Nasha Winters, MTIH Testimonials

Speaker: Nasha Winters, ND, FABNO, Executive Director & Co-Founder, Metabolic Terrain Institute of Health

Nasha Winters, ND, FABNO: I am Doctor Nasha Winters. I am a naturopathic oncologist. I am a cancer thriver. I'm the Executive Director of the Metabolic Terrain Institute of Health. I am the medical advisor for the Metabolic Terrain Omics platform, and I am just generally a curious and interested and passionate person who wants to see a better outcome for patients, for pets, for the planet.

Nasha Winters, ND, FABNO: There was a time, maybe, I don't know, 15 years ago, when I would stand up in front of a room at a medical conference and ask the audience, let's say, a couple 100 people, I'd say, "How many of you have been affected by cancer, either directly or with somebody very near and dear to you?" And in that room, maybe, maybe 10% maybe 20% of the hands would raise. Flash forward to today. An average of 35 conferences a year that I speak to globally. I've had to change the way I asked that question. Now, I have to say, "How many of you have NOT been personally touched by, or impacted by, cancer -- either your own diagnosis or someone near and dear to you?" And now, I have to sort of scan the room to find a single or a few hands to be raised. So, when studies come out showing that cancer rates are anywhere from rising 75% to doubling worldwide by the year 2030, I'd say we're all impacted, and I'd say that there's something more that needs to be done.

Nasha Winters, ND, FABNO: The author Nathaniel Brandon said it best when he said, "No one is coming to save you. No one is coming to make life right for you. No one is coming to solve your problems. If you don't do something, nothing is going to get better." That is my WHY. That is why, over 30 years ago, I was given a terminal diagnosis without any options, and the only thing I could do was to figure it out for myself, to spend decades failing and trying and failing and trying, again and again, learning a few things along the way and applying it to thousands of patients that I had the absolute privilege to support and learn from. And, later, hundreds of doctors who now apply a few of the things that I have learned over these decades to their own patient populations and beyond. We have to do better, and no one is going to do it for us. So, why not me? Why not the whole crew at MTIH? Why not all of you? Why not do something more? Why not do something better in the face of prevention, treatment and survivorship in patients dealing with a cancer diagnosis. We no longer have to gues. We can take a very sure-footed and very personalized approach forward. We no longer have to decide between standard of care and alternative care. There is an absolute beautiful synergy of bringing the best of both worlds together, and we no longer have to wait the average of 17 years it takes for meaningful research to be available for us to do something with. We can start now with informed-based medicine. So, yeah, my WHY. My WHY, no one else is gonna do it for us. So, let's do it together.

Nasha Winters, ND, FABNO: The Metabolic Approach to Cancer has impacted my life in such a way -- I don't even remember what my life was like before understanding cancer in this way. I don't, I don't think I've ever thought of it any other way but as a metabolic, mitochondrial disease, even from over three decades ago, when facing my own diagnosis and facing my own mortality. And, it's just so odd to me that there are still so many people, in fact, the vast majority of people still have no concept of the metabolic origins of cancer. We've spent decades, decades trying to put this into a container of a somatic mutation theory -- a genetic theory -- despite ample evidence suggesting that that's not the answer, at least it's not the entire answer, and that there's something else before the genes go awry that's causing the disruption, that's causing the vulnerability -- and that's at that mitochondrial metabolic level. And, when people say, "What does that mean?" Basically, what that means is that your mitochondria are like these beautiful little sensing organs inside every single one of your cells that is taking in information -- light, food, water, sound, people, toxins, medications. It's taking all that information, and it's processing it and then sending back out signals to the rest of the body to decide what to do with that information. Today, on the planet, from the studies that have come out in the last few years, it is estimated that over 93% of adults are metabolically broken. And, what that means for us is that a metabolic disease is not far behind. Cancer is but one. Autism, diabetes, mental illness, Alzheimer's, cardiovascular disease, obesity -- you name it. These are the metabolic diseases plaguing us today. And, the crazy thing is they're not actually plaguing us. We are creating them, and most of us creating them in a way that we're not even aware of. We don't even have the beginnings to understand the things that we're being exposed to that we have no idea are causing us harm are causing us harm. And so, thinking about it in a different way, coming through that filter. The good news is that those 93%, there's something that can be done about this. You can change things in your diet, your lifestyle, what you put in, on and around you -- who you put around you -- will make or break the health and wealth of your mitochondria and your metabolic processes. We can help you assess your own terrain, know what your blind spots are, and do something about it. Whether you're trying to prevent one of these chronic illnesses, whether you're trying to treat it or support standard of care treatment of it, or whether you're trying to prevent a recurrence or progression. So, start to explore the metabolic process.

Nasha Winters, ND, FABNO: I started out earlier by talking about no one's coming to save you -- and that includes me, which is why we need you to get involved. We are up against quite the Goliath with pushing up against a system that still thinks of cancer as a genetic disease, or where mental illness is still not talked about, or still overly medicated, or where things like diabesity and obesity are crushing our medical care systems, and where, you know, one in 45 Children will be diagnosed today with autism. These numbers are getting worse across the board, and over 93% of adults will be facing a pretty chronic metabolic disease in our lifetime. And so, it can't be done on the shoulders of one person, or of 20, or of 200. We need millions to lean in against the broken system, to build a new system, to improve upon the standards of care, and to weave into it truly preventative ways of living and thriving on this planet. So, whether you have skills to volunteer, whether you have cash burning a hole in your pocket, whether you want to help us create some fundraising, whether you know people who are very touched by a diagnosis of cancer who really want to see different outcomes -- there are so many ways and every way, big or small, is incredibly helpful to change health care as we know it, and cancer care in particular. Please find your WHY. Please realize your ability to help yourself while helping others.