Pain-Free Athlete's Podcast
Are you tired of feeling pain? Are you recovering from a surgery? Do you want to learn how to stay active and pain-free? I'll share tips and strategies that can help you stay safe and pain-free while you're working out. I'll also interview experts in the field of fitness, rehabilitation and pain management.
Pain-Free Athlete's Podcast
Overcoming Cancer and Embracing Holistic Health: Georges Cordoba's Inspiring Journey
Georges Cordoba shares his extraordinary journey of battling cancer, revealing how he shifted from traditional treatments to holistic practices guided by faith and a commitment to wellness. His story inspires listeners to take control of their health, emphasizing the importance of mindset, nutrition, and emotional support in the healing process.
• Georges's athletic background and early achievements
• The emotional and mental impacts of a cancer diagnosis
• Transitioning from conventional treatments to holistic approaches
• Importance of nutrition and pH balance in healing
• Connection between emotional well-being and physical health
• The role of support networks in recovery
• Insights into cultivating a balanced lifestyle for long-term wellness
• Georges's call to action: taking charge of one's health journey
Listeners are invited to engage in a transformative discussion that offers practical strategies for preventing chronic diseases. Georges's journey from technology to health advocacy is a beacon of hope, encouraging everyone to create their unique health roadmap for 2025 and inspire change through personal resilience and determination.
Georges’ Information:
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Website: https://www.qualevita.com/
Best-Selling Book: https://www.amazon.com/Beating-Odds-Holistic-Overcome-Advanced/dp/1948382083/ref=sr_1_1?crid=370CBQP0FZ1LO&keywords=beating+the+odds+book&qid=1679587124&sprefix=beatint+the+odds%2Caps%2C123&sr=8-1
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The Pain-Free Podcast is presented solely for general information, education, and entertainment purposes. Any information presented in this podcast is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional diagnosis. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast or website is at the user’s own risk. As always, users should not disregard or delay obtaining medical advice for any medical or mental health condition that they may have and should seek the assistance of their healthcare professionals for any such conditions.
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Welcome to the Pain-Free Athlete Podcast. I'm your host, dana Jones. I am a certified personal trainer and I'm here to help you achieve your fitness goals without pain. In each episode, I'll share tips and strategies that will help you stay safe and pain-free while you're working out. I'll also interview experts in the field of fitness and pain management. So if you're ready to learn how to stay active and pain-free, then subscribe to the Pain-Free Athlete Podcast today. Hi everyone and welcome to the Pain-Free Athlete Podcast. I'm your host, dana Jones, and today I'm accompanied by a special guest, Georges. Would you like to introduce yourself and tell us who you are and what you're doing? And you know?
Speaker 2:why you're here, for sure, and thank you for inviting me, dana. My name is Georges Cordoba and I'm a cancer survivor. And I'm a cancer survivor. I am from Caracas, venezuela, south America. My parents are from Greece and Spain, but they migrated and I was born in Venezuela and I live in the United States since 1980. I came in 1978 to learn English as an exchange student, but I loved the country so much I was located. They located me in Illinois, the Midwest, in a small farm town. It was a farming town, but it was just the best way to learn English. Nobody spoke Spanish, but anyway, yeah, I'm a cancer survivor and I'm delighted to be interviewed by you.
Speaker 1:I appreciate you coming out here. I think the you know why I was attracted to who you are and your story is because you kind of took that path. You kind of took that path, you know, of being a elite athlete let's just call it what it is and you know having a elite career and then, of course, having cancer kind of drop in and change your trajectory. If you know you want to go and talk about your, your skills as a human, that would be great, yeah yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2:Great question. But yes, I started. I played tennis since I was four years old and, as I was growing up, my dad played Davis Cup. So everyone was, hey. My name in Spanish is Jorge, but they would say, hey, george, are you going to be as good as your dad? And that would put a lot of pressure on me. But I did love it and I was pretty natural about it, and so when I was 12, I was selected to the national junior team, and that is from age of 12 to 18, then you're an adult, you can't play juniors anymore, but as I was approaching the age of 18, I was able to come to the States and play.
