30 - Living With a ‘One in a Million’ Cancer: Alli’s Story of Surgery, Healing & Self-Trust.

In this episode of Canna Curious, Kyla sits down with Alli Bannister, a mother, nurse practitioner, and survivor of an exceptionally rare form of appendix cancer. One so uncommon it affects only one in a million people.

What began as unexplained pain, bloating and digestive changes quickly escalated into emergency surgery, a Christmas Day hospitalisation, and the devastating discovery that cancer had spread across nearly all of Alli’s abdominal organs. Within days, she was facing a radical treatment plan involving organ removal, aggressive surgery and hot chemotherapy. But Alli made a courageous choice to pause.

This conversation explores what happens when someone refuses to rush their healing, chooses to listen to their body, and claims agency in a system driven by urgency and fear. Alli shares her decision to seek integrative treatment in Thailand, her experience with medical cannabis for pain and anxiety, the role of meditation and trauma healing, and how mindset became just as critical as medicine.

In this episode, we explore:

• The early signs of Alli’s rare appendix cancer and why her symptoms were repeatedly dismissed
• The moment she received her diagnosis and how it reshaped her identity 
• The emotional and physical impact of emergency surgery and radical organ removal
• Why Alli chose to pause instead of rushing into life-altering treatment
• The role of integrative and alternative therapies in her healing journey
• How CBD and THC supported her pain management, anxiety and sense of calm
• The mind-body connection and the importance of meditation during trauma
• Financial realities of alternative cancer treatment and systemic limitations
• Reclaiming agency within the medical system
• How healing trauma and emotional release became part of survival
• Alli’s mission to support others walking a similar path

If you want to know more about Alli or the power of hydrogen water you can find Alli here IG @alli.healingontheroad

Email: alli@allihealingontheroad.com

Radical Remission by Kelly A Turner

Quantam Healing by Deepak Chopra 

Transcript

This episode is not about cancer.
It’s about the moment a woman feels her life quietly slipping away… and chooses to listen instead of panic.

When Ali Bannister walked into hospital just before Christmas, she thought she was chasing answers to unexplained pain. What she received instead was a diagnosis so rare, so invasive, that it would turn her entire world inside out. Within days, she was told cancer had spread across nearly every abdominal organ. Her appendix had ruptured. Her body was in crisis. And yet, what followed wasn’t just a story of survival… it's a story of pause, agency, and radical self-trust.

In today’s conversation, Ali takes us back to who she was before the diagnosis, the moment everything changed, and the path she chose when the only option she was given felt like too much, too soon. This is a story about fear, hope, the body’s intelligence, and what happens when you reclaim choice in a system that often forgets your humanity.

Ali’s journey will move you. It will challenge what you think healing looks like. And it just might change the way you listen to your own body.

Lets spark up the conversation.

Welcome to the Canna Curious podcast. I have Ali Bannister with me today. Ali, how are you? I'm good. How are you?

Yep, I'm awesome for a Sunday, Sunday morning. We're doing this today. It's a hot day here in Brisbane. Now, I was going to start and talk about, we'll go back to 2023. I want to know who you were before we start this part of your story. Yeah. Well, I, well, a mother to two children.

Tabitha and Leo and we had just moved from Victoria to Perth and that was all you know a big stressful move so I was just really excited for the future but I'd had about one year of unexplained pain. So I'd been focusing a lot on trying to heal my family holistically. And as they got better, I got sicker. So I was kind of in that state of searching for answers or just to try and find out what was wrong. And in reflection, I was just very anxious, you know, obviously, because I was just trying to figure out what was going on. So, yeah. So what sort of pain did you have at that point?

Yeah, well, I'd had like I would the first indications was I've always had IBS for many, many years. Yeah. And so and so to me, being constipated was quite normal. But then it changed and I became really constipated. And my background is a palliative care nurse practitioner and prescriber in England.

So I knew that that was a red flag. So I would be going back to the GP about that. And then pain just started getting really worse. I used to get gnawing pains over my gallbladder, like stabbing after I'd eaten. So I was thinking I've got gallstones. My liver would ache. ache and I was doing the gaps diet trying to just trying to change everything do the best I can and then at some points in between in 2023 I would just be doubled over in pain after I've eaten not been able to walk so it's just all very unexplained symptoms but then I had a sharp weight increase at the end around September 24 and then crashed down like lost so much weight so and

So what were your next steps there? So you knew something was wrong? Yes. Yeah. Well, I've been repeatedly to the doctors, but I'm saying I was constipated, bloated, pain in those areas. And they just take laxatives. And I was like, something's wrong. So my bloods were all fine. And then in December, again, I went back and begged. I said, look, you need to do more scans. Something's not right. So that was my next step, was just trying to search for answers, really.

