Pacific Naturopathic
Pacific Naturopathic  Newsletter
 Number 69 * March 2015
 
2570 W. El Camino Real * Suite 111 * Mountain View, CA 94040 * 650-917-1121 
 
The Hernandez Center 
for Adjunctive Cancer Care

 

Greetings!

For this month's newsletter, the healers and staff at Pacific Naturopathic were asked to write about how we each of us takes care of ourselves. Although there are obvious similarities in all of the columns, the fun part is in the unique differences.

Dr. Connie muses about curiosity, openness and willingness in self care and goes on to describe some unique ways she is addressing her own challenges; Dr. Marcel writes about the path of kindness and Dr. Corrine writes about balance and connection.

Nicole and Carlene could have written each other's columns as they write about food, mindfulness, intentions and happiness.  They even titled their columns the same. Jane also writes about the activities and practices that keep her balanced.

This month we are enthusiastically encouraging our readers to try to make it to the Living Wisdom School (LWS) play.  This is not your typical school play.  The LWS play is always uplifting, spiritually focused, utterly beautiful and well-rehearsed.  Please see the promo, just below.

 

Be Well.

 

Dr. Connie, Dr. Marcel and your care team at Pacific Naturopathic and the Hernandez Center for Adjunctive Cancer Care

 

Drs. Connie and Marcel Recommend:
George Washington Carver: 
From Slave to Scientist to Saint

LIVING WISDOM SCHOOL
THEATER MAGIC PRESENTS

"George Washington Carver
From Slave to Scientist 
to Saint"

"Anything will give up its secrets if your love it enough.  Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or the the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also -- if you love them enough."



Wednesday & Thursday, March 18-19, 10 a.m.
Friday & Saturday, March 20-21, 7 p.m.
Performed at Ananda Church
2171 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA
650-462-8150
Dr. Connie's Musings...
Do we recognize ourselves when we look in the mirror?


 

Begin With Curiosity

 

 

Though we are beings of energy, we do inhabit physical bodies. Our physical bodies morph almost imperceptibly over time until one day we look in the mirror and no longer recognize ourselves, or we realize that we no longer are the well and vital person we thought that we were. We may even find ourselves, of a sudden, confronting serious illness. In those moments of truth, we have options as to how to respond.

 

Most of us eventually come to the recognition that we are always at the right place at the right time, that each challenge (however much we would not have consciously opted in to the challenge) is a gift from the Divine, an opportunity for further growth and development. In that light, it is possible to step back from the immediate situation enough to view it with a certain detachment and curiosity.

 

With curiosity come questions which allow us to approach the situation. What is the gift I might receive from this situation? What is my body trying to tell me? How did I manage to keep the situation hidden from myself for so long? What do I do that creates this situation for me? In what ways is my life out of balance, and how could I bring it back to balance? What resources can I access to gain deeper understanding of this situation? What kind of therapies am I drawn to? What are my stumbling blocks? Who can help me and how can I help myself?

 

Initially, questions may be more helpful than answers. Healer or not, we all have stories we have created to understand our own particular reality. We tend to wear colored glasses and to have our blind spots. Even if the story we tell ourselves were to be objectively true, it is often impossible to pull oneself up by one's own bootstraps. As Dr. Marcel is wont to say, "a wise person has many counselors".  And nobody knows it all.

 

Potential patients will sometimes call me and let me know that they believe that they know exactly what is wrong with themselves, and that they would like me to simply go along with them and facilitate their doing what it is that they think would help. The problem is, if they really knew what was wrong and how to treat themselves, they probably would have already done so. Within our first year of practice, we learned that the complaint or diagnosis given over the phone when booking an appointment is rarely what is behind the person's suffering.

 

This is not at all to say that a person's own view of their circumstances is not helpful. Of course it is. Intuition, being based on deeper truths, is even more helpful, and often guides us to creative solutions. Collaging and journaling are two ways to access those inner truths. Meditation is another.

 

If we find in our questioning that our current way of being is based on subconscious programming, the tools of Emotional Freedom Technique and Hypnotherapy come to mind. (See articles by Jane and Carlene below).

