Name: Cancer Survivor Gives 5 Favorite Cancer Fighting Foods | Lauren Kretzer on The Exam Room Podcast
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Today we're going to be talking about foods

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five of them. Here on the Exam Room podcast brought to you

I am the weight loss champion Chuck Carroll.

fighting foods today is a woman who is quite remarkable

because she is not only a plant based chef

and a recipe developer, a fantastic one at that,

but she also happens to be a cancer survivor herself.

So there is no better person on planet Earth to help us learn

today, Raise our health IQ's, then chef Lauren Kretzer.

Lauren, thank you so very much for being here.

That was quite the introduction and I'm flattered.

Well, it's true. It's so good to see you again.

it has been an eternity since you've been on the Exam Room.

It has been a few years, so a lot has happened since then.

I know let's let's dive into what you have been up

I know that since you have last been on the show,

you, as you just said, have been through a lot.

And that includes a cancer scare of your own.

So kind of bring the audience up to date with

Yes. So I have talked a little bit about this

on my channels, but basically a few years ago,

I had what I thought was a cold, a bad cold.

And at the time, my daughter was an infant.

just basically whenever she would wake up needing to eat.

And so I was pretty run down and just kind of feeling like

my exhaustion was due to having a young baby

I wasn't kind of getting over this cold that I had.

But the cold persisted for weeks, and sometimes

I finally got myself over to Urgent Care on a Saturday,

just kind of expecting them to send me home

and then I'd be on my way to feeling better.

she said she suspected pneumonia and she wanted to take a chest

X-ray and, just kind of trying to avoid X-rays

unless absolutely necessary, I kind of asked if I could just

we really need the X-ray because the type of meds

So I submitted to the X-ray, and when they came back

but we found a very large mass in your chest

and we need you to get to a hospital today

to have a CAT scan done and get that checked out.

So from then on, it was a whirlwind few months of testing.

Basically, all I heard from November of 2019

until basically pathology came back from my surgery

So in my chest cavity and no one really knew what it was.

that it had some characteristics that could be benign,

characteristics that were showing up in PET

So in March of 2020 just a few days before

COVID kind of went wild and shut down the world, I had

I was not a candidate for a minimally invasive surgery,

so they had to do a full, open thoracotomy and remove the cyst.

So it did turn out to be a benign thymic cyst.

But my surgeon in his wisdom took out my thymus gland,

that you don't really need once you're an adult.

So he took it out just in case something was up

and when I first met with him in my post-surgical appointment,

what was wrong with it, but something was up.

to Memorial Sloan-Kettering for further evaluation.

I kind of knew that there was a possibility of cancer,

but since I didn't feel sick I never felt sick

And then in early April of 2020, I got a call saying that

I had a very rare aggressive form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

So it kind of hit me like a ton of bricks.

And, you know, ever since then I've been kind of

And so, yeah, that's, that's the long, winding story.

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