General Practitioners

• Osteoporosis
• Headaches
• Arthritis
  Furthermore, hydrolyzed collagen may be helpful to bone health. Randomized controlled studies found that hydrolyzed collagen increase bone mineral density in postmenopausal women. Interestingly enough, hydrolyzed collagen has been shown to have a beneficial effect even in rheumatoid arthritis and I’m not talkin 1% or 2% Improvement I’m talking 30% – 50% Improvement in either morning stiffness, swollen joint count, 50 foot walking time etc.
• Fibromyalgia
  This month I want to focus again on something really new, at least for Syracuse. There is a new treatment for Fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia as defined by the Mayo Clinic is “a disorder characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain accompanied by fatigue, sleep, memory and mood issues.” We still don’t have a good handle on what causes fibromyalgia. Some doctors think it’s all just depression. Some doctors believe it is an infectious disease and we just haven’t found the causative organism yet. So far the treatments for fibromyalgia involve pain meds, antidepressants and seizure meds like lyrica and neurontin used for their pain relieving properties. Of course we advise all patients to try exercise but it’s tough to get people in pain at rest to really exert themselves. Genetics may play some role but it’s not a certainty. Women are affected more than men but we don’t really have a handle on why.
• Medical Weight Loss
  This is Dr. Joe Barry with Signature MD with a tip for losing weight…make a real plan…set a firm weight loss goal and a firm target date and work with your doctor and some real organization…overeaters anonymous, weight watchers, medifast etc…studies show you need face to face meetings at least twice a month to make real headway with your weight loss. This gives you the greatest chance of success !
• Nutritional Counseling
  As I have been studying diet and nutrition over these last months I have encountered multiple controversies….How much protein should you eat?…How many carbs are good for you? How many and what types of supplements should you take? What constitutes the right amount of protein versus carbs or fats for your diet? The one thing that unfortunately has become clear..the one thing that the disparate experts can agree on is that we are taking in too much dairy. I say unfortunately because dairy is big business in central new york and I really don’t want to spearhead this message. I am not by nature a controversy guy. I am not by nature a guy that needs attention except from my wife. But the message about dairy is so clear and compelling I must bring this to your attention. To not bring this to your attention would be wrong.
• Pediatric Care
  Andrea grew up in Auburn, NY. She pursued a career in healthcare because of her strong passion to care for others. She graduated Crouse Hospital School of Nursing obtaining her RN in 2012, Chamberlain College of Nursing for her BSN in 2015 and Upstate Medical University with her MSN in 2023. She worked most of her nursing years as an ICU nurse caring for our Veteran’s. She spent her first year as a NP working in pediatrics. She is married with 2 boys whom she loves to spend time with and enjoys baking. Her devotion is to help patients obtain their best quality of life while providing exceptional care consistent with the standards of care at Preventive Medicine Associates.
• Primary Care
  Nicholas grew up locally in Elbridge, NY. He graduated from Cayuga Community College Nursing School in 2007. The next decade was spent traveling the country as a travel nurse, working in a multitude of arenas including ER nursing and critical care. After receiving his Masters Degree from Upstate Medical University he assumed the primary care practice of Dr. David Martin in Elbridge. He has practiced primary care there since. He lives locally with his family, and is committed to providing access to quality primary care for the people of Central New York.
• Family Practice
  Dr. Sherry Rogers’ Total Wellness™ (ISN: 1522-8282) is published monthly by Prestige Publishing, 3160 Erie Boulevard East, DeWitt, NY, 13214; website: prestigepublishing.com, telephone: 1-800-846-6687. Annual subscription rate $72.00 for hard copy, and $48.00 for e-version and back years $36.00. Sherry A. Rogers, M.D. is an internationally recognized expert in environmental medicine. Board Certified in Environmental Medicine as well as Board Certified in Family Practice, and a Fellow of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, and a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, she is the author of over 17 books on environmental illness and finding the cause and cure of diseases, she has published over 20 scientific papers, as well as written for many of the current periodicals, text book chapters, served on medical journal editorial boards, as well as Academy Board of Directors, and given over 100 lectures to physicians at Oxford and in six countries, and more in her over 50 years of medical practice.
• High Cholesterol
• Emergency Care
  When you get emergency care or are treated by an out-of-network provider at an in-network hospital or ambulatory surgical center, you are protected from balance billing. In these cases, you shouldn’t be charged more than your plan’s copayments, coinsurance and/or deductible.
