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Introduction and Guest Welcome

Elaine Gibson: The cleaner my body got, the less trauma I was feeling and the cleaner my body, the deeper my thoughts, the calmer I am, and here’s what happened…

Victor Dwyer: Hey, everyone! Welcome to today’s episode of The Beljanski Cancer Talk Show. Today, we’re joined by Elaine Gibson, a cancer-free lifestyle strategist, bestselling author, and the creator of the Starving Cell Recovery Method. After conquering Stage IV cancer without traditional protocols, Elaine now empowers women to reclaim their health and rewrite their legacy.

Elaine believes that wellness is achieved through cellular healing, hydration, and nature’s original blueprint for health. In today’s episode, she’ll share her journey of healing and insights of how you can build a body where cancer cannot grow. Get ready for an inspiring conversation about healing, vitality, and living your healthiest life!

Sylvie Beljanski: Hello, Elaine. I’m absolutely delighted having you on The Beljanski Cancer Talk Show. And I want, also, to take this opportunity to thank you for being part of The Beljanski Conference, the last one in Austin, in Texas. We hope you will come back to 

Elaine Gibson: definitely 

Sylvie Beljanski: the upcoming event. 

You have a great story. You are a great person to start with.

Elaine Gibson: Thank you so much. Thank you.

Sylvie Beljanski: You have, also, a great story. You are the founder of Renewed Living. Growing up, you did not think when I grow up, I’m going to found something that looks like Renewed Living, I’m sure

Elaine’s Cancer Journey Begins

Sylvie Beljanski: But you have an amazing journey of difficulty and overcoming the difficulty and turn the problems into a better solution, and take every challenge as an opportunity to better yourself. Would you like to share the journey and what happened? How you got there

Elaine Gibson: You know, it, it’s so amazing because, and thank you for that, I’m honored to be part of your family.

It’s amazing because everybody that gets a diagnosis like this is caught off guard. And recovering emotionally, picking yourself up is probably the hardest part, but I found myself, I am, the week before the conference, I was 79, now I’m 80. And I was a…

Sylvie Beljanski: You don’t look like 80. 

Elaine Gibson: In 2001, I was a tournament tennis player and, tournament season, and I went into the chiropractor and he, like, was taking care of my neck and my back and everything?

He said, “Elaine, how long have you had this on your neck?” And I said, “I don’t know. You’re the only one that touches my neck like that. What’s going on?” Long story short, five weeks later, I had a very early diagnosis of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. At that time, I was in green technologies and setting up healthy homes and stuff.

So, I was in the space of being curious of ways to help. So I, I did go outta the country there. The place is not there anymore. I went for two weeks. I did low dose chemotherapy. Everything else was out of that reign, and in six months I was, “Elaine. That’s great. Go have a nice life.”

And then 18 months after five years of being cancer free, my same medical team told me they did not expect me to see my grandchildren grow up, two of which, two of which are at UT in Austin, and we’re at the conference. So, here we are in 2008 and my medical team says, “You’re not gonna see your grandchildren grow up.”

And um, I kind of got I, I was really angry at that approach and it’s like, “Have you ever met a Jewish grandmother from New York City? I don’t know who you think you’re talking to, but that’s not in the cards.” And literally, and, I am, I’m a New York City gal and, so we fight and move on, and I just looked up, I literally looked up and I said, “God, just tell me what you want me to learn.”

I was probably one of the few people walking the face of the Earth that did not think that I was dying, but it never occurred to me. 

Discovering Holistic Healing

Elaine Gibson: So I went into, being an athlete, I went into training and it’s, what do the healthiest people do? And I, this was on Valentine’s Day, I got the diagnosis and my husband and I the next day were ready to leave on a vacation.

And I called the airlines and they didn’t believe me. And anyway, two days later I was back to Mexico and, for three weeks, and I came home. Still, what I did was holistic and low dose, and I came home and, two days after being home, I went like this and my hair started to fall out. Now, nobody loses their hair with low dose chemotherapy. So, that’s how it, that’s how my immune system was so compromised.

So, one thing led to another and in, at the end of the next year, I was no evidence of disease, but I hadn’t really healed. I really hadn’t healed from a level that was sustainable. And about a year later, I met Lisa Wilson in the Raw Food Institute, and I went there for a week, and you’ll appreciate this, Sylvie.

