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Overall Approach

Most of the health conditions that we are address with MME are due to (or are certainly aggravated by) environmental toxicity.  Dealing with toxicity is the most important thing that a physician can do.  When I give you drugs to lower your cholesterol and blood pressure, I am helping you, but I am also committing you to a life-long program of drug therapy.  When I remove Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, and Arsenic from your body, I am producing a permanent positive affect on your health, and often your cholesterol and blood pressure will fall (they were elevated because you were toxic; these toxins poisoned your enzyme systems).  Detoxification as opposed to life long drug therapy is a more satisfying plan.  With MME we are detoxifying one region of your body, but we also want to detoxify the rest of your body, so pre and post-MME detoxification therapy makes sense.  We also want the magnetic energy of MME to be used for stem cell mobilization and cellular regeneration, not just for detoxification, and here our adjunctive detoxification therapies come in to play.  Let's review what we have to offer you (beginning with our new ability to analyze your individual susceptibility to environmental toxicity) as we prepare you for an optimal response to MME:

Methyl Cycle Nutrigenomics - Why are you sick from environmental toxins?  Other people used leaded gas, smoke cigarettes (source of Cadmium), bear Mercury amalgam fillings and eat contaminated fresh water fish - but they are not sick.  Why you?  The answer may lie in your genetic makeup.  You may be genetically susceptible to environmental toxins.  Proper function of the Methyl Cycle enzymes is critical to your defense against toxic metals and microbial invasion.  We are finding that adults with chronic, difficult to explain illness (fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue), adults with early onset neurodegenerative disease (Parkinson's, Alzheimer's) and all kids with Autism and related disorders have Methyl Cycle abnormalities, inherited form their parents.  These inherited predispositions have been in the gene pool for eons, but in the absence of toxicity, they were silent.  Susceptibility to Mercury wasn't a problem 50 years ago when there was no Mercury in the environment of infants.  The defect was silent, of no consequence, and was passed on - but now there's Mercury and now there's Autism.  It is my feeling that adults with premature onset of "old age" neurodegenerative conditions, if they were born today, would be Autistic - they weren't exposed to toxicity when young, their brains had the chance to mature, but now the cumulative toxicity associated with living today is interacting with their genetic susceptibility to produce disease.  The genes of the Methyl Cycle can be analyzed from a drop of your blood.  The common abnormalities of the Methyl Cycle enzymes can be identified - we can find out why you got sick from toxicity in the first place!  While we can't change your genetic code, once we know your weak spots, we can create nutritional  "work arounds" and eliminate form your diet/treatments any substances that you cannot handle.  The idea here is to convert you from a chronically ill, chronically toxic individual who is dependent on us for chronic detoxification in to an "auto-detoxifier" - like the guy next door who is exposed to the same toxins that you are but who did not get sick, or your twin brother who is is not Autistic.  The turn around time for your Nutrigenomic test is 4-8 weeks, and ideally we would like to address these issues for several months before you begin MME, so planning ahead is important.  Often you can't wait to begin MME; in this case we will treat you, send off the lab, and then get back to you with our analysis and recommendations.  The cost of the study and our analysis/recommendations is $1,125.  That's a lot of money, but on the other the results you obtain may be priceless.  Now let's look at the means available to determine which toxins you bear:

So we've identified your genetic predispositions and taken corrective action.  The next step is to determine your toxic burden.  We use two modalities:

Our best approach to evaluating your burden of heavy metals is to carry out a Provocative Challenge, termed the Triple challenge, whereby we administer to you moderate doses of three different metal binding (chelating) agents and then measure the levels of toxin metals in a subsequent 6 hour urine collection.  The Provocative Challenge is discussed in greater detail in the Diagnostic Studies Available and Chelation Therapy sections.

Digital Homeopathy, discussed elsewhere in more detail, is used to look for non-metal toxicity, such as pesticides, herbicides, and hydrocarbon toxins.  Dr. Richard Hunt's digital picture analysis is favored in kids with neurological challenges, and doesn't require a trip to Toledo to get started.  Asyra testing, which can be used to generate homeopathic drop and LED therapy, is favored in adults, and can be carried out prior to MME, or concomitant to MME in out-of-town patients.

To begin the toxic metal removal process, the use of a negative field only Magnetic Sleep Pad makes sense, coupled with a metal chelator such as DMSA, LipoPhosEDTA, or transdermal DMPS-Glutathione (all discussed elsewhere in detail).  We feel that several months of pre-MME heavy metal detoxification will enhance your response to formal MME.  During MME we well treat you with a metal chelator, and thus will remove toxic metal from your entire body; the greatest effect will be on the internal organ or body region "under the magnet".  To maintain your gain, we recommend some form of post-MME ongoing metal detoxification (to keep metals from untreated body regions from redistributing back to the MME treated region).  Many patients elect to use the sleep pad long-term, with periodic use of one of the above described metal chelators.

As in all medical endeavors, pre-treatment preparation is key.  We don't have to carry out all the above described maneuvers (and many patients just come here for MME and do well), but ideally we will identify and address your genetic predispositions (a maneuver that will serve you well the rest of your life), look for and begin to deal with the toxic substances that are contributing (or causing) your illness, and if you wish, begin "total body junior" MME therapy as you sleep on a negative field only sleep pad while taking a metal chelator at bedtime.  Post-MME we will recommend a long-term detox program, to help you maintain your gain and to decrease your likelihood of experiencing toxicity related problems in the future.