Oxygen stimulates the body to heal - Homegrid

Fonte: https://expose-news.com/2024/12/16/oxygen-stimulates-the-body-to-heal/

By Rhoda Wilson on December 16, 2024

 

Chronic diseases are usually caused by some underlying cellular dysfunction. Two of the main reasons for this are toxicity and/or poor gut health.

Infected root canals and cavitations are also common causes of chronic health problems.

Oxygen therapy stimulates the body to heal itself. It can stimulate the growth of joint cartilage, strengthen your immune system, eliminate pathogens, keep viral infections at bay and much more.

Alternative treatment modalities that can help facilitate healing in cases where conventional medicine fails include prolotherapy, ozone therapy, prolozone (a combination of prolotherapy and ozone), hyperbarics, chelation, UVBI (ultraviolet blood irradiation), EBOO (extracorporeal blood oxygenation), photobiomodulation and much more.

 

General Principals to Consider When Treating Chronic Illness- Interview with Dr. David Minkoff and Dr. Mercola – Vídeo Rumble: https://rumble.com/v138x3h-general-principals-to-consider-when-treating-chronic-illness-interview-with.html

Vídeo Odysee: https://odysee.com/@DoctorMercola:2/general-principles-for-treating-chronic-illness-dr-david-minkoff:c

 

General principles to consider when treating chronic diseases

By: Dr. Joseph Mercola

Dr. David Minkoff is a natural medicine pioneer with an active practice in Clearwater, Florida. In this interview, we dive deep into some of his best strategies for optimizing your health and solving common health problems that conventional medicine is unable to address.

 

Like me, he is passionate about physical exercise and has been an avid athlete since his youth. To date, he has taken part in 43 Ironman competitions and will do another in September 2022.

 

“Most of my practice is with chronically ill patients, but I’ve worked with some top athletes and I can help them because I know what kind of metabolism is needed to achieve consistent performance at a high level,” he says. “I’ve been in a kind of laboratory myself and that’s been very useful.”

 

Minkoff’s journey

 

Minkoff had a rather eclectic medical background, including infectious diseases in adults and pediatrics. In 1995, his wife, a registered nurse, took him to a series of lectures by Jeffrey Bland, a pioneer in nutritional biochemistry, and the rest, as they say, is history.

“My lights went on,” says Minkoff. “It was like, ‘Gee, this guy is smart, he makes sense and I want to learn this’. So I started taking courses. I went to ACAM [American College for the Advancement of Medicine] and learned how to do chelation.”

 

After that, he trained with Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt, a pioneering doctor in alternative medicine and a specialist in Lyme disease; Dr. Yoshiaki Omura, a general practitioner, cardiologist and president of the International College of Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics; and Dr. Thomas Rau, a Swiss doctor specializing in biological medicine.

“As I got involved, I looked for the best people I could find to help me learn how to do this better,” says Minkoff. “It’s been 25 years. So I left the emergency room in 2002 and we’ve been working as a group ever since.”

 

We now have a very large practice and it’s a lot of fun, because there are so many new ways to help people get better that actually solve the problem of their bodies.

… If you have a chronic illness – high blood pressure, high cholesterol, rheumatoid arthritis, Parkinson’s disease – the repertoire of conventional medicine isn’t very good. They can help you with the symptoms, which is fine for a while, but you’re heading for an end point, which isn’t going to be what you want.

We have seven hyperbaric chambers. We’ve been doing them for years. It’s a wonderful treatment… We’ve been using methylene blue for about five years… Then I learned about intranasal NAD – fascinating. The field is exploding with fantastic people who are inventing things that help people and have practically zero downsides.

 

 

Two fundamental causes

Chronic diseases are usually caused by an underlying cellular dysfunction, and two of the main reasons for this are toxicity and/or poor intestinal health. Minkoff explains: ”

Half the problem is things in the body that shouldn’t be there, and the other half is things missing from the body that should be there. In some cases, there are mechanical things.

We need chiropractors, acupuncturists, masseurs or things like that because there’s a dislocated joint or the cervical vertebrae are out of place. Sometimes, surgical intervention may even be necessary.

But the two big issues are: we’re toxic and we’re exhausted. My approach to people is: what are these things and then what is the priority or order of treatment for these things?

When it comes to detox, many things can go wrong, so it should be done under the supervision of a qualified professional. The use of DMPS, for example, can be very hard on the kidneys, and if your body isn’t able to excrete the toxins, releasing them from the tissues where they are trapped will make it much worse rather than better.

 

 

Making a diagnosis

When Minkoff sees a new patient, he asks them to fill out an extensive and detailed medical history, including their dental history. Then he does a detailed physical examination, followed by an autonomic response test, which allows him to identify various triggers, such as toxins and infections.

“The body is so sophisticated that it gives us a kind of reading of ‘Here are my priority levels. Do the root canals first. Treat the cavitations. Oh, yes, there’s a parasite there. There’s an autoimmune one here. I have chronic Epstein Barr virus or herpes type 6,'” explains Minkoff.

Autonomic response tests also make it possible to identify the specific pathogens that are causing problems. In the interview, Minkoff gives a number of examples of patients whose health problems were resolved when the specific pathogen was identified and treated.

 

Often, the culprit is an infected root canal. Minkoff has a biological dentist nearby. If a dental problem is suspected, he sends the patient there for a three-dimensional cone beam computed tomography scan, which can clearly identify any problem areas that are not visible using a two-dimensional X-ray. Another very useful diagnostic is darkfield blood analysis (also known as live cell microscopy), which Minkoff learned to use from Rau.