 

Through an illness, an independent person may learn that they need to ask for help, to develop a team, to surrender control, to trust another's wisdom. An overly dependent person, on the other hand, may need to learn to trust their own inner wisdom, to take initiative, to move away from treatments or healers with whom they do not resonate.

 

Healing involves body, mind and spirit. Accessing multiple complementary resources, people find that some of the objectively worst situations are the situations for which they are ultimately the most grateful, and through which they find that transformation occurs. We are in awe of the courage and joy and gratitude with which our cancer patients face their cancers, and the clarity with which patients in the most desperate situations view their challenges.

 

It all begins with an openness, a curiosity, a willingness to both accept help and to take control of our own lives. May we all find the courage and creativity to do so when the time comes.

 
Read more about the medical services Dr. Connie offers here: http://www.naturopathichealthconsultations.com

 

 

 

Self Care: 

Beyond Nutrition and Exercise


Dr. Marcel loves the physical work at his and Dr. Connie's Hawaii vacation rental home property.


 

When thinking about this month's topic (how your Pacific Naturopathic healing team takes care of themselves) there were really a lot of directions I could go.  Yes, like my colleagues at Pacific Naturopathic, I am passionate about being proactive about my health.  I am a big-time fresh, local and organic foodie who loves to cook. I could exercise more, but am comfortable ramping up now that days are longer and I can walk after work.  I am involved in many activities that I love. I have a positive, optimistic, conscious experience of life.  I am a naturally happy guy.  I do feel truly blessed. 

 

All these things that I mention above are part of my experience of events on the physical and the mental emotional levels and they come easily to me because they are part of an ingrained pattern of how I have been living my life for as long as I can remember.  


 
Many years ago as I was lapsing out of Catholicism and was first exploring other spiritual paths, I read a simple quote from the Dalai Lama:

"My religion is very simple.  My religion is kindness." This touched me on a cellular level, and to the extent that I was able at the time, I tried to make it my religion as well.  Fast forward to 2013.

 

In 2013, a movie named "Finding Happiness" was released.  The movie is about a personal journey of transformation.  Towards the end of the movie, the great teacher and spiritual guide Swami Kriyananda is asked if he had a message for others on the spiritual path.  His simple answer was,

"Be kind to one another." As Yogi Berra said, "D�j� vu all over again."


I have been on a spiritual path all of my life.  I have been consciously on a specific yogic path for almost 25 years.Kindness is the basic organizing spiritual principle of my path. Am I perfect? No.  But I am never intentionally unkind and as time passes there are fewer unconscious lapses.

 

So how I take care of myself is by trying to be consistently conscious of the effect my energetic expression has on those around me and by striving to base every interaction in kindness. 

 

Note: "Finding Happiness" is available on DVD in our office for $20.  We'll mail it to you for $3.00.  Please phone if you would like a copy.

 

 

For more on Dr. Marcel's work click HERE.

 


How We Take Care of Ourselves

Corrine Wang, N.D.
Dr. Corrine in Paso Robles with her mother

When I think of what I need to take care of myself, the phrases that always come to mind are "simplify" and "bring it in." 


 
We live in such a busy world that it is easy to continually feel pushed and pulled in multiple directions, scattering in the wind. Personally, I have to consciously give myself the space to reflect and observe, to just be and draw my energy more inwards. 

 

Much of it is the need to continue to strengthen that connection to myself, to check in and make sense of what I am experiencing, feeling, and doing in the world. To reaffirm my intentions for my life and where I am going and stay aware and conscious in my life. 

 

Meditation, yoga, and hiking in nature have all been great ways for me to ground and reconnect, quiet the mind, and center back in my heart. For direction and clarity in life, I have always found this time for connection to not only be nurturing and restorative, but also necessary. 


 
When we think about yin and yang in Chinese philosophy, our culture definitely values the yang traits - the outward, active, aggressive, get-things-done nature. We tend to forget about or downplay the yin qualities of nurturing, yielding, holding space, allowing things to be or come about. There always needs to be a balance. 


