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continued to fight hard against BHT formulated by compounding pharmacists. Now these very same CEOs have released a BHT combination of estradiol and progesterone and are writing in peer review studies about how much better and safer it is. Big Pharma intends be the sole source of supply. They plan to do that by eliminating their competition: compounding pharmacies.

What is your experience with compounding pharmacists?

The FDA purports that compounding pharmacies are dangerous, unregulated and use items that are too complicated to compound. Not true. Compounding pharmacists are skilled professionals at mixing bioidentical hormones to a doctor’s prescription. I’ve successfully been using compounding pharmacies for more than 30 years. A compounding pharmacist should be part of the health team when natural, bioidentical hormones are prescribed. Their knowledge can provide a wealth of experience for doctor and the patient. Furthermore, they provide an invaluable service at manufacturing a safe product that is unique for a particular patient.

Hormones are so critical that even if you’re prescribed HRT, it’s better than losing out for decades on the hormone signals that keep your body younger and less inflamed. To be without healthy hormone signals is an aging and pro-inflammatory process to the body. In other words, get hormones any way you can. While synthetic is better than nothing, bioidentical trumps synthetic.

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Tips for Using Vitamin Supplements

by Michael Biamonte, CCN

A clinical nutritionist can aid in discovering the correct vitamin or mineral requirement for an individual and actually tell whether or not expensive supplements are being used by the body. Minerals work with vitamins, which act as a chemical “tugboat” to assist the mineral on its journey through the body’s chemical factories.

Vitamins or minerals taken in too high a dose may interfere with other vitamins or minerals. Laboratory tests done by clinical nutritionists confirm that this is a highly individual matter and proper doses will be different for everyone. By performing some inexpensive urine tests, it can be quickly determined if vitamins and minerals are not being taken in proper doses or in proper proportions to each other.

Low urinary calcium many times indicates phosphorus deficiency, as phosphorus diffuses calcium and therefore acts as a mobilizer of calcium. High urinary calcium many times indicates lack of vitamin D needed to fix calcium to the bone. Other tests may prove a different interpretation. A common test is urinary sediment. The amount of sediment and what that sediment consists of can be used to determine at least eight vitamin/mineral deficiencies, as well as enzyme deficiencies.

More than half of Americans do not eat enough raw foods and are deficient in food enzymes that assist absorption of nutrients. Nutritionists that specialize in enzyme therapies will many times use nutritional supplements which contain food enzymes derived from plants to assist absorption. Which ones and the required dose can be discovered through testing. More extensive tests involving blood, urine and tissue samples like fingernails or hair can determine very accurately if someone is digesting, absorbing, transporting and utilizing nutrients in the way they are meant to be.

A quick test would be checking urinary pH. This can be done using litmus paper available in most drug stores. A urine pH above 6.8 or below 6.4 means that some or many nutrients are not being absorbed because vitamins and minerals are affected by enzymes and digestive juices produced by the body. When the pH deviates too far, certain enzymes are not as active and nutrients cannot be absorbed.

Microorganisms such as yeast, bacteria and parasites can also change the environment of the body to make absorption more difficult. Remember, we are what we eat, but we really are what we digest.

Michael Biamonte, CCN, is a certified clinical nutritionist and the founder of the Biamonte Center for Clinical Nutrition. He uses BioCybernetics “Blood Detective” software that can determine exactly where the body is imbalanced—vitamins, minerals, hormones or absorption problems—and which systems in the body are a priority to address. For more information, visit FloridasCandidaDoctor.com or Health-Truth. com. See ad on page 17.

Michael Biamonte, CCN

DO YOU SUFFER FROM JOINT, MUSCLE, TENDON AND LIGAMENT PAIN OR INJURIES?

IF YOU DO, THE ANSWER MAY BE PROLO-OZONE THERAPY

From the Desk of Dr. Howard Robins at The Healing Center in New York City…

If you suffer from an injury like an ankle sprain that can’t seem to heal, or if your knee is “bone on bone,” as the cartilage is completely gone and you’re in pain and maybe facing a knee replacement, then Prolo-Ozone therapy may be the answer.

