Your body terrain is the internal conditions of your body—nutritional status, fitness, blood sugar balance, hormone balance, inflammation, and more. The condition of your terrain can make a big difference in cancer outcomes. Improving your terrain, similar to improving soil in a garden, can lead to much better results.

Learn about what your body terrain is and how it’s related to cancer, cancer treatments, survival, cancer risk, and symptoms and side effects common with cancer.

Optimizing Your Body Terrain ›

Handbooks on terrain factors

Levels of some nutrients also impact your response to cancer or cancer treatments, other body terrain factors, and/or your experience of side effects or symptoms common with cancer.

Blood levels of vitamin C are linked to survival, inflammation, diabetes/prediabetes, body weight, bone health, blood pressure, depression, and risk of cancer. Read about the connections in Vitamin C: Oral Use ›

Blood levels of vitamin D are linked to survival, inflammation, diabetes, body weight, and lower risk of cancer. Optimal levels are also linked to fewer or less severe side effects common during cancer treatment. See Vitamin D ›