Practical Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Here are the details!
Dr. Soram Lecture and Book Signing for His New Book!!!
The Vitamin D Revolution
When: Saturday,
Time:
Where:
www.goldenbridgeyoga.com
Parking: Parking lot across the street at the
Arclight Theatre Parking Garage
Dress: Casual
No RSVP Necessary
Bring Your Friends and Family!
IT SHOULD BE
Dr. Soram would love to see you there!!!
I will be interviewed about Vitamin D on April 2 at 8pm by Jim Bohannon. It will be a live national radio interview on his show which is a New York Late night talk radio show.
It will be broadcast live and streaming on the web on his website and you can listen by clicking HERE . I will be taking calls. So give a call if you have a question.
Hope to see you there!
I will be talking about the importance of Vitamin D in your life at the Bodhi Tree April 1 at 7:30pm and then answering questions and doing a book signing! I invite the LA community as well as all my patients,friends and their families to come and connect ! There is no charge. The Bodhi Tree is at 8585 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles 90069
Map is HERE
Online Bodhi Tree is HERE
Hope to see you there!
I am very complimented that so many of my patients have asked what happened to my newsletter? I have been very busy!
I’m happy to announce to all my patients and friends than on February 23, 2009 my first book, the vitamin D revolution will be released on my publisher Hay House’s website, as well as on Amazon.com. This book has been a labor of love for the last approximately eight months. I am very happy and proud with how the book turned out, and hope that it will help many people.
In all my many years of practice of medicine, I’ve never seen one vitamin, even vitamin C, have such profound effects on human health. As most of you who are my patients know I’ve been normalizing and optimizing my patient’s vitamin D levels for the last approximate five years. 90% of the new patients that I see are significantly deficient in vitamin D even in Southern California! This brought me to the moral and spiritual imperative to share this information with the entire world. It is estimated that there are over one billion people deficient in vitamin D worldwide.
There are two additional aspects to my "vitamin D project".
Many of my patients know of my passion for finding and preventing disease at a very early stage. For this reason many of my patients have spent the money, (approximately $1000) to get a CT Angiogram of their heart. In the last two years since I’ve been ordering this test, I have saved approximately 11 of my patient’s lives. By this, I mean that we found more plaque on their heart than we had ever expected. Procedures, either angioplasty, or in two cases coronary artery bypass surgery fixed the patient’s problem.
Similarly, I have treated patients with high cholesterol who were on statin drugs, who had absolutely no plaque on their angiogram! We were able to take these people are statin drugs. In this day, when the pharmaceutical companies who make statin drugs are implying that everybody should start on statin drugs from age 20 on, this has been a major accomplishment.
I am delighted to tell my patients and friends about a new article that appeared in the January issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology. The title of this article is "Traditional risk assessment tools do not accurately predict coronary heart disease". In this study over 700 patients were taking Statin drugs because of the increased risk of developing coronary artery disease from the traditional Framingham and NCEP risk assessment tools that doctors use.
Integrative medical doctors for many decades have said that the terrain of the body is a contributing factor to the development and spread of cancer. Specifically, in this approach the three factors that determine this "terrain" are acid-base balance, antioxidant status, and resistivity, which is a measurement of the ability of the body’s electricity to flow through a given area. My cancer patients know that I talk with them about their pH (acid-alkaline) balance as well as their antioxidant status.
A new study from Stanford University School of Medicine has been published which supports this "terrain" idea.
I am honored to announce to my patients and friends that I have just been nominated and elected into "Best Doctors of America."
When I first received the letter welcoming me in, I thought it was “Another one” of those organizations that give doctors undeserved big titles in exchange for the doctors paying them.
Investigation of their web site (www.BestDoctors.com) revealed quite the contrary. In reality, to become a member of Best Doctors, you have to be nominated by a colleague and then letters of review are sent to many physicians in your area. Many questions are asked of the doctors but the most important one is “if you as a physician or a member of your family had a medical problem in the area of expertise of this doctor, would you go to this doctor yourself?”
Spring is here! Get some sun or take your vitamin D pills!
In order to help spread the word, I have written an article that was published on HuffingtonPost.com. I received great feedback from several other bloggers and entering the blogosphere is exciting for me as a physician!
In the best of all worlds, you will ask me to get a Vitamin D level (if I don’t bring it up) the next time you see me, and we can exactly define your correct Vitamin D dose and bring you up to optimal levels.
Many people get sick when they fly on airplanes. Often patients come to me for immune support for when they fly. Our current "air travel" protocol of supplements has been very effective for many patients for preventing acute sickness when they fly.
We have always assumed that the reason people get sick when they fly is the concentration of people they are exposed to at the airport, and of course, on the airplane, including the person sitting next to them.
Now a new article has appeared in the medical literature entitled, "Management of Exposure to Aircraft Bleed Air Contaminants Among Airline Workers: A Guide for Healthcare Providers."
This article points out that the outside air supplied to the cabin/flight deck on commercial aircraft ("bleed air") may sometimes be contaminated with Pyrolyzed Engine Oil and/or Hydraulic Fluid.
The article goes on to state that "as a result of this contamination, airline workers and passengers may develop acute and/or chronic health effects."
The list of symptoms which the article reviews, the common symptoms that we see in patients who have flown, include eye, nose or throat irritation, wheezing, and cough.
The American Heart Association has just released new guidelines for patients with Mitral Valve Prolapse.
With rare exception, taking antibiotics before your dental appointment or your surgical procedure is no longer required!
The rare exception would be somebody with severe mitral valve prolapse with significant mitral valve regurgitation. The few of you in my practice who have this are aware of who you are.
Things have come so far in the last 40 years with the issue of antibiotics in Mitral Valve prolapse patients. In 1970 it was two days of antibiotics before the dentist. About 1980 it was just one dose before and one dose after the dentist. Then about 1990 it reduced to one dose ONLY before the dentist, and now this good news of NO antibiotics before Dental work is most welcome by me and all my patients!
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