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Apply to work with a Certified Gonzalez Doctor here. Nearly 50 million Americans have been told their immune system is the villain, but Dr. Marina Yanover argues it's the victim. One shift changes everything about how autoimmune disease gets treated. Dr. Marina Yanover is a naturopathic physician and acupuncturist, one of the few doctors officially certified in The Gonzalez Protocol®, a rare practitioner directly mentored by my late husband, Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez, and the only person in the world who was both his patient and now carries on his work. Conventional medicine calls autoimmune disease idiopathic, which is a longer way of saying nobody really knows. The standard answer is to suppress the immune system, often for life. Marina sees it differently. Her question isn't how do we shut this system down. It's why did it break, and how do we rebuild it? She shares what she witnessed inside Dr. Gonzalez’s office as a young intern, what she learned sitting across from his patients, and what happened when she became a patient herself after a melanoma diagnosis. From leaky gut and candida misdiagnosed as MS to Lyme bacteria found in 20-million-year-old amber, this episode covers why 75% of autoimmune patients are women and the piano analogy that reframes the whole conversation. If you've been told your body turned on you, this episode offers a different story. Your body is not your enemy. You’ll Learn: [0:00] Introduction [3:15] Interning in Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez’s office after graduating Bastyr [6:55] Melanoma became the wake-up call that brought her back [13:42] The aura and belief that set The Gonzalez Protocol® patients apart [23:55] The common thread running under every autoimmune condition [28:39] Chronic inflammation as symptom rather than cause [34:05] A clean body means clean organs, not soap and water [42:25] Lyme found in ancient amber and the 5,000-year-old Iceman [51:42] Why all three protocol components must be done together [54:51] Metabolic type and why magnesium can backfire [1:03:59] First steps for anyone who suspects chronic illness [1:09:00] Three takeaways and a warning on stopping medication abruptly Follow Your Way Back wherever you're watching or listening: on YouTube, on Spotify, or on Apple Podcasts, so every new episode comes straight to you.  Come be part of the conversation in our Facebook community, The Gonzalez Protocol — you'll find it, and everything else, all in one place at linktr.ee/yourwayback Find more from Dr. Marina Yanover: Big Apple Health | Website Find more from Mary Beth: The Gonzalez Protocol® | Website | Instagram | YouTube Join the Truly Thrive Membership for just $60 annually, and get full access to exclusive members-only content, including bonus content and product coupons. You'll experience how The Gonzalez Protocol® is helping people understand the root causes of disease and live their lives to the fullest. Step into a new paradigm of medicine where ancient nutritional wisdom and modern science converge. Disclaimer: The information shared on Your Way Back is for education, not medical advice. Please work with your physician or healthcare provider when making decisions about your health.

Apply to work with a Certified Gonzalez Doctor here. Jafra credits The Gonzalez Protocol® with maintaining her remission after chemo damaged her heart and liver. My guest today is a current patient on The Gonzalez Protocol®, diagnosed with lymphatic leukemia in January 2024, who agreed to speak honestly about what her life actually looks like now. For years, people have asked me the same question in a careful, hopeful voice: does this protocol actually work for real people living real lives? Season one answered that with science, history, and long-term survivor stories. This episode hands the question to someone living it right now. Jafra doesn't sugarcoat the hard parts. The 3:30 AM supplement alarm. The enemas twice a day. The muscle wasting from five months in bed during chemo treatment. The brain fog and the dizziness that followed chemo. The strange experience of sitting in a hospital where her doctors have no curiosity about how she's maintaining remission without them. She also talks about her mother feeding her every day in the hospital, her brother and sister stepping in with her daughter, and the moment she decided she wasn't willing to let chemo keep damaging organs she couldn't replace, despite being made to feel she had no choice. If you or someone you love is sitting with a new diagnosis, her honesty is worth your time. You'll Learn: [0:00] Introduction [1:36] Lymphatic leukemia diagnosis and starting The Gonzalez Protocol® [2:10] Recovering from post-chemo brain fog and feeling better than ever [3:42] Eating carnivore and rebuilding muscle lost to five months in bed [6:05] Reaching remission while her hospital doctors show no curiosity [8:46] Inside Jafra's daily routine, from twice-daily enemas to a 3:30 AM alarm [12:16] Jafra's mother who urged her to think outside the box [15:10] Deepening faith and realizing her stressful career contributed to her leukemia [18:16] What she would tell someone just handed the same diagnosis Resources Mentioned: Collection of Books by Our Patients | Books Nutrition and the Autonomic Nervous System by Dr. Nicholas J. Gonzalez | Book Conquering Cancer Volume One by Dr. Nicholas J. Gonzalez | Book  Conquering Cancer Volume Two by Dr. Nicholas J. Gonzalez | Book The Trophoblast and the Origins of Cancer by Nicholas J. Gonzalez, MD & Linda L. Isaacs, MD | Book One Man Alone: Dr. Kelley by Dr. Nicholas J. Gonzalez | Book Proof of Concept by Dr. Nicholas J. Gonzalez | Book The Maverick MD by Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez | Book Find more from Mary Beth: The Gonzalez Protocol® | Website | Instagram | YouTube Join the Truly Thrive Membership for just $60 annually, and get full access to exclusive members-only content, including bonus content and product coupons. You'll experience how The Gonzalez Protocol® is helping people understand the root causes of disease and live their lives to the fullest. Step into a new paradigm of medicine where ancient nutritional wisdom and modern science converge. Disclaimer: The information shared on Your Way Back is for education, not medical advice. Please work with your physician or healthcare provider when making decisions about your health.

