{"podcast":{"title":"Renegade Remission: Holistic Healing and Nutrition for Chronic and Terminal Illness, Cancer, ALS, MS, Dementia, Heart Disease","slug":"renegade-remission-holistic-healing-and-nutrition-for-chronic-and-terminal-illness-cancer-als-ms-dementia-heart-disease-5196594","podcast_index_feed_id":5196594,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/renegade-remission/","website_url":"https://www.therenegadenutritionist.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/d12c08b6-a497-4f59-8566-174bf468501f/Artboard-12-1.jpg","author":"Elanie Welch - Holistic Healing + Nutrition Expert","episode_count":278,"summary":"Are you or someone you love facing a terminal or chronic illness and searching for hope and healing? You’ve found your podcast. Renegade Remission helps you face chronic and terminal illness, cancer, ALS, MS, dementia, Alzheimer’s, and heart disease with practical tools and science-backed stories of recovery. Hosted by licensed nutritionist and documentary filmmaker Elanie Welch, who’s spent years exploring why some people defy their diagnosis, and uncovering the physical, mental, and emotional breakthroughs that lead to healing and remission. Each episode uncovers the root-cause strategies behind real remission and natural healing, blending functional and integrative medicine and lifestyle changes to improve both quality and quantity of life. Every Monday and Thursday you’ll discover how to: • Rebuild your health through holistic nutrition and the mind-body connection • Apply natural and alternative medicine for remission and recovery • Regain hope and energy to keep beating the odds Each episode builds on the one before it, so start with Episode 2: How Releasing Repressed Emotions Supports Remission, then listen in order for your full blueprint to transformation.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T18:18:55.937791+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/renegade-remission-holistic-healing-and-nutrition-for-chronic-and-terminal-illness-cancer-als-ms-dementia-heart-disease-5196594"},"episode":{"title":"60. The Mind-Body Connection: How Your Thoughts and Emotions Affect Healing | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease","slug":"60-the-mind-body-connection-how-your-thoughts-and-emotions-affect-healing-hope-for-cancer-dementia-alzheimer-s-ms-als-heart-disease","published_at":"2026-03-19T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/renegade-remission-holistic-healing-and-nutrition-for-chronic-and-terminal-illness-cancer-als-ms-dementia-heart-disease-5196594/60-the-mind-body-connection-how-your-thoughts-and-emotions-affect-healing-hope-for-cancer-dementia-alzheimer-s-ms-als-heart-disease","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/renegade-remission-holistic-healing-and-nutrition-for-chronic-and-terminal-illness-cancer-als-ms-dementia-heart-disease-5196594","url":"https://www.therenegadenutritionist.com","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ee819bf1-911a-42fb-b229-2dfa65d9b975.mp3","summary":"If you’ve ever wondered whether your thoughts and emotions affect your illness, this episode will clarify what science shows about how the brain communicates with your immune and healing systems. In this episode of Renegade Remission , we explore the biological foundation of the mind-body connection. You’ll hear a real survivor testimonial from someone living with multiple sclerosis who described measurable physical stabilization after addressing long-standing emotional patterns alongside medical care. From there, we examine the science of psychoneuroimmunology — the field that studies how the brain, immune system, and endocrine system communicate continuously. We break down how emotional states translate into hormone signals, how those signals influence immune behavior, how immune activity affects inflammation and fatigue, and how this feedback loop shapes symptom patterns across diagnoses. This is not about positive thinking or denying medical treatment. It is about understanding that the brain and body operate as an integrated system, and that internal experience influences measurable biology. In this episode, you’ll understand: How thoughts and emotions trigger real immune and hormonal changes Why the nervous system acts as a regulator of inflammation and repair How chronic emotional patterns can influence symptom intensity and recovery capacity What placebo and nocebo research reveals about the brain’s role in physiology Practical, grounded ways to support mind-body regulation without forcing positivity Instead of seeing the mind-body connection as abstract or mystical, you’ll understand it as a biological communication system that operates whether we acknowledge it or not. 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