Cancer
A Holistic Approach to Preventing & Post Cancer Treatment Care
Conventional medicine rarely looks at why cancer develops. While it may be successful in treating cancer, there is potential for recurrence as the factors that contributed to cancer are not being addressed.
Functional medicine can support conventional cancer treatment because it’s root cause medicine. It gets to the heart of why cancer may have occurred and what can be done to reduce recurrence risk.
Diet and lifestyle can play a key role in cancer prevention and cancer care, along with post-cancer health.
Cancer Prevention
Whether you want to avoid cancer risk or you’ve previously recovered from cancer and are looking to reduce a recurrence risk, the functional medicine approach can improve your health to support your goals.
Cancer doesn’t develop by accident - it’s the result of underlying root causes. Two people can have the same type of cancer but their reasons for developing it can be very different.
Why? Because there’s no single cause of cancer. Factors that can impact the growth and progression of cancer cells include genetics, nutrition, and many more. Each individual differs and personalized treatment can be very supportive.
The functional medicine approach to cancer prevention includes improving detoxification systems, reducing high levels of inflammation, healing the gut, and limiting exposure to toxins. And, your personal prevention plan can be highly unique to you based on your genetics, lifestyle, and other risk factors.
Many people who develop cancer have no family history of the disease, which highlights the importance of optimizing your health to reduce your risk factor.
Optimizing your health can reduce many of the risk factors for cancer, even if genetic predispositions also exist. The genes themselves do not necessarily lead to cancer. It’s possible to influence them through a holistic approach.
Research has shown that women with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations can lower their risk of developing breast cancer through nutrition and lifestyle interventions. Functional medicine practices work on these research based principles.
Nutrition During Cancer treatment
We can work with primary care physicians and doctors to support conventional cancer treatment.
The functional medicine model treats patients as individuals and recognizes that a one-size-fits-all approach to cancer care doesn’t necessarily provide the best chance of recovery. We use natural solutions that can promote recovery and help to improve post-cancer health and vitality.
Personalized nutrition, lifestyle, and herbs can also help to manage the side effects of conventional cancer treatment.
Post-Cancer Support
After recovering from cancer, it’s common to experience physical and emotional changes. The functional medicine approach to post-cancer care uses food as medicine, personalized supplements, and herbs to manage symptoms and optimize your health.
We can work with primary care physicians and doctors to support conventional post-cancer treatment and provide a holistic treatment plan that helps you to restore health and vitality after recovering from cancer.
