LONGEVITY with Nathalie Niddam #436: Is Your Body’s Terrain Hospitable For Cancer? Affordable Lab Tests, Metabolic Flexibility, and Emotional Foundations With Dr. Nasha Winters
May 8, 2026
Dr. Nasha Winters, integrative oncologist and author known for the Metabolic Approach to Cancer, focuses on metabolic terrain, mitochondrial health, and practical testing. She discusses affordable lab markers and the “trifecta,” metabolic flexibility and the “under five” rule, circadian strategies for shift work, emotional foundations for healing, and why simple home-cooked food and community matter.
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Improve Circadian Health For Big Gains
- Prioritize circadian hygiene: enforce consistent sleep, blackout rooms, timed melatonin, avoid eating during night shifts, and use blue blockers at night.
- For shift workers Winters advises eating before/after shifts, 2 meals max, and using fasting-as-work-time.
Start With A 13 Hour Overnight Fast
- Start everyone with time-restricted eating of 13 hours nightly and progress toward 16–24 hour fasts and occasional longer fasts as tolerated.
- Winters uses weekly 24-hour and monthly 72-hour fasts in cancer care when appropriate.
Home Cooked Soup Reversed Decline In Days
- Nasha recounts her mother cooking soups and stews for an elderly couple and reversing their poor health within weeks.
- The family began sharing meals, showing how simple home-cooked food plus community restored vitality.
