Dr. Miranda LaBant, NMD, 9700 N 91st Street Suite A-115, Scottsdale, AZ (2026)

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.

05/08/2026

In my not so humble, humble opinion 😆…

Alcohol has been completely bastardized in the health conversation.

And to be clear, I’m not advocating that everyone go raise a glass.

But it is interesting what we collectively decide is “bad” or worthy of warning labels… while other things get prescribed every single day with barely a second thought.

Hormonal birth control and certain hormone therapies also carry very clear and established carcinogenic risk.

Yet where is the real conversation around risk stratification?

I’m not anti-hormone.
I prescribe hormones when appropriate.

This is anti-cavalier medicine.

Family history matters.
Clotting risk matters.
Estrogen metabolism matters.
Personal cancer history matters.
The terrain matters.

If something meaningfully shifts risk, patients deserve more than a rushed conversation and a prescription pad.

“Common” does not mean benign.

05/06/2026

Comment VIS and I’ll send you the full blog on naturopathic medicine.

It’s Naturopathic Medicine Week, and after being in practice for a decade, it’s still very obvious to me that naturopathic medicine continues to be deeply misunderstood.

People often hear Naturopathic and immediately think “alternative medicine,” supplements, or internet wellness culture, or “that’s a kind of doctor”?

But the philosophy behind licensed naturopathic medicine is much broader, and honestly, much more grounded, than most people realize.

While my current practice bridges the world of integrative oncology, metabolic medicine, and terrain-based care, the foundation of how I treat and how I process as a physician was shaped during my years of training in naturopathic medical school.

The six principles of naturopathic medicine were not taught to us as trends or marketing language. They were presented as a framework for how to think critically about health, disease, prevention, physiology, and patient care.

At its core, naturopathic medicine asks deeper questions.

Why is this happening?
What systems are involved?
What is driving dysfunction?
And how do we support the patient as a whole person while also using the best tools available?

Above you will see the breakdown down of the six foundational principles that continue to shape how many licensed naturopathic physicians practice medicine today.

Whether you’re skeptical, curious, supportive, or somewhere in between, I think understanding the philosophy behind the medicine matters.

Comment VIS and I’ll send you the full blog post.

05/05/2026

Repurposed medications are not supplements.

I keep seeing ivermectin grouped into supplement stacks, listed as a supplement vs a medication on an intake form, or casually saying one of your supplements is Ivermectin. This is where things start to get convoluted and confusing. Especially for evidenced based therapies that are already considered fringe.

Not because anyone is doing anything wrong,
but because the category itself is wrong.

Repurposed or not…these are medications. NOT supplements.

And medications come with nuance,
dosing, timing, interactions, oversight.

That distinction matters so much more than you may think.

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04/25/2026

Sometimes we take food so seriously. This is not that.

However the foods and the level of nutrients in them that we choose can either sustain life, or make it harder to thrive.

If I were stuck on a deserted island, this is what I’m bringing. And I know it’s not your average list.

This list isn’t trendy and it’s not perfect.
But these are foods and fluids I believe are over looked for providing legit nutrients, sustenance, and joy.

Olives, sardines, butter, cacao, lemons… yes, even red wine.

And im sure the blasphemous corn on my list triggered many of you before you even got to the end. The poor crop has been so genetically modified. It’s one of the top sustaining foods of ancestors, and yes it is chock full of nutrients and antioxidants, and can also be made into a life sustaining beverage.

Here’s the thing, not everything has to be extreme to be effective.

Real food.
Prepared well.
Used consistently.

That’s the foundation.

And no… I didn’t include eggs, kale, Goji Berries, or methylene blue and NAD. We’re not building a biohacking lab on an island.

We’re surviving. And maybe actually living and enjoying the void and the isolation.

If you get it, you get it. I’m going to be over here making my olive tapenade in a coconut shell. ☺️

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04/19/2026

Most people think cancer care is about choosing a treatment.

It’s not.

It’s about navigating a process that quickly becomes overwhelming, too many opinions, too many options, and not enough clarity.

This is where most patients get lost.

My role isn’t to replace your oncologist.
It’s to help you make sense of everything around your care, so your decisions are grounded, intentional, and actually aligned with your body.

If you’re looking for true, integrous care…
let’s bring some truth and clarity to this.

Comment CARE if you are looking for true, integrative, and holistic care.

04/17/2026

Comment ‘HELP’ if you’re done guessing and want real data on your exposure.

It started as a conversation about wine with Dr. Nathan Goodyear as we were recording a podcast series on wine, resverstrol and cancer, and turned into a conversation about glyphosate and our environment.

It’s not the wine.
It’s the crap and carcinogens they spray on it.

Glyphosate, comfortably known as Round Up”, and less known as a real life carcinogen, is still being used all over our food supply, yards, and near our homes.

While other countries have banned it… we keep doubling down.

And it’s not just wine.
It’s your grains. Your produce. Your “healthy” foods.

This isn’t one exposure.
It’s constant, cumulative, and completely normalized.

And then we sit back and wonder why chronic disease and cancer rates keep climbing.

04/16/2026

We don’t celebrate the wins enough in cancer care.

The truth is… this process is hard. It’s messy. It doesn’t follow rules, and it doesn’t discriminate.

This young amazing woman, mother, wife, and now thriver, can speak to the kind of ride this really is. The fear, the unknowns, the moments that test everything in you.

And today… she is NED 🙏🏻🙌🏼💫🫶🏼👊🏻

That matters. So much more than I can begin to explain.

Not because it’s the end of the story, but because it’s a moment worth pausing for. A moment in time worth many more years of thriving and Joy.

Kaylyn, I am so BEYOND proud of you. Your strength, your grit, your FIRE… it never wavered, even on the hardest days.

Life has plans for you gorgeous. Don’t ever let go of that fire 🤍

04/13/2026

Not everything that isn’t healing is a protocol problem.

I know this might be an unpopular opinion, but I do believe unresolved trauma can lead to stuck healing.

A lot of the time, it’s what hasn’t been processed. And this isn’t the first time I’m going to talk about this- CELLULAR TRAUMA.

It’s honestly hard to watch sometimes… patients doing all the things, the supplements, the diets, the labs, IVs, saunas, repurposed meds, detoxes. Following this celebrity’s protocol, that influencer’s stack…

And on paper, something should be working.

But their body is still stuck.

In my experience, people are willing to take 50+ pills a day, spend insane amounts of money, and try everything looking for answers…

…but avoid looking at what’s underneath.

And no one really wants to say it, but unresolved trauma, chronic stress, the things we push down and keep moving through… they matter.

This isn’t about blame. And it’s not as simple as “just heal your trauma.”

But your nervous system, your immune system, your hormones, they don’t operate separately from your life experiences.

You can’t out-supplement a system that doesn’t feel safe.

Healing gets a lot more honest when you’re willing to look at the pieces you’ve been avoiding.

Dr. Miranda LaBant, NMD

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