HEAL with Kelly

What if a cancer diagnosis that feels like the end of your world could actually become the beginning of a completely new and empowering relationship with your body, your life, and yourself?

In this episode of HEAL with Kelly, I sit down with Elina Fuhrman — Cancer Healing Strategist, epigenetics expert, therapeutic chef, bestselling author of Soupelina’s Soup Cleanse, and founder of the Healing Journey Method and the Fuhrman Protocol. After discovering a lump just before her 40th birthday and receiving an aggressive breast cancer diagnosis, Elina found herself overwhelmed by fear, conflicting information, and treatment decisions that felt impossibly urgent. So she turned to the skill that had shaped her former career as an Emmy-nominated CNN journalist: she started asking questions. Relentlessly and fervently — like her life depended on it.

And those questions took her places she never expected.

We explore what it means to become an active participant in your health journey rather than simply handing over your power, why Elina believes there are important parts of the cancer conversation we’re still missing, and how her search for answers ultimately became about far more than treating a diagnosis.

We also talk about the connection between nourishment and healing, shedding old identities and emotional patterns, intuition, and what can happen when life forces us to finally listen to the parts of ourselves we may have ignored for years. Elina shares how her own search for a more nourishing way to eat ultimately led her into the kitchen, where her exploration of herbs, plants, and therapeutic soups became another unexpected chapter of her healing journey.

Elina’s story challenges some deeply held ideas about illness, healing, and even what it means to “fight” cancer. Whether you’re navigating a diagnosis, supporting someone you love, or simply want to feel more empowered in your own health, this conversation is an invitation to ask different questions — and perhaps see healing through an entirely new (and more hopeful) lens.

Key Moments You'll Love ✨ :
🎙️ [2:39] Her World Went Into Freefall the Moment They Said Cancer
💊 [4:05] She Went Through Five Oncologists Before Making Any Decision
🧬 [6:27] The Tumor Is Not the Cancer — Why Everyone Gets This Wrong
⏳ [25:00] You Have More Time Than They Tell You After a Diagnosis
💔 [30:37] Therapy Cracked Her Open — and She Heard Herself Say It Was Her Marriage
✈️ [10:24] Escaped the Soviet Union at 20 With One Tiny Suitcase
🧘 [35:29] A Receptionist Said "Have You Tried Meditation?" — It Changed Everything
🌿 [39:53] Ayurveda in India, Shamans in Brazil and Her Whole World Expanding
🍲 [58:33] How She Started Making Therapeutic Soups From Chinese Medicine Herbs
💡 [1:00:40] She Married Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine and Naturopathy Into One Protocol
🌱 [44:12] Her Three Month Healing Journey Protocol and Why Cells Need That Long
❤️ [1:04:47] There Is No Diagnosis That Cannot Be Reversed — She Truly Believes It

LINKS:
Elina Fuhrman’s website: https://www.soupelina.com/
Elina on Instagram @elinafuhrman
Soupelina’s Soup Cleanse Cookbook: https://amzn.to/4c6Wa35

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Could some of the symptoms you’ve learned to live with — brain fog, fatigue, headaches, hormonal changes, or simply not feeling like yourself — have less to do with what’s happening inside your body and more to do with the environment you’re living in?

In this episode of the HEAL with Kelly Podcast, I sit down with Ariana Thacker, chemical engineer and founder and CEO of MoldCo, whose own unexpected health crisis led her to investigate one of the most overlooked environmental factors affecting our health: mold exposure.

We talk about why mold-related illness can be so difficult to recognize, why conventional testing often completely misses it, and the surprising reason two people living in the exact same home can have completely different experiences. Ariana also challenges some of the biggest assumptions we have about where mold exists — including why newer homes aren’t necessarily in the clear.

We explore the emerging connections researchers are seeing between our environments and everything from brain and immune health to hormones, metabolism, and chronic illness. And Ariana shares what she wishes she had known before getting sick, how to begin thinking differently about the health of your home, and why mold may only be one piece of a much bigger environmental conversation.



If you’ve ever had symptoms you couldn’t quite explain, wondered whether your home could be affecting how you feel, or simply want to know what may be hiding in the places you spend the most time, this conversation will change the way you look at your environment — and your health.

