#25 - Alison Gannett

Diet Doctor Podcast

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4.8 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Alison Gannett has an amazing story to tell, and she is using that story to help people in their most desperate time. She went form winning championships as an extreme skier to facing her own mortality with brain cancer. Fortunately, 6 years later, she is thriving and now is an oncology diet coach to help people use a ketogenic diet as well as comprehensive lifestyle changes to augment other potential cancer therapies. Alison is a big believer in genetic and serial blood testing to inform her treatment protocols, and she understand the importance of individualization. We are likely all going to be touched by cancer at some point in our lives, either personally or through a loved one, so this episode applies to us all.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Diet Doctor Podcast.
0:05.0	Today I'm joined by Alison Gannett, who has just an incredible story of being a world champion extreme athlete, then diagnosed with brain cancer and given a terminal diagnosis.
0:17.0	Oh, and oh, by the way, this was over six years ago.
0:20.0	And now she's alive and thriving and helping give back
0:23.6	by being a cancer nutrition coach
0:25.6	and helping people who have been diagnosed with cancer
0:28.6	get through it both emotionally and physically
0:32.6	and using nutrition and lifestyle as a guide.
0:35.6	She works very closely with Dr. Nasha Winners,
0:39.4	and a big part of their message is that it's really about
0:43.9	changing your entire lifestyle to lower your risk of cancer progression.
0:48.5	And it's such an interesting topic.
0:50.5	And we also talk a little bit about evidence evidence because when you're talking about something like
0:56.8	this, you're clearly outside of conventional evidence. And what does that mean? Well, what does
1:01.8	that mean for somebody with no diagnosed disease but just wants to be healthy and prevent
1:06.9	cancer versus someone who's been given this life threatening stage four cancer diagnosis.
1:13.6	It means two completely different things.
1:15.6	So we talk about that a little bit and hopefully you'll see that there's a definite difference.
1:19.6	So when somebody's listening to this saying, well, how does this apply to me?
1:23.6	Well, we all are going to have a friend or family member or loved one diagnosed
1:28.1	with cancer. And a large percentage of us individually will be diagnosed with cancer. So whether
1:33.9	we're talking about prevention or whether we're talking about treatment, this is going to hit
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