# Brandon LaGreca

> Empowering people through and beyond cancer. Official website of Brandon LaGreca, LAc, MAcOM: author, speaker, licensed acupuncturist and stage 4 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma survivor. Integrative oncology, environmental medicine, psycho-oncology and spirit medicine, grounded in science and clinical experience.

Site owner: Brandon LaGreca (East Troy Acupuncture, LLC, PO Box 885, East Troy, WI 53120).
Books: "Cancer and EMF Radiation", "Cancer, Stress & Mindset", "Cancer, Trauma & Emotions".

## Key pages

- [Home](https://brandonlagreca.com/): Official website of Brandon LaGreca, LAc, MAcOM: author, speaker, licensed acupuncturist and stage 4 lymphoma survivor. Books, articles and consulting on integrative oncology, environmental medicine and the anticancer…
- [Consulting](https://brandonlagreca.com/consulting/): Lifestyle medicine consults, shamanic counseling, and spiritual direction with Brandon LaGreca—holistic support through body, mind and spirit, specializing in cancer care and survivorship. In person or via Zoom.
- [Empowered Patient Blog](https://brandonlagreca.com/blog/): The Empowered Patient Blog by Brandon LaGreca: articles on integrative oncology, environmental medicine, spirit medicine and empowered self-care.
- [Books](https://brandonlagreca.com/shop/): Books by Brandon LaGreca: Cancer, Trauma & Emotions; Cancer, Stress & Mindset; and Cancer and EMF Radiation. Available in print, eBook and audiobook from all online retailers.
- [Media](https://brandonlagreca.com/media/): Media and press resources for Brandon LaGreca: speaking engagements, podcast and radio appearances, featured publications, press sheet and media inquiry form.
- [About Brandon](https://brandonlagreca.com/about-brandon/): Meet Brandon LaGreca, LAc, MAcOM: author, speaker, holistic medical practitioner and stage 4 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma survivor who lectures and writes on the epigenetics of cancer.
- [Contact](https://brandonlagreca.com/contact/): Contact Brandon LaGreca with questions, consulting requests or newsletter signup. East Troy Acupuncture, PO Box 885, East Troy, WI 53120.
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## Blog articles (Empowered Patient Blog)

- [Why You Should Order Your Own Blood Work: The $593 Lesson](https://brandonlagreca.com/blood-work/) (2026-08-12): Healthcare is an inside job, but I occasionally make an appointment with my primary care physician to review basic blood work. We’re counseled to do this yearly, but…
- [Chemical Exposure, Immune Function, and the Terrain of Chronic Disease](https://brandonlagreca.com/xenobiotic/) (2026-07-14): Every so often, I come across a technical document that deserves a wider audience. Not because it is easy reading, but because it quietly confirms something many patients…
- [Why Sleep: And Why You Shouldn’t Use a Sleep Tracker](https://brandonlagreca.com/sleep-tracker/) (2026-06-15): Do you check your sleep score every morning and cheer or despair based upon the outcome? If sleep tracking is an integral aspect of your self-care ritual, what…
- [Why Retreat: The Power of Rest](https://brandonlagreca.com/retreat/) (2026-05-01): A colleague of mine once gave me a piece of advice I have never forgotten: before a patient goes to a psychologist wondering whether they are depressed or…
- [Why Weightlifting: More Lean Muscle and Less Cancer](https://brandonlagreca.com/weightlifting/) (2026-04-02): If there’s one form of exercise that deserves more airtime in cancer prevention and survivorship, it’s strength training. Not because bigger biceps are magical, but because skeletal muscle…
- [One Minute Without a Name: Waking Up as Pure Awareness](https://brandonlagreca.com/amnesia/) (2026-03-03): I woke to the soft pull of sheets and nothing else—not even my name. For a moment, there was only touch: fabric against skin, the quiet weight of…
- [Why Meditation: The Ultimate Equalizer](https://brandonlagreca.com/meditation-2/) (2026-02-01): If you can sit or lie down in relative comfort, you can meditate—the only requirement is passive receptivity. The biggest obstacle to sticking with a meditation practice is…
- [Plastic Kraut: An Unanswered Question About Food Safety and Packaging](https://brandonlagreca.com/plastic-kraut/) (2026-01-03): I’ve been increasingly concerned about toxicants in our food supply—and how poorly government agencies are able to protect consumers. Any big corporation selling food is complicit in this…
- [A Spiritual Medicine Case Study in Cancer](https://brandonlagreca.com/spiritcasestudy/) (2025-12-04): We’ve come a long way in exploring the concept of spiritual medicine, so I thought it would be helpful to revisit the arc of the series with a…
- [The Razor’s Edge of Healing: Spiritual Abuse and Medical Hexing](https://brandonlagreca.com/spiritualabuse/) (2025-11-05): It’s worth expanding on a topic that came up in the previous post in this series. Spiritual bypassing is the idea that one’s religious adherence or spiritual practice…
