Environmental Medicine: Detoxification, healthy diet, vitamins and minerals

Certain foods, dust, chemicals and moulds may cause allergic reactions and can influence diseases adversely. Environmental medicine explores the role of dietary and environmental allergens in health and illness, and relieves chronic physical and mental illness.

Uses of Environmental Medicine

Sinus headaches, sneezing, nasal congestion, food allergies, and ear infections are potential targets for environmental therapies. Environmental therapists insist that almost all chronic diseases are caused or aggravated by a host of natural and artificial environmental pollutants.

Treatment with Environmental Medicine

• Nutritional Therapies – Uses oral and intravenous vitamins, minerals and other important nutrients.
• Detoxification – Removal of metals and chemicals from the body.
• Immunotherapy – Treatments to strengthen immune system.
• Desensitization – It re-trains the immune system to eliminate allergies.
• Diet Modification – Identification of various food allergies, so that offending item can be excluded from the diet. The most common food allergies are eggs, nuts, shellfish, wheat, soybeans, milk and its products, tomatoes, corn and citrus fruits.
• Enzyme Potentiated Desensitization – Here extremely small doses of an allergen are administered intravenously along with a natural enzyme glucuronidase to cure sensitivity and boost desensitization. The treatment trains immune system to tolerate the allergen. Initially treatments are given at 2 month intervals, then less often as the patient begins to respond. Stubborn disorder-results may require 2 years to appear.
• Chelation Therapy – Here EDTA solution is used intravenously to flush heavy metals from the body.
• Heat Depuration – Here patients are placed in a sauna heated to 150 degree Fahrenheit to get rid of chemicals stored deep in the body. They are administered in conjunction with other forms of detoxification. Each treatment lasts from 15-40 minutes, and total detoxification may require 20, eight-hour sessions.

Benefits of Environmental Medicine

Therapists believe almost any form of illness or disorder can be treated with Environmental medicine. They are most commonly used to seek relief from chemical sensitivities, food allergies, and rheumatoid arthritis, mould and pollen allergies. Other conditions said to be relieved are high B.P., heart disease, abdominal pains, diarrhea, gastroenteritis, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, bed-wetting, ear infections, hypoglycemia and premenstrual syndrome.

Who Should Avoid Environmental Medicine

• People suffering from heart disease, multiple sclerosis, asthma, B.P. or epilepsy should avoid heat treatments.
• If you have liver or kidney disease avoid chelation.

Side Effects of Environmental Medicine

• Allergy testing and desensitization can cause unpleasant reaction.
• Heat treatments make some people dizzy, nauseous, shaky or weak.
• Intravenous infusion can cause discomfort, bruising or reaction.
• Chelation therapy can cause headache, dizziness, and nausea; and when used in higher doses can cause irregular heartbeat, bone marrow damage, blood clots, insulin shocks and anemia.