Cancer Survivor's Guide to Cancer-Fighting Foods | Lauren Kretzer
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
4.9 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
She thought it was a bad cold she couldn't shake. It wasn't. Doctors would soon diagnose her with a rare form of cancer. It was a fight for her life, but ultimately she would triumphantly say "I beat cancer!"
Her secret cancer-fighting weapon? Food.
Chef Lauren Kretzer details her inspiring journey and reveals the foods she used to power herself back to health when she joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room™ podcast. She shares her five favorites that you can add to your plate today!
Lauren is also a highly regarded plant-based chef and will teach you cooking techniques that will unleash the cancer-fighting properties of food to their fullest extent!
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Fairfax VegFest
Website: https://www.fairfaxvegfest.org
Free tickets: https://bit.ly/FFXVegFestTix
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Lauren Kretzer
Substack: https://bit.ly/LaurenSubstack
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lauren_kretzer
Website: http://www.laurenkretzer.com
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Chuck Carroll
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ChuckCarrollWLC
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ChuckCarrollWLC
Facebook: http://wghtloss.cc/ChuckFacebook
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21-Day Vegan Kickstart App
iOS: https://bit.ly/VegKStrt-iOS
Android: https://bit.ly/VegKStrtAndrd
Web: https://www.pcrm.org/kickstart
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Barnard Medical Center
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202-527-7500
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| 0:00.0 | She kind of sat me down and she said, I don't want you to be frightened, but we found |
| 0:04.8 | a very large mass in your chest. |
| 0:06.8 | I had a very rare, aggressive form of non-hodgepins lymphoma. |
| 0:11.2 | You have a lot more power than you think, and that just became clearer to me and empowered |
| 0:15.4 | me even more in my recovery. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:25.8 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:28.9 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us in more than 130 countries around |
| 0:33.6 | the world. |
| 0:34.6 | Barcelona, Spain, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Los Angeles, California, where more people |
| 0:40.8 | listen to the exam room than any other city in the US. |
| 0:44.8 | We appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 0:48.7 | This is Episode 30 of Season 5, number 329 overall. |
| 0:54.3 | And today we will be learning about five foods that can fight cancer. |
| 0:59.6 | And we're going to be learning about them from a woman who, in addition to being a delicious |
| 1:03.5 | plant-based chef herself, is also a cancer survivor. |
| 1:10.4 | You see, what she thought at first was just a bad cold, spiraled quickly, and it ultimately |
| 1:17.3 | became a shocking diagnosis. |
| 1:21.2 | Especially because she prided herself in her health up to that point. |
| 1:27.9 | So today, Lauren Cretzer will be joining us, sharing her story of powering past cancer. |
| 1:35.8 | And now you heard her say this at the top, even though she was doing all the right things |
| 1:40.8 | and still got diagnosed, she believes now more than ever in the power of prevention, |
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