Breast cancer are two words that send fear through the hearts of most women today. How do we stop this fear? First, we need to understand the processes that lead up to the diagnosis rather than focus on the disease process alone after the diagnosis. Most of the top disease specialists around the world agree that 80 to 90% of ALL TYPES of cancer derive from environmental origins that includes over toxic exposure to things such as herbacides, pesticides, steroids, antibiotics, food preservative, etc. So what’s the good news? The good news is that means we have control over our health.

It also means that inherited genetic factors make a minor contribution to susceptibility to most types of cancer. Statistically speaking, even the worst correlation between genetics and cancer is 42% for prostate cancer; 35% for colon cancer; and 27 % for breast cancer. This again shows that genetics are not to blame and that we have control of our lives.

Two things that can be found with every type of cancer include the loss of the body’s ability to control alkaline/acidic balance within the cell and a default in a major metabolic hormone. Other problems include toxicity and a low oxygenated environment in the diseased tissue. It is my opinion, along with many doctors who practice natural, non-toxic curative methods for cancer, that supporting the body’s own natural defenses against cancer is not only the answer to preventing cancer, but also to curing it. One main determining factor for the risk of breast cancer is your body’s overall lifetime exposure to estrogen.

Please note that not all estrogens are bad. The ones that the body produces are good. These estrogens protect you from osteoporosis, heart disease, and even cancer itself. The bad estrogens are the synthetic, man-made hormones we are exposed to everyday, such as plastic, herbacides and pesticides to name a few. Some synthetic estrogens that we knowingly take include birth control, synthetic hormone replacement and horse estrogen. One of my philosophies is to get rid of estrogen, whether you take them, make them or are unknowingly intoxicated with them, everyday in a healthy way.

There is so much information on the role of food as medicine for our bodies. However, what I have found is that we can eat enough to maintain our current status, but it’s impossible to eat enough good foods for it to be therapeutic. This means that if we are experiencing a health problem, such as cancer, we need to turn to neutraceuticals that are concentrated high dose forms of foods, vitamins, mineral, enzymes, etc. Eating a good diet alone will not fix the problem. Functional medicine will focus on the terrain or soil that you have created in your body that has caused it to become cancerous. We will not focus on the cancer itself. You have all heard of the great farmer who treats the soil and not the plant. Good soil, healthy plant; bad soil, sick plant. This is the same for the human body and is of the utmost importance for the treatment of cancer as well as the non-reoccurance of cancer. It has been stated that up to 80% of people who have had cancer once will have it again in their lifetime. This is because no one is addressing the underlying cause – the cause of the cancer – THE SOIL.

One of the biggest health concerns in America today is the obesity epidemic that is affecting young and old people alike. America is one of the unhealthiest nations in the world and obesity has a direct and indirect connection to almost every known chronic disease we suffer today.

Most women focus on dieting for weight loss. However, the constant complaint about most diets is we lose the weight, but it comes back as soon as we stop dieting, and in many instances we gain more weight than what was lost. Now, there are surgical procedures for becoming thinner, which in some cases may be necessary and even life saving, but in the majority of cases surgeries set you up for other debilitating or life threatening disease processes. By only concentrating on your weight and becoming skinnier, diets fail in the long run. The primary focus for weight loss is body composition.

Body composition is the ratio of muscle, fat and water. It is impossible to sustain weight loss when we increase fat and decrease muscle and proper body water. This process happens with all diets on the market today and it is the reason diets fail. At the FM&WC, we use modern diagnostic testing to make sure you are losing fat, not muscle and water. What does this mean to you?
With more muscle mass your metabolism increases and constantly burns calories at a very high rate. With less muscle and water and increased fat your metabolism is much slower, burning calories at a slower rate. At the FM&WC, we use BIA testing that measures your body composition. (See below for more detail). Once this is calculated, Dr. Ozzie will provide a natural wellness program to help you lose weight.