Donate to The Nicholas Gonzalez Foundation to help us reach more patients around the world. Eleven years after losing my husband in my arms, I admit I set out to earn an A in grieving, and grief refused to grade on a curve. I'm the president of the foundation carrying on Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez's work, and I walk alongside people facing the deadliest of diseases, so I know grief isn't only what arrives after a loss. It also shows up the moment a serious diagnosis is spoken out loud. Some people call it anticipatory grief. I think of it as pending grief, the grief that comes before. I read every book, sat in every group, and listened to every psychic who claimed to have a message from Nick, testing each one with a password only he and I knew. Not one of them ever got it right. What I have now are a handful of voices that told me the truth, a faith that held me when I couldn't hold myself, and one old image of a ship slipping past the horizon that has become my truest picture of what happens when someone we love dies. If you're grieving someone who's already gone, someone still here, or someone you're afraid of losing, this one is for you. There is no map, and the absence of a map does not mean you are lost. You’ll Learn: [0:00] Introduction [4:53] The envelope that changed Mrs to Ms [10:19] Grief has no map and no finish line [14:27] C.S. Lewis and how grief feels like fear [20:14] Where did he go and the sixteen dreams [25:23] Say their name and ask to hear about them [30:53] Faith is what walks with you through the valley [33:30] Surviving the next ten minutes when a day is too much [40:18] The ship on the horizon and what death really is Resources Mentioned: What to Say When Someone Dies by Laura Munson | Article A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis | Book Broken Open by Elizabeth Lesser | Book Caravan of No Despair by Mirabai Starr | Book Finding Meaning by David Kessler | Book Making Meaning Out of Grief by Brody, J. | Article What to Say When Someone Dies by Munson, L. | Article "Gone From My Sight" | Poem by Henry Van Dyke findahelpline.com - crisis and support lines by country | Website International Association for Suicide Prevention's directory | Website U.S.: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988) | Website The Book of Common Prayer "For to your faithful people, O Lord, life is changed, not ended; and when our mortal body lies in death, there is prepared for us a dwelling place eternal in the heavens." "O God of grace and glory… In your boundless compassion, console us who mourn. Give us faith to see in death the gate of eternal life, so that in quiet confidence we may continue our course on earth, until, by your call, we are reunited with those who have gone before; through Jesus Christ our Lord." John 11:25–26 "I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die." Find more from Mary Beth: The Gonzalez Protocol® | Website | Instagram | YouTube Join the Truly Thrive Membership for just $60 annually, and get full access to exclusive members-only content, including bonus content and product coupons. You'll experience how The Gonzalez Protocol® is helping people understand the root causes of disease and live their lives to the fullest. Step into a new paradigm of medicine where ancient nutritional wisdom and modern science converge. Disclaimer: The information shared on Your Way Back is for education, not medical advice. Please work with your physician or healthcare provider when making decisions about your health.

Learn gentle, natural ways to help your body find its way back to rest inside The Gonzalez Protocol® Sleep Guide Wired at 3 AM? Your body isn't broken. It's just stuck in go, and it's forgotten how to downshift. To prepare for tonight, I went back through years of Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez's patient files and pulled every piece of sleep advice he ever gave. So many of his patients arrived with the same complaint: they couldn't rest. What I found wasn't a rigid protocol. His advice was never a one-size-fits-all approach, because people differ in their metabolic type, and what settles one person can wire another. There's a physiology underneath your 3 a.m. waking, and once you understand what your body is trying to do when sleep won't come, it stops feeling like a battle you keep losing. Sleep is not wasted time. It's the shift when your body does its most important repair work, and disrupted sleep interrupts the very hours your body counts on to heal. I'll be honest with you: this is one I live too. It doesn't always come easily for me, so I'm not speaking to you from the outside of this struggle. I'm right in it with you. Tonight I'll walk you through the reason wired-and-tired happens, the vagus nerve tools that actually help, and a small trick my late husband, Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez, taught me for that middle-of-the-night waking that most people have never heard of. Your body still remembers how to rest. You’ll Learn: [0:00] Introduction [4:40] Why the 3 AM waking has a cruel trap built in [6:57] The autonomic nervous system and its two branches [8:31] How metabolic type shapes your sleep struggle [10:17] Ease off drinks to stop middle-of-the-night waking [12:33] The vagus nerve and the secret in the exhale [15:57] How melatonin actually works and getting the right dose [17:32] Cooling the room and letting your phone sleep elsewhere [19:47] Your body still remembers how to rest Resources Mentioned: The Gonzalez Protocol® Sleep Guide | Free PDF Gonzalez Metabolic Type Test | Website Find more from Mary Beth: The Gonzalez Protocol® | Website The Gonzalez Protocol® | Instagram Join the Truly Thrive Membership for just $60 annually, and get full access to exclusive members-only content, including bonus content and product coupons. You'll experience how The Gonzalez Protocol® is helping people understand the root causes of disease and live their lives to the fullest. Step into a new paradigm of medicine where ancient nutritional wisdom and modern science converge. Disclaimer: The information shared on Your Way Back is for education, not medical advice. Please work with your physician or healthcare provider when making decisions about your health.

