Not Today Cancer

You've been diagnosed. Now what?Not Today Cancer is the podcast for women navigating cancer — from the scary first days of diagnosis through treatment, recovery, and life on the other side.Hosted by Jen Delvaux — breast cancer survivor, Certified Integrative Health Practitioner, and author — this show covers mindset, nutrition, movement, relationships, and the messy, beautiful truth of healing.With 438 episodes and a 4.9-star rating, Not Today Cancer has become a trusted companion for thousands of women who refuse to let cancer be the end of their story.New episodes weekly. You don't have to do this alone.

Not Today Cancer is a health podcast hosted by Jen Delvaux, with 471 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Jen Delvaux hosts Not Today Cancer, a health show with 471 episodes published.

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  Chemo Boogers: What Chemo Is Really Like, With Humor and a Playlist | Mary Ghosh

  Sep 22, 202643 min

  What is chemo really like? Registered nurse Mary Ghosh spent her career caring for patients. Then, at 41, her second mammogram found a 1.6 cm mass, and she became the patient herself. She was diagnosed with stage 1 triple negative breast cancer and spent six months in the chemo chair. Mary didn't pretend it was fine. She told the truth: the fear, the fatigue, the hair loss, the steroid mood swings, the nerve pain, and all the strange little things nobody warns you about. She told it with humor, and she told it with a playlist. That became her book, Chemo Boogers: A Music-Fueled Memoir of Humor and Hope in the Chaos of Cancer . If you're about to start chemo, you love someone who's in it right now, or you just need proof that laughter still belongs in hard places, this one's for you. In this episode, we talk about: Getting a triple negative breast cancer diagnosis at 41 from just her second mammogram Why Mary is so passionate about mammograms and early detection Going from nurse to patient, and why she wanted to hear from people who had actually been through it Neoadjuvant chemo (chemo before surgery), the Red Devil, Taxol, and steroid side effects Why "day three" was always the hardest, and how she tracked her good and bad days How music became therapy, from Johnny Cash on the hard days to Flight of the Bumblebee on Taxol days How every chapter of her book pairs with a song, plus journal prompts to build your own chemo playlist The story behind the title Chemo Boogers Using humor to get through the hardest seasons of life and marriage The confusing "after," and how writing a book gave her purpose after treatment The best gift to give someone who's about to start chemo Mary's advice for anyone newly diagnosed: take a breath, you have a little time, and don't be afraid to reach out Get Mary's book, Chemo Boogers : Amazon: https://a.co/d/0giNPJYf Also available at Barnes & Noble and wherever books are sold. Mary's chemo playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6Pio6P00VwHmCD6VgWRCwq?si=zOT4L1sDQxCMImfRKe_nwg&utm_source=sms&pi=iXgwbhe8S76mV Follow Mary: Instagram: @chemo_candor TikTok: @chemo_candor A word from our sponsor: the Perga Core 4 Feeling like your energy has been hijacked since treatment? The Core 4 is my daily mitochondrial support system: CoreFlow and CoreBlue in the morning, and CoreGreen and CoreRed at night. All four are third-party tested and GMP verified. Grab yours here: https://pergainc.com/en-us/jendelvaux/pages/product-page Connect with Jen: Instagram: @https://www.instagram.com/jendelvaux/ jendelvaux.com Email: coachjennyd@gmail.com If this episode helped you, please share it. You never know who's sitting alone right now, about to start chemo, and needs to hear Mary's story. And as always, not today, cancer.

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  Why Did I Get Cancer? Terrain, Root Causes, and What to Do After Treatment | Dr. Lucas Tims

  Sep 11, 202645 min

  If you've ever walked out of your last treatment appointment and thought "okay, now what," this one is for you. Dr. Lucas Tims is a naturopathic doctor board certified in naturopathic oncology, a credential very few people in this country hold. He trained in microbiology, did a cancer-focused residency at City of Hope, and served as medical director at City of Hope Phoenix and the Riordan Clinic in Kansas. He now runs Root Causes in San Antonio. But here's why I wanted him on. He didn't come to this from a textbook. His wife was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer while they were still dating and he was still in medical school. He has been the doctor and he has been the person in the waiting room. We got into the question that almost nobody asks after a diagnosis: why. Not to assign blame, and I want to be really clear about that, because I think a lot of us hear "why" and immediately hear "what did I do wrong." That's not what this is. For me, asking why was the thing that gave me back a sense of control. We also talked about what "terrain" actually means inside your body, why he says treating cancer without addressing the terrain is like clearing out the burnt furniture and leaving the house, and what he'd tell you to start with if you're overwhelmed and don't know where to begin. Plus, he taught me a ten second test for your nervous system that I tried the second we got off the call. What we get into: Why he thinks the victimhood mindset is the most dangerous thing you can carry What conventional cancer care does extraordinarily well, and where the blind spot is What "terrain" actually means, and the soil analogy that finally made it click for me Restoring immune function after chemo or radiation When to bring in integrative care (his answer surprised me) The six core therapies and what each one is for My own IV vitamin C experience that scared me off, and what went wrong Cortisol, the sympathetic nervous system, and why stress isn't a soft topic The humming test The three toxic exposures he'd clean up first, and why your laundry room might be the dirtiest room in your house Endocrine disruptors versus your own hormones, and why he says those are not the same conversation Hormone positive breast cancer, the Dutch test, and where he lands on HRT Why prevention is so hard, even when you have the information in front of you His book, coming in 2027 Resources Start here: the page Dr. Tims built just for Not Today Cancer listeners, with the six core therapy white papers and the first chapter of his book. rootcausesoncology.com/ntc His Substack , where he writes about terrain and root cause work: rootcauses.substack.com Root Causes on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doctorlucas/ Those white papers are worth grabbing even if you never become a patient. They're a few pages each and they're specifically designed so you can hand them to your own oncologist.

