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Hello, I tipperary came and welcome to the mother's market radio show, a show dedicated to the Truth, Beauty and Goodness of the human condition. On today's show, we're talking about a unique treatment, we're welcoming back Dr. sasson to talk about treating illness through intravenous self-therapy, you don't wanna miss this, they can help cancer patients, drug and alcohol abusers and even babies with autism, plus we're gonna get some more late summer produce tips from John and give you another chance to win a 100 gift card. So listen carefully to the code word this week. But first up, we're joined today by another prominent position when it comes to alternative medicine, Dr. Allan sasson is the founder and medical director of the institute for progressive medicine, and he's been practicing medicine for over 40 years. He was also an associate clinical professor at UC ermine Medical Center, and a certified defeat autism now physician. His Institute treats people of all ages through comprehensive state-of-the-art new medicine techniques, and we welcome him to the mother's radio show, Dr. sasson, how are you? Odon, thanks for having me, Kim.

Thank you. Well, today we're talking about something a lot of people may not be familiar with, and including myself, and that's using nutritional intravenous therapy for chronic medical conditions, it sounds complicated, so it's a good... Hing, you're here to explain to everything to us, doctor says, and so why don't you explain to us what that means?

Well, people are used to taking vitamins and minerals and amino acids by mouth, which is fine, and I do it every day, and I have many patients doing it every day, but sometimes when you have a person who has more of an illness going on, something that requires a stronger treatment, we will give intravenous vitamins, minerals and amino acids through a vein in the forearm, so a person just lies down in a bar, a lounge type chair and takes a nap for about an hour to an hour and a half, and these vitamins and other nutrients get infused into the vein over that period of time, it's a very easy treatment and it bypasses the gastrointestinal tract, so you don't have to worry about those kinds of side effects, and a very effective treatment for many different kinds of situations, people who have infections, urinary, infections, respiratory infections, people who are going to go in for operations, I recommend that always for people who are gonna have heart surgery or joint replacement surgery or any other kind of surgery, and get yourself an immune drip, which is what we call it, first and that will help you get through the operation with fewer side effects, fewer complications, faster recovery time, and less pain, what kind of conditions would benefit from IV therapy, so I know you just mentioned some of them of what it does, but what conditions... Well, we use intravenous therapies for many kinds of problems, basically, you can approach any medical problem with intravenous nutrient therapy, it just depends what you're dealing with, but people with heart disease, for instance, we use things like chelation therapy, which has been around for 50 years, but we found to be very effective in treating people with heart disease, with angina, coronary artery disease, those kinds of things, we use something called plaque therapy, which is an infusion of hospital coding that's a type of fat that the body uses in the heart and the brain and the liver, but has potato Colin itself is also very beneficial for people with heart disease, so a lot of times we will alternate the chelation therapy, which is a way of giving vitamins and minerals and taking out heavy metals, as people know that heavy metals are implicated in the development of heart disease, we alternate that therapy with this plaque therapy, the FOS potato coding therapy, and folks use these ongoing for months and sometimes years. I have numerous patients who have been able to avoid invasive cardiac approaches by doing these treatments, I was just gonna ask you that, what your rate is of the folks that you've helped out with that... With heart disease, well, that depends what's going on with the individual, sometimes people will come in and say, I have angina and the doctor wants to do a procedure on me and I don't wanna do the procedure. How can I handle that? So we'll go after all the different methods of handling heart disease, getting the blood pressure down, using natural means, getting cholesterol down, reducing stress, getting them on the right nutritional program. What's the right stuff to eat? What do I stay away from? And we'll put in chelation therapy and hospital calling therapy and ravenous therapies as a way of helping that along, making things go better. So I've had patients who have been able to avoid therapy, avoid invasive therapies, and who have had invasive therapy, some of them have had by-pass surgery, some of them have had stents put in, but now their symptoms are back and they've gone through that already and they don't wanna do it again. So what's my option now, doc, and I say, Well, these are your options, and a lot of times people will be able to do those procedures with us and not need the other procedures that are invasive and potentially dangerous.

