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Katie Wallwork

Katie Wallwork

Director & Co-Founder of The Stand (talent/literary agency), commercial & literary agent and certified health coach who shares her breast cancer journey on UK wellness podcasts.

Sep 29, 2026

19:36
such as?
19:37
So I can obviously say this with the benefit of hindsight, but a massive one would have been I was insulin resistant.
19:44
And again, like no one would have said to me like you're overweight, but I was overweight.
19:49
Really? Yeah.
19:51
So I'm now literally nearly 15 kilograms lighter now.
19:55
than I was pre-diagnosis and I'm tall so I carry it well but you know I had a lot of visceral fat I was insulin resistant I was on like an insulin roller coaster with my diet like waking up in the morning matcha and honey first thing to start the day um probably eat at intervals throughout the day blood sugars being spiked all day long getting the slumps in the afternoon um all the physical body composition signs of being insulin resistant You know, women carry more weight around their hips and their thighs.
20:28
That is an indicator of being insulin resistant.

15 MINS LATER

35:22
And I think that's really amazing, but also really brave because... it's scary to say no to treatment when that's what they're recommending
NatalieHOST
5:52
Okay.
5:52
Um, so yeah, so then I was diagnosed.
5:54
I was grade Three stage two, and that had, that lump had come up.
6:00
I'd had a scan, like a thermography scan six months before, and it hadn't been there.
6:04
Wow.
6:04
So yeah, it'd grown to 3.8 centimeters- Amazing, quick.
6:07
[gasps] ...

9 MINS LATER

NatalieHOST
15:35
Head to jshealthvitamins.com, and we've popped the link in the show notes below.

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