And what happened in that December? In that December, I'd actually felt better a few weeks before the scan. And I was like, oh, this is amazing. I think I'm fine. I've done a liver flush, actually. And I've got rid of loads of gallstones. And I was like, wow, I feel amazing. And then I thought, no, I'll go for the scan. I've got to. So it was the 21st of December. And yeah, they did a CT. And then they did an internal scan as well. And they said they found like a fluid, well,

They didn't give me the results straight away. I actually got the knock on the 23rd of December to say that I had what I read as a mucosel. And I was obviously scared. And the doctor just said, oh, it's appendicitis. You're going to need surgery. I said, oh, it's Christmas. And he's like, yeah, well, we can book you in in like the 7th because everyone's away on holiday now. And I said, well, what if it bursts? And he said, well, you just have to go to emergency. So, yeah.

That was the plan. That was the plan. And what happened? Yeah, well, then whatever happened in that scan, he pressing on me just sort of started a really bad pain episode. I went to work after the scan and then I literally I had to call because I worked and had my own business caring for adults in the community with medical needs and special needs. And I just couldn't even walk.

I just came home and then in my mind I just wanted Christmas to be you know perfect and yeah I wanted to see the kids open their presents so there's a picture of me actually just before and that you wouldn't even recognize me so I watched them open their presents and then I said to Tom I'm going for a sleep and then I just had all this burning pain around my liver and I thought I'm I'm going this is rupturing and if I don't go into hospital this Christmas.

I'm not going to see you next Christmas. And then off we all went to hospital. Christmas Day. Christmas Day with the kids, had to explain. Awful. We didn't know anyone either. We'd just moved from Victoria and made, like, one friend. And, yeah, we had to travel to a different hospital, not so near us. And, yeah, they just admitted me. Well, by that stage, I'm, like, stubborn, which I hope is probably going to, not stubborn, but it's going to link to our story later.

I didn't take any painkillers. I just didn't want to take any painkillers. So the first painkillers I ever took that day when I could work was paracetamol in hospital. And then they admitted me and got me, said I needed emergency surgery. But that then didn't happen until the 27th. And that shipped me back off to another hospital. And I just remember waking up and saying, what have you found?

The surgeon will see you at your bed now. And I just thought, well, that's not good. And so we had to get little kids, put headphones on and sit them outside. And Tom was there waiting for me. And they just said, yeah, we've found cancer and it's on every single one of your abdominal organs. It's on your ovaries. It's in your stomach lining. It's all over your liver. And they took out my appendix, which was just a whole tumour by that stage, which had ruptured.

And they'd just seen all this jelly everywhere. And what did that moment, how did that moment feel? Take us back to that moment. I just, well, it's crazy, but I've always thought I'd get cancer because my mum died when I was young. So I wasn't that, and I just had all this. I think that's been a whole part of my journey, but I was just like, my God, it's happened. It's finally happened, which sounds crazy.

It was just, it was horrible. Tom was there and we had to just act like everything was normal for them. So it was just very scary because they, again, I had to wait for results because it was Christmas. So I went back home. They actually discharged me the next day from hospital after my appendix and part of my bowel removed. So I actually presented back the next day, collapsed it in A&E.

It was just a horrible, horrible time. I shouldn't have been discharged. So the whole thing now looking back is just I was in a trauma bubble. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I can understand. That would have been a really tough time. Yes. And do you remember going back then what you considered doing? What was your treatment path at that point? Yeah. Well, when I got my diagnosis, that was around the beginning of.

11th of january or something and they said it was appendix cancer um uh and then it spread it which is a rare cancer one in a million and when it's the appendix ruptures the tumor like it spreads all these little tumor spores into all of your organs which produce a mutant jelly and that's what was spreading the cancer but this type of cancer they told me is slow growing so

My surgeon did another operation to see where the cancer was because it doesn't show up on scans. And then they said, right, we're going to book you in for a peritonectomy. You can come in in a week and we're going to remove multiple organs and your gallbladder, full hysterectomy, your spleen. We're going to disattach and reattach every one of your organs.

and I just and there's more that they took out but I just remember thinking you can't do that to me there's just no way I wasn't prepared in my mind or my body and so when I found out it was slow growing five to seven years I actually just paused and went out to Thailand yes integrated therapy cancer treatment yeah so that so did you look at that before they because that surgery was the only option that they'd given you at that point

Yes, cytoreductive surgery. It's called a peritonectomy surgery and then hot chemo flush for your abdomen. Yes. And I just couldn't comprehend in my nursing mind at the time how I'd survive that and function and live, and I just was desperate. I was already down a very holistic path, and I know people are curing themselves or just healing themselves. They're finding the new pauses. And that's what I wanted to try and do. Yeah.