Very good. Well, what about acute infection or immune conditions?

We see people who have colds, Francis, pneumonia, urinary tract infections, different kinds of infections, I've seen skin infections, all of these things are amenable to treatment with intravenous nutrients. The main thing that's in there is hits Vitamin C. Vitamin C, as Linus Pauling has put out over the years, is very effective for reducing infections and helping people get over infection, so we'll give infusions of vitamin C and A dose of 25000 milligrams, sometimes higher than that, just to get over infections. And it's very effective, people have responded more quickly than they did without it, and I've had several myself over the years, and it's very helpful, and again, you're able to bypass the gastrointestinal tract, so 25 grams of Vitamin C, which would give most people diarrhea... Won't do that. If you're getting an intravenously, there's no gastrointestinal effect... Wow, the rate of cancer is amazing, the percentage of people getting cancer, what can you do for cancer with that intravenous therapy?Cancer incidents just seems to be going up and up. I don't know what the official figures are for each of the cancers, but what we see in the office is kind of scary, and every week something else comes in and it seems that the people that were getting cancer are younger and they have pretty serious cancers, chemotherapy radiation and surgery are the major approaches, and we agree that those things should be used... I know it's very controversial. I know that chemotherapy makes a lot of people sick and radiation does the same thing, and the surgery is difficult, and none of these treatments are 100%, so a lot of times they don't work and the person still has the cancer.

We use the intravenous therapies as an adjunct, so it helps... You know what, I think actually, that's a very important point that you say that you still use... That you believe in the chemotherapy and the radiation makes... I think there's a myth out there that if you're doing a different type of medicine, and with that supplements and the intervenes, I think people think that you're completely opposed is what... It's either one way or the other. So that's interesting that you say that, especially if it's as far along as the cancer is, or depending on the person, does their make-up that you're not opposed to chemo and radiation along with the adjunct... As you say, No, I think that all of these things should be used there, again, knowing that chemotherapy is dangerous and that it's difficult and people have a hard time handling in and the same with radiation. Still, I have seen many people who benefited from them, I've seen a lot of people, women with breast cancer who were able to completely get over the cancer and they have nothing of the cancer left, so they've done well, but because the treatments are difficult and sometimes patients cannot tolerate them. So in the mill Achim therapy, and you can't go on because there's too much vomiting going on, too much weight long, too much misery. They just can't do it. If they get the immune drops while that process is going on, they can tolerate it better and they can get through it, plus the immune drips as we call them, and help the body fight the cancer.

Now, there's an idea in the minds of many cancer doctors that if you feed a person with nutrients who's getting chemotherapy or radiation, you're at the same time feeding the cancer so the treatment won't work, and I have many patients coming in who are told I'm not supposed to take vitamins, I'm not supposed to do IVs with you because it's gonna keep the cancer treatment from working. And I totally disagree with that. There's a lot of information out there. There have been studies that have been done, and the people who die from cancer largely die from malnutrition and infection, they're not even dying from the cancer itself, they're dying from the side effects of the cancer and the side effects of the treatment for cancer.

So if you can boost the person up, maintain their nutrition, maintain the vitamins and the minerals and the things that they need to keep their bodies working and keep their immune systems working, they'll handle the cancer better and they'll be able to maintain their chemotherapy, radiation or whatever it is without having to stop. So I think they all are necessary, and I think that one supports the other.

That's excellent advice. What about liver disease and other conditions, neurological. We have, there's so many symptoms of chronic illnesses out there, what else can this intervenes therapy do?

