I.M.120 Helping you to BE YOUR BEST SELF

Let's start out by correcting the headline, red meat does NOT cause cancer.

The absurd, sensationalist interpretation of a scientific study has left many people feeling confused and uncomfortable.

It is true that certain types of meat when prepared in a certain manner seem to slightly increase the risk of colon cancer. The only cancer that was felt to be at increased risk was in fact colorectal cancer. The only type of meat that seems reliably correlated with it is processed meats such as; lunch meats, sausage, bacon, other artificially manipulated meats. Even...

I.M.120 is thrilled to be a center providing the research for this trial. 

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. , Sept. 28, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $800,000 to Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida and the Duke Clinical Research Institute to initiate a planning year for the second Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT2). Chelation is a process by which a medication, such as edetate disodium, can "grab" toxic metals like lead or cadmium within the body - which are...

Anxiety is a useful energy designed to help us to survive and thrive in a challenging world. That sense of enhanced awareness that accompanies you on a walk through dangerous part of the city can improve your chance of remaining safe. The slight knot in your stomach that drives you to study harder prior to the big test can actually accelerate your performance. The burst of adrenaline that accompanies your reaction to a crisis such as a fire can stimulate heroic actions.

These are just a few examples of circumstances where the energy that we call anxiety can have virtue. One type of...

Building A Sucessful Business While Successfully Treating Obesity In Your Office
With The I.M.120 Method Seminar.

Treating Obesity In Your Office
How to help your patients while you create a profitable business.

The Problem
There is an obesity epidemic, and doctors are hamstrung by insurance limits, their limited experience, and the lack of a business plan. For years doctors and their patients have been given mis-information
about obesity. The concept that it's simply a matter of...

Three people get bit by a tick that transmits the spirochete causing lyme disease into their bloodstream. The first person has a robust immune system that obliterates the spirochete before it causes problems. He never knows that he was ever bitten and never gets sick. The next person contracts Lyme disease with its typical symptoms, sees the doctor, gets treated and gets well with no further problems. The third person contracts Lyme disease, perhaps receives initial treatment, but does not fully recover. He goes on to have months and then years of fatigue, muscle ache and general misery....

The FDA has put out an advisory warning patients of the possibility that gadolinium, a contrast material commonly used when performing MRIs, can accumulate in the brain. They recommend that patients and doctors weigh carefully the need for such studies. I suppose it's thoughtful of the FDA to put out such a warning, however they do not advise patients on how to get tested for gadolinium, nor do they counsel them regarding what to do about it. Avoiding MRIs may be an option...

What do we do with inconvenient evidence?

Imagine studying a seemingly absurd practice that is used to an alarming extent by those who believe in it despite the lack of evidence – and finding that the intervention improves outcomes. And imagine that the people conducting that trial are famous scientists with impeccable credentials who have extensive experience with this type of investigation. Imagine that the practice is so out of the mainstream that the investigators cannot even posit how the treatment could reduce patient risk?

We live in a world of evidence-...

The Lyme-disease infection rate is growing. So is the battle over how to treat it.

Kaleigh Ahern was twelve years old when a tick bit her. She noticed it “perched” on her shoulder when she was taking a shower one morning. “I thought it was your average, everyday bug,” Ahern told me recently. But, when she tried to brush it off, the tick wouldn’t budge. “The legs wiggled but it was embedded in my skin. I freaked out and started screaming.” Kaleigh’s mother, Holly Ahern, came running and removed it. “I took the kid and the tick to the doctor,” she said. “I told him, Here...

They're disgusting little creatures. The mere thought of one crawling up your leg, and latching onto you while feasting on your blood for a meal is enough to send you running to the psychiatrist, let alone the doctor. As if the violation of your personal space by a blood swapping arachnid is not enough, they have the potential to deposit the spirochete that causes Lyme disease, A potentially life altering long-term infection.

ACT FAST

If you can save the tick and bring it to your doctor, it can be analyzed to determine if it carries the spirochete that causes Lyme Disease. If...

This Sunday, June 21, we will be celebrating Father's Day and enjoying some quality time with the men in our lives. In honor of the holiday, The Petteruti Family spent last weekend outside at Wheeler State Beach playing football and running in the sand. "One of the great joys of fatherhood is watching your children surpass you. Even at my antiaging best, at 56 I could barely keep up with these 13-year-olds," Dr. Petteruti.

How will you be spending your Father's Day? Share your plans with us on...