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Read this important book to learn how cancer is an environmental, metabolic disease with many small causes that stack upand what you can do to prevent or even reverse 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 persons terrain (think of it as a topographical map of our body) that are crucial to preventing and managing cancer. Each of the terrain ten elementsincluding epigenetics, the microbiome, the immune system, toxin exposures, and blood sugar balanceis illuminated as it relates to the cancer process, then given a heavily researched and tested, non-toxic and metabolic, focused nutrition prescription.
The ketogenic dietwhich relies on the bodys production of ketones as fuelis 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 canceran 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 cancers 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 Christofferson, author of Tripping over the Truth
Author: Nasha Winters, Jess Higgins Kelley
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Published: 05/24/2017
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.6lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781603586863
Language: English
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