 
With the constant drive and push to always be doing things, we also need to remember ways to give ourselves time to rest, restore, and even the space to create what we want in our lives. So some questions to consider are, what are you doing to take care of yourself on a daily basis? What are some things that you feel really nurture yourself? And are you allowing yourself the space that you need to be with and really know yourself?

 

 

For more information about Dr. Corrine Wang and her mind/body approach to healing, please visit her website at http://www.drcorrinewang.com

 

 


What Works for Me

 

Dr. Connie standing 
at her computer


 
In answering the question of how it is that we care for ourselves, it is tempting to write something about diet and exercise, as these are the health promoting habits that are subjects of many a new year's resolution (mine included). However, I'm interested just now in sharing some simple things that I am now doing to make a profound impact on my health and my life.  I tend to feel that, if I can do them, just about anyone can.

 

It is in the nature of my work to sit at my desk, pretty much all day long, conversing with clients. Recently, the medical and popular literature cautions that the effects of a sedentary lifestyle have a potentially greater effect on health than does increasing exercise....in other words, those walks and work outs don't make up for the predominant sedentary behavior. Click here for an article on the effects of a sedentary lifestyle. Want to lengthen your telomeres? Decrease your blood pressure? Feed your brain? Stop sitting.

 

So how, in the context of my interactive work with clients, do I stop sitting? I googled stand up desks on Amazon, and discovered a very inexpensive desktop add on for work. I now stand during phone consults, during lunch hour, and any time I don't have a patient sitting in front of me. A second stand up desk is parked in my living room, lest I be tempted to be a couch potato at the end of the day. These work fabulously for me, and have cut down on my weekday sitting by at least 4 hours a day.

 

I made a second easy adjustment after reading the literature indicating that use of electronics at night is detrimental to sleep. I made an executive decision to not even look at my computer after 8 PM, and to not read books on the iPad in bed (although one of the older kindles seems not so detrimental). I actually have paper books by my bedside now. I enjoy them.

 

I have incorporated many other simple health habits. I use jasmine oil to help prevent nighttime waking; rose oil to bring me into deeper states of meditation. Read about jasmine oil.
 

I actively seek out entertaining ways to move my body more in the course of the day. To the consternation of my husband and son, I have an exercise bike in the living room, and I store a weighted hula hoop, arm hoops and a rebounder behind the living room couch in our small apartment.

 

My tastes run to the unusual. Other people have trainers. I have one on ones with an aerial yoga instructor.  Read about aerial yoga. I recently read that one could address snoring and sleep apnea by learning to play the didgeridoo. I'm thinking about it... that is something that would be both health promoting and fun at the same time. Dr. Marcel smiles. I look at the research article, taking into account who wrote it, and seriously consider whether it might indeed be both entertaining and health promoting. A cure for sleep apnea. 

 

If I had to summarize my approach to health maintenance and optimization, I would say that I maintain and promote my health by opening my mind to new and different possibilities, preferably fun ones, and by changing my routines to incorporate these things into my daily life. 

 

 

Find out more about Dr. Connie's work HERE.

The Best Healthcare is Self Care

Nicole Noceto
Nicole brings her textbooks on outdoor adventures!

 

 

I couldn't think of a more fun and relevant topic than self-care!  It's an especially interesting topic to contemplate as I embark upon my journey towards becoming a health care provider.  I have long valued the importance of self-care, as both a concept and a consistent practice, however, thinking about it from the angle of a health care provider, it becomes even more important to 'practice what you preach,' matching knowledge with authenticity.

 

While I identify as a yoga teacher, student of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and passionate keeper of my health and well-being, I am constantly checking in with myself about the decisions I make (or don't make) to make sure that self-care is integrated into my daily life.  By 'constantly checking in', I don't mean in an obsessive and stressful way, but in a gentle and inquisitive way.  Even with ten-hour school days, homework to do, a house to clean, errands to run, people to see, a job to do, I have made cooking nutritious meals, exercising, regular acupuncture treatments, spending time outdoors, watching my favorite sports teams, and even relaxation, part of my rhythm.  I am very grateful to also have a health-conscious partner who helps to make all of this possible - but the bottom line is that we manifest our intention to live healthfully, because we want to. 

