Life Well-Lived with Regina Topelson
Cancer is life's great disrupter, it is also a powerful teacher. My guests and I will help you walk this journey with confidence and emerge healthier, as the best version of yourself. You'll learn the best way to take care of yourself through nutrition, physical activity, stress reduction, relationships, and social networks, environmental factors, and a mindset of calm and courage. Have a topic you'd like me to cover? Go to lifewell-lived.com and send me a message! A new episode will be released every second and fourth Thursday of the month.
Episodes
66 episodes
Thanksgiving 2022
This episode originally aired Fall of 2020 but it all still holds true today!Happy Thanksgiving!
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25:44
Sacred Energy with Dina Tibbs
I've long been interested in energy work and learning to use it to heal and bring peace into the world. In this episode we're talking about awakening the feminine, balancing it with the masculine, the soul, and how our energy allows us to "walk...
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Episode 64
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58:31
Aging, Telomeres, and Cancer with Dr. Corey Jones-Weinert
The connection between aging, telomeres, and cancer isn't always clear. What are telomeres? What is their role in aging? What is their role in cancer development? And what can you do about it? Corey Jones-Weinert, PhD answers all these qu...
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Episode 63
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1:01:07
Feeding Your Immune System with Dr. Karthik Varanasi
Dr. Karthik Varanasi is a post-doctoral researcher at the Salk Institute in San Diego, California and he joins me on this episode to discuss normal cell metabolism (how normal cells use nutrients to make energy), cancer metabolism and the milli...
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Episode 62
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54:45
The Hallmarks of a Life Well-Lived Part 3 - Sleep
Are you one of those people that believes you're better off with less sleep?Think you're more productive on 4 or 5 hours of sleep than you are on 7 or 8 hours of sleep?In this episode, we explore why sleep is so important to your well-b...
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Episode 61
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23:20
Up for the Fight with Bill Potts
If you've had cancer once, you know once is more than enough. My guest on this episode is a five-time survivor... and he's written to tell about his multiple walks on this path. There's so much in this episode - fitness, nutrition, purpose, pas...
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Episode 60
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57:33
The Hallmarks of a Life Well-Lived Part 2 - Exercise
Physical activity is the second hallmark of a life well-lived because it promotes well-being. Exercise is good for all your 11 body systems including cardiovascular, respiratory, integumentary (skin), endocrine (diabetes), and can protect you f...
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Episode 59
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23:42
Hallmarks of a Life Well-Lived - Nutrition
What are the hallmarks of a life well-lived? Today we're exploring one of the hallmarks of a life well-lived, nutrition. In this episode, we explore some compelling data on why diet modification is important for the prevention and treatment of ...
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Episode 58
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30:13
Cannabis for Cancer Care Part 2
In this episode we continue our exploration of cannabis for cancer care. Specifically we address the safety of using cannabis with traditional therapies, the ingredients in cannabis products, the types of symptoms cannabis can and is used to he...
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Episode 57
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58:16
Cannabis for Cancer Care Part 1
If you're like me, you probably have some preconceived notions about cannabis. Maybe you've even tried it and the experience wasn't so great. I was hesitant to do a show about cannabis and then I thought, "Why not? Maybe I'll learn...
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Episode 56
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1:01:37
Taking a (short) break.
Thank you for being a loyal and valued listener of the Life Well-Lived Podcast. After over two years of podcasting, I'm taking a short break. I'll be right back here on the second Thursday of July with brand new (and maybe controversial) conten...
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Leaving a Legacy
Have you ever thought about the legacy you are leaving? I think about this all the time, and you know what they say, the things you think about you bring about. So all that thinking brought me to the concept of an ethical will. I hope you...
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Episode 55
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26:10
Creating Spaces You Love
The spaces we live and work in are so meaningful to us. They can help us be more productive or suck the energy right out of us. I've been thinking about the elements that go into designing a space I love for a few years. Longer than the pandemi...
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Episode 54
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36:18
Making Cancer Meaningful with Michelle Hoglan
Adversity can be a great teacher if you're open to it. An illness (of any kind, but especially cancer) is the motherload of epiphanies and lessons learned. But for many survivors, it turns into something more... a desire to lessen the suffering...
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Episode 53
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42:55
Talking About Difficult Things with Sharon Delaney McCloud
We're talking about difficult things today - illness, grief, loss, death, and dying. And, what it means for the living.Experiencing our own illness is frought with all kinds of emotions, but watching a loved one suffer and pass is compl...
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Episode 52
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44:36
Three Ways Humor Can Help You Beat Cancer with Olivia Clarke
Olivia Clarke started Humor Beats Cancer when she was diagnosed with breast cancer because she believed in the healing power of laughter. Humor Beats Cancer allows cancer patients, survivors, and caretakers to share the funny stories of w...
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Episode 51
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35:05
Being Your Own Best Advocate with Dani Tropsa
Today we're talking about how to advocate for yourself when you feel like something isn't quite right, or when you have concerns about your health. When it comes to diagnosing cancer, especially breast cancer, many times the patient finds...
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Episode 50
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47:43
The Upside to Cancer with Theresa Drescher
Can you imagine an upside to cancer?My guest, Theresa Drescher, author of The Upside to Everything Even Breast Cancer thinks there is. It's not that the process was enjoyable or that anyone is happy to do it, it's that you can use the e...
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Episode 49
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41:18
Physical Rehabilitation with Amanda Grilli
Physical therapy can dramatically improve a survivor's quality of life. And it can be helpful at any stage of treatment or recovery. But many survivors are not aware of its benefits or do not have access to physical rehabilitation as part of th...
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Episode 48
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37:15
Giving Back with Carrie Madrid
A cancer diagnosis can be overwhelming enough when you are the one going through it, but all the more so when you are privy to the struggles others are having going through it too.For Carrie Madrid, it was the knowledge that people had ...
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Episode 47
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Celebrate Your Femininity with Jen Rozenbaum
Part of the cancer treatment experience for many of us is the loss of our femininity. It can come from losing your female body parts, being sent into artificial menopause, or losing your hair, eyelashes, and all the things that make you feel be...
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Episode 46
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42:24
A Naturopathic Approach to Cancer Care with Dr. Lori Bouchard
What does a naturopathic approach to cancer care look like? Dr. Lori Bouchard shares her wisdom on healing through a naturopathic lens. She shares what she has learned through years of practice, which resulted in her writing two books about can...
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Episode 45
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41:26
Making the Holidays Meaningful with Melissa Rosen
In this episode, I'm talking to two-time cancer survivor, Melissa Rosen, about how a cancer diagnosis can affect you physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. And how complete healing includes doing so in all four areas. That couldn't...
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Episode 44
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55:11
Reconstructing Life After Breast Cancer with Kim Harms
For my guest Kim Harms, relationships played a big role in reconstructing her life after breast cancer. The relationships with her husband, three boys, parents and inlaws, friends, and community were instrumental in her recovery process. We tal...
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Episode 43
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55:00
Life Lessons from Koby Gruenwald and Brody Huber
This Thanksgiving episode is a little different in that I couldn't interview my guests, though I have thought of them often this year. This episode is about the life lessons I learned from two boys who had a lot in common though they didn't kno...
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Episode 42
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