We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Lourdes Lavoy a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Lourdes, thanks for joining us today. Let’s kick things off with your mission – what is it and what’s the story behind why it’s your mission?
I am clear that my mission in life is to guide others to optimum health. To understand what it means to be healthy. I share that concept with as many people as possible. To have a truly thriving life and to be at our very best, it must start with health. I know that I am supposed to reach as many people as possible. I created a health podcast with my husband, Chris Lavoy.
I had an interest in health for a long time. Like most people, I thought I had a basic understanding of what being healthy looks like. Then I was diagnosed with cancer. My interest in what it means to be healthy became the laser focus of my life. I needed to understand why it happened. I realized that our bodies are perfectly made, and something went astray, and I needed to understand why. I knew that would be the only way to address what my body was going through. What was I lacking nutritionally? What had I been doing to create an environment that would allow for cancer to occur, and what did I need to intake for my cancer to heal? I felt that if I didn’t understand why it happened, then how could I assist my body in recovering from that situation? I was like a mechanic learning how a car runs at peak performance and then making the repairs I needed to get there.
I picked up a camera and started to record everything. I explored what can cause cancer, and I was shocked at how much I had in my life that needed change. I learned what cancer needs to grow and what will force cancer away. I made a documentary called: “Create Option C: My Journey with Cancer.” In the documentary, I attempted different approaches to healing the cancer. I documented how specific tests meant to stage the cancer will cause the cancer to grow and become worse. During one of those tests, something was introduced into my body that caused all my forward momentum to reverse and made my cancer journey a matter of life and death. With one week left to live and only five percent use of just one lung, I was able to turn my situation around and thrive.
I had the most amazing spiritual experience with visits from God’s messengers. I was told I would help many because of my experience, and since then, I have done just that. Understanding what people are going through when you are so sick you are feeling death made it that much more passionate for me to step up and help out.
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
As a child, I always entertained my friends and family. I would put on little shows. I would dance, sing, and put on little skits. Naturally, I became an actress. I started as a model, and I worked up to being a professional actress. When I received a holding deal with CBS, I was over the moon with excitement. Even though I felt accomplished as an actress and, in general, loving my life, I still had a nagging feeling that I was meant to do more. I couldn’t place my finger on it, but I knew I was here to make a difference in the world.
At the exact moment I was diagnosed with cancer, clarity came over me. I knew this was it, as though I had an answer to a question that perplexed me my whole life. I had been affected by cancer my entire life. I’ve lost family and, of course, participated in walks for the cure, but the idea that I was meant to change the conversation surrounding cancer never occurred to me until that very moment. I immediately knew that I was going to document my journey so that I could be a guinea pig and find what works and what hinders healing from cancer. Healing myself was the beginning of my journey. While I did heal my body from cancer, I also made a documentary, wrote two books, and started a podcast with my husband. I just knew that I needed to reach as many people as possible. I have helped several people change their lifestyles from a sickly environment to a thriving, healthy life.
While I knew I was making a difference, I also felt that the world was dealing with significant health crises, and I once more turned to prayer and asked God to show me what I needed to know to help with what was happening. My prayer was answered the next day. I got a call from a friend I hadn’t spoken to in seven years. He knew I had a health podcast where I interviewed various doctors who assisted people in healing their bodies. It’s when he introduced me to some like-minded health warriors who agreed to come on my podcast. The resulting episode became one of my podcast favorites of “The Lourdes And Chris Show.” After the episode, we added new protocols to assist folks needing a healthier lifestyle change. People reach out to me consistently via email at [email protected], where I introduce them to some of the protocols that can assist them, and I also send them a free recipe ebook copy. The recipe ebook guides those who want to improve or be the best they can be with their health. I have since helped folks from all walks of life and with every kind of health opportunity that may show up in their life. I use the words health opportunity because I learned that when you have something going on in your body, it is your body’s way of letting you know there is something to be addressed to improve your overall health. It has been so rewarding to see the improvements of many that I have helped with things like allergies, cancer, heart problems, dementia, and so much more. To get a message saying, “Hey, I went to my allergist doctor, and I no longer have those allergies,” ” I had my exam, and the lump in my breast has shrunk significantly,” and on and on is genuinely a blessing.
We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?
I was taught since childhood that if something is genetic, you can’t stop what is to come, or as you get older, things start to fall apart, and you can’t control that. I believed that my food consumption had little to do with my health past any short-term ailment (bread makes me bloated, etc.) I thought that the standard American diet was the peak level of nutrition. Perhaps the most prominent idea that I had to unlearn was that cancer and any other disease were beyond our control. From falling ill in 2010 with late-stage cancer, having only one lung working at 5% and the other one full of fluid and not working at all, I was clear that the will to live and to figure things out is much more potent than any taught thing. It made me realize that just because we haven’t gotten all the answers doesn’t mean an answer isn’t out there. It is what pulled me through and opened up a spiritual side of me that I had forgotten I even had. I saw what many call angels, and I call God’s messengers, who came to me in my weakest moment and strengthened me by sharing what my mission was and that I would pull through this, and I did.
Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?
Through my journey, I learned never to give up, no matter how bad things looked or felt. After healing from late-stage cancer, I was on my path, submitting my documentary to several film festivals to share my journey back to health from cancer. I was home when I got a call that my youngest daughter was in the hospital. The doctors had pronounced my daughter brain dead and that they would keep her alive on machines until I arrived. I broke down into prayer and asked God to give me the answer to help my daughter survive this tragedy. I started looking online at what heals the brain and what builds the brain. I then went onto social media to ask the same question. A friend then shared a video with me of a mother whose son was brain dead, and by giving him high doses of omega-3 fatty acids, he woke up from his coma. As I spoke with the head doctor, we worked together to provide my daughter with what I had requested. At this point, we had nothing to lose and possibly much to gain. Though some argued with me about my methods, I kept strong and pushed forward. Within eight short days after administering her high doses of fish oil in her feeding tube, she woke up. It was a nine-month journey to get her back to walking and talking. My daughter is doing tremendous and gave birth to my grandson two years ago at home, where I helped deliver him.
Contact Info:
- Website: DetoxWithLourdesAndChris.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lourdeslavoy/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LourdesColonLavoy
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lourdescolon/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/LourdesLavoy
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelourdeschrisshow
- Other: https://www.createoptionc.com
Image Credits
Photo in camoflage jacket and photo of book taken both by Laura Sixtos