{"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":"62. Can Your Mind Influence Remission? What Science Says About Expectation and Healing  | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease","slug":"62-can-your-mind-influence-remission-what-science-says-about-expectation-and-healing-hope-for-cancer-dementia-alzheimer-s-ms-als-heart-disease","published_at":"2026-03-26T09:00:00+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-5196594/62-can-your-mind-influence-remission-what-science-says-about-expectation-and-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/5b4db37c-eb9f-46c5-8c8b-3c62bb19a5df.mp3","summary":"If you’ve ever wondered whether your mindset could influence whether your illness stabilizes, improves, or progresses, this episode will show you what research actually says about expectation, belief, and healing biology. In this episode of Renegade Remission , we explore a question that is often misunderstood and sometimes avoided: can what you expect or believe influence how your body responds to illness? You’ll hear a documented Radical Remission survivor story in which a profound shift in expectation coincided with unexpected physical improvement. From there, we break down the neuroscience of predictive processing, placebo research, and neuroplasticity to understand how the brain communicates with the immune system, stress pathways, and inflammation. This is not about blame, and it is not about thinking your way out of disease. It is about understanding how expectation functions as a biological input that can influence how the body responds over time. In this episode, you’ll understand: How expectation and belief influence immune signaling, inflammation, and stress pathways What placebo and nocebo research actually prove about the brain’s role in physiology How the brain’s “prediction system” shapes your body’s baseline state Why repeated thought patterns can reinforce either threat or recovery pathways Simple, pressure-free ways to support healing without forcing positivity or denying fear You’ll begin to see expectation as one of many factors that shape the internal environment where healing occurs. Listen now to understand how your expectations may be influencing your biology — and begin experimenting with one small shift that creates space for possibility instead of inevitability. 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