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Overcoming Chronic Illness by Managing Your “Terrain” with Dr. Nasha Winters

Apr 11, 2019

Dr. Nasha Winters is a naturopathic doctor with a FABNO and a doctorate in oriental medicine and acupuncture. Dr. Winters studied ayurvedic medicine for 13 years and is a life learner who loves everything integrative medicine, natural wellness, epigenetics, and the esoteric aspects of healing that you can’t explain with science. Dr. Winters talks to your host Blake Bowman about managing chronic illness and cancer by understanding and improving your “terrain” and the role your mitochondria play in keeping you healthy.



Episode Highlights:

 

  • Dr. Winters talks about her cancer diagnosis at a young age that led her on her natural wellness journey.
  • Dr. Winter’s made the shifts from clinical practice to consulting to direct patient care.
  • An overview of cancer and other chronic illness statistics.
  • Dr. Winters looks at cancer more like a chronic illness that can be managed and less like a death sentence.
  • Dr. Winters explains what she means by “terrain” and “optimal terrain” to mitigate risks when it comes to cancer.
  • The ten major life events that impact your terrain:
    • Your epigenetics - your blueprint with dynamic expression.
    • Your glycemic status
    • Your microbiome
    • Your immune system
    • Angiogenesis and blood circulation
    • Hormone balance
    • Stress
    • Circadian rhythm
    • Emotional Response
    • Toxin exposure
  • We’ve gotten comfortable with our bodies functioning at sub-par levels.
  • Health is not the absence of disease, it’s vitality and protection that makes you resilient.
  • How to avoid aging and embody the fountain of youth.
  • The testing that’s possible to understand how your choices are affecting your biological expressions.
  • How mitochondrial dysfunction is linked to every chronic illness.
  • What Apoptosis is and what it means to our cells.
  • Top five mitochondrial hacks:
    • Find a way to intermittent fast and fast for 3-5 days.
    • HIIT Training/Exercise.
    • Get your eyes exposed to sunlight at the beginning and end of the day and avoid blue light exposure.
    • Get outdoors and get into nature.
    • Get in sync with your thoughts.

 

3 Key Points:

  1.    One in two men and one in 2.4 women will have cancer at some point and 1,600 people die each day of cancer - these rates are expected to increase.
  2. We don’t have control over our genetics, but we do have control over our terrain and how friendly it is toward cancer.
  3. Mitochondrial dysfunction is linked to every chronic illness.



Tweetable Quotes:

  • “We’re not doing enough to help prevent cancer or to help people who’ve had it from getting it again.” -Dr. Winters
  • “There’s no way someone can be healthy and have cancer, that’s how I created the concept of the terrain.” -Dr. Winters
  • “The only cure for cancer is prevention.” -Dr. Winters
  • “The number one symptom of mitochondrial dysfunction is fatigue.” -Dr. Winters
  • “A lot of things we take over the counter are extremely detrimental to our mitochondrial health.” -Dr. Winters




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