My interview with Dr. Adam McLeod – Episode #4 Hope, Strength & Courage Podcast
“The biggest piece of advice that I could give parents who have a child whose fighting cancer, is that you want to start this integrative care from day one. You can find a naturopathic doctor who can form a collaborative relationship with your oncologist. You don’t have to be doing these big crazy expensive plans. You just have to be doing a targeted therapy that’s going to work synergistically with that and you want to start that on day one. You don’t want to wait until your options are exhausted and then decide to start exploring these different things. There’s a lot of things you can do safely right from day one.” Dr. Adam McLeod
Summary: Today’s episode features my interview with Naturopathic Integrative Oncologist Dr. Adam McLeod as we discuss how an integrative oncologist can help navigate the overwhelm of your child’s diagnosis.
What I love most about this interview with Dr. McLeod, is how he provided us with a foundation to learn more about integrative oncology and how it can help you and your family navigate the treatments and side-effects of those specific treatments. He explained how naturopathic medicine and integrative oncology can help the patient feel better and persevere through all those therapies. He also explained the importance of understanding that because of the complexities of oncology: of the different types of cancer and the different types of treatment, there needs to be collaboration between your naturopathic physician, who specializes in integrative oncology and your oncologist.
During our interview we also cover why we shouldn’t self-prescribe natural therapies during conventional cancer treatments without the assistance of an integrative oncologist. We discussed the importance of having help understanding your child’s diagnosis, the treatment plan and what side effects to expect and how to reduce those side effects, whether it is through diet, supplements and simple changes. We talked about how integrative oncologists can help deal with the overwhelm, fears, what questions to ask and what parents can be doing to support their child through treatments and their side effects.
I hope you will appreciate Dr. McLeod’s advice as much as I did.
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Best Advice from Dr Adam McLeod
- The more the patients ask for there to be collaboration between their naturopathic physician and their oncologist the more that’s going to happen
- The biggest piece of advice that I could give parents who have a child whose fighting cancer, is that you want to start this integrative care from day one.
- If I could pick one thing that naturopathic medicine is particularly good at in the field of integrative oncology, it’s supporting the immune system.
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