Walking barefoot in nature may seem like a hippie trend, but a growing body of scientific research has revealed a multitude of health benefits associated with this practice. Known as “earthing,” walking barefoot on natural surfaces like soil, grass, or sand can increase antioxidants, reduce inflammation, improve sleep, and provide various other advantages.

There are some powerful, and extensively researched integrative treatments and approaches that offer important benefits against cancer and metastasis. These select compounds and therapies form the foundation of a successful program for many types of cancer treatment and prevention.

The Cancer Center for Healing is thrilled to present this latest thought-provoking episode of Cancer Conversation as Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D. and Isaac Eliaz, M.D. delve into the depths of integrative health, cancer treatment and provide you with valuable insights to optimize your well-being.

Threats to the lungs surround us like a sweeping fog bank. Smoke from wildfires, industrial pollution, and other dangerous exposures continue to increase in today’s world.

Autoimmunity is when your body has an inappropriate immune reaction toward itself or certain organs and tissues within the body – basically, the immune system attacks the body rather than protecting it. This triggers a cascade of inflammation and causes a host of often debilitating symptoms.

Many people accept cognitive loss as a normal part of aging. But the truth is, “senior moments” – regardless of your age – are signs that your brain and body need additional support. With these researched strategies, you can optimize your brain, and overall health, while you continue to make memories that last a lifetime.

Modified Citrus Pectin (MCP) interferes with the inflammatory process by binding to galectin-3’s carbohydrate recognition domain – preventing galectin-3 from otherwise binding to ligands, interacting with cells, or forming lattice structures.

This chapter – “A Gift From Nature: Modified Citrus Pectin” – is from Dr. Isaac Eliaz' new book “The Survival Paradox.”

Renowned integrative practitioner Dr. Isaac Eliaz announces breakthrough clinical research on an advanced new preparation of Modified Citrus Pectin (MCP) in the treatment of patients with advanced solid tumors.

We all experience sleep problems from time to time, and some of us have it worse than others. There are many things you can do to improve your sleep including lifestyle and diet. Dr. Eliaz shares some remedies you may not have heard of.

Major risk factors for Alzheimer’s include genetics, heart health, a sedentary lifestyle, smoking, depression, diabetes and obesity. Eating a whole food, unprocessed diet also appears to reduce dementia risk. Supplements, exercise, meditation, and social activity can also help.

Dietary modifications can help maintain the right pH within the body’s various systems, so the foods you eat have to include the ones that support organs that work so hard to maintain pH values within their optimal ranges.

Cancer in all its different permutations presents a moving target, changing over time, unique from patient to patient and changing in each person as the disease evolves. It’s a complex picture, but not one without possibility of success in prevention, or of improving treatment outcomes when we participate in the process.

One of the most important structures that safeguard DNA consists of what are called telomeres. There are a wide variety of herbs and nutrients that have been linked to healthy telomeres.

Dr. Isaac Eliaz has been practicing integrative medicine with a focus on cancer and chronic illness for 25 years. Today, Dr. Eliaz is the medical director of Amitabha Medical Clinic and Healing Center in Sebastopol, CA, where integrative health practitioners work with patients to treat cancer and other chronic illness. Designing individualized, synergistic healing protocols that draw from multiple medical systems including Western allopathic, Traditional Chinese, and a wide range of holistic therapies, allows for the treatment of the whole person: body, mind, emotions, and spirit, rather than just addressing the symptoms of the disease. Nutrition plays an important role in his therapies.

Groundbreaking research demonstrates the ability of a specific form of Modified Citrus Pectin (MCP) to greatly enhance immune function. Outcomes demonstrate that MCP possesses numerous anti-cancer mechanisms of action that work to fight cancer from multiple angles.

Spring and Fall seasons provide the best opportunities for deeply detoxifying and cleansing the body of harmful impurities that have collected in our organs and tissues over the past months and years. Dr. Isaac Eliaz offers this protocol.

Dr. Eliaz explains how cancer treatment using Integrative Medicine and conventional treatments, such as chemotherapy, together can have greater success. The Integrative Medical model provides the body with nutrients to restore vitality, boost immunity, modulate hormones, help the body detoxify, and much more.