Today on the exam room.

I do truly believe that my nutrition lifestyle, everything that I had going into that was what allowed me to heal the way that I did.

Tackle chemotherapy six weeks later, three months of chemo and then another year.

Like, I don't know that I'd be sitting here with you with a smile on my face

in the same respect if I didn't have those things on my side.

Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee.

Hi, I'm the weight loss champion, Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world.

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Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place.

This is episode 48 of season 8, number 647 overall. And today we turn our attention

to another form of cancer. This time, breast cancer. We are going to be sitting down with

Alison Tierney, an oncology dietician who was diagnosed with breast cancer herself at just 33 years old.

Now, Allison led what many would consider to be the perfect lifestyle. She ate a healthy diet.

She exercised regularly. She didn't smoke. She didn't drink, and yet, while she was nursing her

youngest child, she found a lump in her breast. But she wasn't discouraged, you see, because Allison

says her healthy lifestyle made her recovery so much easier, and it may have even saved her life. So today, we are going to hear Allison's

story. She and I sat down together recently at the Lotus Health Foundation Symposium in Rochester,

Minnesota. And what a conversation this is. We're going to be talking about, in addition to her

story, what you can eat before and after chemotherapy,

and how foods can support healing, the foods to avoid while you're recovering from cancer,

and how to talk to your kids about cancer. That's so important for the parents in our life. And also,

for you moms, how to check for lumps after a mastectomy we're going to get into

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