Episode 122 | 5 Healing Tools I Use and Gift to Those Facing Cancer, Chronic Illness or Prioritizing Prevention

[00:00:00] Dr. Katie Deming: Hello and welcome to the Born Heal Podcast. I'm Dr. Katie Deming, your host, and on today's episode, we are gonna cover my top five gift guides for. 2025. I want you guys to know that these are not just holiday gifts. These are gifts that you can give to someone if they are diagnosed with cancer, are going through a hard time and are in need of healing.

[00:00:24] Dr. Katie Deming: These are things that are really good for. Anyone who is going through healing and even for [00:00:30] yourself. So these are my top tools that I recommend that you could get for yourself or you could get for someone else. And many of the things that you're gonna see on this list are actually. Things I've been talking about for a while.

[00:00:44] Dr. Katie Deming: So these are not necessarily new, but they are my gifts put together into a quick episode so that you, if you're looking for a gift for someone or for yourself, what are the tools that you could use yourself? These are gonna be your go-to. So, [00:01:00] I have. Five that are like, you know, accessible, affordable.

[00:01:05] Dr. Katie Deming: And then I have kind of the stretch list of like, if you're really wanting to invest in your healing, these are some things that you can do that are gonna be a little bit bigger investment, but also support you on your healing journey. And the first tool that I recommend and. Is a great gift. Like this is actually my favorite gift.

[00:01:24] Dr. Katie Deming: If someone is sick, this would be my first go-to [00:01:30] and it is, I'm wearing it right now. It is the Canuso shift. So it's a beautiful piece of jewelry and it looks like a whistle and you do blow through it, but it is not it doesn't make any sound, so you'll. You've probably heard me say that the most important thing in healing is to have a calm, nervous system.

[00:01:53] Dr. Katie Deming: And so the first thing that I work with people on healing is to calm their nervous system. And [00:02:00] your most accessible tool for calming your nervous system is your breath. So you can do this by doing a breathing pattern where you breathe out more slowly. Then you breathe in, and an example of that is a four eight breathing pattern where you breathe in for four and then you breathe out through your mouth for eight.

[00:02:20] Dr. Katie Deming: This activates the vagus nerve and calms the nervous system. It deactivates the sympathetic activation and [00:02:30] helps initiate a parasympathetic response, which is. Calm, grounding. This is where we repair. This is where we rest. This is where we need to be when we want to heal. And what's beautiful about the shift is that you literally just breathe into the little tube and it forces you into a breathing pattern where you're activating the vagus nerve.

[00:02:56] Dr. Katie Deming: So. Because it's like a little straw almost. [00:03:00] This one that I'm wearing is gold for those of you who are listening on audio only. but they come in a lot of different, um, materials. Like my assistant just got one for her son. That is like a. A gun metal kind. I don't know what the material exactly is called, but basically you can get it in different finishes.

[00:03:17] Dr. Katie Deming: Like so for a woman who wears gold, might like gold, or someone who wears silver, she might like silver, but a guy might like something that's more, one of these more industrial looking finishes and they have all of those. But [00:03:30] basically you just pop it in your mouth and then you breathe through it and it.

[00:03:35] Dr. Katie Deming: Forces you into a breathing pattern that is activating your vagus nerve and calming you down. And what the reason why, you know, why would you wear something? Like, why don't you just do the breathing? Which is fine. You can do that. You don't need this tool to activate the vagus nerve. What I like about this is that. Not only is it a tool that you can use, but it's a reminder, so it's an environmental [00:04:00] cue that you have on you that like, you know, you always have it as a reminder, like, oh, I always can use my breath. To calm my nervous system. And so as a gift, it's a beautiful thing because it is just a beautiful piece of jewelry, but then also is a very useful tool, like the most useful tool.

[00:04:20] Dr. Katie Deming: When my daughters were experiencing anxiety, I bought them Canuso shift and they wear them. And used it [00:04:30] to help calm anxiety just to, you know, normal stuff. So this is great for kids. So you could get this for an anxious child or teen, and that's actually what my assistant had bought it for. Her son who has autism and has like an oral fixation is a way to give him something that he can put in his mouth that is safe.

[00:04:49] Dr. Katie Deming: He's not gonna hurt himself or chew through anything 'cause it's too hard for that. But then also gives him something that. You know, fills that, [00:05:00] oral need, but also allows him to calm his nervous system at the same time. So that's my number one gift. I love it. I, I give it, that's probably the most common gift that I give to people if they're going through healing and I want to do something nice for them.

