Episode 22 - Find The Cause, Then Find The Cure with Zach and Savannah Labie

Welcome to the very first episode of The Beljanski Cancer Talk Show in 2025! In this electrifying kick-off to the year, Sylvie Beljanski brings you a powerful story that will redefine your perspective on cancer, healing, and what’s truly possible when you refuse to accept the status quo.

Meet Zach and Savannah—two incredible individuals who defied the odds after Zach's shocking stage 3 colorectal cancer diagnosis at just 33 years old. Instead of blindly following the traditional path of chemotherapy and radiation, Zach chose to take control of his healing journey. He sought out alternative treatments that addressed the root causes of his illness, embracing a holistic approach that would ultimately lead him to recovery.

With the love and support of his devoted wife Savannah and their five children, Zach's journey became more than just a fight for survival—it was a testament to the power of faith, family, and self-advocacy. Their story is a reminder that true healing is possible, bringing families closer together and inspiring a new way of thinking about health.

This special episode is more than just a story—it’s an essential message to kick off the new year with hope, courage, and a renewed commitment to taking control of your health. You won’t want to miss these life-changing insights. Tune in now and start 2025 with the inspiration you need to make this your healthiest year yet!

Episode Highlights:
🔬 Introduction to Zach's Journey
🌿 Struggles with the Healthcare System
💥 Choosing an Alternative Path
🧘‍♀️ Treatment at Hope4Cancer
🧠 Lifestyle Changes and Family Impact

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Chapters

• 1:21 Meet Zach and Savannah
• 3:13 Initial Symptoms and Diagnosis
• 7:57 Struggles with the Healthcare System
• 11:45 Choosing an Alternative Path
• 14:27 Treatment at Hope4Cancer
• 17:45 Lifestyle Changes and Family Impact
• 21:42 Ad: The 2025 Beljanski Integrative Cancer Conference
• 23:04 Reflections and Future Plans
• 34:23 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Transcript

Ep 22 - Find The Cause, Then Find The Cure with Zach and Savannah Labie

Introduction to Zach's Journey

Savannah Labie: If I can find the cause, then I can find the cure. We didn't want to receive any treatment without knowing what caused this.

Victor Dwyer: Welcome to an incredibly special episode of The Beljanski Cancer Talk Show, our very first episode of 2025 and one that marks a major milestone for us. We're kicking off the new year with a truly powerful story. And for the first time ever, we're bringing you a guest who has personally battled cancer.

Meet Zach and Savannah

Victor Dwyer: Today we're joined by Zach and Savannah, a couple whose journey will inspire and move you in ways you can't imagine. At just 33 years old, Zach was hit with a devastating diagnosis, stage three colorectal cancer. But here's where the story takes a turn. Rather than follow the typical path of chemotherapy and radiation, Zach made a bold choice.

He decided to get to the root cause of his illness and reclaim his health on his own terms. With the unwavering support of his beautiful wife Savannah and their five young children, Zach set out on a transformative healing journey. One that not only changed his life, but also brought their family even closer together.

Zach's journey is a testament to the power of taking control of your health and the incredible strength that comes from choosing a path of hope. This is a story of courage, faith, and the relentless pursuit of true healing. Get ready to be moved, inspired, and challenged to think differently about what's possible.

Let's dive in.

Sylvie Beljanski: Zach, Savannah, welcome to The Beljanski Cancer Talk Show. I'm so happy to have you here today. We usually have a lot of, doctors cancer experts, but it's not often that we have somebody who have actually experienced the drama that comes with the diagnosis and is willing to share their journey.

So, I am very grateful for you coming on the show and be willing to illuminate us with your experience and everything you have learned through this difficult journey. 

Initial Symptoms and Diagnosis

Sylvie Beljanski: Zach, I understand that you have been diagnosed with colon cancer at some point in your life. How many years ago did that happen?

Zach Labie: So it is coming up on two years. 

Sylvie Beljanski: Two years. Okay.

Zach Labie: In December.

Sylvie Beljanski: In December. So, congratulations first thing. You look good. You have a great smile, a great positive attitude. And there is reckless written on your t-shirt.

Zach Labie: It is reckless 

Sylvie Beljanski: I think that’s a statement. 

Zach Labie: That's my nickname. 