 

The other way I look at this, is that living healthfully and taking care of myself actually fuels me through busy days and weeks.  My most valued self-care practice is cooking - I truly can't stress enough the importance of cooking, as food is literally the fuel that sustains us day in and day out.  From thoughtful planning to conscious sourcing, my days revolve around nutritious snacks and meals. I physically and mentally feel my best when I eat healthy, home-cooked food.

 

Another way I know that I'm truly taking care of myself is by making time to exercise and be outdoors.  This became more rhythmic once I started working as a yoga teacher, because I've had extra incentive to keep up my personal practice.  To move mindfully and meditate is a most powerful exercise for the body and mind! Further, to get fresh air and connect with the elements, whether this means walking, hiking, or simply just sitting outside, I find it so therapeutic to balance my days of studying and working inside with a healthy dose of Nature. 

 

Lastly, I take care of myself by being happy.  I strive to see the good in situations, surround myself with good-hearted people, and do what I truly enjoy.  Whether it's writing, reading, engaging in interesting conversation, watching baseball, getting acupuncture, listening to music, drinking a yummy cup of tea... I feed my soul with things that make me happy.  

 

Taking good care of oneself should not be stressful, but genuinely uplifting!  Adopting new self-care habits will surely take time and getting used to, as with creating any new habitual pattern.  There are certainly sacrifices and tradeoffs, but with interest and diligence, self-care can become more or less effortless while undoubtedly improving your quality of life. 

 

 

Nicole Noceto offers Nutrition Education for people 

meeting the challenges of diabetes and cancer.  

Nicole will soon begin offering yoga therapy programs.

Please phone 650-917-1121 to schedule.

We Know What to Do

 

Jane multitasks at the gym.


 
There is more health information available to us now than there has ever been before.  What we need to do to maximize our health is not a mystery. But the question is...

 

Why don't we DO IT?

 

The answer is complex and varied. I know because I have a complete set of excuses myself. The range goes from: I'm busy, too tired, it's boring, tomorrow...

 

But the truth is that once you start a program it becomes something that feels good. Particularly when you start to look good.

 

I got myself in hand by joining a gym that has machines, free weights, and classes. I mostly go with a friend so that adds a social element.

 

Another new thing I do is to make an organic protein smoothie one of my meals every day. I add all kinds of delicious things to the protein powder like cashew butter, berries, cut up Fuji apple, a banana, and almond or rice milk. There are infinite variations. I can honestly say that this drink is more delicious and satisfying than any milkshake I ever tasted. And it holds me as long as a meal.

 

I have become an orthodox greens lover.  That means that there MUST be greens in my meals at LEAST once a day. If this doesn't happen, well, I don't know what to say...it always does happen. Whether it's a salad, green beverage, kale chips, steamed chard...I must have it. Green is Good, and believe me, I am both happy and amused by this insistence.

 

I'm not bragging about my incredible will power to

insert all these good practices in my life.

 

 No, that's not the complete story.  The truth is that I use Tapping (EFT) to coax my will to do the right thing. Don't feel like going to the gym today? Just tap and you're out the door.  No time to make the smoothie and plan to grab a quick bite (no doubt full of carbs)? Just tap for a minute and you will make that smoothie...and be so happy you did.

 

Tapping is the most useful and exciting discovery I have ever made.  You may not have heard of it yet but in the near future you will be seeing it everywhere. More and more hospitals are offering it as part of their wellness programs.

 

I teach Tapping to all my clients in the first appointment, no matter what their issue or concern. Why? Because Tapping can be used on anything, whether physical or emotional.

 

Please feel free to call me if you want to know more about it.  I offer a free 20 minute consult. I love spreading the word.

