The Metabolic Approach to Cancer: Integrating Deep Nutrition, the Ketogenic Diet, and Nontoxic Bio-Individualized Therapies
Adams Parker
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"Read this important book to learn how cancer is an environmental, metabolic disease with many small causes that stack up―and what you can do to prevent or even reverse it."―Dave Asprey, New York Times bestselling author of The Bulletproof Diet
The Optimal Terrain Ten Protocol to Reboot Cellular Health!
The Metabolic Approach to Cancer offers an innovative, metabolic-focused nutrition protocol that works. Naturopathic, integrative oncologist and cancer survivor Dr. Nasha Winters and nutrition therapist Jess Higgins Kelley have identified the ten key elements of a person’s “terrain” (think of it as a topographical map of our body) that are crucial to preventing and managing cancer. Each of the terrain ten elements―including epigenetics, the microbiome, the immune system, toxin exposures, and blood sugar balance―is illuminated as it relates to the cancer process, then given a heavily researched and tested, non-toxic and metabolic, focused nutrition prescription.
The ketogenic diet―which relies on the body’s production of ketones as fuel―is the centerpiece of The Metabolic Approach to Cancer. Further, Winters and Kelley explain how to harness the anticancer potential of phytonutrients abundant in low-glycemic plant and animal foods to address the 10 hallmarks of cancer―an approach Western medicine does with drug-based therapies.
The optimized, genetically-tuned diet shuns:
- Grains
- Legumes
- Sugar
- Genetically modified foods
- Pesticides
- Synthetic ingredients
The optimized, genetically-tuned diet emphasizes:
- Whole, wild foods
- Local
- Organic
- Ferments
- Heirloom
- Low-glycemic
Other components of their approach include harm-reductive herbal therapies like mistletoe (considered the original immunotherapy and common in European cancer care centers) and cannabinoids (which shrink tumors and increase quality of life, yet are illegal in more than half of the United States). Through addressing the ten root causes of cancer and approaching the disease from a nutrition-focused standpoint, we can slow cancer’s endemic spread and live optimized lives.
"The Metabolic Approach to Cancer is a powerhouse of detailed information on how to prevent, manage, and treat cancer. . . . It is written in an intimate conversation style that comes from decades of deep personal experience, research, and genuine passion."―Travis Christofferson, author of Tripping over the Truth
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A game changer on a healing journey! (On any journey). I’ve been on a healing journey with breast cancer for awhile now. I am one of many YOUNG women in a trend of cancer.I have assembled my team using an integrative approach and tools from both conventional and alternative therapies. I have found the most hope, support and LIFE, within my naturopathic, functional and integrative doctor offices – which has made all the difference. Our bodies are ONE being – they are not compartmentalized. Cancer is a process and apart of a larger terrain. Cancer didn’t just happen and it isn’t going to heal fully without looking at the whole terrain that created the process that allowed it to grow in the first place.I found this book and Dr Winters and Jessica’s work a year and half into my journey. I have searched wildly for a root cause for my body’s terrain issues because I knew I had to heal the root and reverse the cancering process to remain well.This book and this work have been pivotal in my healing journey. It has changed the trajectory and completely solidified the intuitive knowing that I have always had – that the body has to heal as a whole. I knew I needed to do more than just kill cancer. If cancer is a “process” – then we have some power in that space to reverse the “process”. In that one statement – rests a mountain of hope and possibilities.I completed the terrain 10 questions and identified my weaknesses and started the process. I overhauled some thinking in regard to the ketogenic diet. The way keto is used therapeutically with this approach is SO VERY different from the mainstream keto diets. This is important to understand. The way food and diet is approached in this book – is clean, nutrient dense, and therapeutic. So put down your preconceived notions about what you “thought” you knew and read on and learn.If you or someone has cancer – please read this book. If you are a human breathing – please read this book. We could turn the tsunami of the cancer trends around if people would look at their terrain BEFORE their body is in the full cancering process. We all have cancer in our bodies – but what we do and how we live will influence if we are cancering or NOT cancering within our terrain. Let that sink in a bit.This book is easy to read and implement. It is not just well researched, but LIVED by Dr Winters who has been in the healing trenches herself for over 25 years after receiving a stage 4 diagnoses at 19. She hasn’t just been a clinician, she has been walking her own healing and stopping her own cancering process. There is such power and hope there.Both authors bring a wealth of rich knowledge from clinical application and real life experience. This book is a game changer. A HEALING PATH changer. It puts pieces together so you can address the underlying terrain and begin repairing what needs to be repaired. It opens up a dialogue between you and your body and allows you to advocate for yourself on one of the hardest journeys many of us will walk. The book is dripping with hope and that – in and of itself – is a vital therapy!This approach has shifted my healing approach and strategy and given me tools that had been missing.On every healing journey there are defining moments – the kind that draw a line in the sand and change everything into a “before and after”. This book and this work and approach – has been one of those moments for me.Buy several copies and read and implement for yourself and family first. Then pass them out to anyone you care about. And to those in the healing trenches with cancer. We have to shift the cancer tends! And it starts with taking care of our terrain!! Cancer doesn’t just happen, it’s a process and we CAN intervene in the process! I am living proof of that!Fingers crossed this will come out in a audible version soon 🙂
