Written by Michael Gerber, MD, HMD Last month I gave some of the history of EDTA chelation therapy, an FDA approved therapy for removing lead and other heavy metals. It has been administered to an estimated one million people in the last 50 years with an 86 percent positive success rate in helping cardiovascular diseases. EDTA chelation is most powerfully administered intravenously in a one and a half to two hour sessions while the patient sits comfortably in an easy chair and can watch TV, … [Read more...]
Michael Gerber, MD, HMD
By Sara Piccola Touring the first green re-modeled building in Northern Nevada is how the interview for this month’s provider profile began. This lovely building is home to the Gerber Medical Clinic, one of Reno’s foremost integrative, alternative medicine clinics. Dr. Michael Gerber, MD, HMD, is founder and owner. Dr. Gerber has practiced medicine for 36 years, graduating from Kansas University School of Medicine in 1972. He took his Internal Medicine Internship at Oakland County … [Read more...]
The Most Missed Diagnosis In Medicine
Millions of people have a medical condition that they don’t know about. Sometimes they develop it in their childhood years, but that is relatively uncommon. Usually it starts later, in their thirties and forties. By the age of fifty, almost half of everyone will have this condition. This condition is the most common cause of high cholesterol. It also causes weight gain, fatigue, increased susceptibility to infections, mood disorders, ADD, joint and muscle pains, and a host of other … [Read more...]
Dr. Corazon Ibarra, M.D., H.M.D.
By Erina Fischer | What steers an allopathic physician, after years of education and dedication to their profession, to make a 180-degree turn towards alternative medicine? For Dr. Corazon Ibarra, M.D., H.M.D., known as “Dr. Cora” to her patients, it was due to her own health crisis. Working as an anesthesiologist for eight years, the constant stress finally took its toll on her body. Her symptoms of a body out-of-balance were reoccurring headaches and chronic illness. Skeptical, … [Read more...]
Is Growth Hormone the FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH?
Part One THE ANTI-FAT HORMONE Growth hormone is made in the brain in large amounts when we are young. It is called growth hormone because of its stimulating effects on the growth plates of growing bones. Growth hormone has several other important effects. First of all it has a powerful action on fat metabolism called lypolysis. This means that it causes fat cells to release their fat content for energy production. Thyroid hormone also has this effect, and there is evidence that growth … [Read more...]