So your next stage then was going, let's go back to where we met. That was in 2024. Yes. So in January, talk me through what happened there. Yeah. So as I said, I'd had this, I'd had two surgeries probably by that stage, if there was any diagnosed CRISPR's day 23. And I was just in.

a lot of pain and I didn't like to take painkillers. They make me feel funny. They make me constipate. And they make you constipated. I always think they do that. And then when you've got surgery or any pain there, it is the worst. Yeah. Everything stops working. They'd handled my bowel. They'd taken part of my bowel out. And when you do that.

I mean, it sets the bowel into shock. So I just didn't want to do it. So then I went to my doctor and I got prescribed some CBD and a mixture of CBD and THC. And I remember being scared to take it because I was in a heightened state. But I was bent over double and my sister had actually flown over from England to support the family because I was just out. So it's towards the end of her two weeks.

all she'd seen is me bent over and i took this little tiny bit of cbd and i went into i went into my bedroom and i remember feeling really calm for the first time like in my life because i was chronically anxious um and then i sat on the bed and i literally turned on instagram and there you were on the live

with Kate from it's not Kate's time because someone recommended her to me and you're talking about the effects of you know cannabis I think and yeah and cancer or I can't remember now but I was like oh my goodness and at the bottom you'd said you know get in touch anyone who's curious and I remember coming home from the doctor just being so confused over my dosing systems and I just needed help so I got in touch with you you messaged me back and then you guided me through my dosing and yeah I think I think

I think I've still all got the notes on my phone from what I would follow. And that was it. We spoke quite a bit over the years then, didn't we? Golly, Jim. And with, so you started taking the plant and that obviously helped, well, it helped with your anxiety and how was your pain? Yeah, I mean, what happened after that conversation, literally, I came out of the bedroom, stood up, not bent down, and everyone's looking at me and I just was like, oh.

let's get the karaoke machine out and we were singing and I've got a video of it my sister recorded it and she just said it was so nice to go home to England seeing you like that yeah and I guess it just so it helped my pain and it helped me cope and for the next whatever months I would also take the THC mixture that I got from the doctors around

whatever time in the afternoon and I it just it helped me cope with my entire diagnosis yeah yeah that's that's just lovely to hear and i think you know with with that balance of the cbd and the thc you know it does help with inflammation we have a lot of research out there that shows from the states that it can help the um apoptosis of the cells it can help you know with this with spreading all all research backed of course but it's you know it's

For me, people that come and have a chat through when they've got cancer, I've seen, you know, so many people helped with the plant. So it's amazing that your doctor was able to do that very early on because, yeah, it certainly can make a difference. So after that, you were ready to take an alternative path and have a look. So then what was your next step? Yeah. So then.

all my beautiful friends and family across the world did a go fund page for me that's right i'm very grateful for yeah and i in april because there's a waiting list for this operation as well because it's so long and um so i just i had time to go and try something else and i went out for seven weeks in total to thailand and had you know um yes so

I do want to just touch on that because I think it's an important point to make. So alternative health costs money. Yes. So, for example, so you went to Thailand for seven weeks. What sort of a cost are we looking at for seven weeks? Oh, my God, it was over $60,000. I can't even remember. We would have been able to afford it. I'm just so super grateful because.

Even though the treatment, it did work in some areas. It looked like there was some reduction, but it's just a very strange type of cancer. You are one in a million, babe. One in a million. Yeah. So, but I 100% think like the IV drips, everything really helped support my immune system ready for this huge. Huge. And it also gave me time to pause. Like I was sat in a room with all people. We're all on drips for eight hours a day.

And I've still got my journal down there and I would write a plan out and a hope and figure out all the areas where I needed to work on because I read the book Radical Remissions by Kelly Turner. Yeah, it's a great one. And I still do today. And I think that just time to pause because you're very often you'll get your diagnosis and it's like, bang, you're going to have a surgery next week and you're going to start chemo. I had chemo out in Thailand as well, actually.