[00:05:16] Dr. Katie Deming: The second thing on my gift guide is. Also like a game changer for me. So this, I'm holding it up, it's the Echo Flask and it basically is a hydrogen water bottle and it [00:05:30] creates hydrogen in the water through electrolysis. I wish that I had it filled. Right now it's not filled, but basically you just turn it on on the side and then it'll add hydrogen to the water.

[00:05:41] Dr. Katie Deming: I don't wanna do that right now though, because I don't have any water in there. So, that is. Amazing. So I did a whole episode, actually I think almost all, everything on this list. I did an episode with the founder of Echo and so you can listen, we'll link that episode.

[00:05:58] Dr. Katie Deming: So if you wanna go listen more [00:06:00] about what are the benefits of hydrogen, but hydrogen water is really, really valuable. So hydrogen is an antioxidant. It's one of the most powerful antioxidants. And when you use electrolysis to generate hydrogen in the water. You basically create more hydrogen in the body and the hydrogen makes your body function optimally.

[00:06:27] Dr. Katie Deming: So it's a way of making your body just [00:06:30] function better. It also acts as a powerful antioxidant. There are studies of using this with cancer therapies and having. Benefit of using it in conjunction with chemotherapy or radiation. But then also like when I have people doing a water fast, I recommend that everyone have an Echo Flask and use hydrogen water during the fast because it helps optimize the role of the water in your body.

[00:06:57] Dr. Katie Deming: And the reason why I chose the [00:07:00] Echo is because. It has the highest parts per million of hydrogen, um, that you can get commercially. And it is like an easy, you know, one of the things that I get complaints, people are like, well, it's plastic and I do realize that this is plastic, but you're not gonna have, you're not storing your water in here.

[00:07:18] Dr. Katie Deming: You're just putting your water into charge it. And then I pour it directly out into a cup, which is, I was like hoping the water was still in there, but I had already poured it out, um, into a cup and it holds, or glass, it holds the [00:07:30] hydrogen in the water for too. Two hours. Um, so as long as you drink it within two hours that has very hydro high hydrogen level in the water and it makes a great gift.

[00:07:41] Dr. Katie Deming: I think this is somewhere around like $299. so that is the cost on that one. I can't remember the ka muso shift, how much that is. I wanna say $80, but we'll put the links in here so you can find these things. But the Echo Flask is something that. I recommend for water. So, the [00:08:00] next tool actually, or next gift guide, um, that I'm gonna recommend is also related to water.

[00:08:07] Dr. Katie Deming: And that is the clearly filtered picture for water. So this, the reason why I like this as a gift guide is because it, you know. We need fil, we need filtered water. We need our water to be clean, filtered of microplastics, of chlorine, of fluoride, of like the [00:08:30] different carcinogens and antibiotics and all this stuff that's in our water that we just don't know about it.

[00:08:34] Dr. Katie Deming: And I think a lot of people, when I first talked to about water, they're overwhelmed because there's. Really a lot of things that you can do and it can get very expensive very quickly. And so what I like about the clearly filtered is that this is a little picture. I don't have one actually. I've bought them for my children.

[00:08:51] Dr. Katie Deming: So my children who are college age or my son just graduated college, which is amazing. He has this first job and um, new apartment and stuff. [00:09:00] I bought him this filtration system. So this is like, I think it was like $120, but the clearly filtered picture. Is a really good starting point with water. If you're like, I don't know what to buy.

[00:09:12] Dr. Katie Deming: I don't, I don't wanna buy a big system. I don't, I don't have time to do the research yet. The clearly filtered water pitcher is a great option and it's also good option for someone that you wanna gift it to because you are not, you don't know what they need for their whole house, you know, like for, you know, reverse osmosis or [00:09:30] whatever it is that if they were gonna.

[00:09:31] Dr. Katie Deming: Put something in. This is something that you could gift to them, and it's a way for them to get clean, filtered water. Right away and it's, you know, affordable. And then they'll put you on a subscription so you can refill the filters and make sure that you're continuing to get filtration. Brita brawn Pure.

[00:09:51] Dr. Katie Deming: All of those, like, just like refrigerator filters are the normal little pitcher filters. Do not filter what you need. They are only carbon [00:10:00] and not filtering at the level that you need to with clearly filter. This is gonna be your best option in a picture. So this is gonna be something that is gonna give you it's not gonna be to the level of reverse osmosis, but it is the best in terms of doing, you know, something that is in a picture form.

