Lessons of a Stage 4 Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Survivor: Dr. Diva Nagula Explains Strategies for Health
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In 2014, physician Diva Nagula was surprised to face a startling diagnosis. His medical and personal journey is now a part of non hodgkin's lymphoma stage 4 survival stories and he shares some of what he's learned post cancer treatment.
He shares with listeners
- How he handled his diagnosis and understanding of different types of non hodgkin's lymphoma and cancer treatments;
- How he was able to find the spark again and claim a healthy place and lifestyle for himself; and
- How he advises patients based on his own journey to find a place of healing the mind and body.
Dr. Diva Nagula is an author, physician, and stage 4 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma survivor. He began his career as a board-certified osteopathic physician and has extensive knowledge and training in Integrative and Functional Medicine. He adds his particular experience as a physician encountering symptoms of non hodgkin's lymphoma.
He tells listeners the different phases of his diagnosis, from his first doctor visit to his waiting period before undergoing chemotherapy and his non hodgkin's lymphoma treatment. He describes spiraling into a fight-or-flight mode at this time as well as an angry phase that left him alone and without social support. His research led him into examining non hodgkin's lymphoma survival rate by age and basic non hodgkin's lymphoma survival rate for stage 4.
As a physician, he was able to understand non hodgkin's lymphoma medicosis and non hodgkin's lymphoma histopathology in a way that other patients couldn't but he still struggled with the unknown. He discusses his cancer treatment and eventually remission. But he adds that he then landed in a phase of depression. Though he was happy the cancer was in remission, it had been his only relationship and such a sharp point of focus for so long.
After the treatments he found himself basically alone and asking "what's next?" He talks about how the "spark" eventually came back to him through a chance encounter with a previous trainer. He then describes his own lifestyle changes, from eating choices to exercise to mindfulness and spiritual practices. He's written a book about the experience and offers consultations for patients through his website.
For more, see his website at fromdoctortopatient.com.
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | I have a Dr. Diva Nagula, he's an author, a physician, and he's a stage |
| 0:46.1 | for non-Hodchkins lymphoma survivor, which is a very big deal. So we can talk about |
| 0:51.1 | cancer. And Dr. Diva, thanks for coming. How you doing? |
| 0:54.4 | I'm doing great. Thanks for having me. Yeah. I'm sorry you got to that point with |
| 0:59.2 | you know the lymphoma. Would you be okay to start with talking about your experience there? |
| 1:04.9 | Yeah sure I mean anything specific you'd like me to address because I could go on for |
| 1:09.7 | for hours talking about it. Well I mean were you a doctor at that time that you had it like when did you |
| 1:16.1 | get it what was the context and you know if you fast forward to the end how was it changed your |
| 1:21.6 | outlook on what you do today? Yeah all good questions. So when I was first |
| 1:27.1 | diagnosed it was in 2000 it was February of 2014 and I had actually literally just about a year prior I had exited my practice. |
| 1:38.9 | I was practicing interventional pain management for about seven and a half to eight years and it was a really busy practice with a lot of stress. |
| 1:48.0 | I was managing, you know, started it from the ground up and you had 30 plus employees by the end of the |
| 1:55.1 | seven and a half to eight years and I was managing the patients on my own as well as |
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