yeah, so we run a lot of gut testing, immune system.”
Detoxing and Intentional Living
43:39 to 45:28
Explore detox strategies and the importance of intentional living for health.
“The bile then is carried out through the gut.”
Holistic Healing Approaches
45:29 to 47:12
Discover how emotional and spiritual healing contribute to overall health.
“So do you think in your healing, it's been physical healing, emotional healing, and spiritual healing?”
Advice for Young Adults on Health
47:13 to 48:49
Gain insights on health awareness and lifestyle choices for young adults.
“I've got a lot 25, 26, 27 year olds that work for me.”
Integrating Health Modalities
48:50 to 50:52
Learn about combining different health modalities for effective healing.
“So like cranial sacral therapy, acupuncture, chiropractic, it all plays a role in healing.”
Emerging Health Topics and Personal Insights
50:53 to 52:19
Discuss emerging health topics and personal insights for better living.
“I love the people out there that are trying to do good because they went through hard themselves.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00Welcome to the Just Ingredients podcast. I'm Cara Lynn, and here we dive deep into the journey of healing and wellness. If you're ready to learn, feel empowered, and take charge of your health, you're in the right place.
0:16Welcome to the show. Today I'm really excited for our episode because I hear we are going to hear an amazing story. So my assistant actually met this guest in our storefront at Just Ingredients. And I guess you started telling her your story. And then Bella was like, Karlyn, you've got to have her on the podcast. You've got to hear her story. It's an incredible story. And so I haven't even heard it yet, you guys. So I'm excited to hear this. And so welcome to the show, Becky. Thank you. I'm grateful to be here. So all I know is that we have cancer in this story, mold in this story, adoption in this story so I think it's going to be an amazing story so maybe we just start at the beginning yeah let's let's do that so if we start at the very beginning I was honestly the sick kid I had stomach aches all the time I had in high school in college I had pots really bad I would black out all the time thought nothing of it there was no doctors could help me they're just like drink more salt oh interesting so i had that went off to college lost the freshman 15 i actually got a little bit healthier and then um college takes over you know all the college things and we were just going through life i met my husband in college we knew we were going to get married three months after dating and so we were together love at first sight love at first sight yeah Yeah, absolutely.
1:43So we were together and we just were going through life. We were not healthy at all. We were eating the standard American diet, partying on the weekends, you know, all the college things. And we get married, we get our careers and we move to Madison. We have our career jobs and we are completely disconnected. We are living what we thought was the American dream we're working crazy hours we're doing everything we can to buy more things you know have all the stuff and and we were just kept i took call on the weekend so i worked at a hospital i was a stenographer so i did ultrasounds okay so i worked in the er i worked in the vascular lab i worked in high-risk scoby and i was that motivated young 20 something year old who was like give me all the call give me all the nights the weekends i worked crazy hours more than 80 hours every two Wow.
2:36Because I was just so motivated. We choked. We never used our oven for the first five years of our marriage. Oh, my gosh. Everything was from a box. You're just go, go, go working. Go, go, go. Had your dream job right out of college or whatever. And just working to try to earn that money. And we thought that was the meaning of life. We lost our faith. We both grew up with faith. And we disconnected from that. We were just really disconnected. My head was disconnected from my body. I was having symptoms. I was having all sorts of issues. but never really put the pieces together because they're so common.
3:09Right. I mean, we're all dealing with gut issues and skin issues and brain fog and all that. And you just think it's normal. Yep, because everybody's dealing with it. So you just keep working and moving on in life and throwing those things to the side. Exactly. So we were just living like that. I was addicted to sugar. You know, everything is standard American. I was going to say most Americans. Yeah. Yeah, so we were just living that life, and it all came to a halt when one day we were moving our bodies. And the crazy thing is my dad had passed away from lymphoma three years prior to this. So that was our first little glimpse into hay.
3:46At what age? He was 56. Oh, so young. Or 53. Okay, young. Very young. So this is our first glimpse into food. it can have an impact on your health because he had EATL, which is enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma, which you could only get from undiagnosed celiac disease. Oh, interesting. Interesting. Yes. So it's super rare, but I feel like it's becoming more and more common. So we knew that gluten directly caused his cancer. Wow. Yeah, it's an intestinal lymphoma. Okay. I know a lot about health and this is the first time I'm hearing this. So this is amazing so we knew so we i got tested for celiac i have it many of my cousins have it aunts and uncles have it and so we're like okay we're going gluten-free and of course you know when you go gluten-free you're like gluten-free oreos gluten-free we went to the packaged gluten free gotcha what we that's what you knew yeah so he later passed three years almost to the day that He had passed.
4:48I was driving to work and I had felt a lump. I couldn't see my collarbone on one side of my neck. And I was like, huh, that's really weird. So I get to work and I put the transducer down because I can do that. I'm an ultrasound tech at points. I put the transducer down and I'm like, huh, that mass does not belong there. Oh, wow. Yeah. So I went and got a radiologist and I said, you just come take a look at this. And it was hypervascular. So there's blood flowing to it. And I'm like, I just don't feel comfortable with this. And he goes, yeah, I don't think it's anything to worry about, but let's just get a CT scan.
5:20So the duty of working in Western medicine at the time, and I really want to pay much respect to Western medicine because, man, I would not be here if it wasn't for that. There's a time and a place for it. My dad was a surgeon. My sister's a nurse. There's definitely a time and a place for it. There's a time and a place for it. So I get a CT scan. He wouldn't let me see it. Oh, interesting. We're calling Jeff, my husband, and he goes, you're going to meet me at the hospital. We're going to do a biopsy within the hour. Oh, wow. Oh, okay. Sounds good. Still not thinking much of it. And we go, we get there and my friends are in ultrasound.
5:52We do the ultrasound guided biopsy. So they're the ones doing it with the radiologists that I know. And so they do the biopsy and there was a miscommunication. He didn't tell me and nobody had told each other that they didn't tell me, but they suspected that it was lymphoma. Oh boy. So he walks in nonchalantly and says, yeah, Beck, you have lymphoma. And I'll never forget the look on my husband's face. He went white. And our minds just went automatically to, okay, we have the same lymphoma I do as my dad. And I've got like nine months to live. Here we go. Oh, wow. That's some PTSD and trauma from your dad's passing.