Or perhaps you suffer from sciatica, with shooting pain down your leg into your foot. Prolo-Ozone therapy may be the answer.

Or you may have had a shoulder injury that just won’t stop hurting. Prolo-Ozone therapy may be the answer.

Do you suffer from tendonitis from a sports injury?

Did you injure your bunion joint playing tennis or doing martial arts of some kind?

Are you having trouble with your golf swing because it’s uncomfortable or it just plain hurts?

Keep in mind that all these medical problems will affect how you walk and move, whether you know it or not, and can lead to the development of other painful problems in your feet, legs and back.

Prolo-Ozone therapy may be the answer! the potential to develop into many different types of cells in the body.

This accounts for what we have seen—what I call “repairing the unrepairable and fixing the unfixable.”

We know that medical ozone also acts as a temporary painkiller and anti-inflammatory. However, with Prolo-Ozone therapy, healing is promptly and amazingly stimulated, including reports of cartilage repair and replacement occurring in addition to pain often being permanently eliminated, even when every other treatment has failed.

While we once believed that this manner of healing was impossible, like many other things that we believed couldn’t be done, medical ozone therapy has proven us wrong.

Recovery Possible within Weeks

What is Prolo-Ozone Therapy?

Prolo-Ozone therapy is a series of weekly, often painless injections. With any single injection, complete recovery may be achieved! We’ve found that noticeable improvement typically occurs by the third or fourth treatment. However, if no improvement at all is felt, it may It is said that prolo or proli in Latin means be too late to help and the therapy may not be worth to “rebuild” or “regenerate,” thus the word continuing. proliferate. If symptoms return, it may be necessary for the

In the late 1990s, a published study in Europe patient to come back, promptly and periodically, for a showed that Prolo-Ozone therapy on degenerative Dr. Howard Robins “tune-up”—another injection or series of injections. spinal disks, using a mixture of oxygen All around the world, Prolo-Ozone therapy has and ozone gas, could help stop the pain. This study was saved many people from having to undergo shoulder, hip, knee, repeated in Canada in the early 2000s, with similar success. It back and foot surgeries. We all know there is no guarantee with was followed in Europe and here in the United States by studies any surgery. Surgery can be successful, or in some cases it can of its use on muscle, cartilage, tendon, ligament and joint pain leave you worse off than before. and injuries, with equal success. Prolo-Ozone therapy is a simple and safe way of trying to fix

Ozone gas, acting as a safe “irritant,” causes our body to your problem. If it fails, you can always have surgery. begin a healing response. It is not a surgical treatment. It has also been described as a “regenerative joint injection or non- While no moral or ethical doctor should promise or surgical ligament, cartilage, muscle and tendon reconstruction.” guarantee results, nor should any doctor with any

The major benefit of Prolo-Ozone therapy is that the gas treatment, we have seen astounding success with Prolospreads out and stimulates the healing process over the entire Ozone therapy. injection site. Unlike its precursor, Prolotherapy, which uses a It’s your choice. liquid “irritant” to cause healing, Prolo-Ozone therapy doesn’t More information about this amazing, safe and effective require a guided ultrasound to ensure that it’s applied to a treatment is available at OzoneWithoutBorders.ngo, on my precise spot. website OzoneDoctor.net, and on my radio show, Functional

Research being performed currently in Europe indicates Medicine with Dr. Robins, which is archived but live each week that the ozone gas stimulates “natural stem cell” activity in the on VoiceAmerica.com’s Health and Wellness Channel. Or call area of injury. This must be what causes the healing response, my office at 212-581-0101. See ad, page 3. as the ozone is gone within 10 minutes, having turned back to oxygen. Stem cells serve as the body’s repair system; they have Copyright 2021. All rights reserved.