Apply to work with a Certified Gonzalez Doctor here. Marguerite was told she had nine months of chemo ahead of her for lobular breast cancer with a hard shell the chemo couldn't even penetrate, and she walked away from the entire plan. My guest today is a patient nine months into The Gonzalez Protocol® for breast cancer, and she agreed to speak on the record about what it actually looks like from the inside. The tumor sits where she can feel it, so there's no guessing. She measures it herself every week. Since January, it has gone from 25 centimeters in diameter down to 15. That's the headline. What I wanted from her was everything underneath it. The 3:30 AM enzyme alarm. The friends who stepped away because her diagnosis made them confront their own mortality. The ex-husband who doesn't understand the choice but pays for it anyway. The son who pushes back but backs off when he sees her improving. The bentonite enemas she sometimes forgets. The body odor that changed as her chemistry shifted. The dreams that stopped and are now coming back. Marguerite, a nurse trained in homeopathy, also knew Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez personally from her decade behind the counter at Willner Chemist, and she shares a conversation she had with him that most people have never heard. If you're staring down a diagnosis and being pressured to decide by next week, listen closely to what she says about time. You'll Learn: [0:00] Introduction [2:39] A rare lobular breast cancer diagnosis after years of waiting [5:46] Why conventional oncology hadn't changed in fifty years [9:59] What a full day on the protocol actually looks like [13:53] Inside the 25-day cycle and its three detox rounds [19:18] The first sign her body was responding [22:16] Fitting a demanding protocol into real life [30:05] What she wishes someone had told her at the time of diagnosis Resources Mentioned: Gonzalez Metabolic Type Test | Website One Man Alone by Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez | Book The Trophoblast and the Origins of Cancer by Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez | Book How to Begin Your Own Healing Journey on The Gonzalez Protocol® | YouTube or Spotify or Apple Collection of Books by Our Patients | Books Dr. Gonzalez's Activated Pancreas, EXCLUSIVELY available from Professional Formulas: order here for USA-based orders, or from here for international orders. Find more from Mary Beth: The Gonzalez Protocol® | Website The Gonzalez Protocol® | Instagram Join the Truly Thrive Membership for just $60 annually, and get full access to exclusive members-only content, including bonus content and product coupons. You'll experience how The Gonzalez Protocol® is helping people understand the root causes of disease and live their lives to the fullest. Step into a new paradigm of medicine where ancient nutritional wisdom and modern science converge. Disclaimer: The information shared on Your Way Back is for education, not medical advice. Please work with your physician or healthcare provider when making decisions about your health.

Take the Gonzalez Metabolic Type Test to discover the foods that best suit your body. America's official dietary guidelines just caught up with what we have been teaching for 40 years, and the everyday version comes down to just a few simple choices. Something is shifting right now. Real food is back in the national conversation. Added sugar, dyes, and ultra-processed foods are on the way out. Protein and whole foods are back in. What I want you to hear today is that being well was never as complicated as it's been made to feel. You do not need a diagnosis, a prescription, or a perfect life to begin. This is not The Gonzalez Protocol®. That work belongs to our doctors and their specific patients. Today is the general version, the foundational habits that serve almost everyone, no matter your age or where you're starting. Your body is not your enemy. It's designed to heal when you stop getting in its way and start handing it what it needs. That comes down to four areas: nutrition, gentle everyday detox, a few smart supplements, and how you tend your mind and spirit. Suzanne Somers once asked me a question at cocktail hour that I still think about every time I order a drink. There's a reason I remember it. Stay with me, and I'll walk you through the ten small choices that gently change everything. You'll Learn: [0:00] Introduction [3:48] Your body is an intelligent organism designed to heal [5:52] Why there is no perfect diet for every person [7:05] The three minerals your body is begging for [11:21] Detox is not a punishing three-day cleanse [16:40] Suzanne Somers and the cactus or potato drink rule [18:31] Why supplements are the helpers, not the heroes [23:11] Rethinking balance as what is enough for you Resources Mentioned: Free 8-page Gonzalez General Guidelines - nutrition, supplements, detox, healthy home, spiritual life | Website Dr. Gonzalez's Activated Pancreas, EXCLUSIVELY available from Professional Formulas: order here for USA-based orders, or from here for international orders. 2025-2030 U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans | Website Find more from Mary Beth: The Gonzalez Protocol® | Website | Instagram | YouTube Join the Truly Thrive Membership for just $60 annually, and get full access to exclusive members-only content, including bonus content and product coupons. You'll experience how The Gonzalez Protocol® is helping people understand the root causes of disease and live their lives to the fullest. Step into a new paradigm of medicine where ancient nutritional wisdom and modern science converge. Disclaimer: The information shared on Your Way Back is for education, not medical advice. Please work with your physician or healthcare provider when making decisions about your health.

