QUESTION: I have a patient with chronic pancreatitis who I’ve been administering regular Myers IVs to, which has worked wonders. I have considered the idea of doing IV curcumin to reduce inflammation and prevent cancer. However, the best form based on your monograph is to use a dextrose solution with the liposomal form of curcumin. …
QUESTION: I have a patient with chronic pancreatitis who I’ve been administering regular Myers IVs to, which has worked wonders. I have considered the idea of doing IV curcumin to reduce inflammation and prevent cancer. However, the best form based on your monograph is to use a dextrose solution with the liposomal form of curcumin. …
QUESTION: What product do you use to seal the tiles in the IV room? ANSWER: The most agreed upon product is clear silicone caulk.
QUESTION: 32 YO F W/ CC OF DRY, BURNING LIPS Patient is homozygous for MTHFR 677. Has been worked up by myself and multiple other practitioners, including neurology, and nothing abnormal in serum except positive IgG for HHV6 and Mycoplasma. The only thing that has ever helped her is SAMe. She’s experienced a significant but …
QUESTION: Patient with History of Fatigue and sleepiness. * Hashimotos Thyroid (mild elevation of both Tg and TPO Ab) * Over weight, under slept , etc * Found ASO titer Elevated (218) * High EBV chronic markers (EBV IgG VAC and NA both > 5.00 (quest max sensitivity)) * High Mycoplasma p. (IgG titer 1.43) …
Oberg EB, Bradley R, Cooley K, Fritz H, Goldenberg JZ, et al. (2015) Estimated Effects of Whole-system Naturopathic Medicine in Select Chronic Disease Conditions: A Systematic Review. Altern Integ Med 4: 192. doi:10.4172/2327-5162.1000192 From the abstract: We systematically searched PubMed/MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, Cochrane Library and AMED from inception to April, 2012 as well as conducting …
QUESTION: My understanding has always been that serum C level remain elevated, ideally between 350 and 450 ng/dl for several hours. What I have found is that the mid treatment results of serum C as determined by the Tru-2-go glucometer (one hour into treatment after half of the solution has been infused) generally gets within …
Design: Four systematic review papers published in the past two years all take a different approach to describe our ever evolving and deepening understanding of the activity of Reductive-Oxidative balance (ReDox). These four papers (and many like them) have sought to update the scientific community in regard to our ever evolving understanding of this precariously …
Vitamin C is seemingly so ubiquitous an intervention in integrative healthcare it is easy to overlook its potential therapeutic benefit as well as economical cost profile when considering therapies. One therapeutic target that is both common and also often filled with costly interventions is cardiovascular prevention and disease. All the common natural interventions are necessary …
QUESTION: You posted a great dry eye protocol in the files. Do you have a favorite vitamin A oil you like to use? ANSWER: As a topical I teach the patient to cleanly pierce a retinyl palmitate (in oil) gel cap and apply to the lids and palpebrum allowing it to enter the eye when they blink. …
QUESTION: With NAC suppositories vaginally that you mentioned at the Biofilm webinar, what concentration do you recommended for the pharmacy to make and what frequency and duration are you finding effective? ANSWER: Generally I have used 300-500 mg in a capsule (powder form) just like Boric Acid PV (per vagina) suppository protocol. Wet the capsule and …
QUESTION: I had a patient approach my office after reading an article that cited your formulas for Macular Degeneration. We have done 4 IVs with the nutrients listed in the article (2 per week) and the patient has inquired when to expect results. I had to make an educated guess around dosing, and currently have …
QUESTION: Patient began receiving CoQ10 Injections and as received 8 -20mg Injections and 6- 40mg Injections. COQ 10 Level was 1.01 in two months ago and is now at 0.3. Have you encountered an incident like this before? ANSWER: You see this with fat soluble things (like Vit D) and parenteral application. There are a …
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The documentary film that myself, my colleague Akbar Kahn MD and others were interviewed in regarding LDN and cancer has been released. I am so happy this all came together! (If you don’t know what the medication “LDN” is the film explains it all). It can be downloaded from this site: "The Game Changer" – …
QUESTION: I am in the process of introducing iv therapy in to my practice. Its definitely more complex than i thought, I feel lost , Could you please give me some pointers for how to move forward? Here is where i am, I took fundamental and advanced iv therapy from you at Bastyr two years …
QUESTION: I just listened to your antidepressant tapering webcall, and you talked about looking at the patient’s reaction to meds to get a better idea of where their brain needs the most support. I’m wondering about someone put on Lexipro for situational grief, it never helped, she was left on it for 5 years, now …
QUESTION: 1. Some of my male patients have original T values around 180-400, and are of all ages, what are the long term outcomes of treatment? Can they get off the T eventually and have their bodies start producing naturally, or once they are on it are they on it for good? Some of my …
ABSTRACT: “There is a considerable resurgence of interest in the role of aerobic glycolysis in cancer; however, increased glycolysis is frequently viewed as a consequence of oncogenic events that drive malignant cell growth and survival. Here we provide evidence that increased glycolytic activation itself can be an oncogenic event in a physiologically relevant 3D culture …
QUESTION: I have a port question for you. I have a FOC cancer patient (Stage 4 gastric, terminal with prognoses of 2-3 weeks). I was contacted by the friend and asked if I would be welling to help with higher dose vitamin C IVs. I talked and made sure we are on the same page …
BLOG AND LITERATURE REVIEW REFERENCE: Understanding the neuroinflammatory response following concussion to develop treatment strategies. Neuroinflammation is becoming more and more associated in the literature with a host of downstream comorbidities including depression, anxiety, addictive behavior, dementia and others. Concussion and the traumatic brain injury that follows can be devastating to the health and long …
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It is common for people to have heard that ascorbic acid can be used for “chelation” purposes. This is a complicated topic at best as the data in support or opposition to the claim are not in synchrony from a methodological point of view. A review of the data available (focusing on lead and mercury) …
QUESTION: The case is more tricky just because of the little girl’s age. At 9 months of age she was diagnosed with AML subtype M7. Chemo was started right away and at the time my role was to support chemotherapy with homeopathy and treat the mother with supplementation as she is actively nursing. She made …
QUESTION: 60 yo male – Medical history: Parkinson’s plus syndrome (suspicion for PSP type), type II diabetes, HTN. Current Rx metformin, Invokana, Monopril, Sinemet, LDN Current symptoms include bradykinesia, ataxia, dysarthria, widened gait that is unbalanced, cognitive impairment (subjective and observed complaints of recall and confusion) however MOCA score continues to be WNL. He is no longer …
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QUESTION: This patient is a 30 year old male athlete works out 6 days a week. Presented three months ago after not seeing any healthcare practitioner in more than 8 years. Alongside physical, we ran blood work which came back with an assortment of lows: Low D, Low B12, Low Iron 11 (high Ferritin 188), …
QUESTION: As per your recommendation, I switched to LabCorp but noticed they report their viral results from Quest differently…for HHV 6 IgG < 1:10 is normal and for LabCorp < .76 is negative, for CMV IgG < .6 is normal vs < .9…is there a way to translate between these two ways of reporting results, …
