Mederi Care®
The Mederi Care Methodology
Mederi Care is an integrative approach to cancer care, chronic illness, and health optimization rooted in a simple but powerful principle: true healing happens when we treat the whole person—not just the disease. From this perspective, care becomes more than a protocol—it becomes a personalized path toward reclaiming health, resilience, and wholeness.
Whether you are newly diagnosed, managing a chronic condition, or seeking to optimize your well-being, Mederi Care offers a compassionate, evidence-informed model grounded in decades of clinical experience and guided by both modern science and the timeless wisdom of traditional medical systems.
A Collaborative Model of Healing
Mederi Care is inherently collaborative. Healing is not something done to you—it is a dynamic partnership between you, your practitioner, your broader medical team, and our internal network of clinicians.
Our practitioners meet regularly to review cases and refine treatment strategies, drawing on decades of combined experience under the guidance of our founder, Donnie Yance, CN, RH (AHG). This ensures your care is never static. It evolves in response to your progress, emerging research, and new clinical insights.
In addition, Mederi Care practitioners have extensive experience collaborating with primary healthcare providers—including oncologists, surgeons, and other specialists. By aligning care across disciplines, we help ensure your treatment plan is cohesive, well-coordinated, and fully supportive of your needs. This integrative approach brings together the strengths of both conventional and natural medicine—enhancing effectiveness and improving overall outcomes.
For a list of our areas of clinical expertise, please visit our Care Team page, and view by practitioner.
The overarching strategy of Mederi Care is to:
- Support overall health and vitality in alignment with the body’s innate healing intelligence
- Optimize your internal biological terrain to promote health and discourage disease
- Directly address the disease or tumor with personalized, integrative protocols
Three Diagnostic Lenses: A Complete View of Your Health
At the heart of Mederi Care are three interconnected “lenses” that guide how we understand your health and design your treatment plan. Together, they allow us to see patterns, connections, and root causes that might otherwise be overlooked. Each lens is equally important. Meaningful, lasting results come from addressing all three.
Lens 1: Understanding You as an Individual
Lens 2: Assessing Your Internal Terrain
Lens 3: Understanding Your Specific Health Challenges
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Core Components of a Mederi Care Protocol
To address all three diagnostic areas, or lenses, we draw from a rich and well-integrated set of six therapeutic modalities, each informing and enhancing the others. This is what makes Mederi Care truly unitive—everything working together to serve the whole person.
- Herbal Medicine: Customized, synergistic herbal formulas validated by modern science provide evidence-informed support that works in harmony with the body’s natural processes. These include custom formulated herbal teas, liquid tonics, and powder formulas, as well as topical formulas when needed.
- Clinical Nutrition: Precision supplementation and targeted nutritional support deliver the essential nutrients and cofactors cells need to repair, regenerate, and function optimally
- Dietary Medicine: Food-as-medicine strategies, tailored to your condition and constitution, provide daily nourishment as the foundation for cellular health, energy balance, and overall vitality. Dietary recommendations can also include medicinal smoothies, as well as medicinal soups or broths.
- Lifestyle Recommendations: Practical guidance for supportive daily habits—such as movement, stress management, sleep, and self-care—lays the groundwork for long-term resilience and well-being
- Modern Medicine & Pharmaceuticals: Advanced diagnostics and pharmaceutical therapies offer precision tools for targeting specific conditions, thoughtfully integrated with natural therapies to enhance safety and effectiveness. Your practitioner may request comprehensive blood, biomarker, and often additional pathology testing.
- Spiritual Care: Tending to one’s inner life supports emotional and spiritual well-being, opening the door to deeper dimensions of healing—where meaning, purpose, and a sense of belonging nourish the whole self
What is a Mederi Care Protocol?
Mederi Care practitioners prescribe healthy medicines (phytochemically complex synergistic herbs and nutrition), integrated with pharmaceuticals, and complemented by lifestyle recommendations to treat each person and their specific disease or health concern. When combined with potentially toxic disease-suppressing medications or treatments such as chemotherapy, the intent is to mitigate toxicities and reduce dosages while optimizing intended targeted effects. Augmenting this is the goal to strengthen the individual, supporting vitality, and altering the microenvironment, thereby maximizing health and well-being.
Individualized Mederi Care treatment protocols are complex, thorough, and time intensive. Treatments include multiple herb and nutraceutical supplements in pill and powder forms, prescribed medicinal smoothies, herbal tonic tinctures, and drinks such as herb-fortified ciders and customized teas. Therapeutic diet recommendations, education, exercise, and lifestyle modifications to reduce stress and build resilience are included. Spiritual and emotional care are as much a priority as physical treatments. As-needed treatments are included for emergent symptoms, conditions, or to augment medical treatments. Mederi Center treatments, while product and time intensive, are adapted to personal circumstances (see sample protocol below, excerpted from a Mederi Center Breast Cancer Research Study).
More In-Depth Info about Mederi Care
Click here to view or download our Intro to Mederi Care booklet.
Click here to view or download an exerpt from founder Donnie Yance's book Adaptogens in Medical Herbalism.
