Can Peptides Help Beat Cancer? Dr. Leigh Connealy Says Yes

Hello, it's Dr. Kent Holtorf with another episode of the Peptide Summit 2.0, and today we have a treat for you. We have Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, uh, she's gonna be talking about peptides and adjunctive treatment for cancer. Uh, thank you so much for being on. I know you are so busy and got so much stuff going on. Down there in Irvine. Uh, appreciate you taking the time.

Great, it's great to be here. Great, great.

And a little bit about, um, Dr. Connealy, uh, prominent leader in the integrated and functional medicine field with over 30 years. I don't know if I believe her on that, she looks a little too young to me. Um, taking the best of all science including homeopathic and conventional treatments for cancer chronic illness, nutrition, lifestyle approach. Uh, she's a medical director of a combination of two clinics in Irvine, the Center for New Medicine and the Center for Healing. Um, she created, uh, the Cancer Center for Healing because of the epidemic spreading of cancer, which is just getting worse. Patients receive scientifically based treatments and receive integrative protocols. She's created an acute awareness for the need to focus on cancer prevention, providing unique testing to determine the early stages of cancer years before a scan reveals or recognizes it. And I just think standard oncology is just so barbaric right now, you know, um, through RGCC, which is really interesting and we'll, we'll talk about, um, it's a genetic test which you can also find, you know, basically they'll say, oh, you're cured of cancer. You can find these, you know, cells that are roaming around and also as a treatment. And they basically create personalized treatment plans for early to late-stage cancer patients, which is just— everyone gets cookie cutter now as a standard. People go, oh, I'm going to Cedars, I'm going to the Mayo Clinic. It's just like, okay, this is what you get, you know. And then we've talked about too, it's like you have a patient, they get post-chemo brain, they don't do anything about it, they get depressed, they don't know why. So again, treating the whole, the whole system. She's discovered that many factors contribute to the disease process, therefore many modalities must be used to reverse it and spending the proper time with each patient to allow reversal disease. That's so true. And again, you know, going from the standard model of one drug does one thing to looking at the overall picture, it's just so much more powerful. And so really have to be multidisciplined, know essentially every system in the body to do it appropriately. And that's why, you know, people like Dr. Keaney are hard, hard to come by. She's author of a number of books: Be Perfectly Healthy in 2009, The Cancer Revolution in 2017. We'll ask her about— she's on a TV series, the Dr. Detective TV. That's interesting. And she writes for many publications, Townsend Letters, and a bunch of others. She serves on the board for Dr. Josh Ash, AKM, ACIM. She also imparts her wisdom in educating medical practitioners from all over the world, which is nice that she's willing to take her time and train other physicians, which I think it's kind of ingrained in what physicians do, but very few physicians are willing to do it. And or give up their secrets, you know. And so she's very generous with her knowledge and her time, uh, lots of speaking engagements. She's a sought-after speaker around the world, uh, with webinars and podcasts. And she's down in Irvine and, uh, just, uh, basically been a hallmark of where to go if you have cancer and, um, more or less say if you're, you know, not getting proper treatment, but really probably better to be the first place to stop rather than the last.

That is correct.

So again, yes, um, doing some amazing stuff down there and we have some mutual patients and they've all been very impressed and say a lot of good things about you and, uh, doing some cool things. So, um, yeah, kind of, how did, how did you get into this?

Wow, that's a loaded question. Well, a couple things. Um, one, I, uh, I'm number 3 of 6 children, and I was born in the '50s, and my mother started bleeding, and, um, she went to her doctor, and the doctor said, okay, you're pregnant. But we, we don't want you to lose your baby and we got to stop the bleeding. So we have this great drug called DES, diethylstilbestrol. And so lo and behold, I'm fast forward 16 years of age, come home from school, and my parents had received a letter saying that I needed to go get a very thorough cancer workup because these offsprings of male and female offsprings of children who took DES as a result of their mother being administered were developing cancer and hormone problems and anatomical problems and infertility, etc., etc., etc. So I was living in Houston, Texas, and where do I go is MD Anderson. So I go to MD Anderson, and of course lots of things happen from then to now. And so my— the DES gave me was a very strong tipping point for me, one, to become a doctor, and two, to understand what really DES does and did to not only me but others. But the biggest thing it became for me after I went to medical school— and I went to conventional school, did conventional medicine for a short while, but really was not helping me. And I met this Russian pathologist internist, and he started teaching me about other ways of looking at the body. So that really— from hormones, all kinds of different things. And so with the help of, you know, that guidance and my own personal issues, I just started to look at medicine completely differently. And what happened to me big time is, you know, it dawned on me, I've got to make sure I don't get cancer. And so sure enough, I just started researching everything. I met this guy at an A4M conference who was not a doctor, but he was a sarcoma survivor specialist. I mean, a survivor surviving of a sarcoma, which is a tumor of the muscle, which is really not a good cancer because it only responds to surgical removal and not chemotherapy or radiation. Even though they administer chemotherapy and radiation. But anyway, so that guy opened my eyes because he was diagnosed with sarcoma at 22 years of age. They said, okay, we're going to do amputation. So he remembers he asked the doctor, do you know what my name is? When he was going to have the surgery and the doctor didn't know his name, he says, I'm out of here. So he signs out AMA, spends the next 11 years, not months, 11 years figuring out how to, you know, get rid of the sarcoma, get rid of cancer, and travel everywhere. And that's what he did. So I met him at an A4M conference, and I listened to his whole life story. I tell him my whole life story. And, you know, now, you know, years later, I'm doing so much of what he taught— this guy taught me anyway. But he was 22 when he was diagnosed, lived till he was 69. So for a sarcoma patient, to live that long is like unheard of. He didn't die from his sarcoma. He died from that he was in Cuba and the Volkswagen clutch got stuck. And he got a raging infection. And he didn't want to go to the doctor because he didn't like doctors. And waited to the 11th hour and goes into sepsis and dies. But anyway, so that, you know, really, really transformed. And I've had my own personal challenges. And over the last 40 years, I had infertility. I never had 2 periods in a row in my life. So of course, I had to learn everything about hormones and the lack thereof. And I— when I— 26 and a half years ago, I delivered twins and I suffered Sheehan syndrome. So then it made hormones like a really, really, really—

