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Written by Dr. Nasha Winters and Jess Higgins Kelley, The Metabolic Approach to Cancer: Integrating Deep Nutrition, the Ketogenic Diet, and Nontoxic Bio-Individualized Therapies is a great book.

When I saw this book on Net Galley, I wanted to read it because it would help me with my course, and cancer being one of the top battles we fight in the modern era, I was keen to know how to equip ourselves to prevent it.

It is a sad world where everything is corrupt, toxic and a lot of things are scary. Everything from the food we eat, the things we buy, everything is laden with toxins. But that's the world we live in and it is survival for the fittest.

In this book, Dr. Nasha tells us how to profile ourselves, risk factors and every other information we will ever need. It is not just a book for those dealing with cancer, or have a loved one dealing with it, it one everyone should read to prevent, deal and help ourselves and the ones we care about, the right way.

This book is SUPER important. It's also super depressing. Basically, everything in our modern environment, from our food, to our water, to the air we breathe, to the clothing on our backs, to the cleansers (both personal and for inanimate objects), EVERYthing is trying to kill us. And since it's all been created or tampered with by other humans, basically humanity is trying to kill itself, slowly and one person at a time.

BUT there IS hope. We can't become hermits and hope to avoid toxins, that's not possible with our Global Village, unfortunately, BUT we CAN mitigate the damage by being well educated and doing the best we can to affect our own personal environment. We can decide what we put in, on and around our bodies. This book is to help those specifically with cancer, but also those who want to prevent cancer, to do just that.

They are VERY careful to state that many of these steps shouldn't be done without a professional health care provider and LOTS of blood work. Since we are all genetically different, with different mutations on different genes, how we react to certain de-toxification actions will differ. Some won't work, some will do more harm, some will work miracles. But you need to know how you will react before doing any of them. Knowledge is power and key in keeping one's self healthy and able to fight off cancer and the daily toxins we encounter.

They DO have a couple of suggestions that I am not sure about, such as drinking in ounces half of one's total body weight in water. Example, 120 pound female, 60 ounces of water DAILY. You can over-do water. So I'm not sure about that. They also VERY briefly mention marijuana, but state that the part that isn't the high inducer, so not the THC, is that part that is beneficial for certain people. Again, I'm not sure about that, but it is only briefly mentioned and isn't a pro-MJ screed, so it doesn't make this book drop any stars.

This book is repetitious, but that seems to be because it isn't necessarily designed to be read straight through. In the beginning of the book, there are ten different sets of questions to focus on which of the ten terrains you should be focusing on cleaning up first. There is a chapter that focuses on each of the ten terrains. You can skip ahead to the chapter that will best help you, or you can read front to back. Since each chapter can be read on it's own, there is by necessity, some repetition in the intro to each chapter. I found it somewhat lengthy and to the point of boring, but I read straight through. Not a huge negative, as I understand the why of it, but it did make the book seem MUCH longer than it was.

I also loved the bibliography. Seriously, this book added like 10 more books to my TBR and some of them I already HAD on my TBR, which made me feel super smart! Yay ego-boost! LOTS of notes and other sources, which I really appreciated. If you are coming across as an authority on something, I want to see other already established authorities and studies backing you up. They bring it in spades.

So, long story short, EVERYone needs to read this book, not just those with cancer. Understanding your body and how the environment it is in affects it is key to health. It makes sense, you put sugar in a gas tank on a car, it is NOT going to do well. Same with our body. With all of the crap we put ourselves and bodies through, is it any wonder that diseases, including cancer, is taking hold?

This book is NOT preaching that chemo and other modern ways of treating cancer is bad and wrong, but discussing how to bolster the body's ability to help with fighting the cancer and to be stronger so the healthy parts don't get sick from the chemo, which is also a carcinogen. It's maybe not the best way, but it can be augmented by the foods we eat, the toxin-free environment we create for ourselves and by paying attention to our bodies on a genetic level. The authors aren't fond of the modern Western way because it ignores the more intuitive Eastern way that is understood to not be the only way. An integrated approach is probably the best way to attack any health problem.

Again, this should be necessary reading for ALL, especially the law makers and lobbyists. They should at least understand that the laws they pass and the "food" they are working to make super cheap is killing everyone. They won't stop, money is more important than the people they are helping to slowly kill, but it might make them a little more aware of what they are doing, if only for a little while.

Anywho, five huge, you need to read this right now, stars.

My thanks to NetGalley and Chelsea Green Publishing for an eARC copy of this book to read and review.

After having more than one family members suffer from cancer I want to live a healthy life so I decided to check this book out, I'm very happy that I found this book. The Metabolic Approach to Cancer is a very well-researched and useful book that will surely open a lot of people's eyes. There is plenty of useful information and advice that I can implement myself.
I recommend for everyone to read this book.

Thank you NetGalley for a free copy of this book.

This is a very informative book, and not too dry, considering the topic. There is a large amount of information in here, but it's broken down into manageable bits and easy to digest (no pun intended). It's easily applicable, and the science is provided for all of the recommendations. Overall, a great and informative read for better health.