To discuss your treatment options call (480) 614-5517

To discuss your treatment options call (480) 614-5517

The secret to our success is in-depth diagnosis and customized, proprietary treatment plans.

The secret to our success is in-depth diagnosis and customized, proprietary treatment plans.

Millions of people suffer with digestive problems. We have powerful solutions that matter.

The best combinations of conventional and advanced natural treatments for digestive health.

Ulcerative Colitis

Has Ulcerative Colitis caused you or someone you love pain and discomfort? Have you been experiencing continual, uncontrolled waves of digestive problems such as bloody stools, frequent stools, liquid stools, constant urging to stool, cramping and pain? Have you been unsure and even anxious about how to properly treat your Ulcerative Colitis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease? Have the medications, procedures, and treatment options been disappointing?

We welcome you to Digestive Medical Solutions, where our approach and methods to treating Ulcerative Colitis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease are both refreshing and revolutionary. At Digestive Medical Solutions, we treat the underlying causes of the inflammation that we believe are the overlooked, key contributing factors to Ulcerative Colitis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Using our unique method of customized diagnosis and treatment, we personalize each patient's treatment plan and go beyond the traditional spectrum of common medications, steroids, and surgery. Furthermore, we follow a detailed series of important steps that include an integrative medical approach to help our patients reach optimal health.

First, we need to locate all of the regions and symptoms of Ulcerative Colitis affecting you. This includes any mucosal membrane changes, historical and current consumption of medications, treatments, dietary habits and other lifestyle factors that may have contributed to your condition.

This first step will help us assess your current level of health pertaining to Ulcerative Colitis. It is important for us to get a clear, detailed, and accurate picture of the ulcerative colitis complex of symptoms that are affecting you because everyone's body is unique and the path to healing will be different for everybody.

Although research is inconclusive to a definitive cause of Ulcerative Colitis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease, we find that a detailed testing profile and comprehensive clinical overview, helps to unveil several causative factors and triggers involved in each person's Ulcerative Colitis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease. The example of the testing below combined with our unique treatment process allows for a cause-focused treatment plan.

  • Thorough testing for various infections such as viral, bacterial, Lyme disease, fungal (Candida), and parasitic profiles.
  • Testing immunity markers and performing other specialty inflammatory markers.
  • Testing for chemical toxic exposures and heavy metal toxic exposures that are often linked to autoimmunity.
  • Testing for all nutritional, mineral, and vitamin deficiencies as well as amino acids that contribute to poor health and healing.
  • Testing for food allergies, food sensitivities, and emotional stressors that are often hidden triggers.

Using our proprietary, integrative medical approach, each patient is given a unique, detailed, treatment plan that is designed to help you achieve the best results. Each patient is given the tools to reach their optimal health and establish long-term success.

It is important to identify all the symptoms and then grade each symptom accordingly to monitor improvements. Every patient is different and will have unique symptoms and various levels of inflammation, different triggers, and flare-ups. The gastrointestinal (GI) Mucosa in the colon is irritated in diverse regions and can have various micro-changes that are unique to each person's Ulcerative Colitis, such as different intestinal flora (bacteria).

Some of those bacteria may be good for the body and some can be harmful. The microenvironment around the ulcers can change, particularly during flare-ups. Restoring this milieu and microenvironment is one of the critical components to our success in treatment. In addition, understanding current intestinal immunity and how ulcerative colitis is affecting the entire health of the person is vital.

  • 44% only in distal rectum location of disease (sigmoid or rectum.)
  • 36% full left side up to splenic flexure (left sided Ulcerative Colitis.)
  • 20% entire colon inflamed (Extensive Ulcerative Colitis.)

At Digestive Medical Solutions, we review a complete picture of all your past medications, treatments, and dietary and lifestyle changes.

The general approach being used today by most digestive and colon specialists is to manage the more aggressive presentations of Ulcerative Colitis with long-term steroid usage. This method, though helpful, simply manages symptoms. It never actually addresses the underlying cause for the disease at a deeper level. In essence, it's a symptomatic Band-Aid treatment.

It can become a very complex situation of managing different types of medications with flare-ups. Our approach is very different in that we aim to treat the underlying causes of inflammation and ultimately rebalance the body's immune response.