• Colonoscopy
  Now for the new guy in town, and that’s Cologuard. Don’t get me wrong...colonoscopy is still the “gold standard.” That’s the test I get. But for people that are unwilling or unable to have a colonoscopy there is a new technique that’s called Cologuard. It involves simply sending a sample of your stool to the company where it is tested 11 different ways for any evidence of cancer. The test is 92% sensitive in the detection of cancers and that’s a very good number in medicine. The test is not perfect but neither is colonoscopy. The test report comes back simply negative or positive.. if it’s positive you need a colonoscopy...if it’s negative you are probably ok and can discuss what to do next, and when, with your physician. So if you have been neglecting getting your bowels checked for cancer it’s time to bring this article to your doctor and ask him what they think of this test and if it is for you. The test is for average risk people...it’s not meant for people who are known to be at increased risk for cancer, like people with a family cancer syndrome or patients with a history of colitis. Hopefully your doctor is familiar with the test and maybe a life will be saved. What a great way to start the summer. Until next time...get well and stay well.
• Constipation
• Erectile Dysfunction
• Infectious Diseases
  The mantra, the credo, the remonstration from on high is Get the shot or you are not intelligent. Get the shot or you will kill grandma. Get the shot or you are not patriotic. Get the shot to protect others. If it’s so safe and effective why are they bribing people and shaming people into getting the shot. Although they admit they don’t have accurate data…. CDC director Rochelle Walensky,Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research all testified before Congress admitting that probably 40% of their staff have not been vaccinated. If these vaccines are saving the world why isn’t there 100% compliance from the people who study them? Isn’t that a fair question?
• Flu Shots
  Adverse reaction to the flu is one of the leading causes for payout from the Vaccine Injury compensation Program. This program was established when the Supreme Court said vaccines are unavoidably unsafe and you can’t sue the pharmaceutical companies but you can appeal to this court if you feel you have been injured. Over 3.5 billion dollars has been awarded by this court.. and flu vaccine awards are among the top listed. So how are they safe. We know that one particular flu shot lead to cases of narco lepsy. Who would have predicted or expected that ! Flu shots are given to pregnant women even though they are labeled pregnancy category B or C. (meaning no real testing has been done on pregnant women) The CDC itself reported that there has been an increased risk of miscarriage with certain flu shots. One uncommon but well known risk of the flu shot is Guillain Barre which is an ascending paralysis ! Hows that for safe !
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
  I have written before on the dangers of seed oils. These machined, ultra processed inflammatory oils like corn oil, canola oil, grape seed oil etc are probably still in your cabinet. Today I write about a danger in your fridge. High oxalate foods. Veggies you thought were super healthy can in fact be supertoxic and may be accounting for all those odd symptoms you have. Oxalates are natural compounds like lectins and nightshade that act to protect plants. Once ingested they form tiny and not so tiny crystals all over the body. Crystals might be nice on a necklace but they are not so nice in your kidneys and oxalates are a major component of many kidney stones. The bad effects from these substances have been known in the medical literature for over 150 years. The signs and symptoms of hyperoxalosis are protean but include irritable bowel syndrome, reflux, hypothyroidism, diabetes, allergies,mast cell activation, raynaud’s syndrome, headaches, arthritis,gout,tinnitus, genital pain, and kidney stones just to name a few. Different people absorb the oxalates at different rates and the manifestation of hyper oxalate states can obviously be very different in each person.
• Electrocardiogram
  Our providers at Preventive Medicine believe seeing you once a year for an annual exam is crucial in your overall healthcare maintenance. During this visit your provider is able to give you a thorough check up that may or may not include an EKG, routine blood work, urinalysis, vision test, hearing test etc. This extended visit is scheduled with your provider routinely each year, unless alternative arrangements are made between you and your provider.
• Diarrhea
• Pneumonia
• Immunizations
  Sources of information about medical science. They looked at all the trials conducted and found that only around 15% of the included studies were well designed and conducted. Injected influenza vaccines probably have a small protective effect against influenza and ILI (moderate-certainty evidence), as 71 people would need to be vaccinated to avoid one influenza case. Vaccination may have little or no appreciable effect on hospitalizations (low-certainty evidence) or the number of working days lost. Furthermore, there was no reliable evidence about mortality reduction! So despite the propaganda, there is no reliable evidence that the flu vaccine reduces deaths or hospitalizations.

