Vessel Journey: Navigating Your Cancer Terrain

A Cancer Diagnosis can be daunting which is why having compassionate guidance to build a foundational plan with knowledgable guidance every step of the way can make a massive difference in outcomes.

Revolutionizing Cancer CarE

In this 4-month, one-on-one, Cancer Remediation Journey, Dr. Elise Sulser will guide you on a deep dive into the roots of your specific cancer type within the layers of physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Through in-depth lab analysis and assessment, we will start to create a picture of what factors may have contributed to your specific cancer and create an individualized Naturopathic approach to address those drivers.

Your body is your Vessel

It is your home for this lifetime and we will be on a journey to uncover where you may have been disconnected from your health, purpose, and wellness. You will have compassionate guidance back to your roots at a time when life asks us big questions about what is important to us. This container is a blend of the best care that Naturopathic Medicine can offer, education and support in creating an anti-cancer life, Cancer Doula support, and practices to facilitate a return home to yourself.

Vessel Journey: Navigating Your Cancer Terrain

This integrative approach offers tailored support whether you're navigating an active cancer diagnosis, in remission aiming to prevent recurrence, or seeking to reduce risk factors and achieve vibrant health.

If you're ready to take control of your healing journey, this terrain-based method provides proactive, preventive care that empowers you to address risks and establish a foundation of lasting vitality.

This program is for you if you are:

  • Tired of being told chemo, radiation and pharmaceuticals are your only options.....

  • Battling the fatigue exhaustion and side effects of conventional care .....

  • Wanting to know what factors may be driving your cancer and want a more holistic approach.....

  • Are feeling alone and overwhelmed in the over-medicalized system and looking for knowledgeable and compassionate guidance to navigate it all .....

  • You know there is so much more depth and meaning for you as you grapple with this chapter and diagnosis

  • Wanting actionable and effective options to address cancer at its root source.....

WHAT THE JOURNEY WILL LOOK LIKE

Your naturopathic cancer care journey will start with getting to know your unique experiences and what you value in your life. This will set the stage for an in-depth terrain assessment where Dr. Sulser will spend time evaluating the factors driving your specific cancer type and all the elements of your life that may have contributed to creating the conditions for cancer to appear. This includes analyzing in-depth, custom-to-you lab panels.

Your Program will Include

  • 1:1 90-minute comprehensive intake to review your health history, set goals, and select labs

  • 1:1 80-minute results and recommendations visit to review

    lab results and your protocol

  • Monthly follow-up appointments+ my support for 4 months

  • Comprehensive terrain analysis

  • Individualized functional lab panel guidance and

    interpretation

  • Comprehensive lab recommendations to track and

    monitor progression

  • Metabolic assessment and guidance

  • Epigenetic analysis including a Nutrition Genome test

  • Individualized Naturopathic treatment plan that addresses cancer at its roots

  • Compassionate emotional guidance along the way

  • Access to a private patient portal with messaging support Monday-Friday

Cancer is relatively rare in nature, while 1 in 2 people will develop cancer in their lifetime and data shows that 90% of cancers are driven by the environmental factors cells are exposed to, aka our modern world.

This means cancer does not just appear out of nowhere and we don’t have to wait around for it to appear before taking action. We have more power to shift our internal cellular biochemical landscape and external environment than we have been taught. It is my passion and honor to walk alongside those brave enough to ask the hard questions about where we have become disconnected from our natural design and what it will take to return to health.

With a personal connection to cancer, I have a heartfelt passion for integrative cancer care. Having a mother who battled cancer, I understand the emotional and physical challenges that come with a diagnosis. My compassionate approach to cancer care is rooted in the belief that holistic healing can bring comfort and support to those navigating the complexities of cancer.

OUR APPROACH TO CANCER CARE

I am deeply passionate about helping people reconnect with their bodies, their communities, and the earth. Together, we will restore balance to body, mind, and spirit. When these elements are aligned, we can achieve true health—vitality and wholeness. Ultimately, the Vessel Wellness philosophy toward cancer is reflected in this quote from The Definitive Guide to Cancer:

"It's a time to pause, take a deep breath, and re-evaluate our war on cancer.

It is time to approach cancer treatment and healing methodically and logically from a multifaceted standpoint. To win the war on cancer, we must realize and utilize a systems approach that addresses cancer on many biological levels and including healing of the mind, the body and the spirit. If we are to transform our health care, we must begin by transforming ourselves."

-Dr. Lise Alschuler and Karolyn Gazella

Cancer is but one of the many ways the body tries to change the way you see and treat yourself, including your body.