Unfortunately, relapse in Ulcerative Colitis is common. When patients experience various GI flare-ups, medications can be altered. Statistically, of the people who use steroids, 30% will eventually need colon resection surgery within a year. The long-term use of steroid medications may also damage a person's immune system that brings about infections as well as additional cancer risks, such as Lymphoma.

It is essential to provide an in-depth diagnosis for each patient and treatment plan with the goal of reducing the need for ongoing harmful medications. Our specialized team at Digestive Medical Solutions has developed an important process to deal with the erratic patterns and symptoms by establishing a powerful, customized treatment plan that works to help our patients.

It is very important to point out that most autoimmune diseases such as Ulcerative Colitis are referred to as 'idiopathic'; meaning the cause of the illness is currently unknown. While the causes are currently unknown, upon running in-depth diagnostics at our center, we find that patients with Ulcerative Colitis have increased exposure to infectious agents, which largely goes untreated and undiagnosed by the conventional model. The current data seems to reflect and favor what we have found. Infections play an important role in Ulcerative Colitis pathophysiology.

Other factors such as genetic predispositions may bring about and exacerbate Ulcerative Colitis. Infections may be the largest influencer of genetic changes and shifts. More than genetics, epigenetics may best explain this phenomenon. The term "Epigenetic" refers to the environmental factors that actually alter our body's genetics and risks for diseases. In Ulcerative Colitis, the epigenetic factors lead to poor immunity along with a vicious inflammatory cycle.

Environmental factors such as food allergies, chemical sensitivities, and heavy metal toxicities act as triggers that ignite the inflammatory process. When healthy, the gastrointestinal tract is a very important barrier that allows only certain-sized molecules through for assimilation. It is also responsible for a major portion of our immune system. Once the microenvironment of the bowel is disrupted, larger proteins and molecules can penetrate and cause a cascade of immune reactions that lead to chronic inflammation and further contribute to autoimmunity. For this reason, some foods and exposures can bring about waves of GI flare-ups and eventually make the patient extremely sensitive to lifestyle patterns.

In fact, many of these symptoms, though commonly seen in Ulcerative Colitis, really point to the various infectious diseases and environmental triggers of symptoms that we see in our patients. Ulcerative Colitis can also produce various extra-intestinal symptoms that may include and are not limited to:

  • Joint pain.
  • Arthritis – Painful inflammation and stiffness of the joints.
  • Arthralgia – Painful inflammation and stiffness of the joints.
  • Pericarditis – Pericarditis is a condition in which the sac-like covering around the heart (pericardium) becomes inflamed.
  • Pyoderma Gangrenosum – Ulcers and tissue becomes necrotic with chronic ulcerative wounds within the colon.
  • Erythema Nodosum – Inflammation of the fat cells under the skin with red nodules.
  • Ocular Inflammation – A general term for inflammation affecting any part of the eye or surrounding tissue.
  • Pericholangitis – Inflammation of the bile ducts.
  • Pharyngeal Ulceration – Ulcers in the throat.
  • Venous Thrombosis – Increased blood clot formations and risk of clots.

As we investigate deeper through our testing processes, we notice various factors that we believe may be the causes to Ulcerative Colitis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

  • Infection tests, complete viral, bacterial, Lyme disease, fungal (candida), parasites and other Infectious profiles.
  • Test complete immunity and inflammatory markers.
  • Target all Chemical toxic exposures and Heavy Metal toxic exposures that are often linked to autoimmunity.
  • Test for all Nutritional decencies; mineral, vitamin and amino acids that contribute to poor health and healing of the person.
  • Test all Food Allergies, Food sensitivities and Emotional stressors that act as triggers.

Our highly customized and individualized treatment plans are built from the information gathered throughout our detailed testing process. We then use a targeted, proprietary integrative method to help you reach optimal health. The treatment plans include key factors for each patient to continue for long-term health. If you have any questions about your Ulcerative Colitis and how we may be able to help you, please contact us today.


Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Are you or someone you love suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome? Are you experiencing abdominal discomfort, cramps, gas, bloating, constipation and/or diarrhea? Do have a clear understanding of what is influencing your IBS? Have you been frustrated with insufficient or ineffective treatments and medication options?