6:28Absolutely. And honestly, there's such an emotional aspect to cancer, too. and so I don't think I had ever fully processed my dad's passing fully dealt with it and so I think on the emotions played a role there's all sorts of things that will get into that played a role and I think in the cancer my life was this and after that it was never the same and how old are you at this point I was 26 years old oh so young yes wow okay so you find out shockingly yeah that lymphoma and then what happens from there? Yes, I found out that I was actually had a 20 centimeter mass from my thyroid past my aorta, pushing back.
7:06My left lung was partially collapsed. I had fluid on my left lung. It was wrapped around my aorta. My trachea was displaced. My resting heart rate at this point was 130 beats per minute. Wow. And I had ran a half marathon two weeks before this. Oh my goodness. Yes. So had you had this for a while? They told me I had probably had it for three years. Oh, interesting. Which is just unreal. Yeah, that is. Yeah. So I knew no different and they didn't really give you a choice. And they're like, Becky, you are a week out of the ICU with a breathing tube if you do not start chemo immediately. Oh, wow.
7:38And I said, OK, sign me up. Yeah. I knew no different. Exactly. And that ultimatum, I mean, of course, then you go follow that. Yeah. And actually, I probably did. I didn't need the chemo. OK. That ultimately. And Hodgkin's lymphoma is what I had and that does respond really well to chemo. Okay. And so I did the chemo. I did ABVD, which is four different types of chemo every other Friday. Oh, wow. Yeah. And for how long? Six months. Oh, that's a long time. A long time. And so it didn't hit me. So I was still, I get the chemo on Friday. Let's take Saturday, Sunday, Monday off and back to work. Oh, interesting.
8:14Back to working out and back to figure competitions and all this sort of stuff. And I was still disconnected. It didn't really hit me those first six months until, honestly, it was probably four months into it, I started developing shortness of breath. I would go to my doctor and I'd say, hey, I'm kind of short of breath. And he would say, you're crazy. It's fine. And I'm like, I think I have bleomycin lung toxicity, which is from the bleomycin drug, you can start getting scarring through both of your lungs. Oh, interesting. Yeah. And at this point, he's like, I think it was written all over my chart that I was crazy because I asked him what caused my cancer.
8:47And he goes, oh, it's bad luck, honey. Oh. And I said, well, but we know what caused my dad's cancer. You get gluten. So cancer is just not bad luck. What caused it? And he goes, nothing. And nothing you could have done differently. You can eat whatever you want. And that was my first red flag. I was like, okay. And so we did not do that. We started researching a little bit. And then so I bring up this bleomyosin lung toxicity. Once again, he goes, you're crazy. Nobody really develops that. That's like 2 % of the people who get lymphoma. And so were you just at this point like, okay, I'm out of breath.
9:22So I'm going to look at my drugs that I'm taking and the chemo I'm taking. I'm going to see what the side effects are. Yeah. At this point, I was researching so much. At this point, I was like, what about nutrition? What about this? What about this? And then we were, yeah, the shortness of breath had gotten so bad. That I was like, I got to figure this out on my own. Like, I don't know what's going on here. This is not like me. I had 113 % on my lung perfusion test. Oh, interesting. I was so in shape before chemo. Interesting. Yeah. Which is a blessing. Absolutely. Yes, absolutely. And so months pass by.
9:55We're at the end of chemo. And I wake up one morning and I can't walk from my bedroom to the kitchen without gasping for air. Oh, wow. I felt like I was suffocating from the inside out. Oh, that's a scary feeling. It feels like you're dying. Yeah, that's scary. I called my husband and I said, Jeff, we got to get to the ER. We got to do something. And they did a CT scan. And sure enough, I had scarring throughout both my lungs. So you knew it. Mm-hmm. And I took him to study two months prior to this. I took him to study and I said, I think this is what I have. Wow. Yeah. And so you just have to be the best advocate.
10:27You do. You are showing that. Yeah. And so I was put on high-dose prednisone. Even the radiologist was like, wow, I've never seen this before. I was like, I think it's bleomyosin lung toxicity. And he goes, yeah, I think you're right. Wow. You knew it. It's almost like you had that inner feeling. Trust your gut. Yes. I was finally, for the first time in my life, connecting with that inner feeling. And that has been my guiding force ever since. Oh, I love that. Yeah. So we do the high-dose prednisone and then it was radiation. And so we do 20 rounds of radiation every Monday through Friday. And that knocked me.
11:01Oh, wow. That really set me back. Radiation was really hard. Harder than the chemo. I think my body was so depleted at that time that to add that on top of it, plus the prednisone, it was just so much. A lot. So just exhausted at this point. Just exhausted at this point. So are you now at work still or no? Yeah. Oh, wow. Trying to work with the exhaustion. Yes. Okay. Yep. And so then we finished the radiation. And it is the craziest thing how you go from, you're in the system, you're doing all the things, you have a plan. And then one day it's just, here you go. Now go back to real life. Go back to your normal life.
11:40And life is not the same. Yeah. Like there's no program to help a young adult cancer survivors too. Because through this whole process, you realize what's important. You realize that life is not what we think it is. Right. And so they just say, okay, you're done. Congratulations. Back on the real world. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah, there's no like counseling for, okay, you've just gone through this huge traumatic event, held cancer, went through chemo and radiation and okay, you're done. Go back to work and back to life how you should have always lived it. Yeah. And so I did. I was like, okay, I don't have a choice for going back to work.
12:19Like, we're just going to move on with life. And then I started to feel the mass again. Oh, interesting. Okay. At this point, I'm so in tune with my body now. My head is no longer disconnected from my body. I could feel what's going on. I'm in tune. And so. OK, wait, before you get to that point. So you're feeling this mass, but you used to eat the American Standard Diet. So at this point, have you cleaned all that up and you're eating nourishing foods and living a healthier lifestyle? Absolutely. Yeah. And you just did all that research on your own. Yeah. The first book I got was the anti-cancer diet.