man.

Yeah, really big issue. And I went to doctor after doctor after doctor. Yeah, and none of them could help me. And literally, they'd go, okay, let's try this. Okay, let's try this, you know. And I'm like, no, did you read this? Safe Uses of Cortisol? Have you read this? And I'd bring him stuff.

And oh, yes, Safe Use of Cortisol. Jeffrey, like Jeffrey.

Yes. And so anyway, as a result, I have been my own guinea pig. I actually, interestingly enough, went to Mexico and got a pituitary transplant. And it Yeah, and changed my life forever, and it was the best thing I ever did.

I never heard they were doing those.

Oh yeah, oh yeah, there's a whole school of gerontology in Querétaro, Mexico, which is not too far from Mexico City. And so, uh, so I have— last year—

are you kidding me?

No, last year I had 18 hours of back surgery for scoliosis. I went to Germany for that. And so, uh, scoliosis is one of the side effects of DES, you know. So I could tell you story after story from not just a medical doctor, you know, my, you know, it's easy to read a book. To experience pathology and experience a diagnosis is a whole nother story.

You know, I think the majority of doctors that are really into this so-called, I don't know what we do, you know, alternative, integrative, functional. I just think it's better medicine.

The new modern medicine, I call it.

Yeah, that— what?

The new modern medicine. Yeah.

And but work is there. Oh, you guys, non-evidence-based? Are you kidding me? Um, is that, you know, because I was very evidence-based. I still am. I would never have thought to go to an alternative, you know, conference because you're told that there's no evidence. And then you go and you're like, oh my God, this is more evidence-based than the crap they're teaching me, you know, which is 40 years old.

Right, exactly. Exactly.

Wow. So you've really turned a negative into a huge positive and really used it to help so many people.

Right. And so my whole focus now, I guess I do lots of cancer because like you said earlier, people come to me after the fact. But, you know, they say, you know, the pain of just doing things early is way, way, way smaller than finding out something later. And so, you know, I love it. So, like, for me, you know, like, people go, God, how do you do cancer all day long? And I said, no, it's challenging. It's like stimulating my brain. And when you have to be— when you're seeing a cancer patient, you have to be a psychologist, a psychiatrist, an immunologist, gastroenterologist, endocrinologist, you know, everything, because you have to know how all the systems are working. So it really challenges you to really think and look outside the box. And these patients, you know, they're looking for answers some way, somehow. Yeah. So, and luckily our team is just constantly, we're just constantly studying, researching, and trying new things that don't— the key thing, you know, Hippocratic oath is first do no harm. And so—

I have an issue with that though.

There's nothing that does no harm. Giving a glass of water Or coming to your office can do harm because they get hit by a bus. So anything you do can do harm, you know, that's good.

But that's true. But life is all about reducing risk, please, you know.

Yeah, yeah. And it's, you know, yeah, risk-benefit for, for everything. Um, and, and, and that's, I mean, that's, that's just amazing that you, you, you've taken that and turned it around. And use it because, you know, with these— all these multi-system illnesses, you do have to know more, I'm telling you, than the gastroenterologist, the neurologist, the— you know, and, and I'm telling you is that you could probably do, unless it's surgery or something, study for 2 months and look at old studies, look at all the studies and new studies and and be better than that specialist, 'cause they've been doing the same thing and they don't change in general, okay, there's some exceptions, and the system makes it that way. But, and that's the thing. So it is a big burnout where it's like, you got so many things to go over where standard is you go to your HMO especially, or even PPO now, the doctor goes, okay, cardiologist, gastroenterologist, neurologist, da da da. And you have all these people just looking at their little parts and patients just like left with nothing. Um, so, uh, and then they go, oh, you're cash. You just did it for the money. No, if you're in it for the money, there's a lot easier ways to make money. I'll tell you that.

It is. This is very much a job you sacrifice. There's no question.

But once you take the red pill and go down that rabbit hole, you can't go back.

Right.

You could not go back and do standard medicine.

Oh, God, no, no, no, no, no.

So frustrated of just the barbarism.

Right.

You know, and just the lack of common sense.

