by admin on November 1, 2011
Candida Overgrowth: Your Step-By-Step Road Map To Recovery
In this special webinar you’ll get all the information you need in order to finally heal your body from Candida. Presented by Dr. Gant and Eve Colantoni, CHC, of the Candida Healing Institute
Dr. Gant will explain the scientific basis for a diagnosis, management and eradication of candida and fungal syndromes. Localized chronic fungal infections (AKA Candida) are very common and cause or complicate most gastrointestinal disorders (e.g., irritable bowel, colitis, diverticulitis) as well as chronic sinusitis. Systemic fungal infections and mycotoxin (mold toxin) toxicity can cause allergies (e.g., asthma), autoimmune disorders (e.g., arthritis, lupus), chronic systemic inflammation and any mental disorder (e.g., anxiety, depression), and Candida is a common complicating or causative factor behind all chronic medical or psychiatric conditions.
You will also learn about:
* The 3 main types of diagnostic tests that are available in order to learn if you have the condition.
* 2 POWERFUL antifungal treatments that can eliminate the candida so you ensure rapid recovery.
* The 5 step healing process Dr. Gant has been employing for more than 20 years to free his patients from all the unbearable symptoms Candida can bring and heal their gastrointestinal system.
* Eve’s Step-By-Step Fresh Start Candida Cleanse— While most other Candida cleanses focus on what you can’t eat and which foods you need to avoid, Eve’s approach is different. Instead she focuses on which foods will heal your body, satisfy your taste buds and get you lasting results.
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by admin on October 7, 2011
In this webinar, Dr. Gant explains why a significant and often overlooked cause of most common chronic medical and psychiatric problems (including addictions) is toxicity or total toxic load (TTL). Even if TTL is recognized as an issue at all, few treatment centers offer a comprehensive strategy which individualizes the treatment to the unique genetic and biochemical status of each patient. Many approaches to TTL involve the use of one or a few long term therapies which can take years to complete, can often cost many 10s of thousands of dollars and at the end of treatment patients are often not sure if they have achieved results.
Over 100 million Americans are socially, vocationally, medically and/or psychiatrically disabled, and most don’t know why. Most are told that “illness just happens” and it’s the luck of the draw, or that their “symptoms are all in their head.” Like the metaphor of the frog which fails to jump out of a slowly heating pot of water and eventually boils to death, we have slowly become so desensitized to chronic emotional and physical pain, to feeling sick and tired and to dysfunctional behaviors, that many believe these endemic disabilities are normal.
Much of this disability is due to a TTL from the combined effects of heavy metals, plastics, solvents, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, preservatives, food additives, petrochemicals, fluorine, chlorine, gastrointestinal-, dental- and sinus-derived toxins, OTC and prescribed medications, abused psychotropic substances (e.g., alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs), chronic infections (e.g., lyme) and other sources of toxins in the polluted modern age, not to mention electrosmog from cellphones and microwave cookers, all of which can be routinely uncovered by laboratory testing and other methods of determining sensitivities to these potentially noxious agents.
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by CE Gant on September 22, 2011
Detoxification medicine will become one of the most important specialties in the 21st century. The clues are all around us. Autism has increased 100-fold in just a few decades. Gulf War Syndrome endures, afflicting about 30% of the 697,000 soldiers who fought in Desert Storm. Health effects arising from the September 11 attacks such as cancer and chronic respiratory diseases, especially in the first responders (e.g., firemen, policemen), continues to plague us.
Toxins
Mercury and other toxins have devastating effects on wildlife and game, adversely affecting the sports of hunting and fishing. Insecticides from food and vegetables grown in 3rd world countries who lack environmental laws and which is consumed by Americans have rendered most nursing mother’s, DDT-laced, breast milk unfit to consume by EPA standards. Plastics, toxic metals, petrochemicals and thousands of tons of new toxic chemicals introduced every year find their way into air, food and water, causing devastation to the health and wellness of Americans and the environment we live in.
Over 100 million Americans are now disabled and sick with mostly vague, ill-defined illnesses, which seriously impair their occupational, social, interpersonal and academic functioning. Fully ½ of Americans will suffer from a serious mental disorder in their lifetime, and at any one time, 25% of Americans are suffering from a diagnosable mental disorder.
Rates of Alzheimer’s disease are sky rocketing and taking their toll on younger Americans. And while politicians and pundits clamor for jobs, jobs, jobs, the fact that an accelerating percentage of Americans couldn’t work even if jobs were available, is utterly ignored.
Did it ever occur to you that the economic recession is caused by the simple fact that the number one disability suffered by those in their most active employment and academic years, from adolescence to mid-life, are mental disorders?
Drugs Accelerate the Decline of Health
While Rome burns, what is the response of our Nero-like healthcare system?
A: Drugs, drugs and more drugs to medicate the symptoms of these toxicity-caused syndromes and diseases, which only accelerates the decline of the health of Americans and does absolutely nothing to address the cause – toxins. The number 3 cause of death behind heart disease and cancer are pharmaceuticals, prescribed correctly and taken as prescribed. And the number one factor in the cause of cancer and heart disease is addictive substances, with tobacco killing about 500 thousand Americans a year. While Rome burns, the pharmaceutical industry laughs all the way to the bank.