If this show has meant something to you and you'd like to help it grow, you can give at thegonzalezprotocol.com/donate — no amount is too small. And if giving isn't where you are right now, that's alright too. Sharing an episode with someone who needs it is its own kind of gift. When I started this podcast, I made you a promise: that this would be a place of calm, trustworthy guidance in a very noisy health world. A place built on one core belief: the body was designed with the capacity to heal. For me, as a person of faith, that design reflects our Creator — God's wisdom woven right into our biology. For you, it may simply be the remarkable intelligence of the human body. Either way, the message hasn't changed once all season: Your body is not your enemy. It is working for you. This is the finale of Season 1, and I wanted to hand you the five ideas that Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez spent his life proving, all in one place. Your body is a system.Repair begins with digestion.Detoxification is your body's normal flow, not a fringe idea.You are an individual. There is no single perfect diet for everyone.Your symptoms are information, not enemies to silence. Underneath the five is something that matters more than any theory: proof. To my knowledge, it's the most thoroughly documented body of case reports ever assembled by a single physician, for advanced cancer using a nutritional protocol. The proof series walked cancer by cancer through the patterns behind long-term survivors, from pancreatic to breast to lung to a 30-year melanoma survivor. The doctors who witnessed it told the story from the inside. The sabotaged NCI clinical trial got answered head-on. For a complete map of Season One, please click here. You'll Learn: [0:00] Introduction [3:03] The radical idea behind The Gonzalez Protocol® [5:02] Why the body works as one connected system [7:41] Repair begins with digestion and pancreatic enzymes [9:36] Detoxification is restoring the body's natural flow [12:38] Symptoms are information worth listening to [17:41] Healing responds to support, not aggression Books by Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez: One Man Alone | Book Proof of Concept | Book Conquering Cancer | Volume One | Volume Two Resources Mentioned: The Nicholas Gonzalez Foundation | Website Donate to Your Way Back | Website Find more from Mary Beth: The Gonzalez Protocol® | Website | Instagram | YouTube Join the Truly Thrive Membership for just $60 annually, and get full access to exclusive members-only content, including bonus content and product coupons. You'll experience how The Gonzalez Protocol® is helping people understand the root causes of disease and live their lives to the fullest. Step into a new paradigm of medicine where ancient nutritional wisdom and modern science converge. Disclaimer: The information shared on Your Way Back is for education, not medical advice. Please work with your physician or healthcare provider when making decisions about your health.

Apply to work with a Certified Gonzalez Doctor here. This application exists for one reason: so we only take patients we truly believe we can help. Andrea has spent years learning what separates the people who thrive on this protocol from the ones it was never right for, and the answer isn't what most prospective patients assume. She managed Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez's New York City practice for six years and now personally meets with every applicant who wants to work with our Certified Gonzalez Doctors. The Gonzalez Protocol® isn't one program. It's thousands, individualized down to the diet, supplements, and detoxification built around a single patient, and that's the part that surprises prospective patients more than almost anything else. The protocol is also pursued instead of chemotherapy or radiation, not alongside them. There are real reasons we ask you to write your application yourself, as a story, in your own words. This conversation is the one I wish every prospective patient could hear before they filled out a form. If you've recently heard the words "you have cancer," there's a part of this episode written directly for you. You rarely have to decide today. What you do with the pause matters. You'll Learn: [0:00] Introduction [3:17] The Gonzalez Protocol® explained, and why there are thousands of versions [5:06] Reframing a diagnosis as an intrusion, not an identity [7:27] Research to do before you fill out a single application form [11:05] The real reason the application exists, and what determines whether we treat your cancer [12:54] Writing your application as a story, in your own words [15:39] The screening call, and what it uncovers before you ever meet a doctor [18:02] The honest breakdown of what the protocol costs, month by month [20:28] The support system and tools that make this demanding protocol doable Related Your Way Back Episodes: Why Pancreatic Enzymes Are the Missing Piece in Cancer Treatments | Prof. Dr. Sarper Diler, MD | Podcast Resources Mentioned: The Gonzalez Protocol® | Website | Overview | Research | Application Questions | Contact Apply to Work with a Certified Gonzalez Doctor | Website You Don't Have Cancer by Mary Beth Gonzalez | Article Gonzalez Metabolic Type Test: use code TEST25 for $25 off | Website The Gonzalez Protocol Cookbook by Mary Beth Gonzalez | Book Professional Formulas: enzyme sourcing, doctor code RXK310A, use coupon code GONZ-LAUNCH for 10% off | Website Gonzalez General Guidelines | Website Find more from Mary Beth: The Gonzalez Protocol® | Website The Gonzalez Protocol® | Instagram Join the Truly Thrive Membership for just $60 annually, and get full access to exclusive members-only content, including bonus content and product coupons. You'll experience how The Gonzalez Protocol® is helping people understand the root causes of disease and live their lives to the fullest. Step into a new paradigm of medicine where ancient nutritional wisdom and modern science converge. Disclaimer: The information shared on Your Way Back is for education, not medical advice. Please work with your physician or healthcare provider when making decisions about your health.

