INTEGRATIVE HEALTH SERVICES
DETOXIFICATION
Health challenges are to be viewed by most people as a "disease' that requires aggressive suppressive treatments. Traditional natural medicine's concept is that ill-health is the ineffective elimination of cellular toxins and compromised immune systems. As toxins accumulate, they block the cellular ability to receive oxygen, nourishment, energy and eliminate waste. A chronic inflammatory state in the system as toxins get embedded more profound in the cells and create symptoms of chronic systemic inflammation. Manifestation of ill health is the collection of numerous toxins in a person's body. Toxic burdens are unique to each individual. Medical and dental researchers have linked drugs, unhealthy lifestyle, poor diets, oral toxins such as decayed teeth, gums crevices, sinus and tonsils infections, mucus membrane ulcers as contributing factors to many systemic inflammations. Our approach is to assess each client for their toxic signature and tailor programs specific to their needs.
ORTHOMOLECULAR NUTRITION
Orthomolecular Nutrition describes preventing and reversing various health challenges by providing the body with optimal amounts of nutritional substances that are natural to the body. Two-time "Noble Prize Winner first used the term "orthomolecular" Linus Pauling in a paper he wrote in the journal Science in 1968. This paper first described the theoretical foundations for becoming a specialty within integrative medicine healthcare. Many people use the term "nutritional therapy" synonymously with orthomolecular Nutrition, although the latter covers a much a broader range of healthcare issues.
The critical idea in Orthomolecular Nutrition is that genetic factors are central to the physical characteristics of individuals and their biochemical milieu. Biochemical pathways of the body have significant genetic variability in transcriptional potential and individual enzyme concentrations, receptor-site binding, affinities, and protein transporter efficiency. Specific biochemical abnormalities are associated with certain ill-health either as causal or aggravating factors. The concept of orthomolecular Nutrition is that particular amounts of vitamins, minerals, and other food factors are enough to correct biochemical abnormalities to prevent or reverse specific health challenges.
For the better part of the 20th Century, we've been taking vitamin and mineral supplements to eliminate deficiencies. Orthomolecular Nutrition takes this idea one step further, holding that larger than usual doses of certain nutrients can prevent or cure disease. Although there's still considerable debate over specific dosages and their therapeutic effects, the basic principle is now firmly established and widely accepted. Two of America's greatest scourges--heart disease and high blood pressure--can sometimes both be held at bay by high-dose nutrients, and advocates insist that many other chronic conditions, including diabetes and schizophrenia, can be helped as well.
We provide a comprehensive orthomolecular nutritional interpretation of your standard medical findings and lab mineral interpretation. After collecting and interpreting your health data, a program is tailored based on your individual biochemical needs.
ORAL CHELATION THERAPY
Chelation is a derivative of the Greek word “chele’, which means to claw. Chelation Therapy is a non-surgical method of removing or “clawing out” plaque, which has formed in the circulatory system. It can be described, in simple terms, as a bonding reaction. This is like a magnet attracting metals.
During intravenous chelation, a patient receives a chelating solution intravenously. This includes EDTA combined with various chelating (or binding) agents, such as vitamins, minerals, and enzymes. The chelating agents have a negative valence of two, which attracts and binds them to trace minerals, positively charged with a valence of two, which helps to bind the plaque in the arterial wall.
The biochemical process loosens the plaque and transports the minerals, via the bloodstream to the kidneys, where the blood is filtered and the waste material is excreted. With this plaque removal, the diameter of the blood vessels is increased, allowing a greater flow of blood. This promotes improved circulation; increased oxygen and nutrient flow to cells, allows less strain on the heart and generally lowers blood pressure.
Clinical Chelation Therapy is not new procedure. It was introduced into the United States in 1948, but long before that it was used as a medical procedure in Europe. The technique is well recognized around the world as an antidote for heavy metals poisoning. It has been used extensively in the United States for over 60 years to remove toxic metals due to acute poisoning and from the bodies of children who live in housing projects and nibble on lead paint from apartment walls.
There are now thousands of Integrative Medicine doctors and practitioners, both in the United States and Canada, who offer Chelation treatment, to reverse or repair the effects of hardening of the arteries.