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🗓️ 20 November 2018
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One out of three people will face a cancer diagnosis in their lifetime. While a regular yoga practice might not prevent cancer, it can certainly help ease the fear, anxiety, and emotional anguish that can come with it. Today's guest, Dr. Timothy McCall, is a medical doctor and yoga teacher, who talks with us this week about his road to recovery from throat cancer. His story is an inspiring testimony to the power of a yoga and meditation during hard times.
Timothy shares how he discovered his cancer, how he chose his care team, and which asanas supported him through treatment. He also talks about the benefits of fasting prior to chemotherapy and radiation treatments. And how he both prepared for treatment and convalesced after treatment in Kerala, India with Ayurvedic treatments -- and the effect they had on him. You can pre-order Timothy's self-published book, Saving My Neck: A Doctor's East/West Journey Through Cancer on Amazon.
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 130 of Yoga Land. Today my guest is Timothy McCall. I met Timothy McCall years ago when I first |
0:17.4 | started working at Yoga Journal. I actually edited a column that he wrote for |
0:22.3 | us about health and I remember being very |
0:24.8 | nervous editing that column the first time because he was a physician and that just seemed |
0:30.1 | intimidating but Timothy was also our regular medical editor, which means he vetted |
0:37.1 | our stories to make sure they were medically accurate, and we relied on him a lot. |
0:43.0 | So Timothy practiced medicine for about 10 years. |
0:45.5 | He practiced internal medicine in the Boston area |
0:47.6 | and then he quit to devote himself full time |
0:51.4 | to investigating and teaching yoga therapy. He is a certified yoga |
0:56.1 | therapist by the International Association of Yoga Therapists and he's the |
1:00.0 | founder, director of yoga as medicine seminars and teacher trainings. He has a book |
1:04.8 | called Yoga as Medicine, which I highly recommend, and he has a new book that we |
1:09.9 | talk about today that he's self-pubishing called Saving My Neck, a |
1:14.1 | doctor's East West journey through cancer. So he was diagnosed with throat cancer |
1:19.8 | just about two years ago and he wrote a book about the experience and I wanted to talk to him about it as well. |
1:28.0 | I think it's really fascinating to speak to someone who has his background and really, really understands Western medicine. |
1:35.8 | And then for many years has also devoted himself to integrative medicine and Eastern medicine. |
1:41.5 | So I wanted to hear how he navigated those two forms of treatment and then also |
1:48.4 | how his yoga practice supported him through treatment and after and kind of how it helped with his |
1:56.3 | mental and emotional state. So it was just really fascinating to talk to |
2:00.8 | Timothy. I'm so grateful to him for sharing his story and I think that it will be really |
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