Speaker 2:It's almost like the Wimbledon for juniors in Miami, florida Flamingo Park, and it was called the Orange Bowl Tennis Tournament and there were some coaches there checking us out and I was approached by several of them, many of us. I did good in that tournament. I lost in the semifinals, and so I was offered a full, full ride scholarship in different places when it was the university of tennessee, uh, central florida and new mexico state university, which is where I live now. I moved back here two years ago, two and a half years ago and and that was really a life changer, because now I have an opportunity to study engineering. I studied computer science and then I did some work in software development for free. All I had to do is maintain my position in the team and have good grades. In those days NCAA rules changed, but it was full ride, right.
Speaker 2:You know room and board, everything. And so I graduated in 84, and then I was offered a job in Florida, South Florida, in Buccaratone, with IBM and I started basically my technology career with IBM. It was a career of 25 years. The last five years I was working already as a chief technology officer, CTO, managing some great projects and everything was great.
Speaker 2:And all of a sudden, three weeks, three weeks, Dana after my mother passes of cancer, I was diagnosed with the disease. And I must say that on my Greek side of the family, when I looked at the landscape, I really felt I was doomed Because, wow, it was everybody that I really, as a youngster my grandparent, dad, my grandfather, his two brothers, my grandmother's two of her three sisters also passed of cancer. Then my godfather, my mother's cousin it was like two families migrated from Greece to Venezuela, so he passes of cancer, then my uncle, my mother's brother, passes of cancer and then my dear mom passes of cancer, and so three weeks after that you know it's funny because the mind works if you remember the secret I feared this disease since I was four, Since I was four, Dana.
Speaker 1:What resists, persists right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just attracted it and you know we may talk on that later. But cancer is not hereditary. What you inherit really is the lifestyle, the culture, what you eat. If you are, you know a culture that is always partying and not sleeping enough, that stuff is what you know. And then when you're becoming an adult, if you don't have a good lifestyle, you're probably in the list of getting some sort of chronic disease. So I was inflicted. I was, you know, already a CTO for a couple years. But I had no idea.
Speaker 2:When I first got my diagnosis, first thing I thought was my Greek family. And then I just for just a moment there, because it was an emotional roller coaster when you get the diagnosis. I thought it was an emotional roller coaster when you get the diagnosis, I thought it was a mistake. I told my wife, let's get another. Then I got really angry. Then I was anxious. We had five young kids at the time, blessed with five kids. Now we're grandparents. But I didn't think I would make this at the beginning. It was already stage three malignant melanoma and I really had no idea. No idea how much that was going to. Obviously, because of my experiences with family, I knew what was coming of my experiences with family. I knew I was coming, but I said that I was going to beat the odds and be the first family member from the Greek side. Interesting enough, nobody from my Spanish side, from the Spain side, had cancer at all. So I said I'll beat the odds, I'm going to be the first one surviving this disease. And I went on my journey. The first thing that really started to be tough was to continue to lead a large group in the startup that. I was a CTO at the time and I tried. I really tried but things when I started the chemos and, mind you, I fought this disease for 10 years. I have 10 surgeries on me I had metastasis in my brain, so I had four brain surgeries for craniotomies and two gamma knives. At the end of all that I still had two other tumors in my back lobe that were not operable and in my book I explain we don't have a lot of time, but my faith had a lot to do with those two tumors disappearing. But yeah, it was quite all right.
Speaker 2:On year eight I decided to um, to stop chemo and radio, traditional treatments or conventional treatments, because they were not not working for me. It was, uh, it was a, a cycle. Thank God for surgeries, by the way, and an amazing team, by the way, in the Sylvester Cancer Center and the University of Miami. That's where I was treated, and because I would not be talking to you, especially the neurosurgeon, that would be impossible. I mean, they told me so many things. I have some cavities, you may notice, but uh, um, yeah, on year eight, they gave me these capsules which, by the way, it was by year eight, we were pretty much, you know, tapping into our iras, 401ks, college funds for the kids, because, uh, you know, it was just a financial tsunami. We were doing well, but seven years, almost eight years of that, it was draining us. So I get these pills it was oral capsules, by the way $1,000 each capsule.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the oral. Did you have the oral chemo?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was capsules. That was already I mean, mean, I was already eight years. They tried everything on me for for for seven and a half years and they gave me this stuff. I was supposed to. Uh, it was the first time this act, any chemo, would penetrate the brain. The brain is is very, very tough to penetrate. It's very so. But this one apparently did. And so it was Monday to Friday one capsule a day, take a break on the weekend, and then again Monday to Friday.