I walked in the door and she handed us green juice. I drank it for two hours. My body knew exactly what it wanted. You know, I had started to give up sugar and wheat and dairy. Nobody can do it alone. Lemme just say this to everybody that’s out there. This is not your fault and you can’t do it alone.

So get, be curious and, and embrace what’s out there for you. So I, I really started to embrace this lifestyle and then my research took me to Dr. Otto Warburg and understanding how cancer cannot live in the presence of oxygen. And once I understood that, I had a concept that I could stand on. I’m trained medicinally a little further than a lot of people are. 

Embracing a Green Lifestyle

Elaine Gibson: And today I’m a green juice therapist. I’m clearly a green juice loving grandmother. Even my grandchildren drink green juice now. But I, I just really embrace the lifestyle and then everything I do, every minute of every day, every turn I take, every question I ask, every thing I try to bring is, does this fit the concept of bringing oxygen to my cells?

Sylvie Beljanski: So, how are those green juice that, now you have embraced in this lifestyle…

Elaine Gibson: Yes.

Sylvie Beljanski: How is it different from other people promoting green juices and really not having a very good idea of what they are doing? Everything goes and as long as it’s organic, you can put anything in the juicer, basically.

Elaine Gibson: Ah you know, I’m of the Hippocrates, Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. And I do not, people come to me and they say, “Oh yeah, I drink green juice and they’re putting lots of fruit in it” and stuff like that. And I don’t. I, in fact, there’s very little fruit in my life right now.

But I clearly do not, as far as juice goes, ’cause I’m looking at what’s going in my blood and in my cells. If we know that everything, all healing takes place at the cellular level, then we have to be crystal clear about how things enter our body and how quickly they get to the blood and the cells. So if I’m juicing, I don’t wanna be juicing anything other than the most high quality greens that bring that, those negative charges that I call it, you know, God’s garden.

And any fruit that I eat, which is minimal, is from I’m, I’m digesting it. It’s not being juiced to go right into my blood, into my cells, and I find that, right… 

Sylvie Beljanski: Because fruits are a field of sucrose, which is sugar. Even if it’s natural sugar…

Elaine Gibson: Exactly.

Sylvie Beljanski: You’re going to feed cancer cells.

Elaine Gibson: Exactly. Exactly. And the other thing I did, which is why we were so, so happy to bring the water to the conference, is that I was introduced to, to oxygen and hydrogen water very early on, not knowing what was gonna happen. It was just, I was in a place where, where it was put in front of me and everything really started to resolve, and I didn’t understand because it was bringing oxygen into my body.

So, it just kind of happened that way. And then one thing led to another and the lifestyle, and I embraced it all. I became a raw food chef. I, I grew my own sprouts. The city gal is having a great time with all of this. And then I started to, I mean, I’m a teacher, and it’s interesting because, aside from all of the science training that I have, I also have a graduate degree in dance which, I grew up in New York City and I was so fortunate and blessed that my parents took me to Broadway at a very early age.

I watched Mary Martin originate Peter Pan on Broadway. How much fun is that? But what I learned was that my brain sees patterns which is not so easy to live with, but I’ll, so even at the conference, I’ll hear this from one speaker and this from another speaker and that, and then put them together, you know? And, so this is really how we approach it under the concept that your cells are starving and you’re either feeding them toxins and chemicals or you have made the decision to feed them nutrients and oxygen, and I don’t think there’s any in between. I don’t think there’s any halfway mark when you’re in this.

So I, I embraced it and I really turned to nature for all my solutions as much as I can, whether it’s oils, whether it’s saunas, you know, anything like that. And I just have found when I can stand on that, once I learned from Dr. Otto about cancer being an anaerobic cell and can’t live in the presence of oxygen, it became crystal clear very, very easy, and it put me in control because now nobody can talk me out of anything.

The Importance of Self-Care

Sylvie Beljanski: So, you are also, among other things, because I mean, you are dancer, you are also a psychotherapist and you have, you work with, also, the feelings and…

Elaine Gibson: Yes.

Sylvie Beljanski: how our feelings, how, affect our health and how…

Elaine Gibson: Oh, yes.

Sylvie Beljanski: And our feelings make us, put us on the path for recovery and healing.

Elaine Gibson: Mm-hmm.