Sylvie Beljanski: So, can you walk us through the entire experience?

Zach Labie: Yeah. So I was having these, I would call them flare ups what, six months to a year before my diagnosis. And I had issues years ago and a lot of it was we changed our diet in a way, in a sense. Now, looking back with the amount of changes we made, five years ago or so that when I had my first flare ups, the changes were eating less Doritos and less Little Debbie, zebra cakes and so I cut that stuff out and it corrected myself and then about two and a half to three years ago, I had these other flare ups and issues, and I just told Savannah “I need to start going back and eating better and cleaner,” and took out, Savannah said, “Why don't you stop eating dairy?” and gave me all these kind of advice on, “Hey, take out dairy, take out Gluten. Let's take out the snacks again,” like we had, like I had.

Sylvie Beljanski: So, I understand well. You grew up on, and you used to have a diet that included a lot of Doritos and fast food and things like that.

Zach Labie: Yes.

Sylvie Beljanski: You had some flare ups.

Zach Labie: Uhuh.

Sylvie Beljanski: You did better. What do you mean exactly by doing better? Did you suppress those Doritos and then you ate some greens, some grains, some fruit.

Zach Labie: No, it was still fast food. It was just less of the junk food snacks back then. And I would feel better, like my stomach, I didn't have as much bloating or constipation, so fast forward now, six months to a year of pre diagnosis, I was like “I'll just do the same thing, and it'll probably correct itself.”

Sylvie Beljanski: Okay.

Zach Labie: My diet really, my diet's been the exact same ever since I was a teenager, and so I'm 35 now. . 

Sylvie Beljanski: So, you did pretty bad again and the flareups came back. How surprising. 

Zach Labie: Yes. Yeah. Yeah. You know, with what we know now. 

Sylvie Beljanski: Yeah. Yeah. And then what happened? So it's just three rounds of flareups.

Zach Labie: I just, I told Savannah “I will, I will give myself six months. Let's see what is better.” And I progressively got worse within those roughly six months. I was going to the bathroom 10, 15 times a day, but really nothing would come out. Anytime, we have a trampoline that me and the kids, we all bounce on and I would start bouncing on the trampoline and immediately have to go to the restroom.

Then I became really tired. And Savannah started getting angry with me and she's just like “I need your help around the house” and everything was justifiable on why she was getting upset but it was just like man I'm just, I'm so tired from not getting enough sleep or the mental drain of work. And then savannah just started saying “This isn't normal,” like, you're third, at that point I was 32 years old or right, 32? And then, so I was diagnosed in December. In October, blood started showing up in my stool.

And then that's really where I was like, “Okay, something else is weird. This is not normal.” I would say I was one to just deal with things, and just say, push it off to the side, like I think a lot of people are. And finally when the blood started coming, I'm like, “You know what?”

I don't know how long it's been, cause I didn't check every time I would have a bowel movement, but when it kinda would fill the toilet, I was like, “I probably should tell Savannah, and we probably should do something about this.” I immediately went downstairs and said, “I don't know how long blood has been in my, in the stool, but there's a lot of blood now, and I think we probably should do something.” Yeah. 

Struggles with the Healthcare System

Sylvie Beljanski: So, you went to see a doctor? What kind of doctor did you consult? 

Zach Labie: Yeah, so I don't have a primary care doctor at all. I think a lot of young people, especially men, probably don't. I didn't.

We tried to get in with a GI doctor, but they said, “Hey, listen, we're not going to be able to get you in. First, you need a referral for us to have a GI and a colonoscopy.” And I'm like, I don't have a primary doctor. And they're just like, shrugged their shoulders.

And Savannah, actually, I don't want to get ahead of the story. It was, what, 2 weeks before my diagnosis, or 3 weeks. I had to go to the ER because I was in so much abdominal pain and they did a CT scan and they got it back and nothing showed up.

Sylvie Beljanski: Oh, really?

Zach Labie: So, they missed on a scan. They said it didn't come up and yeah, we left, I left with abdominal pain, from the emergency room and 

Savannah Labie: They did refer. 

Zach Labie: They did. Yeah. Yeah. They did refer me to a GI doctor, thankfully.