Speaker 2:On my second Monday I really thought this capsule was killing me. My heart started pumping I don't know how many miles an hour. Really thought this sixth, uh, it was my sixth dose. It was gonna kill me. I was, I was having like arrhythmia, I felt like I had some sort of speed or something. I was like crawling all over, and at that time I really I've been thinking about it. It was eight years of nearly eight years of surgery, treatment, remission, recurrence, surgery, treatment, remission, recurrence. So I was tired. I was tired, pretty much nearly broke, and I was seeing no results.
Speaker 1:Let me ask you a question, because I'm sure there's people that have had family members that have gone through this. How do you get to that decision? Obviously you're being mindful and not everybody has the means that you may have had, because sometimes you end up passing away and leaving your family in financial ruin with all the medical bills and stuff like that. But how do you like I know that when some people make that decision, they're usually signing their death warrant, right, they're going okay, this is going to stop. You know, so I'm done. You know I'm going to done, I'm done suffering, I'm done fighting, and then they kind of succumb, like what was your mindset in terms of you know, I'm going to stop because the treatment is worse than the actual disease?
Speaker 2:That was exactly the reason. I mean it was not working for me. I mentioned that I'm a person of faith and that really helped me a lot, but I also, as an athlete, I learned so many things. Tennis is really a one-person sport. You either win or you get your butt kicked. There's no one, there's no tie or anything. You might be playing your best friend lose by a tiebreaker.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the tiebreaker but you lose. Yeah, I wish you would be tied, but um, um and so that, really, that mindset of a competitive mindset that I grew up with with tennis also, it makes you to be a little in a way, in a little bit conceited, because it's you right, there's a certain amount of ego that has to be there yes, yes and so so that helped a bunch.
Speaker 2:I learned as a in in junior national team how to visualize how to do mental rehearsing for better playing or coming back from a match. Or like I say, my dad would show up and I would just mess up left and right, right, I would get so nervous I could not really go over that and I was already in my 20s. You know I'm playing tournaments. He would come and see me and so that I used a lot and um and I also did a little bit of nutrition in college to have an edge. Uh, when I would and play matches, energy and stuff like that. There were some books at the moment by the top players, women and men. Men and women in the world were writing books Martina Navratilova, jimmy Connors. This is back in the 70s.
Speaker 1:That's my time when I was watching.
Speaker 2:And then in the 80s I started using that and so um, but the main reason really was that I, I, really and and I think we discussed this earlier um, healing, I, I, just, I was somebody that always did mental rehearsing and meditation just to slow down and, especially being sick, I tried that from the very beginning. And what was really holding me when I realized that, you know, intuition is our best coach and I, you know, funny enough, I was telling one of my sons, who actually now has three kids, he's changing careers, he's 34, and he's old I don't know, he said look, your dad changed careers at 57. That was really my second leap of faith. At first it was stopping the traditional treatments and go natural. At first it was stopping the traditional treatments and go natural and going natural.
Speaker 2:When I surrendered to the process because I just went to a chapel after I took that pill, my wife wasn't there. I waited, I didn't want to drive, I was just really not feeling well. So when she came I asked her. My sister came and stayed with the kids. They were young. She came to church with me and I went to a chapel. I just wanted up on.
Speaker 2:This is how I have it on my best-selling book, but I just kneeled and surrendered, I cried, I don't know how long it was crying. I said, lord, you know, these guys are trying, these guys are trying but it's not working for me and it's just, I, just, I'm tired of, you know, this vicious cycle. I don't, I can't live like this. I, you know, and I had this, this commitment, I was going to beat the odds and so, plus, I had this motivation of five young kids. What a blessing to have five. You know, we had two boys and twin boys, and then Claudia, our, our baby, who turned 30 now in December. And so I, I surrender and I just basically said you know, give me some time, give me some time to be, to see my kids grow up, maybe finish high school, and my daughter we're Christian Catholics and I see my daughter have her first communion, the important things, you know.
Speaker 2:And we were doing well, my wife was doing well too in the medical world and so, but, yeah, eight years into this and seeing my kids, uh, losing their dear grandmother and then, less than a month later, daddy has the same disease. They imagine 10 years. They went into their. The two older ones went through their teens and, and actually, claudia, seven years old, when I finally, on my 10th year, was cancer-free, she was 17. So they had to go through this. So that was a motivation, but I surrendered.
Speaker 2:I knew I had this confidence that you know, I always said this can't be, this doesn't make sense. Lord, you blessed me with five beautiful kids. You know I really worked hard for my career in tennis and in dent technology. My wife is striving as an ultrasound tech doing cardiovascular and aesthetics. You know what happened? We take him camping doing this. Isn't that good christians, you know? And so.
