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Chelation Therapy in Cardiovascular Disease: An Update on the Science
by Joel Kahn, MD, FACC

The current practice of traditional cardiovascular medicine is to address common factors like smoking, blood pressure, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and dyslipidemias. In some clinics, additional time will be spent on diet, fitness, stress, sleep, and oral health. Even less commonly, a search for root causes like genetics, detoxification pathways, epigenetics, chronic infections, and allergies will be considered. The usual focus is on pharmacology and reducing future major events like heart attacks, strokes, and death with prescription drugs. The concepts of halting … Continue Reading →

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Diagnostic Tests for Early Detection of Cancer: An Integrative Approach
by Leigh Erin Connealy, MD

The American Cancer Society’s annual estimates of cancer diagnoses and deaths provided some good news during a year dominated by COVID-19 headlines. Cancer Statistics, 2020 reported that the cancer death rate decreased by 29 percent between 1991 and 2017, and the decline of 2.2 percent from 2016 to 2017 was the greatest ever annual drop in cancer mortality.[1]

These positive trends were attributed to a number of causes, including declines in smoking; advancements in treatment, especially for hematopoietic and lymphoid … Continue Reading →

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Hospital-Based Intravenous Vitamin C Treatment for Coronavirus and Related Illnesses
by Andrew W. Saul and Atsuo Yanagisawa, MD, PhD
Originally published in Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Feb 2, 2020 available for free subscription

No matter which hospital a coronavirus patient may seek help from, the question is, will they be able to leave walking out the front door, or end up being wheeled out the basement backdoor? Prompt administration of intravenous vitamin C, in high doses, can make the difference.

Abundant clinical evidence confirms vitamin C’s effectiveness when used in sufficient quantity.¹ Physicians … Continue Reading →