Director, Integrative Medicine Program at MD Anderson Cancer Center. I tweet on complementary therapies and lifestyle factors related to cancer and health.
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Optimizing Response to Immunotherapy: As both a patient and researcher, I hold deep respect for medicine’s advances, and equal respect for the body’s innate wisdom. Healing happens when these meet: science with spirit, precision with presence.
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Sugar and Cancer: What the Latest Science Tells Us anticancer-living.com/sugar-… The science is clear and growing stronger: added sugar is a modifiable risk factor for cancer. It affects inflammation, metabolism, and even the ability of cancer cells to spread.
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Opinion | What If Ultra-Processed Foods Aren't the Villain? Thought provoking article @DrNealBarnard! Need to align recommendations with the data and not just sweeping categories: products high in sugar, processed meats, etc. medpagetoday.com/opinion/sec…
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IV vitamin therapies have been investigated, but at this point, there is not enough convincing, high-quality evidence to broadly recommend the use of IV vitamin therapies alongside conventional cancer treatments @MDAndersonNews
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When Fat Talks to Cancer and How to End the Conversation #endcancer @MDAndersonNews anticancer-living.com/when-f…
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Research shows that the more you can clean up your personal environment, the lower your risk of cancer. @MDAndersonNews #AnticancerLiving
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Breaking a Sweat, Beating the Odds: Exercise Boosts Colon Cancer Survival, Landmark Study Finds anticancer-living.com/breaki…
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A Healthier Future: The Mediterranean Diet, Lifestyle Choices, and Cancer Survival | Anicancer Living - Your daily choices can lower your risk of cancer and improve survival after a cancer diagnosis. anticancer-living.com/a-heal…
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From Loneliness to Connection: How Social Ties Impact Your Health. Loneliness is not just a fleeting emotion, it’s a public health crisis with biological implications. Research offers a warning and the importance for fostering better social connections. anticancer-living.com/from-l…
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When we focus on healing ourselves, we often set ourselves on a path that will lead us to fulfilling our true potential in surprising ways.
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Here’s an incentive for dry January and the rest of the months: Alcohol increases the risk of breast cancer, colon cancer and at least five other malignancies. Learn more at #anticancerlivingbook anticancer-living.com nytimes.com/2025/01/03/healt…
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A rave review from our friend @deepakchopra.
Alison and I are constantly awed and humbled by the power of this message and its effect on people and their communities. Thank you to all of you for being here.
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The overwhelming evidence we’ve gathered to date certainly points in this direction.
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Alarmingly, 1 in 5 adults encounter all 7 of the top carcinogenic impurities commonly found in personal care products, including formaldehyde (a known carcinogen) on a daily basis.
Safer alternatives are available. Learn more:
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Acupuncture to improve immune function in cancer patients? From our recent systematic review and meta-analysis, when the blinding and allocation concealment criteria were removed, 12 studies had low ROB. Give acupuncture a try! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Finally, they have listened and followed the evidence on the harms of PERC and TCE, chemicals that cause cancer: “It’s simply unacceptable to continue to allow cancer-causing chemicals to be used for things like..." nytimes.com/2024/12/09/clima…
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Examining the effects of biofield therapy (BT) through simultaneous assessment of EEG/HRV and cellular outcomes | Scientific Reports: Our first in a series of studies showing that BT actually has an impact on cancer cell behavior @MDAndersonNews nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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One of the easiest yet most complicated steps in the #MixOfSix is diet. When Alison and I switched to a plant-centered diet, the hardest part was imagining meals without meat or carbs at the center. Now, we focus on plant protein and veggies as the stars of our plates!
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“Dietary fiber is important for gut health, just as it's important for overall health, and the two things are very tightly intertwined,” -co-senior author Carrie Daniel-MacDougall, Ph.D.
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It Doesn't Need to Take 25 Years to decrease the cancer death rate by at least 50%. It is time to finally move away from a model of disease care to one that emphasizes maintaining health in its most holistic conceptualization @RobertKennedyJr
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