GOALS

v Introduce the attendees to the concept of Metal Toxicity, discussing its prevalence and emphasizing the consequences of its chronic nature.

v Discuss the toxic metals and their disruption of the homeostasis of the body and review the pathophysiology that contributes to the myriad of disease processes.

v Ensure the participants will be able to diagnose and treat Metal Toxicity and avoid the pitfalls involved in these processes .

OBJECTIVES

v Participants will be able to explain to their patients the need for toxic metals testing and subsequent treatment, incorporating their knowledge of storage locations in the body and the chronic insidious nature of the disease processes.

v Participants will be familiar with the pharmacokinetics of the major metal binding agents & be able to design treatment programs using the protocols for screening for toxic metals & the administration of additional protocols to treat Metal Toxicity.

v Participants will be made aware of the pitfalls in diagnosing, treating and managing their patients. They will be confident in their abilities and aware of their limitations at this basic level.

v Participants will be able to begin patient awareness, diagnosing and treating of Metal Toxicity, immediately.

Dr. Jim Smith is a fully licensed Osteopathic Physician with 20 years experience in Family and Emergency Medicine. He has been doing Integrative Medicine for 15 years. He is certified in Family Medicine and Clinical Metal Toxicology including the use of Chelation Therapy. He serves on the Board of the International College of Integrative Medicine and is the treasurer of the American Board of Clinical Metal Toxicology. He is a member the American Osteopathic Association.

He is presently in a solo, no insurance, private practice in West Chester, Ohio. He is the founder of the International Institute of Metal Toxicology.

Few physicians or even the most holistic of health practitioners truly understand either how to slowly and safely accomplish this daunting task or even what toxic substances they need to help remove from their patients. To make maters worse, much of the information that has been and is currently being taught is wrong and in many cases even harmful.

One example of how much we have been misled, is the fact that most believe, that in the case of heavy metals toxicity, a urine, hair, stool or blood test can help us to determine the total amount of these substances which exist in the body of our patients. This is not even close to being true and is therefore not only misleading but dangerous.
This lack of understanding greatly decreases the time that the practitioner detoxifies each patient, leaving them open to the exact problems they were trying to prevent. It gives both the doctor and patient a very false sense of security.

The locations and amounts of toxic metals in the body are as difficult to locate and identify as are termites in the wooden studs, walls and roof of your house. At least in the case of termites, there are ways (toxic chemical tenting) that without knowing where they are, the exterminators can nonetheless kill them all in a few days. Too bad removing poisons from the body is far more difficult and requires far more knowledge. This two day workshop will provide you with this knowledge and at the end, you will feel comfortable in applying it immediately with your patients, clients or your loved ones.

This thorough and comprehensive workshop will cover and explain the proper and best methods for preparing the patient/client (or family member) for the detoxification/chelation process. Although in truth, the preparatory liver and kidney support, is actually an very real and important part of the process itself.

This two day workshop will NOT be vague, but instead will describe in detail and explain the uses of specific products, giving manufacturers and product names as well as their contact phone numbers. You will also receive copies of the instructional patient handouts, that your presenter uses in his own office, which you can customize for your office and your patients.

The presenter has no financial connection to any of the products he will be discussing, nor does he manufacture any of his own. He will simply be teaching and explaining the ones he has found to work best from over two decades of use and experimentation.
No process, procedure or protocol being taught, will specify only one specific manufacturer’s product. Instead, you will be taught the actual 2, 3 ,4 or in some cases as many as 7 different products (such as six or seven different liver support agents), which are the best on the market for accomplishing the desired task.

In each case, the reason for needing different products for different patients will be thoroughly explained as well as any possible differences in their instructional protocol, ALWAYS VERY SIMPLE. The patient handouts that the presenter uses for each product will also be supplied for use in your practice with your patients.

Liver and kidney support will be covered in depth as well as why this support is so important for preparing the patient for detoxification, and why the lab tests that we use as indicators for the functionality of these organs are completely flawed and in many cases almost useless.

The reason that the old “no pain no gain” philosophy is harming people will be covered and why the Herxheimer (detox) reaction is to be avoided (and how to do so).

The very important order in which we must proceed if we desire the best results with the least problems so as to retain long term patients, as we carefully help reduce their toxic load, while improving their health and greatly reducing all future risk factors.