Welcome to Digestive Medical Solutions, where our IBS treatment regimens are refreshing and revolutionary. We start by getting an accurate and complete diagnosis of your specific IBS symptom picture and diagnostic profile in order to establish a detailed and customized treatment plan. Our proprietary treatment methods go above and beyond pharmaceutical medications and standard alternative therapies to help our IBS patients reach optimal digestive health. Irritable Bowel Syndrome must be approached by treating the underlying causes of inflammation, irritation and various triggers that effectively balance digestion, motility, the immune system, and the neuroendocrine system.

At Digestive Medical Solutions, we follow a detailed series of steps beginning with a complete diagnosis, proper testing, and the development of a personalized treatment plan with proper follow-up care to help establish long-term success.

We locate all of the detailed symptoms and triggers of the Irritable Bowel Syndrome affecting you, including any physical and emotional stressors, hormonal imbalances, nervous system imbalances, amino acid deficiencies, past history with medications, as well as current medications, treatments, dietary habits and other lifestyle factors that may contribute to Irritable Bowel Syndrome. This first step will help us assess your current level of health pertaining to IBS. Because everyone's is unique and the path to healing is different for everybody, it's important for us to get a clear, detailed, and accurate picture of your Irritable Bowel Syndrome and the complex of symptoms that are affecting you.

Although research for a definitive cause of IBS is inconclusive, we find that a detailed testing profile and comprehensive clinical examination helps to unveil several causative factors and triggers involved in each person's Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Our testing procedures, outlined below, allows for a truly cause-focused treatment plan, including:

  • Thorough testing for various infections including viral and bacterial; Lyme disease; fungal (Candida) and parasitic profiles.
  • Testing for hormonal imbalances and neurotransmitter deficiencies to include amino acid imbalances.
  • Identify digestive nervous system triggers.
  • Testing immunity markers and performing other specialty inflammatory markers.
  • Testing for chemical toxic exposures and heavy metal toxic exposures that are often linked to autoimmunity.
  • Testing for all nutritional, mineral, and vitamin deficiencies that contribute to poor health and healing.
  • Testing for food allergies, food sensitivities, and emotional stressors that are often hidden triggers.
  • Emotional stressors.
  • Help to establish healing.

Using our proprietary, integrative medical approach, each patient is given a uniquely detailed treatment plan designed to help them achieve the best results. Each patient is given the tools to reach their optimal health and establish long-term success. We have identified the important treatments and goals that help you go beyond symptomatic control and pharmacologic treatments to achieve less flares, less digestive irregularities and ultimately aim to avoid prescriptive medication all together.

Regardless of your current situation, our management and treatment plans can be tailored with an ongoing complex clinical evaluation, and lifestyle enhancements, along with molecular marker monitoring, which is coordinated in our integrative model to help you achieve long-term success.

It is important to identify all symptoms and grade each accordingly, so we can monitor improvements. Every patient is different and will have different symptoms and triggers, varying levels of flare-ups and digestive discomfort. IBS requires a detailed diagnosis that often can be difficult to assemble, unless you review the entire symptomatic picture with the proper clinical experience.

Various micro-changes, such as different intestinal flora (bacteria) can play a role. Some of those bacteria may be good for the body and some may be harmful. The microenvironment around the gastrointestinal (GI) lining and motility can change, particularly during episodes of IBS. Restoring this milieu and microenvironment is one of the critical components to our success in treatment. In addition, understanding current intestinal immunity and how IBS is ultimately affecting the entire health of the person is vital. The digestive tract is tied to the entire health of a person and patients with IBS can have other symptoms physical or emotional since it is tied to their digestion.

  • Focusing on symptom control and improvement in quality of life.
  • Pharmacologic therapy to include: antidiarrheals, laxatives, probiotics, anticholinergics, antidepressants, antibiotics, and the newly approved drug, Linaclotide.
  • Alternative treatment options such as exclusion diets, dietary changes, peppermint oil, exercise, relaxation therapy, or acupuncture.

At Digestive Medical Solutions, we review all your past medications, treatments, dietary and lifestyle changes. Then we go above and beyond these basic approaches to help our patients get well.

The general approach being used today by most digestive and colon specialists is to manage the more aggressive presentations of IBS with prescription medications. This method, though it may be helpful in the beginning, only manages the symptoms and never actually addresses the underlying causes of the disease. In essence, it is a symptomatic Band-Aid treatment. It can become a very complex situation of managing different types of medications, including antidepressants, as well as other over-the-counter products to deal with flare-ups. Our approach is very different in that we aim to treat the underlying causes and triggers of IBS that impact GI motility and ultimately rebalance the body's enteric neuroendocrine response.