Speaker 2:So I made the decision in that chapel and, uh, my wife wasn't too fond of it. And then, obviously, my daughter's godparents. They're both doctors, and Stefano, who I have in the back of my book as a credit, he's a surgeon and all of them and other people that I knew, because we would play dominoes with the doctors and they were saying, george, no, you're making a big mistake, keep going with what you're doing. And I say, look, guys, I am sure that this is it for me and this other stuff, that I'm going to go take the holistic health journey to heal myself and some things. The moment I surrender to god and I made that decision right there. Leap of faith um, I in my book I call all these angels in the form of humans that appeared in my life the universe conspired like uh, some famous authors say, like Coelho.
Speaker 2:He said you know, the universe will conspire when you take your faith and put it into action. It's not a magic one. So as a warrior, as a tennis player, I started to visualize cancer as my toughest opponent. I looked for cheerleading, you know. I opened up because many people, when they have cancer particularly, they close down. Sometimes not even family members know it, and that is not good. That is the opposite of what you should do.
Speaker 1:I think there's a certain amount of I don't know. I mean, I think there's an avoidance of the self-pity. Right Is that? I don't want you feeling bad for me.
Speaker 1:I don't want our relationship changing as a result of you having this diagnosis and I also feel like as Americans and I don't know what other people do in other countries, but I feel like in Americans it's almost embarrassing. You know, like I was, I will or two things right. So either you know, I don't know what I did to deserve this, and then they kind of wallow in it, or I'm weak and this got me and that's not okay, you know, and it's not a you know I tell my students all the time. It's. You know, everything has to do with your interpretation.
Speaker 1:You know cancer was the diagnosis. It didn't say, oh, we're going to seek out george's and we're going to nail him because, I don't know, you stole a piece of gum when he was four years old. You know it's. It's not that you direct, but a lot of people do feel like you know they bring it on and you know your family is obviously a case study of the fact that you know this semi truck is rolling down the road at them and they're like we're going to get it.
Speaker 1:You know and you're all you know. You can step off the road and not get mowed down by it. The road and not get mowed down by it, but you know, I think that's also in. You know. Forgive me, but I also feel like it's kind of new way of thinking of right is that you can avoid, you know, disease or you can combat it, but not as a war. You know what I mean. Like it's just like you said, it's like with that surrender piece. That is the key right. I think if you just said I'm done and you know I'm going to leave it to God and not do anything else, right, that's not. You know, I'm not as faithful as you, but I would say that's not God's intent right, you would not have you know technology, you would not intent right, you would not have technology, you would not have the surgeons, you would not have any of those things without God. So it's just a part of your process.
Speaker 2:Exactly, you got it. Yeah, and basically, when I say these angels appeared in my life, really the first thing that happened was my, my double's partner and I. He grew up with me tennis player too. We were roommates here in new mexico state. He got married now, this is later on.
Speaker 2:I was diagnosed at 42 and um, she found out she was in holistic stuff, uh, since she was 18 or 19, and she found out that I was going, that I stopped and um, so she called me and said look, uh, I would love for you to go to see this, this uh, naturopath in palm beach. Uh, he actually helped my sister rid of uh, hepatitis, um, and uh. And so I say yeah, I mean I was open to receive, uh, yes, something that is something that I write in the book, uh, about giving and receiving and how miracles happen, and um, so I was open, I really was open for anything. And uh, and that was the first thing I did. I went to see this guy and um, and the the first thing he does is is telling me I was already, I already made my decision, and uh, um, which, by the way, I have to say, the first person I told uh, other than my wife I was like oh, it better be your wife yeah, no, but it was.
Speaker 2:It was my doctor, my oncologist, bless his soul. He. I have clients that have done trying to do the same and that you know the oncologist would say, well, if you stop, I'm not gonna see you anymore. That happens and that's pretty sad. But this, uh, my oncologist, it was the other way around. He says are you sure george is like three times. And they say, yes, I am, but I would appreciate if you continue to do follow-ups on me. And he agreed. He said, okay, we'll do that. And if good, what you're trying to do now naturally doesn't work, you can always come and maybe there's something new up there, you know, approved by the f, fda and so forth. So he was the first one.
