CONSULTATIONS
Consultations are available with Dr Michael Serafin Ph.D and are based on Orthomolecular Medicine.
Orthomolecular Medicine is personalized medicine that deals with primary prevention and treatment of underlying causes of chronic disease.
Orthomolecular Medicine is anchored by an examination of the core clinical imbalances that underlie various disease conditions. Those imbalances arise from inputs such as inadequate diet, nutrients (including air and water), exercise, toxins, infections, heavy metals and stress.
The core clinical imbalances that arise from malfunctions within this complex system include:
· Hormonal and neurotransmitter imbalances
· Oxidation-reduction imbalances and mitochondropathy
· Detoxification and biotransformational imbalances
· Immune imbalances
· Inflammatory imbalances
· Digestive, absorptive, and microbiological imbalances
Imbalances such as these are the precursors to the signs and symptoms by which we detect and label (diagnose) organ system disease. Improving balance – in the patient’s environmental inputs and in the body’s fundamental physiological processes – is the precursor to restoring health and it involves much more than treating the symptoms. Orthomolecular Medicine is dedicated to improving the management of complex, chronic disease by intervening at multiple levels to address these core clinical imbalances and to restore each patient’s functionality and health. Orthomolecular Medicine is not a unique and separate body of knowledge. It is grounded in scientific principles and information widely available in medicine today, combining research from various disciplines into highly detailed yet clinically relevant models of disease pathogenesis and effective clinical management.
Nutrients (vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, amino acids, glyconutrients), bioactive compounds (e.g. probiotics, herbs, enzymes, etc.) and bioidentical hormones are used therapeutically to assist in the correction of any underlying malfunctioning metabolic pathways which ultimately cause disease. By addressing and treating the underlying cause of the disease allows the body to heal rather than just simply treating the symptoms while the underlying cause still remains.
Nutrients, bioactive compounds and bioidentical hormones can increase or decrease the levels of important chemicals in the body, reduce inflammation, influence hormonal balance, reduce toxic load on the body, influence the balance of neurotransmitters in the brain, improve immune function, reduce oxidative stress, improve digestion and assimilation of foods, improve brain function and emotions, improve energy levels and very importantly treat illness.
Consultations are comprehensive and wholistic in nature which include patient history, therapeutic diets such as alkaline, low reactive or candida diets, determining proper digestion involving gut cleans and repair programes, advice for balancing of thyroid, adrenal and sex hormones, reducing inflammation, controlling the immune system, improving sleep, detoxification including heavy metals, reducing cardiovascular risk factors, brain chemistry rebalancing to help balance emotions and finally clearing any emotional/energetic imbalances which are the real root cause of all illness and disease.
In order to help diagnose the existing condition certain tests may be required such as saliva sex and adrenal hormone analysis, blood or urine thyroid tests, heavy metal analysis, ALCAT food allergy tests, organic acid urine analysis and stool analysis, to name a few. We can organize these for you through an integrative pathology lab we routinely use for all our patients. If any additional blood tests are required we can provide a request for your doctor to organize them for you.
Treatments may involve the use of dietary and lifestyle changes, natural adrenal, sex or thyroid hormones, detoxification and certain natural supplements. If test results indicate you require any bioidentical hormones, which legally require a valid doctors prescription, we will provide a written request to your doctor specifying the preparations you require which you will need to organise with them.
Dr Serafin also practices Esoteric Healing as taught by Universal Medicine as he believes that disease is caused by an energetic/emotional blockage which if left untreated will manifest physically as a disease. He feels that treatment must involve physical support by aiding the bodies physiology in addition to clearing any burried emotions.
Conditions we specialize in include: menopause, thyroid disorders, adrenal exhaustion, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, metabolic syndrome (insulin resistance, high cholesterol, high blood pressure), male menopause, depression, anxiety, autism and erectile dysfunction to name a few.
Dr Serafin holds either personal or phone consultations depending on where you may live and bookings are essential.
Contact us for more details or to make a booking.
Cost is $80 for a 1hour consultation.
NOTE: Dr Serafin is a Ph.D and not a MD and therefore does not write prescriptions. If prescriptions are required as part of your treatment plan you will need to arrange them with your local GP. We may be able to advise you what doctors are sympathetic to natural treatments depending on where you may live.
