ABOUT
Tanya Miles
Integrative Naturopathic Cancer Support
Complex Chronic Illness & Terrain Medicine
I work with people navigating complex, layered conditions: autoimmunity, hormones, fertility, fatigue, mould and stealth infection, and cancer.
My work is on the internal environment underneath: the conditions health is actually built on, alongside their medical team rather than in place of it.
MY APPROACH
A diagnosis is a name, not an explanation. The useful question is why it happened in you.
Conventional medicine answers its question brilliantly. If I broke a bone, needed surgery or was diagnosed with cancer, I would want that system, and I refer to it constantly. But it rarely asks the second question. Ten people meet the same virus and two become unwell. Two people carry the same genetic risk and one develops the illness.
I didn't start in oncology. I came to it through complex chronic illness: autoimmune conditions, hormonal disruption, and the cases that fall through the cracks. People who have seen several specialists, tried a great deal, and still have no explanation.
Working with them changed how I understand illness. It rarely arrives at random. It emerges from a disturbed terrain, a body carrying a load it cannot clear, held in survival physiology, expressing genes it would not otherwise express. That is not a claim that everything is reversible. It is a claim that the ground underneath is usually modifiable, and almost always unexamined.
In oncology the same reading applies, and much of the research suggests metabolic dysfunction, epigenetic dysregulation, failing immune tolerance, cells held in a danger response and reverting to a primitive survival metabolism. That understanding shapes how I support someone. The treatment itself belongs entirely to their oncology team.
I work with Dr Carol Haddad, integrative oncologist and founder of Integrative Cancer Care Australia. Her approach taught me how to support people safely through chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy: easing the daily burden of treatment, caring for the tissues under strain, and rebuilding strength afterwards.
Before establishing Integrative Naturopathy I was Head Naturopath at Gaia Retreat & Spa in Byron Bay, leading programs in detoxification, hormone balance and lifestyle medicine. I continue advanced study in endobiogenic medicine, functional genomics and terrain-based approaches to complex illness, and I teach for Enki Apothecary, a botanical medicine company working in spagyric extraction.
All consultations are online and available worldwide.
FRAMEWORK
Think of a radio. There is a signal, there is a receiver, and there is the interference between them. The broadcast never stopped. The set has simply lost its tuning.
THE SIGNAL
the vital force innate in all of us, the filed described in quantum physics, the blueprint you were born with, and the fullest expression of it available to you. Older medicine called it vis medicatrix naturae, the healing power of nature.
Which is why the work runs in that order. Cleanse the vessel. Restore the signal. Embody your design.
Most of my work is not adding something you lack. It is finding what is competing for your body's attention and taking it out of the way, so the capacity you already have can go to repair instead of defence. Very little of it is an attempt to force an outcome, because forcing an outcome in a body that lacks the capacity to deliver it is how people end up with forty supplements and no improvement.
Signal and noise is a working model, a way of organising a complex picture so the order of the work becomes clear. I use it as a framework rather than a mechanism
WHERE THE INTERFERENCE COMES FROM
CHEMICAL
Environmental exposures, and the waste products of your own metabolism.
THE RECEIVER
Your cells and your endocrine system, reading conditions and translating them into physiology. This is the set that has to be in tune, and the part that can actually be worked with.
BIOLOGICAL
Chronic low-grade infection, an imbalanced microbiome, biotoxins.
PSYCHOLOGICAL
Unresolved stress, grief and fear, held physiologically rather than only felt.
THE INTERFERENCE
Everything competing for attention and resources. With enough static, what comes through is garbled, even though the music never stopped playing
ANCESTRAL
Inherited capacity and the epigenetic patterns carried down a family line.
HOW THE ORDER RUNS
Order matters more than intensity.
Most treatment failure is not the wrong treatment. It is the right thing given too early, to a body that did not yet have the capacity.
Establish the conditions for healing. Regulate the nervous system, restore sleep, digestion and nourishment, and open the routes of elimination before anything is mobilised.
01
STABALISE
Address what is out of balance. The infection, the exposure, the dysbiosis, the nutrient depletion, the stressor and interference . You cannot remove what you have not identified.
02RESTORE
““Build reserve, so that the next disturbance costs less. Muscle, aerobic capacity, mineral status, sleep and stress tolerance, judged over seasons rather than weeks.
03REBUILD
WHERE I WORK
One way of working, many presentations.
Twelve pathways in the Deep Reset, one way of working underneath all of them. What changes is the sequence, and which layer we start with. Most people arrive with two or three of these at once, which is the point of working on the ground rather than the label.
Most treatment failure is not the wrong treatment. It is the right thing given too early, to a body that did not yet have the capacity.
The ground the other pathways rest on: capacity, the barrier, and the population.