Yes, exactly. And just simple little things, just really, really simple things. Like, I had a patient, stage 4 colon cancer. And so I'm reviewing, she'd already had surgery, she'd already had chemo, it all, you know, of course, it came back. In her lungs and in her pelvic gutter. And so her doctor says, "Oh, well, we can do some radiation." The patient doesn't want to do radiation. And so I said, "Okay, well, I'm going to go over your PET scan." And I go over PET scan and I go, "You know, you have fatty liver." And she goes, "What?" And I'm like, "Yeah, you have fatty liver." And so she goes, "Well, what does that mean?" So I explained to her what that meant. And so I said, "The reason why a doctor doesn't tell you, because there's not a drug for fatty liver.

And so, so he's with a gastroenterologist, never mentioned it.

No doctor has ever mentioned it. Not one doctor has. Okay.

So because that's normal now.

Yeah, that is normal now. 50% of the population. So then I said, okay, well, I'm going over your blood work. And I said, you know, your blood sugar is 173. And I said, you know, there's no hemoglobin A1C. Cancer cells love sugar. So they have, you know, lot more receptor sites for sugar than they do than a normal cell. So I said, there's no way that we're going to get rid of cancer if your sugars are still high. So anyway, and no, no vitamin D was done, no C-reactive protein.

And with fatty liver, they never checked her hemoglobin A1c. And by the way, uh, BPC-157, great at reducing, uh, reversing fatty liver. But it just, it is, it just blows my mind Right.

So simple things and just simple things because we have to— even the World Health Organization, which is not somebody everybody's touting these days, but they did say that 80% to 90% of illnesses are due to what? Lifestyle. But the doctors don't have time to talk about patients with their lifestyle. So we have to change the whole paradigm of medicine. And teaching self-care, because if we teach self-care, then we won't have so much people coming with dire illnesses that they are now. And the illness is 60% of the population now is chronically ill. Oh, everyone's sick. Everyone's sick and nobody can think and nobody can function right. And I mean, now they're finding Alzheimer's in 25-year-olds. We should be so concerned. All right.

But you don't hear that. It doesn't make the news.

Yeah, it doesn't. And so, yeah. So, and health has to be your number one value. Because that affects you, it affects your loved ones, it affects your work. There isn't anything. So, if we could just all of us collectively teach patients how to restore health, and that's what I do in our clinic, that's what we do as a group, and of course, we have a good team around it to do that. But, you know, unless you do that, we're just not going to make inroads in people being healthy. Yeah.

And, you know, and you don't—

until you, I think, are really sick, you don't realize. It's always— you think, like, oh, I gotta make more money. That when you're really sick, the money doesn't matter, right? Well, you have all the money in the world, right?

I always tell these CEOs, guys, I go, you guys have these dashboards and you're checking this, this every single hour, but you don't even know the dashboard of your health. And so then when that happens, when they have a crash and they're existence. And then they're like, oh my God, that becomes the focal point. But all the money in the world can't turn around a lot of stage 4 cancers.

Yeah. And then people are like, oh, I don't want to pay because, uh, like, especially some older generation, maybe, right?

They don't want to pay for everything.

Yeah, that's, that's gone. If you want the minimal care where if you break an arm, okay, you can be seen, but if you want really decent care. I think, you know, I, I can't believe the care that is given at these, you know, HMOs and standard doctors. I'm just appalled. Like, they aren't— how can they not be getting sued so much? Well, that's now the standard, you know, right? And they get paid bonuses for doing nothing.

That's right.

I'm not checking for anything, right?

I've interviewed Kaiser doctors to work here. And they get punished if they order too many blood tests or do anything too much.

And what they'll do is eliminate the lowest 20% of the least cost-effective doctors, which means the ones that order the most tests, that do the most treatments, that find the most benefits for the patient. No, we don't want that. And they end up doing like, you want to get 5 tests. Like, we love getting like, I'm sure you do, like, you know, 35, 40 tests and get a picture. Like, they're like, oh, I can do 3, you know.

Right, exactly. No, I know that.

My doctor says I don't need these. Well, what does need mean?

Yeah, well, that means you don't need 4 wheels on a car either.

Yeah, yeah. Uh, it, it's nuts. So, um, yeah, so you've kind of been around all the different areas and you've kind of combined them now into 2 separate clinics.

Yeah, 2 clinics are together. And one is Center for New Medicine, and that's everything from human optimization to chronic disease. And then the other side is the Cancer Center for Healing, because they're here sometimes for a couple hours, half a day, a day, depending on the severity of their illness. And so, but the cancer patients, it's open so they all can commune together and talk to one another because they like sharing stories.

That's cool.

Uh, yeah, so it's really cool. So we create this real warm environment So the patients feel like, like they're in a healing situation.

And you have a number of other doctors that—

Right. We have a big team. We have a lot of MDs. We have a PA. We have a naturopath. We have a nutritionist. We have someone who does emotional work. We have lymphatic drainage specialists, massage therapists, body workers. I mean, you know, and then all the support staff.

Oh my God, I'm just thinking managing all those people. But, uh, yeah.

And babysitting job.

They what?

It's a big babysitting job.

Yeah.

Yes, yes, yes. That's just the doctors. Um, but let's say a pancreatic cancer. I call you, I got pancreatic cancer, they said they can't do anything. Okay, can I come see you?

