Welcome to Everyday Wellness Podcast.

I'm your host, nurse practitioner, Cynthia Thurlow.

This podcast is designed to educate, empower, and inspire you to achieve your health and wellness goals.

My goal and intent is to provide you with the best content and conversations from leaders in the health and wellness industry each week and

impact over a million lives.

Today, I had the honor of reconnecting with friend and colleague Dr. Jen Simmons.

She last joined me on episode 432, and she is a integrative oncologist,

breast surgeon, author, podcast host, and the founder of Perfect QT Imaging. Today, we facilitated

listeners questions that ran the gamut from screenings versus diagnostic testing modalities all the way up to

hormone replacement therapy utilization in patients with breast cancer. You will find this to be

an invaluable discussion answering, as I stated, many of listeners' questions around common themes,

such as fasting, what to do if we find a lump

and targeted supplementation.

I will tell you that I have quite a few family members that work in the medical community,

and one of my cousins who's a physician called me and she was like, so-and-so

is convinced that you're telling people not to get mammograms. I said, no, that is not. I said,

if you listen to the conversation, that is not the message whatsoever. I said, but you have to

listen to the conversation or you have to read the transcript. And it's like, if that's what

someone heard, then they're incorrect. That was not what we said.

Yeah. I mean, this is controversial. It's provocative. It's all of those things. I mean, it is

certainly all of those things. And it's a nuanced conversation. But the truth is that when we look at

population statistics, mammograms do not save lives. So then you have to

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