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Oncology Nutrition Services

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

This is how we think about cancer. Terrain-based oncology is the approach we advocate for, the lens we bring to the cases we take, and the path Heather walked in her own journey. What follows is educational, a map of the oncology landscape and where this approach sits within it.

Soil to Soul Nutrition does not treat cancer. We are a team of non-licensed nutrition consultants, and we do not practice medicine, diagnose, treat, or prescribe. We work alongside your medical team to support your terrain, your capacity, and your quality of life. Every medical decision stays with your physicians.

Click any circle to explore a discipline, and click the center to see how they converge in terrain-based oncology.

Medical Oncology

The backbone of conventional cancer care. Surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, immunotherapy, hormone therapy, targeted therapies, and clinical trials. The primary question is how to target and eliminate the cancer. This is the standard of care, what oncologists mean when they say treatment.

Integrative Oncology

Starts with the conventional treatment plan and asks how to support the person through it. Complementary therapies like acupuncture, nutrition support, mind-body practices, and botanical medicine are added alongside standard treatment to ease side effects and support quality of life. The conventional framework stays intact. The additions are supportive.

Terrain-Based Medicine

Shifts the focus from disease to the environment that allowed disease to develop. It asks why this person’s body became vulnerable and what restoring that environment requires. Not disease-specific, it applies across all chronic illness. The philosophical parent of terrain-based oncology.

Metabolic Oncology

Targets the metabolic vulnerabilities of cancer cells, particularly their dependence on glucose and glutamine. Therapeutic ketosis, metabolic therapies, and mitochondrial support are central tools. The primary question is how to shift the metabolic environment to make it hostile to cancer growth.

Naturopathic Oncology

Goes deeper into root-cause medicine while working alongside conventional care. Board-certified naturopathic oncologists (FABNO) bring a sophisticated toolkit, including IV vitamin C, mistletoe, hyperthermia, and advanced botanical and nutritional protocols. The primary question is how to care for the whole person, support the body’s own defenses, and work intelligently with conventional treatment.

Precision Oncology

Uses an individual’s tumor molecular profile, including genetic mutations, DNA signatures, and molecular markers, to select targeted therapies. The lens is the tumor’s specific biology. Increasingly part of standard of care, and it informs the data stack in terrain-based oncology.

Terrain-Based Oncology

Terrain-based oncology is a team approach, not a solo practice. Physicians trained in this model lead the medical and molecular work, including the full data stack and every treatment decision. Our seat at that table is nutrition. Through the lens of Deep Nourishment, we help support the whole person’s terrain, capacity, and daily inputs, optimizing the quality of what goes in across every dimension of life. The model draws on the rigor of metabolic oncology, the root-cause philosophy of naturopathic medicine, and the supportive tools of integrative oncology, and it centers the whole person at every stage of the cancer journey.

Terrain-Based Oncology Precision Oncology Molecular + Targeted Medical Oncology SOC Backbone Integrative Oncology Complementary + SOC Naturopathic Oncology Root Cause, FABNO Metabolic Oncology Mitochondrial Model Terrain-Based Medicine Broader Parent, All Chronic Disease
Tap Any Circle to Explore. Tap the Center to See How It All Comes Together.

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

Client Success Stories

Every client story is different. Every terrain is different. Read what people are experiencing as they work toward living well alongside their diagnosis.

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Heather Cooan - Functional Oncology Nutritionist

Hi, I'm Heather!

I'm an Integrative Metabolic Oncology Nutrition Consultant and lived experience mentor providing education, data-driven nutritional recommendations, and trauma-informed strategic environmental and lifestyle design for those living with cancer, autoimmunity, and complex chronic illness.

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Disclaimer: Terrain-based oncology nutrition consulting is not medical nutrition therapy and does not diagnose, treat, manage, or cure any disease. It is intended to support the proper functioning of biological systems as adjunct support to your licensed healthcare provider's treatment plan. Personalized diet, lifestyle, and environmental recommendations aim to optimize well-being but are not a substitute for medical care. Any lab or genetic information used is solely for personalizing diet and lifestyle, not for diagnosing or treating disease. You are required to work with a licensed healthcare provider, including a primary care practitioner and, if you have or have had cancer, a medical oncologist. All recommendations, including supplements and labs, must be approved by your healthcare provider before implementation. Heather Cooan and the other consultants at Soil to Soul Nutrition’s role is to provide support and guidance, not to replace your physician's care.

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