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  Beyond the Pink: What No One Tells You About Life After Breast Cancer with Dr. Eleonora Teplinsky

  Sep 4, 202642 min

  If you have ever finished treatment, rung the bell, and thought "wait, why do I feel worse now than I did during chemo," this episode is for you. Dr. Eleonora Teplinsky is back on the show, and there is a very good reason. She is a board-certified medical oncologist specializing in breast and gynecologic cancers, Director of Breast and Gynecologic Medical Oncology at Valley Health System in New Jersey, host of the Interlude podcast, and her first book, Beyond the Pink: Navigating Life, Health, and Breast Cancer , comes out September 29. Her core message is one we talk about here constantly: survivorship does not start when treatment ends. It starts the day you are diagnosed. We go deep into the things most women are never prepared for. Why the "after" is often harder than active treatment. Why a DEXA scan is only half the bone health picture and muscle mass is the piece almost no one measures. What the emerging GLP-1 and breast cancer recurrence research actually shows, and what it does not show yet. Why vaginal estrogen is still being denied to women who have every guideline on their side. Where testosterone and systemic HRT fit in, and the three-bucket framework she uses to help patients decide. And how to tell trustworthy health information from the noise. Dr. Teplinsky wrote Beyond the Pink with more than 400 citations, and where the evidence does not exist yet, she says so. It is the resource she wished her patients had, and it is written to be brought into the exam room. In this episode Why survivorship begins on day one, not after your last treatment The gap in medical training around menopause, sexual health, and long-term survivorship Why the post-treatment period is often the hardest, and why the support disappears right when you need it Fear of recurrence and scanxiety, and what an oncologist actually says to patients living in it Bone health after an aromatase inhibitor: DEXA scans, calcium, vitamin D, and bone medications The muscle health conversation almost no one is having, sarcopenia, and how it is linked to aromatase inhibitor side effects and adherence How little movement it actually takes: resistance bands, dumbbells, and 20 minutes GLP-1s and breast cancer: the recurrence signal, what is still unknown, and why the source of your prescription matters Why "humans are not mice" and the caution around unstudied peptides Sexual health after cancer: body image, intimacy, dryness, bladder issues, and why sexual health is health Vaginal estrogen: the guidelines, the study that gets misquoted, and the link to reduced UTIs, sepsis, and hospitalizations Testosterone after breast cancer: the theoretical concerns, the hormone receptor nuance, and what newer data suggests Systemic HRT and the three-bucket framework: symptoms, recurrence risk, and your personal risk tolerance A chapter-by-chapter look inside Beyond the Pink Her three pieces of advice for someone newly diagnosed Being mindful of what you consume online, and why nothing good happens on social media after 10pm Connect with Dr. Eleonora Teplinsky Pre-order Beyond the Pink: Navigating Life, Health, and Breast Cancer (out September 29): https://interludecancerstories.com/book/ Pre-order on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Pink-Navigating-Health-Breast/dp/1538777142 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drteplinsky/ Interlude podcast and website: https://interludecancerstories.com/ Connect with Jen Website: https://www.jendelvaux.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jendelvaux Free guide, the changes I made after my diagnosis: https://www.jendelvaux.com/nowwhat If this episode spoke to you, share it with someone who needs it, and follow the show so you never miss an episode. Pre-order Beyond the Pink, take care of yourself, and be gentle with yourself. This episode is for educational purposes and is not medical advice. Please talk with your own care team about what is right for you.

