Recent Posts in FAQ Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 1-Nov-2017 Neurorecovery Program Neurorecovery program - Specifics Treatment is office based, every day for 10 ‐ 13 consecutive days (duration depending on the specific drugs you have been taking) – including Fridays and week‐ends. ‐ You will be in the office between 6 and 8 ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 30-Aug-2017 Why is Lyme Disease Easy to Misdiagnose? Lyme disease is a common illness that is received when bitten transmitted by a tick carrying a certain type of bacterium (spirochete) known as Borrelia burgdorferi. The common symptoms of Lyme disease include fatigue, headaches, stiff neck, fever, ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 18-Aug-2017 What is Borrelia? If you enjoy the outdoors, then you know that ticks can be found everywhere, and tick bites are a fairly constant threat due to their propensity to carry Lyme disease. This mystifying disease is still being heavily researched because so little is ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 2-May-2017 Reflections on the Best Answer for Cancer Foundation Meetings - April 27-29, 2017 San Diego What is the best answer for Cancer? Is it chemotherapy drugs? Is it radiation therapy? Is it surgery? Is it specific supplements? Is it exercise? Is it diet? Is it discovering (and resolving) unfinished emotional business? If there were one ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 2-Feb-2017 6 Things You Should Know About Irritable Bowel Syndrome Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a much more common condition than many people are aware. Affecting over 200,000 people each year, IBS is an intestinal disorder causing constipation, bloating, diarrhea, and pain in the belly. The cause isn’t well ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 31-Jan-2017 Did the Vaccine Do It? A well-written article published on GreenMedInfo describes a child who was given the MMR vaccine at the age of 18 months, and after a short life filled with adverse neurologic events eventually died at the age of 5. The very same live attenuated ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 28-Dec-2016 Lyme Disease Symptom Checklist People with Lyme disease are often misdiagnosed. While this checklist can help you document exposure to the disease and common symptoms for your health care provider, it is not a self-diagnosis tool. A proper diagnosis can only be made by a licensed ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 22-Dec-2016 What Causes Lyme Disease? Borrelia Burgdorferi Lyme disease is an infection caused by strains of the bacteria called Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb). This bacteria is typically transmitted to humans through an infected tick bite. The tick that carries and transmits Lyme disease is ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 27-Oct-2016 Metronomic Therapy Another Option for Cancer Treatment Tumors are a lot like parasites, and even a little bit like babies, in that they grow and develop in the human body, and are not rejected as foreign by the immune system. For some reason they are tolerated, and ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 13-Jun-2016 Symptoms of Testicular Cancer Testicular cancer starts when healthy cells in a testicle change and develop in an uncontrollable fashion, resulting in a cancerous tumor being formed. This type of mass is malignant and capable of spreading throughout other parts of the body. Men ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 2-May-2016 Vaccinations - Overview Vaccinations are one of the most controversial issues in children’s health. On one side, you have the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) which advocates a schedule for vaccinations that starts within minutes of the baby’s birth. The ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 20-Jan-2016 FAQ Stems Cells/Stem Cell Therapy What is a stem cell? Stem cells are our own body’s ancestor cells which can – in theory – become building cells for any organ of the body. Stem cells begin to develop as soon as the blastula, that little ball of becoming-baby cells ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 8-Jan-2016 GMO Foods Q & A Over 60 countries have banned GMOs, Why? Why haven’t we banned them in the U.S? Do you think we should ban them? Why? Do you think consumers understand what a GMO is? What foods have the most GMOs in them? Are there any health risks in ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 6-Nov-2015 Autoimmune Diseases - Overview Autoimmune diseases occur when our own body’s immune system attacks our own body’s tissues, for reasons which are not immediately clear. The list of autoimmune diseases is as long as the list of organs in the body – and longer, ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 6-Nov-2015 Cancer Overview Cancer Overview Every one of us has cancer inside. Every single one of us. Our bodies, as part of the normal metabolic process, produce anywhere from a few hundred to perhaps 10,000 cancerous cells