During the past forty years medical trailblazer Dr. David Steenblock has refused to accept the status quo or dispense “medicine platitudes.” Rather than tell a suffering patient to accept or “embrace” their pain and discomfort, he makes war on disease by finding or making solutions. Not surprisingly he often pushes the envelope to do this. If you are ready to move beyond status quo medicine, check out what Dr. Steenblock and his staff of medical innovators have to offer. No strings or obligation. To arrange for your consultation just call 1-800-300-1063.
Ready to move beyond “prescription pad” medicine?
September 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Power of Intermittent Hypoxia Therapy
June 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Power of Intermittent Hypoxia Therapy
Intermittent Hypoxia Therapy is a powerful therapeutic tool employed by Dr. Steenblock. Among the wondrous effects it has on the human body:
- Increases collateral circulation.
- Boosts the efficiency of the cell’s internal power-producers, the mitochondria.
- Increases the number of mitochondria inside cells.
- Bolsters a patient’s ability to handle stress as well as infections.
These websites will help flesh this out further:
Dr. Steenblock often uses Intermittent Hypoxia Therapy to help mobilize a patient’s own stem cells prior to giving them a stem cell rich bone marrow treatment.
Curious as to what IHT might do to help address your health needs? A bone marrow treatment? You can find out for free by calling Dr. Steenblock’s Clinic at 1-800-300-1063 and asking for a consultation!
Your chance to help change FDA rules on the use of your own stem cells by a doctor
June 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Your chance to help change FDA rules on the use of your own stem cells by a doctor
Have you ever found yourself angry with FDA policies or rulings? Wished you could change something that’s just plain wrong? This may be your supreme chance. The FDA has opened its doors to public input on existing regulations http://es.bna.com/federal1/20110427/hhs76p23520prule20110427.html:
In accordance with Executive Order 13563, “Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review,” the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is conducting a review of its existing regulations to determine, in part, whether they can be made more effective in light of current public health needs and to take advantage of and support advances in innovation. The goal of this review of existing regulations, as with our other reviews, is to help ensure that FDA’s regulatory program is more effective and less burdensome in achieving its regulatory objectives. FDA is requesting comment and supporting data on which, if any, of its existing rules are outmoded, ineffective, insufficient, or excessively burdensome and thus may be good candidates to be modified, streamlined, expanded, or repealed. As part of this review, FDA also invites comment to help us review our framework for periodically analyzing existing rules.
So which regulation deserves your attention? How about FDA 21CFR1271 (2004)? This regulation forbids doctors taking stem cell rich tissues from patients and doing anything to them beyond “minimum manipulation”? (Basically this means doctors can take stem cell tissue and give it back to patients but little else. If, for instance, a doctor isolates and cultures stem cells from a patient’s bone marrow or fat tissue, that doctor — under current FDA regulations — has in effect created a new drug. And as a “new drug” these cells must receive FDA approval to be used.)
Interested in knowing more and maybe giving Uncle Sam your 2 cents worth? Well, patient advocate Barbara Hanson, who moderates a well known stem cell discussion board (Stem Cell Pioneers), has outlined precisely what people need to know and do to get FDA 21CFR1271 changed to allow doctors to take stem cell rich tissues and go beyond “minimum manipulation.” Here is a link to Mrs. Hanson’s “How to do it, to it” post: http://www.stemcellpioneers.com/showthread.php?p=13618#post13618
Read the post and then, well,…do it, to it!
Platelet Rich Plasma: Using a patient’s own blood to heal
June 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP): Using a patient’s own blood to heal
It sounds almost magical. A doctor takes some blood from a patient and puts it through a filtering system or spins it in a centrifuge at high speed, which separates red and white blood cells from the platelets (Typically a 15 minute or so process.) He then injects the platelets along with the blood plasma they are floating in into an injured or diseased area, typically a torn ligament or tendon. The injury heals up.
How is this possible for platelets to pull off such a medical feat? Don’t platelets just help blood clot normally? They do. But this isn’t all they do. Platelet rich plasma (PRP) is rich in growth factors and compounds such as serotonin, fibronectin, adenosine diphosphate, thromboxane A, platelet factor 4, platelet derived growth factor, platelet activating factor and transforming growth factor beta, and SDF-1 that directly effects tissue repair as well as activates stem cells and encourage them to proliferate and grow wherever the PRP is placed.
And because Plasma-Rich Platelets (PRP) is typically injected in places where blood would rarely go otherwise, it can facilitate healing without triggering a clotting response. It can thus shorten rehabilitation time and even make surgery unnecessary in some cases.
Depending on the medical issue he is treating, Dr. Steenblock takes a patient’s PRP and either injects or infuses it directly into the diseased or damaged tissue (such as an arthritic joint) or mixes it with a patient’s own (harvested) bone marrow and then infuses it – or both. The patient responses have often been impressive, even dramatic.
Stem Cell Therapy for Lyme Disease
May 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Stem Cell Therapy for Lyme Disease
If you or someone you know has Lyme disease or is suspected of having it, please read Dr. Steenblock’s informative article “Stem Cell Therapy for Lyme Disease“ (Vol. 6, No. 6 Public Health Alert.)
