Tracy Ryan will talk about her daughter Sophie who was diagnosed with an Optic Pathway                                Glioma   Brain Tumor when she was 8 1/2 months old, and how Cannabis has played a major role in her recovery. episode artwork

EPISODE · Dec 16, 2021 · 1H 9M

Tracy Ryan will talk about her daughter Sophie who was diagnosed with an Optic Pathway Glioma Brain Tumor when she was 8 1/2 months old, and how Cannabis has played a major role in her recovery.

from Help and Hope Happen Here · host Mark Levine

Shortly after Sophie Ryan was diagnosed with an Optic Pathway Glioma in 2013 when she was 8 1/2 months old, her mother Tracy decided to treat Sophie with cannabis in combination with the traditional treatments such as chemotherapy, as she and her husband Josh searched for ways to help their daughter recover from this form of Pediatric Brain cancer.Contacted by Talk Show host Ricki Lake, they decided to participate in the movie Weed The People over a 6 year span and this film is still available on Netflix. As the Ryan family found that cannabis had an ingredient that helped to produce natural killer cells to help ward off cancer cells, they and Sophie's doctors saw a rapid improvement in her condition. As Sophie approaches her 9th birthday, her killer cells are continuing to produce good results as her cancer cells continue to diminish .

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Shortly after Sophie Ryan was diagnosed with an Optic Pathway Glioma in 2013 when she was 8 1/2 months old, her mother Tracy decided to treat Sophie with cannabis in combination with the traditional treatments such as chemotherapy, as she and her husband Josh searched for ways to help their daughter recover from this form of Pediatric Brain cancer. Contacted by Talk Show host Ricki Lake, they decided to participate in the movie Weed The People over a 6 year span and this film is still availa...

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Tracy Ryan will talk about her daughter Sophie who was diagnosed with an Optic Pathway Glioma Brain Tumor when she was 8 1/2 months old, and how Cannabis has played a major role in her recovery.

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