Chris Wark (IG: @chrisbeatcancer) is an author, blogger, podcaster, speaker and global health coach.
He was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer in 2003, at 26 years old. After surgery, Chris opted out of chemotherapy and used nutrition and natural therapies to heal. He began sharing his story in 2010 with a mission to inspire people to take control of their health and show them how to reverse disease with simple but radical diet and lifestyle practices.
Chris Beat Cancer: A Comprehensive Plan for Healing Naturally is his national bestselling book.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Chris getting diagnosed with colon cancer at age 26
- Getting rushed into surgery
- Important questions to ask your oncologist
- Being fed carcinogenic food right after surgery in the hospital
- Chris follows his intuition & instinct and declined chemotherapy
- The inspiration behind his book, Chris Beat Cancer
- Conventional therapy for cancer
- Why the strength of your immune system is important
- Converting to a raw food diet
- Getting help from an integrative oncologist & naturopathic nutritionist
- Starting his blog Chris Beat Cancer in 2010
- Focusing on what’s important in life
- Gratitude is the secret to happiness
- All toxic emotions suppress immunity
- The stress-cancer connection
- Why Chris recommends eating plant-based
- Exercise switches on anti-cancer protective genes
- Create an environment where cancer can’t thrive
- What Chris’s diet looks like today
- Raising healthy daughters
- Educate yourself before you rush into anything
- The advice Chris would go back and give himself
- The beat cancer mindset
- Get serious about prevention
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Related links:
Chris Wark – Chris Beat Cancer (book)
Chris Beat Cancer website
Follow Chris on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
George Malkmus & Michael Dye – God’s Way To Ultimate Health (book)
The Plantrician Project
Camp Plant-Stock 2019
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I need this diet. Would Chris be my health coach
This is all great, I have benefited from Chris’s work and words and am grateful that he has shared his story and research. I wish that whenever anyone, especially people who are in the “alternative” areas, would delineate between factory farm animal products and pasture-raised eggs, 100% grass fed completed beef, dairy, etc etc. We must get rid of the diseased, polluting factory farms so it’s important for people like Chris and you both who have this podcast, to make that distinction and tell people to never eat from those farms. To just make blanket statements about how bad and cancerous meat is, is doing the small farmers a disservice I believe. Thank you!!