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International Blog Spotlight: India

July 5, 2017

IV Nutrition Detox and Chelation Therapy in Cancer
Kalpana Gupta Shekhawat, MBBS, DNB, DFM, MD Clinical Nutrition 

A healthy diet rich in nutrients is the best way to nourish the body.

I have observed in my practice that most of the patients suffering from cancer are very low on nutrients and high on toxic heavy metals, with poor livers, low kidney function, poor dental health, amalgam fillings, leaky gut, immune dysfunction, and an inability to detox due to low sulfur levels, leading to inflammatory reactions, which lead to manifestation of the symptoms and tumor formation. If the underlying chemistry is not addressed, it leads to metastasis in the whole body!

It is surprising that a fatal disease such as cancer is largely due to a basic lack of understanding on the part of the patients, which leads them to stray to various available therapies, which do not address the root cause.

I have been treating my patients for the last 7 years in a different way than conventional practitioners by addressing the root cause, and trying to understand the risks associated with their current health statuses, and providing them with a plan to prevent chronic diseases.

I have observed that once disease is established, metabolic correction with IV detox and nutrition therapy is the best solution.

IV therapy gives the most rapid recovery to the metabolism, as compared to oral nutrient therapy.

IV Nutrition therapy has given me enormous fulfillment in terms of patient outcomes when treating cancer patients.

I have seen inflammatory markers significantly reduce as I give up to 10 sessions of IV nutrients, Glutathione, and EDTA chelation: customized to each patient.

I advise my patients surrounding nutraceutical supplementation, dietary guidelines, and IV Nutrition & Detox therapies:

  • High doses of Vitamin C: This critical therapy provides lifelong maintenance for cancer patients; it typically involves a slow IV over a period of 1 to 2 hours.
  • EDTA chelation: For extracellular heavy metal removal, this works best for patients who have high levels of heavy metals in their urine.
  • Glutathione: This is a master detox, and when given through an IV, it works very well for intra cellular detoxification.
  • COQ10: Added to detox drip supports mitochondrial health.
  • Alfa Lipoic Acid: This antioxidant tackles free radical damage.
  • N Acetyl Cystein: Naturally boosts level of Glutathione in cells.

Dr. Kalpana Shekhawat is a Functional and Regenerative Medicine consultant, with an extensive educational and professional background in clinical nutrition and BHRT. In addition to having published various articles surrounding lifestyle disease management, Dr. Kalpana runs a lifestyle disease management clinic: “Freedom Age.” She works to manage disease by addressing nutritional deficiencies, and integrating her knowledge of conventional medicine with Functional medicine. 

Intravenous Nutritional Therapy: Changing Cellular Abnormalities

June 13, 2017

Intravenous (IV) therapy is a method of feeding minerals, vitamins, and amino acids directly into the bloodstream in order to correct intracellular nutrient deficiencies—with the ultimate goal of delivering up to ten times the nutrients than could be administered orally. With thirty-three years of Anti-Aging and holistic medicine, Mitchell Ghen, DO, PhD is an international lecturer on oral and IV nutrition, and stem cell transplantation, and discusses the benefits of intravenous nutritional therapies: “Regardless of what you do orally, the amount that you take by mouth in nutrients or in food is reduced as we get older. Only by IV route can you get sufficient nutrients: If you are over 40, without the IV route, you cannot get the nutrients you need.”

When expounding upon the critical necessity of knowing, implementing, and practicing IV therapy, Dr. Ghen refers to chilling statistics and data. “75% of the United States population has some sort of chronic disease. In the typical Western model, we are just using a Band-Aid…we are handling symptoms, as opposed to treating the underlying cell abnormalities.” As integrative and holistic medicine grows at a more rapid rate than any other sector in healthcare, IV therapy and other alternatives are gaining more traction and popularity, in addition to a greater understanding regarding nutritional balance.

Experts agree that the overarching goal of IV therapy is to recreate the cell-to-cell milieu of someone youthful. “We are the most healthy between ages 18 and 32—we are basically immortal at that time,” says Dr. Ghen. Considering the fact that many patients are consistently overmedicated with prescription drugs and pharmaceuticals, Dr. Ghen is eager to disseminate information surrounding new ways of returning to optimal health. “The first year of medical school everyone studies biochemistry. In the biochemical model, we find all the things that we use intravenously; by using IV therapy, we are returning to the genesis—the beginning—we are trying to create the initial, early ways in which cells become healthy.”

Dorothy Merritt, MD focuses on preventive and environmental medicine, lead toxicity, nutritional genetics, and microcurrent. Dr. Merritt has founded a number of centers that specialize in treatment of lead toxicity, and was one of 100 principal investigators for the NIH TACT trial for chelation therapy—a treatment used for removing heavy metals from the blood. “Based on the results of TACT, a random controlled NIH trial, EDTA Chelation is soon going to be the number one treatment in diabetics to prevent further morbidity and mortality. TACT 2, a confirmatory trial in diabetics with previous heart disease is already underway. If it replicates TACT, the FDA will approve it and every primary care doctor, endocrinologist, and cardiologist will need to know how to do this simple treatment in their offices.”

For those readers who have wondered why healthcare practitioners and professionals are adding IV therapy to their practices, A4M will be hosting an IV Symposium from August 11-12, designed for physicians, nurse practitioners, and any medical professional looking to develop knowledge of intravenous nutritional therapies. The two-day course in Las Vegas, which will include lectures from both Dr. Ghen and Dr. Merritt, will cover the fundamentals of IV therapy, and expand on the use of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and other unique parenteral compounds, while also concentrating on chelation therapy. Clinicians completing this workshop will have a thorough understanding of IV therapy, and the ability to immediately implement various IV protocols into their practices. The course has been provided multiple times per year for the past three years, offering hundreds of clinicians training through an actively hands-on experience. Attendees will receive 16 CME credits. Register now.