Unfortunately, continual relapses in IBS are common. When patients experience various GI flare-ups, medications can be altered. Statistically, the most common outcome for patients with IBS is GI-motility irregularities that result in cramping, diarrhea and constipation alterations.

There appears to be a large number of patients that never seek medical care altogether and simply use over the counter medication to control symptoms. Overuse of these over the counter agents can have harmful long-term impacts on health. Today's stressful environments, along with the day-to-day pressures of life, play a major role to the onset and flare-ups with IBS. However, long-term psychotropic drug usage is not the answer either.

Our specialized team at Digestive Medical Solutions has developed an important process to deal with the erratic patterns and symptoms by establishing a powerful, customized treatment plan to help our patients find relief.

It is very important to point out the cause of Irritable Bowel Syndrome is currently unknown. Some possible causes include genetic mutations, abnormal GI motility, enhanced gut pain sensation (visceral hypersensitivity), bacterial flora and inflammatory cell alteration, or psychological changes. Primarily, a combination of these factors leads to IBS. We have also identified increased exposure to infectious agents and release of neurotoxins, which goes largely untreated and undiagnosed by the conventional model. These various patterns all play a role to the pathophysiology of IBS.

Other factors such as genetic predispositions may bring about abnormal GI motility and enhanced gut pain sensation (visceral hypersensitivity). Infections may be the largest influencer of genetic changes and shifts. More than just genetics, epigenetics may best explain this phenomenon. The term "epigenetic" refers to the environmental factors that actually alter our body's genetics and risks for diseases. In IBS, the epigenetic factors lead to a vicious inflammatory cycle and poor immunity. Psychological changes can be brought on by life situations as well as infections that impact neurotransmitter activities in the brain and nervous system. We must remember that GI tract motility is influenced by nerve tissue excitement in the gastrointestinal tract.

Environmental factors such as food allergies, chemical sensitivities, and heavy metal toxicities act as triggers that ignite the inflammatory process. The gastrointestinal tract, when healthy, is a very important barrier that allows only certain sized molecules through for assimilation. It is also responsible for a major portion of our immune system.

Once the microenvironment of the bowel is disrupted, larger proteins and molecules can penetrate and cause a cascade of immune and nerve reactions. These lead to chronic inflammation and GI motility changes which further contribute to IBS. For this reason, some foods and exposures can bring about waves of GI flare-ups and eventually make the patient extremely sensitive to lifestyle patterns, including stressful emotional events. Numerous structures in the Central Nervous System connect to the GI tract through serotonergic nerves that help regulate GI motility, sensation, and secretion.

In patients with IBS, an imbalance in the function of serotonin leads to the deregulation of intestinal motility. Based on this serotonin imbalance, various treatment approaches are used to bring about relief.

Many of the symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome actually correlate with infectious diseases and environmental factors when observed by an experienced integrative clinical eye. Patients may present with:

  • Cramps or lower abdominal pain.
  • Altered bowel habits in volume, frequency, and consistency.
  • Abdominal bloating and flatulence.
  • Gastroesophageal reflux (heartburn.)
  • Dysphagia (difficulty swallowing.)
  • Dyspepsia (impaired digestion.)
  • Nausea.
  • Impaired sexual function.
  • Dysmenorrhea (extreme menstrual pain.)
  • Increase in frequency and urgency to urinate.

Other symptoms may suggest autoimmune involvement seen in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

  • Joint pain or arthritis – Painful inflammation and stiffness of the joints.
  • Arthralgia – Painful inflammation and stiffness of the joints.
  • Pericarditis – Pericarditis is a condition in which the sac-like covering around the heart (pericardium) becomes inflamed.
  • Pyoderma Gangrenosum – Ulcers and tissue becomes necrotic with chronic ulcerative wounds within the colon.
  • Erythema Nodosum – Inflammation of the fat cells under the skin with red nodules.
  • Ocular Inflammation – A general term for inflammation affecting any part of the eye or surrounding tissue.
  • Pericholangitis – Inflammation of the bile ducts.
  • Pharyngeal Ulceration – Ulcers in the throat.
  • Venous Thrombosis – Increased blood clot formations and risk of clots.

