Born to Heal: Holistic Healing for Optimal Health

What would you hear if the noise finally stopped and your body could tell you what it's been trying to say all along?
Host Dr. Katie Deming is joined by Jessica Erwin, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and sarcoma in 2024. By the time Jessica started a 30-day fast with Dr. Katie, she'd been through chemo and five abdominal surgeries. She expected the fast to be tough. What she found surprised her, and it showed up in places she never thought to look, including her sixth surgery.
Jessica now sees fasting from both sides. She did it herself, and today she runs Dr. Katie's practice as her practice director, supporting close to 100 fasters so far. Together, they explain why Dr. Katie asks her fasters to stop their world, and why that kind of rest looks nothing like you’d expect.
If you're living with cancer or chronic illness, you'll hear how Jessica stopped carrying everyone else's fears. And if you've learned to live with symptoms you've stopped noticing, this one may be hard to ignore.
Chapters:
00:04:14 - Thirty Days of Stillness
00:09:19 - When Pain Feels Normal
00:11:08 - What the Surgeon Found
00:13:00 - A Liver Scan Comes Back Clear
00:16:32 - The Burden She Put Down
00:20:34 - Why You Have to Stop Your World
00:23:23 - Hours of Silence
00:27:15 - Behind the Scenes of a Fast
00:29:25 - Life After the Last Day
00:32:55 - What Frequency Really Means
00:37:15 - Frequency and Faith
00:42:16 - Honoring Your Own Path
Stay until the end as Jessica asks Dr. Katie about the word frequency, and the answer matters if your faith makes you wary of this kind of conversation.
Press play and learn what your body can do when you finally give it room to heal.
Work with Dr. Katie One-on-One — a Fasting Consult to build your personalized fasting plan: https://l.bttr.to/L05ab

Or a Health & Healing Consult for a deeper conversation about your diagnosis, your options, and what’s worth exploring next: https://l.bttr.to/Abcf1
Join Dr. Katie for a three-day guided reset to slow down, listen to your body, and practice a more loving relationship with yourself—with daily live calls, expert support, and community alongside you: https://3-day-reset.vercel.app/
Follow Dr. Katie Deming on Instagram
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DISCLAIMER: The Born to Heal Podcast is intended for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for seeking professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Individual medical histories are unique; therefore, this episode should not be used to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease without consulting your healthcare provider.
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What do cravings, brain fog, and high blood pressure have in common?
Research suggests nearly 9 in 10 American adults fall short of optimal metabolic health. Dr. Katie Deming sits down with Brittney Zeedik to talk about what they see as the root, insulin resistance, and why it shows up as high blood pressure in one person and brain fog in another.

And that advice to keep snacking through the day? It may be working against you.
Brittney is an Insulin Resistance Coach. After losing her father to colon cancer, she came to see his psoriasis, high blood pressure, and gut trouble as warning signs nobody had connected. Dr. Katie fasts every month, who started out a skeptic until one ketone reading made her look twice.

If fasting leaves you shaky, if cravings run your day, or if your cholesterol results never quite make sense, this one’s for you. You’ll learn what insulin is doing inside your cells, why Dr. Katie looks past total cholesterol, and three simple habits you can start today.

Chapters:
00:04:16 - Why Fasting Posts Keep Getting Blocked
00:06:43 - What Her Father’s Colon Cancer Revealed
00:12:06 - Two Drinks, Ketosis, and Blood Sugar
00:19:09 - Rethinking Your Cholesterol Numbers
00:24:43 - Early Signs of Metabolic Trouble
00:26:58 - Natural GLP-1 and Gut Emptying
00:31:57 - What Insulin Resistance Really Means
00:45:03 - A Burger, Corn, and a Surprise Ketone Reading
00:50:00 - How to Use the Drinks and Track Your Labs
00:54:38 - Ordering Safely and Avoiding Counterfeits

Stay until the end, Dr. Katie shares what happened 16 hours after a burger with the bun and a full cob of corn, a result she didn’t think was possible, and how she’s checking it against her own labs.

Press play and learn how to spot insulin resistance early, and what to change starting with your next meal.

