DOCTOR'S COMMENTARY

Natural Strategies Hold More Promise Than Ever
Patients worldwide are seeking natural therapies for their  ailments - and not a moment too soon!

Within the last year, the news from the medical pharmaceutical front has been very alarming.  Starting with the problems related to Premarin HRT for menopause linked to heart problems to the fact that antibiotics were found to increase the risk of resistant infections, SSRI's like Prozac associated with the risk of teen suicides, the dangers of prolonged use of the common over-the-counter NSAIDS like Advil, Motrin, Aleve and Tylenol causing deaths from liver  toxicity and gastrointestinal ulcers, the Lipitor and Zocore family of cholesterol lowering statin drugs causing liver toxcity and muscle pain with fatigue to the recent concerns over the popular COX-2 inhibitors like Vioxx and Celebrex increasing the risk of heart attacks and strokes has caused many patients to become frustrated and confused about which is the best way to manage menopause, arthritis, depression, anxiety, ADHD and elevated lipids.   
Recent studies indicate that natural based integrative medicine therapies are safe and very effective for helping to manage these problems.  Many common daily health problems and symptoms can be improved or even resolved-with natural strategies that effectively address the underlying causes.  Many common health symptoms like pain and fatigue may be due to some type of an imbalance.  There needs to be a shift in thinking within ourselves and our present health care system, where the safest natural therapies should be attempted and utilized first to correct imbalances and medications used as a primary therapy in advanced disease conditions.   I, unfortunately, meet many individuals who are suffering with side effects from many of these medications.  Many natural therapies work the best for problems which are treated in the early stages of an injury or illness and can be integrated with other medical therapies for advanced disease conditions.

My position on children's health and ADHD is that every child's nutrition needs to be closely evaluated.  I constantly find nutrient deficiencies and blood sugar imbalances to be an underlying cause and most pediatricians do not have the time to adequately evaluate a child's nutritional requirements.  I have successfully helped many children with ADHD by addressing and balancing their nutritional biochemistry.  This would be the safest and first line therapeutic approach for this problem instead of just prozac and ritalin.

Consumer be aware !  The effects of Vioxx and NSAIDS toxicity is real!  There is more to the treatment of arthritis than taking an anti-inflammatory drug, as this only calms the fire for a while.   An integrative medicine approach looks into the cause of the inflammation and we design a plan to help restore joint function with physical medicine therapies in combination with supplements like UltraInflamX, Kaprex and Hyluronic acid.  There is a treatment for arthritis, but you must act right away.  Unfortunately, many let it go too long and live in pain for years, eventually leading to irreparable joint damage, at which time it is too late for any therapy to help.   See www.fda.gov for FDA warning on using NSAIDS.

You may be misled to believe that all you need to do is take a statin medication to prevent heart disease.     These days Lipitor and Zocor are prescribed as a primary therapy with huge financial gains for the industry - $22 billion in 2003 - that primarily looks at lowering the LDL cholesterol numbers.  True, it may lower the numbers, but their own research shows that this is only partly effective in actually preventing heart attacks.  Also, it is a drug with significant side effects.  Many people feel muscle aches and weakness within a few days because it depletes an essential cellular CoQ10 nutrient in your body.  There are many other risk factors that need to be assessed, like LDL particle size, genetics,  Lp(a),  antioxidants, CRP, HDL, fibrinogen and homocysteine.  We are welcome to  schedule a consultation time and ask for a copy of our Natural Therapeutics in Lipids Management & Preventing Heart Disease Guideline to help you understand how an integrative medicine approach can help you design a more effective heart disease prevention program. 

Don't wait until it is too late.     Everyone needs a personalized health
restoration, health preservation and preventive medicine program
It is important to remember to think of your body as a magnificent living being capable of self regulating and adapting itself to daily environmental and emotional stresses.   It has the ability to recover and heal itself to maintain a state of well being.  Only when we push ourselves to perform daily activities that overwhelm and over-stress the body, combined with a lack of essential daily nutrients and rest does the body experience breakdowns in its ability to maintain balance.  This is when we begin to feel symptoms like pain, headaches, fatigue, nausea, anxiety and loss in well-being.  If we can recognize this  imbalance in our body early and immediately apply natural therapies that can help assist the body to heal itself and restore self balance we can effectively manage the problem. 
Many times the lack of success with health care is not with the treatment itself but that if a problem has reached such an advanced degenerative state of disease, no therapy can help at this point.  So, if you have back pain, knee pain or have a auto accident don't wait six months in pain hoping it will just go away, because degenerative arthritis is developing every day the problem is not resolved.  If you have fatigue, are overweight, feel old and tired your body is  degenerating and pre-maturely aging.  Don't wait, come see us, find the cause, learn, and get on a program to get well and stay well.