As we investigate deeper throughout the testing processes, we notice various factors that we believe may be the cause to Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

  • Infections testing, complete viral, bacterial, Lyme disease, fungal (Candida) and parasites and other infectious profiles.
  • Test complete immunity and inflammatory markers
  • Target all chemical toxic exposures and heavy metal toxic exposures that are often linked to autoimmunity.
  • Test for all nutritional deficiencies; mineral, vitamin and amino acids that contribute to poor health and healing of patient.
  • Test all food allergies, food sensitivities and emotional stressors that act as triggers.

Our highly individualized treatment plans are systemically built from the information gathered from the testing process. We then use targeted, proprietary integrative methods to help you reach your optimal health. We have identified important treatments to help you go beyond symptomatic control and reliance on medications and steroids and ultimately achieve fewer flare-ups and more IBS freedom. If you have any questions about your IBS disease and how we may be able to help you, please contact us today. And remember, education is the best prescription.


Crohn's Disease

Is Crohn's disease giving you or someone you love pain and discomfort? Are you currently suffering with diarrhea, fevers, unintentional weight loss, perianal fistulas, abscesses, rectal bleeding, frequent and urgent bowel movements, abdominal pain, and sensation of incomplete evacuation, constipation, or bowel obstructions? Have you been uncertain and even concerned about your long-term treatment options for Crohn's and Inflammatory Bowel Disease? Have the medications and procedures, and treatment options provided little to no relief?

We want to welcome you to Digestive Medical Solutions, where our approach and methods to treating Crohn's disease and Inflammatory Bowel Disease are refreshing and revolutionary and we give our patients the much-needed options to help attain a new level of health.

At Digestive Medical Solutions, we treat the underlying causes that are immediately associated with your Inflammatory Bowel Disease and are typically ignored by other physicians. We provide much more to your treatment plan than just the common prescriptive medication management and surgical options. Every patient has unique causative factors that are directly linked to their Crohn's disease, flare-ups and Inflammatory Bowel Disease. At Digestive Medical Solutions, we use a proprietary integrative medical approach to help our patients with Crohn's disease reach the best treatment plan for long-term health.

We go far beyond the common treatments of medications, steroids and surgery, which may only provide temporary relief, to get to the underlying causes. Much emphasis is placed on determining important predictive factors to the progression and causes to your Crohn's disease. We use a complex evaluation of key factors that include clinical and endoscopic presentation, fecal, serological and routine laboratory tests, and genetic research. Furthermore, we go much deeper with our integrative approach to help you to build a customized treatment plan.

The distinct patterns of inflammation in the digestive tract are thoroughly reviewed by our staff. In addition to all the individualized symptoms of Crohn's disease affecting you, which includes any mucosal membrane changes, we also review past medical history with medications as well as existing medications, treatments, dietary habits and other lifestyle factors that may be contributing to your Crohn's disease. The majority of patients with Crohn's disease will unfortunately have developed at least one stricturing or perforating complication requiring surgery.

It is important for us to identify our patient's total risk for disease progression. This important first step will help us assess the present level of your Crohn's disease presentation. It's important to get a clear, detailed, and accurate picture of your individual Crohn's disease complex of inflammatory bowel symptoms. It is important to note that everyone's condition is unique and the path to healing will be different for everybody.

Although research is inconclusive to a definitive cause of Crohn's disease and Inflammatory Bowel Disease, we find that a detailed testing profile and comprehensive clinical overview helps to unveil several causative factors and triggers involved in each person's Crohn's disease and Inflammatory Bowel Disease. The example of the testing process below, combined with our unique treatment process, allows for a cause-focused treatment plan. This approach is what truly separates us from other centers, including:

  • Thorough testing for various infections such as viral, bacterial, Lyme disease, fungal (Candida), and parasitic profiles.
  • Testing immunity markers and performing other specialty inflammatory markers.
  • Testing for chemical toxic exposures and heavy metal toxic exposures often linked to autoimmunity.
  • Testing for all nutritional, mineral, and vitamin deficiencies as well as amino acids that contribute to poor health and healing.
  • Testing for food allergies, food sensitivities, and emotional stressors that are often hidden triggers.

Each patient is given a unique, detailed, treatment plan that is designed to achieve the best results using our proprietary, integrative medical approach. Each patient is given the tools to reach their optimal health and establish long-term success. We have identified the treatments that can help you go beyond symptomatic control and help you achieve less flare-ups, less hospitalizations, and more importantly, help you avoid surgery unless absolutely necessary.