Apply to work with a Certified Gonzalez Doctor here. Donate to The Nicholas Gonzalez Foundation to help us reach more patients around the world. An orthodontist was sent home to die of pancreatic cancer in his 30s, and the way his mother refused to let him go became the foundation of everything you're about to hear. Dr. William Donald Kelley wasn't an oncologist. He wasn't a researcher. He straightened teeth for a living, and he became my late husband Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez's teacher. Which means without him, The Gonzalez Protocol® wouldn't exist, and neither would this podcast. Today I want to walk you through his whole story. The eye trouble that turned out not to be eye trouble. The wife who emptied the bank account the day she heard the word cancer. The mother from Kansas who flew down, cleaned out his cupboards, and put him back to work three months later. The library trips. The forgotten Scottish scientist named John Beard. The three in the morning breakthrough about why cancer patients get so sick when their tumors break down. The wife who nearly died on his raw vegetarian diet until he ground up a piece of Texas beef. The discovery that there isn't one right diet for every human being. You'll also hear the hard part. The bankruptcy. The paranoia. The letter one editor sent to Dr. Gonzalez, calling his Kelley manuscript "gobbledygook". This is the chain that runs from Beard to Kelley to Gonzalez to the work I'm still doing. Settle in. You'll Learn: [0:00] Introduction [2:28] How Kelley's terminal cancer snuck in through his failing eyesight [6:00] Why Mama Kelley threw out every scrap of junk food to save her son [13:13] The forgotten Scottish scientist who saw a placenta behave exactly like a tumor [16:35] Why the enzymes made his tumors shrink but left him deathly ill [24:23] How a dying wife and raw Texas beef shattered Kelley's one perfect diet [29:36] Why your metabolic type may predict which cancer you get [33:35] Did the Kelley program actually work, and how could anyone prove it? [38:25] How Steve McQueen's death got blamed on Kelley instead of the cancer [42:59] How a Sloan Kettering skeptic came to expose Kelley and found the truth instead Resources Mentioned: One Answer to Cancer by William Donald Kelley | Book One Man Alone by Nicholas Gonzalez, M.D. | Book The Dr. Kelley Story by Nicholas Gonzalez, M.D. | Website Gonzalez Metabolic Type Test | Website The Gonzalez Protocol® Cookbook | Book Detoxification with The Gonzalez Protocol® | Website  Related Your Way Back Episodes: The Surprising Link Between Pregnancy and Cancer | Dr. Andre Williams MD | YouTube Why Pancreatic Enzymes Are the Missing Piece in Cancer Treatments | Prof. Dr. Sarper Diler, MD | YouTube Find more from Mary Beth: The Gonzalez Protocol® | Website The Gonzalez Protocol® | Instagram Join the Truly Thrive Membership for just $60 annually, and get full access to exclusive members-only content, including bonus content and product coupons. You'll experience how The Gonzalez Protocol® is helping people understand the root causes of disease and live their lives to the fullest. Step into a new paradigm of medicine where ancient nutritional wisdom and modern science converge. Disclaimer: The information shared on Your Way Back is for education, not medical advice. Please work with your physician or healthcare provider when making decisions about your health.

Donate to The Nicholas Gonzalez Foundation to help us reach more patients around the world. The disease you'll be diagnosed with a decade from now is already measurable in your blood right now… and almost no one is looking for it. Dr. Tom O'Bryan is the functional medicine pioneer often called the "Sherlock Holmes" of chronic illness, founder of TheDr.com, creator of The Gluten Summit, The Betrayal Series, and The Inflammation Equation, and the National Book Award-winning author of The Autoimmune Fix and You Can Fix Your Brain, with more than thirty years spent chasing the question of where disease actually begins. A 2003 Harvard study changed how I think about cancer, autoimmunity, and every "sudden" diagnosis I've watched happen to people I love. The antibodies were there for years; the fire was burning long before the smoke. Dr. O'Bryan walks me through what he calls the perfect storm, the five factors that decide whether the chain breaks at your heart, your brain, your thyroid, or somewhere else entirely. Genetics you can't change. Environmental triggers you can. A gut that's leaking. An immune system fighting food. There's a moment where Dr. O'Bryan explains why the more fruits and vegetables one group of women ate, the worse their pregnancy outcomes got. The answer will change how you think about the produce aisle. You'll Learn: [0:00] Introduction [4:15] What it means when cancer is a manifestation of a chronic inflammatory state [9:31] Why elevated antibodies show up years before any symptom appears [15:35] Why medication that silences the dashboard warning light never fixes the fire [21:28] The one-hour-a-week principle for reversing the lifestyle that made you sick [27:52] The 986,000 mousetraps that explain how toxins trigger your inflammatory cascade [37:26] The five factors of the perfect storm behind every chronic inflammatory disease [52:26] Why wheat is the one food no human can fully digest [58:54] The organic-only study that reversed infertility outcomes at implantation [1:05:11] How chronic stress hormones shut down fertility and fuel disease Find more from Dr. Tom O’Bryan: Dr. Tom O’Bryan | Facebook | Instagram | X | YouTube | LinkedIn | Website | Contact | Shop The Autoimmune Fix | Book You Can Fix Your Brain | Book | Masterclass | Mini Course Certified Gluten-Free Practitioner | Course The Gut Fix | Website Base Hits | Website Gluten-Free Made Easy | 30 Day Course The Inflammation Equation: Docuseries Betrayal: The Autoimmune Solution: Docuseries The Gluten Summit: Docuseries Ultimate Health Deep-Dive: Consultation One-On-One Health Transformation Consultation: Consultation Brain Bundles: Consultation Detox Bundles: Consultation Mentorship: Website Upcoming Events: Events Find more from Mary Beth: The Gonzalez Protocol® | Website The Gonzalez Protocol® | Instagram Join the Truly Thrive Membership for just $60 annually, and get full access to exclusive members-only content, including bonus content and product coupons. You'll experience how The Gonzalez Protocol® is helping people understand the root causes of disease and live their lives to the fullest. Step into a new paradigm of medicine where ancient nutritional wisdom and modern science converge. Disclaimer: The information shared on Your Way Back is for education, not medical advice. Please work with your physician or healthcare provider when making decisions about your health.