12:52OK. I started implementing everything with that. The Food Babe. No. Her book when it came out. And my friend is a nutritionist, a functional nutritionist. So I started to follow her and I was like, okay, we could do this. And so how many years ago was this? 10 years ago. Okay. Well, now that's, that was the beginning of the cancer journey. So that was probably 12 years ago at this point. Okay. Yeah. So about 12 to 10 years ago, cleaning up your lifestyle. Yeah. Okay. So we started to clean up the diet. Nutrition was the foundation that we were like, okay, we're going to, we're going to make these changes.
13:25I told my doctor, I said, I could feel something here. And he goes, nope, you're crazy. it doesn't come back. That's so rare. Oh, interesting. It was seriously written all over my chart that I was crazy. And so he's like, just give it, give it time. Radiation can cause scar tissue and that can feel like that. And I was like, okay, I can give you that. That sounds good. And so three months go by and I can now feel a mass on the other side and I can feel one down by my liver. Oh, wow. You can actually feel them in there. And I would lay down at nighttime. I could, and take a deep breath. I could feel them.
13:57Okay. And I could actually even hear them pulling. Oh, interesting. What's the craziest thing? I got my husband, I'm like, Jeff, put your head on my chest and see if you can hear this. And he goes, yeah, I do hear that. He goes, I hear like pulling, stretching, bubbling in there. So interesting. So crazy. Yeah. So another couple months go by and I get a phone call from my oncologist and he says, you can get your port out. And I said, I'm not getting my port out until you give me a CT scan. Yeah. And so we're going for the CT scan and I can see it. They have my previous one and then they have this one on the monitor.
14:29And I'm like, that wasn't there. That wasn't there. That wasn't there. That wasn't there. And I had masses throughout my chest. They were on my liver and over by my spleen. Oh my goodness. Wow. And so what do you do at this point? So at this point I had done the research and I'm like, okay, if I'm relapsing, I know that I will get more chemo and I'll have a stem cell transplant. Okay. And so I did. Wow. So how many more months of chemo? So we did IGEV, I-G-E-V, which is another four chemo. And you do that for four days, I think it was. And I had two weeks off. But for those two weeks, I was in bed.
15:03It just knocked you out. Yeah, I would spend a week in bed. Oh, my goodness. My husband was carrying me to the bathroom. Wow. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. So really hard time in life. Really, really hard time. And then I'd have a good week, and then I'd get it again. And I had to do that until I got a clear scan. Wow. I think I got my first clear scan. It was a year and a half after my first chemo. So you did this routine for a year and a half? No, so a year and a half from the original diagnosis. Oh, okay. Yeah, but I never actually ever had a clear scan. They just assumed that it had went away. Oh, really?
15:37I still had a tiny little dot that was left, and they said radiation will take care of that. They never did a scan after radiation. To check, to see if they got rid of it. Yeah. Wow, so things that, would you go back and do things differently? Well, yes and no. I would go through everything I had, again, to be the person I am today, to have the perspective on life we have today. It's changed everything for better. You're amazing. I want to get to that. Yeah, we'll get to that. Because I do know what you're doing now and things, and I'm excited to tell everybody about that. Okay, were you frustrated, I should say, that you found out that you still had a spot after radiation and no one checked?
16:13Yeah, I was beyond frustrated at this point. And when I had relapse, that's when we started diving into everything. That's when I'm like, okay, there's got to be more to this story. There's got to be toxins. There's got to be like, we looked into our water. We looked into everything. And so when I relapsed, I knew I had to go through the stem cell transplant because I didn't know. I didn't know of Hope for Cancer in Mexico. I didn't know of all these other places at the time. And so I'm like, okay, I'll do this. But also we're going to do everything holistically that we could possibly get our hands on.
16:41Okay. So you find out that you've got all these masses throughout your chest. You do the chemotherapy for how many months? I did two rounds of that, got a clear scan. Then I had another round of some other, I started with a C. I don't remember what the chemo was. And then you go inpatient. Okay. And when you go inpatient, you get BEAM, B-E-A-M. And that's chemo for four or five days straight. And that chemo is designed to kill pretty much every cell in your body. Wow. And then I harvested my stem cells prior to this. And so then they take your stem cells and they give them back to you. Okay. So how did you know to harvest your stem cells?
17:15That was part of the process. Oh, before you started. Before we started anything, they said, you're going to get a stem cell transplant. We've got to get you cancer free, harvest your stem cells, and then we'll give them back to you once. Interesting. Okay, so you go through this chemo, then they give you the stem cells back to you. Yep. Was that the life-saving moment or no? No, because it takes a week for them to take. Okay. So for a week, you feel like you're dying. Oh, interesting. Everything in your body is, like everything is dying. Everything, all the cells are dying. Interesting. And they're waiting for these new stem cells to take and to bring new life into your body.
17:54Interesting. So for that week in the hospital, I didn't leave the bed. I couldn't hardly drink water. Wow. So literally feeling like you're dying. Yes. There was one night, and this is where everything changed. There was one night where I felt like I couldn't go on any longer. And I had the conversation with my husband. I said, you know what? You're going to make a great dad someday. You're going to find somebody else. it's gonna be fine and i just went to bed and i said and i prayed for like the first time and time and i said god i think this is where i finally have to surrender oh wow because i have been like controlling you know working you were in control doing all the things like we think we all have to do yeah and finally for the first time in my life i was like i i give this all to you like i'm surrendering if you get me through this i'll listen i'll devote my life to helping people not get to this point and I'll follow you wherever you want me to go.
18:48You can speak through me. You can work through me, but I just have to give up at this point and give it to you. Because it just had been so long and so much pain and exhaustion and worry and stress and emotions. And my physical body was just completely at that point, just almost feeling. Yeah. Wow. Okay. So you'd hit Complete rock bottom. And then did the stem cells start doing their job? They did. Yeah, they did. And honestly, we were also called, we were crazy in the hospital because Jeff, bless his heart, would go to Whole Foods every day. And he would get green juice and beet juice and all these different juices.