- [The Wound Is the Way: Integrating Spirit and Matter in Healing](https://brandonlagreca.com/wound/) (2025-10-07): Hopefully it is evident by this stage of the series that spiritual healing is a physiological human capacity, that stress and trauma plant the seed of imbalance, and…
- [Rhythms of the Heart-Mind: A Science-Friendly Guide to Spiritual Healing](https://brandonlagreca.com/brainwave/) (2025-09-07): The last post in this series reviewed three traditional paradigms of spiritual illness, each thousands of years old. Their efficacy has been borne out over time, but just…
- [Three Paradigms of Spiritual Illness](https://brandonlagreca.com/threeparadigms/) (2025-08-09): The foundation is set. If you’ve been following this blog series, you now have a firm grasp of spiritual medicine—beginning with consciousness as spirit and appreciating the subtle…
- [The Trickster’s Touch: How Expectation Shapes Healing](https://brandonlagreca.com/trickster/) (2025-07-10): Many are familiar with the concept of the placebo effect, especially as it pertains to drug trials designed to determine whether a therapy’s benefit exceeds the power of…
- [When the Burden Is Too Great: Two Pillars of Spiritual Medicine](https://brandonlagreca.com/community/) (2025-06-11): The last few posts on spiritual medicine have been a progression toward understanding the traditional Chinese medicine axiom that all disease originates from an imbalance of emotions stemming…
- [Healing from the Heart: Emotional Imbalance as the Seed of Illness](https://brandonlagreca.com/emotions-2/) (2025-05-12): The last post in this series broadened the notion of spirit as conscious awareness by detailing the five shen of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)—the different facets of consciousness…
- [The Five Spirits of Humankind: A Map of Consciousness](https://brandonlagreca.com/shen/) (2025-04-12): In the last post in this series, we explored the idea that thoughts, emotions, and perceptions have measurable biochemical effects. In this light, “spirit” as conscious awareness becomes…
- [The Science of Spirit: A Bridge Between Consciousness and Healing](https://brandonlagreca.com/spiritmedicine1/) (2025-03-14): What is spirit? It is no small matter to define something without matter, but if we are going to examine what it means to practice spiritual medicine, we…
- [Emotions, Chemistry & Coherence](https://brandonlagreca.com/emotions/) (2025-02-12): This month’s post highlights the work of a guest contributor and dear friend, Emma Liles. It’s one of those pieces I find myself wishing I had written. With…
- [Exploring Four Pillars of Meditation: A Guide to Altered States of Consciousness](https://brandonlagreca.com/consciousness/) (2025-01-13): Meditation has long been a cornerstone of human spirituality and self-discovery, consisting of various techniques to quiet the mind and foster inner peace. While the practices may vary…
- [Affordable Wellness: Free Self-Care Practices Available to Everyone](https://brandonlagreca.com/affordable/) (2024-12-01): It’s no secret that Americans spend more on healthcare than any other developed nation. In fact, the United States’ per capita healthcare expenditure in 2022 was $12,555, nearly…
- [The Power of Showing Up: Building Healthy Habits Step by Step](https://brandonlagreca.com/showing-up/) (2024-11-01): If you’re attempting to establish a new habit, like getting in shape, I recently heard some simple yet profound advice: don’t focus on the specifics of exercise; focus…
- [When Health Declines, Let Life Flourish](https://brandonlagreca.com/life/) (2024-10-02): If you look beyond the fear of death and the uncertainty of an unknown future, you will find something even more concerning. At the core of a cancer…
- [Chocolate’s Dirty Secret: Unveiling the Risks of Lead and Cadmium Contamination](https://brandonlagreca.com/chocolate/) (2024-09-02): Chocolate has long been a beloved indulgence, bringing joy to millions around the world. However, recent research has highlighted a troubling issue lurking within this sweet treat: the…
- [The Hidden Cause of Restless Leg Syndrome](https://brandonlagreca.com/rls/) (2024-08-04): It’s the middle of the night, and I’m lying awake, feeling restless in general, but my legs are particularly troublesome, full of staticky energy. If I weren’t exhausted,…
- [Uncovering the Cancer-Trauma Connection (Part 2)](https://brandonlagreca.com/uncovering-the-cancer-trauma-connection-part-2/) (2024-07-05): There are many explanations for and descriptions of the origin of cancer, but perhaps the most revealing, is that of a wound that isn’t healing. Implicit in that…
- [The Anatomy of Power](https://brandonlagreca.com/the-anatomy-of-power/) (2024-06-06): In the intricate and interwoven systems that govern our world, power structures can be likened to the vital parts of the human body, each playing a crucial role…
