Lectures are designed to provide the underlying science and history of each therapy as well as practical information such as how to mix the IVs, risks and benefits, safety concerns, side effects, contraindications, etc.
- Overview of Intravenous Therapies:
Practitioners of nutritional medicine often utilize nutritional supplementation with their patients. Yet, on occasion, it is not possible to achieve therapeutic levels of these nutrients in the body via the oral route alone. Intravenous administration easily achieves these levels and opens up powerful new avenues for treatment to practitioners. This weekend seminar will provide the knowledge needed to add intravenous therapies to your practice and expand your abilities to treat a wide variety of disease conditions.
- Chelation Therapy: Cardiovascular disease & heavy metal toxicity
Heart disease and stroke are responsible for more deaths than any other disease condition. Conventional medicine treats these as surgical conditions, yet bypass surgery is painful, dangerous and expensive, while angioplasty and stenting has not been shown to increase life expectancy significantly for most patients. EDTA chelation therapy has been used by thousands of physicians worldwide in the treatment of heart disease for over 40 years. Chelation therapy is safe, painless and inexpensive and is currently being investigated by a $40 million FDA- and NIH-sponsored, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled TACT (Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy) Trial in the treatment of patients with established heart disease. EDTA (ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid), the active ingredient in chelation therapy, is a synthetic amino acid that is used by conventional physicians to remove excess levels of toxic heavy metals such as lead and cadmium. Many patients are adversely affected by toxic heavy metals even though they do not meet the criteria for poisoning per se. You will learn how to assess patients for heavy metal toxicity and how to use chelation therapy to treat patients with both cardiovascular disease and toxic heavy metal syndrome.
- How to perform EDTA Chelation Therapy
Detailed instructions for how to administer both calcium and disodium EDTA will be provided. Mixing instructions, osmolality calculations, details about each of the ingredients, mechanisms of action, contraindications, dosage calculations and how to handle side effects will be discussed.
- High Dose Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C)
Cancer is the second-leading cause of death, yet there have been minimal changes in the death rate from cancer for the past 40 years. Conventional therapies include surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, but are limited in their ability to significantly impact the prognosis of patients with advanced stage III and stage IV malignancies. Elegant studies performed by Dr. Mark Levine at the National Institutes of Health have shown that when ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is administered in supraphysiologic or pharmacologic doses such as 50 to 100 grams via the intravenous route, it is converted to hydrogen peroxide in the interstitial fluid and is capable of destroying cells that do not possess catalase, the enzyme needed to detoxify hydrogen peroxide. Since cancer cells do not contain catalase, high dose intravenous vitamin C can serve as a treatment specific for cancer cells that does not harm normal cells. This lecture will provide the details of how to safely perform high dose intravenous vitamin C therapy.
- Myer’s Cocktails and Nutritional IVs (Ascorbate Formula, IVC: Glutathione, Trace Minerals)
Low energy or fatigue is one of the most common complaints reported by patients presenting to primary care physicians. Myer’s cocktails are short IVs (5 to 30 minutes in duration) that provide high serum levels of nutrients such as C and B vitamins and magnesium. These IVs have a long track record of helping people with low energy as well as chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. They have also been found useful in the treatment of asthma, upper respiratory infections, muscle spasms and many other conditions. A brief discussion of several other types of IVs will be included: the ascorbate formula (low dose vitamin C), which is similar to the Myers cocktail except larger doses of each ingredient is given; IVC: glutathione, used for detoxification and mercury chelation; trace mineral IVs, often used in conjunction with chelation therapy.
- IV Practice Lab 1
All participants will have the opportunity to mix a chelation IV and we will take turns staring and administering IVs to one another.
- Oxidative Therapies (Hydrogen Peroxide and Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation)
Two specific types of oxidative therapies will be discussed: Hydrogen Peroxide and Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation. These intravenous therapies may be used to help treat infections, both acute and chronic, can be useful in some malignancies and used in addition to chelation therapy in treating atherosclerotic diseases (chelox therapy). While many pathogens have developed resistance to an increasing spectrum of antibiotics, resistance to oxidative therapies has not been a significant problem to date. Mechanisms of action, conditions that can be treated, mixing instructions, safety concerns and side effects for intravenous hydrogen peroxide therapy and ultraviolet blood irradiation will be discussed.
- Detoxification Strategies
We live in a polluted world – water pollution, air pollution, food pollution are ubiquitous. Detoxification strategies, which include mechanisms for not allowing toxins into our bodies in the first place and effective mechanisms for removing toxins from our bodies once they enter, will be discussed.
- Setting up an IV therapies office
Details for setting up and IV therapy practice; Equipment needed, personnel and financial considerations will be discussed.
- IV Practice Lab 2
We will demonstrate how to prepare high dose vitamin C IV as well as how to perform ultraviolet blood irradiation.
After completing this seminar, practitioners will have the knowledge needed to return home and immediately add several intravenous therapies to their practices that will help them treat a wide variety of conditions.
June 2nd and 3rd, 2012
Denver, Colorado
Regular Price – $995
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Please call Lolita Hanks at 303-233-4247 or via email lolita@grossmanwellness.com