Speaker 2:And then I went to see this naturopath in Palm Beach and take note here, you know, for your audience, and he I mean for me. And you asked me to speak a little bit of what I do with the four legs of the table, but one of them is really the physical self. We'll get into that. But this guy just says he said right away, look, do you know that if you have a balanced pH in your system, your disease doesn't grow? You can't, your disease doesn't grow, you can't, it just can't grow.
Speaker 2:And I said, no, I didn't know that. And do you know that because of all these years of chemo, you're probably very acidic and probably your doctors also tell you to eat some stuff that you shouldn't, because they're not nutritionists. So the first thing he does is we're going to do a scan, non-invasive, and he put some wires in my head, in my hands, in my heart and in my feet and he started and he had a screening from me in my feet and he started and he had a screening from, from me. This, this um scan, by the way, was not approved by the fda.
Speaker 2:He got it from germany, I believe, or sweden. So we start, and immediately when, when he given maybe a two, three minutes, I I can see myself inside and I was lit up. All over the place it looked like fireworks. And he says you see, all the stuff, that's acidity, that's acid in your body. So, as I told you, we're going to work on balance your pH. And guess what? All disease, all disease start in an acidic body, not only cancer, all chronic disease. So if we manage to take that acidity out, your cancer cannot grow there. You're actually taking their environment where they like to grow and strive and multiply. You're going to end up just letting it go. They're going to have to disappear because they'll starve to death. And so that made so much sense to me.
Speaker 2:I went and did a 21-day, like he said, re-tux reset and it was completely because of my condition. I was very, very, very thin. He says have your eggs in the morning, have some eggs or something, some protein, but anything else. It was probiotics, prebiotics and all juicing and basically veggies. And 21 days later I go see him. Well, actually, I don't know. I finished my first phase it was two phases and we do a scan again and uh, wow, what a difference. What a difference. I have to say. The first seven days were really bad. I was having headaches, I even had a, basically a migraine they were. And he he actually warned me. He says your body's going to be going through some change. I mean, you've been doing this for seven years, almost eight. But after that and the things that happened there, he gave me some pads to put on my feet at night like diapers.
Speaker 1:The first week those things were like somebody pooped in them yeah, yeah, they get real dark with all the toxins coming out. Yeah, I mean, your skin is your biggest organ yes, absolutely.
Speaker 2:And so, anyway, um, I went through the second one. I was feeling so good and, uh, from then on, and you know, I, I just I, I took things. You know, not everything works for everyone, even the types of chemo that they think, well, you know, you have breast cancer, your friend has breast cancer, they'll give you the same chemo. Everybody's different. Some people say, well, you know, I, I'm gonna go vegan, you know, to clean myself. Others go and do keto or paleo. As a as a as a nutritionist, I don't believe in those extremes and actually, in my case, from my experience, that, uh, just the beginning it was for detoxing, but then I got back to the, a normal plate good carbs, good fats and good proteins, whether they were animal or not, because I found out, by the way, that, depending on your blood type and your metabolism, you do need some, uh, some animal protein. So, uh, but what happened and you have mentioned that you wanted me to touch on this when I basically Google was already very good and I was reading a lot, I took ownership of my disease. In other words, I took the power that I was giving to my doctor and gained it back for me, and I started looking.
Speaker 2:I found out about how emotional a disease starts. The root disease is emotional, and why, you wonder? Well, emotions create cortisol and serotonin. So, without you knowing, you are producing acidity in your body. So I looked into that. I read a book and somebody gave me another book by the title Emotional Intelligence, but it was from there, like I say, angels that came and say here, read this and stuff. And so I found out that people will get recurrence until they find the root cause of what created the cancer.
Speaker 2:All starts in the gut, and I mentioned this before. The last thing I'll say on the physical body, the last thing I'll say on the physical body as a nutritionist, I can tell you that and you asked me about this in our pre-podcast but 25% is what we eat and 75% is who we are when we're eating, and basically we don't know this and this is why we're one of the unhealthiest countries in the world. Almost 50% of us have one or two chronic diseases and it all has to do with the gut. What we do with the gut, we don't understand this process. I actually specialize on the digestive tract and how nutrition and digestion go hand in hand, and so if you're stressed out. You're producing serotonin Right. The sympathetic branch of your nervous system is saying you know, dana is stressed out. This digestion is not going to go well.
Speaker 1:And you know how Dana eats.