- [The Plastic Apocalypse](https://brandonlagreca.com/the-plastic-apocalypse/) (2024-05-07): In an age where the convenience of plastic has led to its omnipresence in our daily lives, the unintended consequences of this synthetic marvel have begun to cast…
- [Scents of Danger: Unveiling the Hidden Health Risks of Air Fresheners](https://brandonlagreca.com/air-fresheners/) (2024-04-08): Imagine opening the door to a home filled with the inviting scent of lavender or vanilla, only to realize that this pleasant aroma might mask a hidden danger.…
- [The Cure for Low Back Pain](https://brandonlagreca.com/the-cure-for-low-back-pain/) (2024-03-10): Low back pain stands as a pervasive affliction, touching the lives of countless individuals worldwide. It is estimated that up to 80% of the population will experience low…
- [Debunking You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment](https://brandonlagreca.com/twin/) (2024-02-09): You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment, is a slick, emotionally driven Netflix documentary series positing that two key problems—the degrading health of the human species and…
- [The Easy Way to Get More Greens in Your Diet](https://brandonlagreca.com/greens/) (2024-01-25): Are you eating these greens on a regular basis? If the answer is no, there is an easier way. All of the plants listed above are crops organically…
- [Exploring Four Pillars of Meditation: A Guide to Altered States of Consciousness](https://brandonlagreca.com/meditation/) (2024-01-13): Meditation has long been a cornerstone of human spirituality and self-discovery, consisting of various techniques to quiet the mind and foster inner peace. While the practices may vary…
- [Uncovering the Cancer-Trauma Connection (Part 1)](https://brandonlagreca.com/cancer-trauma-2/) (2024-01-11): Conventional medicine prefers to study that which can be neatly categorized. Emotional trauma is messy, nuanced, and requires a holistic approach to wellness. It entails a philosophical shift…
- [The 10 Commandments & Golden Rule of Health](https://brandonlagreca.com/the-10-commandments-and-golden-rule-of-health/) (2023-11-13): The 10 Commandments of Health Thou shall trust thy body’s innate ability to heal. Thou shall breathe through thy nose. Thou shall not consume genetically modified foods, conventional…
- [Book Review of “Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity”](https://brandonlagreca.com/book-review-of-outlive-the-science-and-art-of-longevity/) (2023-10-14): Attia has distilled his wisdom into an actionable tome on the science and art of longevity. I applaud his integrity and will only offer two contrasting points I…
- [The Difference Between Acupuncture and Dry Needling](https://brandonlagreca.com/dry-needling/) (2023-09-14): As physiotherapists become increasingly enamored with the modality of dry needling, I feel compelled as an acupuncturist to place this therapy within the broader discipline of traditional Chinese…
- [Let Some Sunshine into Your Anticancer Strategy](https://brandonlagreca.com/sunshine/) (2023-08-01): Sunlight is a force that can heal or hurt the body. Media attention on sun exposure focuses on two topics on each side of that polarity: either the…
- [Evaluating Different Breathing Systems](https://brandonlagreca.com/evaluating-different-breathing-systems/) (2023-07-03): Have you ever thought about actively working to improve your breathing as part of your daily routine? When deciding which system to follow, it’s important to consider how…
- [Viome vs. Biohm: Which Is Best for Microbiome Testing?](https://brandonlagreca.com/microbiome-testing/) (2023-06-03): Microbiome research is changing the way we practice medicine. After decades of refining the optimization of probiotics, we must now consider the nuances of prebiotics and postbiotics. Think…
- [Artificial Intelligence Is Good for Your Health](https://brandonlagreca.com/ai/) (2023-05-05): Imagine an AI that can make a detailed analysis of how exposure to this endocrine-disrupting environmental toxicant is interacting with that microbiome-disrupting herbicide, in the context of someone…
- [Constipation Cures: Effective Remedies from Nature’s Pharmacy](https://brandonlagreca.com/constipation/) (2023-04-05): Constipation can be a frustrating condition. There are many reasons for getting backed up, and it can take some detective work to discover the underlying cause. It is…
- [Is 5G a Weapon?](https://brandonlagreca.com/is-5g-a-weapon/) (2023-03-07): It’s called the Active Denial System (ADS). The Joint Intermediate Force Capabilities Office of the U.S. Department of Defense Non-Lethal Weapons Program investigated the ADS for deployment for…
- [Sweat the Small Cancer Stuff](https://brandonlagreca.com/sweat-the-small-cancer-stuff/) (2023-02-05): Yet with any disease diagnosis, even the most devastating ones, it is possible to “work the problem” by sweating the small stuff. With cancer, that may be all…
