Cancer treatment at Insights To Health
At Insights to Health, we have a unique approach to caring for our patients with cancer. While the oncologist focuses on treating the tumor (and possibly lymph nodes), we focus on the rest of your body and spirit, for it is there that we can find and address the real cause and, most importantly, make the best targeted effort to prevent a recurrence.
What we identify as “cancer” is actually the end result of a years-long process within the body. We all have cancer cells; the question is: why do some of us keep them from multiplying while others do not? If you look at the body and cancer as you might a garden, conventional treatment focuses on pulling the weed--the tumor. If we are very fortunate, this approach also removes the roots of the weed and leaves no cancer behind. But, we still need to address the soil, or “terrain,” that allowed the weed to grow and prosper to begin with. In our bodies, it is an imbalanced terrain that allows adverse processes to commence and continue. At Insights to Health, treatment of cancer patients focuses on improving the terrain through balancing the immune and endocrine systems and maximizing the body’s natural ability to heal itself. Our treatments are gentle, effective and personalized: individualized to your current and past health status, not based solely on your type and stage of cancer. An active alternative to the standard “watch and wait” advice after conventional treatment, we address all applicable physiologic systems in order to facilitate the entire body’s return to a natural balance point. Insights to Health physicians then assist patients in maintaining this balance, which provides the best possible long-term protection against the occurrence of future health problems.
Our physicians also provide adjunctive treatments to minimize the side effects of conventional treatment such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. We can help you to heal more effectively from surgery and provide treatments to avoid radiation burns, which sometimes develop into secondary cancers. Chemotherapy targets fast growing cells because cancer cells are among the fastest growing cells of all; when it completes its mission, there are many dead cells that need to be discharged (think about the grey pallor that can develop in patients receiving chemotherapy--this is in part a result of the degraded cellular buildup). Without proper elimination, side effects such as nausea, diarrhea, fatigue, and neuropathy are frequently more common and severe. During such an onslaught, your body deserves every possible advantage, and providing that advantage is part of our mission at Insights to Health.
An important and often overlooked component of cancer treatment, we teach self-care practices that ensure optimal physiological functioning in all of the body’s organ systems. We especially focus on supporting your natural routes of elimination so that cellular debris from conventional treatment is effectively discharged. Because the cells of the gastrointestinal system are especially negatively impacted by chemotherapy, we provide gastrointestinal support in the form of therapeutic nutritional recommendations and supplemental therapies, which allow maximal absorption of the nutrients necessary for healing. This multifaceted approach not only allows your body to thrive as much as possible during a rigorous and demanding conventional treatment process, but also addresses cancer care in an extremely comprehensive way.
Finally, realizing that the cancer journey can at times seem even more emotionally wrenching than it is physically difficult, our physicians provide emotional support through counseling and custom-made natural medicines. Maintaining gratitude and a sense of hope and purpose are crucial to the healing process, especially when facing cancer. At Insights to Health, we provide a comprehensive holistic solution to the many necessary facets of cancer care, with the ultimate goal of optimizing every aspect of our patients’ health and well-being during and beyond their cancer treatment.
