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Melanie Ezell
Author of the memoir "Inherited: A Life Without a Cure" and writer of the Substack "Letters From an Incurable Life"; surfer, mother, and Stage IV ovarian cancer survivor on Oʻahu's North Shore.
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Sep 30, 2026
Inherited: A Life Without a Cure with Melanie Ezell
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19:28Melanie EzellGUEST
And some of it, like, I began with Gerson therapy because I knew that I had been really depleted from the chemo, and I thought, "Okay, I just need, like, lots of micronutrients." So Gerson therapy, for me, the way that I, the protocol that I followed was 11 cups of fresh-pressed juice a day.
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19:56Melanie EzellGUEST
Like, I, I, I can't remember the exact poundage of vegetables that I went through, but several pounds of vegetables every single day.
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20:03Melanie EzellGUEST
Um, coffee enemas twice a day, and a very specific, um, very simple diet in addition to the juices, and, um, also began a really strict meditation protocol at the same time.
25 MINS LATER
Surfing the Biggest Waves of Her Life: Melanie Ezell on Motherhood, Cancer & the Ocean
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34:34Melanie EzellGUEST
So I was helping people to lose weight all while suffering from bulimia in secret.
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34:41Melanie EzellGUEST
And I knew because I wanted to be out of it so bad, I was attending 12-step meetings and I was working with a therapist and a sponsor and reading all the books.
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34:52Melanie EzellGUEST
And I didn't want to be, I didn't want to have this addiction, yet I couldn't stop myself.
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45:38Katie JacksonHOST
and motherhood and I feel like you know a stage four diagnosis would crush so many people and it would be hard to maintain and not to say I'm sure you have some challenging times and some sort of dark moments but I feel from the outside you seem to be traveling this journey as you've traveled through your life and just you know keeping yourself physically fit and doing all the things that you love and you know doing all these amazing things with your son.
