The 7 Lifestyle Practices can make you healthier in many ways
- They build your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual resilience in the face of cancer’s challenges and the rigors of conventionalthe cancer care offered by conventionally trained physicians and most hospitals; examples are chemotherapy, surgery, and radiotherapy treatments.
- They reduce symptoms and side effects that are common during cancer and its treatment.
- They improve your body terrainthe internal conditions of your body, including nutritional status, fitness, blood sugar balance, hormone balance, inflammation and more, making your whole body less hospitable to cancer and to other diseases.
- They may improve quality of life, extend your life, and reduce your risk of recurrence.
- Most of these practices are supported by substantial evidence, which we detail on each of the practice pages.
Go for it. Go for healing.
The 7 Lifestyle Practices were previously called the 7 Healing Practices.
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Every cancer journey is unique. Yours is no exception. We believe that only you can know what is best for you. CancerChoices is here, as a balanced expert resource, to help you connect with integrative cancer care information and options that align with your journey and what matters most to you.
Michael Lerner, Co-founder of CancerChoices and author of Choices in Healing
Recommendations from professionals
These cancer groups and organizations recommend several of the 7 Lifestyle Practices as part of your lifestyle approach to cancer.