Sylvie Beljanski: And I find this part absolutely fascinating. And how does that work with the other aspects of what we are doing?

Elaine Gibson: What a great question. And it, it’s, I, you know, I think part of it just comes, I don’t wanna say aging, but developing and developing a, an exposure to so much that’s going on.

But I was at the, at the Annie Appleseed Breast Cancer Conference in 2020 and it was like 30 seconds before the world closed down, and Nathan had introduced his documentary. And everybody, and all the doctors and everybody was talking about how stress is so dangerous, and that so many of their cancer patients have unresolved trauma.

And I heard that and I’m thinking, “Well, I don’t know anybody that doesn’t have unresolved trauma. So, what are we gonna do about it?” You know, I, I think this is part of being a grandmother. I think it’s part of, you know, I just wanna just envelop people with love and empathy and belief and trust.

Our minds play such tricks on us, you know, monkey mind, and it’s giving us doubts. And if, what I’ve learned from my experience is that if I can quiet the mind and the brain down from giving us doubt and getting us into our hearts where we can have trust and belief, then we have the ability to turn to our body and listen to what the body is telling us.

There’s so much wisdom in our body, and this is why it feels like it’s different for everybody else, even though the science is so universal. So, I’ll look at a symptom that somebody has, which is an indication that something is out of alignment, and then work there.

And I, I feel like the science is universal, but the application isn’t. So, I came home from that conference when I heard everybody saying that all of the cancer patients have unresolved trauma. And I looked at ways to put together simple self-care techniques because, for some reason, we feel that self-care is selfish when, because we’re all caregivers.

And we have to learn that putting ourselves first so that we can quiet down the stress, quiet down the emotion, and make choices from, from feelings of abundance. Then, if we have tiny, small self-care things all day long, then we are, we’re more stable, we’re, it’s the yo-yos that, that are frustrating.

And now we can make this informed decisions from belief rather than fear. And, but we have to be able to bring that, those cortisol levels down and put ourselves first because to me, I believe that the greatest gift we can give the people that we love is to make the effort to be healthy. And a lot of that is learning to put ourselves first.

Sylvie Beljanski: Absolutely. But yourself, you are a cancer survivor. So, how did you apply this knowledge to your own healing of identifying what were those feelings that were not aligned, and how did you work on those, on yourself to change and come to a place where you could resolve and put, finally, this trauma behind you?

Elaine Gibson: Well, again, that’s such an interesting question because, for me, the answer is so interesting. Obviously, when I started this and when anybody that comes through this were filled with toxins and chemicals, right, which make our body like this. So, the cleaner my body got and I went all in. Once I left Lisa Wilson, I was all in.

I did, I was almost a hundred percent raw. I was juicing and growing my own sprouts and living this lifestyle. And here’s what happened. The cleaner my body got, the less trauma I was feeling because I was clearing the toxins from all over that were creating havoc in my body and in my brain.

And the cleaner my body, the deeper my thoughts, the calmer I am. When I’m not filled with toxins, I am, I mean, you’ll find me singing here any, all the time. I’m still doing my music, right. But it was, it’s amazing. The more we clean the toxins from our body, the quieter we get. And that really came into place, and I didn’t realize that until months and months and months later that, all of a sudden, I was thinking deeper.

My emotions were pure. They weren’t out of fear. They were aligning because my body, my cells were starting to thrive. And I really, this is why, this is why I stay here in this lane because my experience is with everybody that I work with, that when you get the toxins out of your body, your brain quiets down and everything quiets down and you find peace and, and that’s where the healing starts. That’s where the magic is. 

Victor Dwyer: And we’ve also been taught to settle, and… 

Elaine Gibson: Ohh 

Victor Dwyer: Yeah.

Elaine Gibson: Don’t get me started on that one. 

Victor Dwyer: And like, where are you at, as far as, like, where women need to be, as far as not accepting fatigue, fear, and everything else like that? 

Elaine Gibson: That’s gonna be the title of my book if I ever write it. Settling is selling out. Right.

Victor Dwyer: Mm-hmm.

Elaine Gibson: When we are, when we are in chaos, when we are going through life and life is busy and we don’t have it organized, and we all go through that, we default to the status quo. Decision fatigue takes over all of us. You know, by 10 o’clock we’ve made like 50 decisions and the more fatigued we are in being aware of what we’re doing, then we are settling, and when our body is giving us symptoms and we start to believe that they’re a natural part of aging, when in fact they’re not, we are settling for having no sleep. We are settling for allergies, we’re settling for brain fog. We’re settling on this rather than resolving thinking that they are normal.