“I think it’s very useful because sick people have bad-looking blood,” he says. “The physical exam is often good, the reflexes are good, the heart sounds good and the liver and kidneys are fine [but they feel terrible]… You throw the blood in there and look at it and think, ‘Holy shit! There are biofilms everywhere, there are fibrin deposits and organisms …’

Two months later, “Hey, look at this blood. This blood is getting better. And two months later, ‘This blood is really normal’… It’s a complete picture where we’re restoring this person’s healthy physiology and that’s what health is.”

 

 

Treatment options available

As far as treatment is concerned, Minkoff has a number of interesting modalities at his disposal, including prolotherapy, ozone therapy, prolozone (a combination of prolotherapy and ozone), hyperbarics, chelation, UVBI (ultraviolet blood irradiation), EBOO (extracorporeal blood oxygenation), photobiomodulation and much more.

Minkoff also proposes a treatment with VSELs [very small embryonic-like] stem cells, which also has powerful effects. Minkoff himself uses it and attributes the gain of 7 pounds of lean body mass without changing his training to VSELs. He was trained in the use of VSELs by Dr. Todd Ovokaitys in San Diego.

Dr. Frank Shallenberger is the doctor who trained him in ozone administration. Interestingly, Minkoff and I are both scheduled to speak during Shallenberger’s 2022 ozone certification course at the Peppermill Resort and Casino in Denver, Colorado.

 

 

Benefits of extracorporeal oxygen and ozone therapy (“EBOO”)

EBOO is the latest and most powerful way of administering ozone. It’s even more effective than 10-pass ozone, but most people have to start slowly and work their way up. I became fascinated with this treatment last year and encouraged Tom Lowe to make the units commercially available in the US, explains Minkoff:

EBOO is a way of delivering oxygen and ozone to the body in a similar configuration to dialysis. An IV goes into an arm, goes through a machine that has a pump, so it can take the blood out of the body. It goes through a system where the blood is exposed to oxygen in very high concentrations and ozone in low concentrations, and then recycled back into the body.

 

Some of the new machines also expose the blood to ultraviolet light. For about an hour, the blood circulates through this machine and is highly oxygenated. It’s not really filtered like in dialysis, but it is exposed to this high concentration of oxygen.

And – I don’t understand exactly how it happens – there’s a drainage container where, if you’re really sick and toxic, the blood collects in this container. Sometimes it’s frothy and yellow. Our record is 2,000 CCs of this frothy liquid in a really sick person …

 

Sauna therapy is another excellent intervention with powerful therapeutic benefits. We haven’t had a chance to delve into sauna therapy, but I should have an incredibly extensive and detailed article on saunas next week, which provides specific recommendations on how to identify and/or build one of the best saunas in the world. This is one of my favorite therapies and I believe that most can benefit from them, so stay tuned for this important article.

 

How to increase NAD naturally

If you don’t have access to IV NAD treatment or can’t afford it, there are three ways to increase your NAD level naturally: calorie restriction (or time restriction of eating, which achieves the same effect but is safer), aggressive physical exercise and sauna therapy.

If you do these three things, you will activate NAMPT, which is a precursor of NAD. You can then use a low dose of niacinamide (not niacin). An ideal dose is around 50 mg, three times a day. This will give you the raw material your body needs to produce NAMPT. I did an excellent interview with molecular biologist Nichola Conlon earlier this year, which you can find on my Substack.

“I’ve put a lot of people with mitochondrial problems on [niacinamide] and found that it’s helpful,” says Minkoff. Niacinamide is also extremely economical. It costs about 25 cents a month, while other NAD precursors, such as NMN, can cost 100 dollars a month or more.

 

 

Plasmalogen and iron

Minkoff also uses a lipid test developed by lipid biochemist Dayan Goodenowe, author of “Breaking Alzheimer’s”. “I’ve learned a lot from him and we give his test to everyone,” says Minkoff.

“He now has a laboratory that can measure the levels of plasmalogens. These are integral parts of cell membranes, and he has very good data on people with APOE4 in a trajectory of memory loss.”

Patients with low plasmalogen levels can be given supplements, such as fossil lipids, to prevent further deterioration of their neurological function. Minkoff also measures ferritin and iron binding in all patients and, if hemoglobin is high, prescribes a blood donation to reduce stored iron. Stored iron is incredibly destructive, as it causes oxidative stress, and is an often overlooked factor in deteriorating health.

 

 

Basic health guidelines

Although a full examination is the best course of action if you have a chronic health problem, three basic recommendations that can improve your health include:

Cleaning up your diet – Focus on organic whole foods and avoid all processed foods, including restaurant food. Typically, Minkoff starts patients on a mixture of autoimmune, paleo or keto diets.

This means no cereals or dairy products (butter is fine), beans or vegetables with nitrates. Usually, most intestinal problems resolve in about six weeks and energy improves with a diet of meat, fish, eggs, fruit, vegetables, nuts and seeds. (The carbohydrates in fruit will be based on your metabolic health).

Optimize your sleep – A sleep monitor can be very useful to ensure that you are sleeping well.

Exercise regularly – Although cardiovascular exercise is important, strength training should be at the top of your list, especially as you get older, as having muscle mass optimizes your longevity and reduces the risk of insulin resistance and diabetes.

 

About the author

Dr. Joseph Mercola is the founder and owner of Mercola.com, a board-certified osteopathic physician, a fellow of the American College of Nutrition and a New York Times best-selling author. He publishes several articles a day on a wide range of topics on his website Mercola.com.

The new book by Dr. Mercola “Your Guide to Cellular Health: Unlocking the Science of Longevity and Joy” is available for purchase AQUI.