Chef AJ Health Update: Fighting Cancer and ‘I Feel Great’

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🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Chef AJ gives an exclusive update on her cancer battle.

The bestselling cookbook author has been undergoing treatment for stage 3 lung cancer. AJ shares her journey with “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Live. It's one of humility, resiliency, perseverance, and inspiration.

— In This Interview —

- AJ's treatment plan

- The power of optimistic thinking

- Working with Dr. Alan Goldhamer

- How her diet has changed

- Her changing priorities in life

- Healing with humor

- And more!

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When: Aug. 29-31, 2025

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Where: Rochester, MN

When: April 17-18, 2025

Who: Dr. Neal Barnard, Brenda Davis, Chuck Carroll

Tickets: https://www.lotushealthfoundation.org/2025-symposium-and-gala

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0:00.0	Today on the exam room.
0:04.0	You know, I keep thinking this as a dream.
0:08.0	I feel really good for somebody with stage three lung cancer with a metastasy.
0:12.0	I just, I mean, I feel great. It's like, this has to be a mistake.
0:15.0	I keep thinking this has to be a mistake.
0:18.0	Welcome to the in the state.
0:26.7	Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee.
0:32.7	Hi, I'm the weight loss champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. Hi to the exam room. He's listening in South Fulton, Georgia, Naperville, Illinois, and Bratislava, Slovakia.
0:40.8	Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place.
0:44.4	This is episode 26 of season 8, number 625 overall.
0:50.6	And today is all about getting an exclusive update from our dear friend, Chef A.J., as she
0:57.3	battles lung cancer. It was truly the diagnosis that shook the plant-based world to its core,
1:04.0	but Chef A.J. is facing this diagnosis of stage three lung cancer with humility, with resolve, resiliency,
1:14.6	perseverance, and inspiration. A whole lot of inspiration and a whole lot of humor too, because
1:21.6	Chef AJ has become even more Chef AJ since this diagnosis, if that makes any sense.
1:28.8	She is truly coming into her own, and it is a battle with cancer to truly behold.
1:35.7	I don't think cancer knew what it was up against when it decided to pick on old AJ.
1:41.0	So let's go ahead and have a conversation right now from the exam room live. Great to catch up
1:45.5	with our dear friend, Chef AJ. It is so good to see you. You look so healthy and happy.
1:54.4	I know. I try to believe. You know, I keep thinking this as a dream. How can they even keep?
1:58.0	How? Not going to look that good, but I mean, I think I really hit for somebody with stage three lung cancer with the metastasides.
2:03.7	I just, you know, when we think of people with cancer, especially when it's that stage,
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