Chronic Care Management

Chronic Care Management

It’s been said that there’s only one disease known to mankind, although it has a thousand names. It’s the disease of too many toxins in the body and too few nutrients reaching the cells. It’s called cancer, arthritis, chronic fatigue, premature aging, and many, many other names. Detoxamin is not a luxury product these days but rather a necessity. 

Detoxification plays one of the most important roles in healing. Detoxamin detoxification works on specific FOCI, (focal areas of interference or disturbance within the body.) If there is a localized problem someone is having, there is often lymphatic stasis involved with concurrent mineral imbalance at the interstitial / cell level.

“Human exposure to heavy metals has risen dramatically in the last 50 years, however, as a result of an exponential increase in the use of heavy metals in industrial processes and products. Today, chronic exposure comes from mercury-amalgam dental fillings, lead in paint and tap water, chemical residues in processed foods, and “personal care” products (cosmetics, shampoo and other hair products, mouthwash, toothpaste, soap). In today’s industrial society, there is no escaping exposure to toxic chemicals and metals.” Maile Pouls, Ph.D.

About Detoxification

In nature, oxygen will easily snatch electrons from molecules. When molecules give up electrons, this is called oxidation. Because almost everything in nature is exposed to oxygen, almost everything in nature undergoes the process of oxidation. With the hunk of iron in this example, we see the result as rust.

Let’s begin by talking about a concept called oxidation. Basically, things exposed to oxygen oxidize. To give you a good example of this process, just think about a hunk of iron left out in the back yard. Over a period of a few weeks, that iron will have a thin coating of rust on its surface. How did that happen? Essentially the electrons in the molecules of iron freely gave themselves up to the oxygen around them.

Well, guess what? We breathe oxygen. And over time, we oxidize – or you could say we rust. Though we don’t necessarily turn brown with actual rust, we do get age spots, gray hair, wrinkles, aches, and pains, and are subject to various disease processes. This is evidence of oxidation – part of the aging process.

About Free Radicals

Oxidation in the human body is associated with little molecules known as free radicals. When atoms come together, they form molecules. Those molecules are formed by joining together the atom's electrons. Electrons like to be in pairs. If something comes along (like oxygen) and strips an electron off this molecule, that molecule now has a free, unpaired electron. Now this makes for a very unhappy little electron because it is missing its partner. It now behaves very radical-hence the name free radical. When this happens in the body, that free radical will look to find an electron anywhere it can. If it finds one on a good cell, it will snatch an electron from that cell, damaging it in the process and thereby creating another free radical. This process is repeated in infinitum until the free radical meets up with a molecule that has an extra electron that it can donate to the equation to stop the reaction. In the body, this donor electron might come from something like vitamin C, which has extra electrons. This is why Vitamin C is called an “anti-oxidant”. It is a substance that is against oxidation.

The Lymphatic and your Internal Anti-Aging System

First, Detoxamin’s unique delivery modality allows absorption into the Lymphatic System unlike any other chelators known. 

The most powerful free radical fighter you have is your lymphatic system. The body’s lymphatic system holds 80% of your body’s anti-oxidant capacity. The liver is filled with lymphatic and the liver produces enzymes which are very powerful free radical fighters.

Your lymphatic system is your body’s second circulatory system. Wherever your blood stream goes, the lymphatic system is right next to it. In fact, the lymphatic stream parallels the bloodstream.

All the cells of your body are in between the bloodstream and the lymphatic stream. The blood stream brings oxygen and nutrients to your cells and the lymphatic stream carries out the waste and the garbage.

The lymphatic stream moves in one direction. From the ends of your toes, and the ends of your fingertips, and the tiptop of your head, the lymphatics move along slowly going towards the thoracic duct. This is the pump for the lymphatic stream and it sits inside your body just in front of the spine and runs from about the level of your collarbone down to your diaphragm.

As you know, the heart pumps and circulates the blood – ka thump, ka thump, ka thump. The thoracic duct also pumps, but not by itself. The way it pumps is through breathing, particularly deep breathing. The entire lymphatic system moves by the movement of this pump and by your own physical movement – like exercise. Along the lymphatic stream are tiny nodes called lymph nodes. These are like tiny purification plants that help clean up the lymph as it passes through.

One of the most important goals for optimum health is to move the lymphatic system. The objective is to release the garbage stored in the cells, kick it into the lymphatic stream and get the stream moving. Sometimes, often due to lack of exercise, poor diets and toxic burdens, the lymphatics don’t move very well, the cells clog up with garbage, and disease happens. This can take many shapes and forms, from localized areas of disturbance to systemic health problems and even obesity and the inability to lose weight.

Chronic Care Management Q & A

Are you having a difficult time managing your health? Are you searching for alternative treatments? At Environmental Health Center–Buffalo (EHC Buffalo), environmental medicine specialist, Dr. Kalpana Patel, provides comprehensive medical care integrating functional and nutritional medicine for patients in Buffalo, New York, and surrounding areas and all over the country. Her care including natural, complementary and alternative therapies to manage a wide range of chronic health conditions. Call the office today or book an appointment online. Phone consultations are also available.

What is a chronic medical condition?

Chronic medical conditions include any medical issue that has lasted longer than three months or can’t be cured with medicine, treatment, therapy, or time.

Examples of chronic medical conditions include:

What is chronic care management?

Chronic care management provides medication, special treatments and procedures, therapy, and close monitoring of your condition to prevent added complications or worsening of your symptoms.

How is a chronic medical condition managed?

As an Environmental medicine specialist, Dr. Patel takes a holistic, integrative approach to managing your chronic health condition. She uses a “nail in the shoe” approach, instead of using a bandage approach to cover up your pain. In other words, she searches for the factors that are causing your symptoms and tries to remove those root causes to improve your health and any underlying chronic conditions.

During your initial consultation with Dr. Patel, she obtains a life-line history to understand your health issues and your specific needs. This also allows her to identify the root cause of your health problems so she can develop an appropriate treatment plan.

What chronic care treatments are available?

At EHC Buffalo, Dr. Patel provides a comprehensive approach to care, incorporating both integrative and environmental medicine practices and developing an individualized treatment plan for each of her patients.

Treatments might include:

How are allergies managed?

Dr. Patel may use a combination of methods to identify the source of your allergies, including intradermal skin tests, blood tests, and home and job-site testing when necessary.

Once she’s identified the source of your allergy, Dr. Patel develops a comprehensive treatment plan to address your symptoms. This might include Injection or Sublingual immunotherapy and or low-dose allergen (LDA) therapy, which restores your tolerance to indoor and outdoor allergens, foods, chemicals, bacteria, and viruses. Dr. Patel may also prescribe a specialized diet, such as one low in mold, a rotation diet -rotating foods according to food groups- and may try to avoid foods you are allergic to, reducing your total exposure to allergens.

Highly attuned to her patients’ symptoms and needs, Dr. Patel has installed special airlock system, ventilation system, and ceramic  flooring to minimize your exposure to allergens in her center, so you’re comfortable during your evaluation.

For specially designed integrated alternative treatments for your chronic medical condition, call today or use the online booking agent for an appointment.