Perimenopause
A whole-system recalibration, not one falling hormone: sleep, mood, bone and metabolic health.
Biotoxin & mould illness
Mould and CIRS-type presentations, where sequencing decides everything.
Autoimmune conditions
Immune reactivity read through the nervous system, gut ecology and total load.
PCOS
The metabolic root underneath the cycle, skin and weight picture.
Lyme & coinfections
Persistent, stealth infection, where the terrain decides who stays unwell.
Complex hormones
Adrenal and reproductive signalling, read as one connected language.
Endometriosis
Inflammation, oestrogen recirculation and gut ecology worked as one picture.
Chronic fatigue & fibromyalgia
ME/CFS and fibromyalgia, paced by what the body can recover from.
Hypothyroidism &Hashimoto's
Conversion, minerals and immune tolerance, beyond TSH alone..
Fertility & preconception
Nourishment, elimination and regulation in the months that set the ground.
Skin microbiome
Acne, rosacea and eczema, read through inflammation and the barrier.
HELD SEPERATELY
Cancer support is its own pathway.
Supportive care alongside oncology treatment sits outside the Deep Reset, because the medical picture has to come first and the work is coordinated with your treating team in writing. It begins through a separate route.
Gut Microbiome
COMPOUNDED MEDICINE
Not all herbal medicine is the same medicine.
This is where I differ most, even from other integrative practitioners. What I dispense is not what you find on a shelf.
Purified, precisely dosed and genuinely powerful. Aspirin came from willow, metformin from goat's rue. One molecule on one target is also the pattern that produces side effects.
One molecule
Pharmaceutical isolates
Most of what is sold in capsules. Convenient and consistent, but standardising to one constituent dilutes the rest, and it starts behaving more like a weak drug than a whole plant.
Concentrated to one
Standardised extracts
The whole plant, its constituents still in their natural ratios. Some carry the action, some improve absorption, some soften the irritation. They work as a group, not as a single target.
What I dispense
Full-spectrum liquid extracts
Why liquid, specifically
Bitter herbs have to be tasted to do their work. Tasting bitterness is what triggers the nerve reflex that starts stomach acid and bile, so a bitter in a capsule has bypassed the mechanism that makes it work at all. Extraction matters for the same reason. Many of the constituents most associated with a plant's activity, the triterpenes among them, need an alcohol extraction to be carried across at all, which a dried powder cannot do.
And a further layer
Spagyric & anthroposophic
In spagyric preparation the plant is extracted, what remains is burned, and those mineral salts are returned to the finished medicine. Nothing is discarded. Gentle, and well tolerated by people who react to everything.
Why the solvent matters
Water and alcohol pull out different plants.
A hydro-ethanolic extract uses both, in a ratio chosen for the plant.
Water-soluble
Beta-glucans and other polysaccharides, mucilage, minerals, tannins, many glycosides. These are the fraction a hot-water extract does carry, and they are a real part of the medicine.
Needs alcohol
Triterpenes and sterols. Resins and oleoresins. Volatile oils and terpenes, which are also what carry aroma. Alkaloids as free bases, most flavonoid aglycones, and the lipophilic bitter principles.
Lost to processing
Volatiles evaporate with heat and time. Delicate constituents oxidise once a plant is milled to powder and exposed to air. Alcohol also stabilises what it extracts, where a dry powder keeps degrading on the shelf.
Which is why the traditional preparation is worth knowing. Some plants were always taken as a tea, and for those the water fraction is the point. Others were always taken as a tincture, and a capsule of powdered herb is a different medicine even know the plats name is the same.
Compounded for one person
You don't leave with something off a shelf. You leave with a formula blended for your case, your medications and how much your body can handle right now, then adjusted as you change. A capsule cannot be titrated, and with depleted or sensitive people, starting at a fraction of a dose is often the whole difference.
WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
Choose the depth that fits you.
One-off Appointment
Initial consultation
90 minutes
A comprehensive review of your history, diagnosis, treatment and terrain. Where the picture is mapped and any testing is assessed and ordered.
Online, worldwide.
One-off Appointment
Follow-up
45 minutes
Protocol adjustments as you move through treatment and recovery, reviewing progress and refining the plan as your terrain shifts.
For existing clients.
The Programme • Go Deeper
The Deep Reset
Twelve weeks • one weekly consultation
The full terrain-restoration pathway across three phases, with condition-specific material for your situation and a companion library of education. The deepest and most supported way to work.
Testing, supplements and herbal medicines additional.
EXPLORE THE PROGRAM
Supportive care during cancer treatment follows a separate pathway, and still begins with an initial consultation.
All care is delivered alongside, never in place of, your medical treatment. Functional testing, supplements and herbal medicines are additional and billed separately.