And I have found that when we do that, every area of our life suffers. Our relationsh.. If, if our body is saying that we’re exhausted and we are settling for, “Oh, I don’t sleep at night. I, you know, I’m sleep deprived,” and we make fun of it, or we laugh, we try to laugh it off, then we’re settling for that and it affects everything.

So, you know, it affects our relationships. If we’re too tired and we’re, we’re not able to go to our kids’ soccer games or have enough energy, we settle for being tired. We settle for aches, we settle for brain fog without resolving it, then we are selling out the rest of the world. And if we’re too tired, I mean, imagine all the people that contribute to what you do.

If they were too tired or too overwhelmed to show up, the world suffers. Because when we can’t get our work done, so our relationship suffer, which means the family suffers and, and the family, this is very traumatic for family also. But if we’re, if we’re settling and not resolving what our body is telling us, then we’re fighting against it.

So, maybe we’re too tired, like I said, to go to the kids’ games. Maybe we’re too tired to, to go to a family of something. Or maybe, maybe we, we’re short-tempered or maybe in our own careers we don’t get work done because we’re settling for, for even allergies. We’re settling for brain fog, we’re settling for, for anything that’s going on.

Then, maybe work doesn’t get done that somebody on the other end of the world’s waiting for .

Sylvie Beljanski: And it, it’s getting passed also from generation to generation. 

Elaine Gibson: Exactly. 

Sylvie Beljanski: It’s the role model, mama or daddy are stressed and not taking care… 

Elaine Gibson: On point, right. 

Sylvie Beljanski: …properly and it becomes the reference. 

Elaine Gibson: Exactly. Which is why having the simple self-care techniques in place for mama.

It affects everybody. I mean, my, y, my own children are now, as we speak, 55 and about to be 57. They’re healthy. They drink green juice. They, I couldn’t tell them to do it, but they watch me because everybody’s watching. When an adult gets a diagnosis, everybody is watching what they do.

And what an opportunity to make a difference. I couldn’t tell my kids do this or that, but they saw me. They’re all healthy, they’re active. Their kids are active. They, you know, they meditate and they do all those things and this is, you’re exactly right. It goes generation to generation and it’s hard. It’s really difficult to break a cycle of a family unit, and get people putting themselves first. Get them taking care of themselves. You know, little things. Little things are big things. 

The Starving Cell Recovery Method

Sylvie Beljanski: So, so, you created the Starving Cell Recovery Method. Can you tell us more about what it entails? 

 

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The Starving Cell Recovery Method

Elaine Gibson: Sure. Absolutely. My, I look at everything that our cells are starving.

So, as we put together programs and opportunities to work. Now, I choose to work with women. I work with women that have cancer who are, who are conscientious and committed to an independent. So, when we put curriculum together, when we put activities together, everything we put together leads back to the knowledge of healing the cells.

So, when we understand that we are in this position because our cells are starving, we call this method the cell, you know, the Starving Cell Recovery Method, so that everything we do, everybody knows that it’s all about healing the cells and resolving our starving cells. So, whether it’s curriculum, whether it’s mind work, whether it’s, it’s meditations, whether it’s being out in nature, when it’s activities, everything we do is under the umbrella to heal the cells. 

Because if you, speaking as an athlete, if you want to win the game, you must understand how to play and the rules of the game. So, if I can bring everything down to starving cell syndrome, it’s clear enough to make decisions and say, “Well, do I want to eat that? Is that gonna fit my, is it gonna feed my starving cells?”

So, that’s why we call it that. And that’s why we stand on the rock and the foundation to understand that our cells are starving for oxygen and nutrients. And from that moment that you understand that, like I said, you are in control because nobody, nobody can take your actions and your belief away from you.

If you have something, that much faith and belief in something, then you’re in charge and it’s very empowering because this is really scary and the world really, really tries to scare you. 

Sylvie Beljanski: So, it’s a kind of coaching method and people can benefit from a vast array, let’s say, of domains that you are addressing, and they can also…

Elaine Gibson: Yes.

Sylvie Beljanski: …benefit from your ozone water?

