📋 When cancer, burnout, and menopause collide, most people are told to lower their expectations and manage decline. In this episode, Dori Martin, a functional nutrition practitioner, shares how therapeutic keto, mineral balancing, and simple lifestyle shifts helped her husband outlive a stage 4 cancer prognosis and pulled her out of debilitating burnout, disordered eating relapse, and miserable menopausal symptoms. Listeners will hear a candid, hope-filled conversation about using food as medicine and joy, especially in midlife.​

⏳ Chapters

• 0:00 - From stage 4 cancer to a new mission with keto​
• 6:45 - Discovering therapeutic keto and her husband’s radical turnaround​
• 9:20 - Disordered eating, elimination diets, and the power of removing sugar and grains​
• 13:45 - Burnout, perimenopause, and why “doing all the things” stopped working​
• 17:30 - Cancer, terrain theory, and changing the prognosis with nutrition and lifestyle​
• 23:40 - Why standard cancer care rarely talks about food and metabolic health​
• 27:30 - Is keto “too hard”? Mindset, cravings, and social pressure around food​
• 31:30 - Menopause, hormones, and why midlife women tolerate carbs differently​
• 35:30 - Hair Tissue & Mineral Analysis: what it reveals and why minerals matter​
• 41:00 - Food as medicine and joy: finding purpose in helping others heal​

💡 What You’ll Learn in this Episode

• How a stage 4 gastric cancer diagnosis led to discovering therapeutic ketogenic diets and a drastically better outcome than expected.​
• Why burnout, stress, and perimenopause can make “clean eating, exercise, and supplements” stop working—and what to address first.​
• How disordered eating patterns can shift when sugar, gluten, and refined carbs are removed and blood sugar is stabilized.​
• What Hair Tissue & Mineral Analysis can reveal about adrenal burnout, thyroid health, blood sugar, detox, and energy production.​
• How pairing keto with mineral balancing and simple lifestyle habits can improve cancer recovery, metabolic health, and menopausal symptoms.​

🔑 Key Insight

“Food is truly the best medicine. And joy.”​ -Dori Martin

🌐 Connect with Dori Martin:

Website: https://www.dorimartin.com

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