Elyn Jacobs is a breast cancer survivor and holistic cancer strategist who helps people make better, healthier, less-toxic choices for their healing. She emphasizes the critical nature of addressing the root cause of cancer and not just its symptoms, i.e. the tumor. She empowers men and women to successfully navigate the process of treatment and care. Elyn knows that cancer treatment requires an individualized plan, as every cancer is unique and there is not one plan for treatment that fits the needs of all–and she knows that healing often requires diverging from the medical standard of care. All too often people are are pushed into a path for treatment that does not suit his or her core needs or desires. Many people find it a challenge to find a doctor who can hear and respond to their opinions and questions, and who dismiss holistic treatment options.
Elyn’s own experiences with breast cancer enables her to deeply understand the questions and concerns faced by those affected by cancer. Her mission is to ensure that her client’s voice is heard and her goal is to help people find the right treatment, doctors, and post cancer care –and most importantly, to discover and correct the root cause of one’s cancer. Elyn has published in the Journal of Cancer Biology and Treatment and the Archives of General Internal Medicine.
Learn how you can help prevent recurrence and minimize the treatment side effects and resulting effects that compromise your health and well-being. Empower yourself to go beyond the current standard of care to resolve the reason for your cancer and to heal yourself of cancer.
Elyn specializes in understanding the roles of estrogen in breast cancer and virus in many cancers and debunks the myths associated. She brings a plethora of knowledge in alternative and complementary therapies, nutrition, detoxification, and natural alternatives to tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors. She will help you think outside the box so you can incorporate every lifeline you may need for long term survival.
Holistic cancer coaching meets the needs of people who:
- Are undergoing conventional therapies and need guidance in holistic and nutritional support
- Choose not to accept conventional treatments and prefer to investigate alternative therapies
- Are looking for natural alternatives to anti-hormone treatments such as tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors
- Are looking to understand the role of virus as one of the triggers for cancer
- Want to change the cancer environment within and address the root cause of the cancer to reduce the risk of recurrence
Elyn is a Contributing Editor for The Truth About Cancer and was creator and host of the Survive and Live Well Radio Show on the Cancer Support Network. Elyn is on the Medical Advisory Board for BeatCancer.Org and is on the Advisory Board to the Radical Remission Project. She has been featured on CNN Money, Breast Cancer Wellness, Talk About Health, The Radical Remission Project, Breast Cancer Answers, and others, and has written for numerous organizations and publications. Elyn was the former Executive Director of the Emerald Heart Cancer Foundation.
While Elyn is grateful to have received the 2013 Best of Manhattan award and the Breast Cancer Wellness 2014 Ambassador of the Year award, the most important reward is helping others to improve not just quantity of life, but quality of life as well. Elyn knows that it is not enough to treat cancer; the goal is to beat cancer. She is passionate about helping others get past their cancer and into cancer-free lives.
Elyn was the former Executive Director for the Emerald Heart Cancer Foundation. Emerald Heart’s mission was to support women in integrative and holistic cancer care. This role allowed Elyn to further assist women as they battled cancer and claimed a life of health and wellness.
My Story, My Passion
After battling breast cancer, I realized that I would do everything possible to avoid a recurrence. I began with extensive research to better understand the causes which led to certain lifestyle changes I have made. I also realized the support I received during my ordeal was invaluable and I felt compelled to share my information and experience in order to help others. From beginning to end of my journey, I had an incredible team of doctors who empowered me to take control of the situation. When faced with a life threatening disease, you can acquire amazing strength if have a solid plan and strong team behind you. That team should have your best interests in mind as you are a patient, not a statistic, and it is my mission to ensure that all women have this opportunity in their battle.
I created this company as I have encountered many women who have been disappointed with the care received and I also found that many women did not have a family member or close friend who could see them through the process. I realized there was a great need for advocacy. I also know that it is not enough just to beat cancer, so I help women to repair and prepare their bodies for a life of wellness.