each day. The immune system has the ability to ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 6-Nov-2015 Gluten Sensitivity, Celiac Disease, Wheat Allergy, and Cancer Gluten Sensitivity, Celiac Disease, Wheat Allergy, and Cancer When we think about gluten sensitivity, we immediately think about celiac disease. Scientists are finally beginning to realize what those of us who are sensitive to wheat have known for ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 6-Nov-2015 War on Cancer: Why Can't We Win? Why Can’t We Win the War? What can we learn from the “war on cancer” metaphor that has anything at all to do with cancer? First, if it’s a war, then it’s a civil war – one part of us rebelling against another part ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 6-Nov-2015 Learning Disabilities Learning Disabilities Learning disabilities have occurred infamously successful people – Walt Disney, Alexander Graham Bell, and Winston Churchill all had learning disabilities. In the U.S., 15% of the population has some sort of a learning ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 28-Jul-2015 High-fructose Corn Syrup: What's the Big Deal? High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a liquid sweetener similar to sucrose (table sugar) first introduced in the 1970s. Chemically it is similar to other sweeteners like agave, honey, and fruit juice concentrates which also contain Fructose and ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 3-Jul-2015 Stem Cells - Fountain of Youth? Or Scam of the Century? Stem cell therapies have the potential to revolutionize the practice of medicine. Treated with respect, they can help our bodies call forth their own healing mechanisms. Manipulated too far, and they become another potentially carcinogenic drug in ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 24-Sep-2014 Chemo Brain - AKA Cognitive Dysfunction - Is It Treatable? Put "chemo brain" into Google as a search term, and a multitude of other terms comes up: how long does chemo brain last, chemo brain treatment, chemo brain symptoms, chemo brain disability, chemo brain fog, lung cancer brain, chemo brain in ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 16-May-2014 Heart Disease Heart attacks were practically unknown in the nineteenth century. Prior to 1925, there was almost no knowledge of the illness that today we call myocardial infarction. By the early 1940′s, heart attacks were the leading cause of death among ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 7-May-2014 Lyme Disease And Its Treatment In this video, Dr. Martha Grout discusses Lyme Disease and Lyme Disease treatment. The number of Lyme disease cases in the United States has doubled since 1991. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that there are nearly ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 12-Mar-2014 Energy Medicine Stimulate the body’s own healing mechanisms BioEnergetic Medicine is a powerful approach to healing based on physics, not chemistry. If chemistry is about the body’s components (oxygen, carbon, etc), then physics is about the bigger ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 25-Nov-2013 Supplements - Friend or Foe? Rekha V Shah, MD, MD(H) There is so much contradictory information in the media, it is easy to become confused about the value of vitamins, minerals and other supplements. We hear multivitamins are good for us one day and the next week we learn from ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 27-Jun-2013 Asthma Overview Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways and lungs. Its impact can be profound because it can interrupt sleep, limit physical activity, and disrupt family routines. Cases of asthma are rising so fast it is now widely viewed as an ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 27-Jun-2013 Autism Overview Valley of the Sun Autism Network – a resource for parents of kids with autism who live in Phoenix, Arizona and surrounding areas. They provide information on topics of interest including doctors, co-op, meetings, forums, providers, therapists ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 26-Jun-2013 Lyme Disease Lyme Disease Lyme disease makes us realize that we can never get rid of all the bugs in our environment; it’s about learning to minimize the effect of the bugs, and learning to live with them. Ixodes ticks, the principal vector for Lyme ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Mediciine 26-Jun-2013 Prostate – The Most Troublesome Gland The prostate gland completely surrounds the urethra, making it the single most troublesome gland of the male reproductive system. When the prostate becomes enlarged, as it tends to do as early as age 30, it presses on the urethra, causing obstruction ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 26-Jun-2013 Lyme Disease Overview Dr. Martha Grout dives into prevention, diagnosis and treatment options by Martha M. Grout, MD, MD(H) Lyme disease is transmitted through the bite of a tick infected with a species of a spirochete known as borrelia burgdorferi. There