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AAPI’S NUTRITION GUIDE TO OPTIMAL HEALTH: USING PRINCIPLES OF FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE AND NUTRITIONAL GENOMICS provide optimal immune stimulation and will be manageable for most patients. Stress can play an important role in interfering with immune health, in causing inflammation, and in disrupting hormonal balance. The fourth pillar, stress management, is a general term under which spirituality and living with meaning or purpose can be included. Patients should be encouraged to meditate, to pray, do yoga, tai chi, or anything else that gives them relaxation, peace and a sense of inner strength. One can also use ‚quantum biofeedback‛ and ‚EFT‛ (Emotional Freedom Technique) to help reduce stress and improve emotional balance and well-being. The fifth pillar is detoxification, a subject curiously ignored in conventional medicine. Heavy metals, for example, are known immune disruptors and many of them are frankly carcinogenic. Those patients with body burdens of these substances need chelation to help restore immune competence and cellular energy. Pesticides, plasticizers, and many other environmental toxins are endocrine disruptors and have been implicated in the rising incidence of breast and prostate cancer as well as other types of cancer. In addition to chelation, it is good to offer far-infrared sauna treatments and colon hydrotherapy to aid in the detoxification process. The first pillar, a clean diet, will also limit toxin exposure. Vegetable juicing and eating high-fiber food will speed elimination and detoxification as well. The final pillar is hormone balancing. One important example of the hormone problem is the growing epidemic of unrecognized hypothyroidism. It has been recently noted in studies that breast cancer is associated with high TSH values (a symptom of hypothyroidism). Hypothyroidism suppresses immune function in general. Many patients have cancers that are sensitive to hormones. In fact, it is sometimes the presence of higher levels of toxic estrogen metabolites (like 4.-OH and 16-OH estrone) that may have predisposed the patient to cancer in the first place. Fortunately, the thyroid gland can sometimes be naturally stimulated (in some cases the removal of toxins from the body can aid in 138 this process). For other patients, replacement of thyroid hormone is indicated. In the case of toxic estrogen metabolites, diet change, simple supplements, and exercise can lower these levels. There are other hormonal issues that can also play a role. All must be taken into account in order to optimize treatment. All these six pillars are covered, but what about aggressively killing the cancer cells that have appeared in our body? Insulin Potentiation Therapy Low Dose― chemotherapy (IPT) is an effective, yet gentle way of killing cancer cells. The theory behind IPT could not be more logical. Cancer cells in general concentrate sugar through their abundance of insulin receptors as described earlier. If a small measured dose of insulin is given, the cancer cells become selectively more permeable, and then the insulin receptor sites are maximally saturated with insulin (the therapeutic moment). Very small doses of chemotherapy agents are then introduced into the body and these doses are effectively concentrated into the cancer cells providing enhanced killing powers with a much lower side effect profile. How do we choose among different chemotherapy drugs? As with conventional oncology, we can choose an agent that has been shown to be effective in most patients with a specific type of tumor. However, in the interest of a truly individualized approach to treatment, we can send the patient’s blood to a laboratory in Europe that will test the blood for circulating tumor cells and then test these for resistance to various chemotherapy drugs. This will allow us to pick out the most effective drugs for each individual patient. These drugs could be very different from the standard protocols in oncology. This laboratory will also test for alternative (natural and nontraditional) agents that can help overcome chemotherapy resistance or even directly kill cancer cells. Natural killer cell function (a measure of immune function) is also assayed (tested) and information is given as to the most effective agents to more effectively attack the cancer. 2012
AAPI’S NUTRITION GUIDE TO OPTIMAL HEALTH: USING PRINCIPLES OF FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE AND NUTRITIONAL GENOMICS One can often use high dose vitamin C intravenously as part of the overall regimen. This can be combined with vitamin K3 (which has been shown to potentiate (make stronger) the cancer killing effects of vitamin C). The National Institutes of Health is currently studying high dose vitamin C and has shown it will kill most cancer cells when given in high enough concentrations (these concentrations can be achieved only with intravenous vitamin C). There are many other potential treatments available, some of them very innovative. All treatments are individualized to each patient with the goal of maximizing benefit. As new research emerges, it is good to constantly update protocols to offer the most effective treatments. Richard Linchitz has dedicated his life to medical health and patient care. After graduating with honors from Cornell University Medical College, he completed his residency at the famed University of California, San Francisco, Moffit Hospital. Moved by the personal stories of those living with chronic pain, Dr. Linchitz founded the first and only outpatient nationally accredited multi-specialty pain program in New York. Over the 22 years he managed the Pain Alleviation Center, he developed an integrated program of pain intervention based on lifestyle changes, rather than pharmaceuticalbased solutions. Dr. Linchitz has always lived by his own advice. An accomplished athlete, he lived what he thought was a healthy lifestyle until a diagnosis of lung cancer in 1998 (despite never having smoked) forever changed his life, career and overall perspective on medicine. After receiving a bleak prognosis for survival, he sought to understand his disease from the inside out and to design his own path towards balanced Wellness. This path also led him to become a member of the Society for Integrative Oncology. Determined to share the lessons learned from his own recovery, Dr. Linchitz became an expert in integrating conventional and alternative approaches to treat disease. He became a Board Member of the International College of Integrative Medicine. 139 Consequently, he has created a unique program of health based on prevention and natural remedies. Dr. Linchitz is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, the American Board of Pain Medicine, and the American Board of Anti-aging Medicine. He has successfully passed board exams from the American Board of Clinical Metal Toxicology and the International Board of Oxidative Medicine. He is also trained and certified in Medical Acupuncture and Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT), an innovative cancer treatment. He is a member of the Medical Advisory Board for the Int'l Organization of IPT Physicians. Dr. Linchitz’s other memberships include Program Co-Chair of the Chelation Examination Committee, Board Member of the American College for Advancement in Medicine and a member of the International Oxidative Medicine Association. Contact Richard Linchitz at rlinchitz@msn.com or 516-759-4200 Website: www.linchitzwellness.com 2012
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