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159: How Chaga Changed His Family’s Health and His Faith, His Sister's Breast Cancer | Tulsy Ball

2026-10-2342:50

Tulsy Ball spent years producing documentary television for networks like Discovery Channel, History Channel, and Nat Geo. While developing a show about chaga harvesters in Alaska, he learned that compounds from this odd-looking birch mushroom had been studied for breast cancer, the same disease his sister was facing. At the same time, he was dealing with his own health crisis after years of stress and late-night drinking. He began making chaga tea for his sister and himself. When the network...

158: The Scan That Broke Her Heart and the Truth That Held Her, Breast Cancer | Sandy Ingram

2026-10-1637:27

Sandy Ingram co-leads the HealingStrong group in Victorville, California, alongside Dan Cook. She was first diagnosed with breast cancer in late 2015. She chose a lumpectomy and declined radiation, a decision shaped partly by watching her mother go through radiation in the 1980s. In 2019 she found Chris Wark’s program and bought the whole thing, then put it in her closet because she wasn’t ready for the diet. A new tumor appeared a year or so later. She had no health insurance and no clear op...

157: What Your Mouth Might Be Telling the Rest of Your Body | Kim Blaise

2026-10-0946:20

What if part of your healing journey runs through the dentist's chair? In this episode, host Jim Mann sits down with Kim Blaise, who has spent over 20 years in dentistry and founded Oral Biologics, a free platform that connects patients with vetted biologic dentists across the country. Kim explains biologic dentistry as a philosophy built on the belief that the body is designed to heal, and that lowering the overall toxic burden gives it more room to do that work. She walks throug...

156: Riding for the Ones We Love, Acute Myeloid Leukemia | Marlice Alves

2026-10-0232:04

Marlice Alves returns to the I AM HealingStrong podcast six and a half years after her diagnosis with acute myeloid leukemia. Marlice is a longtime nurse and leads a HealingStrong group in northern Rhode Island. This time she and host Jim Mann talk about the Heal-a-Thon, a grassroots fundraiser where HealingStrong groups raise support in their own creative ways. Marlice shares how her daughter's indoor cycling studio hosted two special rides. The first was a Friday night worship ride set to C...

155: No Evidence of Disease Was Not the Finish Line She Expected, Breast Cancer | Maria Schenkel, Part 2

2026-09-2539:17

When Maria Schenkel first joined Jim Mann, she was days away from a mastectomy. Months later, she returns to share what happened next. She walks through the pathology results that surprised her, including a primary tumor that had not doubled in size and partial necrosis, along with lymph involvement that brought hard new decisions. She explains why she chose to continue her own integrative plan rather than pursue a full axillary lymph node dissection. She also describes two circulating tumor ...

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