Since proper, safe detoxification can never be done rapidly, you are also learning a procedure, which, if you explain it clearly (which you will be taught to do) will give you many new long term patients who will love you for the benefits they derive and will send you other patients. The presenter has had a waiting list practice, without advertising, for over 15 years.

This workshop is two days long, and does not qualify for CEU’s precisely so that you can be given the actual product names and manufacturer’s contact information that is always so sorely lacking at most lectures. Contact hours are not allowed if a presenter actually mentions the products that are used, even when there is no financial connection. This is the single most important part of an instructional workshop.

In the case of detoxification, if everything were to be left in general terms, your results will likely be very poor. If you are not supplied with the exact descriptions of the very few percentage of products which truly work well, your results would be very inadequate. If the actual procedures and protocols which have been found to work best with each product, are not supplied to you to use in your office, the lecture information could easily end up as useless. This will not happen in this workshop and no information, methodology or tricks that have been learned, will be held back. All information will be taught and all questions will be answered.

If you as an attendee, do not get the results that the presenter describes, and the reason is that you were not able to be taught which products actually work, you have just wasted a great deal of time and possibly even lost some patients. This presenter learned this a long time ago, and will not agree to give his longer more complete instructional workshops and classes if he is not allowed to be specific regarding which products he has found work best, and how they should be used.

The various conditions which are helped by detoxification have been shown to be too numerous to list, and this will be discussed.

Ways to help determine what needs to be addressed first will be covered

Other products such as the cleanest most poison free household and bathroom cleansers, soaps, lotions, shampoos, detergents, etc, will be covered and a handout on the best products will be supplied. If we cannot reduce the incoming daily poison exposures for ourselves and our patients, then we will make this all even more difficult.

Many patients will show extreme gratitude for your helping them to locate products which they do not react to. For those who desire to actually stock some of these products, rather than sending your patients to the internet, these healthy products can also be another profit center for your office.

Since it is understood and accepted that a growing number of the best health practitioners are often using some form or type of energetic testing with their patients, this topic will be covered briefly. This is done so those who do utilize one of these procedures in their practice, will understand any differences or specific procedures or orders of testing, which they need to understand to attain the best results. If a show of hands indicates that none of the participants is using any form or energetic testing, this topic will be left out.

If you truly want to do everything within your power to help your patients improve their health, you will likely join a growing number of health practitioners who quickly realize that this information becomes the most important you have ever learned.

The participant will learn:
▸Why detoxification of every patient is more important than they previously thought
▸What types of poisons we have been proven to have accumulated in our bodies
▸Where you can find information on this research to show to your patients
▸How early in life we begin to accumulate poisons and why
▸The inaccuracy of all of our available laboratory testing for heavy metals
▸The inaccuracy of all of our available testing for liver and kidney function
▸Why we may never be able to determine total body levels of heavy metals
▸Why we may never be able to determine total body burden of toxic chemicals
▸Why the only currently available & accurate total body tissue testing cannot be used
▸The importance or liver and kidney support BEFORE beginning any other detox
▸How to accomplish proper and safe liver and kidney support
▸How to determine when adequate liver and kidney support has been accomplished &
▸How to determine when more of the above support needs to be started again
▸Which exact products work best for different individuals for supporting these organs
▸Why the most sensitive patients cannot find anyone who can help them and how you can now be one of the few who will be able to fill this void
▸Why electric and electromagnetic fields need to be considered with detoxification
▸Ways to help deal with these fields and reduce their effects on your patients
▸Which exact products should be used first after (or along with) liver and kidney support
▸Which companies and products work best for safely detoxifying different chemicals
▸The exact procedure for the use of these products and how to manipulate the doses differently for different patients (we teach the patient to do this with handouts)
▸Which company can make you a product to detoxify a specific chemical agent, if no such product is currently on the market
▸How to teach you patient to adjust their own doses while detoxing to help avoid unnecessary phone calls to your office.
▸What to do you do when even a single drop, of the product you believe is best for the patient, causes an undesirable overload reaction and why this is probably NOT just in their head
▸If there is time, off topic questions will gladly be answered at the end of day two.

Addressing beliefs in mis-information can help practitioners understand controversial claims and arguments surrounding the pharmacokenetics, pharmacology, and the monitoring of BHRT.
In the afternoon of the 2nd day, bring the data from you toughest cases for discussion and resolution.