If after reading this article you’d like to discuss what a stem cell treatment might do for you just call Dr. Steenblock’s clinic at 1-800-300-1063. The call is free and Dr. Steenblock is offering consultations today!
Antiaging Using Your Own Stem Cells
May 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dr. Steenblock and Antiaging
Recently the Guinness World Records announced that the title of “Oldest Living Person” has been taken by a Brazilian woman named Maria Gomes Valentim who is 114 years and 313 days old!
Which country has the greatest number of centenarians? The answer may surprise you. It is the United States which as of 2001 had about 70,490 people over age 100. Holder of the #2 slot is Japan with 44,449 as of September 2010.
It probably goes without saying that you’d like to live to blow out 100 candles on your birthday cake. Is there any way in which to “up your odds” of doing so? Dr. Steenblock thinks so and has weaved together his recommendations in an informative report titled “Turn Back the Clock with Stem Cells” which you can freely access by clicking this link.
If after reading Dr. Steenblock’s article you’d like to know more about his stem cell program for anti-aging you can do so for FREE. Just call 1-800-300-1063 to arrange for your consultation today.
DR. STEENBLOCK’S FREE “GLUTAMATE FREE” DIET
May 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
FREE “GLUTAMATE FREE” DIET
By David A. Steenblock, M.S., D.O.
Most people have heard of “monosodium glutamate” (MSG), but ask them what it is, and they will say “a preservative?” Therein lies the tragedy. Because “MSG” is not a preservative, but an “excitotoxin”, and excitotoxicity is just as the name implies: toxic.
MSG is a white powdery substance generated during the processing of soy and other protein foods. MSG is mostly free glutamate, an isolated amino acid, freed during fermentation, isolation, hydrolyzation and other processing methods. Thus, the glutamate in MSG is “free” from the other amino acids to which it was once bound. Glutamate in its natural, “bound” state, is not only harmless, but healthful, just as Nature intended. But “free glutamates” when ingested in the diet, are way in excess of what the body needs, and thus become excitotoxic.
How is glutamate used in the body? When neurons synapse, glutamate is the neurotransmitter that provides the “spark” that causes one neuron to connect with another neuron. The body makes all the “free glutamate” (not bound to anything) needed to fuel this process. What is needed by the body is far less than the amount consumed in the typical “Western” diet. Excessive glutamate causes neurons to “fire wildly”, be damaged, and even die. During the process high levels of calcium ions enter cells activating various enzymes which damage components of the cell, the membrane, and the DNA.
How does the healthy body keep glutamate from being excessive? The body makes the enzyme glutamate dehydrogenase which breaks down glutamate, preventing a build-up of excess in a healthy body. But glutamate dehydrogenase has been found deficient in neurological diseases because of the underlying damage to the mitochondria, which is involved in healthy glutamate metabolism.
Excess glutamate activity has been found to be involved in nearly every neurological disease, eye diseases like macular degeneration and immunological diseases. This is not difficult to understand, given the fact that all of these diseases also have damage to the mitochondria at their core.
So to “recap”: The body makes all the glutamate it needs; Consuming any in the diet is way in excess and toxic; And people with neurological or other damage to the body are unable to process even the amount the body makes naturally. So what does this all mean? It means we must stop consuming free glutamates in the diet or suffer even more cellular damage leading to worsening of diseases.
Now here’s the “rub”. Food manufacturers have been given the “green light” to put free glutamates by the tons annually into their products without even letting consumers know it’s in there, just so long as it is hidden within another substance. This is like telling someone who is deathly allergic to red, that when they consume orange not to worry. Everyone knows it takes red and yellow to make orange. Yet that’s what food manufacturers are doing hiding glutamate in substances you won’t recognize.
Why do they do it? For glutamate’s “excitotoxic” action. The minute free glutamates touch your taste buds, they “stand at attention”, and the greater surface area “tastes” food to a greater degree than would have occurred otherwise. In this way, inferior foods taste superior to what they actually are. In addition, people actually become addicted to foods that contain free glutamates, hence the Western world’s addiction to “fast foods” – rife with free glutamates. Becoming addicted to foods translates to higher sales of course. But as we know, the free glutamates go on to “excite” other cells in the body – even to death.
The names of compounds which contain free glutamates include: glutamic acid, calcium glutamate, magnesium glutamate, yeast extract, anything hydrolyzed or modified (like modified corn starch), calcium caseinate, sodium caseinate, yeast food, yeast nutrient, autolyzed yeast, gelatin, textured protein, and processed soy products, anything where enzymes or protease has been added, whey protein isolate, and often when the product contains citric acid (it’s the poor processing of citric acid that generates free glutamates). Beware, as well of any ingredient merely listed as “seasoning” or “natural flavoring”, or “protein fortified” as the Food and Drug Administration allows food manufacturers to call free glutamates by those monikers as well.
