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Approaches to Detoxification

Overview - Nutritional deficiency and environmental toxicity are a great threat to our health – that is my opinion.  I feel that lifestyle decisions and your genetic makeup (your weakest links) determine at what age you will become ill (when the toxins will get you).  The most important thing that we can do for you (after getting your through an acute health care crisis) is to optimize your intracellular nutritional status, and then move Heaven and Earth to identify and then remove every toxic molecule from your body – to return your biochemistry to the pristine state that Evolution and/or Our Creator intended.  These concepts are outlined below and are discussed in greater detail on heartfixer.com and in our presentations (DVDs and/or CDs are available)

Diagnosis – Which toxins do you have and why did you retain them?
 

Methyl Cycle Nutrigenomics:  The Methyl Cycle is the backbone of our biochemistry.  Methyl cycle defects prevent you from coping with environmental toxins, viral and bacterial invaders, and compromise proper reading of the remainder of your genetic code.  Chronic, difficult to explain disease states, neurodegenerative conditions involving the young, and premature “age related” conditions likely reflect an interaction between environmental toxins and a Methyl Cycle defect.  While we can’t change your DNA, if we know your weaknesses, we can create nutritional “work arounds”, improving your ability to defend and detoxify.  Methyl cycle testing will allow us to help people who we previously could not help with our best methods.
 

Triple challenge:  Blood levels of heavy metals do not reflect tissue levels; they are a measure of recent exposure.  We are interested in your body burden, not recent exposure.  Biopsy of your heart, kidney, liver, and brain would be ideal - but not practical – so we will carry out a biochemical biopsy.  The triple challenge involves IV/oral administration of moderate doses of several different metal binding agents (a panel of chelators) with measurement of the level of toxic metals in a subsequent 6 hour urine collection. This is not a perfect study.  Some of you are so toxic that your excretory routes are blocked (retention toxicity) and we know that in individuals with Methyl Cycle defects, toxicity may be more qualitative than quantitative - but the triple challenge is the best measurement of metal burden that we have so we will use it. 
 

Asyra Electrodermal Screening:  In Asyra you become a variable resistor, in circuit with the hard drive of a computer.  Thousands of probe frequencies are sent in to your body; alterations in the return signals tell us about your physiology and biochemistry.  The Asyra hardware and software are FDA registered and there is felt to be no risk associated with Asyra study.  When interpreting the Asyra findings, we need to keep in mind that Asyra does not diagnose symptoms or disease states – rather Asyra elucidates the deeper abnormalities that underlie or lead to symptoms or disease states – where we want to address our attention.

Treatment – How do we get this stuff out of you?
 

Methyl Cycle Abnormalities:  Nutritional supplementation and dietary avoidance measures will be recommended, specific to your individual inherited weak links.
 

Chelation Therapy:  A generic term referring to the administration of agents that bind to and then remove toxic metals (but not hydrocarbons) from your body.
 

1.  Mg-EDTA:  A series (20-30) of 3-hour IV infusions of Mg-EDTA, B-Complex and Vitamin C.  The NIH sponsored TACT study utilizes Mg-EDTA.  When lay people talk about “Chelation Therapy”, this is the procedure they are referring to.  When Lead and Cadmium are the problem, and especially is the patient is hypertensive, then IV Mg-EDTA is the most powerful approach.
 

2. DMPS:  25 years ago, our only toxin was Lead - EDTA was all we needed.  Today we are being bombarded with “new and improved” toxins, particularly Mercury.  EDTA does not remove Mercury from your cells!  We remove mercury with “di-thiol” chelators:  DMSA and DMPS.  We can address Mercury toxicity with IV DMPS, but the application of liposomal DMPS complexed with Glutathione to your skin is easier for you are more cost-effective.  DMPS binds less avidly to Lead and is not an efficient Cadmium chelator.
 

