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Melissa Etheridge: 12 Years After Cancer     How My Life’s Changed…

http://awomanshealth.com/living-my-truth/

In October 2004,  Melissa Etheridge was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent chemotherapy.  In October 2005, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Etheridge appeared on Dateline NBC.  She said her partner had been very supportive of her struggles with cancer during her illness. Etheridge also discussed using medicinal marijuana while she was receiving the chemotherapy.
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 She said the drug improved her mood and increased her appetite. In a June 15, 2009 interview with Anderson Cooper, Etheridge mentioned that she still uses marijuana to lessen the effects of acid reflux or in extremely stressful situations. Medical marijuana       is legal in the state of California.
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Etheridge featured in UniGlobe Entertainment’s breast cancer docudrama titled 1 a Minute released in 2010. The documentary produced by actress Namrata Singh Gujral   featured breast cancer survivors Olivia Newton-John, Diahann Carroll, Namrata Singh Gujral, Mumtaz and Jaclyn Smith as well as William Baldwin, Daniel Baldwin and Priya Dutt. The feature is narrated by Kelly McGillis. The film will also star Bárbara Mori, Lisa Ray, Deepak Chopra and Morgan Brittany.
____________________________________________________________                                                   Music icon Melissa Etheridge is just over a decade removed from beating breast cancer and in those past 10 years, she’s radically changed her life. Along  with  being proactive about her body,  not reactive,  the Grammy winner also  removed sugar from her diet and has looked at exercise and food in a whole different light.

“I am the healthiest I have ever been in my life,” she also told ABC News.  “It excites me       every day when I can wake up and feel energy and feel good and feel purpose. The changes I made were big and not easy.  Sugar is a drug,  incredibly addictive.   That one change can make a huge difference in your life. Then there’s yoga. Yoga’s been the world … [Also] food is not something that makes me feel better cause I eat it …  it’s  something  that’s  going  to give me energy and vitality and life. I look to living food to give that to me.”

Etheridge, 54, said she tried homeopathic solutions instead of solely allopathic or mainstream medicine.  👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

The “Come to My Window” singer admits that she is a “little more radical” than most  when it comes to her style of health.

“I always tell people to do what they believe,”  she said,  adding  that  if  women want to     have a mammogram once a year, than that’s exactly what they should do. “I myself have a different belief. I believe in the balance of my body and I believe that I can understand the subtleties and feel the subtleties of my own body  and  when it’s out of balance  and  those things that bring the circumstances that would cause cancer up. So, I actually stopped my mammograms.”

She added,  “I’m  not  recommending  that  for  anyone  else. … I know when my stress      is getting me. …  I’m telling you the truth, I’m also saying I don’t recommend it. It’s your own path and your own belief.”

According to cancer.org, the American Cancer Society recommends “Women age 40 and older should have a mammogram every year  and  should continue to do so for as long as they are in good health” and that “recent evidence has confirmed that mammograms offer substantial benefit for women in their 40s.  Women can feel confident about the benefits associated with regular mammograms for finding cancer early.  However,  mammograms also have limitations. A mammogram can miss some cancers, and it may lead to follow up of findings that are not cancer.”

Etheridge’s feelings about cancer and health were voiced in the documentary                        “1 A Minute” in 2010, which is being featured on the new The Thrive Channel.

1 a Minute
Free documentary

2010 ….1h 29m …. PG

When Indian-American actress Namrata Singh Gujral found out she had breast cancer in 2008  at the age of just 32,  she was devastated.  And after hearing a fellow patient say that celebrities with cancer have an easier road, Gujral sprung to action. Blending narrative with documentary,  she assembled a group of celebrity women and men touched by cancer to share their personal stories — with proceeds from the film going to cancer research and awareness.       https://tubitv.com/video/15578/1_a_minute
Directed by Namrata Singh Gujral

Namrata Singh Gujral, an actress from the hits like “Americanizing Shelley” and     Bollywood’s “Kaante,”  is the creator of “The Thrive Channel” and it’s programming,       and the documentarian behind “1 A Minute.”

“The documentary was coming  from  ‘Why are we being diagnosed every minute?'” Etheridge said about the past project. “Not just, there’s something wrong with us and      we are getting cancer. I like the different approach.”

That interview for the documentary, along with other specials is on the newly-launched channel, which features other cancer survivors such as Olivia Newton-John and Jaclyn Smith.  The network will also feature shows like  “Ultimate Survivor”  and  “Destination Survival,” according to Variety.

Gujral, a two-time cancer survivor herself, has been working for years to make                 The Thrive Channel a reality, she told ABC News.

“It’s so important that people understand that regardless of what cancer does …               you make each day count,” Gujral said. “That’s why The Thrive Channel started.”

Etheridge added that cancer simply can’t be put into one box.

“You can’t lump everybody together. All breast cancers are not the same, all ovarians,    any of them.  They are not the same,”  she said.  “Health is the No. 1 thing facing our generation.  Which way are we going to go?  Are we going to change how we live? …           It’s more about prevention than watching to see if something goes wrong.”

Melissa Etheridge’s NBC ‘Dateline’ interview with Stone Phillips originally aired       October 16, 2005.   Melissa talks about her  then — recent Grammy performance,      battle    with chemotherapy and breast cancer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTcdxI_9hHo    Part-2  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4nDP1OUrLE

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