The Dr. Josh Axe Show

Lysa TerKeurst joins Dr. Josh Axe to share her journey through betrayal, emergency surgery and breast cancer—and the emotional and spiritual healing that followed. Together, they explore the connection between emotional trauma and physical well-being, the power of forgiveness, setting healthy boundaries and finding peace when life feels beyond your control.

Exhausted in the morning but wired at night? Dr. Josh Axe explores how stress and disrupted cortisol rhythms may affect your energy, sleep, and hormones. He ranks seven strategies to support a healthier rhythm, discusses herbs studied for stress support, and shares the weekly habit he values more than any supplement.

 

**Resources mentioned:** - Free PDF — Balance Your Hormones Naturally: https://guide.thehealthinstitute.com/l-397

Dr. Josh Axe joins Dr. Will Cole to reveal how a stem-cell treatment led to a life-threatening spinal infection—and the protocol that helped him recover. They explore hyperbaric oxygen therapy, peptides, GLP-1 drugs, adaptogens, stem-cell safety, grief and the science of extending healthspan.

Your body makes its own master antioxidant — but after 40, production drops every year and most people never know it's low until something breaks. Dr. Axe walks through the clinical evidence, the exact blood marker hiding on your last lab panel, and a 4-step protocol to rebuild glutathione at the cellular level — without expensive IVs.

Dr. Gez Agolli has spent nearly 30 years using integrative medicine to treat cancer, autoimmune disease, and chronic illness — and what he's found challenges almost everything conventional medicine teaches about healing. Josh calls him one of his top two mentors in functional medicine, and this conversation covers the full protocol: terrain, toxicity, advanced therapies, and why testing matters more than guessing.

In This Episode:
- Why toxicity — not just genetics — is the #1 root cause of cancer right now, and what 3.3 billion pounds of environmental chemicals are doing to the body's terrain
- How hyperthermia, high-dose vitamin C (the right kind), and hyperbaric oxygen work together — and which chemotherapy drugs make hyperbaric oxygen contraindicated
- What insulin potentiation therapy (IPT) actually does: using fractionated chemo alongside glucose to target cancer cells directly
- The circulating tumor cell tests and liquid biopsy markers (including Signatera and ctDNA) that can predict cancer recurrence 6–12 months before a scan shows anything
- Why leaky gut is the root cause of autoimmune disease — and what Dr. Agolli's testing protocol reveals that most doctors never order
- The glutathione, F2-isoprostane, and GGT markers that measure oxidative stress at the cellular level, and what happens when you address them

Chapters:
- "00:00:00" – Intro: Cancer Stats & Meeting Dr. Guez Agolli
- "00:02:47" – His Origin Story & the Broken Healthcare System
- "00:06:50" – What Cancer Is: Cell Biology & Root Causes
- "00:13:46" – Sponsor Break: Heal Yourself Book
- "00:14:31" – Parasites, Immune System & Terrain Theory
- "00:19:57" – Advanced Cancer Testing: The RGCC (Greek) Test
- "00:25:38" – Top Cancer Therapies: Hyperthermia, IPT & the 40-Day Protocol
- "00:39:26" – Sponsor Break: Health Institute Bloodwork
- "00:40:27" – Testing Philosophy: Micronutrients, Food Sensitivities & Glucose
- "00:54:44" – Glutathione, Longevity & Reversing Autoimmune Disease
- "01:05:12" – Mitochondria, Closing Thoughts & Closing

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