are many species ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Mediciine 26-Jun-2013 Hypnosis and Guided Imagery Generations of theorists have offered various interpretations of what hypnosis is, how it works, and what it can do. Most practitioners agree that an essential characteristic of hypnosis involves the bypass of the conscious mind, thereby enabling the ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Mediciine 26-Jun-2013 Chef Rachel Q&A on Gluten Free Chef Rachel taught a group of our patients that there is life after gluten, corn, and dairy. One attendee said, “You just gave me hope for living!” Making changes is easy when a pro shows you the way. For the past 22 years, Chef Rachel ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Mediciine 26-Jun-2013 Kid Food – What is It? The average American child views perhaps 40,000 television commercials per year, many whetting their appetite for “junk” food. Kids are probably thinking taste, and maybe the toy that comes with the food. Moms and dads are probably ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 26-Jun-2013 FOOD 201 - Is Organic Really Better? Despite the economic downturn that began in 2008, the organic food sector continued to grow. Perhaps an ancient instinct to protect our children is causing more parents to spend a little extra on organic groceries to avoid chemicals and hopefully ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Mediciine 26-Jun-2013 Erectile Dysfunction If you’ve ever told a doctor you had erectile dysfunction, did the doctor talk to you about cardiovascular disease or diabetes? Erectile dysfunction, ED, is more than just a bedroom frustration. ED is often a warning bell of the onset of heart ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 25-Jun-2013 Cholesterol Overview January 2008 saw some surprising news in the mainstream press. It may be that 2008 will be remembered as the year the high cholesterol tune began to change and the old mantras began to give way to a more accurate understanding of heart disease. In ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 25-Jun-2013 Colon Cancer Overview Colorectal Cancer: Colon cancer is cancer of the large intestine. Rectal cancer is cancer of the last several inches of the colon. Together, they are often referred to as colorectal cancers. Most cases of colon cancer begin as a small, benign (not ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 25-Jun-2013 Pancreatic Cancer Patrick Swayze. Luciano Pavarotti. Michael Landon. Jack Benny. Rex Harrison. Donna Reed. Fernando Lamas. All well known people who succumbed to pancreatic cancer. The disease is being diagnosed with increasing frequency.[1] In 2008, there were 37,700 ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 25-Jun-2013 What comes after the diagnosis? OK, so the cancer diagnosis is real. They didn’t make a mistake. It wasn’t just a bad dream. It’s not fair. So what are the options? Standard (allopathic) treatment Integrative (alternative) cancer therapy The choice is yours. None ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 25-Jun-2013 Bladder Cancer - What caused it? Why me? Why now? Bladder cancer is the fourth most common cause of cancer in men. There are well established guidelines for its treatment.[1] Nevertheless, the 5-year relative survival statistics are not good, once the cancer has spread beyond the superficial layers ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 25-Jun-2013 Frequently Asked Questions About IPTLD The American Standard of Care considers IPT to be an “experimental” therapy, and therefore not “medically necessary,” despite the fact that IPT has been in use for more than 70 years, and is used as a standard form of cancer ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Mediciine 25-Jun-2013 Why Can’t We Win the War? What can we learn from the “war on cancer” metaphor that has anything at all to do with cancer? First, if it’s a war, then it’s a civil war - one part of us rebelling against another part of us. What happens in a civil war? ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 25-Jun-2013 Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? On June 14th of 2012 a huge body of evidence relating to the human microbiome hit the scientific literature.[1] Hundreds of articles were published in Nature magazine[2] and in multiple other journals through the Public Library of Science (PLoS). Dr. ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 25-Jun-2013 Why Do We Agree to Destroy Ourselves? Nerve cells appear to be a major factor in the growth and metastasis (spreading) of tumors. How is it that we have allowed our own bodies to use our own cells to destroy us? Maybe that’s the wrong question. Perhaps we are not actually trying to ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Mediciine 24-Jun-2013 Allopathic Medicine The American Medical Association (AMA) refers to MD medical students as "allopathic" medical students. This term describes the conventional Western medical system of practice. "Allopathic" comes from the Greek word ... Continue Reading