The Top Integrative Oncologists Use These 3 Therapies

30 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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In this concise presentation, the speaker outlines the three foundational pillars of integrative oncology: food, muscle, and brain. The food pillar covers what and how much one eats, food quality, and macronutrient balance. The muscle pillar emphasizes that skeletal muscle acts as medicine, with active use enhancing immune function and improving survival outcomes for cancer patients. The brain pillar addresses the bidirectional mind‑body connection, focusing on the information the brain receives (positive vs. negative inputs) and the self‑talk that shapes mental state. The speaker asserts that these three pillars form the core of any integrative oncology regimen, and that additional therapies become more effective when built upon them.

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There are 3 things to discuss and they fall into 3 big categories: food, muscle, and brain. To go very quickly, food is what you eat, how much of it you eat, how clean the food is, and also your macros. Muscle is literally muscle is medicine. The more we use our skeletal muscle, that's what holds us up and keeps us moving around in the world, the better our immune system function is. That can be critically important and is shown to be important in survival studies with cancer patients. Brain is a 2-way street. One is, what do I let into my brain? Is it negative? Is it positive? Is it helping me be empowered or not? The other is, what do I tell myself? My mind-body connection. Again, is it negative? Is it all dark or is it positive? So food, muscle, and brain are the 3 pillars of any integrative oncology treatment, and then all the other things that we do can go on top of it, then they'll work better.