- [Fixing Digestion for Good](https://brandonlagreca.com/fixing-digestion-for-good/) (2023-01-06): Digestion is way too important of a process to entrust to a gastroenterologist. Being your own advocate begins with eating a whole food, nutrient-dense diet and using simple…
- [Preventive Medicine Doesn’t Exist](https://brandonlagreca.com/preventive-medicine/) (2022-12-07): Conventional allopathic medicine operates on a split paradigm. The primary medical initiative is to heroically swoop down when disaster strikes. A car accident or heart attack will bring…
- [Reflections on ‘Kiss the Ground’](https://brandonlagreca.com/kiss-the-ground/) (2022-11-08): All life stems from air, earth, and water. We are all literal and metaphorical extensions of the Earth, as manifested as living soil. No matter what ends up…
- [The Contagious Biofield](https://brandonlagreca.com/the-contagious-biofield/) (2022-10-09): As any experienced gardener knows, the health of the soil determines the fate of the planted seed. With COVID-19, it is possible that the activity of the virus…
- [Trouble Falling Asleep? Remedying Sleep-Onset Insomnia](https://brandonlagreca.com/insomnia/) (2022-09-10): The other common deterrent to peaceful slumber is the inability to fall asleep, otherwise known as sleep-onset insomnia. This is a multifactorial problem, chock full of nuance, so…
- [Cancer: Treating Illness by Generating Health](https://brandonlagreca.com/generating-health/) (2022-08-11): Cancer formation is the planting of a seed caused by unmitigated exposure to carcinogens. Seldom discussed are all the contributing factors—known as proximate causes—that inhibit healing of that…
- [Rethinking Magnesium](https://brandonlagreca.com/rethinking-magnesium/) (2022-07-13): Magnesium is an essential nutrient that you may be lacking. It is a cofactor in hundreds of enzymatic processes in the body, yet many people are completely unaware…
- [Are You Eating Fake Food?](https://brandonlagreca.com/are-you-eating-fake-food/) (2022-06-14): Traveling late at night when a craving hits? No problem as the nearest gas station has your belly and brain covered with an assortment of colorful and wildly…
- [My Experience with the Clear Passage Approach to Treating Abdominal Adhesions](https://brandonlagreca.com/clearpassage/) (2022-05-15): It had been a long six years. Following remission of the non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma diagnosis that filled my abdominal cavity with tumors, I still suffered from periodic episodes of…
- [The Future of Cancer Therapy: Adaptive Therapy](https://brandonlagreca.com/adaptive-therapy/) (2022-04-16): The diagnosis of prostate cancer was a bad dream that Jack couldn’t wake up from. At age 53, he was working overtime to prepare for his eldest daughter’s…
- [How to Stream TV Without Wi-Fi](https://brandonlagreca.com/streaming/) (2022-03-18): Our family doesn’t watch much TV, but the Olympics were airing soon and we live far enough out in a rural area that an antenna receives few channels.…
- [Obeying God Equals Obeying Nature](https://brandonlagreca.com/obey/) (2022-02-16): What does it mean to obey God regarding health? Is an ethic for living a balanced life detailed in the holy book of each religious tradition? Or does…
- [Medical Reformation](https://brandonlagreca.com/medical-reformation/) (2022-01-17): We live in a time where the medical-industrial complex and related regulatory agencies are providing medical indulgences to citizens of the Western world. Rather than lead with education…
- [Breathing in Spirit: How to Recognize and Cultivate Inspiration](https://brandonlagreca.com/breathing-in-spirit/) (2021-12-18): Being connected to a universal stream of consciousness may sound as unattainable as it is mystical, but to do so is an inherent feature of a broader spiritual…
- [The Rain Man Effect: How to Recognize and Hone Intuition](https://brandonlagreca.com/the-rain-man-effect/) (2021-11-19): What is intuition and how do we experience it? This is a question I’ve thought a lot about as a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine. Though my work…
- [Godspeed Healing a Parkour Knee Injury](https://brandonlagreca.com/knee/) (2021-10-20): It was an epic fail. The full force of an impact that should have been displaced by two hips, thighs, and legs, was instead taken by only the…
- [Why do I always wake around 3AM?](https://brandonlagreca.com/wake/) (2021-09-20): There is a frustrating and all too common phenomenon that plagues many a sleeper. It goes something like this: Falling asleep is no problem, but in the early…
- [The Future of Cancer Therapy: Personalized Medicine](https://brandonlagreca.com/futurecancer2/) (2021-08-22): Aside from the respiratory symptoms and mild fatigue, she felt fine. She didn’t hear much else after her doctor suggested a tentative diagnosis of non-small-cell lung carcinoma.