Ophthalmologists

• Cataracts
  Another reason we knew that it would hit the US with more force is that when laboratories around the world want to create animals with chronic diseases for their experiments, they use our FDA-approved standard American diet to create these diseased animals. Researchers around the world use the words “Western diet” in their research journals rather than “American” so that they won’t hurt our feelings and let us know how stupid they think we are. Remember from previous TW that when scientists need 500 rats with cataracts, for example for experimental surgery, they give them give them Tylenol. Or to create rats with diabetes, they use the statins. Or if they need 500 rats with diabetes or fatty liver, or cancers they merely give them various doses of the phthalates. These are the same chemicals that leach from our plastic water bottles (how to get rid of them is in Detoxify Or Die).

Gynecologists

• Female Infertility
• Pregnancy

Internists

• Internal Medicine
  Dr. Barry grew up in Camillus and graduated from West Genesee High School in 1976. He then attended Cornell University and graduated in 1980. He then attended Downstate Medical Center and did a three year Internal Medicine Residency in Boston at St. Elizabeths Hospital. He returned to Central New York to join his father in private practice. Dr. Barry is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Geriatrics.
• Kidney Cancer
  If the vaccine was grown in eggs it’s not a match for the wild-type a virus that was selected each season. If it’s not an exact match the vaccine is not effective. If the vaccine was grown in dog kidney cancer cells, or cocoons or aborted fetal tissue they vials contain those proteins…those are the noninfectious proteins your doctor is supposed to tell you about before you receive the vaccine…I for one do not want dog cancer cell proteins injected into my body. I don’t want mercury (which is still used in certain flu vaccines). I don’t want formaldehyde ( a known carcinogen). I don’t want polystyrene 80 ( known to cause infertility) I don’t want Triton x 100 (a detergent). I want soap on my body..not in my vaccine. Oh, they say these just trace amounts but when you get an allergy injection they use trace amounts and you have to stay in the doctor’s office for 15 minutes after the shot in case you have such a strong reaction you might need a life-saving shot of epinephrine.! Certain flu vaccines actually advertise the fact that they contain Aluminum. Aluminum is toxic to the brain, the bones and the kidneys....ask your nephrologist. Aluminum makes your body react more strongly to the influenza viral proteins. The manufacturer would say it stimulates a stronger immune response and I would say it creates a stronger insult to your system that your immune system has to counteract.
• Kidney Stones
  Now there are two issues with beets to consider. One is that they may change the color of your urine, this is called Beeturia and is harmless. The second is that while beets are high in fiber, and have all these helpful chemicals, they also contain high levels of oxalates. Oxalates are not your friend and in some sensitive people can cause kidney stones and widespread arthritis. So if you have a stone history or feel more aches and pains after starting a beet regime you should probably back off.
• Ovarian Cancer
  Now, however, there are new kids in town. There are two companies that now offer a chance to have your blood taken and look for cancer cells before it shows up on scans. Although I think it’s very much cancer specific, most experts would say that early detection saves lives. If that’s the case then finding the cancer before it shows up on scans or before it becomes clinically apparent should make a difference. The two companies use different technologies but both say they can detect a variety of cancers from just a sample of your blood. One company is based in America and is called GRAIL and their product is called Galleri. Up to 70% percent of cancer deaths are caused by cancers we don’t have screens for. i.e. pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer etc. It’s too new to be covered by insurance and, of course, it isn’t perfect but if you test negative it’s very reassuring and if you test positive you can pursue the possible diagnosis. There are 50 different types of cancer this test can detect. There is no perfect test and false positives and negatives occur just as in mammograms and colonoscopies. Of course, these tests do not replace the traditional screens at least for now.
• Colon Cancer
