Oncology Nutrition Services

What This Is and How It Works

Soil to Soul Nutrition provides oncology nutrition consulting for individuals navigating cancer - during active care, after care ends, and for those focused on reducing their risk of recurrence. This is not medical care. It is rigorous, data-informed terrain support that works alongside your medical team, not instead of it.

Your physicians, oncologists, and licensed providers remain responsible for all medical decisions, interpretations, and recommendations. Our role is to support the physiological and lifestyle foundations that sit beneath every other intervention: nutrition, environmental design, nervous system regulation, and the mental-emotional weight of navigating a serious diagnosis.

We work as a team-with you and your care providers. If you don't yet have a physician trained in integrative or terrain-informed oncology, we can help you find one.

The Approach: Whole-Person, Whole-Systems

Cancer doesn't develop in a single system, and supporting someone navigating it requires looking at the whole picture - not just the tumor, but the internal environment surrounding it.

Our work is organized around the concept of deep nourishment. Not just food, but every input - including food, relationships, environment, movement, and meaning - either builds terrain toward wellness or depletes it toward disease. We measure the state of nourishment by examining ten interconnected physiological and emotional domains, assessed as an integrated whole. Nervous system regulation runs beneath all of them. It's the foundational condition that determines whether any other intervention can take hold, which is why we start there. Genetics and epigenetics form the predisposition layer underneath everything - shaping vulnerability and adaptive capacity across every domain. Your genetic blueprint is fixed, but how it expresses is not.

How We Think About Cancer

How the Care Team Works Together

Every terrain domain we work in has two toolboxes applied to it - ours and the physician's. The domains are the same. What differs is the level of intervention each role brings.

Soil to Soul Nutrition addresses each domain through nutrition, lifestyle, environmental design, and head-and-heart practices - the daily-habit layer that builds and sustains terrain foundations over time.

A terrain-based oncology physician works those same domains through medical modalities: IV therapies, pharmaceutical and botanical protocols, advanced clinical interventions, and a precision data stack that produces a specific, targeted, personalized treatment plan. That data stack includes molecular profiling, liquid biopsy, functional drug response testing, pharmacogenetics, immune profiling, metabolomics, radiomics, and AI-enabled multi-omic interpretation - alongside the shared data both roles work from: nutrigenomics, nutrigenetics, full blood chemistry, and functional testing.

When both are present and coordinated, the result is a complete terrain-based oncology methodology. Each role reinforces the other. The physician's precision data informs how we work the terrain foundations. The terrain foundations we build affect how the body responds to everything the physician does.

We will work alongside any physician, regardless of their training or approach. The depth of what's possible simply expands when your physician is working the same terrain framework from the medical side. If you don't yet have a physician trained in terrain-based oncology, we can help you find one.

Who This Is For

We work with people who are ready to engage seriously with the terrain foundations of their health. This includes:

People currently in active cancer care who want to optimize their terrain foundations alongside their medical protocol.

People who have completed cancer care and want to work systematically on the physiological and lifestyle factors that influence long-term resilience and quality of life.

People who have experienced recurrence and are navigating that complexity with their medical team.

People who have chosen to forego standard of care, or for whom standard of care has been exhausted, and who are working with a physician to determine what comes next. In these situations, a licensed physician must remain part of the care team. We do not work with clients without medical oversight.

People focused on reducing their risk of recurrence who want a structured, data-informed approach to terrain optimization after completing cancer care.

Ongoing Data Collection, Analysis, and Optimization

Everyone's terrain is different. We don't assume what's driving high allostatic load - we look at the data. Recommendations are built on a comprehensive, continuously updated picture of your individual biology. All lab and genetic data is used for the purpose of personalizing nutrition and lifestyle education, not for medical decision-making.

Nutrigenomics and Nutrigenetics

Your genetics shape how your body processes nutrients, responds to stress, handles environmental exposures, and expresses biological risk. Nutrigenomic testing - through companies such as Nutrition Genome or 3x4 Genetics - gives us a detailed picture of these individual variations, informing how we approach nutrition, lifestyle design, and environmental factors specific to your biology.

Full Blood Chemistry

Comprehensive, regularly tracked blood panels give us a dynamic view of how your terrain systems are functioning and how they shift over time. Most of these markers can be ordered through your primary care physician and covered by insurance with appropriate documentation.

A standard panel we work from includes:

CBC with Differential, CMP with Chem 20, LDH, hs-CRP, ESR, Ferritin, Vitamin D3 (25-OH), AM Cortisol, Fasting Insulin, IGF-1, HbA1C, C-Peptide, Complete Thyroid Panel, Complete Lipid Panel, Lipoprotein(a), Uric Acid, VEGF, Copper, Ceruloplasmin, Fibrinogen, Homocysteine, Retinol, Iodine, Carnitine, GGT, D-Dimer, Galectin-3, G6PD.

If your current physician is unwilling to order comprehensive panels, that's worth a direct conversation - or worth finding a physician who will.

At-Home Monitoring

Ongoing self-monitoring provides real-time functional data between appointments. We typically ask clients to track food intake through a dietary diary and monitor blood glucose and ketone levels at home using a glucometer. Continuous glucose monitoring may also be appropriate.

Functional Testing

Additional testing is recommended based on findings in blood chemistry, genetics, and health history. This may include:

Microbiome assessment (Diagnostic Solutions GI-Map), hormone mapping (Precision Analytical DUTCH), mold and mycotoxin load (Mosaic Diagnostics MycoTOX), mitochondrial function (Mosaic Diagnostics Organic Acids), heavy metals (Quicksilver Blood Metals and Tri-Mercury), and environmental toxin burden (Mosaic Diagnostics GPL-TOX and Glyphosate).

Finding the Right Medical Partner

Our work is most effective as part of a coordinated care team. If you're not yet connected with a physician trained in integrative or terrain-informed oncology, we can provide a referral matched to your situation and location. Please book an intro consultation to discuss.

If you'd like to search independently first:

United States:

• OncANP Directory of Fellows by the American Board of Naturopathic Oncology (FABNO) Physicians
• Knowledge in Integrative Oncology Website (KNOW) Provider Network
• Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO) Physician Directory
• FON Consulting National Directory of Integrative Oncology Providers
• Cancer Choices Directory of Integrative Medicine at NCI Cancer Centers
• Believe Big Integrative Practitioner Directory
• The Moss Report Doctors and Clinics Map

International:

The following directories are not oncology-specific. Please verify oncology training and experience before engaging any provider found through these resources.

• Australian Naturopathic Practitioners Association
• Canadian Association of Naturopathic Doctors
• UK Accredited Registers