So, then we got in contact with their office and they said, “Hey, sorry, it's the end of the year. It's November. We've got all these end of the year surgeries and procedures and meetings. We’re booked and full till February or March. So we're not going to be able to see you until the first of the year or, first ish of the year.”

And this is where Savannah, I would say before we even knew about being a patient advocate or even your own advocate, Savannah just went mama bear and she would call the GI doctor multiple times a day to see if there were any cancellations. And she really spearheaded, just taking taking control of the situation and I'm just like, “Whatever,” and Savannah finally called and said, “Listen, my husband is bleeding out of his rectum and it's affecting his mood, his everyday life. He's in pain.”

Like I don't know if this was a dream or not, but I remember her saying “Isn't this health care? This is my, this is about my husband's health and we can't wait until, two, three, four months down the road.” So she, for weeks, just, right, weeks? Two, three weeks would call multiple times.

And finally they said, “Hey, we can get you in the Friday before Christmas.” And Savannah was like, “That's not good enough.” And I'm like,“It’s Whatever! They got us in. It's better than March.” So then… 

Savannah Labie: They called and said a Saturday opened up. 

Zach Labie: Correct. Okay. So, within this time they said we're going to order a pet no, not pet scan, another CT scan, the GI doctor did, and then that's where they found the mass and they called me at work and all I heard was, “Hey, there's a mass in your rectum.” And I don't remember anything else that I heard that they’re saying. 

Sylvie Beljanski: Yeah, it's very common that you are so shocked by the bad news that you go kind blank and you cannot even process what is being told to you. Yeah. So you were with him, Savannah you were the one listening and… 

Zach Labie: So, I was at work.

Sylvie Beljanski: Okay.

Zach Labie: And I, the only thing I remember them saying was, “Can you please call my wife ?” And I remember I went upstairs to my boss and I said, “I got some stuff going on.” And he knew I was dealing with some things and I said, I just, I need to leave. Like, I felt so sick to my stomach and Savannah… 

Choosing an Alternative Path

Sylvie Beljanski: Yeah. So after that, after, once the diagnosis was done, how did you get to choose a treatment? 

Zach Labie: Yeah, so, I just, I started praying even at, before the weeks leading up to the diagnosis. So, in between the colonoscopy and then the diagnosis, and I knew going into meet with the oncologist that I was not going to do chemotherapy.

I prayed a lot. I read my Bible. We're Christians. So, I just, I sought the Lord and he made it very evident and just gave me this, and I call it The peace in my inner man. And I didn't tell Savannah, and we walked out of the oncologist's office, and I said, “I don't know what we're doing, but I'm not doing chemo. I'm not doing what the doctor said.”

And she said “What the heck are we gonna do?” So she immediately got on and looked up integrative oncologists, and there's not that many in Indiana. And somebody from church told us about Hope4Cancer and gave us Dr. Tony's book

Sylvie Beljanski: Dr. Tony Jimenez, yes.

Zach Labie: Yeah. And normal Zach would have said, “Nope, we're not going to Mexico.” cause, I don't know if it's the way I was raised or just the American, the way we are raised in our culture is America's the best at everything, so why would it be any different in healthcare? And Savannah, after a few days of just praying about going to Mexico, she said, I was laying down on the bed.

She was, I think, brushing her teeth or in the bathroom. And she looked at me and said, “What do you think about going to Mexico?” And I said, “I'm not going to say no, but I'm going to continue to pray about it. And until God closes that door, it's, it's on the table.” And then I immediately said, “What did I just say?”

I couldn't believe what I was saying because normal Zach would have said “Nope, that's a dumb idea. Let's figure out a different way.”

Sylvie Beljanski: Hope4Cancer is definitely a very highly sophisticated clinic with the best doctors which are generally trained both in Mexico, but also in the US. 

Zach Labie: Yeah, yeah. And we, up until, honestly, we were at the clinic, we still had our doubts. We reverted back to, “We're supposed to be getting healthcare in America and the doctors are top notch in America.” And then when we finally got to the clinic we were like getty and we couldn't believe we actually were there.

And we were shell shocked and finally when we got to tour and meet the other, the doctors and the nurses and then the other patients that were there, and just to see the entire clinic, it was top notch! 