No matter your current situation, our management and treatment plans can be tailored to provide you with an ongoing complex clinical evaluation, and lifestyle enhancements, along with endoscopic and molecular marker monitoring, which are coordinated in our integrative model to help you achieve long-term success.

It is important to identify all the symptoms and grade each symptom accordingly so that we can monitor improvements. Every patient is different and will have different symptoms and varying levels of inflammation, different triggers, and flare-ups. The GI Mucosa in the colon is irritated in diverse regions and can have various micro-changes that are unique to each person's Crohn's disease, such as different intestinal flora (bacteria). Some of those bacteria may be good for the body and some can be harmful.

The microenvironment around the GI lining can change, particularly during progression of disease. Restoring this milieu and microenvironment is one of the critical components to our success in treatment. In addition, it is vital to understand the current intestinal immunity and how Crohn's disease is ultimately affecting the entire health of the patient.

  • Small bowel involvement opposed to simply colonic disease.
  • Perianal disease and changes.
  • Increased need for medication management (particularly steroids).
  • Bowel Obstructions.

At Digestive Medical Solutions we review all your past medications, treatments, and dietary and lifestyle changes. Our approach is more Involved than just prescribing medications or surgical resections to treat Inflammation.

The general approach being used today by most digestive and colon specialists is to manage the more aggressive presentations of Crohn's disease with long-term steroid usage and surgery. This method, though helpful, simply manages symptoms. It never actually addresses the underlying cause for the disease at a deeper level. In essence, it's a symptomatic Band-Aid treatment. It can become a very complex situation of managing different types of medications and flare-ups. Our approach is very different in that we aim to treat the underlying causes of inflammation and ultimately rebalance the body's immune response.

Unfortunately, relapse in Crohn's disease is common. When patients experience various GI flare-ups, medications can be altered. Furthermore, long-term use of steroid medications may also damage a person's immune system and increase the risk for infections as well as additional cancer risks, such as Lymphoma. It is essential to provide an in-depth diagnosis for each patient and treatment plan with the goal of reducing the need for ongoing harmful medications and surgery. Our specialized team at Digestive Medical Solutions has developed an important process to deal with the erratic patterns and symptoms by establishing a powerful, customized treatment plan that works to help our patients.

It is very important to point out that most autoimmune diseases such as Crohn's disease are referred to as 'idiopathic' diseases, meaning the cause of the illness is currently unknown. While the causes are currently deemed unknown, upon running in-depth diagnostics at our center, we find that patients have increased exposure to infectious agents, which largely goes untreated and undiagnosed by the conventional model. The current data seems to reflect and favor what we have found. Infections play an important role in Crohn's disease and Inflammatory Bowel Disease pathophysiology.

Other factors such as genetic predispositions may bring about and exacerbate Crohn's disease. Infections may be the largest influencer of genetic changes and shifts. More than genetics, epigenetics may best explain this phenomenon. The term "Epigenetic" refers to the environmental factors that actually alter our body's genetics and risks for diseases. In Crohn's disease, the epigenetic factors lead to poor immunity along with a vicious inflammatory cycle.

Environmental factors such as food allergies, chemical sensitivities, and heavy metal toxicities act as triggers that ignite the inflammatory process. When healthy, the gastrointestinal tract is a very important barrier that allows only certain sized molecules through for assimilation. It is also responsible for a major portion of our immune system.

Once the microenvironment of the bowel is disrupted, larger proteins and molecules can penetrate and cause a cascade of immune reactions that lead to chronic inflammation and further contribute to autoimmunity. For this reason some foods and exposures can bring about waves of GI flare-ups and eventually make the patient extremely sensitive to lifestyle patterns.

In fact, many of these symptoms, though commonly seen in other Inflammatory Bowel Disease, really point to the various infectious diseases and environmental triggers of symptoms that we see in our patients.

