“I was drawn to longevity in an attempt to extend my own”
Medical Longevity Summit (MLS) Keynote Speaker Dr Nasha Winters shares how a terminal cancer diagnosis led her to functional health
Functional health specialist and naturopathic oncologist Dr Nasha Winters grew up in rural farming country in Kansas, US. That early proximity to soil, weather, animals and the people who lived close to all three shaped Dr Winters, and she credits this landscape for the way she thinks about the body now. Just days before her 20th birthday, and a sophomore in college working towards her bachelor’s degree, she received a terminal cancer diagnosis.
Dr Winters recalls, “The symptoms had been brewing for months, filed under earlier labels I’d been given, such as irritable bowel syndrome, polycystic ovary syndrome and endometriosis.” This diagnosis reshaped the kind of doctor she wanted to become. “Moving through the medical system from the inside out, a patient, student, advocate and sceptic all at once, taught me with painful clarity what was missing in the rooms I was being seen in,” she…