- [Symphonic Health](https://brandonlagreca.com/symphonic-health/) (2021-07-23): Each person is a unique album of divinely inspired music. Sometimes deep scratches of trauma disturb the quality of the sound, but unlike a fixed vinyl album, the…
- [The Future of Cancer Therapy: Naturopathic Oncology](https://brandonlagreca.com/futurecancer/) (2021-06-24): For the first time since she heard the word “cancer” she was not feeling overwhelmed. Suddenly, healing seemed possible with a roadmap of consulting with a healthcare model…
- [Beginner’s Mindset](https://brandonlagreca.com/beginners-mindset/) (2021-05-26): Healing takes time, and it takes the right trajectory. A healing mindset maps the course ahead, providing guidance on treatment options and lifestyle changes that will most effectively…
- [Making Structured, Living Water](https://brandonlagreca.com/structured-water/) (2021-04-26): I’ve become increasingly interested in the nature of water after reading Dr. Tom Cowan’s book Cancer and the New Biology of Water. There is a lot more to…
- [Hypnosis for Stress](https://brandonlagreca.com/hypnosis-for-stress/) (2021-03-28): Hypnosis is a state of consciousness marked by increased awareness and suggestibility. Despite being a favored technique of magicians, illusionists, and mentalists, hypnosis isn’t all that mysterious. A…
- [Digital Detox for Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Rejuvenation](https://brandonlagreca.com/digitaldetox/) (2021-02-27): Are you feeling burnt out on social media or suffering from screen fatigue after a week of online meetings? Do your hands feel cold after hours of typing…
- [COVID vs. Cancer: Reflecting on 2020](https://brandonlagreca.com/nuance/) (2021-01-28): History teaches that neither side of any extreme is the sole arbiter of truth. No single political party, religion, or economic model can provide all the answers to…
- [Light, Heat, Sweat, and Heal](https://brandonlagreca.com/sauna/) (2020-12-29): It’s the coldest and darkest time of the year in the northern hemisphere. We celebrate and make merry with the holidays, but the passing of the winter solstice…
- [The Cure for the Common Cold?](https://brandonlagreca.com/cold/) (2020-11-30): Cold and flu season is here. Add a pandemic into the mix, and the slightest cough or sniffle results in the sick individual spending several days at home.…
- [The Promise and Peril of a Coronavirus Vaccine](https://brandonlagreca.com/vaccine/) (2020-10-31): Will global governments mandate that every citizen be injected with a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2? Does the greater good outweigh the repercussions of introducing an RNA vaccine into the…
- [Reflux: Too Much or Not Enough Stomach Acid?](https://brandonlagreca.com/reflux/) (2020-10-01): If suffering from reflux, don’t settle for a “band-aid” solution and get to the root of the problem. Proton pump inhibitor drugs are appropriate for those who genuinely…
- [Environment, Terrain, and Germ: The COVID-19 Story](https://brandonlagreca.com/covid/) (2020-09-02): One bug, one drug—such is the philosophical undercurrent to allopathic medicine. Sometimes that principle works. I suffered for three weeks with pneumonia before the right antibiotic enabled my…
- [The Pros and Cons of Masks](https://brandonlagreca.com/mask/) (2020-08-03): My Facebook feed is an even mix of those questioning the conventional narrative of donning a mask (and practically everything else related to pandemic) and demeaning or self-righteous…
- [Is the Coronavirus an Exosome?](https://brandonlagreca.com/exosome/) (2020-07-04): I’ve been thinking a lot about the content of this video in which Dr. Zach Bush introduces the notion that viruses are synonymous with exosomes, fragments of genetic…
- [Finding Our Humanity](https://brandonlagreca.com/humanity/) (2020-07-04): For the first time in recent memory, I was in tears listening to a patient share her story of grief. Sad news comes with being a clinician. Although…
- [The Anticancer Lifestyle](https://brandonlagreca.com/anticancer/) (2020-06-05): It was the first appointment with my patient after her diagnosis of uterine cancer and subsequent total hysterectomy. The prognosis was good: stage 1A with no lymph involvement.…
- [The 4th Phase of Water](https://brandonlagreca.com/gel/) (2020-05-07): Solid, liquid, and gas—these are the three states of matter presented in the home-schooling science curriculum I was preparing to review with our 7-year-old daughter. The best example…
- [Universal Healthcare Is Not Socialism](https://brandonlagreca.com/universal-healthcare/) (2020-04-07): In an election year, paying for healthcare is one of the most discussed issues, with much of the rhetoric from politicians being polarized. On one side, any mention…
- [Overprescribing Statin Drugs](https://brandonlagreca.com/statin/) (2020-03-11): I recently met with a new primary care physician. At the close of the appointment, the doctor ordered a lipid panel to check cholesterol levels. After the results…
- [Can’t Opt Out? Smart Meter Shielding](https://brandonlagreca.com/smartmeter/) (2020-02-13): Digital meters operate in the radiofrequency (or microwave) band of frequencies that is damaging to human biology. That hasn’t stopped power companies like We Energies from installing smart…
