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Episode Overview:
From Tucson’s Metabolic Health Day, Dr. Nathan Goodyear sits down with Olga Snopok—a Serbia-born, Costa Rica–based nutrition advocate whose mother’s cancer journey transformed her life’s purpose. Olga shares how she turned grief into action, building a six-month, test-assess-address support program that blends terrain-based nutrition, toxin reduction, mindset, and community. Together, she and Dr. Goodyear explore why advocates are often the missing link between “doctor’s orders” and real-world change—especially across Latin America, where Olga is growing a Spanish-language metabolic health community. This conversation is a blueprint for collaboration: doctors, advocates, and patients working as one network to farm health, not disease.

🔑 Key Takeaways
• Purpose from pain: A caregiver’s journey can become powerful advocacy that changes outcomes for others.
• Test • Assess • Address: Actionable care starts with data—labs for toxins (e.g., glyphosate, mycotoxins), microbiome, hormones, and metabolomics—then stepwise changes.
• Treat the terrain, not the tumor: Focus on the internal ecosystem (immune, hormones, microbiome) and how it connects to the external environment (food quality, toxins).
• From overwhelm to doable: Olga translates plans into 10 simple, specific habits (e.g., daily broccoli microgreens, targeted oils, practical swaps).
• Advocates bridge the gap: Time, empathy, and accountability turn “eat better” into an actual grocery list, kitchen routine, and lifestyle.
• Toxins matter: Post-1970 environmental exposures accumulate and can distort biology; education + sourcing + testing reduce the load.
• Network effects heal: Conferences like MHD connect clinics, farmers, policy voices, and advocates to scale solutions globally.
• Latin America momentum: Olga is building a Spanish-language metabolic/IO community with accessible education, self-orderable labs, and future retreats in Costa Rica.
• Hope is strategy: Lead with hope; then make change inevitable with community, tools, and follow-through.

⏱️ Timestamps:
0:00 — Welcome from Metabolic Health Day (Tucson)
0:39 — Meet Olga: global advocacy from Costa Rica
1:01 — A mother’s diagnosis that changed everything
2:35 — The hardest part: mindset change in loved ones
3:59 — From caregiver to trained advocate (integrative oncology path)
5:12 — “Am I allowed to help?” → Why advocates often drive the best results
6:09 — Two-hour deep-dive intakes: story, terrain, family context
6:32 — Word-of-mouth growth and a 6-month support program
7:24 — Testing portfolio: metals, mycotoxins, infections, labs
8:16 — Why come to MHD? Collaboration over conformity
10:20 — Building warm community and global practitioner links
11:23 — Breaking the isolated medical model; creativity conformity
12:19 — Would she change anything? Purpose affirmed
13:03 — Treat disease or build healing? Choosing terrain and hope
14:33 — Connecting inner terrain to outer environment (food, toxins)
15:23 — Education in action: perfume, glyphosate, sourcing organics
16:15 — Environmental exposures and chronic disease trends
16:41 — Turning advice into action: 10 doable steps, social proof
19:07 — Where to find Olga (Instagram + site—links below)
20:09 — Spanish-language metabolic/IO community for LATAM
21:29 — Patients empowered to be their own advocates
22:05 — Dr. Goodyear on WCI: intratumoral immunotherapy & ablation; need for advocate partners
23:07 — A global healing network: doctors + advocates + patients
23:28 — Costa Rica retreats on the horizon
24:11 — “Hope cracks the door of possible.”
24:33 — Olga’s website & socials to be linked in show notes
24:53 — Final word: follow your heart, find your team, heal faster—together
25:42 — Closing & next steps

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Guest Links:
Olga Snopok — Website & Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/olgasnopokhealth/
https://linktr.ee/olgasnopokhealth
https://olgasnopokhealth.life/

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