  Furthermore “The current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of initiating aspirin use for the primary prevention of CVD and CRC in adults younger than 50 year or older than 70 years.“ So yes I am saying that one of most prominent organizations say that aspirin only has really good evidence in people between 50 and 60! There are bleeding risks associated with aspirin. I am not worried about the increased risk of GI bleeding with the drug... I figure that is offset by the possible benefit of decreasing colon cancer. The bleeding risk I worry about is in the brain. If you take aspirin and have a fall with head injury aspirin can increase the amount of bleeding around the brain. If you have a bleeding type of stroke, which thankfully accounts for only a small percentage of strokes, having been on aspirin increases the bleeding in the stroke area. This is not good. I can transfuse blood but I can’t transfuse brain. At least not yet.
• Endoscopy
  I’m guilty. Guilty as charged. I’ve been guilty for almost 30 years. Guilty of prescribing what I thought was an innocuous medication that now I think is so dangerous I never prescribe it anymore. It’s a whole class of drugs really …called proton pump inhibitors. Drugs like Nexium, Aciphex, Protonix, Prilosec, Omeprazole, Dexilant and others. These drugs are used to treat ulcers, acid indigestion, reflux, heartburn, gerd....its stomach pain with many different names. Now if you have a serious esophageal problem called Barrett’s Esophagus you should stay on these meds. You would only know if you had Barrett’s if you had an endoscopy …thats a procedure where they put a flexible periscope down your throat to look around. I highly recommend this test for anyone with longstanding persistent stomach troubles. What I don’t recommend is giving everyone with heartburn these medications. I used to prescribe these meds because they are very effective at eliminating symptoms and I thought they had no serious side effects, drug interactions etc. I now know better. Prescribing these drugs was easy…easy for me and easy for the patient but its just wrong.
• Urinary Tract Infection
  Your loved one WILL get dehydrated, have a urinary tract infection and get pneumonia. You can’t easily or reliably prevent any of these things from happening. If you give them food they can’t recognize they will choke. Personally I would rather choke on a nice sausage sandwich and die rather than have all my food pureed so it’s just globs of different colored mud on the plate...the pale yellow puree...the brown glop and the green glop...I know the therapists that made that suggestion and the dietary staff that is arranging it are doing their best but that doesn’t mean you have to go along with it. A knowing and eminent doctor long ago said that “Pneumonia is a friend of the elderly and in firmed alike”. He said that over 100 years ago and that means that a quick death from pneumonia is preferable to a slow lingering death.
• Prostate Cancer
  Yet there’s always more to the story. For the cod liver oil also must have the anchor which is phosphatidyl choline, my favored form being PC Powder. And the cell membrane must have its guard dogs to protect it from invaders which includes the 8 forms of vitamin E as found in one daily E Gems Elite, one Gamma E Gems, and two Tocotrienols. Recall the unbelievably ignorant study in the Journal the American Medical Association that denigrated vitamin E, saying that it was not only worthless but promoted prostate cancer. As you saw in TW, the ignorance of these researchers actually created the cancers. For example, using only one of the eight forms of vitamin E, alpha-tocopherol, was as ignorant as going to the car dealer and saying you want to buy a new car, but you can only afford one out of every eight parts. But you expect the car to work! As well they underdosed the nutrient, used it for too short a time, and as always used it as a solo act as though it were a drug. They unknowingly broadcasted their incredible biochemical ignorance to the rest of the world. For nutrients are part of an orchestration. They are not a solo act like a drug, which is designed to merely poison an already damaged pathway. That’s why there are so many drug categories of blockers, inhibitors, anti-inflammatories, etc. They poison.
• Lung Cancer
  A study found lung cancer incidence doubled in men in the highest quartile of fasting insulin compared to those in the lowest insulin quartile. The conclusions from this study were...

Neurologists

• Autism
  I keep coming back to dealing with dementia because it’s like autism... seemingly increasing and now found in every family at some point. The family suffering is magnitudes greater than with other common killers. Most in my profession still believe that it’s mostly genetic and there is nothing much you can do about it. That’s completely wrong. Not a little off the mark.... completely wrong.
• Multiple Sclerosis
  Also, the part where preexisting illness isn’t penalized is crazy! You don’t pay the same for insurance for a Ford as a Ferrari. Why should a diabetic smoker pay the same rate as a healthy person? Now things like Multiple Sclerosis...that you don’t have much control over contracting would be treated differently. Actions have consequences...so do inactions and I would have an appropriate sliding scale. So Obamacare is going to give medical access to the chronically ill who couldn’t previously afford it...how is this going to cut costs?

