No Shortcuts, No Magic Pills: The Reality of Reclaiming Your Health
By Marji Keith and Chris Joseph
When someone reaches out to us for cancer advocacy, we’re always hopeful—hopeful they’re ready for what it takes, hopeful they’ll persist, hopeful they understand what comes next.
We all want the quick fix—that miracle solution from a podcast or Instagram. But here’s the truth we offer with love: there is no shortcut. If there were, we would have used it ourselves. Healing takes time, commitment, and willingness to go deeper. The truth is, healing isn’t about one magic thing—it’s about assembling the whole puzzle, piece by piece, with support and persistence.
We don’t blame anyone for hoping there’s one thing that will save them. We’ve been there too—lost in a sea of information. Maybe bitter apricot kernels cure cancer. Or green tea. Or mushrooms. And you can take them and sit back and “hope.” But if you’re reading this, it’s time for the unvarnished truth. Hope helps. Supplements help (in the right dose, at the right time, for the right person). But doing the hard work might just get you your life back.
Here’s what we tell every client:
1. You must take charge of your health. No one is coming to save you. Not your doctor. Not us. Not expensive treatments. Healing begins when you take the wheel.
2. 90 percent of cancers stem from lifestyle choices, environmental exposures, and lived experiences—trauma, grief, chronic stress. Most of us have made questionable choices. We’ve eaten poorly, ignored stress, skipped sleep. But if choices helped get us here, choices can help get us out.
3. This is work. Real work. Healing is not passive. You can’t rely solely on supplements or infusions of chemo. You must change how you eat, move, sleep, breathe, and think. You must examine your life with honesty and courage—and act. Any treatment will fail if it lands in broken terrain.
We’ve been conditioned to believe in the “one disease, one treatment” approach. Got an infection? Take an antibiotic. High blood pressure? Here’s a pill. Cancer? We have a standard protocol.
This simplistic approach isn’t working. Cancer isn’t just one thing—it’s the culmination of multiple breakdowns in your body’s terrain. Healing requires addressing all factors: nutrition, toxic load, stress, sleep, movement, emotions, purpose, connection, spiritual practices, and environment. These are the terrain ten—the critical factors that determine whether disease thrives or healing prevails.
“The seeds of a metastatic cancer will thrive in an inflammatory, immune-compromised, and highly oxidative environment. Yet when the terrain is healthy, nourished, and optimized, those same bad seeds cannot sprout.” — Nasha Winters, ND, FABNO author of the Metabolic Approach to Cancer and 34-year stage 4 ovarian cancer thriver
We’ve seen both sides of this journey.
We’ve worked with people who came in eyes wide open—ready to do the work. They addressed multiple factors simultaneously, understanding that healing is complex. And many thrived. Not because they were lucky—but because they were committed.
Then there were others who wanted us to reveal the “one thing” we did to heal. When we said, “There isn’t one thing,” they’d lean back, disappointed. Some dropped off after one call. Some never took a single step. It broke our hearts—not because we judged them—but because we knew how much potential remained untapped.
This is a marathon, not a sprint. It took years to create conditions for cancer to thrive—drinking contaminated tap water, eating inflammatory foods marketed as healthy, accumulating toxins from indoor candles and gas stoves, living under chronic stress. Creating conditions where your body can thrive and resist cancer requires consistent, persistent effort.
We understand this isn’t for everyone. Some people are too overwhelmed, exhausted, or scared. Some can’t accept that there’s another way beyond standard care. Some are deep in treatment or trauma and can’t find their footing yet. That’s okay. We meet everyone where they are.
But the truth remains: radical healing isn’t passive or linear. It’s messy, hard, humbling work. It’s also the most empowering thing you’ll ever do.
So if you’re ready, we’re here to walk beside you and help piece together your unique healing puzzle, testing what works for your body, your cancer, your life.
But we can’t do it for you.
And no, there is no magic bullet. But there are many pieces to your healing puzzle. And we’d be honored to help you solve it.