IV Nutrient Therapy
I first learned about the intravenous (IV) “Myers cocktail” ten years ago while studying with Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum. According to Dr. T., the Myers cocktail was a highly effective way to help patients get well and feel better. He did not offer a lot of evidence beyond his patients’ experience and reports from other doctors, so my natural skepticism took over and I decided to wait and see.
Since then, many patients have asked me for this treatment, reporting that the Myers cocktail had made them feel much better. Meanwhile, Dr. T. and other leading alternative physicians such as Alan Gaby and Jonathan Wright continued to report great results and excellent safety with the Myers cocktail.
What finally convinced me was a study by researchers at Yale. It was a placebo-controlled pilot study of Myers cocktail treatment for fibromyalgia. The placebo group improved, but the Myers cocktail patients had consistently better results. These improvements were dramatic and mirrored the results that my patients, mentors and colleagues had described to me over and over. The researchers also found no serious side effects.
The Myers cocktail is a mixture of essential nutrients given by IV. It usually contains a combination of magnesium, calcium, B vitamins, and vitamin C. The ingredients are adjusted to suit each patient’s individual needs. Many patients have found it highly effective in reducing a variety of troubling symptoms including fatigue, headaches, muscle, pain brain fog and much more.
Finally, I decided to move forward with an IV nutrition program. I have been lucky enough to find an exceptionally skilled and experienced nurse to help me run this program and administer these treatments. Dawn Murphy has six years experience in administering IV nutrient treatments (before that, she was a cardiac intensive-care nurse for 7 years).
The early results are overwhelmingly positive and gratifying. We are seeing just the kind of results that my patients, my teachers and the latest study have described. Within the first four treatments, patients are reporting improvements in energy, pain, sense of well-being and much more. … just like Dr. T told me.
If You Take This To Stop Smoking, You May Have a Heart Attack
If you take this to stop smoking, you may have a heart attack.
The newest drug to help people stop smoking seems to cause heart attaks in a small but significant number of users:
Our meta-analysis raises safety concerns about the potential for an increased risk of serious adverse cardiovascular events associated with the use of varenicline among tobacco users. Despite the limitations of our analysis, our findings have potential regulatory and clinical implications. Drugs that receive priority review have limited safety data at the time of approval.34 The initial safety signal regarding ardiovascular events in people using varenicline was not followed up by an adequately powered safety trial. Until such trials are conducted, clinicians should carefully balance the risk of serious cardiovascular events and serious neuropsychiatric adverse events associated with varenicline use against the known benefits of the drug on smoking cessation.
This is in addition to the major mood disorders that it (Chantix) sometimes causes.
Once again, we see that many pharmaceuticals have surprising risks that are not noticed by the FDA until long after they are released. Proceed with caution…
It’s A Boy!
It’s a Boy!
We just had a new baby. On June 14th, my wife gave birth to a 7 lb 4 oz baby boy by C-section due to “breech presentation” (he was right-side up instead of the usual head first position). We’ve named him William Edward, after my father.
He’s been in and out of the hospital due to jaundice. He was put under the “Bili lights’ and received a new (to me at least) IV immunoglobulin treatment. Fortunately, he’s doing well and his mom is well, too. He’s still a little yellow, but it appears to be a benign condition called “breast milk jaundice”.
Many thanks to Drs. Cahill, Gennaro and Grafani (the OB’s) and Dr. Lasky and her partners at the Pediatric Center. More to come…
Signs and Symptoms of Hypothyroidism
Common Symptoms of Hypothyroidism include fatigue, cold hands and feet, hair loss, weakness, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, joint pain, muscle pain, muscle cramps, autoimmune disease, menstrual difficulties and much more.
Receiving his B.S. from Cornell University and his M.D. from Georgetown University School of Medicine, Dr. Michael Doyle is a board-certified family physician with nearly two decades of clinical experience. His background includes extensive experience in both conventional and alternative medicine. Interested in healthcare and alternative medicine since childhood, he decided to pursue a career in medicine as he went off to college. After completing his Family Medicine residency at the University of Rochester, he practiced Emergency Medicine for several years. He later served as Medical Director for a group of outpatient health centers.
Hypothyroidism and Adrenal Insufficiency (Video #01)
Hi, I’m Dr. Michael Doyle. I’d like to talk to you for a minute about two of the most important substances in the human body — thyroid hormone and cortisoL These two hormones are the foundation of human metabolism and are as important to your health as gasoline and oil are to your car.
Thyroid hormone actually refers to four hormones made by the thyroid gland. I think of thyroid hormones as hormones as the dimmer switch on human metabolism. They literally go into every single cell in your body, including adrenal glands, to boost metabolism. The most common problem with the thyroid is low thyroid function, also called hypothyroidism. The symptoms of hypothyroidism are widespread and extremely varied. They range from fatigue, low temperature, depression, weight gain, and hair loss to high blood pressure, high cholesterol, early heart disease and much more.
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