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  Mold Made Her Sick in 6 Months — 12 Doctors Missed It | Ariana Thacker, MoldCo

  Aug 21, 202638 min

  We talk a lot on this show about root causes...what you eat, what you're exposed to, what you're healing inside of. This episode is about the one almost nobody checks: the air in your own home. Ariana Thacker is a chemical engineer and venture capitalist who, by her own description, was a highly functional human — daily boot camp, dialed-in diet, running a VC firm solo. Within months of moving into a new apartment, she was rereading simple emails just to process them, losing clumps of hair, and getting winded on the stairs. She saw more than a dozen providers — immunologists, allergists, pulmonologists, neurologists, PCPs — and none of them ran the right test. Most didn't believe mold could cause a whole-body inflammatory response at all. It took a Shoemaker-certified physician to name it: CIRS, chronic inflammatory response syndrome. She had one of the "dreaded" HLA haplotypes — part of the roughly 24% of the U.S. population that can't clear biotoxins on its own. She got better. Then she built the road she'd just clawed her way down. Ariana is the founder and CEO of MoldCo , a virtual clinic that answers three questions: Am I being exposed? Is mold making me sick? How do I get better? — with a $199 home test and a lab panel that starts at $56, roughly a tenth the cost of what most people pay to guess. Jen shares her own story too: a mold inspection that came back clean, and the leak found years later behind the living room wall by the family who bought the house. In this episode Why "highly functional" doesn't protect you — and how fast the symptoms started The 24% with a genetic susceptibility to mold, and what HLA haplotypes actually mean What CIRS is, and why ~80% of cases trace back to a water-damaged building Why the urinary mycotoxin test may be sending people down the wrong path — and the inflammatory markers (MMP9, MSH, TGF beta-1, C4A) that matter more How to hire a mold inspector who's actually qualified — the certifications to ask for and the 70-page report you should expect Why mold grows within 24–48 hours of water intrusion, and why new builds can be worse, not better The "canary effect": why one person in a house gets sick and nobody else does Prescription binders vs. natural binders — and why the natural route can take ten times longer Do air purifiers actually help? Moldy coffee and protein powder: is ingested mold the real threat, or is it what you're breathing? The environmental red flags to walk your own house for this week If you take one action Look up Shoemaker biotoxin symptom clusters (S-H-O-E-M-A-K-E-R). If a lot of those boxes light up for you — you only need one symptom per box to count — that's a strong signal to investigate your environment. Then walk your home for: that earthy, musty odor (especially in a basement), visible mold, peeling or cracking paint, warped flooring, dust on your HVAC vents, and indoor humidity consistently above 60%. Connect with Ariana MoldCo — moldco.com Instagram — @themoldcompany LinkedIn — in/arianadthacker X — @m0ldilocks Follow The After on Instagram: @jendelvaux Join the community: jendelvaux.com/ntc Links and resources: CoreFlow waitlist: JOIN HERE Free Not Today Cancer community: Request to join here Find Jen on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jendelvaux/ Email Jen: jen@jendelvaux.com Loved this episode? I would love it if you left a 5 star review. And if it gave you one idea to try tomorrow morning, share it with a friend who could use a softer, stronger start to her day. Whether you're a cancer survivor, newly diagnosed, or just want to eat for a longer, healthier life, this is a practical, hopeful place to start. This episode is for information and encouragement, not medical advice — always check with your care team. Not today, cancer.

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  Life After Cancer: The Grief No One Warns You About

  Aug 14, 202621 min

  Nobody warns you that surviving cancer means grieving the person you used to be. Not the diagnosis, not the treatment — her. The version of you who trusted her body, who didn't flinch at every ache, who didn't know what a scan felt like. In this episode of Not Today Cancer, Jen goes deep on one of the most overlooked parts of life after treatment: the quiet grief of losing your "before" self — and why naming it is the first step to healing. If you've ever felt guilty for mourning who you were when you're "supposed" to just be grateful, this one's for you. Jen also walks you through her new series, The After — the truths no one prepares you for once treatment ends. In this episode: Why life after treatment is its own kind of hard (and why "you're done!" feels so confusing) What "disenfranchised grief" is — the grief the world doesn't make space for The specific things we grieve: the body you trusted, your innocence, your sense of safety, the future you'd pictured Why gratitude and grief can live side by side A simple practice to move through it — name her, write the letter, say goodbye and hello The hope on the other side: post-traumatic growth, and the 5 ways survivors grow "You're allowed to miss who you were… and love who you're becoming." Follow The After on Instagram: @jendelvaux Join the community: jendelvaux.com/ntc Links and resources: Jen's protein powder Use Code: Hello10 CoreFlow waitlist: JOIN HERE Free Not Today Cancer community: Request to join here Find Jen on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jendelvaux/ Email Jen: jen@jendelvaux.com Loved this episode? I would love it if you left a 5 star review. And if it gave you one idea to try tomorrow morning, share it with a friend who could use a softer, stronger start to her day. Whether you're a cancer survivor, newly diagnosed, or just want to eat for a longer, healthier life, this is a practical, hopeful place to start. This episode is for information and encouragement, not medical advice — always check with your care team. Not today, cancer.

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