Care for the person living through cancer
Treatment can affect appetite, sleep, energy, mood, and everyday life.
Dr. Malathi Acharya, MD offers physician-led support for those changes. Her care works alongside your oncology team in Portola Valley and across the Bay Area.
Integrative care complements conventional cancer treatment. It does not replace it.
Dr. Malathi Acharya, MD
Board-Certified Internal Medicine Physician & Diplomate of the American Board of Integrative Medicine, fellowship-trained through the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine.
New Cancer Diagnosis
Find clarity and practical support as you prepare for cancer treatment.
Visit this page → For life after treatmentCancer Survivor
Rebuild energy, strength, and confidence through personalized recovery care.
Visit this page → For proactive supportCancer Prevention
Turn personal and family risk factors into a clear preventive-health plan.
Visit this page →What integrative cancer care means
It is medical support for your health before, during, and after cancer treatment.
Dr. Malathi looks at your diagnosis, treatment plan, medications, symptoms, labs, and daily life together.
Nutrition, movement, sleep, stress, and supplements are considered in that full context.
The result is a plan shaped around you, not a standard cancer wellness protocol.
Medical judgment matters
Dietary changes and supplements can affect treatment. The right recommendation depends on your diagnosis, medications, labs, and treatment stage.
Dr. Malathi considers those details together. Questions about food, fatigue, or recovery are never viewed in isolation.
Care shaped around how you feel
Nutrition
Food guidance reflects your treatment, appetite, side effects, and lab values. There is no single cancer diet.
Fatigue
Fatigue may involve treatment, anemia, sleep, thyroid health, nutrition, or medication. It deserves a careful review.
Movement
Activity is matched to blood counts, surgical recovery, symptoms, and ability. Sometimes a short walk is enough.
Sleep
Treatment and stress often disrupt sleep. Care focuses on practical changes and contributing symptoms.
Stress
Breathing and relaxation practices can support coping. Mental health referrals are made when more support is needed.
“Natural” does not always mean safe
Some supplements can interact with chemotherapy, radiation, hormonal therapy, or other medications.
Dr. Malathi reviews what you take, why you take it, and whether it fits safely with your treatment plan.
Recovery has its own questions
Active treatment may end before fatigue, weakness, or uncertainty does.
Survivorship care helps you rebuild at a realistic pace. It also considers the metabolic and cardiovascular effects treatment may leave behind.
A grounded approach to prevention
No lifestyle program can guarantee that cancer will be prevented or will not return.
Preventive care focuses on the factors within your reach. Screening and family history remain part of the conversation.
Discuss your personal risk factors →What care may include
Your plan is built from the areas that matter to you now. It changes as your needs change.
Clear boundaries matter. Ayur does not provide chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, immunotherapy, or other cancer-directed treatment. Those decisions remain with your oncology team.
Serving Portola Valley and the Bay Area
Ayur Integrative Medicine is on the San Francisco Peninsula, near Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Los Altos, and surrounding communities.
Many patients already receive oncology care from specialists or major medical centers. Ayur adds a layer of physician-led, whole-person support around that care.
Ayur Integrative Medicine · 130 Portola Rd, Suite F, Portola Valley, CA 94028 · +1.650.671.2023
Clear answers about integrative cancer care
It is physician-led support that works alongside oncology treatment. Care may address nutrition, supplement safety, fatigue, sleep, stress, and recovery.
No. It complements conventional care and does not replace cancer-directed treatment.
Many patients do. Recommendations are reviewed alongside your treatment plan and medications.
Yes. She reviews current and proposed supplements against your diagnosis, treatment, and medications.
Yes. Open communication between your providers is an important part of safe care.
No. Integrative medicine can support overall health, but it cannot guarantee that cancer will not return.
Yes. Survivorship care can support strength, energy, metabolic health, and long-term planning.
Yes. Care may focus on modifiable risk factors, metabolic health, family history, and appropriate screening.
No. Cancer-directed treatment remains the responsibility of your oncology team. Ayur provides complementary medical support.
You do not have to sort through every question alone.
Start with a conversation about where you are now and what kind of support may help.
Schedule a Discovery CallAyur Integrative Medicine provides integrative medical care intended to complement appropriate conventional treatment. Information on this page is educational and is not a substitute for individualized medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.