You have no time to think or process. And I think that is a beautiful point that you've made and I love that you were able to do that at a couple of points where you have just mentioned, you mentioned it earlier, that you stopped and you paused because it's a story I see and hear too often and I've witnessed it personally with, you know, friends and family having cancer where you may have had the cancer for a very long time. You come in and have a diagnosis and all of a sudden everyone's screaming with emergency.

And it's very, very difficult to think. So to be able to pause, to be able to gossip with other people that are having the same thing, like, you know, it's so healthy for us to be able to have those conversations. So really, yeah, it's amazing that you are able to do that. And then so we talked about the fact that, you know, an alternative program for seven weeks in Thailand is about 60,000. I know going to the US it's about...

80 to 150 000 um there's a there's a clinic well there are a few clinics over there with the surgery that you needed it was quite specific so that was obviously that what the government paid for that yeah so if i'd have had the surgery in um well yeah the government do pay but if i was to have that in wa which i

didn't want to do because I was saying to you earlier I just I met my surgeon and I just didn't trust him straight away I had a long list of organs that they were going to remove but he wouldn't write them all down and I kept repeatedly asking him are you going to take my gallbladder because that's where I had the worst pain and he just wouldn't tell me he wouldn't put it in writing and I thought well I did my research you know first of all the surgery would have taken place at a private hospital instead of

like a big one and an operation like that needs to have emergencies services near to it and so i just i just didn't trust him so i had to go to victoria and we had to fund that again ourselves flights and everything yeah so you know throwing going through the system it it can give you lots of agency like going through the medical system can unintentionally

create that where you need to reclaim choice and you reclaim choice and that choice costs money and then so what sort of cost were you looking at when you decided that okay that surgeon's not going to work we need another surgeon i mean i i was not in the best place So I remember obviously we had to pay for our flights and accommodation. Tom couldn't work, so we had a lot. Yes, I remember because he was out looking after the kids, yeah. Yeah, so it wasn't just flights. It was, and then other people, like I had two friends fly out to Melbourne to help support Tom, which was amazing, and me. I had, so there was a lot of money that went into, thousands, like over, yeah, a lot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, it is. Healthcare is very expensive. And how were you feeling before you went for this other round of surgery, considering you'd already had quite a bit of surgery. Yeah. And not a lot of time between for the body to heal. Yes. Well, yeah, so.

This took place on the 26th of July. So I'd had nearly six months, which is good in between those surgeries, but not as much as I'd wanted. But I was really scared, but I'd made the decision. I'd flipped my thinking that this surgery wasn't going to kill me. It was going to cure me. It took me all that time. I had to work through.

just the grief of the loss of everything that was about to happen to me um and I wouldn't have had that if I'd have just had it done straight away so and I remember the night before my beautiful friend Martha was with me and she did some cards and I the first card I pulled before my operation was it said have unwavering faith and I just thought I'm gonna be fine so I've done a lot of work on mindset this this whole journey so yeah

Yeah, and, you know, I think that's a really powerful truth that there is so much of this that is mind work and when, again, you're pushed and you're in a hurry and everything's fear-based, it's very difficult to sort through that. So, yeah. So you flew down to Melbourne.

I remember this very well. Like I remember this time because, you know, I think it's hard when, you know, you get to know someone and you can see it from externally and the whole family. Like how was Tom during this time and how were the kids during this time? How were they feeling? Well, I mean, yeah, Tom was doing so much better because of you as well, because just as a side note, he started taking CBD and that really helped him. That's right. I remember. And you helped him a lot. So that was helping him cope, I think, honestly. But it was it was just very scary.

and obviously in a different place and the kids just they did so well but I've also done a lot of work with support from them with them counsellors and healers so because it's not just about wasn't just about me so it was just a very scary a scary time and yeah that's all I can say yeah yeah it was a scary time yeah and

Was there a moment, do you think, where you felt something change beyond the physical? Yeah, I mean, I think, let me just think back. Well, it's more like in reflection I can say that. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, from what my acupuncturist said the other day. So I think really it was all physical with the operation and everything that happened. And then it was after that, the healing that I've done, that my acupuncturist actually said to me that,

When she felt my body, she said that you died in that operation and you came back. And I actually feel that. I feel I'm a completely different person, mind, body and spirit. And so, yeah. So it was after the operation, which was very extensive. It was 12 hours of surgery and they actually ended up removing my gallbladder, my full hysterectomy, the peritoneum, which lines all your organs.