19:24And he'd be like, if you can drink anything, just drink these. What a good husband. Great husband. But you had learned this just recently. Yeah. At this point. In like the last year, we had learned all of this. So he would go and get all these juices and whole real foods. And I would start eating those. And I left the hospital quicker than anybody they had ever seen. Wow. That should be a testament to everybody. Yeah. So we get out of the hospital. Okay, wait. First, how long did it take to get the stem cells to kick in and start working? Okay. Then my white blood cells started to come up. And then could you feel, I mean, was it a quick turnaround or?
19:59It was, you could, it was slow. Okay. It was slow. So I spent, I think, 21 days in the hospital or maybe even less than that. Wow. But my white blood cells came up to normal. Okay. I didn't have to be on precautions, anything. I could just go back out into the real world and stuff like that. But it is crazy. I mean, you lose your hair. You lose your nostril hair, your eyebrows, your eyelashes. You are stripped of everything but your faith and your family and everything that truly matters. Yeah. So did you have family support during all of this? So we were three hours away from family at this point.
20:34Okay. So we had, my mom would come down, Jeff's mom would come down. They would all help watch me. So basically I had to sleep and they would be there to make me something if I needed it. And your husband's trying to keep a job during this time, I'm assuming. So I didn't know this, but he would go, he'd leave when I was sleeping in the middle of the night, go get his work, bring it back, work on it, and then take care of me during the day. Wow. What a good husband. Amazing husband. Really good husband. Okay, so I'm curious. Did you ever find the root cause of this cancer? Well, from what I've been put together throughout the years is there's so much to cancer.
21:10It's not bad luck. It is not genetic. 90 % is diet. It's lifestyle. It's the way we think. It's our beliefs. It's toxins. It's all of that. So, yeah, we were living the standard American diet. I was addicted to sugar. I was abusing my body in the form of exercise on these figure competitions and just pushing it beyond capacity. Oh, so figure competitions, like bodybuilding type competitions? On top of half marathons. Wow. Like just unreal stuff. But not eating nutritious foods while doing this. Correct. Okay. And that, and then we tied it back to also there's a toxin component. And I had a naturopathic doctor that I had hired in the meantime at the end to help me recover.
21:54Okay. And here we found we had mold in our house in our brand new build. We had a spec house, but we had a water event. Oh, interesting. So a brand new house with mold in it. Yeah. Could you see the mold? No, not at all. Nope. It was a beautiful, beautiful house. And where did they find it? So we didn't know until we sold the house because I'll get to that. But we had a water event. So a toilet ran over. And so it went down the hallway. It was raining in the basement. But we had a company, our neighbor two doors down, ran this company, a remediation company. So he was there within two hours. Everything was mopped up.
22:30They tented everything. They were blowing it out, drying it out. And they did that for a week, over a week. So they're like, you did everything perfect. You will have no mold. You're completely fine. Everything's great. So we found nothing of it. Okay. That was three years ago prior to my diagnosis. Oh, the mold was three years before? The water vent had happened three years before that. So in that three years, I had developed POTS again. I had severe bloating, like to the point where I had to work out in the morning because if I got home in the evening, I looked nine months pregnant and couldn't fit into my workout clothes.
23:06Oh, interesting. Our dog had developed 13 lipomas all over her body. And our other, our little Boshan was pooping blood. Oh my goodness. But during these three years, you never thought anything of it. Mold was never on our radar. Never on our radar. Nobody talked about mold. We weren't mold aware. Yeah. Nothing like that. Let's take a quick break to hear from our show sponsor. One thing that really affects your health and literally everything, like energy, stress, recovery, hormones, all of it, is your sleep. So when my son got married, I got them a twinkle bed, an adjustable base. After trying it, I had to get one for myself.
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25:08I have no idea. I just feel like this environment that we're in, everything is just leading to, I'm going to relapse again. Oh, interesting. And we sold the house. The lady who remodeled it, she came in and remodeled it, found black mold or some type of mold underneath all the floorboards, behind the refrigerator, underneath the refrigerator. Oh, my goodness. And you even, you cannot see any of it. You can't see any of it? No, nothing. Oh, that makes me worried for my own house. Like, what's there? You know what I mean? Right. But we had a known water event. On the toilet part, though? Yeah. But behind the fridge also?
25:43That was on the other side of the wall. Oh, on the other side of the toilet. Yeah. Incident. Yeah. Oh, interesting. And mold is crazy because you can't see it. And it is in new builds. And we do see it a lot in our clinic. And I don't ever want to be fearful about it. Yeah. Because it does play a huge role in health, but also we have to live with a certain amount. So do you think your mold contributed to your cancer? Yeah, definitely. So interesting. Yeah, and I think because it's immunosuppressive. Sometimes the molds, they give people to suppress the immune system so that a kidney transplant will take.
26:18Okay. So mold is immunosuppressive. It's carcinogenic. So it causes cancer. It affects the liver. It really affects every part. So when you're exposed to it, it's affecting the immune system. And it also affected my gut, caused that bloating and stuff like that. So makes sense that leaky gut inflammation. It was just a perfect storm. And cancer is it's the perfect storm. Yeah. OK, so how many years ago did you finish your last chemo and were cancer free? So that was just 10 years ago last fall. And you're still cancer free. Yeah. Congratulations. That is amazing, especially after a relapse. And then I failed immunotherapy because they wanted me to do immunotherapy.
26:58Oh, I don't know this part. Okay, let's talk about this part. They wanted me to do immunotherapy. When did they want you to do this? Immediately after the transplant. Okay. And so I did two rounds and I lost feeling in both my legs on my way to work one day. Okay. Let's tell people what immunotherapy is, just if they don't know. Yeah, so it's supposed to help your immune system then target the cancer cells or just prevent you from relapsing. Okay. Yeah, so it's training your immune system, which now looking back, mold affects the immune system. The gut affects the immune system. So all of that.
27:31My immune system was definitely... Was shot. Yeah, it was shot. So then I do this immunotherapy and I couldn't feel my legs. Interesting. And why is that, do you think? I don't know. It's just a side effect that I had. And so at this point, I said, you know what? We're done. We can do this holistically from here on out. I'll take my chances. Because you were cancer-free at the time. Yeah. Okay, so let's talk about what you did then holistically and what you are doing today. Yeah, so I got a naturopathic doctor, healed my gut for the first time in my life. I had such bad yeast, fungus, bacteria.
