Dr. Nathan Goodyear started out as a gynecologist and pelvic floor surgeon. Once out of residency, however, he noticed that a lot of what he had been taught in medical school didn’t work. Then, in 2006, he developed pheochromocytoma, a rare type of tumor that develops in the adrenal gland, causing it to excrete high amounts of norepinephrine, which, in turn, causes extremely high blood pressure and heart rate.
That experience pushed him to make the transition into the field of cancer research. For the past 5 1/2 years, he’s been working with Brio-Medical, a holistic cancer clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, and for the past six months, he has served as its medical director. He works with four other physicians—two medical doctors and two naturopathic physicians….