A cancer diagnosis is devastating to most women and having an advocate along the way can make a huge difference in their ensuing battle. I have been successful in helping woman better understand their diagnoses and treatment options and in helping them choose the right team and path for treatment. This includes accompanying them on visits to the doctor where I take notes and ensure the tough questions get asked. I know firsthand, that under these circumstances, it is very difficult to concentrate on all that a doctor is saying. Once team and treatment plans are chosen, we work together through the process. I feel strongly that no woman should have to face cancer alone.
A cancer diagnosis leaves one so very vulnerable, not only to the illness, but also to the people all around her. Friends often think they are helpful when criticizing a chosen treatment plan. Many women choose not even to discuss with friends their choice for surgery, as surely some friends will be adamant about mastectomy and others lumpectomy, and this is terribly unfair to the patient. It is for us and us alone to choose and be confident with a path chosen. Doubt is not a healthy thing, but is ever-present. However, again, it is unfair of others to cast doubt or offer opinions. Given all the options today, we have many decisions to make. We may choose conventional, alternative or a combination of both, and within each modality, there are yet more options. I always say that when a friend or loved one is diagnosed, support is essential, information is helpful, but advice is often unwanted or unacceptable. As an unbiased advocate, I listen to your needs, concerns and preferences and support you throughout the journey and beyond.
There is nothing simple about battling cancer, and you don’t have to go it alone. Discover how you can take a greater role in choosing the best treatment and team, and find the help you need. I help women diagnosed with cancer navigate the process of treatment and care, and coach in prevention to avoid recurrence and new cancers. Most important, I believe that cancer is a symptom. While I certainly concern myself with the symptom we call cancer, I believe people can be better served by using natural healing remedies to restore and maintain optimal health in order to heal from this dis-ease. Rather than using synthetic, toxic drugs that harm the body, I believe an alternative approach that determines the underlying causes of the dis-ease is a more logical and effective approach.If we do not investigate and treat the cause, we will never truly be healed.
Lastly, I am not a doctor. I do not practice medicine. I practice information investigation and came to the understanding that conventional treatment for cancer is consensus-based, not evidence based. Never believe that just because your well-meaning doctor recommends a long-used protocol that ‘he must know what he is doing’.
Research is formalized curiosity.
It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Huston
Join Elyn on the Survive and Live Well Radio Show, on W4CS, The Cancer Support Network. Find the best options for you, for your cancer. Meet the experts; tune in for tips to treat and beat cancer. While she is no longer recording new shows, to replay past shows, please click here.
Thank you so much Elyn, I really appreciate you being so helpful. You are so knowledgeable about all this and are the only one I found this whole year who gets that healing is a process and it’s about fixing things and adding what your body needs, not poisoning it. I so appreciate finding you!
Colette G, March 8, 2018
I really can’t thank you enough. I am feeling really positive today and am walking well with minimal pain.
I cannot believe how fast the progress has been. I do still have some fear, naturally, but actually I have more hope than fear, and you have helped incredibly with that.
You’re a star Elyn ♥
Jess D, April 21, 2018
I’m so glad that my husband found Elyn on the internet (in Dec 2016). After taking Tamoxifen for 8 months and tolerating side effects, I really wanted to get off of it and do something natural for my high estrogen levels and to prevent me from having a re-occurrence. I was initially against trying Tamoxifen and did my homework on the symptoms before going to the oncologist. Believe, me, I watched my BC surgeon shake her finger at me and say “you better take that Tamoxifen!”.
I had stage 0-1 BC (just calcifications) and never spread (at age 46-1/2). I read Elyn’s article about flaxseed and turmeric/curcumin and other natural remedies and she really inspired me to make some changes. Thanks, Elyn, I only knew of the “doctor’s way – Tamoxifen” until you came along! You give people hope and inform us for natural healing and give us natural alternatives. You were the one that inspired me and gave me the turning point to make a change
and do things naturally. I tell other people about you and recommend them going to your website and FB page!
Cindra S, April 29, 2018
Thank you so much!!! I do love your site that is full of very important information. I don’t know how to thank you enough for your efforts writing articles that give all the breast cancer fighters a real hope. I am so glad to find you.
TW, May 31, 2018
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