They are content to take short-term steps, like medication, to improve annoying symptoms but without dealing with the unhealthy routines and lifestyle choices that may have created the illness in the first place. After years of seeing this happen with patients, AND with myself, I offer a functional medicine practice that not only helps you improve your overall wellness, but also gives you the tool
s and coaching to successfully continue your lifelong health journey. I lost my beautiful 30-year-old daughter, Hannah, to a rare Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma in 2020. In her memory, and for others' lives I can touch to implement change, I will offer functional tools to support their efforts to restore health, optimize cancer treatment and prevent recurrence. The "Hyperion" tree logo was taken from a "tree of life" painting I created for my daughter while she underwent cancer treatment at Yale. I left my position at the Cleveland Clinic to offer healing through a "Functional Oncology" program. Roughly 5-10% of cancer is caused by damaged DNA. Looking from a functional medicine perspective, the remaining 90-95% of cancer cases are caused by unhealthy lifestyles, poor diet, that in turn damage mitochondrial function. *
Cancer is a metabolic disorder occurring in response to unhealthy lifestyles. In addition to your oncologist's and oncology team's plan for treatment, using the Functional Medicine model, I will give you more tools to use to optimize healing. Who should be a part of the program? Patients who are at high risk for cancer development or recurrence, who are currently in treatment, and those in a post-treatment phase/remission. Details will be shared during the initial Inspiration Encounter. We need to work together to change the mindset that cancer is a death sentence. Thoughts are energy, and my intention is to change those thought patterns ingrained in us.
*Anand P, Kunnumakkara AB, Sundaram C, Harikumar KB, Tharakan ST, Lai OS, Sung B, Aggarwal BB. Cancer is a preventable disease that requires major lifestyle changes. Pharm Res. 2008 Sep;25(9):2097-116. doi: 10.1007/s11095-008-9661-9. Epub 2008 Jul 15. Erratum in: Pharm Res. 2008 Sep;25(9):2200. Kunnumakara, Ajaikumar B [corrected to Kunnumakkara, Ajaikumar B]. PMID: 18626751; PMCID: PMC251556