28:05I had everything going on in my gut. So we worked on that, nutrition, detoxing, MTHFR gene. Okay. Yep, so that plays a huge role in detoxification. So we worked on that, IVs, so like Myers cocktails, vitamin C, all the things. We moved. We got back out in the country. Okay. I promised myself I would never work those crazy hours ever again, and I haven't. Good for you. Yeah, so we've literally changed every aspect of our life. And then the toxins came in. The toxins, we started learning about toxins. Actually, I started following you, I think it was, back then. Cleaning products, beauty products.
28:41We switched over everything. Good for you. Yeah. And now you run a clinic. Yeah, so that inspired me. I felt better in my late 30s than I had in my 20s. I feel better now that I'm 40 than I had in my 20s. So I looked at my doctor and I said, how do I do this? How do I help people? We got to get, I want to help people before they get to this point. I want to prevent this. Good for you. And so he gave me a course and then I'll do another course. And then I went back to the American College of Healthcare Sciences. I've always been in a course ever since then. Oh, I love that. Yeah. So then you have a clinic now in Wisconsin.
29:16Yes. With practitioners in there and helping all types of illnesses. It's crazy. We see infants to people in their 80s and 90s. We have such a wide variety of clients that we serve. Oh, I just have to tell you this story. We had a little boy, one years old, come in, and he had seen doctors at prestigious clinics. And he had ulcers from his mouth all the way through his digestive tract. Oh, my goodness. So you were diagnosing him at Crohn's and wanted to start him on a biologic at one years old. Oh, my goodness. And so the mom came to us and she goes, can you guys dig deeper? Can you find something?
29:51And we said, yeah, I think it's mold. And so we had a testing on him. We did a total tox test. We ran gut testing on him. And he had been on prednisone and couldn't get off prednisone. Every time he would wean, he would relapse. Interesting. And so once they got out of the environment, within a month, he got off prednisone. Wow. So did they just have mold in their house? So we had an inspector go find it. They remediated. when they were able to move back in. The first time that they tried to move back in, he relapsed. Oh my goodness. After they remediated more. It's now been six months. We've worked on his gut.
30:25We've gotten the mold out of him and he's completely fine. His numbers are normal. His gut is normal and his doctors can't believe it. Oh, that is fascinating. Okay. Let's actually talk about mold because I actually have a son that has mold and we're trying to deal with all of his health issues and get that out of him. And that was due to living in a moldy apartment or an apartment with black mold in it. Now my daughter just got tested two days ago for mold because she's had some health issues. And she's like, mom, I lived in that apartment that had mold in it. I think I might have mold. And I'm like, we are going to go test.
31:02So what do you do for people with mold? So we do start with testing. So we start with an entire health history and environmental history because you can have mold in you from years ago. It could be a current exposure. So we really want to narrow down where did this come from? We want the whole timeline. And then we do a year in mycotoxin testing or total toxin testing on our clients. Okay. And then we pair that with an environmental testing. Are they still in the apartment? No. Thankfully. No, no, no. They're out of both those apartments. Oh, good. And it's so common. 60 % of homes, apartments now have mold in them today.
31:36Oh my goodness. Well, I can see with apartments because these landlords just They don't take care of it like a homeowner does. Yeah, and that's tricky too. I ended up with mold in my office back in Eau Claire, my first office. And it was really tricky to get them to believe me. I had to write a whole article and give them studies. And then they finally just let me out of the lease because they didn't want to deal with me. But there's no liability for them. Interesting. Yeah. So we do urine mycotoxin testing with other testing too, like gut testing, organic acids testing. Because we want to see the liver function, the bile function, because that's how we're going to detox the mold.
32:09is through the liver, through the bile, through the gut, and using specific binders and stuff like that. A lot of people, though, maybe, I'm assuming, the MTHFR gene are more prone to having issues with the mold because of having detox issues. The MTHFR plays a role. There's also HLA-DR, which is 25 % of the population has that where they don't detox mold well. Oh. Yeah. So there's that. And also, it's just total toxic load. Like anybody can be sick from mold if you've been in the environment long enough. And the exposure is so great. And that's the tricky part was mold, though, because some people have no like signs that they have mold.
32:46And then others, it really affects their health. And so and both my kids have MTHFR, have the variant. And so maybe that's why it's affecting them a little bit more than it would affect somebody else. I would guess so. Yeah, for sure. Because, yeah, we can have a family of four and maybe the kids have issues or one of the kids has severe issues. but mom is fine or maybe mom has hormonal issues but they don't all put pieces together and or dad has headaches but it all seems so common and like that can't all be related yeah it is all related and the tricky thing with mold is you're not always going to see it but are there some signs that people can look for in their home yes you can look for underneath your sinks if there's bubbling if there's peeling paint if there's staining if they're staining on your ceiling, stuff like that.
33:34Like there's some stuff that you can look for, but a lot of times it is hidden. And you can start with an ERMI, so a dust test, where you take the dust in your home because mold collects in the dust. It travels in the dust because it's heavier. And so you can run a dust test on your house just to get an overall picture of what you may be dealing with. But it's also important to know that no home is mold free completely. And so there's certain molds you don't want on your ERMI. Okay. Yeah. And I'm a little nervous, everyone because we found bubbling of paint on one of our walls and I need someone to come in and check it out.
34:06So you want to get a proper inspection then and you want to interview these inspectors and make sure that they're going to do swab sampling. They're going to look behind walls or they're going to drill into walls and do air sampling behind the wall. They're going to have thermal cameras. You don't want just an air sample in the middle of the room. That's not going to be accurate and that gives people such a false sense of security. I'll return and report when I get this investigation done. Okay, but I'm curious because you start this clinic. Yeah. And then I just met you a little while ago and met your cute little six-month-old.
