Sugar Was the Silent Killer: Elissa Goodman Cancer Survival Story | DSH #1575

It was my diet and stress.

Stress was a killer.

I lived high stress, was very hard on myself, a lot of anxiety.

We were talking about before.

I just, you know, really wanted to be perfect and that caused my immune system to downregulate.

I was constantly sick as a kid growing up because I was so hard on myself.

I was a sugaraholic.

I just, because my energy levels were so low, because I was always tired, so I was always going for a sugar fix.

Sugar was really a killer.

The food system is crappy.

I mean, stress, sleep, food system, it's not rocket science here.

You're constantly taking care of your liver, taking care of your gut.

That's another area.

Those are things that can help you really stay healthy.

And in five days, you can reset your body completely.

I'm 64 and I feel the best I've ever felt in my life at this age.

All right, guys, Alyssa Goodman here.

We're going to talk health, talk cancer.

Thanks for coming on.

Thanks for having me.

Absolutely.

How's your year been so far?

Good.

It's been awesome.

Well, you know, LA's kind of had a bad year, so maybe I shouldn't say so awesome.

That's being not so, you know, representative of what's going on with the people there.

Yeah, but we got the Maha movement at least.

Right.

I'm excited about that.

They're already implementing some changes, right?

Which is exciting.

Yeah.

Are you excited about food dyes being banned?

Yes, very.

Very just did a post on that today.

I mean, you know, we're probably going to talk about cancer, I'm sure.

Yeah, I mean, it took a very long time for that ban to take place.

Too long.

Way too long.

Sure.

Because they've probably known this earlier.

It's not like it's groundbreaking information.

They have known this forever.

I've been talking about this when I had cancer at 32 to like get dyes out of your diet, you know, to avoid them.

Was that a big part of the reason you think you got cancer was your diet?

It was my diet and stress.

Stress.

Wow.

Stress was a killer.

I lived high stress.

was very hard on myself,

a lot of anxiety.

We were talking about before.

Just, you know, really wanted to be perfect and like the perfect child and that caused my my immune system to downregulate so it just really I was constantly sick as a kid growing up because I was so hard on myself wow I can relate so much to that when I was in high school and college I got sick once a week yeah it's not fun is it you just kind of think that's part of your routine you get normalized to it right and I had such bad anxiety it was not yes same prescribed on Xanax wow nozepam and no more no more Well, it creeps up here and there.

I'm not going to completely lie and say I don't have it at all.

But before it was like a daily thing.

Right.

Same.

Yeah.

But now I could feel it coming and I have like breath work and stuff that I could do and it'll pretty much subside.

Same.

Like yoga, you know, walking, like we were talking about, meditation, journaling.

There's so much great stuff out there these days.

You know, that we, that are like prevalent and, you know, very much in like the mainstream where they weren't years ago.

Yeah.

Yeah.

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Yeah.

Yeah.

That stuff gets me

right away.

What was the biggest diet change you made?

Sugar.

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Yes, I mean, I was a sugar-aholic.

I just, because my energy levels were so low, because I was always tired, so I was always going for a sugar fix.

And I probably, like, you're supposed to have 25 grams of added sugar per day.

I probably was triple that.

Holy crap.

Yeah, cookies and candy and just soda.

I mean, in those days,

alcohol during college, you you know, all of that pasta, pizza turns to sugar, the carbs.

Right.

So sugar was really a killer.

I mean, these days there's 100 grams of sugar in a crumble cookie.

Right.

I mean, that's crazy.

It's nuts.

It's a whole meal if you eat it.

It's like a thousand calories.

Right, right.

Even in a protein bar these days, you know, it's like 15 grams of sugar, added sugar.

Do you feel like there should be a limit, like a regulation limit?

Yes.

Well, 25 grams is what we need to have.

And that, you know, most people don't even, like, they go way over that.

most people like that is way too small for them and limited I feel like I eat more than that because I love fruit I'd be eating apples like pears bananas but that's a different added sugar I'm talking about more like that's not an added sugar that's a real sugar so I think fruit is the fountain of life and fountain of youth you know berries and fruit and like they have vitamins and minerals and I feel For me, when you eat real food, your body knows how to metabolize it and knows how to use it for energy.