Treatment at Hope4Cancer

Sylvie Beljanski: What kind of treatments did you receive at this Hope4Cancer clinic in Mexico? You were in Cancun, or Tijuana? 

Zach Labie: We went to Tijuana.

Sylvie Beljanski: Okay.

Zach Labie: And then for one of my follow ups, we went to Cancun. So, we've actually been to both. Vitamin C IV, Hyperbaric Chamber, sauna, Red Light Therapy 

Zach Labie: Photodynamic Therapy. 

Savannah Labie: IVs of Curcumin and B17. They had the, like a laser light therapy.

Suni, er, yeah, Sunivera. 

Zach Labie: What's the electric one? 

Sylvie Beljanski: And how long did it took for you to feel better and to feel that this was going to work and you were responding to this therapy? 

Zach Labie: Yeah, so I'm skeptic, just the biggest skeptic by nature. I question everything. I don't try to be difficult, but I would say even within those first three weeks, actually, I would say the first three months, I'm just like, “It can't be this simple.”

So I would always say, “This isn't easy, but it's, these things are simple. Drinking carrot juice is simple. It might not be easy, but the Hyperbaric Chamber is, it's a simple therapy, but it's not always easy,” whether it's finding the time or, I guess whatever the reason is. But I would say the first three months it took probably to start really feeling the benefits of it.

I think, too, I got over the fear of the fight and flight, and thinking I'm gonna die. And I even, I envisioned myself having to be in a hospital bed. That's how much I really didn't know. We didn't, I guess we didn't know. I remember looking at Savannah early on and saying, “It's going to get worse before it gets better.”

And I had envisioned that I was going to be in a hospital bed, all frail and weak, and it's the exact opposite on this journey of boosting your immune system. And I ended up meeting with two surgeons and I said, “I feel so great, but all of my conventional doctors tell me I have this disease that wants to kill me, but I feel so great.”

And both of them said, “It doesn't matter how you feel. This cancer is going to kill you if you don't listen to us.” 

And I'm just like, “I don't agree with that.” I think it does. If, I think it matters how you mentally feel, I feel, I think it matters how you physically feel spiritually. I think all of it, it works together.

Sylvie Beljanski: Yeah, absolutely. It's so important to listen to what is right for you and not to be in contradiction. How can you heal if you are in contradiction between what you feel, what you do, and, and you are tortured every day, with a treatment, with a doctor, with everything, with a disease.

It's not possible. You have to embrace whatever you are doing and be happy with it. Dr. Jimenez is known to be big on education. So, I assume that you learned a lot about the way you were eating and why it was not the right way to eat. And if you wanted to get better and he taught you a lot about other ways to feed yourself.

How did you receive this information and how did that impact your family? 

Lifestyle Changes and Family Impact

Sylvie Beljanski: Did you make changes just for you with the rest of the family and the kids go continuing to grow on Doritos or did you switch to, for the good of the entire family, to something better?. 

Zach Labie: Yeah. When I remember being at Hope4Cancer and the first meal we had, they had like their salad bar and I thought it was ranch dressing. So, up until the couple weeks I'm like, “These people might be trying to kill us, like, they're giving us salads, but I think that's ranch dressing.” So, for the first weeks before we went I would drink smoothies to help the flow because of my rectal tumor, but then I would eat salads, plain, and it was not fun at all.

And finally, when we got to Hope4Cancer, the first meal, I didn't have that dressing, because I thought it was ranch, and everybody was like, “Oh, Zach, you can have anything they're serving here. It's going to feed your body, and it's gonna benefit you.” And I'm like, “Wow, see, I'm learning so much already.”

But I kinda took the philosophy of what I'm eating is either gonna bring life or it's gonna bring death. And we made a drastic change. Right away. 

Savannah Labie: Overnight. 

Zach Labie: Yeah, overnight. Now, the kids, it took a few months, it probably took six months, but I would say we went from eating Tyson chicken nuggets to, I don't even know what you buy now, the organic healthy chicken nuggets which, yeah, I don't know.

Our kids don't snack anymore, the snacks, we replaced the Doritos, the chips and the little Debbie's with fruits and vegetables and Savannah kind of has the philosophy of “If we don't buy it, they are not going to eat it.” 

Sylvie Beljanski: What a gift for you, of course, but also for your family and for your kids.