 

 

Read more about Jane Hernandez's transformative work 

 

 

The Best Healthcare is Self Care
 
Carlene makes time to be outdoors

  

I couldn't think of a more fun and relevant topic than self-care!  It's an especially interesting topic to contemplate as I embark upon my journey towards becoming a health care provider.  I have long valued the importance of self-care, as both a concept and a consistent practice, however, thinking about it from the angle of a health care provider, it becomes even more important to 'practice what you preach,' matching knowledge with authenticity.

 

While I identify as a yoga teacher, student of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and passionate keeper of my health and well-being, I am constantly checking in with myself about the decisions I make (or don't make) to make sure that self-care is integrated into my daily life.  By 'constantly checking in', I don't mean in an obsessive and stressful way, but in a gentle and inquisitive way.  Even with ten-hour school days, homework to do, a house to clean, errands to run, people to see, a job to do, I have made cooking nutritious meals, exercising, regular acupuncture treatments, spending time outdoors, watching my favorite sports teams, and even relaxation, part of my rhythm.  I am very grateful to also have a health-conscious partner who helps to make all of this possible - but the bottom line is that we manifest our intention to live healthfully, because we want to. 

 

The other way I look at this, is that living healthfully and taking care of myself actually fuels me through busy days and weeks.  My most valued self-care practice is cooking - I truly can't stress enough the importance of cooking, as food is literally the fuel that sustains us day in and day out.  From thoughtful planning to conscious sourcing, my days revolve around nutritious snacks and meals. I physically and mentally feel my best when I eat healthy, home-cooked food.

 

Another way I know that I'm truly taking care of myself is by making time to exercise and be outdoors.  This became more rhythmic once I started working as a yoga teacher, because I've had extra incentive to keep up my personal practice.  To move mindfully and meditate is a most powerful exercise for the body and mind! Further, to get fresh air and connect with the elements, whether this means walking, hiking, or simply just sitting outside, I find it so therapeutic to balance my days of studying and working inside with a healthy dose of Nature. 

 

Lastly, I take care of myself by being happy.  I strive to see the good in situations, surround myself with good-hearted people, and do what I truly enjoy.  Whether it's writing, reading, engaging in interesting conversation, watching baseball, getting acupuncture, listening to music, drinking a yummy cup of tea... I feed my soul with things that make me happy.  

 

Taking good care of oneself should not be stressful, but genuinely uplifting!  Adopting new self-care habits will surely take time and getting used to, as with creating any new habitual pattern.  There are certainly sacrifices and tradeoffs, but with interest and diligence, self-care can become more or less effortless while undoubtedly improving your quality of life. 


Read more about Carlene's transformative work here.

 

Rapid Pain Relief
With Elijah Fee

Elijah Free, MH, CMI, CMT

 

 

Elijah Free's approach to helping his patients deal with physical pain has been described as bordering on miraculous.  Elijah is also a Master Herbalist who designs and produces all of his own herbal products for his healing practice. He is an herbal product designer for Ridgecrest Herb Company. 

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Elijah Free is a healer, specializing in pain elimination of all types, both mechanical and metabolic. He is a master medical herbalist with numerous specialties, a researcher and product designer for his own label; Earth Friend Herb Co. 


 

Elijah is the author of "Apprentice to Angels," and a U.S. patent holder for a formula to eradicate fibromyaligia. He was recently granted a 501-C3 from the IRS as a medical study, something almost exclusively for institutions such as Stanford, hospitals or pharmaceutical companies.


 

Bringourvetsallthewayhome.org is all about Elijah's work with an herbal formula for PTSD that restores the lives to veterans and anyone else with this condition. A documentary video will be available later this fall about this project. A video on fibromyaligia can be seen at rapidpainelimination.com

 

To schedule an 
appointment with Elijah, 
please phone 650-917-1121.
Breast Thermography at
Pacific Naturopathic
 
- an excellent screening tool -

thermography

 

Screening exams are one of the ways that we are taught to care for ourselves. At Pacific Naturopathic, we use screening exams to discover and diagnose diagnosable conditions, but also to prevent disease and optimize health. With regards to the breasts, conventional medicine recommends annual mammograms to screen for breast cancer.  

