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.

https://www.amazon.com/Metabolic-Approach-Cancer-Integrating-Bio-Individualized/dp/1603586865

Book is on archive.org https://archive.org/details/metabolicapproac0000wint

also on annas archive

  • jetOPMAEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    i looked over this book; I do like the information and found it very comprehensive.

    I don’t like how they only mentioned carnivore as paleo and only as a short term intervention as a elimation diet.

    They consider fiber a net positive, not sure there is science to back that up

    Their discussion of seed oils is great - however its in “inflammatory oil” langauge, not really talking about seed oils exactly - but I think it should be been referenced earlier when recommending diets at the start of the book

    Overall, great book, but I think it could benefit with a secion on carnivore, and less focus on plant based food recommendations (anti-oxident herbs and whatnot), or at least it should contextualize them against the net inflamation from plants themselves. They do mention lectins, but don’t go so deep on the mechanisms

    One BIG BIG BIG miss is they don’t talk about GKI or the research on GKI in treating cancer at all.