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Body Terrain Handbooks

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.

Optimizing Your Body Terrain

Your body terrain is your inner environment. You can improve your body terrain to make it less welcoming and supportive of cancer and improve your outcomes.

Body Weight

Having a healthy body weight is linked to lower risk of many types of cancer, fewer or less severe symptoms and treatment side effects, and in some cases better survival after diagnosis.

High Blood Sugar and Insulin Resistance

Chronically high levels of blood sugar and insulin can create conditions favorable to cancer growth and spread. Learn how to manage blood sugar.

Vitamin D

Vitamin D levels in blood that are either too low or too high are linked to worse outcomes in cancer.

Your Microbiome

Our bodies have developed a symbiotic relationship with organisms living in and on our bodies. Research links your microbiome—and changes in it—to several types of cancer and how well you respond to some conventional cancer treatments

We’re developing handbooks on these further body terrain factors linked to cancer:

Bleeding and coagulation imbalance
Hormone imbalance
Immune function

Inflammation
Oxidation

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Managing Symptoms & Side Effects

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