They stripped that. They took the top layers of fat, the omentum. They took that away. They stripped my entire diaphragm and they disattached and reattached every single one of my organs and scraped everywhere. And then at the end, they put a hot chemo flush for an hour, like a washing machine just to, yeah.

And then I was in a different state and then Tom and the kids stayed around for a few more days, I think. And they had to go back to Warrnambool when I was having my operation three hours away. It was a whole, it was a whole thing. And then, yeah, they flew back, flew back home and I was there for the rest of the time in full blown surgical menopause. So. Yeah, which is also a shock to the system. So. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, it's unbelievable. And to witness because I've seen you through all this and to see the physical and that mental transformation is, you know, it's quite phenomenal really. What do you think this experience and going through this has taught you about your body? To listen to it for a start because so many years I didn't and just to give.

I just don't, not to rush anymore. I don't want my body to be stressed. So just to have, you know, slow mornings and, and just to always be grateful because you can feel, I can feel it in my body. Meditation has been a huge part for me as well. So just to have gratitude. Yeah. I can, I can definitely understand that because that's a big one for me. It's taken a long time to learn.

And if there's anything that you take from this listeners, meditation, two minutes a day, that's all you need to do to start. It can actually change your life. I was someone who did not believe that. I couldn't sit still or I thought I couldn't sit still, but it really, really is. Like if there's anywhere to start, start there. I like the saying, if you haven't got time to meditate for five minutes, meditate for an hour. Right.

Because you'd eat it. That's me. That was me. But it's amazing how you can tap into that when things are getting really stressful and how you reactions, not that I respond 100% the best all the time, but it certainly can help you centre. 100%, like my whole journey, like being on my own in Thailand.

and struggling in so much pain i would literally be in my hotel room just in a meditative state and then after my operation i had bowel obstruction nine times where i'd go into the hospital with twisted bowels this is just in the last year ambulanced in not eating drinking for days and i would literally there was one time when they said to me the first bowel obstruction which was just not even a couple of months after my operation they said to me

I got there and they just said you need an operation I was like okay I said but we can't operate on you because you would you diebasically, is what they told me. And the only way for your bowels to untwist is just to bowel rest and hope. And that was twisted in two places. And I just spent a week in bed, meditating, humming, visualizations, imagining everything untwisting. And I honestly think, you know, just trying to put myself into a calm state, even in the midst of a big storm. And there'd be times and it sounds crazy, but I would be in a beautiful space.

because I was just telling my body and my body 100% listens. The mind-body connection is extraordinary. And I think so many of us are taught to override, rather interpret these signals that our body gives us. And in society now we are taught, and I am one of them, where it was like take a pill, have an operation, that'll fix it, that'll fix it.

There's a lot more to it. What did that shift open up for you emotionally? Loads, really. I just I've healed so much emotionally as well. Like part of my healing wasn't just physical. I've had to heal my mind, my past trauma. And that was part of my radical remissions. I'd write it all down is the ones I was weakest on was spirituality.

positive, releasing negative emotions and having positive emotions. So I've really had to work on those areas. And then it's quite hard now to bring me down, to be honest, because I'm literally... Well, who could take you down, babe? I'll tell you what, there's no bloody way. Yeah, I'm just happy every day, really. I truly am. I'm just grateful. And I don't think about the future anymore like I used to worry or worry what...

all the time that it's going to happen to me what happened. That's a hard lesson, that one. I'm still going through that one. Yeah, but if I hadn't have had this operation and if it hadn't have all happened to me, I would still be there. So I'm actually grateful for what has happened in my life to bring me to a place of full alignment is how I feel now. So, yeah. Very, very cool. Yeah.

What would you say to someone now who may be at that stage, maybe in that early journey? Yes. Well, just to have hope. Hope is the absolute, it's what's going to guide you through. And for me, what I did was I, you know, like you said, fear-based conversations I was having with the doctors, giving me statistics, everything I was hearing was just horrible.

And I just, I asked them to stop telling me and I actually reached out to people on Instagram who are living well with cancer or after cancer or, you know, like people like you who are helping people and they gave me hope. So, and then just to take someone with you to all your appointments, have an advocate. Excellent advice. Excellent advice. Yeah, sister with me. She's a good wife. I'm a nurse practitioner and we struggled. So, you know.

People take support and then believe in your bodies. body ability to heal like it has an innate intelligence innate yeah yeah and I remember reading the book quantum healing by Deepak Chopra and that that literally that was one moment maybe how you said about when did it all change but I was in bed healing and I was always positive but I was still seeing so much pain and and I didn't have that faith in my body because as my nursing brain they're going to take all of that out of me how am I going to function and I read it it just said

your body has an innate intelligence to heal that not even science understands. And it will fall sideways. And I thought, yes, that's what my body's going to do. And then since then, healing's been very different. Yeah. Yeah, it is. There are things that are beyond our understanding as humans. Yeah.

