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Integrative Cancer Care & Naturopathic Wellness Consultations

10/29/2026

How to protect yourself against radiation exposure?

10/23/2026

Mistletoe for cancer

10/22/2026

Is HRT safe after a cancer diagnosis?

10/22/2026

Alcohol and birth control are both Class 1 carcinogens… not too different from glyphosate.

10/21/2026

“Nothing caused your cancer, you’re just unlucky.”

10/20/2026

I have cancer, can I have a glass of w**e?

**e

09/18/2026

There’s an important piece of context missing from the first slide.

These weren’t simply foods mentioned in passing.

These were recommendations given to one of my young breast cancer patients to help protect her bone health while taking hormone blocking therapy.

Aromatase inhibitors such as letrozole and anastrazole profoundly reduce estrogen. Accelerated bone loss and increased fracture risk are well recognized consequences of treatment.

When my patient asked her medical oncologist what she could do to support her bones, she was specifically encouraged to eat Oreo McFlurrys and was given a “bioavailable calcium” handout that also included foods like 60 Goldfish crackers, calcium fortified orange juice, processed bread, and other highly processed calcium fortified foods.

And here’s where I think we need to have a much bigger conversation.

A food containing calcium does not automatically make it a food I would recommend for bone health, especially for a patient undergoing breast cancer treatment.

Bone health is not a single nutrient equation.

We should be talking about bone density and fracture risk assessment, adequate protein, mineral rich whole foods, vitamin D status, resistance and weight bearing exercise, metabolic health, and when clinically indicated, bone modifying therapies such as bisphosphonates.

We can do better than simply asking, “How many milligrams of calcium does this contain?”

We need to ask:

What is the quality of the food delivering it? What else is coming with it? And does this recommendation make sense in the context of the whole patient?

This is one of the reasons I practice integrative oncology. Supporting someone through cancer treatment means looking beyond the medication and beyond a single nutrient to understand the terrain we’re asking that patient to heal in.

99% of people may look at this list and see “calcium rich foods” and see nothing wrong with it.

If you’re part of the 1% who sees the bigger problem, comment below and tell me what you noticed first.

08/05/2026

Some days I feel like I practice medicine in an alternate universe.

One world says:
"We removed the tumor."
"We'll watch."
"If it comes back, we'll treat it."

The other world asks:
What if we monitored for microscopic disease?
What if we measured circulating tumor DNA?
What if we looked at circulating tumor cells, immune function, metabolic health, inflammation, and the biologic terrain that allowed cancer to grow in the first place?
What if we intervened before a recurrence became visible on a scan?

I recently cared for a patient who was confidently told after surgery, "I got it all."

Weeks later, imaging suggested otherwise.

When I asked about closer surveillance using emerging technologies, I was told there was "zero evidence" and that we would simply wait until the cancer returned.

Then it did.

And suddenly the conversation became:
"You probably have about a year."

This is exactly what breaks my heart.

Not because every recurrence is preventable…. It absolutely can be…

But because waiting for cancer to declare itself is still considered acceptable in far too many situations, despite the incredible advances happening around us.

We are living in an era of AI, precision genomics, liquid biopsies, immunotherapy, metabolic science, hyperthermia, peptide therapies, immune modulation, and personalized medicine.

Yet too many patients are still being managed with a strategy that amounts to:

Wait until it gets worse.

Patients deserve more than reactive medicine.

They deserve physicians willing to ask harder questions, embrace evolving science, monitor intelligently, and fight for every possible opportunity, not just after a recurrence, but before it becomes one.

That isn't false hope.

That's what progress looks like.

05/26/2026

We don’t typically think of surgery as immunosuppressive…but it absolutely is.

Surgery is a major physiologic stressor. It increases inflammatory signaling, stress hormones, temporarily suppresses aspects of immune function, and slows digestion/recovery.

Then we often automatically add narcotics, which can worsen constipation, nausea, sluggish gut motility, brain fog, and may further impair immune function.

Post-operative pain control does NOT have to be opioid-heavy.

Many surgeons now use multimodal, opioid-sparing protocols with medications like acetaminophen, celecoxib, gabapentin, regional nerve blocks, and targeted anesthesia strategies to provide excellent pain control while minimizing some of the downstream effects.

This isn’t about saying opioids are never appropriate, they absolutely have a role.

It’s about informed consent.

Know your options. Ask better questions. Advocate for your recovery.

05/18/2026

When facing a cancer diagnosis, many people are told the options are limited to chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery.

Thankfully that reality is far beyond false.

There has been and continues to be a growing body of research exploring integrative, metabolic, and supportive therapies that may offer additional options in certain contexts.

These approaches are often dismissed simply because they fall outside the standard model, not because they don’t exist.

Patients deserve informed conversations, access to data, and the opportunity to explore all evidence-based options available to them.

The goal is a world where in medicine we have truly informed choice.

There is more than one route…and we have plenty of data to prove it.

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