And Your December 2023 Releases Med-Week Resources, Part 2 This will be a brief and incomplete listing of some of the many companies represented at the recent Medicine Week Congress. In the few weeks since sending you my initial impressions of that amazing congress, I’ve had a chance to reorganize not just my thoughts but also the reams of information and cards I gathered while wandering the exhibits. Because I am not an active practitioner, but rather a lecturer, researcher and writer, my perspective when viewing the exhibits is [...]

A Cancer Therapy Special Vitamin C in Complementary Oncology The Supportive Effect of Ascorbic Acid For those in a hurry Surgery and subsequent treatment deprive cancer patients of Vitamin C. Balancing is important because ascorbic acid provides fundamental support for patients. It fights oxidative stress, strengthens the immune system and relieves tumor and therapy related pain. Vitamin C can be found in high concentrations in many organs. In addition to the general positive properties, vitamin C helps in particular with cancer illnesses. It fights oxidative [...]

A Cancer Therapy Special Integrative Oncology Treating Cancer Patients Safely For those in a hurry About half of cancer patients in Germany seek support from complementary medicine in addition to evidence-based conventional (“school”) medicine. The "S3-Guideline for Complementary Medicine in the Treatment of Oncological Patients" presents evidence-based, complementary therapies. Once the initial shock of a cancer diagnosis has subsided, many sufferers want to take action themselves and therefore resort to micronutrients or phytotherapy in addition to their conventional therapy. Unfortunately, the number of studies on [...]

16 October 2023 As I have moved forward with preparations and organization for my two forthcoming conference travels (be sure to watch my “away from my desk” dates!), it has been a pleasure to talk with a number of “old” friends and colleagues. I appreciate every single one of those calls and Zoom meetings. It helps to ground and focus my thoughts and to ensure the information I’m sending you remains relevant and useful. Many of us are once again venturing back into the busy conference and seminar schedules. [...]

Integrative Medicine Using the Examples of: The Hospital for Naturopathy, Munich And LIMed SUMMARY The most important principle of integrative medicine is the combination of conventional medicine and complementary medicine into a meaningful overall concept. The goal is to find the best individual therapy for the patients and to reduce side effects as much as possible. The decisive factor here is also explicitly the patients, who should be enabled to actively and responsibly participate in decision-making about an overall medical concept for their treatment. This [...]

Pathways to the Future of Energy Medicine TFIM Conference Summary March 2023 Dear Colleagues and Friends, Were you there? Did you take in the Forum for Integrative Medicine (TFIM) online conference in the first weekend of March? Titled “Exploring Complex, Chronic Illness Through the Lens of True Healing” this is/was the premier event of the year in my humble opinion. If you missed it, get in touch with the organizers and see if you can obtain permission to get the slide and video presentations. This was an incredible experience. [...]

February 2023 Following what has been a long and rather dark winter for me personally, I finally found the courage to reach out to a colleague for help in recovering. I guess we must always remember the old saw about “he who has himself for a physician, has a fool for a physician” and look outside of our own knowledge and expertise when healing seems difficult or ineffective. In spite of my long weeks of RSV, Covid, bronchitis, depression and unexpectedly deep grief for the recent loss of my [...]

Ozone Therapy for the Treatment of Post-Covid Syndrome Abstract Post-covid Syndrome is a complex disease, but it can be successfully treated by an integrated treatment approach with a combined application of individual orthomolecular substances. A clarification of the background symptoms and the need for integrative treatment at the earliest possible time is important. In the case of Epstein-Barr virus, similar courses are known without leading to corresponding media fear-mongering representations. Within the framework of a multimodal treatment approach supported by individual laboratory diagnostics, ozone therapy [...]

Causes Speak for the Therapeutic Use of Antioxidants Abstract Hyperinflammation and oxidative stress play an important pathophysiological role not only in acute Covid-19 disease, but also in Long-Covid. In Covid-19 Vitamin C deficiency has been demonstrated and the benefit of supportive Vitamin C infusions has already been investigated. In Long-Covid excessive inflammation and reactive oxygen compounds are also co-triggers for fibrosis, thrombosis, immune dysregulation (autoimmune phenomena and viral persistence), fatigue, cognitive impairment and disturbances of the autonomic nervous system. The benefits of Vitamin C infusions [...]

An Introductory Commentary Dear Colleagues and Readers, Barely three years have passed since we first heard of a new virus (with the name SARS-CoV-2) and from its consequences somewhere in China people were seriously ill and in some instances died. At that time, hardly anyone here in Germany and Europe thought too much about it. Above all no one at that time would have believed what happened worldwide a few months later: The entire public life ground to a halt. As unprepared as our health care system was, the [...]