by Dr. John Gannage | Dec 20, 2016 | Blog, Heart Health, Heavy Metal Toxicity, Integrative Medicine
Our bodies are exposed to environmental heavy metals like lead and mercury from our drinking water, food, dental amalgams, old leaded paints, and sometimes from atmospheric contamination from coal burning plants, depending on where you live. The body attempts to...
by Dr. John Gannage | Dec 20, 2016 | Blog, Heart Health, Integrative Medicine
This month, matters of the heart come to mind… Heart disease is STILL a top killer in this country despite better drugs and drug plans, advancements in cardiac surgery and a wider range of rehab and recovery options. It’s still a top killer despite the...
by Dr. John Gannage | Dec 20, 2016 | Blog, Integrative Medicine
I’ve always pulled for the underdog. I love a story where the unexpected happens; where David slays Goliath; the near-defeated rises up and seizes a victory; the little guy that “couldn’t” or “can’t”… DOES. Many of us...
by Dr. John Gannage | Dec 20, 2016 | Blog, Integrative Medicine, Nutrition
The benefits of intravenous therapy are often underestimated by many patients and even their doctors. Intravenous therapy refers to the direct injection of a therapeutic substance directly into the blood stream of a patient. Not all injection medicine is intravenous...
by Dr. John Gannage | Dec 20, 2016 | Blog, Integrative Medicine
Many people walk into the office with sore stiff joints. Inevitably they are being treated with one or more painkillers to take the edge off. They may also have been told that this is a condition of aging and that they had better get used to it because it is not going...
by Dr. John Gannage | Dec 20, 2016 | Blog, Integrative Medicine, Nutrition
Exchange2011 in Portland has come to a close, where ACAM and AAEM combined to stage the General Session of education for Integrative Medicine Practitioners like myself. With the medical conference concluded, these are the impressions I was left with, as I sit in the...
by Dr. John Gannage | Dec 20, 2016 | Autism, Blog, Integrative Medicine
I had a patient ask me an interesting question some 6 years ago: “What do you think is the most important medical development that you’ve learned about in the past year?” At the time, because I had just returned from an ACAM conference and heard a...
by Dr. John Gannage | Dec 20, 2016 | Blog, Heart Health, Integrative Medicine
The medical community has recently seen a raft of literature instructing “aggressive” management of hypertension, diabetes and high cholesterol (the Big Three). The basic premise is to diagnose early and treat early, while at the same time lowering the...
by Dr. John Gannage | Dec 20, 2016 | Blog, Integrative Medicine
In the last 15 years, the changes upon the medical landscape have been remarkable to watch…innovation in diagnostic assessment…the advent of new and improved surgical techniques….the arrival of allied health practitioners to deliver primary...
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