Dr. Nalini Chilkov

8 Steps to Naturally Reduce Your Risk of Colon Cancer

March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month. According to the Colon Cancer Alliance and the American Cancer Society, colon cancer, also known as colorectal cancer, is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading...

Cancer patients have a seven times higher risk of complications from blood clot formation. (1) One of...

A new study reveals that the spread of cancer may be reduced with...

Parabens are chemical preservatives found in almost all cosmetics and body care products....

Mushrooms of Immortality: Modern Medicine From Ancient Chinese Herbs

Medicinal mushrooms and mushroom extracts are used worldwide to fight cancer and enhance and modulate immune response. Lentinula edodes...

After breast cancer treatment, many women are prescribed aromatase inhibitors* to prevent recurrence of estrogen sensitive tumors. These drugs can cause joint pain that leads many women to stop using them, thus increasing their risk of a recurrence. It is surprising to find that a drug...

Exhausted? Overwhelmed? Stressed all the time?

• Do you need five cups of coffee to make it through the day?
• Do you find yourself constantly irritable, on edge?
• Do you feel everything you eat turns to fat?

These are just a handful of questions that are addressed in a wonderful new...

Greek myths tell us that pomegranates, the fruit of Persephone, can guarantee a return to spring each year. And modern science tells us that pomegranates may indeed be a fruit of the Goddess in its capacity to alter cancer cell growth in a multiplicity of ways.

There are hundreds of...

What if our education emphasized cultivating compassion, caring, open heartedness, ethics, insight and wisdom? What kind of person might we become if kindness and generosity were part of our daily lessons? What if we not...

Nature gave us a gene that may work...

More and more women are being diagnosed with breast cancer, ovarian cancer, cervical cancer and uterine cancer. Most people reading this probably either know someone who has had cancer or had cancer themselves.

Most women do not realize that there are dangerous factors in their everyday  modern lives that increase...

Have some carotenoids for dinner, for lunch and for breakfast and you may improve your immune function and even possibly lower your risk of cancer.  Carotenoids, natural antioxidants and immune modulators,  contribute to protecting our cells from the damage that is part...

Why does a woman with no family history of breast cancer and no obvious risk factors for breast cancer succumb to the disease? What happened to her? Today 1 in 8 women in the U.S. is diagnosed with breast cancer. Will you be one of them?

The development...

Cancer cells spur inflammation in order to get nutrients from the surrounding tissue for the purpose of fueling tumor growth. This increased inflammation produced by cancer cells also accelerates the aging process. It is crucial to manage inflammation in order to both control the spread and growth of cancer and...

Cordyceps sinensis (CS), a traditional Chinese Medicine, is a fungus that has been historically used for over 2,000 years throughout China and Asia as part of treatment for a variety of conditions, including many cancers.  In modern times, the effects of

In June 2009 the FDA cut corners and fast-tracked the approval of a new medical device without ascertaining its safety because it resembled other similar devices that had been approved in the past. That's like saying ... well this nuclear reactor looks like another one we approved last year, so...

NEWS FLASH: Award Winning Film 9000 Needles showing on Thursday May 5th at 8:30PM at the Regent Theater in Hollywood as part of the AWARENESS FESTIVAL

At the age of 40 Devin Dearth's life changed forever. Devin, a vital and active loving husband, father,...

Approximately 83 percent of people with cancer use at least one complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) modality (11).

Using my experience as a health and wellness expert, I have compiled a list of what cancer patients say about the choices they make regarding cancer treatment:

What drives the spread of Breast Cancer?

Recent studies from the University of California, San Diego,  published in the British Journal, NATURE, have discovered a molecule called RANKL, found in aggressive breast cancer cells that predicts more deadly, lethal and life threatening disease.  The findings from...