 

Mammograms neither prevent disease, nor do they have the potential of optimizing health, nor are they diagnostic. Rather, questionable results on a mammogram indicate the need for breast biopsy, the actual diagnostic for breast cancer.

 

Just as mammograms are not diagnostic of breast cancer, neither are breast thermograms. However, findings on thermograms can indicate breast disease as much as ten years before a cancer develops. With breast thermography, we are able to identify physiologic changes before a structural (or anatomic) change occurs. We are therefore able to attempt to reverse the physiologic process, and thus prevent the structural change.  Breast thermography has the added benefit of being a screening exam with no adverse side effects.

 

This is not to say that mammograms do not have their place. They do. With certain breast changes, and when thermography findings are inconsistent, we recommend mammograms as a way to better understand what is happening with the breasts.

 

 

Read more about breast thermography at 
Pacific Naturopathic here.
 

Pacific Naturopathic Hawaii: Frequent Visits Help Keep us Balanced and Healthy

Check Future Openings 
(then click on "Calendar")
Walk in a park-like environment at Pacific Naturopathic Hawaii
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The colors! Ah, the colors!  Is there anything lovelier than the deep blue ocean, robin's egg blue sky, myriad shades of green and the riotous panoply of tropical flowers?  Add to this the crystal clear air, perfect temperature and the warm aloha spirit of the people and you can see why Dr. Connie and Dr. Marcel try to visit their Hawaii vacation property every six weeks or so.   


 

Come, enjoy, rejuvenate and reinvent yourself. 

Openings available from May.

 

For more information, please visit our dedicated web site.

 

 
The Hernandez Center for Adjunctive Cancer Care


News and Commentary on Cancer Topics

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What We Offer 
at the Hernandez Center...

Marcel Hernandez, ND

Our cancer patients often ask us to give them an estimate of the effectiveness of therapy at the Hernandez Center for Adjunctive Cancer Care. We respond that our entire focus is on helping our patients stay healthy, upbeat and positive. 


 
The truth is that the botanical and nutritional therapies we offer (including intravenous vitamin C), although 'adjunctive' in nature, have powerful documented actions in decreasing inflammation, reducing tumor load and attacking cancer stem cells.  


 
Our mind/body approaches are focused on transformation of experience.  And our bodywork approaches help reduce muscular pain, resolve lymph drainage problems and relieve stress.  


 
The hope we offer is not that of a miraculous cure, although we are definitely open to miracles, but the hope of a life lived to the fullest in dignity and understanding, for however long that may be.

 


Estrogen and Cancer

Connie Hernandez, ND

Many doctors often say and patients often repeat that estrogen causes breast cancer.  This is no more true than the belief that testosterone causes prostate cancer. If it were as simple as this, every teenage boy in America would have prostate cancer, and prostate cancer rates would drop off as men age.  Fertile women would be plagued with breast cancer, and breast cancers would fall off precipitously in menopause.

 

Cancer is caused by a complex of variables, some known and some unknown. If a cancer is estrogen receptor positive, estrogen in general is ill advised. The estrogen may cause an existent cancer to grow, but it is not clear at all that the estrogen is what caused the cancer in the first place. In addition, it's simplistic to consider that any and all estrogens would have the same effect.  The body produces many estrogen metabolites, some of which are inflammatory and known to cause the proliferation of tissue, and some of which are considered to be anti carcinogenic.

 

Beyond that, estrogen metabolites do not exist in a vacuum. There are favorable ratios of one estrogen to another, and ratios that are not favorable.  Bio identical hormone therapy takes these ratios into account and utilizes the ratios, as well as various dosing schedules and modes of administration (oral, sublingual, topical, vaginal).

 

Conventional hormone replacement therapy, when described as bio identical, generally refers to a single estrogen metabolite, such as estradiol, given in one form or another. When not bio-identical, the estrogen given will have been synthesized to be different than that which is in the body, so that it can be patented and sold.  These non bio identical estrogens (Premarin is bio-identical, but only to horses, not to women) and other xeno estrogens have various unpredictable and undesirable effects in the body, as does Provera (which is erroneously labeled as progesterone, when in fact it is a progestin.... one of those synthesized to be different molecules.)