Connect with Brittney: https://mindbodybrit.com/
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Work with Dr. Katie One-on-One — a Fasting Consult to build your personalized fasting plan: https://l.bttr.to/L05ab

Or a Health & Healing Consult for a deeper conversation about your diagnosis, your options, and what’s worth exploring next: https://l.bttr.to/Abcf1
Join Dr. Katie for a three-day guided reset to slow down, listen to your body, and practice a more loving relationship with yourself—with daily live calls, expert support, and community alongside you: https://3-day-reset.vercel.app/
Follow Dr. Katie Deming on Instagram
Watch on Youtube
DISCLAIMER: The Born to Heal Podcast is intended for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for seeking professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Individual medical histories are unique; therefore, this episode should not be used to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease without consulting your healthcare provider.
A thought-provoking podcast explores cancer through the lens of holistic medicine and functional medicine, discussing causes of cancer, metabolic health, and unconventional approaches like water fasting, fasting and autophag...

What if every attempt to figure out your fear is feeding it, and the one thing that lets it go is the last thing you'd think to try?
Fear can be quietly expensive. It hums along in the background, takes a little energy here and a little there, and you may not even notice it's running. Dr. Katie Deming didn't notice hers for years. Her friends call her the most fearless person they know. Meanwhile, she'd wake up with a pit in her stomach, like something was wrong. What she uncovered about that fear caught her off guard.
Dr. Katie stopped reading books recently, yet two from the past month clicked together: Letting Go by psychiatrist David Hawkins, MD, PhD, and Existential Kink by Carolyn Elliott. She blends them into one practice that may sound strange at first. Then she tells you what happened when she tried it herself.
If you're healing from cancer or living with illness, this matters now. Dr. Katie explains how holding fear down uses up energy your body could put toward healing. You'll hear why thinking it through keeps you looping, why even expressing an emotion can backfire, and what shifted for her in just one week. The same practice applies to shame, guilt, anger, and jealousy.
Chapters:
00:03:11 - This Works for Shame, Guilt, and Anger Too
00:04:59 - Two Books That Tie This Together
00:07:22 - Why Expressing an Emotion Can Backfire
00:13:17 - How Thinking Feeds Your Fear
00:14:46 - What Surprised Dr. Katie About Her Own Fear
00:16:07 - The Energy That Came Back in One Week
00:16:38 - The Fear You May Not Know You Have
00:17:19 - The Truth Behind Looking Fearless
00:18:50 - The Simple Practice for Any Emotion
00:19:53 - How Fear Can Interfere With Healing
00:20:30 - Why This Is an Ongoing Practice
Stay until the end as Dr. Katie lays out the practice in simple terms and explains why it works best as something you return to again and again.
Press play and learn how to stop feeding your fear and reclaim the energy it's been taking.
Work with Dr. Katie One-on-One — a Fasting Consult to build your personalized fasting plan: https://l.bttr.to/L05ab

Or a Health & Healing Consult for a deeper conversation about your diagnosis, your options, and what’s worth exploring next: https://l.bttr.to/Abcf1
Join Dr. Katie for a three-day guided reset to slow down, listen to your body, and practice a more loving relationship with yourself—with daily live calls, expert support, and community alongside you: https://3-day-reset.vercel.app/
Follow Dr. Katie Deming on Instagram
Watch on Youtube
DISCLAIMER: The Born to Heal Podcast is intended for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for seeking professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Individual medical histories are unique; therefore, this episode should not be used to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease without consulting your healthcare provider.
A thought-provoking podcast explores cancer through the lens of holistic medicine and functional medicine, discussing causes of cancer, metabolic health, and unconventional approaches like water fasting, fasting and autophag...

Why do two people with the same diagnosis, the same treatment, and the same odds end up with completely different outcomes?
Dr. Katie Deming spent 20 years as a radiation oncologist before moving into integrative oncology. She watched some patients sail through the hardest treatments while others struggled with side effects she couldn't explain. 
Today she shares what she now believes sits underneath those differences, and it comes down to one word: frequency.
Dr. Katie brings in the work of psychiatrist David Hawkins, a story about a man whose daily menu would make any nutritionist wince, and what she's learned from guiding 150 people through water fasts. The most common result she sees probably isn't the one you'd guess.
If you eat clean, exercise, and still carry a quiet worry about your health, this one's for you. Dr. Katie explains why doing "all the right things" can sometimes work against you. Medical professionals will recognize her patient stories and you might recognize yourself.