Right.

What? So what would you do?

Yeah, well, first and foremost, uh, I look at all the— I get the history. And that's a good one you brought up because pancreatic cancer literally has no warning signs. Most cancers don't have warning signs, and this is what I always tell people. Just like heart disease, in 50% of cases, sudden death. But cancer is the same way because cancer just doesn't have symptoms because it starts— it has to become impactfully anatomically large for it to be, you know, intrusion in your day-to-day life. And so pancreatic cancer, though, has a very very poor survival. They say 3 months to a year. And so that's one cancer, for example. 71% of cancers do not have any tests you can do. Think about it. 71%. Pap, mammogram, colonoscopy, and maybe a PSA are all the screening tests. There's no screening test. But your best screening test for a doctor out there, any doctor ordering, would be doing— like you said, you're ordering 30 to 40 tests. But I always tell some top 3 tests: C-reactive protein. If it's over 1, you know, you better go looking for something. Sure, I'll give people omegas and repeat it in 68 weeks. And then I tell them if it's not high, I go on a hunt. And every doctor should be doing that. Hemoglobin A1c. If you have high hemoglobin A1c, you're much higher risk for cancer. So you got to get that hemoglobin A1c down to, you know, I like it around 5-ish.

Yeah, what percent of the population is that?

Yeah, I know, but I mean, I'm just telling you because I've been studying hemoglobin A1C for like 25 years. And then vitamin D, your vitamin D influences thousands of genes in your body. And it's a hormone and a vitamin. And then look at the DHEA sulfate because the DHEA sulfate is a hormone. It's the hormone of stress, immune, and longevity. You know, when you're 25, that number should be 300 to 400. Well, if it's drastically low, you know that person doesn't have that adrenal health that they need to fight illness. So obviously, you know, all the other hormones, thyroid function, I mean, I, you know, we do that on everybody. Okay. So, and then I, there is a blood test called the Cancer Profile. I know we're getting off a little bit, but there's a blood test called the Cancer Profile.

No, that's what we're talking about.

So yeah, Cancer Profile. The Cancer Profile is a blood test I used to do a lot of. About 10, about 12 years ago. It checks quantitative HCG in your urine and blood, and then it will check DHEA sulfate, a GGT to check your liver, a PHI. PHI shows anaerobic metabolism. You know, Otto Warburg in 1931 got a Nobel Prize that it's an anaerobic, sugary, lactic acid environment. So if you have, if you have low, excuse me, elevated PHI, which is a, is a marker of hypoxia, then you know cancer's going to thrive. Either you have the environment for cancer or cancer is going to become worse. So, for example, I had a little girl come in, 19 years old. She's a Kaiser patient. Her dad's an orthopedic surgeon at Kaiser. They bring her to me because they don't want to do the treatment at Kaiser. So that should tell you something. But anyway, her PHI was like 100. It should be around 25. Well, all the treatment that I'm going to do is not going to help If I don't get that PHI down. Okay. So that's why I'm big on hyperbaric. I have other oxygen therapies, ozone, nano oxygen baths and stuff like that. So, but these are things, these are markers any doctor can do. I teach it. I write about it.

How about the other, there's like 4 kind of basic markers. They're not specific.

Oh yeah. Those are totally nonspecific. Yeah. You can do C15-3, 27, 29, CA-19-9. CEA, PSA, yes, you can. But I will tell you, I have stage 4 cancer patients, their markers are completely normal. So I always tell people, never go by that. Please do never go by that because that will not tell you if you have cancer.

Let me ask you, with breast cancer, do you think mammograms work?

Well, that's a good question.

Or thermography? Or what do you think of the whole thing?

Yeah, so I tell people every imaging gives you a picture. So mammography will tell you some calcification. Complications, although it is radiation. The studies from Denmark at the Cochrane Collaboration group, that's for every 10,000 mammograms you do, you save one life. And if you get routine mammograms, but it makes you— you increase your risk of cancer. Yeah, you get— increase your risk of cancer. So thermography, I do, do, do in my clinic. I have a very specific camera though that is incredible. It shows me vascularity. Breasts are not vascular. All right. So, and believe it or not, thermography has been around for like 70 years. Okay. It's not a new thing. If you look at the whole history of thermography. Exactly. Correct. Exactly. So anyway, thermography, you can tell if, if, if breasts start having thermography, like for example, I just had a lady come in today for her follow-up. Her thermography was a little abnormal. She has breast implants. She had already had her breast implants redone about a year and a half ago. Of course, before any doctor who does a plastic surgery to reimplant, they always do a thorough workup before, like they do mammogram, you know, all that kind of testing to make sure there's nothing abnormal. So anyway, she— I said, you know, I said, look, I just want to check for circulating tumor cells. I'll feel better. Let me do an ultrasound. I did an ultrasound or an MRI. The MRI hasn't come back yet. But she already had circulating tumor cells, so I know, and it showed. I ordered a panel, I'll call it an RGCC, called the OncoTrail, and it tells me what cancer it was. It was breast cancer. So I know it was because it has the MUC1 protein elevated. So anyway, so now I know. Now she wasn't panicking because she knows that I'm all into prevention and she's been my patient for a while, so she knows how I work pings up. And, um, so you've caught it so much earlier. Exactly, exactly. Because you— if you can have— just so you know, Kent, you can have a patient who has cancer and every scan and every marker in the blood is perfect. But if you go and see those circulating tumor cells, then you know something is brewing. Because, you know, there's a great book out called The First Cell, and it's written by an oncologist who really does not like her profession now.