Psychiatrists

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  I am not alone in opposing the mandatory vaccines and questioning their safety… let me reference an article written by the Medical Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute. The article was entitled “Make 2017 the year to avoid toxins (good luck) and master your domain,” Dr. Daniel Neides, questioned whether vaccines have contributed to a rise in neurological diseases like autism and ADHD and argued that ingredients in them are harmful to newborns. He specifically referenced the formaldehyde found in every vaccine I have examined including the flu vaccines.
• Stress Management
  The RECODE program, as Dr Breseden has developed it, is a step by step evaluation of the different causes of brain deterioration and a step by step treatment approach based on the testing done. I see a lot of records from neurologists and other doctors..;…never have I seen anything close to what Dr Breseden has put together. So here’s the part where I recommend an existing program that you can access locally. Unfortunately, just as there is no Dean Ornish treatment center in Central New York, there is no RECODE program that I know of locally. As an aside, ask your cardiologist if he supported attempts to bring the Dean Ornish program to the area. The Dean Ornish program is a well established, medicare approved approach that uses diet, exercise, and stress management to reverse heart disease without surgery. You would think that with all these local hospitals cranking out the major heart surgeries they would have at least a passing interest in a non surgical approach but nothing doing. Zero point zero interest and I know because I personally tried to bring this program to Syracuse but without support from even one cardiologist ( and I wrote to every cardiologist office and all 4 hospitals ) I don’t have the patient base to hire all the necessary personnel.
• Depression
• Mental Health
  It’s getting closer to real summer and so I have a couple of reads for you. I have to watch a lot of videos and read many articles and lots of books as well. Some are written by the Doctors I follow like Dr Gundry, Dr Greger etc. Many articles are also suggested by my patients. Yes, I still get to read for pleasure so I sandwich in some Steven King etc between the study stuff. Recently I read two books that I thought were important so I wanted to share them with you. Both are about health but one is more about physical health and one is more about mental health.
• Psychiatry
  PMA will process referrals generated by your provider for our patients except for Psychology, Psychiatry and Detoxification programs. PMA is not responsible for patients who schedule their own appointments without obtaining a referral from us.
• Insomnia
• Anxiety

Endocrinologist

• Diabetes Care
• Endocrinology
  Sherry is a graduate of SUNY, Upstate Medical University with an AAS degree in Radiologic Technology. She has over 30 years of experience working in various X-ray settings including hospital, cardiac cath lab, imaging centers, urgent care settings and private doctors’ offices including family practice and endocrinology. She has always enjoyed the one-on-one relationships she has with her patients. Sherry became interested in Bone Density testing due to a strong family history of osteoporosis. She began training in Dexa scanning in 2003 and passed the Advanced Certification exam in Bone Densitometry in 2007. She lives in Lafayette with her husband Tom they have one son, Matthew.
• Hypothyroidism
• Thyroid