Chapters:
00:06:13 - When Doing Everything Right Isn’t Enough
00:12:26 - The Energy Behind Your Healthy Choices
00:13:17 - What She Saw Treating Cancer Patients
00:14:30 - Two Very Different Cancer Experiences
00:17:32 - What Fasting Is Really Trying to Change
00:19:03 - The Outcome She Sees More Than Tumors Disappearing
00:20:19 - What Happens When the Fear Finally Lifts
00:21:55 - The Difference Between Treatment and Healing
00:24:14 - What a Healed Life Can Look Like
Stay until the end. Dr. Katie reveals what her fasters say they really walk away with, and why one simple choice afterward can shape everything that follows.
Press play and learn how the emotions you hold every day may be shaping your health.
Work with Dr. Katie One-on-One — a Fasting Consult to build your personalized fasting plan: https://l.bttr.to/L05ab

Or a Health & Healing Consult for a deeper conversation about your diagnosis, your options, and what’s worth exploring next: https://l.bttr.to/Abcf1
Join Dr. Katie for a three-day guided reset to slow down, listen to your body, and practice a more loving relationship with yourself—with daily live calls, expert support, and community alongside you: https://3-day-reset.vercel.app/
Follow Dr. Katie Deming on Instagram
Watch on Youtube
DISCLAIMER: The Born to Heal Podcast is intended for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for seeking professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Individual medical histories are unique; therefore, this episode should not be used to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease without consulting your healthcare provider.
A thought-provoking podcast explores cancer through the lens of holistic medicine and functional medicine, discussing causes of cancer, metabolic health, and unconventional approaches like water fasting, fasting and autophag...

What happens when the person who teaches authenticity loses her own voice? And what did her body do that finally made her stop and listen?

In this return episode, she opens up about what that break was really about and the lesson she didn't expect to learn.

After more than 20 years as a radiation oncologist, Dr. Katie Deming walked away from Western medicine to find what truly helps people heal. So it caught her off guard when a marketing strategy slowly pulled her off course. At first she felt a little stuck. Then she couldn't pick up the microphone at all.

Dr. Katie has now guided more than 150 people through water fasts, many with cancer and many without. That experience has changed how she sees fasting. You'll hear why she's rethinking the way it's used, the four things she sees in people who heal naturally, and why her practice is taking another turn.

If you've ever felt pushed into a box, this episode is for you. Maybe a treatment plan put you in a category that doesn't feel like you. Maybe you're a physician who feels boxed in by protocols. Or maybe you're just tired of other people's opinions drowning out your own.

Dr. Katie's story gives you permission to pause, listen to yourself, and choose the path that fits.

Stay until the end because Dr. Katie names what she now believes is the linchpin of all healing, the piece she couldn't see when she first left conventional medicine, and shares where the podcast is headed next.

Press play and learn why trusting yourself might be the first step toward healing.
Work with Dr. Katie One-on-One — a Fasting Consult to build your personalized fasting plan: https://l.bttr.to/L05ab

Or a Health & Healing Consult for a deeper conversation about your diagnosis, your options, and what’s worth exploring next: https://l.bttr.to/Abcf1
Join Dr. Katie for a three-day guided reset to slow down, listen to your body, and practice a more loving relationship with yourself—with daily live calls, expert support, and community alongside you: https://3-day-reset.vercel.app/
Follow Dr. Katie Deming on Instagram
Watch on Youtube
DISCLAIMER: The Born to Heal Podcast is intended for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for seeking professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Individual medical histories are unique; therefore, this episode should not be used to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease without consulting your healthcare provider.
A thought-provoking podcast explores cancer through the lens of holistic medicine and functional medicine, discussing causes of cancer, metabolic health, and unconventional approaches like water fasting, fasting and autophag...