[00:10:18] Dr. Katie Deming: So. And that would be the first step for someone with their water is to just get clean, filtered water. My fourth is the Aǹalemma wand. And [00:10:30] so I also have an episode about this on the Aǹalemma wand with Mario Banovich, who is the founder of Lema.

[00:10:38] Dr. Katie Deming: And that interview is definitely worth listening to if you have not listened to it because. It's really mind blowing what adding coherence to water can do for the plants and the soil, but also for our body. And so the camo, or sorry, the Aǹalemma looks like this. It's a wand. And for those of you who are on YouTube, you can see that there's [00:11:00] water in this wand and the water is highly coherent.

[00:11:05] Dr. Katie Deming: Mother water. So what you do is you either stir this wand with the mother water in it, in your water, or you can just run the water that you're running out of your filtered water system over the Aǹalemma wand, and it will structure the water as it runs over it. So either way, you can stir it in there or you can pour it over.

[00:11:27] Dr. Katie Deming: Personally, I like to just run the water [00:11:30] and have the wand underneath it because it just allows me to screw. Create coherence in the water at the same time that it's pouring into like my glass or a pitcher. But you can also stir it that way and it'll create coherence in the water, basically matching the water in your glass to the mother water that is in the wand.

[00:11:53] Dr. Katie Deming: And so for me, if I were to say to someone, what are the three things that you would do for your water that [00:12:00] would optimize your water that's affordable? That's like gonna be basically like, I would say, you know, around $500 for everything. It would be to do, you know, the clearly filtered little uh. Picture or some kind of filtration.

[00:12:15] Dr. Katie Deming: Then doing the Aǹalemma wand to create coherence in the water. You also add some salt just to make sure if you, you know, if you don't have mineralization of your water, like if you're doing a river osmosis or something, you wanna add some [00:12:30] salt. So, um, having. Salt in your water or just having salt through your daily intake will be valuable.

[00:12:37] Dr. Katie Deming: And then the third step would be to ate your water with the echo. So that's basically, you know, if I were to say to someone where to start with water, I would get those three things. I would get clearly filtered in a lema one. And the echo flask. And then eventually you would want to upgrade your clearly filtered to something more robust filtration system.

[00:12:59] Dr. Katie Deming: But if you [00:13:00] just needed to start somewhere and you're like, I don't know, I'm overwhelmed, that would be my ideal kit for optimizing your water. So that was my fourth item, was the Aǹalemma wand. And then. The last item in my gift guide is the Keto Mojo. So I, you know, with my fasts, we test ketones and glucose.

[00:13:25] Dr. Katie Deming: the. Keto Mojo is a great way for you to check your [00:13:30] ketones and glucose, and I check my glucose and ketones for my fasts through their fast and through their refeeding. And then I have, you know, many clients who want to.

[00:13:40] Dr. Katie Deming: Implement some form of ketosis through their diet. And the Keto Mojo I find just very easy to use. So there is a little, um, if you're on YouTube, you can see this, this just the little keto mojo glucose and ketone meter. And what it will do is you'll have [00:14:00] strips for glucose, you'll have strips for ketones.

[00:14:03] Dr. Katie Deming: It checks 'em from your blood. So you've got a little lancet that, um, I'm showing here is basically a way to like prick your finger and then it's got strips for glucose and ketones, and you can test both of them on there. And then it'll calculate your GKI, which is the glucose to ketone index, which Thomas Seyfried talks a lot about.

[00:14:25] Dr. Katie Deming: And so. I love the Keto Mojo glucose and Keto Monitor 'cause it's [00:14:30] just easy. And then I also love the Keto Mojo site, so this is a great site for people who are interested in, in doing therapeutic or nutritional ketosis or just getting more ketones up in their body. They have a lot of information, recipes guides like how to troubleshoot with your ketones and glucose, and I just find it very.

[00:14:54] Dr. Katie Deming: Helpful and I am going to have, um, their founder on the [00:15:00] podcast. We have the interview scheduled, I think for January. Um, so we will be able to talk more about the services that they provide. But I just find that this is a company that is very knowledgeable in this space, that are sharing information in a way that is really valuable and helpful for those people who want to, incorporate therapeutic ketosis or any level of ketosis into your healing journey. And the Keto Mojo is not that expensive. I wanna say it's like $50, but it's funny. I should have all the prices of these. But, um, we'll [00:15:30] have them in the show notes so you can see what the price is there. But that is my favorite, um, item in terms of ketosis and fasting and, and testing your glucose and ketones.