Elaine Gibson: Yes. Yes. We, yes. Every, every client I have gets a water machine because you have to. I, I, for me, I know that it saved my life. And so it’s just part of what I do, you know? It’s like, “Okay, we have a conference? Oh yeah, everybody needs to be drinking oxygenated water and be there and feel good,” you know? So yes, we bring that in. We bring the understanding of the food, understanding of mindfulness, understanding how you, we start everything by listening to our body, the wisdom of our body, and what is our body telling us. Then how do we find solutions in nature, and then, so that we can be healthy and create a legacy that will impact a greater good.

And that’s kind of the cycle of everything that we do. So, we have group coaching, I have private coaching, and we have, we do lots of things like that. 

Sylvie Beljanski: And it’s only for women?

Elaine Gibson: Well, the group is for women. I do take on men as private clients, but my group program is for women. Yes. 

Sylvie Beljanski: So, what is the difference? What do you do as a group?

Elaine Gibson: Well, we come together. First of all, nobody gets in, in my coaching or programs unless I have a conversation with them because there has to really be an alignment with what you do and, you know, these kinds of things.

And everybody goes through the curriculum. We start them on their food, because that’s the X factor. And juicing and hydration. And then, we get together once a week, and we do a lot of mindful deep dives because that stress, that unresolved trauma must be met. And, you know, I never make any guarantees. The only thing I guarantee is to teach somebody that I work with everything that I do, including what kind of toothpaste I use.

So it, you know, it’s working, it’s being somebody that has truly lived it, truly lived it! That has just, you know, at, at my fingertips, things, sometimes I don’t even realize things I’m doing when I’m having a conversation. But yes, so we have everything we do.

So, we have the group of women who, and every Tuesday we spend about an hour and a half together, and wonderful mindful exercises and work together. And it’s amazing, Sylvie, when you can take people that come to you with fear. In a couple of months, they’re talking about their legacy. That’s amazing!

They’re not talking about, “Am I gonna live?” They’re talking about “How am I gonna make an impact?” And I find that a lot with what we do. 

Victor Dwyer: That’s amazing. 

Final Thoughts and Takeaways

Victor Dwyer: When it comes down to like how people can find more about your webinar, find more about you, where can they go? 

Elaine Gibson: Well, we have, thank you for asking, of course. I gave you a link for, so you can put a link to the webinar in there, and we, and our website renewedlivinginc.com. And there are lots of things on there as well. Lots of healthy technologies and smaller kinds of programs. But in order to work with me as a cancer person, in somebody in a cancer journey, the webinar is the first thing because it explains about starving cells and, you know, stuff like that.

Victor Dwyer: That’s amazing. Yeah. Anything else anyone should know, that is listening. What would be one action item that they should take from this podcast that they should do? What would be your one takeaway? 

Elaine Gibson: Learn to meditate. 

Victor Dwyer: Yeah. 

Elaine Gibson: Yeah. Really. I mean, people say to me, “What’s the most important thing to learn to be a business owner?” Learn to meditate.

We have to get out of here and get to here. There’s no magic up here. There’s only afraid and doubt. We have to learn that. Just meditate. Just do it. Don’t let anybody talk you out of it. Just do it. It’s easy. 

Victor Dwyer: Yeah. Well, awesome, Elaine! Thank you so much for joining.

Elaine Gibson: Oh, thank you so much!

Victor Dwyer: Thank you, everyone, that has listened up to this point. This is The Beljanski Cancer Talk show, and we’ll catch you next time. Thank you.

Elaine Gibson is the founder of Renewed Living and creator of the Starving Cell Recovery Method™—a science-based, nature-centered approach to building a cancer-free lifestyle and longevity. After beating Stage IV cancer without traditional protocols, she now helps women reclaim their health and rewrite their legacy—one aligned choice at a time.

Cited as the 4th most inspirational, international, natural cancer survivor by Extreme Health Radio, Elaine is a bestselling author, speaker, coach, and longevity advocate. Her work is rooted in cellular healing, hydration, oxygenation, and nature’s original blueprint for wellness.

Elaine believes we’re meant to thrive, not settle—and that mastering a healing lifestyle is how we protect our health, purpose, and legacy. She envisions a world where women build bodies where cancer cannot grow—without giving up chocolate!

Her proudest title? Green juice–loving grandmother.