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So, You've Been Diagnosed. What Now?
In June of 2022, I was diagnosed with what ended up being Stage 4 aggressive, inoperable, and chemo-resistant colon cancer. I had a 14% chance of survival, but within 9 months, was NED (No Evidence of Disease) while living my best life.
I lived a different formula to heal, which is what inspired me to start MOJO Health. I didn't suffer and I want you to have every advantage I learned because it was the difference in life and death.
Let Data Drive Decisions, Not Fear
Your doctor currently only looks at what your body has done—but we know you also need data on what your body will do.
By using predictive data to drive treatment decisions, you can control your journey, improve outcomes, and reduce recurrence risk.
The typical cancer journey uses just two types of data. That's the tip of the iceberg. You should use 13 types of data to measure your body's health, your environment, and the cancer itself.
Why does the additional data matter? It helped me to:
1. Understand why my body & environment was welcoming to cancer.
2. Predict if a treatment will work (genomics of the tumor).
3. Measure if a treatment was working (blood biomarkers).
4. Identify what I could do to avoid suffering from side effects.
Don't you also want to know the answer to those questions? Of course you do! But it's not included the Standard of Care, so you have to be empowered to advocate for yourself. Before you do ANYTHING (surgery, chemo, radiation, etc.) - get baseline data.
Podcasts: Data
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
I studied how they healed across the globe and realized there are 6 toolboxes you can leverage in your healing journey. Medical school only teaches one (Pharmaceuticals) so it is up to you to identify experts to support nutrition, vitamins and supplements, lifestyle, environment, and other healing approaches.
I built a team of 11 doctors and healers to both treat my cancer and heal the root causes of why my body was hospitable. You need to leverage the best of all healing modalities to heal without suffering.
Podcasts: Teamwork
Trust, But
Be Skeptical
Be data driven so that you can challenge standards of care and assumptions when necessary.
For example, did you know most of the time your cancer isn’t urgent and has been growing silently for many years without you knowing?
Did you know the current standard of care doesn’t measure to ensure chemo will work before administering it? You likely have time to prepare your body (it's about to go through hell!) and let YOUR data guide your actions - not what is profitable and easy for the doctor/hospital to administer. It didn't matter that I had colon cancer, it mattered I had a KRAS G13D tumor that was MSI High. Get the data that matters before starting treatment.
Find Your Flow
Do something every day that makes your soul happy. This could be singing, dancing, basket weaving, running, drawing, planning parties…. Whatever makes you happy to do - do more of it.
Gather Your Tribe
Healing from cancer is a team sport. I couldn’t have been healed in 9 months if it wasn’t for hundreds of friends and family supporting me on my journey. You need all of your energy to heal - so if someone will help cooking, cleaning, driving kids to practice, wrapping holiday presents, walking your pet, let them! You only have so many hours in the day - and right now healing is your number one job! It gets expensive to heal from cancer and not just treat your cancer cells- so we have built a registry so your community can help you with what really matters to your health!
Podcasts: Gather Your Tribe
Heal Smarter, Not Harder
Build a strategy to heal the root causes, strengthen your immune system AND treat cancer.
Your oncologist is only focused on treating cancer - so you need to do the rest!
We have built an amazing tool on our website to help you avoid side effects. But we have also built a class to teach you how to build a healing strategy. Please look at our Heal Smarter Class for more information!
Celebrate the Small Wins
Complicated health issues like cancer are often a nonlinear journey - Celebrate the big AND small wins along the path! For me, it was incredibly helpful to have baseline data and track leading indicators so I always knew the score on my cancer instead of having major anxiety.
Maximize Joy
Surround yourself in love and joy (it is truly all that matters!). It is hard to ground yourself in gratitude, joy and love, but if your time on this earth is limited, how else would you want to live? I decided I was going to make the absolute most out of every moment I have left, no matter how long that is, and I hope you will too.
You are worthy of this investment and I wish you the very best on your healing journey!
Julie Stevens
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Founder of MOJO Health
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Survivor of Stage 4 Colon cancer
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Author of MOJO Healing
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