Episode Highlights with Dr. Melina Roberts

• Melina Roberts: Founder of Advanced Naturopathic Centre Calgary

  • Author Building a Healthy Child

  • TED X Speaker 2021

  • Sick as a child Allergies and Asthma – went to a Naturopathic Doctor recognized the ability of the body to heal itself

  • Became the inspiration to become a doctor

  • While at Naturopathic College father diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (passed away 9 months later)

    • Inspiration to want to treat cancer                                                                                                            

  • Clinic in Toronto with great record in helping people success due to his training at Paracelsus

    • Inspired Melina to do the same and became a Naturopathic Doctor using biological medicine

  • Focuses on the terrain (the areas the cells live in) When a plant is not healthy, we focus on the soil or water, we do not try and manipulate the plant.

  • Also focuses on the regulatory processes of the body and removes what is blocking normal regulation

Tools used for Assessment

• Darkfield Microscopy looks at cells under a microscope and gives insight into the internal terrain

• The blood is viewed under a microscope and is not altered, blood cells are magnified.

• Heart Rate Variability – assesses the autonomic nervous system sympathetic (stress state) and parasympathetic- (rest and digest)

  • The body cannot heal in a stressed state

• Thermography 119 points are checked through temperature and gives insight on how the organs are regulating

Therapies

• Hyperthermia – local and full body hyperthermia

  • Creates a fever state not conducive for infections or unhealthy cells to survive 38.5 degrees Celsius

  • Patients monitored throughout with rectal thermometer usually takes 30-40 minutes to get to a proper heat. And another 30-60 minutes for the therapeutic state. Can be used on all cancers.

    • Patients encouraged to make decisions regarding treatments. They will respond from fear instead of knowledge.

  • Can be used in conjunction with other therapies such as local hyperthermia, vitamin C infusions, etc.

  • Sauna can be used in a remission phase or for detox

  • Can be used safely with proper monitoring

    • Many patients will complain with a cancer diagnosis that they very rarely get sick or have fever. It is not healthy to not have a fever. It is also healthy when we or our children do have fevers.

    • Suppressing fevers, works against the natural mechanism to make our environment unfavorable to pathogens

• Mistletoe- an herbal extract shown to boost the immune system against cancer cells. Different types target different cancers. 

• High dose Vitamin C- At a low dose it is an antioxidant, at a high dose it is a pro-oxidant. It can then go into the cell and turn into H2O2 and then help break down cancer cells. Changes environment to become more alkaline, reduces toxic load, and improves immune system, (~50gm's) *Have a G6PD run prior to Vitamin C therapy)

• Oxygen therapies - Ozone and UBI (ultraviolet blood irradiation) paired together. Cancer cells don't like oxygen. 

  • Our medical model operates on fear, yet there are effective, powerful, options.

  • Organs of detoxification are open and moving regardless of what route is chosen, otherwise the patient will become sicker. (called the emunctories)

    • The primary ones are the liver, gallbladder, kidneys, and the lymphatic. Secondary are skin, and lungs. Referred to as drainage to move toxic loads outside the cell. 

• Diet is the starting point and primary to healing the body and balancing the microbiome. 

  • Have fresh squeezed lemon for the liver​

  • Clean water for the kidneys

• Rebounding or cold showers help assist the lymphatic system

• Patients to have self-responsibility to create their own healing

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