Welcome to the Low-Carb MD podcast, no one is beyond help, no one is beyond hope.

As we've always said, we're bringing you medical information and cutting edge science,

but none of this is medical advice.

Please seek out input from your own doctor.

Hello and welcome back to the Life's Best Medicine Podcast.

Today I have a story, you know, a couple here that I've interviewed on on low-carb MD and

you go back and I can't remember the episode number, but go back and just Google it on low-carb MD,

Brad and Maggie Jones. They have an amazing story about survivorship and helping other people

and they're with a cancer revolution. And so let's just go back like let's talk about how life

was prediagnosis, relationship prediagnosis. I'll let one of you just jump in and and you know,

get people a background on your story. Awesome, I'll take it from here. Brad and I had been living in

LA for gosh, together almost 15 years at the time when we decided to make a change and move to

Hong Kong. And this was exactly one week before my 40th birthday. We'd never been to Asia before,

we certainly never been to Hong Kong before, but again, something new in life, we were almost

40, I was. And exactly one month after my 40th birthday, I was diagnosed with terminal

stage 4 lung cancer that by then had spread to multiple terminals in my brain, my eye,

dozens of lymph nodes throughout my neck, chest, abdomen, the prognosis, or at least the

median survival rate with standard of care was six to eight months at the time. I was young,

I was healthy, maybe I would make a year. Ultimately for me, I just wanted to make it to the end of

Game of Thrones. But eventually that really wasn't the right goal. So yeah, a lot in life changed

rapidly. I didn't put my job at first. But I remember in that first couple of days,

after the diagnosis, that crazy rush work, I was a non-smoker, I was just turning 40, I felt like I

...