#72 The Cancer Series (2 of 3). Integrative Oncology with Dr Catherine Zollman
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Today I’m chatting with a good friend and colleague Dr. Catherine Zollman, who is Medical Director at Penny Brohn UK, a charity which in provides Integrative Support and Self-Management Education for people affected by cancer.
She is also an NHS GP, an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the University of Bristol, and was Macmillan Clinical Cancer Lead for BNSSG Clinical Commissioning Group 2014-2019. She studied medical oncology before specialising in General Practice and completing a Fellowship in Integrative Medicine (University of Arizona).
On the podcast we discuss a number of topics including:
- What integrative oncology means?
- The need to bring the worlds of conventional medicine, lifestyle medicine and complementary medicine together
- Intelligent combinations of lifestyle and integrative approaches to deliver better outcomes
- Explaining the services that PBUK usually offers, and what it offers now during lockdown
- Breaking down the barriers and why healthcare still feels so "siloed" and oppositional?
- Why is evidence on the effectiveness of lifestyle interventions not better known or understood by the conventional medical system?
- Why does medicine/conventional healthcare not harness the power of the activated patient more?
- Working with Possibility vs Probability - how to avoid False Hope and False Hopelessness and find a middle path of Realistic Hope.
- How to enthuse conventional healthcare professionals and students about the power of nutrition, movement, breathing practices, nature, therapeutic relationships, creativity, realistic hope, love, meaning and purpose to help people live better and need less medication.
- Challenges in researching lifestyle and complementary approaches
- Outcomes as measured in a realistic and methodical way to inspire and enact change
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is sponsored by Zoe, the nutrition program that starts with an at-home test. |
| 0:06.6 | I was really excited to get my Zoe at-home test kit in the mail. |
| 0:10.3 | It comes complete with an easy-to-apply blood glucose monitor to give me real-time analytics |
| 0:16.0 | on how my body responds to different foods, a gut health test and of course the famous muffins |
| 0:22.5 | to determine how my body responds to sugars and fats. |
| 0:26.1 | I downloaded the Zoe app which took me through the program and I was on my way and I was pleasantly surprised |
| 0:32.0 | to find that as a healthy eater myself, my sugars were pretty stable and my gut was healthy |
| 0:37.5 | and all my favourite foods were suggested in my personalised scores like edamame beans and broccoli. |
| 0:44.0 | If you want to feel more energetic, improve your gut health and reduce your risk of long-term disease |
| 0:50.0 | it all starts by understanding how you eat for your body. |
| 0:54.0 | Professor Tim Specter and the scientist that Zoe run the world's largest in-depth study of nutrition |
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| 1:26.0 | Dr. Kitchie |
| 1:28.0 | Restorpees, Health, Lifestyle |
| 1:31.0 | There's some really interesting research in yoga and mindfulness and in managing some of the psychological consequences of a cancer diagnosis |
| 1:41.0 | helping people to cope better. |
| 1:42.0 | The primary endpoint has been mental health outcomes but actually when they've followed people up |
| 1:47.0 | there does seem to be a suggestion that people who are regularly engaging with some of these practices are living longer as well. |
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