Syndrome X, Diabetes, Cancer
In this video, Leigh Erin Connealy spends about 27 minutes speaking on "Syndrome X, Diabetes, Cancer" at the 33rd Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy
Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy MD is a highly esteemed leader in the field of Integrative and Functional Medicine, leveraging over three decades of experience and combining the best of all sciences, including homeopathic and conventional treatments. As Medical Director of two unique clinics in Irvine, CA, The Center for New Medicine and Cancer Center for Healing, she has created the largest integrative medical clinic in North America, attracting patients from around the world and with a growing patient base of 65,000 individuals.
The Center for New Medicine concentrates on prevention, early detection of disease and cancer, internal medicine, human optimization, yearly physicals, natural hormone replacement, auto-immune disease, chronic issues, and aesthetics. Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy MD feels we must treat “the whole person” - the patient with the disease and not the disease of the patient while determining the origin of the illness.
Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy MD founded the Cancer Center for Healing in response to the growing epidemic of cancer, providing scientifically-based treatments and integrative protocols to patients. She advocates for cancer prevention and offers unique testing to detect early stages of cancer, years before conventional scans would reveal them. For instance, through RGCC genetic testing, Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy MD and her team can devise personalized treatment plans for cancer patients, ranging from early to late-stage.
She believes that several factors contribute to the disease process and that multiple modalities can reverse it, given the necessary time and attention with each patient. At her state-of-the-art, multi-disciplined clinic, Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy MD and her team of practitioners offer quality treatments, enabling patients to enjoy improved quality of life.
Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy MD has authored two books, "Be Perfectly Healthy" in 2009 and "The Cancer Revolution" published in 2017, which have transformed the field of medicine. She was also named one of the top 50 functional and integrative doctors in the country in 2017 and regularly writes for leading medical publications such as Townsend Letter, WDDTY for Lynne McTaggart, and articles for Josh Axe and Ben Greenfield.
Transcription
Welcome. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, it's a pleasure to be here. And I'd like to think that Cancer Control Society for inviting me.
My name is Liron Kennealy. I'm a medical doctor. My practice is in Tustin, California, and I work with four other medical practitioners and our practice consists of doing almost anything. We treat everything from cold to cancer. We conventionally work a patient up in the conventional medical diagnostic workup, but we tend to treat our patients with integrative therapies and integrative therapies, as most of you know, could include anything from nutrition to homoeopathy to ERBS, acupuncture, energetic treatments. I have an ancillary staff of a nutritionist, bio interject Jedis technicians and all kinds of people that do other things to help me do my job. And today I am going to talk about one of my favorite subjects and I think a subject that is probably not well, not well informed by the public of the serious nature of these illnesses.
And that is go back syndrome X metabolic syndrome, diabetes and how it relates to cancer.
And my on the on the slide, the there is my mission, my goal is to empower and educate individuals and their families to help them to achieve the maximum lifespan with the highest quality of health, with the highest quality of health throughout feeling great, looking great with high energy levels and high spirits.
So everyone knows that there is a cancer epidemic, but there is a lesser known epidemic called metabolic syndrome, also known as insulin resistance and Syndrome X. And the CDC estimates that 47 million Americans have metabolic syndrome.
So what are the group of risk factors? Well, increase in abdominal fat. High LDL, low HDL and high triglycerides.
There's new blood pressure measurements that used to be one hundred and thirty over 90. Now the new blood pressure is 120 over 80. High fibrinogen and high elevated C reactive protein. So typically, the disease starts out as metabolic syndrome goes to prediabetes and then diabetes. So what is insulin? Insulin is a hormone made by the beta cells in the pancreas and your body breaks down food into glucose and glucose is the cells main energy source, and it cannot use glucose without insulin. But when you have insulin resistance, the muscles, cells, the fat cells, liver cells can not use insulin properly. And so since the body still needs insulin to bring the blood sugars down, the pancreas keeps going on this revolving process of producing more and more insulin. And eventually it can't keeps up and glucose is surrounds and floods the cell. So what is the definition, really, if