Dr. David Minkoff’s Health Blog

Is it Adrenal Fatigue or Chronic Fatigue? – OHR #438

This newsletter is about adrenal and chronic fatigue symptoms.
15 Sep

About six months ago a patient came to see me who had been a patient at UCLA medical center for his severe asthma, sinusitis, and GERD. As a part of his treatment, he was on several inhaled immune suppressors, cortisone and a whole combo of oral meds including prednisone and months of antibiotics and antihistamines. His physical condition was worse. He had seen allergists, pulmonologists, infectious disease doctors, and ENT doctors. His stomach was bloaty, he had daily diarrhea, he had lost 10 pounds and was being told he was getting the best treatment that modern university medicine can offer.

What was really wrong with him?

  1. Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth
  2. Four abscessed root canal teeth causing nasal sinusitis
  3. Three parasites on stool test
  4. Gluten and dairy allergy
  5. Mycoplasma pneumonia infection
  6. Multiple drug toxicity

Fast forward to last week following our successful treatment:

  1. Off all pharmaceutical drugs
  2. Normal lung function restored
  3. All GI symptoms resolved
  4. Gained back the 10 pounds to his normal weight
  5. All abscessed teeth extracted and sinusitis resolved
  6. A very happy and relieved patient who feels the best in many years.

What’s really good medicine? It’s medicine that restores the health of the individual to its optimal state, because the underlying causes of the conditions have been successfully handled.

That’s LifeWorks Wellness Center.  We are good medicine.  We prove it every day.  If you need help, try us.  We won’t let you down.

Have a great week.

Dr. David I Minkoff, MD

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About Dr. David Minkoff, Medical Director

Dr. David Minkoff graduated from the University of Wisconsin Medical School in 1974 and was elected to the “Phi Beta Kappa” of medical schools, the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Medical Fraternity for very high academic achievement. He then completed both a Pediatric Residency and a Fellowship in Infectious Disease at the University of California at San Diego. He worked at the University of California and Children’s Hospitals in San Diego as an attending physician in infectious disease while conducting original research on Ribaviron, a broad spectrum anti-viral agent to fight disease. He also co-directed a neo-natal intensive care unit and worked in emergency medicine. In 1992, Dr. Minkoff’s wife Sue, a Registered Nurse, became interested in nutrition and health and began to go to lectures from some of the experts in the field. At the time, Dr. Minkoff was pretty fixed in his view of traditional medicine and it took a lot of convincing to get him to come to one of these lectures. After hearing Dr. Jeffrey Bland speak, Dr. Minkoff had a eureka moment and began pursuing the alternative field with a vengeance. Based on this new knowledge Dr. Minkoff and his wife set up a small clinic in 1997 to help some friends with their medical problems. What began as an experiment blossomed into Lifeworks Wellness Center, one of the most successful clinics for complementary medicine in the United States. In the process, he gained expertise in Biological medicine, integrative oncology, heavy metal detoxification, anti-aging medicine, hormone replacement therapy, functional medicine, energy medicine, neural and prolotherapy, homeopathy, and optimum nutrition. He studied under the masters in each of these disciplines until he became an expert in his own right. Dr. Minkoff is one of the most in-demand speakers in the field and wrote an Amazon best-selling book called The Search For The Perfect Protein. The demand for the products and protocols he discovered became a catalyst for founding BodyHealth.Com, a nutrition company that now manufactures and distributes cutting-edge nutritional solutions for the many health problems of today. Dr. Minkoff writes two free online newsletters, “The Optimum Health Report” and ”The BodyHealth Fitness Newsletter”, to help others learn about optimum health and fitness. Dr. Minkoff is an avid athlete himself and has completed 43 Ironman Triathlons. To keep his fitness maximal, he lives the lifestyle he teaches to others and tries to set an example for others, so they can enjoy a life free of pain and full of energy.