You have five kids, right?

Zach Labie: Yeah.

Sylvie Beljanski: And they are going to have the opportunity, thanks to you, your desire to find something that would make sense, and your efforts and going to Mexico and everything, all that, which is not, it's difficult, it's not, going away, going out of the country, it's expensive, all that!

Thanks to your efforts, you are going to raise your family eating properly. And the gift of health that you are giving to your children. This is huge just by itself. 

Zach Labie: Yes. 

Savannah Labie: Even our five year old knows how to read ingredient labels. He'll pull up a box and say, “Mom, this doesn't have any dyes in it.”

Sylvie Beljanski: This is, that's going to make a difference. It is very well known that cancer, colon cancer affects people younger and younger. And that's because the bad food, all those pesticides, all the glyphosates which is in the food. The number of people who are getting, under 50, the segment of population getting the most colon cancer.

And, people like me, baby boomers, we're very lucky to grow up. Never had, I never had fast food growing up. I just, tried my, I think my first McDonald's. I was already in my forties. And it was out of curiosity. 

I think what you have done for yourself, but also for your family is absolutely phenomenon.

Did you, as a family, saw a difference? The improvement of your health as it improved other things in your family, or as did you see also the behavior of your kids being modified since they are eating more healthy. 

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Reflections and Future Plans

Zach Labie: Yeah, I would say we had a theory on, and I think there is science. Savannah would, could speak more into this. She does more of the research than I do. So, she knows a lot more when people ask me here at home, “What kind of supplements do you take?” I'm like, “You got to ask my wife. I, whatever she puts in my pill bottle, that's what I take.”

So, we're a good team in that respect, but we noticed when we took out, like, the food with the dyes. Anytime we would give our son food with dyes, just something neurologically would happen in his mind that would just make him go wild and crazy. 

Simultaneous Multiple Speakers: Yeah. 

Zach Labie: And just cry. And you could speak more to that, but we've taken those out and it's night and day difference.

There's more peace within our kids. And I know kids are crazy and can be wild, but, it, there is a difference that we've seen in our kids. And actually, our youngest, she's two, she's really, she was two months when I got diagnosed or two, two months? Yeah, two months when I got diagnosed and she's the only one that really knows what eating healthy is like. Every other kid grew up on McDonald's and fast food and the chips and the soft drinks, and so, it's just yeah, we're, I always tell people “I don't want to, not just for me personally, and helping others, but even within my own family, I don't want to waste this opportunity with what we've learned in order to implement it into our lives.”

‘Cause, I'm not going to tell somebody they should do something if I'm not willing to do it or I've already done it. 

Sylvie Beljanski: Absolutely. So, Savannah, since you are the gatekeeper of the supplements, what is Zach taking? 

Savannah Labie: Oh, man! He's been doing the herbs that you have, that you guys offer. He's on a curcumin supplement.

He takes some mushrooms from a company called Chaggit that we have grown to love. He takes digestive enzymes to help with having colon cancer. He ended up having surgery and they removed 12 inches of his liver. And so digestion is just a little sluggish. So, I have him on like a digestive enzyme, magnesium, vitamin D, just… 

Zach Labie: Tinctures, different tinctures. 

Savannah Labie: Oh, dandelion root and licorice. 

Sylvie Beljanski: Yeah. And other Beljanski products, which one are you taking? The Pao V “FM”® or OnKobel? 

Savannah Labie: OnKobel and Immunobel. And Immunobel. 

Sylvie Beljanski: Oh, OnKobel. OnKobel contains two extracts, Rauwolfia Vomitoria and the Pao Pereira, which have been tested since the time of my father for their anti-cancer properties and, specifically, my father tested on colon.

So, I'm not surprised that you are doing well on that. And there was also another publication, specifically, about the efficacy of the active ingredient of Pao Pereira, which is, it's known Flavopyririne and explaining the mechanism of action on colon cancer cells. It's induced apoptosis of colon cancer cells.

And it's also a modulation of the Gene P53 which is all about helping, supporting us when we have to deal with inflammation. I'm glad, I mean that you are doing well on this product, but there is a scientific explanation. And those publications, by the way, are available on the website of beljanski.org.