Consumers lament expensive drugs and politicians proclaim how unfair it is that 50 million American lack healthcare insurance, which mans that they are deprived of having their fair share of drug (toxin)-induced diseases. And when toxins damage our organs so extensively that drugs can no longer cover up the toxicity-caused symptoms, it becomes time to make an appointment with a surgeon.
Healthcare Crisis
If you want to know what the healthcare crisis is mostly about, go back and read the first paragraphs, close your eyes for a few minutes, and contemplate each assertion. You know its all true. Poisoned air, food and water makes us sicker and sicker. And the issue becomes more sinister when one includes “electrosmog.” Modern humans are exposed to 10 million times more electromagnetic radiation than our ancestors. Cellphones alone scramble neurons and they are now known to be a cause of brain cancer. Getting your head around this huge toxicity issue is like herding cats. I understand why many respond to this obvious threat to civilization like an ostrich by putting their head in the sand and pretend that the problem does not exist.
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by CE Gant on September 2, 2011
In a recent study (August 2011) published online in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, it was found that low levels of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), the major omega-3 fatty acid concentrated in the brain, may increase suicide risk. A retrospective case-control study of1600 United States military personnel, including 800 who had committed suicide and 800 healthy counterparts, showed that all participants had low omega-3 levels. However, the suicide risk was 62% greatest in those with the lowest levels of DHA.
According to Joseph R. Hibbeln, MD, acting chief, Section on Nutritional Neurosciences at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, “Omega-3 is already recommended by the American Psychiatric Association as adjunctive therapy for anybody with a psychiatric disorder, especially for those with major depression.”
Suicide rates in military personnel have doubled since the start of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, and now “rival the battlefield in toll.” Other data and research suggests that nutritional deficiencies in the omega-3 fatty acids may increase vulnerability to combat deployment stress, manifesting as psychiatric symptoms including adjustment disorders, PTSD, substance abuse and alcoholism, major depression, impulsive violence, and suicide. In addition, studies conducted in civilian populations have also suggested that low DHA levels are linked to increased risk for suicide attempts and may contribute to adverse psychiatric symptoms.
Dr. Gant Commentary
I suppose that the immediate response to this horrific data would be to somehow ensure that all military personnel receive 2 or 3 concentrated fish oil capsules a day, which would likely assure adequate delivery of DHA and offset the incidence of depression and suicide in most individuals. Such a widely applied treatment would be consistent with the current paradigm of medical care, e.g. – prevent or treat symptoms or conditions by blindly prescribing an intervention without first attempting to diagnostically determine who is the most vulnerable to certain conditions, based on their nutritional status, heredity or environmental stressors.
Simple, inexpensive, laboratory testing can measure DHA, its precursor fatty acids and also critically important, mood-elevating, omega 6 fatty acids, in order to determine who is nutritionally the most vulnerable to suicide and depression (1). Several B vitamins (B3, B5, B6, biotin), a few minerals (zinc, magnesium), vitamin C and carnitine (a nutrient involved with fatty acid metabolism), are all needed as cofactors to assist 4 enzymes in the synthesis of DHA. These simple functional laboratory tests could determine who would have the greatest difficulty in synthesizing DHA, and thus possesses the most vulnerability to depression and suicide.
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by admin on August 28, 2011
The Academy of Functional Medicine, Dentistry & Psychology, LLC, will be introducing an informative, new line-up of educational services beginning August 31st. The Academy’s Director of Operations, Donna Gullato, has compiled feedback from practitioners, doctors and clinicians who have participated in the Academy’s previous webinar-based courses. Overwhelmingly, participants have suggested that innovative educational products are needed to expand the educational opportunities in this rapidly changing field.
The first new service to be introduced will be the Roundtable Discussions. This series of weekly webinars is designed for the “hands-on” practitioners who prefer or find value in a “direct patient care” educational format. Specifically, the series is broken down into weekly one-hour sessions where practitioners may present cases or listen to others present cases and learn about real patients receiving ongoing care. One or more of the Academy’s expert facilitators will be on hand to discuss cases. All input from participants is valued regardless of their prior training or experience in functional medicine or genomics.
The Roundtable Discussions are scheduled to meet every Wednesday evening from 9:00 – 10:00 PM EST starting on August 31, 2011. All sessions will be recorded and participants will have access to them at any time.
The Roundtable Discussions will be kicked off by Dr. Patrick Flynn, founder of Gear-Up and the Wellness Way, and Dr. Michael Gruttadauria, founder of the Long Island Spectrum Center. Both practitioners are renowned Functional Medicine speakers, and both serve on the Academy’s Advisory Board. Dr. Gruttadauria additionally heads the Academy’s steering committee and has been very instrumental in shaping the Academy’s new genre of services. Dr. C.E. Gant will also be available for some discussions as his schedule permits.
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