3. DMSA:  Available over-the-counter or by standard or compounded prescription, DMSA will bind to and remove Mercury, Lead, and Cadmium, but it is not very powerful.  DMSA is the chelator used most extensively to date in static magnetic field assisted chelation.
 

4.  Liposomal Phosphatidylcholine-EDTA:  Liposomes of Phosphatidylcholine serve as drug delivery vehicles for EDTA, dramatically enhancing its absorption following oral administration.  LipoPhos EDTA serves as a slow and steady approach to metal detoxification, of particular value to patients with vascular insufficiency.
 

5. Magnetic Chelation:  Exposure to a static magnetic field increases the intracellular energy potential and increases the efficiency of any metal chelation program that we might recommend.  This is the basis for MME and magnetic sleep pad assisted chelation – a huge step forward!
MME combined with chelation is providing outcomes that aren’t supposed to occur – please review the website to see what we are accomplishing.
 

Homeopathic Detoxification:  Asyra imprints treatment frequencies, specific to you, into a homeopathic carrier liquid – you take sublingual drops twice a day.  Asyra is repeated and new drops are generated every 2-3 months over 1-2 years.  A more efficient approach is LED (Laser Energetic Detoxification) which involves the application of soft laser energy, containing digital detoxification signals generated by Asyra, in to your physiology via acupuncture control points.  LED is tough to explain and its effects difficult to verify, but it is the only active means we have of dealing with hydrocarbon toxicity – so we are going to use it.
 

Glutathione Patch – Your body’s own production of Glutathione increases while you wear this drug free, non-transdermal skin patch (see lifewave.com/chc).
 

Ionator Body Cleanse:  Your feet or hands are immersed in salt water, in to which specific frequencies are applied.  The water is ionized; the field enters your body, and appears to break ionic bonds between toxins and your normal molecules.  The toxins are drawn out in to the water in a sort of “reverse electroplating” or “forced sweating” effect.  That toxins are being removed has been verified by two third party chemical evaluations (see Asyra.com).  I’m not sure whether metals can be removed by the Ionator, but hydrocarbon toxins are removed, and it seems to be particularly well suited to patients with gout.  Our new Platinum electrode unit is working out well and is preferred by our patients..
 

Far Infrared Sauna:  Sweat carries out with it toxic substances.  We sweat less as we age - aluminum containing anti-perspirants harm us here.  Regular sauna will sweat out toxins, but the extreme heat will not be tolerated by many of you.  FIS utilizes lower heat levels coupled with low level radiating energy derived from ceramic plates to generate active sweating.  FIS is therapeutic in several cardiovascular conditions (and is actually covered under Medicare – but we can’t have you prancing around the office in your bathing suits). 

Costs – Your insurer will not cover the costs of any form of detoxification therapy.  They will describe it as “medically unnecessary” or “experimental”.  I will not write letters to request “pre-authorization” – this is simply a waste of time and risks labeling you as a “troublemaker”.  Detoxification is a comprehensive and often long-term process, and it is expensive, but I think that you are worth it.  Please consider what you spend on a new car, or on a vacation, and then ask yourself what your health is worth.  If you do not wish, or cannot afford, to undergo detoxification, then we can still help you - and we will help you - but our focus then (by necessity) will be confined to nutritional intervention and the administration of drugs and invasive treatments to deal with the consequences of long-term toxicity.

Politics – Leave this at the door.  I am not interested in verbally sparing with other physicians who don’t know anything more about nutritional biochemistry and detoxification than I do about delivering babies or removing gall bladders. 

Specific costs (not including tax)

 Watch for our fall 2008 lecture schedule and updates on Methyl Cycle Nutrigenomic testing.
So far, the findings results have radically altered our approach to the patient.  Those of you who are “sick for no reason” really do have a reason – it’s not your attitude or your life-style – it’s a defect(s) in your Methyl Cycle – a defect(s) we can and should address. 
                                                                                                                                                                    James C. Roberts MD FACC 5/20/08