And Immunobel is a product that helps maintain white blood cells and platelets. And you said you did not do chemotherapy. However, even if you don't, it's really important for people who are doing chemotherapy, but even if you don't choose to do chemotherapy, your body needs support. Your immune system needs support to fight cancer.

And I am glad that it was, those products also was able to help you. 

Savannah Labie: Yeah. So, after his surgery, he has had blood tests to check to see if he has any circulating tumor cells. And they want him to be at zero, but they weren't expecting that because he did not receive chemotherapy or radiation. They don't know that. 

Sylvie Beljanski: Which, by the way, chemotherapy and radiation do not destroy cancer stem cells. 

Savannah Labie: We chose to use Beljanski protocol instead of doing that, and he has been at zero three times in a row now. He just had his last one. There's four tests. Every three months, they'll do this blood draw.

And this was his last one today, and he's been at zero every time! 

Sylvie Beljanski: Congratulations! That's really wonderful news. Wonderful news! Yeah. Yeah. Colon cancer is, yeah it's known to have a tendency to be very difficult to get rid of of all the stem cells. This result is really positive and encouraging and really congratulate, congratulate you.

Don't stop right away. You have to, it's important to, to take less and less. You don't have to be on a lot of supplements for years and years, but diminish slowly. Don't stop immediately at once because your doctor tells you, you are done, that means it's, it's over, it's behind you.

Keep up with the good work and do some cures from time to time, like once or twice a year, you take just one box to make sure that you maintain the immune system at the maximum. I know also that in Mexico this Hope4Cancer clinics, they are big at trying to help you understand why you got sick in the first place.

So, in your case easy thing to identify what seems to have been the food. Is there other things less obvious that that came up and other people should be aware of at risk of increasing cancer? 

Zach Labie: Yeah, I, I think my diet played a huge role.

Sylvie Beljanski: Yeah.

Zach Labie: The emotional childhood traumas, things that while we were at Hope4Cancer, I would say the doctor was pulling out of me in our sessions that came to light and helped me see that, he helped me see that the things that were traumas in my life, I never viewed them as that, and I just suppress them internally.

And I'm just like, “This is just how it is. I'm a guy. I'm, I have zero emotion.” Now, Savannah is, “I've never seen you cry more in the last, you've cried more in the last year and a half than the previous 15 years that we've been together.” 

Sylvie Beljanski: So, you allowed yourself to release the bad stuff.

Zach Labie: Yes, yeah, and even still like today, I'm meeting with a psychiatrist here, a counselor, just to continue to process and not bury things. My root, I had two infected root canals that I did not have any issues with. There was no pain, no swelling of the gums, but again, at Hope4Cancer, we went to a biological dentist down in Mexico. That was one of the first things we did.

And they said they said, “When you're back here, we could extract these in Mexico, or when you're back home, find a biological dentist” and, you can only do so much and it can get overwhelming. So, we put that on the back burner, ‘cause, I had what, three, three metal fillings that we took care of, and then we wish we would have deep dove into the root canals and infection in your mouth sooner.

But Savannah got some swabs and we got them tested and the bacteria that they found in my tumor was also an oral pathogen that was also present in both of my teeth. So here I can show the…I can show the, so yeah, the root canals, what else? What other…? 

Savannah Labie: We have a, alternative cancer doctor here that helped us do heavy metal testing and environmental toxin testing.

And his glyphosate, you should be lower than one. And Zach was at 27! 

Sylvie Beljanski: You live in a rural area, in some, close to fields. 

Savannah Labie: We are, by a cornfield, yeah. 

Sylvie Beljanski: Yeah. That's… 

Savannah Labie: His heavy metals were very high. Lead and mercury were really high. So, we've done some chelating. So, yeah, and we have an infrared sauna that he does to hopefully sweat out some of these toxins and heavy metals.

Yeah, but I think, one thing that I will never forget, when we walked out of the oncologist's office the very first time, he said, “I'm not gonna do chemotherapy and radiation.” And I was like, “Oh, okay, what are we gonna do then?” And he said, he didn't know at the time, but he said, “If I can find the cause, then I can find the cure,” and that stuck with me. It stuck with him.

