When Medicine Runs Out of Answers: An Oncologist's Journey From Certainty to Root Cause | Dr. Nanda | Part 1

This episode isn't about autism.It's about what happens when the framework you've built your entire career on stops working - and what you do next.Dr. Nanda is a board-certified oncologist and hematologist who also studies soil microbiome, human microbiome, regenerative farming, and integrative health. But that wasn't always his world.In 2015, his son was diagnosed with autism. He and his wife - also a physician - had no answers. Developmental psychiatrists had no answers. Universities had no answers.So he went looking.In Part 1 of this conversation, Dr. Nanda walks through the specific sequence of events that dismantled his conventional medical thinking and rebuilt it - starting with a YouTube video about gluten, a program in Massachusetts he almost dismissed, and a philosophical question that changed everything: *what if I need to fix how I think before I can fix anything else?*We cover:Why a biochemist-trained oncologist initially rejected the idea that food could affect neurological symptoms - and what changed his mindWhat the Son-Rise Program taught him about connection, judgment, and the prerequisite to helping anyoneThe difference between germ theory and terrain theory - and why it matters more than most people realizeWhy proving causation in medicine is nearly impossible, and how that shapes every chronic disease conversationWhat Dr. Nanda believes is driving 90% of cancer - and why genetics is the wrong place to startThe environmental and systemic factors he now considers the actual drivers of chronic illnessThis is not an anti-medicine episode.It's a conversation about what medicine misses - and what one physician found when he stopped defending the gap and started investigating it.Chief Milestones is a series studying how real operators build durable decisions under real constraints. This episode is Part 1 of our ongoing conversation with Dr. Nanda.Reach out: [email protected] Milestones is a video podcast featuring honest conversations with founders, parents, and investors about building real businesses, staying healthy, and raising families.New episodes release Tuesdays and Fridays.Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@ChiefMilestonesInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/chiefmilestones/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7HLDAe7SP3GnJSTOgAQqLy?si=6e9ac82be46f413cApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chief-milestones/id1861185226