OBJECTIVE: “Just Go With It”
Participants shall:
1.Become familiar with the vast array of physiological functions modulated by Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT)

2.Embrace the pharmacokenetics of various dosage forms, including creams vs vaginal/rectal suppositories vs troche vs pellet implants vs SL drops and how formulations must be modified to achieve targeted goals—and when that is just not possible

3.Understand the misuse of “BIEST “ and when to use “TRIEST”

4.Be made aware of the nuances of prescribing and dosing BHRT in Pre Term Labor, Post Partum Depression, Deficient Luteal Phase, Fertility, and Migraine Headaches

5.Experience a reality check from the fairytales of HRT monitoring, such as saliva testing and urine testing, and the relevance of free floating fractions vs total serum levels. Review timing of testing as related to the administration of various dosage forms

6.Be aware of the role of environmental endocrine disruptors in today’s BHRT decisions

7.Take part in discussions of refractory patients

Lisa Everett, R.Ph. FACA, CCN Lisa Everett, pharmacist and certified clinical nutritionist, is an adjunct faculty member of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Pharmacy and the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy. She has served as a clinical instructor for the University of Kansas School of Medicine. Lisa was on the Midwest Internal Review Board for 10 years, overseeing more than 95 studies for the Food and Drug Administration, served on the board of trustees for the American Holistic Medical Association and currently serves on the of the executive committee for the International and American Associations of Clinical Nutritionists. As a member of the International and American Associations of Clinical Nutritionists, the American Holistic Medical Association, and the International Association of Compounding Pharmacists, she focuses her practice on holistic patient care and education. Lisa writes articles for various publications and has lectured to professional and patient groups both locally and internationally, compiling more than 600 presentation hours. She is currently publishing a book which will provide women, men, and health care professionals a unique prospective on psychoneruoimmunoendocrinolgy, clinical nutrition, and the environment. Lisa is co-owner of O’Brien Pharmacy and the Kansas City Holistic Centre in Mission, Kansas. She has a private consultation practice, in which she utilizes 30 years of experience in outcome-based lifestyle, spiritual, and pharmacologic intervention. This includes clinical nutrition, monitoring lab values, and management and reversal of symptoms in diverse disease states.

Robert Anderson “Psychoneuroendocrinology”
The Human Mind and Central Nervous System exert enormous influence on the equilibration and balance of hormone substrates and hormone metabolites in the human body. This lecture explores these influences and addresses the practical pathways by which the essential principles can be utilized to the betterment of an enhanced state of health.

James L. Wilson DC, ND, PhD “Adrenal fatigue: an undiagnosed and under-treated stress syndrome”
Adrenal fatigue usually occurs as a result of stress but despite its prevalence, is one of the most under-diagnosed stress disorders. It is involved in acute and chronic illness and is both a distinct disorder and a contributing factor to the symptom complex of conditions such as allergies, environmental sensitivities, addictions, hypoglycemia, food cravings, PMS, peri-menopausal and post menopausal disorders, sexual dysfunction, depression, accelerated aging, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis and other auto-immune disorders.

Marianne Marchese, ND “Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome: A comprehensive approach to diagnosis and treatment”
Polycystic ovarian syndrome, PCOS, affects thousands of women in the United States and is a common cause of infertility. PCOS is the most common endocrinopathy of reproductive age women in the U.S effecting roughly 10% of this population. It accounts for 75% of women with amenorrhea and 85% of women with androgen access/hirsutism. Androgen excess and hyperinsulinemia are hallmarks of the disorder.

Holly Lucille, ND, RN “Modern Day Thyroid Disease: Thinking Things Through”
New research suggests that the estimated number of individuals suffering from thyroid imbalance is twice the previously suspected level. In fact, more than 13 million Americans may not realize they have a thyroid issue.

Phyllis Bronson PhD “Hormones Mood and Emotion: Finding Balance as We Age”
This workshop will draw on Phyllis Bronson’s scientific research over the past 15 years and how she brings the science alive for women where they live: in their relational, emotional worlds.

Ty Vincent MD “Testosterone Deficiency in Young Men”

Arden Anderson MD Diet and Nutrition: “What a Clinician Needs to Know about Nutrient Density, Pesticides and Genetically Engineered Foods”

Ken Stoller MD “Oxytocin”

Allan Warschowski MD “Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy”

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