Because I respect her for that.

Yeah, I do too, because I was like, finally— she's from Colombia— and I'm like, finally someone is talking about this. She said everything that's been researched and used in the last 20 years has extended life 3 months. That's what—

you know what, I get— I know that's probably very politically incorrect, but yeah, so it's, it's like, you know, the The pink ribbon.

And yes, right. I'm like, they're doing shit.

They're not doing anything. They make you feel good. Yeah, of course I want to rid the world of breast cancer, but they're just political and doing the same crap, right? Exactly. No, it's going to be funding people like yourself and doing research like that rather than—

well, I, I actually sent her my book. I said, I listened to one of her YouTubes. And she said, "We as physicians need to be collaborating and cooperating with other doctors to really eliminate the suffering for patients." So I sent her a letter with my books and I said, "Look, I would love to collaborate and cooperate with you." Her specialty is MDS, which is myelodysplastic syndrome. And so anyway, I haven't heard from her yet, but I'm going to bug her because it's like, no, we need to band together and change the landscape of medicine to eliminate the—

oh, it's true. Like, you know, I think when you first start, you're kind of like, oh, competitors. But no, you're not better. It's like, I love a lot of collaborating.

Yeah.

And there's so many sick people, right? Like, it's not a competition, um, and we need to band together. Bad stuff is coming down the pike in terms of, you know, lack of medical availability of treatments that we're gonna be able to do. Um, and, you know, basically now Google is now the arbitrator of, you know, basically medical truth, you know.

Yeah, exactly. They're automatically— right. It's interesting how they went to medical school. Yeah, yeah, it's very scary, right? Very scary.

Because, yeah, especially you in the cancer world, I mean, the oncologists are so protective of their turf, like God forbid you cure someone, that's when they're going to come after you, you know. How dare you cure someone that, you know, not doing our barbaric toxic cocktail, you know.

Right, exactly. Well, they know they have limitations, so, um, and they know that we— there, there has to be, there has to be proper care of the patient. I mean, honestly, I do recommend patients to have surgery. I do recommend patients to have conventional chemo or low-dose chemo because that's just the case.

There's time that it's needed. Yeah.

The thing is, though, is let's try to make it the best experience for the patient.

I think that's probably lacking so much, too. I haven't been a cancer patient, but you know, just the, you know, you feel like a number, you know, and we see that with, you know, we treat a lot of the chronic illness patients, same thing, you know, Lyme patients, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, all those are just treated like horrible. And I'm ashamed to say I'm a doctor with the way these doctors treat patients. And if a doctor can't treat it, it's the patient's fault. It doesn't exist. Right. You know, um, there's exceptions, thank God.

Yeah.

But in general, on the— and the less a doctor knows, the more adamant they're right, you know. All right, that's true too. But, um, so you have a lot of modalities, um, and I'm sure we can go on for a long time going through all of them, which is very cool. Um, and what, what, what peptides do you like?

What Well, I would say the number one peptide that we use is the thymosin alpha 1. So like you were saying earlier, these peptides have been around for quite some time, but as we age, you know, your thymus degenerates, right? And at the age of 80, you know, you have really no T-cell— good T-cell functionality. So, um, the thymosin alpha sublingual and injection on the cancer patients— I always like to use the injection because I need all the help we can get. So that is a very, very good— because they're not only fighting cancer, but a lot of cancer patients have viruses. So thymosin alpha really, really helps the immune system in that a lot of people have what we, as you know, leukopenia, low white blood cell. And their doctors always go, oh, that's normal. That's normal. And I go, no, it is not normal.

Heart disease is normal.

And actually, the CDC said that people over—

was it 55? Uh, I forget the exact percentage. I'm gonna get it wrong, but it was like 60, 80% have at least one chronic condition due to the involution of the thymus.

Right, exactly.

So you essentially lowers your good immunity and raises the inflammation. So it's like, really want to just give everyone, you know, thymus, the thymic peptides, thymus and beta-4, thymus and beta-4-frag, thymulin, thymogen, thymus and alpha-1, and all those things. And you'll do yourself anti-age dramatically.

Right, exactly. Yeah. So I, I'm sure you probably might use it yourself. I use it myself and a lot of people with this virus coming out. I gave patients that are 60+, 50+ that to protect them because it's very helpful.

Here comes the black helicopters to get you.

Oh, really? Talking about COVID No, that's why I said the virus.

Yeah.

So anyway, thymosin is a very good, wonderful—

Yeah, and it's approved for cancer in a number of countries and tons of studies on it. It's actually approved as an orphan drug here. But yeah, and the nice thing is like side effects are so rare.

