The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
155. Taylor Dukes: How She Beat Cancer with Functional Medicine
08 Apr 2025
Chapter 1: How did Taylor Dukes discover her brain tumor?
Life was good. I have a thriving functional medicine practice of my own at this point. I've met the man of my dreams. We have two children and I got the curveball of my life. So I did the scan and they found a massive brain tumor in my right frontal lobe. And I'm like, what? You've got to be kidding because I have no symptoms.
So now you're in for the journey of a lifetime.
Yeah.
So tell me about that journey.
I knew that I probably needed to get it out, but I was also like, okay, this has been growing for years. Same thing with functional medicine. The disease doesn't just happen overnight. It's drops in the bucket over time that lead to the full-blown manifestation of a disease and symptoms.
All cancer is a healthy cell that became metabolically sick. Why do we believe that healthy cells can become metabolically sick? But we don't believe that metabolically sick cells can become healthy.
I knew enough about the body that I wasn't just going to like jump to surgery and fear. And I just felt led to take an integrative approach. I like saying integrative because you take the best of the conventional, the best of the holistic, and you integrate the two for the best possible outcome.
We need to start thinking about being in service to the body and that everything that's going to enter your body from now on has got to be in service to you.
before your surgery did the tumor actually shrink it did it was a miracle which is insane so to give the people that are listening to this hope can you give me a little more detail about what you did on this journey i think mindset is so huge and i think so many people hear the word cancer and it's a death sentence getting into your question of what i did is
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Chapter 2: What integrative approaches did Taylor use to address her tumor?
So we looked at my diet. We completely turned around my diet. And, you know, here she was asking me, like, you know, do you eat gluten? Do you eat this? And to me, I'm like, well, yeah, I always have. You know, I partied in college. Yeah. Yeah. But I never.
Gluten is the least of my concerns.
I was going to Whataburger.
So Jack Daniels. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
And so for me, I was like, I've always eaten this way and I've never been sick. So it can't be the food. But man, was I wrong. And so she, you know, I had a lot of parasites from living abroad. I had heavy metal toxicity.
Wow. Because I was thinking mold, mycotoxin, heavy metal parasite.
Yeah, exactly.
I'm actually doing a parapurge cleanse right now.
Yes. And everyone should. It's something that other countries do it. We deworm our pets. But why aren't we talking about in humans? Because parasites suppress our immune system.
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