Recovery and Wellness

Feeling overwhelmed by conflicting advice on what to eat during or after a cancer diagnosis? Manuela believes that food should be a source of joy, not confusion.

Explore her collection of nourishing recipes designed to support your body and well-being.

Each meal is designed to provide essential nutrients.

Start cooking and take a positive step toward better health today.

 With a solid foundation of knowledge, you become a powerful partner in your care. An empowered patient knows to ask critical questions about the evidence behind a complementary medicine therapy, its potential benefits, and any risks or interactions with conventional treatments.

Manuela disseminates evidence-based research helping you engaging into a genuine collaboration and working together to build a safe, effective, and holistic treatment plan.

By seeking out and understanding information, you move from being a passive recipient of care to an active participant in your own healing.

Your body is unique, and so are your nutritional needs.

Manuela offers the internationally renowned Metabolic Balance program. Whether you are underweight or overweight, this personalised nutritional program helps you achieve optimal health, effectively rebalancing your body composition.

The program includes positive mindset techniques to support your emotional/stress eating problems, personal food preferences, meal ideas & recipes, and nutritional education. Prevention at its best!

Since 2001, the Institute for Functional Medicine (USA) has been directly accredited by Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. The strict post-graduate training education is based on current science, evidence, and clinical reasoning and evaluated for its effectiveness. Manuela has obtained the internationally recognised Board Certification for Functional Medicine.

Supporting cancer patients with personalised and complementary lifestyle-based interventions helps reduce side effects of cancer treatments and improve outcomes.

Functional medicine plays a much-needed role in cancer care, emphasising low-risk therapeutic approaches that optimise a patient’s health during their survivorship journey.

The state of mind impacts health through the mind-body connection. There is a nexus between body and mind are one. The mind feeds the body just as the body feeds the mind.

Since emotions, feelings, thoughts, beliefs, actions, and behaviour impact and literally shape wellbeing, Manuela focuses on strengthening your mental and emotional life.

She strives to help you regain and maintain hope, calm, optimism, and inner peace. Manuela wants to know how you feel; she listens and empowers you with positive actions, step-by-step into wellness.

Cancer-related is one of the most common side effects of cancer and its treatments. Like fatigue, cancer fatigue is whole-body exhaustion that you feel no matter how much sleep or rest you get.

Cancer fatigue takes exhaustion a step further: You feel physically, emotionally and mentally exhausted most of the time. Cancer fatigue may last a few weeks (acute) or for months or years (chronic).

To improve energy effectively, Manuela provides modalities ranging from mindfulness-based cognitive therapy therapies to herbal medicine and targeted nutritional interventions.

After the conclusion of cancer treatments, Manuela strongly recommends that you follow her clinical detoxification program.

After the conclusion of medical treatments, side-effects have lingering issues preventing a good recovery.

Manuela’s personalized program is designed to help you regain strength, balance, and wellness through a sensible, gentle, and effective detoxification process. It’s a path to a renewed you.

As a Clinical Nutritionist, Manuela provides personalised and appropriate dietary plans before, during and after cancer treatments.

She focuses on addressing your current nutritional status and develop the right diet for you. 

“One size does not fit all” principle applies to your diet. Each person is unique and therefore variability exists between nutrient-sense diets.

Manuela provides a detailed 7 day menu plan, shopping lists and recipes that reflect food preferences and sensitivities. The menu plans are easy to follow. Each food is selected for its specific content of nutrients. Healthy foods positively support your whole person wellness.

We are increasingly aware that we face countless health challenges every day. Some of them will significantly contribute to a cancer diagnosis. We also have the tools to modify these challenges. Making proactive choices about your diet, increasing physical activity, managing stress, optimising hormonal balance, and minimising environmental exposures is a direct and potent strategy for your future health.

Manuela utilises validated Functional Medicine tests and blood work to identify the root causes of health issues and evaluate how different body systems interact and function. This approach aims to optimize overall health and well-being by addressing imbalances and deficiencies

Nutrition plays a foundational role in our health, influencing everything from our energy levels and mood to our susceptibility to illness. Nutritional Medicine is not just about avoiding unhealthy foods; it is about strategically using food and evidence-based nutritional supplements as therapeutic tools.

This approach recognises that each person’s nutritional needs are unique, influenced by their genetics, lifestyle, environment and specific health conditions.

Herbal medicine is the oldest and the most widely used system of medicine in the world today. It is medicine made exclusively from plants.

Herbal medicine is validated by rigorous scientific research which has explored the complex chemistry of plants. Many modern pharmaceuticals have been modelled on, or derived from, phytochemicals found in herbs. Increasing research on herbal medicine demonstrates that liquid botanicals play a critical role during, before and after a diagnosis of cancer. Your safety is her priority. Manuela always conducts a thorough check for any potential interactions or contraindications between your herbal and medical treatments

Manuela seeks to provide only the highest quality full spectrum herbal extracts available.

Cancer requires negotiation and navigation. Decisions must be made. Directions must be pursued. The decisions and directions often occur in the middle of stress, fear, trauma, and many other challenging emotions. The skills with which people negotiate and navigate their cancer journey are better supported by combining conventional treatments with evidence-based natural medicine.

Manuela is dedicated to designing individual programs to support you regardless of your diagnosis and the stage of your cancer. She collects all critical information about your state of health and help you in your decision-making process with the wisdom and the experience that comes from years of clinical practice. She works in alignment with what you think, feel, say, and do. In this way, she honours your self-awareness, your knowledge and views and integrate them in safe practices.