But when you're having added sugar, that's a whole different ballgame.

Yeah.

And it's in almost everything.

It's not just like sweets.

Added sugars in canned food too, right?

Right, right.

I used to eat canned food.

Tucky soup.

That was amazing back in the day.

The clam chowder.

Never had that one.

Oh, you didn't have that one?

Oh, the chicken noodle one?

Right, no.

Campbell's, you didn't try that?

No, I can't believe it.

I know.

So you were eating somewhat healthy.

I was.

My mom was kind of into health because she had asthma.

So she tried to get us on that healthy track early on,

but

didn't do the best job because I definitely still ate crappy

and also ended up getting cancer at 32.

Which is super young, but it's becoming more and more normal.

More young people are getting cancer these days than ever before.

I mean, in those days, 32 was kind of unheard of.

And now, as we talked earlier, it's sort of becoming the norm.

Which is scary.

And I think really with stress we talked about is huge.

You know,

not dealing with our life traumas is huge as well.

I think growing up and we have certain traumas early on.

I don't know if you know, but your subconscious is downregulated fully by the age of seven.

Wow.

So if you have anything that goes on in those first seven years,

it's something that is instilled in your subconscious.

And we operate 95%

out of our subconscious.

5% of us are conscious.

So a lot of times we don't deal with some of the traumas that go on and that causes stress and then we also have stress on top of it.

The world is stressed more these days.

And then the food system is crappy.

Well, they're doing studies on electronic devices and the correlation with stress and it causes stress in literally everyone.

Right.

I mean people are living with their phones like in bed and right before bed, right?

Yeah, it just causes fear too.

Right.

Because you wake up, you have texts and emails, unanswered.

That's just constantly creating stress.

I do remember the old days where you were off the grid and it was fantastic.

I wish I could have.

I caught the tail end of that, I guess.

But as a kid, I used to play outside.

Now I don't see kids doing that anymore.

Wait.

It's sad.

Yeah.

Because those were my most favorite memories.

Because then you don't have any room in your brain to figure out what you really want with your life.

Yeah.

You personally.

So kind of always following what's going on out there in the world.

Have you seen holistic stuff work for cancer?

Yes, I have.

That's exciting.

I am a believer in holistic health, but I'm also a believer in Western, so I like a little bit of both a lot of times.

I mean, I have, you know, seen stage four cancer heal holistically, but I'm not saying that that is the way to go.

Like, that's a very strong statement to make, but there's a book called Radical Remission, one of my favorite cancer books by Kelly Turner.

And it's all about stage fours that heal.

And she came up with 10 modalities, and seven of them were about trauma, stress, lifestyle.

And then one was food, one was supplements, one was exercise out of the 10.

So she did her PhD and discovered all these cases that were able to heal without Western meds.

But it's hard to do that.

You have to be really diligent about your life and changing your life to be able to heal from a stage four or something very aggressive.

So I think there's a room for both.

Have you seen that image of fasting and if it's past three days, it starts killing cancer cells?

Yeah.

Do you think that

it works?

Yes, I do think it works really uh-huh wow i do i think fasting is amazing i need to look into that more i think water fasting you know for a certain period of time if you can do it um fasting is not for everyone but you know if you're dealing probably with a serious health issue it can be a really great thing to do yeah the most i've done is 48 hours so i just and how'd that go pretty good

yeah have you done a prolonged one like that yes was a long issue i was just in the we were just talking about that the prolong they have a ton of studies seven days they have a ton of studies where people did Prolong before they went into cancer treatment and the chemo worked more efficiently and effectively.

Yeah.

That's good to know.

I know.

Wow, just a seven-day fast because that's something everyone can afford.

Right.

Because that's the whole thing with cancer treatments.

It's so expensive.

But if you do this, that's awesome.

And I deal with a lot of cancer clients.

But what I do is I try to like help them like eat healthy, sleep, you know, get their stress under control as well as while they're going through treatment.

And also trying to like really get nutrients into them because they're losing nutrients, and you know, also getting them to like detox from chemo and radiation and some of the treatments they are getting because those treatments are toxic.

Right.

So, my goal is to have them on like an even keel to some degree.

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