Cancer Dietitian Battling Breast Cancer Finds Hope in Fasting and Diet | Dr. Kristi Funk and Alison Tierney, RD
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 18 October 2022
⏱️ 147 minutes
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Summary
Alison Tierney has devoted her life to helping others with cancer. Now it is her turn, and she has advice and tips for others as she battles breast cancer.
The oncology dietitian credits fasting and a plant-based diet with helping her maintain energy throughout treatment and reduce its side effects.
Alison shares her emotional journey with "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Podcast.
Plus, Dr. Kristi Funk puts the power to prevent breast cancer back in your hands, because this disease is more than just genetics. The greatest risk appears to come from choices that you have the power to control.
Dr. Funk details the simple everyday choices that women can make to reduce their cancer risk to just a fraction of the average person. She also unleashes the power of new research that can help guide you to make the healthiest decisions possible.
Just 13% of women with breast cancer also have a close relative diagnosed with the disease. The time to put the power in your hands is now.
This is the second of three episodes with Dr. Funk for the Let's Beat Breast Cancer series in 2022.
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Let's Beat Breast Cancer
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Dr. Kristi Funk
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Alison Tierney
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Chuck Carroll
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Physicians Committee
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| 0:00.0 | I can say with 100% confidence that my dietary and lifestyle choices are very neat through |
| 0:08.2 | this diagnosis. |
| 0:09.2 | And I had a major intense surgery that was 10 hours long and I walked to my post-apointment |
| 0:15.6 | only two weeks after my surgery. |
| 0:21.9 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:25.9 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:29.1 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us coast to coast in the US and in |
| 0:33.6 | more than 150 countries. |
| 0:36.1 | Hi to everyone listening in Manchester, New Hampshire, Port Arthur, Texas and Addis |
| 0:41.9 | Oppoba, Ethiopia. |
| 0:44.3 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 0:49.7 | This is episode 79 of season 5, number 378 overall. |
| 0:56.7 | It's also a mega-size episode of the show because today we will be doubling up on information |
| 1:03.1 | and inspiration as our Let's Beat Breast Cancer series rolls on. |
| 1:09.0 | And today we will be starting with the story of Alice and Tierney. |
| 1:16.4 | Alice and has been on the show before. |
| 1:18.8 | It's been a while and what has happened between her last visit and today has changed |
| 1:26.2 | her life really turned it upside down because Alice is an oncology dietician who has spent |
| 1:33.1 | her entire career helping others as they battle cancer. |
| 1:38.5 | But now Alice and has found herself on the other side of that equation. |
| 1:44.0 | She now finds herself battling breast cancer. |
| 1:49.2 | And she's here to talk about her journey and the way that she's been getting through |
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