Do natural foods contain free glutamates? The truth is, when food with any level of glutamate is cooked long, and/or processed, glutamates are released and concentrated which then becomes a problem. Tomatoes are the perfect example, because when you eat a fresh tomato the glutamate is bound and you can only eat one, maybe two. No problem at all. But how many tomatoes can you eat if they are made into a sauce? Well, the answer is that you could easily drown that spaghetti in 6-8 tomatoes that have been cooked down, the glutamate released and concentrated. Watch out migraneurs, but also anyone wanting to protect neurons or overcome a disease already in progress. Those who say there are “free glutamates” in the tomato or other natural foods are not quite accurate, because in Nature, there just isn’t any amino acid that exists alone!
How do you protect yourself from dietary free glutamates? Fortunately, it’s the very thing everyone who wants to prevent or overcome disease should do anyway!
When you consume highly processed foods, free glutamates are either generated in the processing, or added within one of the many hidden sources manufacturers are sneaking in on you. If you eat out, avoiding free glutamates takes a great deal of motivation and perseverance, as nearly every single thing seasoned by others contains free glutamates. It’s one reason food “out” seems to taste so much better than “homemade”. It’s also one reason people who are not perfectly healthy often don’t feel as well after eating out, however. Bon appétit!
NOTE: The surest way to eliminate glutamates is to consume only pure, fresh, whole foods, many raw, and preferably organic (no pesticides). When you cook, use whole foods (not canned, packaged or processed) and cook gently, using only extra virgin olive oil, natural salt, pepper and herbs for seasoning. But when you consume anything packaged or prepared by others, read the ingredient list and make sure there are no added free glutamates.
STEM CELLS FOR ALS: http://www.stemcellmd.org/?page_id=376
© 2011 by Dr. David A. Steenblock. All rights reserved. This document and the information in it is not to be used as a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis or treatment of any health condition or problem. Any questions regarding your own health should be addressed to your physician or other licensed healthcare provider.
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Give me that old time medicine! (Results-driven, thank you kindly)
March 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Give me that old time medicine! (Results-driven, thank you kindly)
One of the criticisms often hurled at AltMed doctors is that they do not base their clinical treatment decisions on the best available scientific evidence (evidence-based medicine or evidence-based practice) or else cherry pick evidence that tends to favor their pet practice or treatment and ignore contrary evidence or the lack (or absence) of evidence. However, did you know that less than half of all surgical procedures, drugs, and diagnostic tests that doctors typically recommend have been proven effective in well designed and executed clinical studies? Curious as to what else might be eschew? If so check out this article: Skewed: Bias, Corruption & Hypocrisy in Contemporary Science & Medicine
Maybe, just maybe seasoned medical practitioners like Dr. Steenblock are doing evidence-based medicine of a different kind. By this I mean that perhaps after over 40 years of practice and experimentation (in Dr. Steenblock’s case) he has managed to compile his own repertoire of what works and what doesn’t. Maybe this “results-driven” medicine is actually on surer footing than what some of his mainstream contemporaries are relying on (At least in some instances.)
How about kicking off 2011 with the gift of health — to yourself?
January 7, 2011 By 2 Comments
How about kicking off 2011 with the gift of health — to yourself?
Welcome to 2011! How about kicking off the new year with the gift of health — to yourself? Specifically, finding out if stem cells can help your medical condition! Dr. Steenblock is offering consultations today! Just call toll free 1-800-300-1063 to set up your appointment.
Congestive Heart Failure Help
October 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Congestive Heart Failure Help
Congestive heart failure (CHF) currently affects about 5 million Americans. It is in-a-nutshell a “pump failure” medical issue that can have many causes. Traditional medical management includes diet to drop excess pounds and help reduce high blood pressure, medications that support the heart and ease the strain on it, exercise, sodium restriction, and supplemental oxygen or surgery including implantation of a pacemaker or other heart function assist devices if needed.
The question arises, “Is there anything available for CHF that is less invasive or fraught with side or adverse effects than is true of many mainstream treatments? There is. Among these: One very powerful treatment modality is external counterpulsation (EECP), an FDA approved computer-driven machine that some doctors refer to as “a nonsurgical bypass.” In-a-word, it mechanically and effortlessly increases blood flow to organs and tissues including the heart, and also facilitates the growth of new blood vessels. In a randomized study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology Vol. 48, No. 6, 2006 a team of scientists laid out findings that indicated that EECP increased exercise tolerant in participants with mild-to-moderate Congestive Heart Failure. Critics argued the study did not rule out the placebo effect.
But what takes place when EECP is used in tandem with other leading edge treatments such as high dose ubiquinone (Coenzyme Q10) and infusions of stem cell rich bone marrow? Perhaps a great deal. This, at least, is what CHF patients treated using these and other therapeutic agents by Dr. Steenblock have reported.
If you or someone you know has Congestive Heart Failure and are looking for promising forms of intervention such as EECP, do not hesitate to call Dr. Steenblock’s Clinic toll free at 1-800-1063 and request more information. Or visit his website at StrokeDoctor.com and read what’s there and then call or e-mail the clinic using the online contact form under “Contact Us.”
