She Healed Thyroid Cancer Naturally with a Plant-Based Diet | Dr. Ruby Lathon
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
What happens when a systems engineer is told she has cancer—but refuses to accept that medication and surgery are her only options?
In this inspiring episode of The Exam Room Podcast, host Chuck Carroll sits down with Dr. Ruby Lathon, who healed her thyroid cancer naturally through the power of food. Discover how she turned her research skills into a mission to help others use plants to prevent and reverse disease.
Ruby shares the exact steps she took to restore her health—including how she eliminated dairy, sugar, and processed foods, and the mindset shift that helped her truly heal. Today, she’s thriving as a wellness coach, author, and founder of Ruby Reds Vegan, teaching people that food truly is medicine.
What You’ll Learn
- How Dr. Ruby Lathon reversed thyroid cancer with plant-based nutrition
- The foods that help regulate thyroid function and fight inflammation
- Ways to make whole-food, plant-based meals delicious and satisfying
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. |
| 0:04.7 | The treatment plan was to remove the thyroid and then just start on thyroid medication. |
| 0:11.1 | And I didn't want to do that. |
| 0:12.7 | That's really what kicked off the journey to holistic health because something you can't get off of. |
| 0:18.9 | It's non-negotiable once you take out your thyroid. |
| 0:21.5 | You have to have thyroid hormone. |
| 0:23.5 | And so I was like, really don't want to be dependent on medication for the rest of my life. |
| 0:27.0 | I thought I was living my life in a way that I wouldn't be dependent. |
| 0:31.0 | So I said, there's got to be another way. |
| 0:36.1 | Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:40.1 | Hi, it's your buddy Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. |
| 0:45.4 | Hi to the exam room. |
| 0:46.4 | He's listening in Charleston, South Carolina, Spokane, Washington, and Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 0:52.4 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 0:56.7 | This is episode 82 of Season 8, number 681 overall. |
| 1:01.9 | And today's guest has an incredible story. |
| 1:05.7 | Her name is Dr. Ruby Lathen, and she turned her back on a career in systems engineering and took a giant leap of |
| 1:13.6 | faith, one that helped to heal her own thyroid cancer through the power of a plant-based diet. |
| 1:20.4 | And when doctors told her that surgery was her only option, she said, no, no, Doc, there's got to be another way. And it was that decision |
| 1:30.5 | that changed her life forever. From digging into the research articles to immersing herself |
| 1:36.7 | in holistic healing, Dr. Lathen discovered that food is truly medicine. And now she's a wellness coach. |
| 1:45.9 | She's the author of an incredible new cookbook that we'll be talking about. |
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