The liver disease is certainly very common, we have three or four million people in the United States with Hepatitis C, which is the most common type of liver disease, may be aside from alcohol, which is awfully common, but you can use intravenous nutrients as a way of getting a person through liver disease and helping them recover from it, we had a fellow come in about a year ago who was addicted to alcohol and had been drinking for over 20 years and having a very successful life, he was making a lot of money and very successful but drinking, and then finally the alcohol caught up with him, and he went into liver failure, he wasn't in comma, but as Valley was all blown up and his legs were swollen and his liver basically wasn't functioning much at all, as Billy Rubin was high as face was getting yellow, and he came in to get off the alcohol, which we did, and then we maintained him with a very potent intravenous nutrient therapy program along with oral supplements, so he was getting this phosphate Colin, which as I mentioned for heart, as effective, but also effective for liver, along with that, he was getting politic acid, which is a type of folic acid, and he was getting glutathione, which is a major sort of detox-Fier and anti-accident. So glutathione we use for many different things, and I'm sure many of your listeners will be familiar with it and probably use it, so he was getting that on a weekly basis, one, two, three times a week, at one point, he insisted on coming in everyday to get these treatments, but the result of that was one year later, his liver is a little bit big and the rest of him is fine, there is no trace of liver disease, is albumin level, which is a major protein that deliver makes, which was as low as 25, which is pretty low, went up to 41, which is completely normal, so he's a liver, although I wouldn't say it's perfect, is functional for him and he has no symptoms, and at one point he was told You're gonna die from this... Oh my gosh.

Wow. As he stopped drinking to tree... That was important.

Oh my goodness. Well, that's good to know. What about neurological deficits?

You can use intravenous therapies for neurologic diseases, we've used them for Parkinson's disease, I've used it for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. We use chelation therapy sometimes for recovery from stroke, and that has been useful and that phosphate Colin therapy also good for recovery from stroke.

I wish I could say we had more success with Parkinson's Disease and those kinds of diseases, but those are very difficult to deal with, and I've seen some improvements in some people, it's not as good as I would like it to see, and we're working on moving those along and maybe having them be more efficacious, but right now it's difficult, but I would say that people who have strokes and results from strokes with weaknesses and arms and legs and speech can definitely improve with these other therapies.

There's one other treatment that is not an intravenous treatment, which we also use four strokes, and for heart disease, which is called external counter-pulsation, we have a machine in the next room that where you apply these inflatable cuffs to the arms and the legs, you blow them up with air sequentially with the cardiac cycle that forces blood into the heart, informs New circulation in the heart, so you can create a bypass without doing bypass surgery and people's... Chest pain goes away, the same treatment increases blood flow to the brain and helps the brain recover from stroke music for both of those things, in addition to peripheral vascular disease for folks who have difficulty walking because of pain because the circulation in their leg is reduced, the same treatment increases flow, and a lot of times we'll use this external control station along with chelation therapy, and they're very effective together.

Oh my goodness. Well, that's interesting, you talked a little bit about what you've done for the liver and with the alcohol affects what about drug detoxification and the elimination of drug abuse in the body.

Our practice works a lot with drug detoxification, it's one of the things that I'm very interested in, so we get people off recreational drugs, we get them off alcohol, we also get them off psychiatric drugs, which in my opinion are vastly over-utilized in our society and people don't wanna be on them. A lot of people come in and say, How do I get off of this drug, and my doctor has me on three psychiatric drugs, how do I get off... I say it's gonna take some time. And we work on a gradually decreasing schedule, so over a period of weeks and sometimes months, the dosage of these drugs is reduced, dosages are reduced at the same time we're using intravenous therapies, these immune drips, these POs, potato coding drops, we have other infusions that we use with different amino acids, because amino acids have been shown to improve depression, improve anxiety and help people get off drugs that they're taking, so it's the psychiatric drugs, it's cocaine, it's amphetamines, it's all of the street drugs that you see, heroin, narcotics, all of those things are drugs we try to get people off of... And we're very successful with it using this combination of therapies, now that's very interesting, and this is such an interesting topic, there's so much more to learn and from Dr. Sawan, so please stay with us, we'll be right back.