[00:15:41] Dr. Katie Deming: So those are my five. Gift guide items that are affordable, that these are things that are accessible. They're under $500. Most of them are around, you know, a hundred dollars or less. It's just the Echo Flask is a little bit more expensive. It's, I think 2 99, but the other higher ticket items, [00:16:00] these are the things that you're like maybe you've been wanting or you wanna do some splurge.

[00:16:06] Dr. Katie Deming: Here are gonna be my items that are gonna be bigger. Investments, but also potential bigger impact as well on your healing. And so I wanted to share those. I've also have episodes about many of these things, but the first one is the exercise with oxygen therapy system created by 1000 Roads. I did an interview with their founder and.

[00:16:29] Dr. Katie Deming: You can [00:16:30] listen to that. We'll link that in the show notes. But this is a great system where you can exercise with oxygen, which basically increases oxygenation in your tissues. And it's, you know, people use hyperbaric oxygen. It's not the same as hyperbaric 'cause it's not the high pressure, but it gives similar benefits of adding oxygen into.

[00:16:54] Dr. Katie Deming: Your system while you're exercising and it's less time. So like with a [00:17:00] hyperbaric, you, you're going in there for like an hour. With Wot you could do it 15 minutes a day and get a benefit there. And they're super friendly, helpful customer service. If you have any issues, they're wonderful. So, um, that is a, you know, high ticket item that I personally have in my own possession in my home.

[00:17:19] Dr. Katie Deming: It's part of my, my healing room and the things that I use in my own healing. And then the second thing on this, like higher ticket is. Red light therapy. [00:17:30] So red light therapy is very beneficial for your mitochondria. I do have a whole episode about red light and we will link that, in the show notes as well.

[00:17:40] Dr. Katie Deming: But if you are looking for a red light system, the one that I personally use and is recommended also by Bryant Myers, who's the physicist that I interviewed on that episode, and this is like for, you know, home use. So Bryant may recommend. He, uh, I think works for or [00:18:00] has a red light system itself, but it's like over a hundred thousand dollars just like for, you know, wellness centers.

[00:18:05] Dr. Katie Deming: So for home use, the one that he recommends and I also recommend and that I have in my own home is called Platinum, LED. And. With red light, you know, there's a lot of different red light systems out there and there's like, you know, spot systems and that kind of thing. If you're really looking to heal and boost your mitochondria using red light [00:18:30] therapy, you actually are gonna need panels that cover not only your body, but outside your body.

[00:18:36] Dr. Katie Deming: You need a certain distance around your body in order for. Get to get full coverage on your body. And this has to do with the I Radiance. But the one that I have, I think is the bio max 900 from platinum, LED. And you need four panels to cover, um, an adult. So, you know, getting one panel and just like.

[00:18:57] Dr. Katie Deming: Doing it in one area or like shifting it. [00:19:00] You can use it all over your body, but it's gonna take a long time. It's 'cause basically you need 15 minutes per side and even when you have the four panels, you do one side 15 minutes and then you have to flip over. So that's 30 minutes. Having like one panel and like moving it around on your body is really cumbersome and really time consuming.

[00:19:16] Dr. Katie Deming: And I find that most people just. Get frustrated with that. So if you are gonna do red light, I would recommend getting the four panels, and then you can have it either on a standup stand where you stand in front of it. I personally don't like to stand [00:19:30] while I'm doing my red light, so I have it on a stand that you can lay underneath.

[00:19:35] Dr. Katie Deming: So that's another type of stand that they have where you can put it over like your bed or you can put it over a massage table. I just bought a massage table for like a hundred dollars. Put it over that so that, that way I can lay on it. I did try it on my bed for a while, but it, you can't get all the panels over your bed because when with the panels over you, you actually need them to come in from two sides.

[00:19:58] Dr. Katie Deming: So it, like a [00:20:00] massage table's kind of perfect because it'll come, you'll have the, the stand on one side and a stand on the other side, and it'll hold each one of the, the stands holds two panels to get four over you. The platinum LED Bio max 904 panels with the stand is a great gift. I mean, that's like, you know, a gift to yourself.

[00:20:19] Dr. Katie Deming: It's like, I think probably $4,500 for total for that. So these, like I said, these ones are like your higher ticket items. These are things to put on your wishlist or, or things that you want to get [00:20:30] down the road. Or if someone. You know, if you have a bigger budget, you can go ahead and, and get these items.

