Cancer remains one of the most formidable health challenges of our time. In 2020, nearly 10 million people died from cancer worldwide, with over 19 million new cases diagnosed. As the global population ages, cancer rates are projected to continue rising substantially over the next few decades. Clearly, we need new strategies to stem this devastating disease.
We have pioneered an innovative, multi-pronged approach for preventing and treating cancer. This framework looks beyond chemotherapy, radiation and surgery to explore comprehensive ways of increasing resilience against cancer.
Optimizing Metabolic Health
A core tenet of our work is recognizing the role of metabolic dysfunction in cancer development and progression. We advocate using advanced biomarker testing to precisely assess factors like insulin resistance, inflammation, and mitochondrial health.
Based on these evaluations, your doctor prescribes personalized nutrition and lifestyle plans targeting metabolic pathways that may be contributing to cancer risk. Strategies include ketogenic diets, fasting regimens, exercise, and metabolic therapies like metformin. The aim is to create an inhospitable metabolic environment for cancer cells.
Evaluating Toxic Burdens
Cancer is a complex interplay of genetics, environment, and cellular processes. We emphasize assessing an individual’s cumulative toxic burden from factors like pollutants, smoking, radiation, and infections that can drive mutagenesis.
To measure this burden, we recommend advanced testing like oxidative stress markers, telomere length analysis, and screening for viral exposures like HPV and EBV. The results guide detoxification protocols and other interventions aimed at reducing toxic loads.
Boosting Resiliency Factors
In addition to mitigating potential cancer promoters like metabolic dysfunction and toxic exposures, we explore ways of boosting the body’s inherent cancer-fighting mechanisms through resiliency factors like:
- Immune system optimization (e.g. NK cell testing, gut microbiome analysis)
- Antioxidant capacity (glutathione, SOD levels)
- Cellular repair machinery (DNA repair enzymes)
- Circadian rhythm entrainment
- Managing psychological stressors
Precision Chemotherapeutics
For patients diagnosed with cancer, we advocate using advanced genomic/molecular profiling and proteomics to precisely characterize each tumor and identify targetable drivers. We then guide treatment using lower-dose chemotherapies, metabolic therapies, and emerging approaches like antibody-drug conjugates or cellular immunotherapies.
The aim is maximizing efficacy while reducing toxic side effects from indiscriminate cytotoxic chemotherapy. This approach also incorporates techniques like triple blockade therapy for treatment-resistant cancers.
Through metabolic optimization, toxin reduction, resilience promotion and precision oncology, this pioneering multi-pronged framework for both cancer prevention and treatment. This work represents an important shift towards comprehensively addressing the multifaceted nature of this disease.
While cancer proves incredibly complex, these strategies hold promise for improving outcomes by targeting the multitude of factors that allow cancers to emerge, survive and spread. As our population continues rapidly aging, such holistic, personalized oncology approaches will likely play a key role in turning the tide against one of medicine’s greatest challenges.