Cancer Support Services

Dallas’ Leaders in Functional Medicine

Have you been looking for new solutions in your cancer treatment? Interested in supplementing traditional care with new, integrative approaches? Here at LifeSeasons Medical Clinic in Dallas, we use functional medicine to treat diseases holistically. We are led by some of the leading minds in functional medicine and are committed to providing the best care and treatment for those with cancer and their family members. When you’re ready to approach your cancer treatment in a different light, we’re here to help at LifeSeasons Medical Clinic.

What Is Functional Medicine

Whether you’re familiar with functional medicine and its approach to treating chronic diseases or are just learning about this relatively new form of medicine, we’re here to help educate you about functional medicine and its relationship to cancer.

Whereas most forms of modern medicine focus on treating the disease at the surface level using medication and prescription drugs, functional medicine complements those practices by digging deep into the disease to determine — and prevent — its root causes. Essentially, functional medicine can be viewed as the medicine of “why?” rather than the medicine of “what?”

Here at LifeSeasons Medical Clinic, we believe that functional medicine, when combined with some practices of traditional medicine, can have incredibly beneficial results in treating chronic illness.

Functional Medicine and Cancer

As is the case when we use functional medicine to treat other diseases, such as dementia, arthritis, and more, our approach to cancer treatment centers around the whole body. Rather than compartmentalizing the disease based on individual body parts, we recognize that the whole body works as a system. Because of that, we must approach the disease with the same mindset.

This is true for cancer in particular as there are no two cancer treatments and developments that are the same. Even two patients with the “same” type of cancer — breast, colon, brain, etc. — may have vastly different underlying causes of why the cancer appeared where it did. Just the same, two patients with different types of cancer could have developed it due to the same causes.

Because of this, it’s imperative to treat every case as an individual. Sure, chemotherapy and radiation may be successful in treating the cancer at the surface level, but it does nothing to identify why it got there in the first place. More importantly, it is not sufficient in our attempts to find the root causes of the disease in the first place.

That’s where functional medicine comes into play. When used properly alongside conventional forms of treatment, we can use functional medicine in two manners: treatment and prevention. The goal of functional medicine is to determine and treat the underlying causes of a disease. This individualized form of treatment allows cancer patients to directly treat some of the root causes of the disease. At the same time, by identifying and treating those sources, we are better able to provide individualized courses of action to help prevent the disease in the first place.

How We Use Functional Medicine to Treat Cancer

Just as there is no one-size-fits-all cause of Alzheimer’s disease, cancer can be caused by a number of things. We know that cancer results from imbalances in our immune system that prevent cells from operating at full capacity, but what causes that to happen varies from person to person. Jeffrey Bland, the founder of functional medicine, identified many systemic functional changes associated with cancer, including Increased DNA damage and decreased DNA repair, modified genetics, altered protein activities, and more.

Diving deeper, functional medicine allows us to research what potentially leads to those imbalances, ultimately identifying habits and activities that may give us a better understanding of cancer prevention. With this knowledge, we are able to enact individualized treatment plans for our patients at LifeSeasons Medical Clinic aimed at accomplishing the following:

Reduce side effects of cancer treatment
Improve the success of chemotherapy, radiation, and other forms of treatment
Alter the patient’s system to be non-supportive of tumors
Discover areas of resistance to conventional medicine

In addition to helping patients beat the disease and prevent its recurrence, our treatment plans are designed to improve overall wellbeing, assist in recovery, and provide support. So what exactly do those forms of treatment look like?

5 Tips to Reduce Cancer Risk

Our expertise in functional medicine allows us to look at cancer from a different perspective. Rather than disease-focused medication in which treating the symptoms is the end goal, our approach to cancer is cause-focused with the end goal of identifying underlying causes and preventing the disease.

13-time New York Times Best-Selling Author and functional medicine practitioner Mark Hyman uses soil as a way to describe functional medicine. While what we see on the outside of the soil is often the final product — trees, vegetables, flowers, etc. — we must take a look at what happens on the inside to understand how that final product was produced.

If the soil is unhealthy, weeds and pests will impede the plant’s growth. If, however, the soil is maintained and healthy, the final product will also be healthy. Our bodies and health are no different. Essentially, a functional-medicine approach to cancer allows practitioners and patients to collaborate to ensure the soil is healthy. In other words, by forming healthy lifestyle habits, you have a better chance of eliminating many of cancer’s underlying causes. Here are some of Hyman’s top tips for reducing cancer risk.

Reduce Sugar

Modern diets are heavy in sugar and other processed foods, and that is especially true in the United States. A diet rich in sugar leads to unregulated, often uncontrollable spikes in blood sugar and will likely lead to Type II Diabetes down the road. Type II diabetics are unable to process this overload of sugars as their pancreas is no longer able to compensate with enough insulin production, thus drastically increasing the likelihood of developing cancer.

On the other hand, a nutrient-dense diet rich in real, unprocessed foods has been proven to benefit cancer-regulating genes. In the soil analogy, this improves the health of the soil and prevents weed growth.

LifeSeasons Medical Clinic Is Here for You

From personal experience, we understand how difficult a cancer prognosis is. Led by Dr. Margaret Apostel and our team of functional medicine practitioners, we are here to help. Whether it be additional treatment during your battle against cancer, preventive measures to help avoid it, or recovery treatment to keep it away, LifeSeasons Medical Clinic in Dallas can do it all. Contact us below to make an appointment!

Contact Us Today

Do not fill this form out if you're a solicitor.
Name*
First Last
Email*
Phone*
Questions or Comments*
Comments
This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Cancer Support Services

Dallas’ Leaders in Functional Medicine

What are some of the ways we use functional medicine to treat cancer?

What Is Functional Medicine

Functional Medicine and Cancer

How We Use Functional Medicine to Treat Cancer

5 Tips to Reduce Cancer Risk

Reduce Sugar

Address Food Sensitivities

Focus on Anti-Inflammatory Foods

Maintain a Healthy Gut

Minimize Toxin Exposure

LifeSeasons Medical Clinic Is Here for You

Contact Us Today

Schedule Your Free Health Assessment Today

Call Us Today

Email Us Today

Contact

Navigation

Details