Clinic Services

We provide a comprehensive assessment and understanding of chronic pain. Seeing chronic pain and pain syndromes as a structural problem is an oversimplification. The perception of pain and pain processing is a complex network of distortions as a result of imbalances in hormonal, autonomic, nutritional and toxic influences.
 
The approach to health restoration involves using agents in a personalized way that interrupt the pain cycle and provide immediate relief with therapies that uncouple the complex array of dysfunctions causing the pain.

Studies continue to show that integrative cancer care provides better health outcomes than conventional care alone. Conventional cancer treatment relies almost solely on surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. By contrast, the goal of integrative oncology is to alter what has been identified as the oncogenic terrain.
 

Through the use of IV Therapy, nutriceuticals, medical foods, dietary adjustments, metabolic detoxification, therapeutic lifestyle programs and stress management the aim is to make the body inhospitable to cancer, increase quality of life, when necessary use agents to increase the effectiveness of standard care and finally search for the underlying problems that have allowed the cancer to occur.
 
Consider the analogy of a garden. If you have a weed that grows, cutting or poisoning it will temporarily remove the problem, but if you do not change the air, water, soil quality, it will grow back.

Intravenous therapy involves infusing micronutrients, plant extracts and other biological agents directly into a vein. This route is more potent and faster-acting than oral forms of medication and allows higher concentrations of medicine to reach the target tissue more effectively. Many disease states involve impairment of nutrient delivery. Inside cell, functions based on a given nutrient are decreased. Enzymes (our metabolic work horses) cannot function because vital nutritional components are missing.
 
When enzymes don’t function properly, the cells aren’t able to perform basic fundamental tasks such as cell repair, division, etc. Whole systems now have impaired function. The normal operation of structure and function, messages and signals, becomes impaired.
 
The purpose of IV therapy is to supply elements required to begin the process of health restoration and can be used until the body has enough support that it can be relied upon to take over. IV therapy is often used from time to time, for patients looking for a biological tune up.

Healthy aging and a youthful appearance is a reflection of optimal function and vitality. This process involves gaining a deeper understanding of factors that lead to cell damage and ultimately wrinkles, cellulite, weight gain and other external manifestations of poor health.
 
Options such as anti-aging IV Therapy and cellular protectants are considered. We remove obstacles that affect hormone decline and promote healthy organ reserve. Finally, we replace nutritional factors that enhance cell health and contribute to healthy aging and maximize health potential at every step of life.

We offer an integrative approach to weight loss with several personalized weight loss programs tailored to the individual. Current research suggests weight is not simply a ‘calories in, calories out’ equation; it is far more complex. Weight issues can result from a number of underlying metabolic factors.
 
Toxins called obesogens, blood sugar irregularities, thyroid imbalances, and altered stress response can all contribute to abnormal weight gain.
 
Restricting calories without an understanding of the metabolic factors involved may lead to temporary results and/or ‘yoyo’ dieting.

FirstLine Therapy is a “therapeutic lifestyle program” designed to help you live your life in a way that improves your health.
 
A “therapeutic lifestyle” means making choices every day that will enhance your health and help prevent disease.
 
FirstLine therapy works by optimizing body composition, instead of just losing weight. This allows for sustainable weight loss and long term health.

Chelation is a non-surgical treatment for heavy metal toxicity. Heavy metals have been associated with a myriad of chronic degenerative diseases.
 
IV Chelation Therapy has been found to be especially effective in treating cases of poor circulation, hardening of the arteries and has been used successful by many doctors for the treatment of heart disease.

Centre for Advanced Medicine hosts a successful and expanding Naturopathic Pediatric Practice, where great strides are being achieved with infants and children who are not meeting developmental milestones.
 
Conditions commonly treated at our clinic include:

• Delayed or impaired growth and/or development
• Impaired socialization and communication skills
• Pervasive developmental disorders such as Autism, Asperger Syndrome
• Motor function impairment or incoordination “dyspraxia”
• Neurobehavioral developmental disorders such as Attention Deficit Disorder, Anxiety
• Chronic conditions such as Infant/Childhood Asthma

Our integrative approach is preventive and wellness based. Our goal is to support the natural immunity-building processes of the body with as little interference as possible. If a child is sick, we try to determine if the proper building blocks for the body are being provided in order to grow and maintain good health.
 
Checking for good nutrition, vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, protein, essential sugars and calories and then, if present, correct any deficiencies. Our treatment plans are based on best practices in dietetics, botanical medicine, clinical nutrition, lifestyle modification, homeopathy as well as safe and effective traditional therapies. We take seriously the role of caring for your child and make it our business to support their growth, development and happiness.

Environmental medicine involves the interactions between a patient and triggers in the environment that cause a poor health response. If left unchecked, exposures can lead to damage and many different diseases such as Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Parkinson’s Disease and even high blood pressure to name a few. These triggers may be in air, food, water, hygiene and personal care products and drugs and are commonly sourced from the home and work environment.
 
The first step is protecting the body from damage, developing a program to excrete accumulated toxins and finally a strategy for avoidance. As the toxic burden in the body begins to reduce, the toxic effect on the cells and tissues lessens and multiple systems begin to function again.
 
Throughout the program, patients often report improved energy, quality of sleep, sex drive, concentration, mood and muscle stamina.

Many vitamins and minerals can be injected directly into a muscle. Injections are administered either in the deltoid muscle of the arm or the gluteal muscles.
 
This method can be used to bypass gastrointestinal absorption, which can sometimes not provide a high enough concentration of a medicine to heal diseased tissues and lead to the delivery of high concentrations of vitamins and minerals directly to the site of action.

Tinctures are concentrated plant extracts where the medicinal qualities of a botanical are extracted into a bioavailable liquid form.
 
Through customised formulations, these tinctures can help minimize the number of medicines a patient needs to take and are prepared to suit each individual patient’s concerns.

A 3 amino acid long peptide is known as the master antioxidant, immune booster and detoxifier. The nebulized form of glutathione has been shown to help patients suffering from environmental and seasonal allergies, multiple chemical sensitivity, sinusitis, pharyngitis, asthma, various types of coughs, excessive mucous production and immune compromised states, including recovery from colds and flus.
 
Glutathione quenches free radicals and repletes the antioxidants capacity in the respiratory tract to heal and repair the epithelial lining.  It also has powerful, systemic anti-toxin, anti-inflammatory effects.

Biopuncture is a bioregulatory therapy whereby specific locations of the body are injected with small doses of plant-based biological products that stimulate the healing capacities of the body.  These plant extracts can be injected in muscular trigger points and acupuncture points. 
 
The preparations act as biological signals to induce circulation, lymphatic drainage, regulate inflammation, muscle tone, repair, etc.  The goal of Biopuncture is auto regulation; to re-establish the homeostatic mechanisms in the body to regulate itself without requiring any further treatment.