Everyday Ancestral with James Barry
Jul 30, 2026 · 50 min · 11 segments
Your body may be doing everything it can to heal, but hidden stress, nervous system overload and mitochondrial dysfunction can keep recovery out of reach. Discover why true healing starts by…
Lisa KocheGuest
James BarryHost
I wanted to know why my friends were fine and I felt fine, but I had to go through chemo and all the really horrible things that I had to endure, especially losing my hair and going to high school without hair and relapsing on my ovary when I was 20 and having to go through chemo again and then going into heart failure.

I just kept asking every doctor I saw, why, you know, why, why did this happen to me? And realized nobody had any answers that made any sense.

As patients came in and would have different symptoms, I would ask, okay, but why? Like, why are we putting on this protocol? Why aren't we digging in to find out why these people are sick? And I drove everybody crazy with my questions.

So your question of like, what did I go find out as a doctor, we're still uncovering.

So I found out quickly that traditional medicine was not a problem as much as it was incomplete.

Because what I hear you saying is that, well, it wasn't supporting the root cause.

And then the fact that when patients would come in and say, you know, well, I have these symptoms, I would watch the doctors either gaslight, manipulate, say, you know, we don't have an answer for that.

I watch... that where I knew I had had a lot of symptoms that didn't have clear answers either.

I started my practice in internal medicine because it was the broadest approach to root cause that was out there.

I would learn from my patients who would come in reading about integrative approaches to thyroid or like other things with hormones or nutrition.

I wanted to know why my friends were fine and I felt fine, but I had to go through chemo and all the really horrible things that I had to endure, especially losing my hair and going to high school without hair and relapsing on my ovary when I was 20 and having to go through chemo again and then going into heart failure.

I just kept asking every doctor I saw, why, you know, why, why did this happen to me? And realized nobody had any answers that made any sense.

As patients came in and would have different symptoms, I would ask, okay, but why? Like, why are we putting on this protocol? Why aren't we digging in to find out why these people are sick? And I drove everybody crazy with my questions.

So your question of like, what did I go find out as a doctor, we're still uncovering.

So I found out quickly that traditional medicine was not a problem as much as it was incomplete.

Because what I hear you saying is that, well, it wasn't supporting the root cause.

And then the fact that when patients would come in and say, you know, well, I have these symptoms, I would watch the doctors either gaslight, manipulate, say, you know, we don't have an answer for that.

I watch... that where I knew I had had a lot of symptoms that didn't have clear answers either.

I started my practice in internal medicine because it was the broadest approach to root cause that was out there.

I would learn from my patients who would come in reading about integrative approaches to thyroid or like other things with hormones or nutrition.
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