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PLANTSTRONG Podcast

Ep. 65: Dr. Kristi Funk - Fighting Breast Cancer with Plant-Based Nutrition

PLANTSTRONG Podcast

Rip Esselstyn

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Medicine, Nutrition

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Kristi Funk is a Board Certified Breast Cancer surgeon and physician, a bestselling author of the book, Breasts: The Owner's Manual, an outspoken women's health advocate, a regular feature on shows like Good Morning America, and best-known as the breast surgeon who treated both Sheryl Crow and Angelina Jolie. This passionate doctor's mantra is "God, family and kill cancer," which she wrote to empower women to understand the role they play in their own health.

For the majority of her career, she thought she was doing all she could to help women fight the battle against breast cancer, but 18 years into her practice, she found herself confronted with a new truth. She learned that nutrition, specifically plant-based nutrition, undisputedly plays a huge role both in a person's predisposition to get breast cancer and in their ability to fight it. And once she discovered the truth, she wasn't afraid to do an about 180, both personally and professionally, and she literally emptied her fridge and changed her patient protocols to advise a whole food plant-based diet as the best means to live optimal lives and to thrive.

This interview will empower you with facts and research, and it will debunk so many of the myths that we hear all the time, like what about soy or alcohol or underwire bras.

Dr. Funk not only embraced the truth, but she has also been on a mission to share it with the world. Please share today's episode with one of the millions of people that you know that have been touched by breast cancer.

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87% of all women diagnosed with breast cancer don't have a single first degree relative with breast cancer and about 80% don't have any

0:09.0

Those are phenomenal phenomenal stats right there, right? It shows you okay

0:13.7

Wait a minute if I can't blame my parents if I can't blame genetics

0:17.3

Letter who can I blame and it turns out you know, you're looking at her in the mirror and that is not meant to

0:24.2

vilify or

0:26.4

Make someone feel solely responsible but rather to empower women to realize wait a minute

0:32.2

You're saying I have a hand in this is like oh sister you have such a stronghold on this disease if you have no idea

0:40.9

I want you to get an idea right now

0:47.6

Season three of the plants from podcast explores those Galileo moments where you seek

0:55.4

Understand the real truth around your health and dare to see the world through a different lens

1:03.2

This season we honor those

1:06.0

Corrages seekers who are paving the way for you and me

1:10.8

So grab your telescope point it towards your future and let's get plants strong together

1:18.1

Today's guest is Dr.

1:23.1

Christie funk she is a board certified breast cancer surgeon and physician a

1:29.4

bestselling author of the book

1:31.4

breasts the owner's manual and

1:34.3

outspoken women's health advocate a

1:37.2

regular feature on shows like good morning America and

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best known as the breast surgeon who treated both

1:45.6

Cheryl Crow and

1:47.1

Angelina Jolie

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