One of the BEST reads if you have health issues or get cancer. This is one of the BEST books you can get if you get cancer and you are not adverse to reading all you can to survive! Take CONTROL of you own health and do it NOW!This book is fairly technical in parts, but is based on evidence and research (and it is noted where it is not funded by big pharma, which has a financial incentive to only do certain things in the cancer area!)There is much here that goes beyond cancer and for general health and other things to help people be aware of what is known about the impact of things on your health and healing. But you will need to spend some time absorbing it all.In my library it is one of the top 5 books that have helped me (yes, the doctors told me I would die in 2017 and I did chemo, radiation and surgery, but refused to do any more! Doctors do not like it when you try to take control of your own health!). It is 2023….I am not NED, but I am still alive and thankful that I do not always listen to doctors (I try to listen to those who are interested in my input….most are not!). Its YOUR body, YOUR decision!The author of this book places the emphasis on helping you learn about nuitrition and what impact some items have on your health. It is facinating some of the things you will learn about that may provide health benefits. Inflammation, sugar, stress, hormones and other things that all need to be examined and considered when fighting things such as cancer and trying to be healthy.Consider this: 1 in 2 people will get cancer in the US. In some countries more and some less. Much depends on their approach to medicine, nuitrition and general health. Expecially if they want to survive.Consider this:Doctors do not get any course work in nuitrition in medical schoolDoctors have a financial incentive to only do one of three things for you: surgery, chemo/trials, radiation.If you get well, there is no more money in it for the doctors.Winters (the author) has given us more tools to help in our fight for life and I am deeply thankful to her work in this area. Its worth the money if you get cancer!I highly recommend!
I don’t have cancer but I have another health issue and am planning on attending naturopath school , so I’m always interested in reading more about natural medicine.I’ve read over a hundred books on health and natural medicine and this one stands out, first of all because it’s so comprehensive and well researched. Most natural health books just go into the usual stuff (nutrition, sleep, stress, etc) but after having read tons of them I can see they’re mostly carbon copies of one another. This one is incredibly detailed and gave me ideas for improving health naturally that I hadn’t come across elsewhere. To give one example, I didn’t know that modern clothes may be causing skin cancer because of all the chemicals in them.The only thing that I felt was missing is the idea that different cancers respond to different diets. This is a theory developed by Dr Francis Pottenger and Dr Ernst Gellhorn and further developed in the 1960s by Dr William Kelly and later used by Dr Nicolas Gonzalez, to great effect. Those with soft issue/immune cancers do better on an animal protein heavy diet, which suppresses the immune system. Like autoimmune patients, those cancer patients developed cancer because their immune systems are too active. If you have an immune cancer, you don’t want to be revving up your immune system. But those with solid tumours do better on a vegetarian diet with a bit of meat/fish and need to rev up their immune systems. Dr Nicolas Gonzalez had many patients with advanced immune cancers who have lived for many years (often decades) on that diet. I know his system works because I have an autoimmune disease that has dramatically improved on a meat-heavy diet, specifically designed to suppress the immune system.
This has become my go-to cancer reference. Whenever I read something else somewhere else, I checked the index in the back of this book to see what this author has to say on the topic. For anyone looking beyond the standard Western medical approach to cancer treatment, this book is an excellent read and I recommended it.
Wonderful Work from Dr. Nasha Winters and Jess Kelley. Thank you so much, Dr. Nasha and Jess, for your wonderfully articulate work here, complete with helpful tables and inspiring recipes.Have purchased this for our family member in need. Then, purchased another copy. And sense very much we’ll be purchasing more.Time to share the good news. Time for enlightenment to strike. Time to share a cup of green tea. Time for a total cellular reset.Deep nutrition + Ketogenic diet + Bio-individualized therapies = More than “terrain theory” on display, rather, Terrain REALITY.Thank you so much.