Right, exactly, exactly. Yeah, well, I rarely, rarely, rarely have a side effect. So the other one that is helpful when we use low-dose chemo, we use something called IRGD. And IRGD is a cyclic amino, a 9 amino acid cyclic peptide, and it acts like an escort to bring the chemo into this cancer cell. So we'll administer that with our low-dose chemo. So when we do low-dose chemo, we only use 10%. We use a lab testing in Greece called RGCC. The RGCC gives me a a panoramic view of everything that could possibly work on the cancer cell, whether it's chemo, whether it's natural, which is like—

it's like, why isn't everyone doing that? It gives you natural and gives you meds and everything.

And so like, if you need estrogen blockade, it tells you that. If you need some smart drugs, you need— you know, it gives you that. It gives you all the chemos that work. It tells you how much drug resistance the patients have, because we all know every single patient going into chemotherapy has populations that are chemo-resistant and chemo-sensitive. So this allows us to use this peptide, and I can send it to the lab, actually, to see if it's going to work. So I use that as one of the agents that they test.

Right there, it's just huge. And I'll just— back to thymosin alpha 1 real quick. Looking at studies, it shows, you know, people get treatment and they're told, oh, you're cured, and the rate of relapse directly correlates with your natural killer cell function. Right, right. And so it's basically get your immune system up because you're, you know, everyone has cancer in their body all the time.

That's right.

Is you're monitoring your body for cancer. So that's low, of course it's going to come back. So if you raise that and, you know, take thymusins or, um, or even boost the immune system. It's like everyone should be on it if they've had cancer, or really everyone's at risk for cancer, especially nowadays.

Well, today everyone's at risk. It's one out of about one out of two people. So it's not— it's, it's not if you're gonna get it, it's when you're gonna get it. So yeah, that's why everybody—

we live in a toxic world.

Toxic world. Exactly, exactly. So So the other peptide that we use, and I will send as a specimen to— they already have it— is PNC27. So PNC27 is— what it does is it blocks the membrane for the p53 gene. So the p53 gene is your tumor suppression gene, and over 60, 70% of cancer patients have p53 mutations. P53 gland suppression, suppressor gene suppression. And so if you will take away their— what they do with this PNC is it pokes holes in the membranes and causes a lysis of the membranes, allowing the p53 to turn on its suppressor to suppress cancer, but also kill the cancer cell. So, so do we give that to everyone?

No, we select based upon the testing that RGCC gives I think I was reading a lymphoma paper, like, specific for the K562 thing, um, cell, where it leaves the normal lymphocytes fine, but it actually is very specific for the cancer cells.

And the patients just self-inject themselves.

And, um, so you don't see toxicity with that?

And no. I've never had anybody have an abnormal reaction to that at all. That particular one.

Well, that sounds like chemo.

Yeah. Well, chemo is a whole nother story.

No, I'm kidding.

Whole nother story. And then we just started using recently metenkephalin. So metenkephalin is in the opioid, actually discovered kind of a long time ago. But your increases your opioids. Your opioids are, you know, wonderful for your immune system. And so that's why people get addicted, because—

no, I'm wondering, with that, does like people with heroin, on heroin, I mean, you kind of look at them versus like a meth person, they seem to, you know, anti— they don't age as fast. But do Do all opiates reduce cancer risk?

No, unfortunately, opioids are really suppressive of the immune system.

Super inflammatory.

Overdoing it, you know, that magic balance is gone.

Yeah. And it sounds like, you know, they reduce pain, but actually increase inflammation.

Yeah. No. And they destroy the immune system. Really terrible, terrible. Devastation. So, uh, you don't— you know, you're not going to see a reduce. You'll see an increased risk of people dying. That's why I don't use opioids, because I tell them, look, we— I will only use that at the 11th hour with— if you have so much pain that you can't handle it. So I, I prefer to— I have all these other pain IVs and natural pain things that I use. Now, if people are in severe pain I will give them because it's their stage 4 cancer. And, you know, the pain is so stressful.

California, I know a doctor who lost his license for treating a stage 4 cancer patient. They said you made her addicted.

Are you freaking kidding me?

Yeah, yeah.

Well, at City of Hope, my girlfriend, she's a doctor, and that's all she does is, is give pain medicines for stage 4 cancer years. So she is their palliative doctor.

So, um, so, you know, I mean, yeah, they'll probably come after her for being a terrible person. Like, it's crazy. But, um, I think I read a study on pancreatic cancer with that, like, 3 times the survival rate.

With what now?

Uh, with the Metan-kephalin.

Uh-huh. Right. So the Metan-kephalin, yeah, just, you know, beautifully helps the immune system. Another thing that I use it.

Kind of like LDN, you know.

I was just going to say LDN. So it's like LDN.

So like, yeah, low dose naltrexone.

Yeah. So it's a phenomenal helper. So if you don't use the Metankephalin, because LDN is much easier to get than Metankephalin. So, um, but it's, it's very, very helpful for patients. I got a sneeze. Um, for people, for people Thank you for people. So, um, but it helps, you know, everything's about the immune system. I don't care what disease you're talking about.

Hey, that's— you're preaching to the choir. We became an immune modulatory clinic because it's everything, right? Building cancer. Yeah. And then we were talking about, uh, GHK, just kind of in general, right?