Dr. Gonzalez's Activated Pancreas, EXCLUSIVELY available from Professional Formulas: order here for USA-based orders, or from here for international orders. Special Offer: Save 10% on Dr. Gonzalez's Activated Pancreas from Professional Formulas here. At registration, enter Doctor Code RXK310A, then Coupon Code GONZ-LAUNCH to receive your discount. Note: This coupon is only valid through the Professional Formulas link above and does not apply to International orders through Willner Chemists. To support the important research Dr. Diler mentions, you can donate here. Pancreatic enzymes are the missing piece in cancer treatments, and no one is talking about this. I’m so happy to be welcoming Prof. Sarper Diler back to the show. He is an MD, PhD, a physician, researcher, 14-year cancer survivor, and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of The Nicholas Gonzalez Foundation. The story starts in 1902 with Scottish embryologist John Beard, who noticed trophoblast cells behave exactly like cancer until the fetal pancreas begins secreting enzymes. Beard died in obscurity. A century later, my late husband Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez picked up the thread. The manufacturing story surprised me most. Dr. Gonzalez spent years figuring out why Dr. William Kelley's best outcomes came from a gentler, less processed formula. Dr. Diler walks through the difference between milligrams and USP activity units, why New Zealand sourcing matters, and why it is so important that not just porcine pancreatic enzymes, but all supplements, be independently tested. He also tells me about the 3:45 a.m. pain that sent him to his own hospital, the tumor his colleagues told him to “prepare for everything”, and the childhood memory of a village woman that shaped what he did next. You'll Learn: [0:00] Introduction [2:37] How an orthodontist cured his own terminal pancreatic cancer with oral enzymes [4:18] The manufacturing problem that shaped Dr. Gonzalez's proprietary enzyme formula [7:38] Explaining the trophoblast model of cancer, and why a 1902 embryo still matters [9:59] How Beard's 1902 observation predicted modern cancer stem cell science [14:00] Why precursor proenzymes outperform fully activated products, explained with coffee [18:34] Why New Zealand pigs, and what goes into the animal ends up in you [20:34] The difference between a therapeutic dose and a decorative dose [22:43] The exact questions to ask before trusting any enzyme supplement [26:36] A 10-inch kidney tumor, a childhood memory, and refusing chemo [32:06] Why The Gonzalez Protocol® works best on its own, not stacked on chemo [34:58] What research would finally validate this, and the microbiome connection Resources Mentioned: Embryological Aspects and Etiology of Carcinoma by Beard, J. | Article The Trophoblast and the Origins of Cancer by Nicholas J. Gonzalez, MD & Linda L. Isaacs, MD | Book The Enzyme Treatment of Cancer by John Beard, D.Sc. and Nicholas J. Gonzalez, MD | Book Pancreatic Proteolytic Enzymes and Cancer: New Support for an Old Theory by Isaacs, L. | Article A Brief History of Glandular Therapy: More Than Just Thyroid by Isaacs, L. | Article Evaluation of Pancreatic Proteolytic Enzyme Treatment of Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas, With Nutrition and Detoxification Support by Gonzalez, N. & Isaacs, L. | Article One Man Alone: Dr. Kelley by Nicholas J. Gonzalez, MD | Book Related Your Way Back Episodes: A Sabotaged Study "Proved" The Gonzalez Protocol® Doesn't Work - Here's the Truth | Podcast Apply to work with Dr. Diler on The Gonzalez Protocol® here. Find more from Dr. Diler: Prof. Dr. Sarper Diler, MD | Website Meet Professor Dr. Sarper Diler | About Ovital Institute | Website Find more from Mary Beth: The Gonzalez Protocol® | Website The Gonzalez Protocol® | Instagram Join the Truly Thrive Membership for just $60 annually, and get full access to exclusive members-only content, including bonus content and product coupons. Disclaimer: The information shared on Your Way Back is for education, not medical advice. Please work with your physician or healthcare provider when making decisions about your health.