[00:20:35] Dr. Katie Deming: And then the third one on there is, Sauna. So you know, I have a healthmate sauna and I love it. It's an infrared sauna. You know, there's some question people are like, you know, in two camps, whether, you know, doing infrared with having, there's some EMFs when you, when you're. Plugging something in and it's using electromagnetic frequency.

[00:20:57] Dr. Katie Deming: So obviously a red light sauna does that. [00:21:00] For me, that's been the choice that I've made is that I love my infrared sauna and, um, helpmate is the one that, um. That I have. And I think I have the Enrich two and I think it's somewhere around $5,000, um, for healthmate Sauna.

[00:21:18] Dr. Katie Deming: But that's, that's one that I can speak from personal use that I love and it works really well. And and also the other thing is with most of these things like platinum, LED, I have no [00:21:30] affiliation with them. And these, we're gonna put the links. These are things that I just recommend that would be valuable. It's not like I'm making money off these big ticket items, um, for most of them.

[00:21:39] Dr. Katie Deming: So, um, and then PEMF is a great, so pulse electromagnetic fields can be very beneficial for healing. Again, I have a whole episode about PEMF with Bryant Myers, and we'll link to that in this episode. And if you are interested in purchasing A-P-E-M-F system, Bryan is really the [00:22:00] person that I would recommend for that.

[00:22:01] Dr. Katie Deming: Um, he can, he, uh, has several different companies that he can, um. Talk to you about and that kind of thing. But I think that he's a reputable person who can give you information in that regard. And then my final for like water filtration, like my system that I have is Spring aqua. And that, again, is a big ticket item.

[00:22:20] Dr. Katie Deming: But what I love about that system is that it does everything that you need. Now you can do all the things you know by. Putting [00:22:30] together your own protocol. Like I said with, you know, if, if I was just starting out, I would use the clearly filtered, I would do an Aǹalemma wand and the echo flask. If you're looking to be like, okay, how can I really optimize my water system?

[00:22:43] Dr. Katie Deming: The one that I love and I have in my house is spring aqua. And spring aqua is special because it really is like creating. A spring under your sink. So it's a way of not only filtering your water, it [00:23:00] uses micro filters or nano filtration, I think. Yeah, it's nano filtration and which is. Similar to reverse osmosis, a little bit different, but basically, um, similar level of filtration is reverse osmosis.

[00:23:14] Dr. Katie Deming: But then what it does also is that it structures the water, so it creates highly coherent water through structuring. And also mineralizes, the water has crystals inside the system that mimics [00:23:30] what. Happens with spring water. So spring water is naturally filtered. It's naturally coherent or structured.

[00:23:38] Dr. Katie Deming: It's naturally mineralized. And so the spring aqua system is designed to mimic that to create filtered. Mineralized structured water that would be from natural spring and then it has the additional option of adding hydrogen to your water. And so it's interesting 'cause I [00:24:00] actually use the Echo Flask in addition.

[00:24:02] Dr. Katie Deming: So the, the level of hydration that you can get with something that is like, capped like this with the Echo flass. That's why I use it is because that, um, you can get. Even higher levels of hydrogen, but spring aqua you can get with or without the hydrogen water added in. So, that is, you know, a great option, but also a big ticket item.

[00:24:23] Dr. Katie Deming: So. Those are my recommendations. Those are my lists. Those are not, like, these are the, [00:24:30] the things that really are game changers for me. And so the, the, you know, the lower ticket items, the five of those are great things that you could get for someone else if they're going through a journey or for yourself.

[00:24:42] Dr. Katie Deming: Um, and then these bigger ticket items or things, not, you don't need all of these things, but if you're wanting to uplevel your healing, these are the things that you could. Bring in or put on your wishlist so that Santa or you know, whoever can bring you those items for your [00:25:00] next big celebration, whether it's a birthday or whether it's Christmas or holidays, whatever it is, Hanukkah all of those things.

[00:25:06] Dr. Katie Deming: So. Anyway, I'm wishing all of you so much health and happiness in this holiday season and I hope that you find this helpful. And if you found this episode helpful, I would love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It really helps me to let other people know. What this podcast is all about and what it means to you, because the only way that I [00:25:30] can help other people find me is by giving them information to make good decisions for them.

[00:25:35] Dr. Katie Deming: So leaving a review would be very helpful for me or leaving a comment on YouTube if you're watching on YouTube. I appreciate that as well. So thank you so much and we'll see you on the next episode.