Crohn's disease can also produce various extraintestinal symptoms that may include other organ systems such as bones and joints, skin, eyes, hepatobiliary system (liver), lungs, and kidneys. Collectively, these are called extraintestinal manifestations of IBD, and they can occur prior to, in conjunction with, active Inflammatory Bowel Disease. It is not uncommon for an autoimmune disease to give multiple system presentations. This information provides pointers that lead to causative factors:

  • Joint pain.
  • Joint pain.
  • Arthralgia – Painful inflammation and stiffness of the joints.
  • Pericarditis – Pericarditis is a condition in which the sac-like covering around the heart (pericardium) becomes inflamed.
  • Pyoderma Gangrenosum – Ulcers and tissue becomes necrotic with chronic ulcerative wounds within the colon.
  • Erythema Nodosum – Inflammation of the fat cells under the skin with red nodules.
  • Ocular Inflammation – A general term for inflammation affecting any part of the eye or surrounding tissue.
  • Pericholangitis – Inflammation of the bile ducts.
  • Pharyngeal Ulceration – Ulcers in the throat.
  • Venous Thrombosis – Increased blood clot formations and risk of clots.

As we investigate deeper through our testing processes, we notice various factors that we believe may be the causes to Crohn's disease and Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

  • Infections, testing complete viral, bacterial, Lyme disease, fungal (candida) and parasites and other infectious profiles.
  • Test complete immunity and inflammatory markers.
  • Target all chemical toxic exposures and heavy metal toxic exposures that are often linked to autoimmunity.
  • Test for all nutritional deficiencies: mineral, vitamin and amino acids that contribute to poor health and healing of the patient.
  • Test all food allergies, food sensitivities and emotional stressors that act as triggers.

Our highly customized and individualized treatment plans are built from the information gathered from the testing process. We then utilize a targeted, proprietary and integrative method to help you reach your optimal health. If you have any questions about your Crohn's disease and how we may be able to help you, please contact us today.


Digestive Cancer

Have you or someone you love been diagnosed with cancer? We know the treatment options can be confusing and seem limited. When it comes to digestive cancer, Digestive Medical Solutions is a refreshing option that is desperately needed. Utilizing the best in both conventional and advanced integrative medicine, our treatment solutions are personalized, evidence-based and aim to treat the cause and the whole patient.

Our methodology in a nutshell: We provide better targeted digestive cancer treatments using the best combinations of genetic testing and in depth functional medicine analysis addressing the various causes of cancer. GI cancers can have particular presentations that impact the direction of treatment, that's why our focus is advanced integrative cancer treatment options. Right now we treat many different types of cancer including, colon, colorectal, esophageal, cholangiocarcinoma, gastrointestinal, peritoneal carcinoma and other complex GI cancers.

Our cancer treatment goals are to immediately halt cancer growth and metastases while killing the tumors directly. We strive to find the best treatment combinations for you until we have helped our patients reach full remission. Of course we can't guarantee remission, but our strategies provide important options that many patients are currently missing. The aim is to restore the body's ability to naturally fight cancer through detox, cleansing and otherwise building healthy immunity. This helps the body move toward healing.

Our treatment methods include, but are not limited to genetically-tested insulin potentiation chemotherapy, intravenous nutritional therapy and immunotherapy. We also include homeopathic biological detoxification. Best of all, each treatment is personalized for every individual in an effort to help them achieve the best individualized treatment plan that uses multi-faceted tumor targeting methods.

Our personalization starts with in depth genetic testing against the cancer cells and then correct combinations are put together to help the patient. Various infectious and toxins are also tested for and treated as potential causes to cancer. Proper dietary and essential nutritional programs are included.

We welcome you to explore our ground-breaking medical center and delve into the many different treatment options we offer you.

Who Our Integrative Cancer Treatment Can Help:

  • Patients currently using conventional chemotherapy, surgery or radiation.
  • Patients in need of alternatives to conventional treatment, especially when conventional treatment is no longer an option.

Our Goals In Cancer Treatment

  • Stopping cancer growth and metastases immediately, while killing the tumors directly until we have achieved complete remission via imaging and testing.
  • Restore the body's ability to fight cancer naturally. This is accomplished by treating the cause rather than symptoms, through detox and establishing healthy immunity and cellular health throughout the body.
  • Preserving long-term cancer remission.

We have several treatment protocols that we use for treating cancer. They include:

  • Tumor-targeted insulin potentiation chemotherapy.

Used in combination with tumor sensitivity testing to help patients while chemotherapy is utilized, Insulin Potentiation Therapy is a low-dose, targeted form of chemotherapy that provides many more benefits than conventional treatment. Our chemotherapy selection is based on the particular genetics of the cancer, providing a major advantage for patients.