34:36So I want to hear this story of your little baby. Yes. So throughout this process, after the stem cell transplant, I had never gotten a period since then. Okay. So I was put into full-blown menopause at the age of 30 at that point. Wow. Yeah. And so... Which a lot, and a lot of cancer patients, that is common. Yes. which they don't warn you about. I didn't have time to harvest my eggs. I was too close to being in the ICU. So we chose not to when they did bring it up to us six months later. But I'm like, I just pumped my body full of chemo. And now I want to harvest an egg. It just didn't make sense to me at the time.
35:10And adoption was always on our heart since we were young at 19 years old. Oh, interesting. Yeah, it was just always on our heart. And so we had to wait five years until you're clean. You have a clean scan. Until you can adopt. Oh, I did not know that. Yeah. Learn something new every day. Yeah. So we waited the five years and then we're like, well, maybe we'll foster to adopt. Okay. And my heart can't handle that because the goal is reunification with the family. And so then we're like, okay, we'll start the adoption process. I mean, it was crazy. They interview you. They come to your house. They look at your house.
35:45You have to take classes in person, classes, online classes. It was a nine-month process to go through all of that. And then you're live. So then you're live with multiple different agencies. And we used a Christian consulting agency. And then they put your profile. They help you do your profile. And they put it out to multiple agencies throughout the country. And you just wait until you're picked. And how long did you have to wait? We waited a while. We were live in October. And by March, we still were not picked, which doesn't seem like a long time. But in the grand scheme of things, it felt like we started this journey a long time ago.
36:17A long time ago. Yeah. And we got down to the final two profiles in one time. I know. And then we got the email that we didn't get picked. So that was heartbreaking. And so February, March comes along, and I just felt it on my heart again. My intuition was God was saying, I think you should look at a different agency. And I was like, okay. So I told you. You've learned to listen to your intuition really well. Really well. I mean, there's connecting with God every day, devotionals, all that, and then sitting still for the first time in my life has taught me a lot. That's incredible. Yeah. So I talked to Jeff and he goes, Becky, that's, the adoption's not reasonable at all.
36:58It's very expensive. And so he goes, okay, we can switch, but let's just give it till June. I was like, okay. So that was in March and June comes, the Friday before June 1st comes along. He goes, okay, I'm going to talk to the agency that we're thinking of switching to today. And he does. And I just put a little thing out on social media on our Instagram page. And I said, just say a prayer for us. We're considering switching agencies. It's been a long journey. And we just appreciate some prayers. And so Caitlin, who I had known because she brought her daughter, her adoptive daughter, to us for full body eczema.
37:32I mean, it was on her cheeks. It was everywhere. And we helped her. And so we helped her get her daughter completely better through our clinic. And so we knew of Caitlin. So I was friends with her online. She reaches out and said, sing prayers, but also say a prayer for our birth mom because she's pregnant again. They want us to adopt. but we can't afford to. She goes, look at my text message from March to my consultant. She goes, I said, I know of the perfect family. They're within a half an hour of us and the consultant wrote back, but they're not with our agency. So you can't tell them. Oh my goodness.
38:06And so, but God was telling you in that intuition you had. God was working everything out behind the scenes. We just didn't know it. Wow. Yeah. So she goes, look at this. I've told them about you guys. who are you guys switching to and i said we're switching to fac faithful adoption consultants and she goes wow that is who they're with so by monday morning this is on a friday by monday morning jeff had emailed them uh she had emailed them so the birth mom had not picked anybody yet wow yes they gave her our profile along with others and by wednesday we had been picked Oh my goodness. Yes. So our little Violet, her full biological sister, is a half an hour down the road from us in Wisconsin.
38:51That is amazing. It's amazing. And so we go to visit them, the birth family, in May here. So there's them. We're all going down together. And it's just a whole family affair now. And it's an open adoption. And so, yeah. That is amazing. It's incredible. You were meant to have little Violet. We were meant to have little Violet. And we were meant to wait. And that's the thing. All the cards had to play out right. Yes. And sometimes we question and we don't know what's going on, but God is always working things out behind the scenes. Yeah, that is incredible. Yeah. Well, congratulations on her. Thank you.
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40:38Now back to the show. Okay, I absolutely love your story. It is incredible. I love that you've learned to listen to your intuition. So I'm curious, well, I'm sure it has. Has your intuition played a role in how you've set up your functional health practice? Absolutely. People are going to think we're crazy for saying this, but I've never actually had a business plan. I let God lead the way with everything. You know what? I've never had a business plan either. So there you go. You're the person I met who also has never had a business plan. I just trust. I pray every morning. You know what? He just shows me the next thing.
41:14This meeting here, designed by him. There's no way we could have planned this. I know, right? The fact that you ran into my assistant in the storefront. Yes. Yes, that was incredible. Okay, so tell me about your functional health medicine clinic, though. Like, can those with cancer come to it or any sickness or tell me a little bit more about it? Yeah. So we don't see people with active cancer. We want to get to them before that point. We have a very big kids population that we see with eczema, gut issues, stuff like that, because parents are willing to do anything for their kids. That is true.
41:47So we can affect the kids. We're going to change the parents. And before you know it, they're coming and siblings are coming and dads are finally coming. And then you're teaching them along the way. And we've set them up for a lifetime now of health, hopefully. Well, I'm curious because you mentioned how your baby's biological sister came to you with eczema from head to toe. So what do you do with someone like that? Yeah, so we run a lot of gut testing, immune system. We look at the immune system. We look at total toxins. We looked at all of that with her. And yeah, she's completely clear. Is eczema a lot of times due to an overburden of toxins in a suppressed immune system?
42:26Yeah, so eczema is definitely, there's an immune dysregulation, there's a gut component, and there's usually a toxin component at some point. We have to ask the deeper questions. This is what we do in our clinic, is we ask the deeper questions until we figure it all out. And so what's impacting the immune system? 75 % of the gut, 80 % of the gut has the immune system right outside of it. And so there's a gut component there. But what's impacting the gut? So toxins, we breathe in, we inhale, or we ingest. those sort of toxins can impact the gut and so we really look at it as a whole picture and so that's what we do we ask the deeper questions and yes eczema is immune it's gut it's toxins once we work on that and mthfr and detoxing so we slowly and methodically help the body start detoxing and draining again and you can do that too fast but you can't go too slow so we slowly do that and we slowly work on the gut and it just magically just clears up do you have a system that you like most for detoxing?
