Episode Highlights with Dr. Nasha Winters

Dr. Nasha Winters:

• Book: A Metabolic Approach to Cancer

  • Retreats would show cancer in a very different light​

    • Co-author Jess Kelley (also author of ​Bioregulatory Medicine: An Innovative Holistic Approach to Self-Healing)

    • Labs checked before and after​

      • Information put in a book to consolidate information​

        • Became a resource for both patients and conventional medicine​

        • Looking at the terrain changes the paradigm ​

• Retreat: Changes outlook and behavior​:

  • Focus not on cancer: ​

    • Participants asked to name 3 things interesting to them​ aside from the cancer diagnosis

    • All food cooked on site (Steve), carbs slowly reduced to metabolic state

    • Sister-in-law (Brene Brown trained therapist) to overcome obstacles

    • Jess Kelley - nutritionist to teach the food component 

    • Taught about terrain and metrics to assess

      • How stress and diet effects the terrain​

      • Helps patients shift away from protocols and patients are pushing their doctors to change

      • Transparency is helping allopathic doctors to change and explore their beliefs

• Training Physicians: ​The need to expand teaching to a larger group​

  • Started small and organically​

    • January 2020 trained 12 physicians with one conventional oncologist​

    • Next cohort 26 physicians with 5 oncologists

    • Waiting list for February 2021 with 58 on waiting list

• Ketogenic Diet: Does not capture the entire picture

  • Metabolic Flexibility: we are dual hybrids meant to burn both glucose and fat

    • 70% of cancers are related to sugar intake

      • Our bodies have lost the ability to self-regulate between sugar and fat burning

        • Half the population will have diabetes in there lifetime

        • by 2030 there will be a doubling of cancer worldwide

        • In 1850 5 lbs. of sugar per person, it is now between 140 -175 lbs. per person. 

          • this weakens our mitochondria ​(in charge of our energy production and apoptosis...also fountain of youth.)

          • most illnesses are mitochondrial and metabolic in nature

    • Ketogenic diets can be achieved with:​​ 

      • Fasting, low carb, carnivore, a vegan diet, etc. ​

      • All diets need to have this in common:

        • Low carb​

        • Leafy green vegetables

        • Healthy fats

        • Proteins as a condiment

      • The more metabolically flexible, the wider rang of options available​

      • The 10 hallmarks of cancer are addressed through a ketogenic diet no matter the approach to achieve it

      • Puts pressure on the system to be responsive to all types of treatment

      • Elevated glucose projects worse outcomes on all illness

        • Fasting for 13 hours from a day (MD Anderson) projects ​a 70% decrease in recurrence in breast cancer

        • Stop eating when sun is down

          • Less than 12% of American's are metabolically flexible​

• Nasha's journey began with her own diagnosis

  • The work of others: Warburg, Bechamp, Deepak Chopra, etc. allowed the possibility of another paradigm and the why of how she got there​

  • Added concepts over time led to the book and the 10 drivers that cause "dis-ease"

    • It is multifactorial 

    • Imperative to change the terrain

      • There is an industry that has kept us from having these discussions​

• Mistletoe: Druidic mythic history, ​

  • Hippocrates: disorders of the spleen​

  • Steiner: observes us with what is in us, what is outside of us (used mistletoe)

  • Other countries using this well beyond the US, 2500 countries around the world

  • Mistletoe grows symbiotically with the tree. If cut out of the tree, the tree will die

  • Better outcomes without side-effects

• Project: Believe Big​

  • Previous institutions...lack of true integrative care​

  • To be build in Arizona

    • 25,000 square feet, 300 acres, now in capital campaign, phase zero - training of the physicians to determine best course of treatment, non-profit, creating data-base to collect studies. Will train, treat and hold events. ​​

    • Focus on the training of physicians while making it affordable for all people

    • We have the worst longevity of all countries

• We have the ability to co-create a better future​

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