Take Charge of Your Breast Health
The Root Cause Medicine Podcast
Kate Kresge
4.8 • 581 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode of The Root Cause Medicine Podcast, we dive into breast wellness and how to prevent breast cancer with Dr. Elizabeth Boham. You’ll hear us discuss: 1. How your food choices impact cancer risk 2. Why vitamin D and sulforaphane are key to cancer prevention 3. How chronic stress is sabotaging your body's cancer defenses 4. The key markers every woman should request for breast health 5. Why an anti-inflammatory diet is the best defense against breast cancer Dr. Elizabeth Boham is the Medical Director at The UltraWellness Center and a leading expert in functional medicine. She earned her MD from Albany Medical College and holds degrees in Nutrition Education and Nutrition Biochemistry. Dr. Boham specializes in using nutrition and lifestyle to treat and prevent chronic diseases, with a particular focus on breast cancer, and is the author of “Breast Wellness: Tools to Prevent and Heal from Breast Cancer.” Order tests through Rupa Health, the BEST place to order functional medicine lab tests from 30+ labs - https://www.rupahealth.com/reference-guide
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the root cause medicine podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | One of the things I recognized when I got cancer at a young age was that we unfortunately can't prevent every cancer. |
| 0:11.1 | And so it's frustrating sometimes with people really like myself believe in prevention. |
| 0:15.6 | But there's a lot that we know and we can sort of delve into that today. |
| 0:19.3 | There's a lot that we understand and we know |
| 0:21.3 | that can influence our risks. One of the things we were just talking about was that statistic of |
| 0:26.1 | 30% of breast cancer could be prevented if we really paid attention to from making changes |
| 0:32.5 | in terms of our diet and making the right choices in terms of our diet. Now, it doesn't mean |
| 0:36.9 | that everybody's breast cancer is because of issues with their diet, |
| 0:39.9 | but there's a lot that we can do in that area that can influence our risks 100%. |
| 0:44.7 | Well, hello there. |
| 0:46.4 | I'm your host for today, Dr. Kate Kreske, and we are talking with the wonderful Dr. Elizabeth |
| 0:51.9 | Boham. |
| 0:52.7 | Dr. Boham is an MD and an RD. |
| 0:56.1 | She trained in functional medicine and nutrition. |
| 0:58.6 | And her life was changed when in her 30s, |
| 1:00.9 | she was diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer. |
| 1:03.8 | She said through that experience, |
| 1:05.1 | she learned firsthand how difficult it can be |
| 1:07.4 | to navigate the US health system. |
| 1:09.7 | And she's developed some really cool tools like a book |
| 1:12.6 | and a DVD on breast wellness to help people learn to prevent and heal from breast cancer and other |
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