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And now back to our interview with Dr. sasson, today we're talking about nutritional intravenous therapy for chronic medical conditions, and is also I wanted to ask you to describe how IV therapy is administered and what is involved with the treatment with the drip intravenous nutrients, really easy treatment, all the person has to do is lie down in one of our very comfortable chairs, go to sleep, needles inserted into the arm, and it's a very tiny meal that we use, and they just lie there for an hour to an hour and a half, depending on which IV we're using, and then it's over with we usually ask people to eat something before they come in because some of the nutrients tend to lower the blood sugar, so if you have a piece of fruit or a small snack or something before you come in or a meal, and that... Sometimes makes things go a little bit better.

You know what, that almost is a recipe for, you know what, when life is so stressful to come and take a break with Dr. sasson and get some of the new trans in there too. It actually sounds brilliant.

Some people do that.

They turn off the cell phone. Don't bother me, I'm getting medical care, you there and getting their intravenous vitamins and nobody bothers them.

That's wonderful. How often? I'm interested, I wanna sign up often, I don't know if it's many times a week or how often should they be coming in when they're into this... It depends what's going on with the person, if someone is getting treatment for cancer and we're doing high dose vitamin C will have them come in usually two or three times a week, and that's usually before or after the chemotherapy or radiation that they're getting, and other people it depends what's going on. We have people come in who are going for a trip to China, you know, it's gonna be stressful, it's gonna take three weeks, build me up, I don't wanna get sick, so we'll have him come in once or even twice before they go on their trip, preferably as close to the trip as they can, and that builds them up so they get through their trip without getting sick people who are going to have surgery like anything, it could be a big operation, could be a small operation. I've had people come in who are going to do aortic surgery on the entire aorta, and they came in for a couple of months, getting built up before the operation, and the purpose of that was so that they would survive operation and do well, and they did. So it's very helpful for any kind of surgical procedure, and off the radio, we were talking about even if you were in a car accident when your body goes into shock, that's just an extra protection to make sure that we're still receiving the nutrients to live stresses.

Anything that stresses the body can result in illness, so we have people who come in with marital problems, we have people who have been in car accidents, we've had folks who fell down the stairs, almost anything that occurs in life that gets you upset and it makes you feel sick can literally make you sick, you know, heart attacks are well known to be a consequence of emotional stresses, and rather than go on anti-depressants all your life, why I do some things that reduce those stresses and we have a lot of work done in helping people do that, and the immune grips are part of that.

You know, I have a couple of questions for you, and first of all, how old do you have to be to begin your immune drips? I know you talked about people getting on drugs in with the ADHD so rampant, and it seems like the physicians seem to administer the drugs to kids so young, you... What is your age limit on the trip, we see kids with autism and other neurological problems that we've gotten intravenous therapies on children and even one and two years old, and it's a different kind of material that you put in there, you're working with lower doses, you're working with specified nutrients, and they have all done well as well with the infusions really have not had problems with them, our nurses are expert in finding veins and little kids, so we've treated autistic kids and other children with these IVs, different IVs for them. But I've had patients come in to here, 80, 90 and on fellow 100 years old, getting these infusions as well, and again, it's specifically for what's going on with that individual, so we will individualize dosages of vitamin C of Guthy and of all the things that are in there, based on what's going on with the person, someone who comes in who's coming off drugs will be given different preparations, so we'll use higher doses of amino acids like trip to fine and other ones that tend to quiet people down, calm them... Reduce withdrawal symptoms.

I have a fellow who has been coming in after a surgical procedure that resulted in a very bad infectious complication, he got an abscess at the site of surgery, he's been coming in for infusions and again, the vitamin C with the magnesium and the zinc, and the other things we put in there, help that person heal. So they do better, what would you say to somebody coming in for the first time, and what would you say to them, and also, do you run a blood panel first to make sure to check it individually?

