A NOTE FROM DR. LUCAS

If you’re reading this, something hard has probably just happened. Maybe the word cancer is still ringing in your ears. Maybe it was said weeks ago and you still haven’t found the bottom of it. Either way, you know the feeling this article is written for: the one that shows up at 3 a.m. and asks, quietly, why did this happen to me, and what am I supposed to do now?

We want you to know something before you read another line. That feeling is not weakness, and it is not the end of the story. It’s the beginning of a different set of questions, and there are good answers to them.

We See What You’re Carrying

We’ve sat with a lot of people in the days after a diagnosis, so we think we know some of what you’re feeling.

You may feel like a case number. Handed a schedule, moved through a system, one more chart in a very full day. You may have been told to “wait and watch,” and found that waiting is its own kind of torture when your body feels like it’s working against you. You may be quietly googling at midnight, terrified of the promises that sound too good and unsure who to trust. And you may feel a guilt no one warned you about, the fear that if you look outside the standard path, you’re somehow betraying it, or gambling with the only shot you have.

Please hear this clearly. You are not a number. You are not being dramatic. And you do not have to choose between the medicine your doctors are giving you and the deeper care your body is asking for. You can have both. That is the entire idea behind what we do.

A Starting Point That Actually Feels Right

Most cancer care is aimed at the tumor, and it should be. Find it, shrink it, treat it. We wholeheartedly understand this logic, and you will know whether this route is a part of your journey.

We also understand a tumor never grows in a vacuum. It grows in a living body, in the soil we call your terrain: your inflammation, your metabolism, your immune system, your hormones, your sleep, your deficiencies and toxicities, and the stress you’ve been carrying. That terrain is something you can begin to tend. It’s the part of this story where you get to stop waiting and start doing, and it’s where most people are given nothing to work with at all.

That’s the gap we built the SEED Program to fill. The name is a promise: Supportive, Evidence-based, Early-intervention, Delivery. It is a focused starting point, designed to prepare your terrain, wake up your body’s own defenses, and give you the strongest possible foundation for whatever comes next.* It is not a cure, and we will never pretend it is. It’s a beginning. What grows from it is yours.

One-Week (& You’re Never a Stranger in It)
SEED is a one-week, all-inclusive intensive, and we’ve made it deliberately clear and human … because uncertainty is exhausting and you’ve had enough of that.

Before you ever arrive, we learn your story. A full history, terrain testing, and a real conversation, so that when you walk in, you are known. For five days, Monday through Friday, you receive our six core therapies on a steady schedule, with your providers checking in each morning and small group sessions on food, rest, and the emotional weight of all of this. You leave with a written plan you’ll actually use, not a folder you’ll never open. Thirty days later, we talk again, because we don’t hand you a plan and disappear.

The six therapies at the center of the week are:*

1. IV High-Dose Vitamin C
2. Mistletoe
3. Hyperbaric Oxygen
4. Ozone
5. Hyperthermia
6. Terrain Support Medications (matched to your biology)

Every one was chosen because there is real science behind it.* And here is the part that sets us apart: we will tell you honestly what each one can do and where the evidence is still young. In a field full of people willing to promise you the moon, we don’t. We think you’ve earned the truth, and we think the truth is hopeful enough on its own.

This Feels Different, Because It Is

There aren’t many places like this, and we say that plainly. Root Causes was founded by Dr. Derek Guillory, MD, on a simple, radical idea: that nearly all disease traces back to two roots, deficiency and toxicity. Our oncology care is led by Dr. Lucas Tims, ND, FABNO, a fellowship-trained naturopathic oncologist, a credential fewer than two hundred practitioners in the country hold. Together, they make something rare possible. You can access thoughtful, integrative protocols and stay fully in step with your conventional treatment, guided by people genuinely trained in both worlds. Patients come to us having already been told there was nothing more to try. What they find is a team that listens, that remembers them, and that gives them something to do with their hope besides hold their breath.

That is the thing our patients tell us again and again. Not that we promised them an outcome. That we saw them, and that for the first time since their diagnosis, they felt like a person with options instead of a passenger.

From Fearful Waiting … to Empowered Action

Here is the one place we’ll gently push you. Time matters, and not because of pressure or fear. It matters because your terrain is most workable when you start tending it early,* and because the weeks after a diagnosis are precious ones to spend feeling helpless. You don’t have to spend them that way.

The next step is small, and it costs you nothing but a little time: a 25-minute call with our team. No obligation, no hard sell, no pressure to enroll. We’ll listen to where you are, tell you honestly whether SEED is right for you, and if it isn’t, we’ll say so and point you toward what might be. And if it is a fit, we’ll walk you through exactly what’s involved, including the full investment, so you have complete clarity before you ever decide. No surprises, ever.

If any part of you exhaled while reading this, that’s worth listening to. Book the call today, while the door is open and you’re thinking about it. You can take the next breath knowing you’ve done one real thing for yourself.

The program is delivered in person at our clinic in San Antonio, Texas, where our team is genuinely, warmly ready to welcome you.

Cancer is not bad luck. It’s biology, and biology, unlike luck, is something we can work with, together.

With Warmth,

The Team at Root Causes Oncology