A major contributing factor to obesity is environmental toxicity. If you are toxic, your body will increase the fat to store the toxins causing you to gain more fat. Remember, more fat = slower metabolism. You may work out all the time and have a healthy diet but still can’t lose weight. Why? Because your body is toxic. If you are too toxic you cannot burn fat because the toxins will enter your blood stream and make you very sick. The body’s wisdom is to minimize its ability to burn fat preventing you from losing weight. How do you fix this issue? DETOX naturally at the FM&WC.

Another reason for obesity is due to increased stress which raises your cortisol levels which in turn slows down your fat burning potential. There could be a number of reasons why you may not be able to lose weight.

At the FM&WC, we focus on the individual patient and determine what their issues are and fix them naturally, so that you can be happy with your natural self.

Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA) Testing

At the FM&WC, we use BIA testing. BIA measures two values, electrical resistance and electrical capacitance. With these two values along with your height, weight, age, and sex, we can calculate your body composition, fluid distribution, basal metabolic rate, and your phase angle.

Total body water tells us the amount of water presently in your body. The intracellular and extracellular water values show your cellular water balance. You want more water inside of your cell than outside. The first sign of decreased health is a shift of intracellular water to extracellular water. There are 15 different reasons for this water shift, and all of them are
related to poor health.

A little about Detoxification…

The seven symptoms of chronic poisoning are fatigue, sleep disturbances, gastrointestinal distress, headaches, allergy symptoms, confusion, and anxiety. You might wonder what the poison is. It’s toxicity. Every chemical reaction in your body produces toxins in the form of acid, which we measure with the BIA test. Your detoxifying organs (liver, kidneys, lungs, large intestine, and skin) are able to handle this burden. We ingest toxins through our food, water and air. There are over 10,000 chemical additives in our food supply. The average American ingests 14 pounds of additives, 158 pounds of sugar, and 8 pounds of
salt per year. This is way more than your organs were designed to handle.

If you have dysbiosis, which is an imbalance of the intestinal tract, you can greatly increase your toxic burden. Dysbiosis is an overgrowth of yeast, bacteria, and parasites. These are all living organisms, and living organisms eat, and when they eat, they go to the bathroom. Their bowel movements are very toxic to you.

We are constantly ingesting heavy metals such as mercury, lead, arsenic, and many more everyday. This ingestion comes from the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breath.

All these chemicals, metals and toxins can be stored in your body, usually in body fat and in the extracellular space. This can cause cellular fluid shifts that are measurable with the BIA and will indicate levels of toxicity, all which can be done at the FM&WC.

Tired of yelling at your family every month?
Having increased food binges, depression during menstruation?
Suffering from headaches, back pain, breast tenderness, cramps and face breakouts?
Are you concerned with side effects of hormone therapy or other PMS medication?

How many women have had some type of medication to alleviate PMS that has not helped; helped very little or made you worse and gave you other unwanted side effects, such as weight gain? Did you know that your hormones are just reacting to their environment? Did you know that your hormones are not the primary cause of PMS and that they are downstream from the problem?

This means hormones can be adjusted naturally if we understand what stresses in your life are causing them to react in a negative way. This may mean we don’t have to use anything to directly adjust your hormones. Instead of looking for a disease process with PMS, we look at functional imbalances in your body that would impact your hormone balance negatively. Some examples may include blood sugar handling disorders, high insulin, high cortisol, mental/emotional stress, and digestive issues. Once this is determined, we at FM&WC begin to fix these problems naturally and let your body restore normal hormone levels and ratios on its own.

Tired of worrying about the negative side affects of long-term medication?
Tired of taking thyroid medication for the rest of your life?
What if there’s another answer, what if your body can stop the symptoms of thyroid disorders on its own?

Functional thyroid disorders are very common and generally overlooked in today’s healthcare model. Most patients that have functional thyroid imbalances do not have primary thyroid problems.

We have learned a lot about genetics in the last 10 years. What we have found is that we are all completely different and unique, thus a lot of an individual’s information is overlooked in our current medical model. What may be a normal reading for someone else may be a serious problem for another. You have heard the analogy “one person’s garbage is another person’s treasure” and vice versa. This is why it is imperative to look at many factors of an individual and not just at one particular organ of the human body.