Speaker 1:When Dana's stressed out Is, I try to shove everything down my throat as quickly as possible, because I figure I got 15 other things to do and I don't really have time for this, but my body's telling me I'm hungry, so I'm going to feel it now. You know the chewing piece like. I just read the study that talked about the fact that soft foods are like the death of us. Um, is that? Because we're not, you know, utilizing your teeth, right all those things, because you're not actually applying pressure by chewing enough. And um, you know so when you go and you're doing like soups and you know all that kind of stuff or all the, I mean when you look at literally, probably about 85 of the food that we eat is soft.
Speaker 1:You know, from the hamburgers to, you know there's. We're not gnawing on bones or doing the things that allow our digestion to actually kick in. Normally, we're just, you know, dumping. You know the dump truck is backing up to our digestive system and saying, here you go, here's 10 pounds of meat, congratulations, work your way through it. So no wonder why we're all constipated.
Speaker 2:And yes, absolutely you know why belly?
Speaker 1:fat and all that other stuff absolutely.
Speaker 2:You just said it. The average american choose six times before they swallow. And they don't understand what you just said. Digestion starts in the mouth, so we need to choose. So the saliva enzymes process the food before with, whether you know it's soft or a little, let's say, a steak. But if you swallow before processing the food, the stomach does not know what to do.
Speaker 2:This beautiful system manufacturing, the manufacturer of a digestion is just amazing how it was designed. So the stomach gets this bump and it says, man, I don't know what to do with this. So the decision, the natural decision there is that it stores it to fat. And so this fat eventually becomes acidic and starts linking into your, your tissues and that's how the disease, that's why it starts in the gut. And uh, not only that, but you know, because you ate in a fast, or you were stressed out or eating too fast, uh, digestion did not go well, I mean, nutrients did not go to your bloodstream. Guess what? Half hour later, you're hungry again, exactly, and you do the same thing.
Speaker 2:So here's the secret for a diet, you know. It is say, you know, relax and digest. And there are ways to trick your system to do this. And there are ways to trick your system to do this. So one of them is basically breathe in and breathe out three or four times so you can trick your sympathetic system saying, hey, I think Dana is relaxed, so now you're going to digest and relax and digest. And I think someone asked me maybe it was you how can you? It takes practice to do this One of the things that I do and I'm going to take an opportunity to explain what that holistic coaching is, because we're not just a physical body, we have emotional and emotional self, a mental self and a spiritual self, and I'm not talking about religion. Uh, you could be religious and not spiritual, or spiritual not religious or both. I grew up with jesuits and I really, uh, you know, love some of the things that that Jesus as a man did not. You know the institutions.
Speaker 1:That guy, that guy, that guy.
Speaker 2:And my best coach and so, but the holistic set. So what I do is I help my clients in each of those legs of the table, because if one of them is missing missing they cannot eat in that table. We probably die. And, and I find out that there's two components that are very weak all the time, actually sometimes even three, because of the way, because of our lifestyle and what we do to our beautiful bodies, but, uh, it's usually emotional and lack of spirituality.
Speaker 2:I have this, this um, this exercise called the will of life, and I don't have it in in the giveaway, but I'm going to send one to you. You can, you can uh, um, you know you can share with your partner and uh and um, and it's really good because it's going to identify your weakest links in your life, whether it's spiritual, career, whatever you know, social life and stuff like that. But so I work each of these legs of the table, and one that is very powerful as well is the mind, and which has 13 rules, and this is something that you're an expert on, because you know a lot of this pain. We could actually control it with our head, with our minds, and so, but out of this, 13 rules which is in the giveaway. There is one that in the West, especially when you get sick, here's this rule the mind goes to what is familiar.
Speaker 2:And what is familiar for us in the West Europe and America is that we run you basically run to an oncologist when you hear the word cancer. We have no other option in our minds. We are trained to do that. And not only that, we do that and we give all our power to the doctor, which is really your employee. You're employing this guy and so and I say this because through my process, I use the rules of the mind without really knowing that there were rules.
Speaker 2:But I read some books that I was given when I was competing Right now in NCAA tennis, I got a hand of some great books about the subconscious mind and how it works with the conscious mind and how it works with a conscious mind. But then, when I became a hypnotherapist and I was given clinically the 13 rules of the mind, I'm thinking, wow, so I really spent. That's why it's a three-month process. I mean you can't really change habits and beliefs. Oh, absolutely not. Yeah, and so, and it goes longer sometimes because the client says I mean, I, I got it now, but I want to you to keep me accountable for a little more. You know and and uh, but healing happens from the inside out, dana, and um, um, you know we are, we're getting better. Uh, there's eight million, eight million survivors going natural and one of them it's not like oh, it's his case is a miracle. No, we are, we have that miracle inside of us.