I've been using GHK because, you know, it's great for the skin, but it also also helps in modulation and dysregulation of pathways. So GHK helps with, you know, it's anti-inflammatory, repairs and influences, you know, thousands of pathways in the body and, you know, re— kind of re-correcting, auto-correcting the dysregulated pathway.

So that also is, um, that is the ultimate Beverly Hills cancer therapy because your skin looks better.

Yeah, exactly.

And it kills the cancer.

Exactly. Unfortunately, our priorities are— it's form over substance, as you know.

Doesn't matter how you feel or you got a big tumor, as long as you're looking good.

Exactly. Exactly. So those are the main ones. Yes, there's collateral ones, which I'm sure you're going to talk about with other people that help other systems of the body.

Yeah. And how about testing? What type of testing do you like?

For what?

Just in general, for cancer.

Okay. Well, when a cancer patient comes in, they always get a complete history and physical. So we get to do a bit. We have a good form that we fill out. So we have a lot of the answers so we don't waste time asking a lot of questions. We do confirmatory of what they've written down. Then I tell them what I see on their scan. And they're always surprised because no one's told them what's really on their scan, literally. And then—

oh, that's so true. Now, do you do PET scan?

Do you do PET scans? PET scan, CT, MRIs, ultrasound, whatever we need. Okay. You can't—

do you have any issue getting those covered by insurance?

No, no, that's fine.

No, no, of course not. I mean, if the patient needs it, they need it, you know.

Yeah, tell my insurance that.

Yeah, right. Well, I know what you're saying because we do sometimes, so I'll order a CT scan as opposed to a PET scan. So it just depends. I kind of know what to say because I know my patient. I'm seeing the patient. I know what's going on. I'm looking at the blood work. I'm looking at the studying. And let's say you were diagnosed with cancer in 2015 and you're here now in 2021, and all of a sudden you have back pain, this pain, and then I order the blood and see alkaline phosphatase high, I see these, like, uh, why, you know, you better order a PET scan. So I always tell, I always, that's, you know, very important because cancer comes back in a year, 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, depending. And so you've got to make sure that someone doesn't have a bigger problem than they think they have. You know, I had a lady from Las Vegas, she was seeing doctors in Las Vegas for breast cancer, got worked up, called me getting lumpectomy. She thought it was just a simple lumpectomy. She gets done with the surgery. She comes to see me in person and she complains of back pain. And I go, oh, this doesn't— you know, some things aren't right. And this was like 6 months after the lumpectomy. And I examined her, you know, I said, look, we better order scans. I order scans. Sure enough, stage 4 from cervix to lumbar.

That sounds like a little issue.

Yeah, exactly. So anyway, you don't always know the scope of your problem, Ken. And that's the thing is you want to understand. Like today I had a patient. I hadn't seen her because of COVID for a year and reordered tests. Everything was stable a year ago. She came to see me because it was, you know, way overdue. She comes to see me, I order blood work, ultrasounds, all abnormal. I order a PET scan immediately. She had had cryotherapy, which is freezing of a tumor, back in 2000, I think '17. Um, but I think with the stress of COVID and everything, you know, stress is a killer, man.

Um, yeah, just, uh, or how about Intravenous therapy. What do you like?

Intravenous, we have probably 50 different intravenous. So we do as many things as possible on cancer patients intravenous because their GI system, due to chemo or whatever, stress, they're not going to absorb it like they're going to get an IV. As you know, in pharmacology, you absorb 10%, right? If you do oral. Transdermal is 33% and IV is 100%. So I will give IV vitamin C. I use IV mistletoe, IV artesunate, IV DCA, IV curcumin, IV quercetin. I mean, I do a lot of different— I have a pain—

Wait a minute, where are you getting those?

I gotta talk to you.

Okay.

Yeah, we can't— I love the artesunate and the human, we can't find it. So I gotta I'll help you.

So anyway, so we have all different— I have a— I have an IV cocktail, hydrogen peroxide to do because that shows up a lot on the RGCC to kill cancer. I do endolaser IV. Endolaser is using a laser. So we use a photosynthesizer like ICG, which is an old dye which activates the pathological tissue, and then you give the laser and that basically fries the, the pathological tissue.

How does it know to go to the pathological?

Because the light act— it acts activated by light, you know. So you use the dye to— whether you send the light on, on the area.

Gotcha.

So they've been doing that in, in Europe, uh, Germany. The doctor, Dr. Weber, been doing that for 20 years, and then we just started going to courses and learning.

And now, is that a different version of the Weber laser?

No, that is the Weber laser. That is—

okay.

Yeah, yeah. But it's wonderful, like wonderful. So for all things—

so we use—

yeah, use different photosynthesizers. I had a guy— I had a guy—

different wavelengths and—

yeah, exactly. So I had a guy— yeah, I had a guy with squamous cell. He had cut off at Kaiser and it all came back. And so because he has stage 4 prostate cancer, he didn't want to do any more surgical treatment. We did the laser and this was all growing like, like, like, you know, spikes and peaks and everything. This guy was very large. We did the laser. It's all superficial now, beautiful. And just using the laser and that doesn't hurt the patient, doesn't hurt anything, doesn't suppress the immune system. So it's, it's a beautiful—

well, now, are you putting it intravenously or in—

no, on him we're doing it topically.

Just, just topically.

Yeah.

