Unlocking Natural Medicine and Cancer Through the Multifactorial Roots of Healing
- Brainz Magazine
- May 14
- 4 min read
Written by Anna Mercoiret, Holistic Coach
Anna Mercoiret, founder of the Wholistic method, is a holistic coach who overcame serious health issues from a high-stress finance career in Paris through Ayurveda, Naturopathy, Yoga, and Energy Work. Now, she helps others achieve balance and wellness with her integrative approach, combining body, mind, and soul healing.
In a world flooded with wellness advice, cancer is too often reduced to what’s on our plates. Eat this, avoid that, drink this juice. While nutrition undeniably plays a role, cancer is not caused or cured by diet alone. It’s a multifactorial disease shaped by a vast interplay of genetics, environment, emotions, stress, relationships, unresolved trauma, vibrational frequency, and more.
As a naturopath, Ayurvedic practitioner, Reiki therapist, and yoga teacher, I’ve worked with women who feel guilt, believing their illness is their fault for eating the “wrong” foods. Others pour all their energy into strict dietary protocols, hoping food alone will heal them. But healing requires much more. It calls for a profound shift across body, mind, heart, and soul.
Cancer is multifactorial: More than just food
Cancer arises at the intersection of many invisible factors. Cellular mutations, immune dysregulation, chronic inflammation, endocrine disruptors, toxin exposure, emotional suppression, unresolved conflicts, and energetic stagnation all weave into its development.
You can have an impeccable organic, anti-inflammatory diet, but if you’re living under chronic stress, holding onto resentment, suppressing grief, or constantly sacrificing your needs, the body remains vulnerable. Stress alone disrupts cortisol rhythms, weakens immunity, fuels inflammation, and lowers vibrational frequency. Neuroscience research shows how chronic stress alters gene expression and cellular repair mechanisms. Emotional repression has been linked to immune dysfunction. Bioenergetic studies reveal how low vibrational states, feelings of fear, anger, shame, affect cellular health.
Healing requires raising vibrational frequency by aligning your life with your truth, values, and purpose. Practices like meditation, Reiki, breathwork, intentional movement, creative expression, and deep emotional work help elevate inner states. When we shift from fear and suppression to love, gratitude, and authenticity, we support physiological and energetic repair.
The role of emotional healing and inner alignment
Unprocessed emotions create stagnation, not just psychologically but energetically. Holding onto anger or grief can manifest physically over time. Developing emotional literacy, practicing forgiveness, setting boundaries, and allowing space for all feelings are not luxuries; they’re essential steps in restoring balance.
Many women I’ve worked with realize that a cancer diagnosis wasn’t just a physiological event, it was a wake-up call from the body, a message inviting change. Whether it’s leaving toxic environments, healing relational wounds, expressing long-silenced truths, or reclaiming joy, each journey is deeply personal.
Our environment shapes our inner terrain
Beyond food and emotions, we must consider the environments we inhabit: exposure to chemicals, air and water quality, electromagnetic fields, even the energetic climate of our relationships and workplaces. Chronic exposure to negativity, criticism, or unsupportive dynamics affects nervous system health. Healing includes curating nurturing spaces, seeking positive connections, and distancing from toxicity.
Raising vibrational frequency, a missing link
Vibrational frequency isn’t just a spiritual idea, it’s supported by quantum biology and neurophysics. Every organ, every cell emits electromagnetic signals. Low-frequency emotions correspond with contraction, inflammation, and cellular stress. High-frequency states such as love, joy, and peace promote coherence, repair, and resilience.
Aligning vibrational frequency involves living in integrity with your deepest values. It means creating harmony between your actions, thoughts, words, and desires. When we compromise our truth or abandon ourselves to please others, vibrational incoherence arises. True healing demands reclaiming authenticity.
The importance of rest, pleasure, and nervous system regulation
We cannot heal in a constant state of fight or flight. The nervous system needs time in parasympathetic dominance to initiate repair processes. Deep rest, pleasure, laughter, play, and creative expression are not indulgences, they’re biological necessities.
Incorporating practices that regulate the nervous system, yoga, breathwork, nature immersion, somatic therapies, helps shift the body into healing states. Trauma-informed care recognizes that unresolved survival responses must be processed for full restoration.
Healing is a multilayered journey
Cancer prevention and healing cannot be reduced to “eat clean” or “think positive.” It is a deeply multifaceted journey that invites attention to every layer: physical nourishment, emotional liberation, energetic alignment, environmental awareness, relational integrity, and spiritual connection.
Every piece matters. Every aspect intertwines. Nutrition supports the body, emotions free the heart, and alignment uplifts the spirit. Healing unfolds when all these dimensions are honored and nurtured.
There’s no single answer, no miracle food or quick fix. But by embracing complexity, honoring our inner wisdom, and tending to the whole self, we create the conditions where true healing can emerge.
Anna Mercoiret, Holistic Coach
Anna Mercoiret is a holistic coach and the founder of the Wholistic method. After a demanding career in finance in Paris led to numerous health issues, Anna transformed her life through Ayurveda, Naturopathy, Yoga, Energy Work, and Personal Development. In just six months, she regulated her PCOS, reduced chronic inflammation, stabilized her kidney insufficiency, calmed her anxiety, and relocated to Bali.
Drawing on her comprehensive training and personal experience, Anna developed the Wholistic method, which aims to balance the body, mind, and soul. Today, she helps individuals master their health, find balance, and lead more aligned lives through tailored holistic coaching.
