About Integrative Medicine and holistic cancer treatment with Dr Kate James

Maybe you find yourself feeling constantly run down and unwell, perhaps getting one infection after another, fed up as your treatment is postponed for yet another week because your blood count is too low and your immune system struggles to recover from the non specific effects of your chemotherapy.

Perhaps you are troubled by some unanswered medical questions or queries that you know need further clarification and exploration to put your mind at rest. You are aware that the doctors caring for you are doing their very best but somehow there just doesn't seem to be enough time.

Maybe you are aware that there is so much out there that you could do for yourself in addition to your conventional medical teatment. However at the same time you are confused, desperately wanting to make an informed choice but simply overwhelmed by so much information.

Perhaps you have a vision of where you'd like to be but just don't quite know how to get there.

Maybe you feel you've done everything right but your cancer has come back and you just can't face going through it all again. You know you need to do things differently this time .

The conventional treatment the NHS offers in this country is excellent but perhaps like me you know you just can't afford to take any chances. My programme is designed to address all of these difficutlies and issues and more, giving you the solutions.

There are many wonderful clinics around the world like the Hippocrates Institute in Florida USA, Thomas Lodi's Oasis of Healing in Arizona, and many more based in Austria, Germany, and beyond that use dietary therapy alone , in the context of a holistic based programme to successfully treat cancer. For certain patients some of these clinics use smaller doses of chemotherapy, typically between 5 and 10% of that used conventionally but the focus of their treatment is a holistic programme based around dietary therapy.

These amazing institutions often charge thousands of dollars or euros for their treatment programmes making them available only to the minority. And they require people to spend weeks away from their family and friends, usually an invaluable part of their support systems.

If they do participate in a programme some people find it hard to stick to the rigorous nutrtional therapy, often largely or entirely consisting of raw food and green juices, when they move back to their own surroundings. A further difficulty can be returning to a different climate where as they listen to their bodies some how lots of raw food doesn't feel right, as the rain lashes down outside and the temperature becomes cooler. Energetically what is right in one climate doesn't feel right in a different one.

Aware of these pitfalls and problems first hand I pioneered my own evidence based, affordable programme incorporating the best of what is on offer at these clinics but in a way that is relevant and possible for you whilst remaining deeply therapeutic.

Most importantly my programme is one that can work alongside what is conventionally offerred here in the UK.

Further my programme is gentle, allowing for gradual cleansing and detoxification, whilst rebuilding, strengthening, rebalancing and protecting your immune system so it has the raw materials to support it to do exactly what it knows- how to allow you to heal. The balance between the two elements is vital for success.

Protecting your immune system from the non specific/ whole body effects of most types of chemotherapy we use here in the UK gives you an enormous benefit.

I have witnessed this first hand . Shortly after my daughter Grace was diagnosed with Leukaemia aged 13 months we were told by her Oncologists to expect her in hospital about once a month with a neutropenic infection, (an infection precipitated by a low level of immune cells called neutrophils, our bodies first line of defence against any type of infection). During her two and half years of chemotherapy she was only admitted on three occasions, three times over thirty months, and never once after she started having chlorophyll rich green juice added into her programme.

We also noticed she only required a blood transfusion on a couple of occasions as opposed to on a regular basis which is much more typical whilst having treatment for leukaemia.