Radiologist

• MRI
  IMAGING STUDY...If you want to know about the heart you scan the heart... DItto the kidney etc... You should get an MRI. And if you can afford the extra 200 bucks have the different parts of the brain measured so you can assess your progress.
• Radiology
  When you get services from an in-network hospital or ambulatory surgical center, certain providers there may be out-of-network. In these cases, the most those providers can bill you is your plan’s in-network cost-sharing amount. This applies to emergency medicine, anesthesia, pathology, radiology, laboratory, neonatology, assistant surgeon, hospitalist, and intensivist services. These providers can’t balance bill you and may not ask you to give up your protections not to be balance billed.
• X-Rays
• Mammography
  Forget about the fact that the insurance companies are charging 10-15 % more each year but I haven’t had a single raise in years and have absolutely no negotiating power. I am board certified in two specialties with over two decades of experience but that’s not worth a penny extra to the insurance company. Recently one major insurance company in the area came to the office to review our mammography screening rates. Our results were at the top of the scale, well above the average and far above the worse performing physicians. What do we get for our superior care.? Nada...Zip...Zero. Why not at least publish this to the paper or to the patients with your insurance so they can see the individual doctors performance and judge for themselves who they want to see? What a shocking concept...giving patients real informed choices. Instead the high quality and low quality is all mixed together and patients really have no idea about quality measures.
• Computed Tomography
  I, however, have seen that people can change...they can lose weight, they can quit drinking and smoking, etc if they have the motivation and the tools. In my experience, and I have done hundreds and hundreds of stress tests, the stress test will only alert the cardiologist if your blockages are bad enough that you need immediate intervention with a stent or bypass operation. You can easily have 60% or 70 % blockage of two or three arteries and still “pass” a stress test. That’s why I do the CT scan called the Cardiac Calcium Scan. Check out the video on youtube “Widowmaker” for details. This test allows me to measure the calcium buildup in your arteries. The more buildup the higher the likelihood of having a cardiac event. This test allows us to find blockages much earlier..when changing diet and adding supplements can make a difference in changing your score and changing your destiny.
• Chemotherapy
  Funeral costs are not the only expense that should be part of financial planning for the terminally ill. It?s also important to understand hospice care, and the role that these palliative and supportive services will play in the time ahead. While you may currently be planning on using chemotherapy and other treatments to prolong your life, know that planning for hospice care before you need it is a smart choice. The levels of hospice care provided will determine the costs in many cases, so you should spend some time familiarizing yourself with each. For instance, if you are able to receive care in your home, continuous care may come with more expense than routine care. These designations are most important for those covered by Medicare, since Medicare benefits can pay for hospice in most cases. If you are not enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid or insurance can offset care costs as well.
• Radiation Therapy
  There is some controversy over the PSA test. Although I don’t know a doctor seeing men who doesn’t order the test, there is one specific government panel that suggests that people shouldn’t be tested. This makes no sense to me. Little the government does lately makes any sense to me including but not limited to the health care field. Just drop dead already will you. Dropping dead is cheap, chemotherapy is not. The PSA is just like the mammogram...not every abnormal mammo is cancer...not every high PSA is cancer. But, the PSA has still revolutionized prostate cancer because before this test was available prostate cancer was usually diagnosed after it had widely spread to the bones. You could do things to slow the cancer down but this was usually a death sentence and prostate cancer was a top 5 cancer for men. Now with the PSA the cancer is found when it’s still inside the prostate and you have options...watchful waiting if you’re 85 but robot surgery or radiation therapy etc. if you are younger. The technical meaning of younger being having a 10 year life expectancy.

Surgeons

• General Surgery
  ELLEN LYNNE CAREY Lynne grew up in Marcellus. She received her BSN from Wilkes College in 1982. She then served in the Navy at Oakland Naval Hospital for 4 years, working with general surgery, orthopedic and neonatal patients. She then worked at Oakland Children’s Hospital in the Neonatal ICU for 2 years. She then moved to North Carolina, worked for 7 years in Neonatal ICU and started her Masters. She relocated to Syracuse in 1996, finished her MSN at Upstate and worked in Pediatric ICU for 7 years, then as an NP with pediatric surgery for 7 years. She has 2 sons, enjoys the outdoors, and traveling with her husband.
• Wound Care
• Joint Replacement
  Once again I learn more from my patients than I have from the medical literature. Most of the medical stuff I read in the New England Journal of Medicine, The Green Journal, The Lancet, the Journal of the American Medical Association involves obscure medicines for end stage diseases or political editorials. There is very little in the mainstream medical literature about diet, exercise, sleep and stress. It’s all about chronic disease management not improving health. The phase angle machine that can measure your fat, muscle bone etc as well as provide a measurement of your basic cellular health didnt come from these journals. The alpha stim device which can help anxiety, depression and insomnia didnt come from these journals. Ditto the vitamin scanner and the vascular reactivity test. One of my patients brought me a test that can tell you which metals you are allergic to before you have a joint replacement. Another of my patients keeps challenging me with the energy medicine machines which I thought were a little too new for me until I discovered that NASA uses these machines in all space flights. So too, I discovered the services from RGCC from one of my patients.
• Orthopedic Surgery
  A PULSING ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD PROMOTES THE DIFFERENTIATION OF OSTEOBLASTS (MC3T3) AT LOW CELL DENSITY IN VITRO. *Button, C; +**Spadaro, JA; **Margulies, B S; **Allen, M J; **Wang, Y; **Damron, T A; *Dept. of Neuroscience and Physiology, **Department of Orthopedic Surgery, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY

Plastic Surgeons

• Bariatric Surgery
  Especially at risk for overload are people with a diet low in calcium and other minerals including dairy-free and vegan diets. Frequent use of gut irritating foods including beans, bran, whole grains and quinoa. Also, a history of repeated use of antibiotic or antifungal medications and long-term use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications,obesity, diabetes, irritable bowel, bariatric surgery and poor kidney health all predispose to oxalate overdose.