I mean, how am I still here with all of that taken out? Look, I don't know because I was saying that to you before. You know, like I remember when you had to go down to Melbourne, I remember feeling it and I was just like I don't know how they're going, like coping, like the family and everyone because it was just one thing after the next and huge things, not just I'm going to have a little surgery here, a little surgery there. And, you know, to see how far you've come so bloody quickly is.

a miracle really yeah thank you we need to believe in miracles like we do miracles happen yeah and there's so many things you can put in place to you know i would say definitely anyone at the beginning of the journey get that book radical remissions yes follow those those and i'll put that in the notes listeners so it'll be in the notes and there'll be links to those in case you're interested to hear and read

Also, while I'll touch on the fact I do have a cancer document that if people approach me and they would like that, it's literally just a document I've put together over all the years of speaking to so many women and the things that I've heard consistently that seem to be working out there. You sent something to me. I remember you sent something to me as well. It's called Fuck Cancer. I'm allowed to say that. It's the Fuck Cancer document, people. Yahoo!

Yeah, and I think that we, what will I, I always get bad at the endings of these things. Maddie's going to cut that out. Let's talk about actually, I think we should touch on the water because I think it's an important thing. So that's January this year. Yeah, so basically I was, I remember lying out in Thailand and just thinking,

what do I want to do with my life because Tom and I made a promise to each other that we weren't going to go back to living burnt out and stress which is what you know we said at the beginning and so I was just imagining what I would do with my life and we wanted to create some sort of healing community space um he would wanting to do um give people you know CBD because of all the help you gave him and then I was drinking hydrogen water out there but not noticing anything because everything was just happening to me at once and then in January this year because I remember at Christmas this year sitting there thinking is this my life now you know no vitality no life constantly going back into bowel obstructions I was happy but I was still in so much pain and then on the 9th of January um I started drinking hydrogen water someone lent me a machine and within days my energy came back and my vitality my brain fog cleared which I thought was chemo but actually I just think it was my whole life and surgical menopause and then Tom's IBS improved within three weeks and now my son is now fully eating all the food he was intolerant to and my daughter's asthma is healed and I was like what is this machine so I spent a long we've invested straight away and then I spent quite a few months researching it and now I but I share this water with people in my community. I've created a page, a page called ali.healingontheroad on Instagram, which is where I have people who, you know, were me two years ago reaching out for help and I just want to give them hope. So, and yeah, and now, and people come and they, I support people drinking hydrogen water through cancer journeys and just the changes I've personally seen.

incredible isn't it amazing it's like it's like it's like your journey to me and seeing all and if we can share this knowledge any of it and it helps someone it's just i love this about community i don't get this in in the system unfortunately no well it is we're all trying to help each other and we're seeing such amazing results yeah and you know because

I would say for anyone who is on a cancer healing journey, if they want to reach out to me and ask any questions, you know, it's backed by 50 years of science. It helps reduce oxidative stress in the body. It's so amazing through chemo and radiation. So reach out. Yeah. And unfortunately with water, because, you know, I have also been down this path for many, many years. Unfortunately, the water that you get out of the tap, it's absolutely.

number one it's filled with fluoride and australia is only one of a few countries that fluoridates the water and they say that they do that for our teeth that is actually not true there is many many many research pieces that have been published and we know that it has negative effects so even just starting with a filter yes and then doing your research yeah is so important

100% there's actually so much more than you think there's pharmaceuticals there's estrogen in it estrogen yeah girls and girls young cycles we're all getting messed up because every sip we take is adding an acidic load to our body tap water is acidic so it's something you know that you can easily change because it's something you do every day so just make sure that is clean yeah you can like as I say first stage filter

filter first stage filter and then you know second stage do your research yeah and and again we'll leave the links in there so that people are able to um to have a look but thank you so much for coming and chatting to me today about your journey it's so lovely to catch up and see the like to see how positive and happy and not just you but the whole family unit babe yeah oh thank you so much you know it's changed it's changed our whole lives so

And the kids are pretty resilient now. Yeah. We're just loving life. That's awesome. That's absolutely. What a fantastic note for us to finish on. So thank you so much for coming to chat to me today. Thank you for all your help for my journey. Welcome, babe.