- [DIY Herbal Skin Cancer Treatment?](https://brandonlagreca.com/skin/) (2020-01-18): I was curious to test the claim of black salve to remove an abnormal skin growth and decided to experiment on myself for the sake of science and…
- [“Beware the Barrenness of a Busy Life”](https://brandonlagreca.com/busy/) (2019-12-16): Some permutation of the sentiment of being busy is a common answer to the question, “How are you?” Busy started being worn as a badge of honor at…
- [Cancer Cause or Cancer Contributor?](https://brandonlagreca.com/contributor/) (2019-11-21): What causes cancer, and what contributes to cancer formation? These are two different concepts that overlap and influence each other. A cause of cancer is a carcinogen. A…
- [The Cause of Cancer](https://brandonlagreca.com/cancer-cause/) (2019-10-07): I’m always surprised when thought leaders in mainstream oncology claim uncertainty as to the cause of cancer. The answer is quite straightforward—perhaps not simple, but unambiguous despite the…
- [10 Ways to Minimize Side Effects from Chemotherapy and Surgery](https://brandonlagreca.com/season/) (2019-09-01): I got my first up-close and personal taste of this during a very difficult conversation shortly after my 3-year-old son, Kicker, was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. While…
- [How to Paint Without Increasing Cancer Risk](https://brandonlagreca.com/voc/) (2019-08-12): Every wall of our new home needed a fresh coat of paint. A dozen gallons of paint later, we moved in without any evidence of off-gassing toxic, cancer-causing…
- [The Cancer Continuum: Finding Your Own Way](https://brandonlagreca.com/way/) (2019-07-25): Take a moment and expand on what constitutes a cancer-promoting or anti-cancer lifestyle; think beyond that black-and-white dichotomy.
- [Air Pollution PSA](https://brandonlagreca.com/air-pollution-psa/) (2019-06-07): Just a quick but VERY important reminder of how important clean air is to health, especially those treating, in remission from, or acting to prevent cancer (hint: that…
- [Wishing You Could Skip That Mammogram? Take a Look at Thermography](https://brandonlagreca.com/thermography/) (2019-05-16): One thing that gets my goat is the attribution of mammography as preventative medicine, as if getting a yearly mammogram could prevent breast cancer. A mammogram is a…
- [Censorship on Amazon?](https://brandonlagreca.com/censorship/) (2019-04-12): A curious thing happened following the recent publication of my book, “Cancer and EMF Radiation.” I hit an unforeseen snag that hampered my ability to spread the message…
- [What Is Functional Medicine?](https://brandonlagreca.com/functional/) (2019-03-11): There has been a movement within allopathic medicine to adopt a holistic model in their paradigm. This gave rise to functional medicine, practiced by a new generation of…
- [Getting the Correct Diagnoses—All of Them](https://brandonlagreca.com/diagnoses/) (2019-02-11): I have great reverence for the scientific method and one of its beneficiaries, conventional Western medicine (immunotherapy played a role in my cancer journey). Yet conventional medicine sometimes…
- [Healing a Lifetime](https://brandonlagreca.com/lifetime/) (2019-01-20): All healing is an exercise in change. If you want different results, you have to be willing to do something different. Looking over the breadth of a lifetime…
- [My Anticancer Smoothie Recipe](https://brandonlagreca.com/smoothie/) (2018-12-12): I’ve recently lectured about my experience living with a small bowel obstruction. During that talk I shared my smoothie recipe, formulated for its ease of digestion and nutrient…
- [Accumulating Cancer: Little Compromises and Big Implications](https://brandonlagreca.com/accumulating-cancer-little-compromises-and-big-implications/) (2018-11-20): What if cancer, like so many chronic diseases, is an accumulation of little compromises? Sometimes cancer has a big, blatant cause—like radiation exposure. Other times the cause is…
- [Cut the Hope Rope: Choose Freedom Over Fear After a Cancer Diagnosis](https://brandonlagreca.com/hope/) (2018-10-24): “I got complacent. Don’t ever let that happen to you.” These were the words of advice offered to me by a patient when reflecting on his second encounter…
- [Healing Asthma: Breathing Pattern Disorders](https://brandonlagreca.com/asthma/) (2018-09-24): Breathe. Is your inhalation and exhalation soft, slow, and even? Is it calm, almost imperceptible? Each breath should travel through the nose, which warms and regulates airflow into…
- [Is Your Drinking Water Safe? How to Test and Purify Water](https://brandonlagreca.com/water/) (2018-07-18): Once upon a time, most freshwater was pure and drinkable. Back then, a major risk was contracting a waterborne infection such as giardia. Now, contaminants from factories, industrial…
- [To Heat or Not to Heat: The Failing of Raw Food Diets](https://brandonlagreca.com/rawdiet/) (2018-06-25): The findings of Francis Pottenger are often cited as proof that humans, as animals, should be consuming a raw diet. Being that humans are the only Earth-dwellers who…