Donate to The Nicholas Gonzalez Foundation to support our research efforts. In 1998, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) approved funding for a large-scale clinical study, in which The Gonzalez Protocol®, a nutritional-enzyme therapy, would be compared to the best available chemotherapy in the treatment of patients diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer. But the federal trial that supposedly disproved The Gonzalez Protocol® enrolled 39 patients and only one of them actually completed the treatment. Put plainly: this trial never tested The Gonzalez Protocol®. All it measured was what happens when people don’t do it. Appearing for a second time is my guest, Dr. Colin A. Ross, a psychiatrist, researcher, and founding board member of The Nicholas Gonzalez Foundation. His work on the trophoblast model of cancer and the NCI trial gives him a rare command of both the science and the paperwork. Our conversation moves like a forensic walkthrough. I ask Dr. Ross to take the 2010 Journal of Clinical Oncology paper apart section by section, and he answers with the patient counts, the enrollment dates, the findings from the Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP), and the specific sentences the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) own spokesperson put in writing, while the trial was still running, documenting that the data was meaningless. The tone stays clinical. No outrage, no hype, just a researcher explaining what the record shows and where the published paper diverges from it. If you've ever been told this protocol failed, this episode might change your mind. You'll Learn: [0:00] Introduction [3:28] John Beard's embryology slides and what they revealed about cancer [13:56] The Gonzalez Protocol® sits at level two evidence, not fringe science [19:55] Inside the NCI's landmark trial design, before it fell apart [25:25] Dr. Gonzalez was locked out of screening his own patients [31:36] Intent-to-treat analysis destroyed a protocol that most patients never followed [34:46] The staging data that changed long after enrollment closed [40:15] The lead investigator wasn't even listed as an author [49:35] A six-step roadmap for how the trophoblast model should be researched [57:38] How to talk to your oncologist about weighing this decision Resources Mentioned: The Truth about the NCI-NCCAM Clinical Study by Gonzalez, N. | Article The Trophoblast and the Origins of Cancer by Nicholas J. Gonzalez, MD and Linda L. Isaacs, MD | Book Pancreatic Proteolytic Enzymes and Cancer: New Support for an Old Theory by Isaacs, L. | Article What Went Wrong by Nicholas J. Gonzalez, MD | Book Conquering Cancer Volume One by Nicholas J. Gonzalez, MD | Book One Man Alone: Dr. Kelley by Nicholas J. Gonzalez, MD | Book Find more from Dr. Ross: Methodological Flaws in the Chabot Trial of Pancreatic Enzymes for Cancer Therapy by Ross, C. | Article The Trophoblast Model of Cancer by Ross, C. | Article Future Research Directions for the Trophoblast Model of Cancer by Ross, C. | Article Case Examples from the Gonzalez Protocol for Treatment of Cancer by Ross, C. | PDF The Colin A. Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma | Website Colin A. Ross, MD | LinkedIn | Books Find more from Mary Beth: The Gonzalez Protocol® | Website The Gonzalez Protocol® | Instagram Disclaimer: The information shared on Your Way Back is for education, not medical advice. Please work with your physician or healthcare provider when making decisions about your health.

Explore The Gonzalez Protocol and discover how The Power of Prayer can support your healing journey. Consider donating to The Nicholas Gonzalez Foundation to help keep his legacy and work alive.  What if we've been treating cancer too narrowly? Brandon LaGreca is a licensed acupuncturist, integrative oncology expert, and author of three books on the parts of cancer most oncologists won't touch: trauma, chronic stress, and electromagnetic radiation. His own remission changed how he researches and what he asks cancer patients to consider. He works with the concept of the Type C personality, the role of adverse childhood experiences, and the image of a calm pond disrupted by a boulder that displaces the water. Brandon walks through research on how unresolved emotional history shapes the terrain in which a tumor grows, and he explains why traditional Chinese medicine had language for this centuries before Western science caught up. Then our conversation shifts to the phone on your nightstand, the router that never turns off, and the four corroborating lines of evidence he documents on EMFs and cancer risk. Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez joins us in a video clip to add his own perspective on the dangers of EMF.  This episode connects directly to the foundation of the Gonzalez Protocol, including the autonomic nervous system, the whole environment of the patient, and the belief that the tumor is a symptom, not the disease. You'll Learn: [0:00] Introduction [3:09] A stage four lymphoma diagnosis taught him what a decade of clinical practice never could [5:38] The Type C personality and why people pleasers are more prone to cancer [8:43] The ACE study links childhood trauma to dying twenty years earlier [10:17] The physiological conditions unresolved trauma creates for cancer [13:42] Top-down versus bottom-up trauma therapy, and why EMDR rewires the memory [18:41] Chronic stress erodes the terrain through cortisol, coping habits, and compliance [21:59] The yin and yang of cancer: the how versus the why [25:11] Toxic positivity versus genuine mindset work, and being at peace with dying [32:21] The four corroborating lines of evidence that EMFs damage human cells [36:11] The highest-impact EMF changes you can make tonight without gutting your life [49:59] Brandon's advice to every newly diagnosed cancer patient: slow down Resources Mentioned: The Dangers of Electromagnetic Field Exposure | YouTube Is 5G the Problem? Or Is ‘Antenna Densification’? by Camilla Rees, MBA | Article Collection of Books by Our Patients | Books To contact Brandon and explore his books, visit his website here. Find more from Brandon: Brandon LaGreca, LAc | Website Empowered Patient Blog | Blog Cancer and EMF Radiation by Brandon LaGreca | Book Cancer, Stress & Mindset by Brandon LaGreca | Book Cancer, Trauma & Emotions by Brandon LaGreca | Book Find more from Mary Beth: The Gonzalez Protocol® | Website The Gonzalez Protocol® | Instagram Join the Truly Thrive Membership for just $60 annually, and get full access to exclusive members-only content, including bonus content and product coupons. You'll experience how The Gonzalez Protocol® is helping people understand the root causes of disease and live their lives to the fullest. Step into a new paradigm of medicine where ancient nutritional wisdom and modern science converge. Disclaimer: The information shared on Your Way Back is for education, not medical advice. Please work with your physician or healthcare provider when making decisions about your health.

