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| | A number of years ago at a medical conference I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Burton Berkson, a nationally recognized expert in liver disease. He presented a case study where a patient with pancreatic cancer that had spread to the liver was treated in an alternative manner with intravenous alpha lipoic acid therapy and low dose natrexone. The vast majority of patients with this type of disease do not live past 6 months. The remarkable thing was this man was able to return to work and live with his cancer in remission without the use of chemotherapy or radiation, and he was free of symptoms! It has been eight years since this patient’s initial treatment.
| | What do fibroids, endometriosis, fibrocystic breast disease, and breast cancer have in common? Estrogen. This hormone is a contributing factor in the growth of fibroid tumors of the uterus, endometriosis lesions, fibrocystic breast lesions, and many breast cancers. Translated, this means either an increase in estrogen production (or a too high dose of exogenous estrogen) or a decrease in estrogen elimination by the body are potentially harmful.
| | At the Center we see patients on a daily basis who have what is termed “a sluggish liver.” They are frequently female, have hormonal imbalance, and have constipation problems and difficulty in losing weight. All have symptoms of fatigue or malaise. Some even have a sensation of fullness in their right abdomen, or vague symptoms such as brain fog, nausea, rashes and headaches. Some have symptoms of sleep disturbance, often awakening between 1 AM and 3 AM in the early morning, which in the Chinese acupuncture system is a “liver meridian” time. Many of these patients have symptoms of irritability, anger or mood swings that are hard to control. Most of the time liver enzyme blood tests on their chemistry panels are normal, but muscle reflex testing shows positive bile duct and liver point reflexes. So what is going on?
| | I frequently see patients in my practice who have cholesterols above 200mg/dL and have either been advised by a physician to take a statin drug to lower their cholesterol, or they are concerned on their own that their cholesterol level may be too high. I will share information on controversies in cholesterol therapy and whether the current guidelines to lower cholesterol are evidence-based.
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