Tend The Terrain Podcast with Dr. Nasha
Tend the Terrain with Dr. Nasha is a weekly podcast about the conditions that shape our lives, biological, emotional, relational, cultural, and ecological. The ground beneath our health. The rhythms that regulate us. The environments, internal and external, that determine whether life thrives or quietly begins to unravel.
Hosted by Dr. Nasha Winters, a three-decade integrative oncology thought leader, two-time author, cancer thriver, and creator of the Metabolic Approach to Cancer® and Terrain Ten™ framework, this show invites scientists, farmers, clinicians, artists, and lived experience leaders into conversations that prioritize pattern recognition over protocols, meaning over metrics, and restoration over force.
This is not a show about fixing what’s broken.
It’s about understanding what supports life.
If you’re curious about how timing, relationships, nervous systems, land, story, and self-trust shape human health and capacity, pull up a chair.
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Tend The Terrain Podcast with Dr. Nasha
Studying What Ketosis Reveals When You Take It Away with Dr. Isabella Cooper | Ep. 005
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Dr. Isabella Cooper is a biochemist and pathology scientist out of the University of Westminster, and she runs one of the only labs in this field that takes no money from the food industry — so when she tells you something, it's the data talking and nothing else. Most researchers study ketosis by asking what it does when you switch it on.
Isabella walked in through the back door: she took women who'd been in ketosis for years and had them stop, then watched what the body did when the thing was taken away — and what it did when ketosis returned. The body remembered.
This conversation moves from the mitochondria as a kind of terrain to the wisdom buried in scarcity, the female body the literature keeps overlooking, and the woman behind the rigor. It's terrain thinking in a lab coat, and a reminder that your body is not a machine running down. It's a living system, waiting for the right conditions to return.