To help keep Dr. Gonzalez's legacy alive, especially on this 11th anniversary of his passing, consider donating to The Nicholas Gonzalez Foundation. You can also explore The Gonzalez Protocol®, discover books and resources at New Spring Press, and find personalized guidance at the Gonzalez Guidance Group.  Eleven years ago, I lost my dear husband and made a promise: to keep his work and legacy alive for every patient who still needs it.  Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez was my husband, and a physician who treated patients others had given up on. His story is the reason this show exists. Six weeks after we met, I asked him plainly where I fit in a life already so claimed. His answer was immediate: God, then me, then his patients, then his country. I never doubted it. Not once. Nick was not an easy man to love. The size of his calling left room for little else, and we chose it together anyway. This episode is personal. It's about a man who refused to back down when it cost him, who carried hope for people who couldn't carry it themselves, and what it means to keep answering to him eleven years later. If you found your way here through his work, through a patient, through a book, through a moment when everything changed, there's a reason. Let’s talk about it. You'll Learn: [0:00] Introduction [2:23] Why Dr. Gonzalez told patients their bodies weren’t broken beyond repair [4:13] Learning to live inside the question when there are no answers [6:39] Regret as an invitation, not a punishment [9:44] Be that person for someone: how his light stays on Resources Mentioned: The Nicholas Gonzalez Foundation | Website Gonzalez Guidance Group | Website New Spring Press | Website Find more from Mary Beth: The Gonzalez Protocol® | Website The Gonzalez Protocol® | Instagram Join the Truly Thrive Membership for just $60 annually, and get full access to exclusive members-only content, including bonus content and product coupons. You'll experience how The Gonzalez Protocol® is helping people understand the root causes of disease and live their lives to the fullest. Step into a new paradigm of medicine where ancient nutritional wisdom and modern science converge. Disclaimer: The information shared on Your Way Back is for education, not medical advice. Please work with your physician or healthcare provider when making decisions about your health.

Apply to work with a Certified Gonzalez Doctor here. Carol Alt has spent decades proving that discipline leads to physical and spiritual transformation, and it's always worth the challenge. Carol is a highly recognized supermodel, actress, and longtime voice in raw foods and wellness. Her decades on The Gonzalez Protocol® give her a rare vantage point on what long-term healing asks of you. Her story doesn't follow the arc most people expect. The rollercoaster she describes is the part of the healing journey that almost nobody talks about honestly. Freedom isn't found in skipping the rules; it's in not becoming a slave to them. And she's learned the hard way that not everyone in your life can come with you. Carol is also candid about her friendship with Dr. Gonzalez, the questions she pushed back with, the case studies he sent her, and the forewords he wrote for her three raw cookbooks.  If you've ever wondered what it's like to stick to protocol for decades in an industry obsessed with speed and appearance, listen closely to how she talks about the bricks in the wall. You'll Learn: [0:00] Introduction [3:55] Setting the record straight on Dr. Gonzalez's approach to healing [7:13] The diet-first protocol that changed how Carol looked and felt [13:06] Her 25-day cycle felt like nirvana, not deprivation [15:21] Dr. Gonzalez's menopause comment that stuck with her forever [17:01] Detoxing changed the way she saw and greeted strangers [20:59] Health is built brick by brick, not overnight [24:45] The discipline that creates freedom instead of punishment [31:56] She had to cut people out to keep healing Follow Carol on Instagram to tune in to her show, Tea Time. Find more from Carol: Carol Alt | Website Carol Alt’s Raw Food Cookbooks, with expanded forewords by Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez: The Raw 50 | Book | Expanded Foreword Easy Sexy Raw | Book | Expanded Foreword Eating in the Raw | Book | Expanded Foreword Find more from Mary Beth: The Gonzalez Protocol® | Website The Gonzalez Protocol® | Instagram Join the Truly Thrive Membership for just $60 annually, and get full access to exclusive members-only content, including bonus content and product coupons. You'll experience how The Gonzalez Protocol® is helping people understand the root causes of disease and live their lives to the fullest. Step into a new paradigm of medicine where ancient nutritional wisdom and modern science converge. Disclaimer: The information shared on Your Way Back is for education, not medical advice. Please work with your physician or healthcare provider when making decisions about your health.