91: Integrative Cancer Care with Cathy Biase

The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast - A podcast by Erin Holt - Tuesdays

Today we’re talking about integrative cancer care with Cathy Biase, who is a registered holistic nutritionist and cancer coach. She works alongside oncologists and conventional care with nutrition for cancer, gut health, micro-biome, and circadian rhythms. There are definitely some new perspectives in this episode, so tune in to learn more about topics like keto and cancer, supplement safety, cancer prevention, the hormone connection, and more. In this episode: -Nutrition for cancer “When you’re taking in calories that are challenging for the body to digest, it can increase the strain on the body and perhaps increase inflammation.” -Cancer and Keto -Meditteranean diet -Supplement safety for cancer? -Concept of therapeutic diet vs. lifetime diet -Spirituality, faith and mindset during cancer treatment -Eating as a cue for circadian rhythm “Our bodies have certain functions that they like to do during the day and certain functions that they prefer to do at night, and when we start messing up the signals, that’s when we can run into some health troubles.” -The best time to eat -Fasting for chemo and cancer treatments -Ketosis vs. Ketogenic diet for cancer treatment -Why you need to avoid detox programs when going through cancer treatments “Detox can be stressful for an already stressed system.” -Antioxidant controversy during cancer treatments -Key components of cancer prevention -Gut health, microbiome & cancer "Inflammation is the beginning phases of cancer.” -The hormone connection -Estrogen and hormone-positive cancers -Aromatase inhibitor side effects -Mitigating the fear of recurrence Cathy Biase: http://www.cathybiase.com/ Carb Compatibility Project starts April 13th https://www.erinholthealth.com/carb-compatibility-project Eat to Achieve Self Study Nutrition Program https://www.erinholthealth.com/eat-to-achieve