Naturopathic medicine focuses on encouraging preventative steps against disease, including cancer prevention. Naturopathic Doctors provide patients the knowledge and tools to change their diet and lifestyle in an attempt to reduce the risk of cancer. Although no guarantee can be made, naturopathic guidance may prove beneficial in decreasing factors associated with developing cancer. By optimizing nutrition, managing stress, promoting physical activity and making healthy lifestyle decisions, naturopathic interventions are aimed at reducing oxidative stress and strengthening the immune system's response with the primary end goal being to reduce cellular damage.

While a correlation has been found between certain day to day lifestyle choices and cancer risk, often an individuals risk of cancer falls outside of their control. Adopting healthy choices may not prevent all cancers, but it may improve outcomes if an individual is ever to be diagnosed.

Naturopathic medicine is becoming increasingly popular in the realm of supportive cancer care. Naturopathy can help reduce side effects of cancer treatments and medications, thus allowing patients to maintain quality of life and reduce treatment delays or dose reductions. At Mutual Health Clinic, we will ensure none of the suggested therapies interact with the treatments being provided by your oncologist. Taking advantage of the support available through naturopathic medicine helps sufferers feel better-prepared to cope with the emotional complexities and physical ailments associated with their disease. Whether you are dealing with nausea, fatigue, peripheral neuropathies, oral sores, bowel irregularities or other side effects, naturopathic medicine can offer potential safe solutions to your concerns.

Most patients will experience ongoing side effects and emotional struggles during their cancer survivorship journey. The anxiety surrounding upcoming scans, the inability to trust ones body, and the concept that you are just expected to jump back into life after an incredibly challenging course of treatment seems almost impossible to cope with. Naturopathic medicine can offer a holistic approach to cancer survivorship. We can help break it down into digestible, tangible goals. Whether we focus on getting your anxiety or depression under control, tackling lingering side effects, coaching you on making the right food choices or finding a way to exercise pain free, we can help find your priorities and tackle each one by one to remove the overwhelming feeling that so many experience in the early days of remission.