We always like to know what's going on in the body before we start with our infusion, so everybody has blood studies done, either they come in with the results they already have, or we will do tests on them, so we'll find out What is kidney function, what is liver function, a lot of times, we'll find things that the person didn't know they had, but we always wanna know what's going on in the body before we start an infusion, went to make sure it's the right infusion and two, to make sure it's going to be safe. You have to know what the kidney function is, like it determines what dosages that you use and different things like that, a lot of times we will measure Vitamin C level, save person is getting treated for cancer, and it's known in the literature that vitamin C actually can suppress the growth of certain cancers, so we will measure Vitamin C levels after the infusion to decide Are we reaching as high level as we need to, and if it's not high enough, we'll raise the dose the next time until we get what we need. So we're pretty careful that regulating what people receive, I should mention that everything is done in a totally sterile environment, so everything is clean, and we don't run into problems with infections and the IVs are generally well-tolerated adverse reactions, which usually consists of minor allergic reactions to something in the IV, very uncommon, and people generally do quite well because it's all really natural, the supplements that you're putting in... This is right, we're not putting in drugs every once in a while someone comes in with pneumonia and I will give them intravenous antibiotics, but we are not giving in general, these powerful medical drugs were basically working with nutrients.

Wow, that's fantastic. Thank you so much for your time, Dr. sasson, and we look forward to having you on again, and in the mean time, you can catch more of Dr. sasson on his website, I progressive Med dot com, and learn more about his passion for alternative medicine and the other great things he's involved with, we look forward to our next visit or... We're rolling through this week's mother's market radio show, but stay with us.

We've recently caught up with John from produce, and we asked him how the unseasonably cold weather has affected this year's crop, it's kind of 50-

50 for guys that are typically in an area that crops are ending, they're able to produce longer strawberries, like a little bit of cool weather too hot, the strawberry size goes down, the sugar improves, but it ends the production and a lot faster.

So there will be some guys that are in areas that are able to produce longer, some guys that are trying to start their crops slower, so it's kind of a 50-50 mix back on that. I would say that the California market has hurt on its normal crops, like green beans and tomatoes, these type things have taken forever to get going in California, so you're still seeing Mexican tomatoes on the market in July, that's not that great of a sign, normally, our crops would kick in around June and start producing, but it's been way too cold, so the planning gaps do happen and the product comes off much slower, so we have to pull from other areas, so... It's kind of hit and miss. Some guys are gonna come in and say, you wanna look at my product, because normally, I'm a 100 degrees right now, and I'm only 80, and this is perfect for our area, but then when you move north to, let's say Watsonville...

Watsonville, been extremely cold. Okay, on the other hand, it should be like 85-90 degrees right now, and it's 65 and it's windy and cold, but sometimes it all wraps up at once because the season straightens out.

Everything matures at once. roars try to stagger. And that's how they do it. Somebody comes in and goes, Well, you have that peace have three weeks ago. And I said, Well, no, we've moved on. The variety is different, there's not just one per that a guy goes out and picks, he grows many varieties and there's an early variety that's the middle and there's a late season... Okay, and all these are set to bloom at different times a year, but on the crops and of the deal, like let's say Broccoli, well, he'll start field, and then two weeks later he'll start another field and then two weeks, so he staggers his crop, so he can... Work through One is the next one's maturing, and then he gets into the next field... Well, that timing is all based on nature, but also the idea of the farmer and knowing his crop, knowing his land, looking ahead of the weather and saying, Hey, this is how we're gonna do it. Well, let's just say he's growing one crop and he's trying to go and plan another on the weather is not so good, it rains... Well, that can put a good week gap in there, and that's where your price fluctuations come in too, because there's not much available... Well, there's not much available, I've talked about pressure. A lot of pressure, okay, then that product could double in price, just like that, I do know where... And it's to be able to gauge that.

That's very difficult to be like aging the stock market to say, Hey, this is what the value is gonna be next week, and I can tell you right now, it doesn't work that way, so this is very difficult for these growers to figure this out, so what they're trying to not accomplish is a glutton because then the volume drops, Okay, everything is ready at once, they just like to have an even kill supply, good quality and a decent price for them.

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