The Metabolic Approach to Cancer: Trauma, Terrain, Mitochondria & Integrative Oncology with Dr. Nasha Winters | E188

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What if cancer is not simply an isolated enemy to attack, but also a signal to look more closely at the terrain in which disease developed?

In this powerful episode of Made for Health, Dr. Aaron Hartman sits down with Dr. Nasha Winters, ND, FABNO, L.Ac, Dipl.OM, a naturopathic doctor and Fellow of the American Board of Naturopathic Oncology whose work focuses on metabolic and integrative oncology.

Dr. Winters’ interest in cancer is deeply personal. At just 19 years old, after years of unexplained health problems, she was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer involving multiple areas of her body and was told she may have only months to live. That experience ultimately redirected her education, clinical career, and understanding of health. Pasted text(20261018-195841)

More than three decades later, she shares how that diagnosis changed the way she thinks about cancer, trauma, metabolism, environmental exposures, mitochondria, hormones, and the relationship between a person's biography and biology.

Key Topics Covered

Dr. Nasha Winters’ stage IV ovarian cancer diagnosis at age 19Why her early symptoms were repeatedly attributed to existing diagnosesWhat changed when one physician recognized that something was differentHer prognosis and the moment she decided she wanted to understand cancer rather than simply “fight” itThe unexpected experiences she believes influenced her early survivalFasting and metabolic stress in cancerChildhood trauma and the Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACE, frameworkBig-T and little-T traumaEMDR and trauma processingPsychedelic experiences and confronting mortalityPsychoneuroimmunologyThe relationship between emotions, stress, nervous-system signaling, and physical healthCancer as a disease of the individual “terrain”Environmental exposures and the exposomeMitochondrial healthMetabolic dysfunction and cancerInsulin and growth signalingHormone metabolismIntegrative approaches to prostate cancerIntegrative considerations in breast cancerColon cancer and the rising burden of cancer in younger adultsWhy Dr. Winters believes patients should understand their individual terrainHow integrative oncology can work alongside conventional