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Key Moments You'll Love ✨ :
🏠 [2:01] 50 Million Americans Impacted by Mold
🧬 [2:33] The Gene That Makes Mold Exposure Devastating
🤒 [4:23] From Crushing It at Work to Slurring Her Words
🔍 [7:31] Her Air Test Showed 34,000 Spores Per Meter
💊 [10:34] First Month on a Binder and Her Brain Came Back
🧪 [12:17] The HLA Test That Shows How Vulnerable You Are
🚪 [13:47] 75% of People Get Better Just by Leaving
🏘️ [14:09] Your Rights When a Landlord Won't Fix the Problem
🔧 [37:08] How to Find a Mold Inspector You Can Actually Trust
🦠 [39:48] CIRS Explained and Why Medicine Misses It Completely
🧫 [40:00] Actinobacteria — The Hidden Threat Beyond Mold
🧴 [46:09] Binders as a Longevity Hack Even If You're Not Sick
LINKS

MoldCo website: https://www.moldco.com/

Free Questionnaire: https://access.moldco.com/signs

MoldCo on Instagram @themoldcompany

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What if Alzheimer’s doesn’t begin when you start forgetting names or struggling with memory but decades earlier, when subtle changes are happening in your metabolism, inflammation, and brain?



With Alzheimer’s in my own family, this conversation with Dr. David Perlmutter felt especially personal. Dr. Perlmutter is a board-certified neurologist, six-time New York Times bestselling author, and one of the leading voices challenging how we think about brain health and cognitive decline. His new book, Brain Defenders, explores emerging research around microglia — the immune cells of the brain — and why they may hold an important key to protecting our brains as we age.



We dive into why Dr. Perlmutter believes we need to start thinking about Alzheimer’s prevention in our 30s and 40s, the surprising connection between metabolic health and the brain, and how our everyday choices may influence whether our brain’s immune cells protect us or work against us.

We also get into the role of ultra-processed foods, blood sugar and insulin, the gut microbiome, environmental toxins, sleep, inflammation, mitochondria, vitamin D, and some of the biomarkers Dr. Perlmutter believes are worth knowing. And for women, we explore what happens to the brain during menopause, the latest conversation around estrogen and hormone replacement therapy, and why women face a greater risk of Alzheimer’s.



Dr. Perlmutter also shares fascinating new research that could change how we think about Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, MS, traumatic brain injury, and other neurological conditions — including why the future of brain health may look very different from the traditional “wait for symptoms, then treat” approach.

This episode left me feeling incredibly hopeful about how much influence we may actually have over the future of our brains. If you’ve ever worried about your memory, your family history, or simply want to stay sharp and resilient as you age, this is a conversation you don’t want to miss.

Key Moments You'll Love ✨ :

🧠 [1:50] Only 6.8% of Americans Are Metabolically Healthy — and Your Brain Pays the Price

🍟 [7:31] One Handful of Chips a Day Raises Your Alzheimer's Risk by 13%

💊 [9:18] The Alzheimer's Drugs the FDA Approved That Don't Work — and Kill

🦠 [12:47] You're Eating for Billions — How Your Gut Microbiome Drives Brain Health

🌱 [30:01] 70% of Alzheimer's Patients Stopped Declining With Just Diet and Exercise

🧬 [31:16] One Brain Scan That Shows If Your Microglia Have Turned Against You

💡 [35:51] Flashing Light 40 Times Per Second — MIT's Alzheimer's Breakthrough

😴 [46:32] Bad Sleep Leaves Toxic Proteins in Your Brain Overnight

☀️ [47:57] Why Vitamin D Deficiency Is a Massive Alzheimer's Risk Factor

📊 [50:44] The Blood Test That Predicts Alzheimer's Before Symptoms Appear

🩸 [52:32] Get a Fasting Insulin Test — Not Just a Blood Sugar Test

🦠 [55:41] Long Covid Shifted Microglia in 12% of the Planet — Here's What Helps



LINKS

Dr. David Perlmutter’s website:https://drperlmutter.com/

Dr. David Perlmutter on Instagram @davidperlmutter

Brain Defenders: Harness the Power of Your Immune Cells to Protect Your Brain for Life book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4glvlcH

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Do you struggle to get good sleep? The reason you’re exhausted, waking up at 3 a.m., or struggling to feel like yourself might surprise you. And likely has to do with sneaky and quietly disruptive sleep habits.

In this episode of the HEAL with Kelly Podcast, I sit down with world renowned sleep expert Dr. Michael Breus, PhD, a double board-certified Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Sleep Specialist known as The Sleep Doctor. After nearly 25 years in the field, he has a refreshingly simple message: we may be making wellness — and sleep — far more complicated than it needs to be.

There is a ton of information jam packed in this episode. We explore the fascinating science of our individual sleep chronotypes (I’m a Lion, what are you?!) and how understanding your body’s natural rhythm could change the way you approach not only sleep, but your entire day. Dr. Breus shares some surprisingly simple sleep tips that challenge many of the things we’ve been taught about getting a good night’s rest.