We didn't want to receive any treatment without knowing what caused this. Let's figure out what caused this before we move forward. Hope4Cancer was huge at helping us uncover what, what caused it. And then once he had his teeth removed they used ozone to kill the infection instead of an antibiotic, so we didn't have to do an antibiotic. They used ozone.

In, at Hope4Cancer, they have a 3D cone beam scan, and that's the kind of scan that you need to check for any hidden dental infections. So, that's what revealed the infections, but yeah, I just thought, how profound and even now it's when people say, “I have so much inflammation, what can I take?”

And I always am like, “What's causing the inflammation?” 

Sylvie Beljanski: Absolutely.

Savannah Labie: If you can find the cause, we can find the cure, so… 

Sylvie Beljanski: Absolutely. And your body is not deficient in chemotherapy. It's the, cause is not a lack of chemotherapy. The cause is things that have been in your body, including emotions for a long time.

Yeah. And are poisoning you physically and emotionally. Absolutely. Absolutely. 

Zach Labie: I always say that I, looking back, I, what it was just a ticking time bomb until I was, I had all the, what do you call it? The prerequisites of, getting cancer.

Sylvie Beljanski: Yeah.

Zach Labie: I never realized how toxic my life actually was from the actual toxins in my body, but also the emotions.

Sylvie Beljanski: Absolutely. But together and through your love, obviously, you overcome this obstacle and you turn that into something beautiful for yourself to take care of, better care of yourself and, and of your children.

Zach Labie: Yup.

Sylvie Beljanski: This is really the power of love. That's wonderful.

Zach Labie: Yeah, it's awesome. 

Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Savannah Labie: We're very thankful for you, for your research and how you continued your dad's work. And I, we're, yeah, we're very thankful in that we have access to it. It's incredible. 

Sylvie Beljanski: Yeah. Yes.When the French government tried to kill my, they succeeded in killing my father, I saw this research was too beautiful to allow that to, to disappear. And I would devote my life to try to carry on with his legacy.

Although I am not a researcher, I'm not a doctor, I'm not a scientist, but I knew that it makes a difference in so many people's lives.

I've seen that growing up. I've seen that for the past 40 years. You are, today's a testimonial of the day. And it's amazing. It's impressive. It's touching, but I have heard the stories for the past 40 years. I, I know that, yes, we do have to continue.

I understand you are going to come to Texas to our conference to provide also a testimonial.

Savannah Labie: Oh, we would love to!

Zach Labie: We just have to find a babysitter for the five kids. 

Sylvie Beljanski: We are hosting this conference in Austin, Texas in April 25. And we would love to

Savannah Labie: That's our anniversary! That's our 10 year anniversary. 

Sylvie Beljanski: Oh, really?

Savannah Labie: That's a sign!

Sylvie Beljanski: That's a sign 

Savannah Labie: That's the best way to start our anniversary! 

Sylvie Beljanski: Just like I felt compelled to carry on with the legacy, I hope you will feel the urge to share what you have been through and how you have been able to overcome because that also will help you to feel better and to go full circle.

Savannah Labie: Yeah. Our pain has become our purpose. 

Sylvie Beljanski: That's beautiful. 

Zach Labie: We're grateful for this opportunity and even the connection that you have with Hope4Cancer and that we have, and it's just, we, I don't know, it's almost surreal just the journey that we're continuing to be on. And we just, we look even back six months, a year, two years ago, just on this whole thing.

And it's just, it's, we feel like we're in a movie and it's just, it's, we make all these, we always say it's like, God opens up all these doors and opportunities and it's whether or not we just want to, continue to live our lives here in, in Indiana, back here in the States, or if we're gonna do something with the opportunity.

And both of our personalities are “With what we've learned and what we know. We don't want to keep it to ourselves. We want to share it to the world. And really anybody who, who wants to listen.” 

So, yeah. We appreciate you and are so thankful. 

Sylvie Beljanski: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for coming to this podcast to share with the world what you have,what you have been through and how you have been able to overcome the disease.

I, really, I am sure that together, indeed, we will be able to make a difference. 

Zach, Savannah, I want to commend you for, for your journey together, for the example that you are giving of staying, sticking together and making a difference for yourself, for your family and, and for the world now that you are speaking about your experience.

Savannah Labie: Yeah. Thank you! 

Sylvie Beljanski: Thank you!