Nasha Winters - The Metabolic Approach to Cancer

PRAISE FOR THE METABOLIC APPROACH FOR CANCER

The Metabolic Approach to Cancer explains why medicine has failed to find a single cure for cancer. 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. Taking control of your environment and your food gives you control over cancer! Youll never look at sugar the same way again.

DAVE ASPREY, New York Times bestselling author of The Bulletproof Diet ; creator, Bulletproof Coffee

The Metabolic Approach to Cancer is a powerhouse of detailed information on how to prevent, manage, and treat cancer. How refreshing to see such a compilation of insight, structure, and sweeping scope, one that centers on the health of the entire individual, not just killing cancer cells alone. It is written in an intimate conversation style that comes from decades of deep personal experience, research, and genuine passion. Its time to welcome a new gem to the universe of books on cancer.

TRAVIS CHRISTOFFERSON , author of Tripping over the Truth

Dr. Nasha Winters and Jess Higgins Kelley have written an important book, The Metabolic Approach to Cancer , that can help cancer patients better manage their disease. Most cancers, regardless of cell or tissue origin, are now recognized as a single metabolic disease that feeds on fermentable fuels like the sugar glucose and the amino acid glutamine. Winters and Kelley provide cancer patients with logical, nontoxic, therapeutic strategies for starving cancer cells of their prime fuels while enhancing overall patient health. This book will be a valuable resource for all cancer patients and their oncologists.

THOMAS N. SEYFRIED , PhD, author of Cancer as a Metabolic Disease

The Metabolic Approach to Cancer is the book I have been yearning for since my cancer diagnosis in 1989. I have been managing my cancer with nutrition and lifestyle, but my research has led to confusing and sometimes contradictory information. This book has everything I need to know in one place. I feel empowered with knowledge about what I can do and why it will make a difference. I want everyone touched by cancer to read this book.

JAN ADRIAN , MSW, founder and director, Healing Journeys

In The Metabolic Approach to Cancer , Dr. Nasha Winters and Jess Higgins Kelley take the adage knowledge is power to a new level. The book is packed with science-backed, practical, and highly relevant information that could easily overwhelm the reader. But rest assured, in a very caring way the two authors make sure you learn how to set priorities, address the main areas of concern first, and make step-by-step improvements to your well-being. This book has the power to truly transform your health!

PATRICIA DALY , author of The Ketogenic Kitchen

The Metabolic Approach to Cancer is a terrific resource for anyone interested in treating cancer with natural therapies. This book is delightful and full of valuable information.

ANN FONFA , president, Annie Appleseed Project

In The Metabolic Approach to Cancer , Dr. Nasha Winters and nutritionist Jess Higgins Kelley expose the inadequacies inherent in the entrenched model of conventional cancer care. Looking beyond the manifestations of a body out of balance, they open the readers eyes to the underlying epigenetic changes that contribute to the development and progression of this devastating disease. Also included here is a set of toolsincluding nutrition, lifestyle, and metabolic therapiesthat address the root cause of the problem. This integrated approach offers an opportunity to bring body and mind back into balance.

MIRIAM KALAMIAN , author of Keto for Cancer

DISCLAIMER: The information we present in this book is provided as an information resource only and is not to be used or relied on for any diagnostic or treatment purposes. Please consult your health care team before implementing any strategies we outline herein.

Copyright 2017 by Nasha Winters and Jess Higgins Kelley.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Winters, Nasha, 1971 author. | Kelley, Jess Higgins, 1978 author.

Title: The metabolic approach to cancer : integrating deep nutrition, the ketogenic diet, and nontoxic bio-individualized therapies / Dr. Nasha Winters, ND, LAc, FABNO, Jess Higgins Kelley, MNT.

Description: White River Junction, Vermont : Chelsea Green Publishing, [2017]

Identifiers: LCCN 2017001559| ISBN 9781603586863 (hardback) | ISBN 9781603586870 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: CancerDiet therapy. | Integrative medicine. | BISAC: HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Cancer. | HEALTH & FITNESS / Nutrition.

Classification: LCC RC271.D52 W56 2017 | DDC 616.99/40654dc23

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Contents

Foreword

You only have to talk to Dr. Nasha Winters for about five minutes to realize that shes a walking encyclopedia for integrative medicine. When I first met her, I was mostly interested in studying her own radical remission, which is when someone heals from cancer against all odds. Five minutes later, I realized she was a tour-de-force naturopath with twenty-five years of clinical experience in integrative oncology and with dozens of former patients who had experienced their own radical remissions under her guidance. I knew we would have much to talk about.

To begin with, Dr. Nasha emphasized something that my radical remission research subjects had been saying for over a decadeIts all about the underlying conditions. In The Metabolic Approach to Cancer , this is referred to as the terrain, a beautiful metaphor to think about your body as a garden.

If the plants in a garden arent thriving, a novice gardener might simply spray weed killer and hope for the best. However, a master ecological gardener will take much more into consideration: Does the soil have the proper minerals in it? Does the soil have toxins seeping into it that are harming the plants? Are the plants receiving adequate sunshine? Clean and plentiful water? Are the seeds healthy? Are environmental forces, such as high winds, causing undue stress to the plants? This is the level of in-depth analysis that this book offers for the body-mind-spirit systemand with impressive results.