With thyroid disorders, it is not enough just to look at one number such as the thyroid stimulating hormone and say whether it’s too high or too low and prescribe medication for it. This does not fix the problem; it only suppresses your symptoms! At the FM& WC, we determine the causes for your numbers to bee too high or low. Then, we fix the cause and repair any damages that may have occurred, allowing the body to restore normal function on its own.

Let’s look closely at the production and pathway of thyroid hormones. First, you have a gland in your brain that sends a signal to your thyroid to produce thyroid hormones. Stress can block this signal. Once the thyroid hormones are stimulated the thyroid needs certain minerals to create the hormones. However, these minerals can be depleted due to several factors, including heavy metal toxicity. When the hormone is made, it has to be converted from inactive hormone to active hormone, primarily in the liver. Any dysfunction in the liver can cause this conversion to decrease drastically leaving you with an inactive hormone. Then the hormone has to be transported to the rest of the body, 20% of which are transformed in the gut. In order for this to occur, you must have good bacteria in your gut, which most women do not. When the hormone finally arrives at the tissue, it must react with the receptor to work. Similar to a lock and key – many things can jam the lock, such as competition from other hormones, including estrogen. Changes in your acidic/alkaline balance can disturb this process.

If you would like to look at these or other possible reasons for your thyroid dysfunction, please contact the FM&WC.

Infertility treatments not an option?
Infertility treatments not working?
Looking for a more natural way to get pregnant?
Nothing’s wrong with you, but you still can’t conceive?
Suffered from miscarriages?

Statics show that one in six couples have difficulty getting pregnant and need to seek medical help. This is a terrifying statement – the most natural thing to women (and men) has become almost impossible. This has motivated me to take it upon myself to study the possibilities of natural,on-toxic solutions to this problem and to identify some of the major reasons why this is happening today. What I have found is that in almost every instance natural, non-toxic methods were the answer, because having kids should be the most natural thing we can do as humans.

I found that the biggest cause of infertility is stress – men and women are stressed out. Most of you only think of one thing when I say stress the mental/emotional kind, but there are two other types of stresses that are contributing factors – structural and chemical. All three stresses play a major role in infertility for women and men. Ladies, please don’t forget about your men. All too often we only concentrate on the women and dismiss the men. Men are stressed too and may need more help than we think. In our hurry for a baby, we use extremely powerful drugs to take over the normal body function that literally forces the body to do what it wants. Yet, the body, as many of you may have experienced, still under such extreme force refuses to get pregnant. Why is this? Could it be genetics? The answer is most likely no. The majority of the problem stems from the stresses stated above. The body is very wise. It knows that the most important thing in life is life itself. The body knows that if it gets pregnant and it is not functioning optimally, you and your baby are at risk for serious complications that may include death. So, because of stress and the dysfunction that it causes your body, your body knows it is not ready to be pregnant. It doesn’t say never, it just says not right now.

An example of how stress can lead to infertility includes toxicity. The majority of people living in an industrialized nation are over exposed to toxic chemicals and because of stress, our bodies can’t detox effectively and we can’t absorb enough nutrients from food to get ride of the toxins. Our body knows it is too toxic to grow and nourish a baby. Another example of how stress affects fertility is blood sugar handling problems that can lead to having an increase in testosterone. When there is a blood sugar handling problem the body will increase the percentage of fat which will respond with increased estrogen. This can cause a woman’s levels of estrogen and testosterone to be too high all at once. This is not conducive to having a baby.

Everything I have explained above my go undiagnosed by your primary care physician, because they are trained to look for a state of disease. The examples I previously discussed, PRECEDE disease and can be fixed, but without fixing the issue they can be the reason for infertility. These subtle dysfunctions and changes in your body is what we focus on at the FM&WC. Dr. Ozzie has specialized tests, such as saliva testing to look for these dysfunctions. Once any underlying dysfunction is discovered he can work with you to fix them naturally so your body can have a better chance of following its natural reproductive cycle.