43:23Everybody's different. So we take testing and we look at the testing and where people are burdened the most. So some people it's bile, some people it's liver, some people it's constipation. We've got to get that moving first because if we don't drain in the proper order, things are going to overflow and backfire. So we've got to be pooping and each day first and sweating. And sweating, yes. And then looking at liver and bile. Yep. Because the liver dumps into the bile. The bile then is carried out through the gut. So if you have a hang-up in one of those, it's going to come out with the skin. My son, when he lived in the Philippines, when he got off the plane to come back to America, he was covered in a rash from head to toe.
44:01And I was like, that is your immune system screaming for help. Your liver screaming for help. We have got to go get you tested. So your body is smart and gives you signs when things aren't right. Yes, the body is so smart. And our capacity to heal is so great, to overcome things, to rebound. I mean, I feel better now at 40 after 20 rounds of chemo, radiation, stem cell transplant, everything. So that's the biggest message is like our body's capacity to heal is so great. I love that. Every choice we make daily affects everything in our body. Let's talk about that really quick for a minute because I have a couple of questions as we wrap up here.
44:39But how you live today versus 15 years ago? Are you still concerned about what you're eating? Are you concerned about working out your stresses? What does it look like on a daily basis for you? We are so intentional now. Like we went from being disconnected to living intentionally. I like that word. Yeah. It's my word for the year. I love that. Yeah. So we are intentional about what we put in our body, the thoughts that we think, how we start our mornings, how we end the day, sunlight, everything. Working out, but not overworking out. Movement is all intentional. I love that word. Okay, so how do you make an intentional morning?
45:17Oh, we get up at about 5 a.m. and we slowly start our day. Jeff and I have coffee together and now Violet, this is so cute, you guys. She has started getting up with us. We'll have coffee with us and then we'll go back to bed. Oh, interesting. The cutest thing. But we talk about our day. We read devotionals. We pray. We set our intention for that day. And then we have coffee. We eat and then move on with the day. Love it. Yeah. So do you think in your healing, it's been physical healing, emotional healing, and spiritual healing? All of the above. All of the above. Do you think all three can play a role in cancer?
45:58100%. They do. It's the perfect storm, and that includes physical, emotional, and spiritual. Okay, so physical is easy to understand because it's the physical food, the toxins we're surrounded by, things like that. Emotional and spiritual. A lot more. How do we use those in healing? It takes a lot of intention as well, and I used to call myself a realist. I was like, oh, I'm just a realist, almost a pessimist. and it takes so much intention to look for glimmers, look for joy, find that joy, reshape your mindset. I read so many books. I would just devour self-care books, if you want to call them that.
46:36But you have to work on the mind. You have to. You have to change your belief system. Getting rid of the frustrations, the negative thoughts, the anger, things like that. Yes, you have to work through all of that. And we would find joy. My husband would actually wear a shirt to chemo that said pimp and joy. Oh, I love it. We would just find joy in every day. It might not, the whole day might not, might not have been joyful, but we found joy in every day. And to this day, we would make that our intention. To try to find joy in at least one thing throughout the day. At least one thing. Yes. And to look at, to reshape how you look at everything.
47:11I love that. Okay. You were very young to get cancer. 26, you said, right? That is very young. I've got a lot 25, 26, 27 year olds that work for me. So what would you tell the 20 year olds? And also, what would you say to those that maybe are that age dealing with cancer? So to the 20 year olds, you're not invincible. They think they are. We do. We think we are. We think it's not going to happen to us. We think that somebody else is going to get that. That's not going to happen to me. But you're not invincible. And every choice you make matters and those little symptoms listen to those little symptoms i always tell people symptoms are an invitation to change your life oh i like that but a diagnosis that's an invitation to radically change your life so if you're in that diagnosis go down every every possible rabbit hole not rabbit hole but every avenue you can look at the nutrition look at your thoughts Look at your beliefs.
48:09Look at your spirituality. All of that. The toxins. Find a functional medicine person if you can and work on all of that. Oh, I love that. Or combine. Combine. There's so many integrative approaches now to cancer. Like you can combine the Western. You can combine that with holistic. And there's doctors who do that. Yeah, I say it all the time, but I can't say it enough. It's like having a toolbox. Like one tool is not going to fix it. Yes. So have a toolbox of lots of different things. So like you said, the nutrition, the spiritual aspect, the exercising, the holistic approach, the Western approach, all of them.
48:42Just make them all tools in the toolbox. Absolutely. And other modalities, too. Like this is another thing in our clinic we really like to do is we like to partner with other modalities. So like cranial sacral therapy, acupuncture, chiropractic, it all plays a role in healing. And it all helps the body just unwind and stress. We want to remove those stressors. If we think of our toxin bucket, stress is in there, toxins are in there. There's a lot of stuff in there. We want to remove those to free up space for the body to heal. Oh, I love that. Stress is hard to get rid of, though. Oh, it is. Especially, I mean, you were living that crazy life of working long hours and night shifts and doing all that.
49:22And there are a lot of people out there doing that or go, go, go and are full of stress. What's your magic key to the stress of life these days? Oh, gosh, taking a step back and getting a team. A team is great. But taking a step back and honoring what I can handle and what I can't handle and what is meant for me and what's not meant for me. And honestly, releasing control. I like that. Releasing control and surrendering is not a one-time thing. It's a daily activity. We have to surrender daily. I like that. And it's putting your energy to what matters most. Yes, absolutely. I have just loved talking to you.
49:57Thank you so much for being here. Your story is inspirational. It shows that there's healing out there, especially when you were on your deathbed, basically. There is healing out there. There's hope out there. Tell people where they can find you in your clinic. Yeah, so thank you. Thank you for having me, first of all. And our clinic is Holistic Nutrition with a WH. It's a WH Holistic Nutrition. Oh, I love that. Yeah. The whole, that's why we did that. And Holistic Nutrition LLC on Instagram and Facebook. and then our clinic is in Wisconsin, but we do see clients virtually all throughout the U.S.
