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Akili Collaborates with Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Vanderbilt University Medical Center to Study Digital Therapeutic AKL-T01 as Treatment for Patients with COVID Brain Fog
Akili Collaborates with Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Vanderbilt University Medical Center to Study Digital Therapeutic AKL-T01 as Treatment for Patients with COVID Brain Fog AKL-T01 is the first and only digital therapeutic specifically...
What is a DO?
Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine use a unique whole-person approach to help prevent illness and injury. What is a DO? Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine, or DOs, are fully licensed physicians who practice in all areas of medicine. Emphasizing a whole-person approach to...
“Current State of the Covid19 Endemic” (No Longer a Pandemic)
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Concerns Regarding the Covid19/SARS-CoV-2 vaccine
Concerns Regarding the Covid19/SARS-CoV-2 vaccine SARS/Covid-19 is an RNA virus, this means that the genetic code for the virus is carried on RNA not DNA. This is significant. It also means we're going to review some cellular biology so you can understand better...
Why Don’t More Practitioners Know About Lyme & Tick-Borne Illnesses?
Why Don't More Practitioners Know About Lyme & Tick-Borne Illnesses? There are 3 common ticks in Western North Carolina; Black legged Tick Ixodes scapularis Lone Star Tick Amblyomma Americanum American Dog Tick Dermacentor variabilis Illnesses carried by...
How to Get Disability for Your Complex Chronic Illness
What is Complex Chronic Illness? Many poor unfortunates suffer from what I like to call “Complex Chronic Illness (CCI)” including such “favorites” as “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, “Chronic Lyme” “Fibromyalgia” among others. The difficult part of this getting qualified by...
Oxytocin; The “Feel Good” Hormone–here’s what it does & how it works!
Oxytocin Many of us have heard of it as the "feel good hormone", it's release is triggered as a mother nurses her infant--triggering maternal-infant bonding. It's released when we fall in love with somebody as well. For folks with diabetes insipidus--a condition...
New Relief for the Aches & Pains of CIRS & Lyme
There is new hope for those of us who suffer from joint aches & pains related to CIRS & Lyme disease. As described in the Clinical Review of Medical Ozone. Ozone can provide relief of chronically inflamed joints, bursae (fluid filled cavities overlying bone...
CIRS: Treatment Pathway Steps
Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS) is a complex condition that affects many different systems and pathways in the body. The term originates from Dr. Richard Shoemaker after many years of diagnosing patients dealing with persistent biotoxin-related illness....
LabCorp: Essential CIRS Testing Partner
We use a variety of third-party laboratory services to ensure the most accurate and comprehensive snapshot of patient health. Among them, LabCorp is the lab we use the most. When dealing with Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS), there are many labs that most...
ERMI: Testing Your Home for Mold & Biotoxins
Part of the Shoemaker treatment protocol for Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS) dictates removing potential sources of mold toxins. Toxins in the home, vehicle, workplace, or other areas where ample time is spent are all potential hurdles to successful...
CIRS: Recognizing the Symptoms
Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS) is a multi-system condition that can cause a wide-ranging set of symptoms. As much as 25% of the population at large is genetically susceptible to Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS). As described by Ritchie...
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