Speaker 2:But we have to learn, uh, other things. And then you make a decision. Everybody's different. Like I said before, only three clients in seven and a half years have decided right off the bat oh, I'll do the same as you did. This makes sense. The other ones, they stay, and I, I help them visualize that this chemo is really destroying all those cells. And maybe, you know, with other stuff that we're going to work on, they're going to have a better chance to recuperate faster for the next chemo and little by little they're going to start actually healing faster, to the point that the doctor is going to say I don't know, I'm going to reduce the chemo because you're right, they're going to outrun their treatments yes.
Speaker 1:Which is great. Well, George, thank you so much for sharing your story. I really appreciate hearing it and I'm sure there's so many things that our listeners can get from it. So for those of you listening, George has been very generous with the giveaway. Do you want to talk a little bit about what's in the giveaway?
Speaker 2:yes, yes, uh, I don't know if you can hear the barking back yes, it's a dog day.
Speaker 2:We're good, it's all right yeah, um, yeah, poor thing and a puppy, you know. So, yeah, yeah, this, this giveaway has about a little bit of everything I do in 90 days, okay, and it has a little bit on the emotional part. You know emotional health and I'm offering there two meditations that are recorded. One is a forgiveness meditation. I didn't touch about that, that's a big one, but I do know. I have to say that once I found out the root cause of mine, I never had any more recurrences and it was emotional, it was about forgiving. So there's a forgiveness meditation for men and one for women recorded and I have an e-book in there that explains about the pH balance, what is pH and what are the figures.
Speaker 2:You can get the strips that I've talked about there in Walgreens or any pharmacy, cvs, any pharmacy, probably even in Kmart and places like that, you know. So I have that e-book there. It's called A Balanced pH on your Health. I'm offering a table there that I call the alkaline table, and this is key because, like I said, I don't believe in extremes. So this table will describe what are the foods that are acidic and what are the foods that are alkaline, and you'll get a good idea if you're having a steak? What alkaline like veggies and stuff you can.
Speaker 2:Those dark leafy greens are good to balance, so you can have a balanced pH plate and that's really what it's all about. That's in there. I'm sharing the rules of the mind in there as well. Some tips about water, how to drink water it's a document with that and and a very important one how to sleep. That's a that's a key component of preventing disease and changing your habits. I have to say real quick most people, not only they chew like we've talked about that, but they do that their heaviest meal is at night two hours an hour before they go to bed.
Speaker 2:So instead of your body spending the energy detoxing and restoring, it's really digesting. It's got to make its mind up right.
Speaker 1:It's got to decide where it's really digesting. It's got to make its mind up right.
Speaker 2:It's got to decide where it's going to go where's the energy going so you see how we we we get ourselves sick, but the good news is that we can actually bring ourselves back to health. So that's in there. I do have have a few supplements that I recommend for the immune system and there's a few other things, but really the value of that giveaway, it's up there, but you know what? Oh, there's an opportunity and you can do this. It's going to be free. You could actually use my calendar. I sent it to you, then I in it'll be in the show.
Speaker 2:Get a clarity call and I can help you. And this is really. I put three of my first, my first three sessions, in one and I will help you create a roadmap to your health for 2025.
Speaker 1:Fantastic.
Speaker 2:And whether you are sick or you want to improve your health, it's there and then you can just follow it. You know it has to do with goal setting, but measurable goals, and the intention is that you are going to end up the year healthier one way or another. Another if you're ill and if you or if you want to improve your health in general and not become one of the statistics of chronic disease in the US and so take advantage of that. It's 100% complementary. But, as you can see and I told Dana a few days ago this is what I was born to do. I mean, I was a cto. I loved. I loved technology, helping companies become more productive and improve their bottom line that was great. But helping people, giving people hope and understand that they can do stuff from the inside out, is priceless. In my book, I said my survival experience was a blessing because God gave me the chance to sing the song I was born to sing, which is helping people.
Speaker 1:That's amazing. Thank you so much, Georges.
Speaker 2:Thank you, Dana. I appreciate it and we'll see each other, I'm sure For sure. Take care. I appreciate it and we'll see each other, I'm sure For sure. Take care. Thanks a lot.