 

Even considering all of this, there is also the relationship of the estrogens to other hormones in the body... progesterone, testosterone, adrenal and thyroid hormones. It is helpful to look at the whole picture. 


 

At Pacific Naturopathic, we use 24 hour urinary steroid testing to look at the balance of all the hormones, and a test called Estronex if we're wanting to view certain estrogen metabolites and ratios.


 

Interested?  

Please phone us for an appointment for evaluation. 

650-917-1121

 

Intravenous Vitamin C 
for Herpes and Shingles

Connie Hernandez, ND
Many people are aware that Intravenous Vitamin C is beneficial in reducing the side effects of chemotherapy, in optimizing cancer treatment protocols in general, and in supporting immunity when coming down with colds or flus. At Pacific Naturopathic, we're particularly interested in I.V. C as an integral component of treatment for the herpes virus, whether oral or genital herpes or shingles.

 

 

A number of our patients have reported that, if they receive I.V. Vitamin C as soon as they experience the characteristic herpes prodrome (whether itching at the site at which a lesion generally occurs, or nerve pain running down the leg), the I.V. will stop the virus in its tracks

 

With shingles, the sooner the better. We saw one horrific case of shingles in a young man who was unable to take the conventional anti viral due to allergic reactivity. By flooding his system with Vitamin C over several days, he was over the outbreak in about a week. That was record breaking time, considering that shingles can torment a person for weeks, even months.

 

Our treatment protocols for the herpes virus offer other preventive and therapeutic support as well, and we do advise taking the conventional anti viral ASAP for shingles. However, we also urge anyone who is plagued with this virus to complement whatever else they are doing with I.V. vitamin C therapy.


 

Please phone us at 650-917-1121 for more information.

 

 

Other I.V. Therapies Offered at Pacific Naturopathic and the Hernandez Center

Corrine Wang, N.D.

 

Many people have already heard about intravenous vitamin C as a complementary cancer therapy to help stimulate the immune system as well as being directly cytotoxic to cancer cells. We are often using this therapy at the Hernandez Center for our cancer patients. What people may not know is that we also have many other IV therapies that are also very helpful in supporting our cancer patients depending on their symptoms and what they need. 

 

We often give a nutrient IV in between IV vitamin C sessions, which helps to provide more energy and rebuild our patients that may be feeling fatigued or have low blood counts. 

 

We also have other anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer therapies like IV curcumin (turmeric) or IV silibinin (from milk thistle). 

 

Another IV treatment that can help cancer patients from losing more weight or to help them gain weight is an infusion that includes a variety of amino acids. 

 

These are just a few of the protocols we have for our cancer patients. For more information or to set up an appointment, please contact us at the Hernandez Center at (650) 917-1121.

 

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Pacific Naturopathic
and
The Hernandez Center 
for Adjunctive Cancer Care

2570 W. El Camino Real, Suite 111
Mountain View, CA 94040
650-917-1121 (v) * 650-917-1127 (f)

In This Issue

* Dr. Connie muses on taking control of our lives.

 

 * Dr. Marcel: How I take Care of Myself

 

* Dr. Corrine: How We Take Care of Ourselves

 

* Dr. Connie: What Works For Me

 

 * Nicole: The Best Healthcare is Self Care

 

* Jane: We Know What to Do


 

* Carlene: The Best Healthcare is Self Care

 

* Breast thermography at Pacific Naturopathic 


* Hawaii retreat: Why we visit so frequently

 

Hernandez Center: News and Commentary on Cancer Topics

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 * Dr. Marcel: What we offer at the Hernandez Center


 

* Dr. Connie: Estrogen and cancer


 

* Dr. Connie: Intravenous vitamin C for herpes and shingles


 

 * Dr. Corrine: other IV therapies offered in our clinic

  

 

 

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