We tackle some of the biggest questions around sleep — from those frustrating middle-of-the-night wake-ups, to menopause, sleep apnea, melatonin, sleep trackers, caffeine, alcohol, and the everyday habits that may be affecting us more than we realize.

And we go beyond sleep itself, exploring the fascinating world of dreams, the connection between sleep and emotional healing, and why the timing of everything from your morning routine to intimacy may matter more than you think.

This conversation made me look at sleep in an entirely new way. Rather than chasing the perfect nighttime routine, what if better sleep actually begins with what you do the moment you wake up?

If you’re ready to understand your sleep differently and discover simple ways to feel more rested and energized, this episode is for you.

Key Moments You'll Love ✨ :
⏰ [0:30] Wake Up at the Same Time Every Day — Here's the Biology
🦁 [2:40] Lions, Bears, Wolves and Dolphins — What's Your Chronotype?
🐬 [9:27] The Fourth Chronotype Nobody Talks About
🔥 [11:52] The Best Time to Have Sex Based on Your Hormones
☕ [14:09] Wait 90 Minutes Before Your First Coffee
🌡️ [22:49] Why You Wake Up at 3am — and the Exact Fix
😮 [27:53] The Sleep Doctor Has Sleep Apnea and Didn't Know It
👩 [32:42] How Women's Sleep Apnea Gets Misdiagnosed as Depression
🛏️ [34:31] The Truth About Toxic Mattresses
💭 [42:46] Dreams Are Emotional Metabolism — What's Really Happening
🦷 [45:14] Why Everyone on Earth Has the Teeth Falling Out Dream
🧠 [49:31] How to Remember Your Dreams — and When Not To
✨ [50:20] Lucid Dreaming for PTSD and Trauma Healing
💊 [1:00:12] Sleep Is a Quality Game — Not a Quantity Game
⚠️ [1:01:00] Why Melatonin Is More Dangerous Than You Think
🧬 [1:05:18] His Exact Supplement Stack for Better Sleep
😔 [1:08:03] A Few Bad Nights of Sleep Can Make You Believe Dark Thoughts

LINKS

Sleep Doctor’s website: https://sleepdoctor.com/heal

Sleep Doctor on Instagram @thesleepdoctor

Dr. Michael Breus on Instagram @drmichaelbreus

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Grief has a script that we’ve been handed: five stages, one after another, until time supposedly heals you. But what if that was never the full story? There isn't one right way to grieve, and your path might look different.

In this episode, I sit down with Kate Doerge, certified grief coach, speaker, and author of Reimagining Grief, who has walked through more loss in one lifetime than most people can grasp. She lost her father unexpectedly to heart failure, then her mother to an accident, and then, most heart-breakingly, her 16-year-old daughter Penny. Out of this deep experience of loss, she's built a completely new way of moving through grief — one built on choice instead of waiting for it to pass.

We talk about what it actually means to feel grief in your body, the signs from her loved ones Kate can't explain away, and the choice that turned her family's indescribable loss into a way of helping thousands of others heal through loss.

This conversation made me think differently about grief, healing, and what it really means to honor the people we love. Whether you're grieving today or simply want to better support someone who is, I hope this episode reminds you that healing doesn't mean leaving your loved one behind, it means learning to carry their love with you as you keep on living.

Key Moments You'll Love ✨ :👼 [4:36] Penny's Diagnosis at Four Months Old — One in 300,000🌟 [8:38] Seven Brain Surgeries and She Never Let It Define Her🕯️ [10:19] In That Last Week They Filled the House With Music, Love and Light💔 [13:55] She Lost Her Father, Then Her Mother, Then the Unimaginable🌈 [16:03] Her Dad's Headstone Was a Rock From His Favorite Beach🏃 [30:13] Grief Lives in Your Body — If You Don't Move It, It Gets Stuck🌻 [33:53] The Day After Penny's Celebration They Launched Pennies Flight Foundation✨ [37:12] It's Not Your Lifespan That Matters — It's Your Wingspan📖 [41:29] The Five Stages of Grief Were Written in the 1960s — It's Time for an Update🙏 [44:00] Stop Saying I'm Sorry — Say This Instead💡 [46:20] Post Traumatic Growth Instead of Post Traumatic Stress🪙 [54:50] Running Through Dallas Thinking of the Book — Then a License Plate Said Faith Over Fear

LINKS

Kate Doerge website: https://www.katedoerge.com/

Kate on Instagram @doergek

Reimagining Grief book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4wNDywY

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