Dermatologists

• Skin Cancer
  Directly from the American Society of Clinical Oncology comes the following information: “Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men, except for skin cancer. This year, an estimated 174,650 men in the United States will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. Around 60% of cases are diagnosed in men over 65. The average age of diagnosis is 66 years. The disease rarely occurs before age 40. Most prostate cancers (90%) are found when the disease is in only the prostate and nearby organs. This is referred to as the local or regional stage.
• Cyst
• Lesions
  CO Q10 acts directly on the endothelium lining our blood vessels and can directly lower your blood pressure. CO Q10 also decreases aldosterone,a hormone that makes you retain salt and water research thereby also lowering blood pressure so there is a direct and indirect effect on blood pressure. Studies suggest CO Q10 can reduce ischemic lesions and improve outcomes after stroke. Interestingly, if you suffer from migraine headaches, CO Q10 may play a preventable role in that condition. A meta-analysis of five studies found CO Q10 was more effective than placebo for migraines.
• Psoriasis
  There’s a new player in town...cancer town that is. That player is a test called Cologuard. Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men and women so it’s obviously important. This is not some obscure disease we are talking about like the Pustular Psoriasis of Von Zumbusch or the Spreading Depression of Laeo. This is a disease that is killing someone in your family or your neighborhood. And colon cancer is not a quick easy death. There is much we can do to you and for you before the end. The NIH spends roughly 270 million dollars a year just funding studies of colon cancer. This figure does not include the detection of cancer, the treatment of cancer, etc. How do you put a number on the emotional toll of cancer? So, it’s a big deal when we have a new approach to detecting colon cancer.
• Burns

Physical Therapists

• Physical Therapy
  It all started about 5 years ago when I noticed the grip on my dominant right hand wasn’t as tight as I wanted and it affected my racquetball game. After that, I noticed weakness when I was trying to carry heavy objects and pain in my neck and shoulder. The pain and numbness would vary depending on recent activities...sometimes the dojo helped..sometimes it did not...it would bother me intermittently during the day but bother me more consistently at night. It prevented me from ever getting a pain free night. I tried grounding. I tried the PEMF machine. I tried physical therapy and a variety of traction devices. Of course I tried the chiropractor but he said I was “too old” for an adjustment. That was disappointing. I never tried pain pills because I take care of people who have had problems with this class of drugs and dont need more problems in my life.
• Neck Pain
• Back Pain
• Geriatrics

Podiatrists

• Ankle Sprain
  Also, think if you will, about the ambulance and first aid people. No race means no emergencies. When people go down, the EMS teams jump into action. They love it! They are bored otherwise! Starting the IVs and maybe getting the paddles ready...it’s what they live for. When you don’t allow people to collapse (dare I say their inalienable right to test themselves to the point of collapse) you deprive these dedicated EMS workers a change to do their thing... maybe they won’t involve/hire as many services next year since the number of calls was down this year due to changing to a walk. So collapses means jobs just that simple. That’s right...the occasional collapse means jobs for the ambulance, the dispatcher, the fire dept., the emergency rooms, etc. Please understand I am talking about the dehydrated person, the twisted ankle, the low blood sugar. Heart attacks and strokes are serious medical emergencies and I am not making light of them but they didn’t curtail the Corporate Challenge because of worries about heart attacks but rather dehydration. It’s these low grade oft times self-inflicted injuries that I’m talking about. They are part of the engine of the health care economy. Yes, in their own morbid way heart attacks and strokes both also do their part to stimulate the economy as well. Unfortunately, it’s the funeral homes and nursing home part of the economy in these cases.
• Foot Pain

Allergists

• Allergies