50:32Okay, that's so good to know. Infants to adults, gut issues, hormones, eczema, skin issues, infertility. We have beautiful, beautiful stories of infertility. Oh, I love it. Failed IVF that now she's on baby number two. Oh, I love stories like that. Oh, so many, so many wonderful stories throughout the years. Well, I love that you have taken something hard in your life and turned it around to be a spokesperson for God, like you said, and helping others. I love the people out there that are trying to do good because they went through hard themselves. So thank you for what you're doing. Thank you.
51:07You said that beautifully, a spokesperson for God. You started a podcast just recently, right? We did. My husband and I started a podcast along with the other practitioners in the clinic, and it's called Honestly Holistic. Oh, I love that. The Honestly Holistic podcast. And are you just giving medical advice, tips, health advice, all of the above? Well, all of the above, we're sharing stories. So healing stories as well, as we've seen in our clinic, as well as health topics. We'll dive deep into health topics because we love a deeper approach. And then we're also sharing our story and then our practitioner stories and how they got into it.
51:40And then Q &A sessions. Oh, I need to listen. Yeah, it just came out a couple weeks ago. I'm so excited to listen to it. We always end the podcast with asking just five quick questions. So are you ready for these? I think so. Okay. Number one, what emerging health topic excites you the most? Honestly, circadian biology and how our light and artificial light affects our hormones, our blood sugar, all of that. We've got circadian lighting at home right now, and we can see a difference in violet. We feel a difference in ourselves. Circadian biology. I've been looking into that a lot too lately. and I've been wondering if I want to change all the lighting in my house.
52:19You do. Okay I may have to talk to you about that. You can do that. Well now everybody's going to want to know. Okay we better just say really quick do you use a certain light bulb a certain brand what did you end up doing? Yes we use healthy home lighting. Okay yeah okay there you go everybody. Number two what is a piece of advice you give to your younger self? Slow down listen to the symptoms before they become too much and also slow down and connect with your inner spirit connect with god so that you can then go out and do the best love that uh number three what's the one health practice you'll never compromise on no matter how busy life gets balancing my blood sugar oh yes we wear cgms from time to time and they have been life-changing it's so insightful and there's so much to balancing your blood sugar.
53:08So you've got nutrition, stress, it encompasses everything, lighting, all of that. Yeah, I've worn one multiple times. And it is interesting what causes it to spike and what causes it to dip really low. And yeah, I recommend that just because it's been life changing for me because I can now feel without the monitor when my sugars are high and when my sugars are low. And my husband's always like, that is crazy because I almost can put a number to it because I can love that I can be like oh my gosh my sugars have dropped so low I bet you right now I'm around like the high 50s yes that's how low it is and he's like go test and I'll go test it's like 58 I'm like oh I told you I knew that would be the right number in tune with your body through and that's the whole goal of it is to become in tune so you don't need to wear the monitor all the time but blood sugar is foundational it is foundational for hormones for weight management for mood for so many things yeah well I love that you said that We could do a whole podcast on that topic.
54:05We could do a whole podcast on that topic. Okay. Question number four. What's your favorite Just Ingredients product and why? The nighttime relaxed drinks. Oh, no one ever says that on here. So I'm glad you said that. It's our little ritual. So Jeff and I will, in the summertime, drink those on the front porch as the sun is setting. We're talking about the day. We're setting our intention for the next day. And we're just recapping everything. So the strawberry limeade is the one that we drink on ice in the summer. Okay. And then the chai we have in the winter in our little coffee nook as we're ending the day.
54:35Oh, I love that. I need to be better with that. Oh, it just calms you. It does calm you down. The bed. But the electrolytes are a close second. Well, I love those too. You can't. I'm the best. Well, thank you. Okay, last question. What is the best ingredient you've found to life? Joy. And finding joy in any little moment you can. Being intentional. Intentionally finding joy, intentionally living your life. I'm going to work on that this week. I'm going to find the little piece of joy. And actually, listeners, that could be a good thing for you guys this week to just find that little piece of joy every single day, even when life is really hard.
55:09Even when you're in a hospital bed, you'll find a little piece of joy. I love that. Well, again, thank you so much for being here. Listeners, go follow Becky and go follow her clinic if you need some help in your life. So again, thank you so much for being here. Thank you.
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In this week’s episode, I’m sitting down with Becky to talk about her incredible journey through cancer, mold exposure, infertility, and adoption. Becky was diagnosed with lymphoma at just 26 years old, and she shares how that experience completely changed the way she approached her health, healing, and life moving forward.
We talk about the connection between diet and chronic illness, how discovering celiac disease helped her better understand her body, and why nutrition became such a huge part of her healing journey. Becky also opens up about navigating the healthcare system, advocating for herself after misdiagnoses, and learning to trust her intuition when something didn’t feel right.
Another powerful part of this conversation is Becky’s experience with hidden mold exposure and how environmental toxins were impacting her health in ways she didn’t even realize. She shares what she learned through that process and why awareness around mold and toxins matters so much.
We also dive into her beautiful journey to motherhood after infertility caused by cancer treatments. Becky shares the emotional story of adopting her daughter, Violet, and how that experience brought so much purpose and joy into her life.
This episode is full of hope, resilience, and encouragement for anyone walking through health challenges or searching for answers. Becky’s story is a reminder that even in the hardest seasons, healing and purpose are possible.
Bio:
Becky Witt is a two-time cancer survivor whose personal journey through cancer transformed her life and inspired her to help others reclaim their health. She is the founder of Wholistic Nutrition, where she and her compassionate team empower clients to uncover root causes, restore balance, and live vibrant, healthy lives. Becky is a Certified Holistic Nutrition Consultant, Certified Integrative Health Coach, and Board-Certified Holistic Health Practitioner.
Her experiences have given her a new perspective on life—encouraging her to live fully, embrace every moment, and use her story to guide others toward wellness. Wholistic Nutrition is also home to a carefully curated non-toxic wellness store, offering clean supplements, low-toxin home and personal care products, and tools to help clients create healthier environments and support lasting transformation.
Becky has been married to her best friend and husband Jeff since 2008 and is the proud mother of their daughter, Violet, whom they adopted in October 2025.
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