By using insulin we open up the cellular membrane of cancer cells allowing chemotherapy to penetrate deeper into cancer cells, into difficult to reach metastatic areas and sites including the brain, central nervous system, digestive system, bones and liver. We see far less and sometimes no side effects because we use an average of 85% less chemotherapy, yet still can achieve better results.

This is in contrast to "bathing" and over-saturating the entire body with chemotherapy drugs in hopes of killing the tumor cells. The patient experiences much less of the many side-effects associated with standard chemotherapy such as: hair loss, nausea and vomiting, weakness, fatigue or a loss of the immune system's ability to protect against other infections. IPT helps preserve the quality of life by incorporating powerful nutrition and by building a strong immune system alongside treatment. Patients can participate fully in their recovery, incorporating nutrition, energy and mind-body medicine into their lives for the benefit of their physical and emotional well-being.

This information is vitally important to treatment. Unfortunately, the current medical standard of care is to use similar medications for everyone with the same type and stage of cancer diagnosis. By ignoring these genetic codes, it does not allow for individual treatment based on variations that exist in each person's genetic make-up for their cancer. The genetic code is important because the so-called DNA for each tumor is different and that impacts treatment. This information has shown scientifically to improve treatment options.

  • Stopping spread and metastasis in an environment unfavorable for cancer growth, created via intravenous nutrition and immunotherapy.

The immune system is a critical factor to cancer treatment, yet it is virtually ignored by conventional oncologists. Studies have demonstrated that a weak immune system cannot fight cancer properly and almost always produces poor outcomes for patients, regardless of the treatment method or plan selected, be it conventional or alternative. The compromised immune state in patients is also a main contributor to the spread and uncontrolled growth of cancer.

In addition, cancer patients have much higher demands for nutrients, vitamins, minerals and certain amino acids than most people do. When those deficiencies are corrected, the patients begin to experience better health, improved quality of life, energy and healing. It is important to deliver nutrients quickly and in the highest bio-available method, which is intravenously. These nutrients and nutritional components are essential to supporting all the vital and normal pathways in the body.

Nobel Prize winner Dr. Warburg discovered that cancer has a mutated metabolism that relies on glucose instead of oxygen, the opposite of a healthy cell. Cancer is therefore strongly correlated to this disruption in cellular oxygen metabolism. In fact, this lack of oxygen even triggers the metastasis of cancer through sending messengers such as HIF-alpha to grow and increase its blood supply to the tumor and further allow cancer to spread in a process called angiogenesis. Therefore, an important key to cancer treatment is correcting this imbalance in oxygen metabolism by supporting mitochondrial health.

Another important cause of cancer is inflammation, which needs to be addressed at the source and not merely managed with medication. When inflammation and cellular signaling involved with inflammation are calmed, it removes the inflammatory risk factors related to cancer. It is important to note that inflammation for cancer patients is an indication of a much deeper problem ranging from infections, toxins and even injury to tissues. These occurring problems are all addressed as part of our treatment process.

In cancer patients, many detoxification pathways are blocked or overloaded. The main areas of elimination include the kidneys, liver, lungs, skin and lymphatic system, as well as the gastrointestinal tract, which is our specialty.

We conduct specialized testing and used homeopathic drainage to help release the toxins from deep intra-cellular and extra-cellular regions. We also use hyperthermia to increase heat in order to potentiate other therapies, but this also facilitates the elimination of waste. The accumulation of these carcinogens can lead to free-damage, epigenetic changes to the DNA, and mitochondria resulting in the continuation of cancer. In addition, when tumors and cancer cells die off during our treatments, we focus on powerful elimination in order to avoid tumor lysis syndrome that can occur from the accumulation of toxic waste products of the tumor. Stress is another thing that can make cancer recovery worse. We strive to help our patients balance a strong positive attitude. Both mental and emotional stress weakens us as a whole because the human body is an integrated whole made up of the mind, body and spirit.

Identifying and releasing stressors clears the way for the body to heal and move forward. When the mind is healthy, the body often follows suit. We use a simple but specialized gentle stress release technique that also incorporates proper nutrition, neurotransmitter balancing and nerve balancing to help ensure that our patients get the full ability to become well and stay well.

Our patients are more likely to experience vitality and stamina, a strengthened immune system, pain relief, maintain a positive mental attitude and keep themselves healthy and balanced. That is the goal of our cancer support and treatment. To learn more or if have any questions, please feel free to contact us.