- [“Acupuncture Doesn’t Work”](https://brandonlagreca.com/acupuncture/) (2018-05-17): I don’t hear this phrase often, as patients who return to our clinic do so because they have benefited from acupuncture. However, acupuncture may not be the treatment…
- [Ferment Your Way to a Healthier Gut with Homemade Sauerkraut](https://brandonlagreca.com/sauerkraut/) (2018-04-16): Teeming with life and full of bubbly deliciousness, sauerkraut is digestive vigor in a jar. When made at home, sauerkraut is inexpensive and simple to prepare. One head…
- [Reduce Microbiome Damage from Antibiotics with Probiotics and Prebiotics](https://brandonlagreca.com/antibiotics/) (2018-03-13): Antibiotics are lifesaving but have significant negative health consequences, reducing populations of beneficial gut flora along with the pathogenic microbes they are prescribed to target. This side effect…
- [Air Purification for Optimal Health](https://brandonlagreca.com/air/) (2018-02-02): It’s harder to breathe easy these days. You may think indoor air quality is an issue only in developing countries, where particulate matter from the burning of biomass…
- [Burn Away the Winter Blues](https://brandonlagreca.com/burn-away-winter-blues/) (2018-01-08): It’s winter in Wisconsin. The nights are long, and the days are cold. With the glow of the holidays past, we hunker down for the deep freeze and…
- [Living with a Small Bowel Obstruction](https://brandonlagreca.com/sbo/) (2017-12-16): In February 2015 I was diagnosed with a small bowel obstruction (SBO), secondary to lymphoma. An enlarged lymph node was encroaching into the luminal space of the intestinal…
- [The Problem with GcMAF](https://brandonlagreca.com/gcmaf/) (2017-12-07): One of the new players in the holistic treatment of cancer is a compound called Gc protein-derived macrophage activating factor (GcMAF). As the name implies, this naturally occurring…
- [Breathing Yourself to Better Health](https://brandonlagreca.com/breathing/) (2017-11-11): You may not think the mundane act of breathing could be a powerful influencer of health and disease, but there are many instances where a breathing pattern disorder…
- [Guns and Drugs May Be Bad for Your Health](https://brandonlagreca.com/guns/) (2017-10-10): Opioid use and gun violence have reached epidemic levels here in the United States. At the root of each often lie addiction and mental illness. Going deeper, at…
- [Bentonite Clay: Eating Earth for Optimal Gastrointestinal Health](https://brandonlagreca.com/clay/) (2017-09-12): The practice of consuming clay is prehistoric, with references to its medical use documented by Hippocrates. Bentonite is the most common form of medicinal clay available and is…
- [The Ethics of Eating Meat](https://brandonlagreca.com/the-ethics-eating-meat/) (2017-08-04): The ethics of eating meat extend beyond the ascribed relations of humans to livestock and humans to game. Life consumes life, and as omnivores, we cannot separate ourselves…
- [Liver: The Working Class Hero of Superfoods](https://brandonlagreca.com/liver/) (2017-07-04): Hunter-gatherer societies valued organ meats over muscle meats, often reserving organ meats for the pregnant and breastfeeding women of the tribe. Mature modern cultures with refined culinary traditions…
- [Coffee: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly](https://brandonlagreca.com/coffee/) (2017-06-15): Coffee has been a traditional drink of equatorial peoples for hundreds of years. Its dark roasted flavor and stimulant effect have drawn countless adherents to the church of…
- [How Essential Are Essential Oils?](https://brandonlagreca.com/essential-oils/) (2017-05-23): Essential oils are an ancient medicine. They have not been used as long as herbal medicine, given the distillation technology necessary to derive the oil, but their roots…
- [Magnesium Oil Is a Muscle’s Best Friend](https://brandonlagreca.com/magnesium-oil/) (2017-04-13): Magnesium oil is an inexpensive remedy that can effectively treat several health problems associated with magnesium deficiency. As a topical treatment, transdermal magnesium therapy has a key advantage…
- [Light Therapy: The Power of the Sun in the Palm of Your Hand](https://brandonlagreca.com/light-therapy/) (2017-03-28): Within the earliest traditions of healing you’ll find dietary and herbal therapy, bodywork in various forms, and light therapy. Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, recommended exposing the…
- [The Apple Cider Vinegar Cure?](https://brandonlagreca.com/apple-cider-vinegar/) (2017-03-06): You may have heard anecdotes about apple cider vinegar treating just about everything except death. Though not a miracle remedy, raw and organic apple cider vinegar does have…
- [Breaking Down Digestion](https://brandonlagreca.com/breaking-down-digestion/) (2017-02-11): Digestion is a magnificently complex process requiring extensive interactions among several organ systems, yet one need not be a physiologist to garner an appreciation of the basics of…
- [Taking Time to Heal](https://brandonlagreca.com/taking-time-heal/) (2017-01-14): Time heals all wounds. This old adage alludes to the body’s self-regulating function. Simply put, wellness is your birthright, and your body is always trying to heal itself.