And, um, yeah, I know Novak, who's kind of by you down there.

Yeah, Novak is in San Diego. I know him.

Yeah, he, um, my other doctor, Dr. Whiteman, went down there and he's not that sick, and he goes, oh, let's stick the Weber laser in your tibia, just punch the hole in his tibia and sticks the laser there. I'm like, dude, you're pretty bold. Um, but it's cool stuff.

Yeah, so, uh, yeah, it's really good, good stuff. The good, the good thing is it doesn't hurt patients, and that's the key thing for, for all of us.

Yeah, it's nice to use, yeah, different wavelengths for cancer, for infections, whatever.

Right, exactly. That's exactly.

Yeah, that's great. And looks like, again, time goes by so fast with you. Um, let's see, any particular thing you want to just say that you found kind of like a wow treatment? Sounds like everything, really.

Um, yeah, that's a good— I always— people always like, because I have so many very, very, very serious patients, okay?

And everything works for somebody. Yeah, yeah, everything works for everyone, right?

And the problem we find— and I was just talking to my IPT nurse, my insulin potentiation— she goes, Dr. Connelly, the patients who've never been treated do way better than the patients who've been treated, you know, lots of surgery, lots of chemo, chemo for 22 months. And they— it's just a lot. They're not been beaten down.

So yeah, and so chemo, it's like the worst that you're wrecking the immune system, right?

Right. But I would tell you, probably one of the best things is that Endolaser. It has so many functions because it's not just for cancer, it's for chronic infections. So yeah, all kinds of chronic infections.

I mean, boost mitochondrial function.

Exactly, exact oxygenation, everything. So, uh, that is a beautiful, beautiful treatment. The other thing that I like that's pretty amazing is we use a, we use sono-electric pulse. It's a big sound machine. It sounds like an MRI and it uses sound to treat and heal wounds and it's phenomenal. And so I got it from Europe and it is, it's phenomenal for a lot of different musculoskeletal wound healing.

It's like, do you sit around it?

No, no, no, no, no. You lay on the table and then the technician treats the area depending on where it is.

Gotcha. So is it different than PEMF?

Oh, very different. Very, very, very different. One time I'll have you come down and—

Yes, I'd love to come down and check everything out. It's funny, I expected the Weber laser to show up any day, and I found out my accounting department canceled. They said you're buying too many toys.

Yeah, I've heard that from my staff.

So wait a minute. And so we have that coming, some other things.

Oh, um, you'll love it.

You'll love it.

Awesome. Yeah, I'd love to come down and check out all the stuff you're doing. Sounds like, uh, you know, definitely. Hey, if you got cancer, where do you want to be? Kaiser.

And if you want to prevent cancer, yeah. And if you want to prevent cancer, I'm— I am just because it's been my whole life. And so when—

and just think what that is worth.

Yeah, it is, right? Exactly. That's what I tell people. What is that worth?

Yeah, you don't—

and, and for literally, Kent, for like $1,500, you kind of, you know, if you have cancer or not. Come on, like, who wouldn't want that, you know?

Yeah, like what you would give up to, to not have it.

Right.

But yeah, let's see. So your book, Cancer Revolution.

Yes. Yeah.

Tell us about that. Where can we find it?

My two books. This is Be Perfectly Healthy, which is a compilation of a lot of stuff I've written. But for a doctor, this is really good. Maybe not for you because you're already doing a lot of things. And then The Cancer Revolution is— this is great for any doctor any person want to learning how to live life, but also early detection. I talk about blood testing equipment, things I do, everything. So these are invaluable. I have eating in here, detox, emotional, everything is addressed. Everything in medicine that we should all be addressing with our patients is in here.

Nice.

Cancer Revolution. Can they get it on Amazon?

Yeah, I'll send you a copy.

I'd love, I'd love it.

Can you sign it?

Yeah, of course, of course I will.

It's something nice. So the cutest person I've ever interviewed by. Yeah, just kidding.

Um, but no, hey, it's, it's been a pleasure.

You're a wealth of knowledge, um, and just helping so many people and saving so many lives. I'm sure it's like, oh yep, just a day's work.

For you.

But really, I'm sure so many people are so grateful. And so thank you.

Well, thank you for having me. It's great to collaborate and share this, you know, valuable knowledge to people out there that need to really know it.

And I think patients just don't know what's available.

They don't. You're right. Well, things are changing, as you know, every day there's something new coming out. So literally.

So awesome, you're on the cutting edge of the cutting edge. And, uh, I'm so glad that, uh, you were— thank you for taking the time to, uh, uh, talk with me today. And I think, uh, basically the doctors will, uh, really learn a lot from this. So, um, because cancer is just— it's exploding. It's just like—

it's exploding and it's a conundrum.

Yeah, yeah, I just like all these chronic illness.

Everyone's sick, everyone's sick. That's right.

So you're— we're trying to do our small part to, uh, you know, reverse these diseases, right? Well, it's so nice to meet you again. You've been kind of down the street for many years, and I've known of you and, and your patients, so, uh, it's so great to finally meet you. Video, and they just basically opened up California a little bit.

So I know how exciting we are.

Come down and say hello. So again, thank you so much. Uh, appreciate it.

All right, great.

All right, bye-bye.