Cancer: what next?

with Dr. Nasha Winters

Receiving a cancer diagnosis can feel like a personal crisis and a medical emergency. Treatment is necessary, but a knee-jerk reaction can lead to poor outcomes. Today, Dr. Nasha Winters offers some concrete suggestions for what first steps to take when dealing with cancer. Nasha is a licensed naturopathic doctor and the co-author of “The Metabolic Approach to Cancer.” She describes in detail how to weigh the options when it comes to conventional, alternative, and integrative therapies, how to build a supportive team, & how to cultivate a healthy “terrain” in the middle of it all.

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Highlights from the conversation include:

The truth about cancer and sugar
How high sugar means a non-functioning immune system, inflammation, elevated estrogen (that leads to growth) and elevated cortisol (stress hormone)
The three s’s relationship to cancer: sex (hormones), sugar, and stress
70% of all patients diagnosed with cancer will have a recurrence
Most of the mistakes in treatment come from an immediate reaction to diagnosis
Better to stop and breathe before proceeding (unless it’s an emergency, of course)
Where you should go for a second opinion
The importance of testing & basic “terrain” testing (including testing LDH and C-reactive protein)
How “elegant” biopsies can help you determine what kind of cancer you’re dealing with, and enable you to make better choices for how to combat it
Why you shouldn’t immediately go to radiation if you have elevated insulin
Why regular and periodic testing is critical, as the cancer cells adapt to treatment
The importance of a team supporting and surrounding the person with cancer
How conventional treatment does not prove to prolong lifespan
The importance of the following team members: a therapeutic nutritionist, someone to assess the value/efficacy of treatment choices, someone to deal with mind/body-spirit
The factors at play that allow a negative person to live a long life w/o developing cancer or disease
How little time the average American spends outside and how it affects our health
The problem with being screen junkies (screens show the same implications in the brain as sugar and cocaine: high dopamine, low serotonin, and problems with melatonin)
How cancer is the ultimate disconnect