This inevitably brings up the subject of spiritual health, which plays at least as important a role in cancer as physical and emotional reasons do. I can no longer deny the importance of healing both the physical vessel we inhabit as well as the soul that lives through that vessel.

CANCER CARE MEETS TERRAIN THEORY

Terrain theory shifts the focus from treating the end stage of a disease, such as a cancer tumor, to understanding the conditions in the body that allowed cancer cells to develop over time. Instead of treating the metaphorical "weed" (cancer cells) with poisons, we ask how we can take better care of the soil so that the healthy cells can grow with vibrancy and vitality.

A terrain-based approach may include, but is not limited to:

  • addressing metabolic dysfunction

  • epigenetic factors

  • nutritional status

  • hormone imbalances

  • microbial dysbiosis

  • stress and emotional well-being

  • toxin burden

  • circadian rhythms

  • immune system function

  • inflammation

  • and angiogenesis

Taking a collaborative approach while employing these 10 components of Terrain Theory, we will co-create health, finding unique solutions and strategies best suited for each individual. I bring a discerning and curious eye to both conventional and alternative medicine, striving to work with you as a guide and partner on your path to wholeness.

What is Naturopathic Oncology?

Integrative oncology is gaining recognition for its role in the cancer world. It is not here to fight against conventional cancer care but rather to come alongside to support the body through an individualized approach and to give patients a wider toolkit for survival and thriving.

While some people may strongly support an all-or-nothing approach—either all conventional care or all alternative care—the most effective approach often combines the best evidence-supported methods from both worlds.

In this age of the internet, countless online resources and books are sharing anecdotal information on how people have healed their cancer. However, as the field of cancer care is constantly evolving it takes an involved and expert approach to target therapies to an individual’s cancer. It is easy to cause more harm than good and even accelerate a disease process with an improper approach, so it is strongly encouraged to choose a Naturopathic Doctor with additional training in the oncology specialty when considering your care team.

The ONCANP was formed to help the public identify credible and qualified practitioners in the field of cancer.

Extensive research in Naturopathic modalities has shown that it can be helpful for:

  • Improving the quality of life during and after a cancer diagnosis

  • Symptom relief during treatments

  • Improving the efficacy of cancer treatments and supporting the use of a minimal effective dose of pharmaceuticals in some cases

  • Improve patient outcomes

  • Aiding the body in the recovery and preventing the reoccurrence of disease

The goals of Naturopathic Medicine are to remove the barriers to cure, educate, and empower patients, and give the body its ideal requirements for healing.

Modalities often employed in Naturopathic cancer care can include but are not limited to the following:

  • Metabolism dysfunction and poorly functioning mitochondria is a hallmark of cancer. Therapeutic diets such as keto, plant-based, amino acid restriction therapies and supported fasting can be an essential part to shifting the cellular energy source in the body, nourishing your healthy cells and starving the cancer cells depending on your cancer type.

  • Through Dr. Sulsers referral partners, depending on your location, IV therapy can be an incredible addition to cancer care. These therapies have been shown in the research to reduce chemotherapy toxicity, reduce cancer related symptoms, act as cytotoxic agents in fast growing caner cells, boosting proper immune response against cancer and acts synergistically with many standard therapies.

    Examples of IV therapies depending on your location and availability to treatments: Vitamin C I’vs, ALA, IV ozone, IV glutathione, curcumin, EGCG ect

  • Mistletoe is one of the most researched botanicals in history and is widely used throughout Europe for cancer care. Mistletoe has many multifaceted actions against cancer including promoting apoptosis, inhibiting metastasis, DNA stabilization and enhances immune response.

  • Herbal remedies that are highly custom to support the organs and systems of the body.

  • In our modern world exposures to things such as glyphosates, heavy metals, mycotoxins and much more can impact our health and drive disease. Chelation therapies are specifically targeted towards pulling toxins out of the body.

    • Immune boosting therapies

    • HBOT

    • Frequency and hyperthermia treatments

    • Hydrotherapy

  • The active compounds in bee venom have been researched for immune stimulation, apoptosis effects on cancer cells and more

A NOTE FROM Dr. Nasha Winters, ND

“So excited to have Dr. Sulser joining our mission and vision to support patients through a terrain-centric, metabolic oncology methodology! She is a welcome asset to our growing community and patients will rejoice in having her on their team!"

Dr. Nasha Winters, Author "Metabolic Approach to Cancer," and expert in Integrative Oncology, Metabolic Cancer Therapies & Keto for Cancer

Your body is a Vessel,

Your home for this lifetime. Begin your transformation from cell to soul.

Step into a relationship with your Cancer Terrain where your cells are not the enemy but rather messengers who are here to teach us how to return home