- [A Crisis of Consciousness in Today’s Healthcare System](https://brandonlagreca.com/crisis-consciousness/) (2017-01-07): Modern western healthcare is expensive. The United States has the highest healthcare spending at 17 percent of its gross domestic product, nearly twice as much as other developed…

## Topics

- [Breathwork](https://brandonlagreca.com/category/breathwork/): 3 articles — Breathing as a trainable function. Breathing pattern disorders and asthma, an assessment of the major breathing systems, and why how you breathe changes how…
- [Cancer](https://brandonlagreca.com/category/cancer/): 35 articles — Integrative oncology from a practitioner who has also been the patient. Evidence-informed writing on cancer prevention, treatment side effects, survivorship and the anticancer lifestyle,…
- [Detoxification](https://brandonlagreca.com/category/detoxification/): 3 articles — How the body clears what it takes in, and how to support it. Sweating and sauna, air purification, binders such as bentonite clay, and…
- [Diet](https://brandonlagreca.com/category/diet/): 13 articles — What to eat, why the answer keeps changing, and how to tell a real finding from a headline. Fermentation, greens, fats, contaminants in everyday…
- [Digestion](https://brandonlagreca.com/category/digestion/): 12 articles — Digestion as the foundation of the rest of it. Reflux and stomach acid, the microbiome, constipation, adhesions, bowel obstruction, and the practical work of…
- [Environmental Medicine](https://brandonlagreca.com/category/environmental-medicine/): 15 articles — The exposures medicine tends to overlook: EMF and electropollution, plastics, air and water quality, VOCs and chemical burden. How environmental toxins shape the terrain…
- [Ethics](https://brandonlagreca.com/category/ethics/): 4 articles — The moral questions medicine and diet raise and mostly avoid: eating meat, universal healthcare, guns and drugs as health policy, and what the evidence…
- [Featured](https://brandonlagreca.com/category/featured/): 3 articles — Selected articles highlighted across the site. A display collection rather than a subject — the writing here also appears under its own topic.
- [Home Remedies](https://brandonlagreca.com/category/home-remedies/): 5 articles — Things that work, cost little and can be done tonight: magnesium oil, essential oils, remedies for sleep-onset insomnia and the common cold. Simple interventions…
- [Light](https://brandonlagreca.com/category/light/): 3 articles — Light as a clinical input, not just illumination. Red and near-infrared therapy, sauna and heat, seasonal affective patterns, and the sun's place in an…
- [Mental Health](https://brandonlagreca.com/category/mental-health/): 3 articles — Mind and mood as physiology. Meditation, the cancer–trauma connection, and the seasonal and light-driven patterns behind low mood — where psychological state and physical…
- [Nature Medicine](https://brandonlagreca.com/category/nature-medicine/): 13 articles — Healing that borrows from the natural world — sunlight, water, soil, the biofield and the body's own repair capacity. Where traditional practice and current…
- [Nutrition](https://brandonlagreca.com/category/nutrition/): 2 articles — Specific nutrients and what the research actually supports — magnesium, iron and the deficiencies behind symptoms that get treated as something else, such as…
- [Philosophy](https://brandonlagreca.com/category/philosophy/): 38 articles — How to think about health, not just what to do about it. Brandon LaGreca on intuition, meditation, rest, habit and the difference between treating…
- [Rants](https://brandonlagreca.com/category/rants/): 8 articles — Where Brandon argues. Overprescribing, preventive medicine that prevents nothing, the cost of a blood test, and food that is not really food — the…
- [Social Medicine](https://brandonlagreca.com/category/social-medicine/): 11 articles — Health is not only personal. Medical reform, the economics of care, censorship, digital life, pandemic policy and the structures that decide who gets well…
- [Spirit Medicine](https://brandonlagreca.com/category/spirit-medicine/): 12 articles — The spiritual dimension of illness and recovery: consciousness, emotional wounding, the five spirits of Chinese medicine, shamanic practice and spiritual abuse. Written to be…
- [Stress](https://brandonlagreca.com/category/stress/): 2 articles — The physiology of stress and what to do with it: the stress–cancer connection, hypnosis, the 3am waking, and building resilience rather than simply enduring.

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