Welcome to CCIMHealth!
We are exclusively dedicated to stopping chronic inflammation for good using microbiome repair, hormone balancing, and body site-specific restoration strategies
CCIM PROGRAMS
Diagnostics
Enteroimmunology: microbiome repair
Endocrinology
Heal the Brain
Ayurvedic Wellness
Resolve Pain: Prolotherapy and Yogatherapy
Yogatherapy
Belong & Connect
Mercury Testing & Detox
Welcome to The Columbia Center
for Integrative Medicine (CCIM)
We use #immunoglobulin treatments for our #gut #microbiome programs in order to bind toxic bacterial metabolites, promote #immune tolerance, and to lessen absorption of #toxins into the portal circulation!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/637959v1
Gut Microbiome-based treatments are useful to treat anxiety
#Enteroimmunology
www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325226.php
Anxiety: 11 of 21 studies say regulating gut bacteria may help
A new review evaluating the findings of 21 studies suggests that interventions regulating the intestinal flora could help reduce anxiety symptoms.All about generic pharmaceutical drugs
youtu.be/lCrTuT5ywvI
Bottle of Lies: How Poor FDA Oversight & Fraud in Generic Drug Industry Threaten Patients’ Health
Generic drugs amount to 90% of all prescriptions filled in the U.S., most of them made in plants in India and China. Generic drugs can be more affordable, bu...#Yogatherapy update
Critical to our approach to using yoga to resolve pain and improve joint health are the use of loops and spirals
sacred-earth.typepad.com/yoga/2006/09/loops_and_spira.html
Notes from the talk DR DV gave on hypertension and blood pressure at Lompoc Valley medical Center in April 2019
Understanding BP
• Pressure exerted on the walls of the vessel, which is lined by muscle, and has a certain degree of stretch (compliance)
• Flow affected by narrowing- drop the radius in half decreases flow fourfold
• Systolic (peak contractile pressure) vs diastolic (filling pressure)
• Pulse pressure is the difference between the two
Fluctuations in BP:
• stress (insomnia, poor habits)
• hormones (menopause, HRT, pregnancy, post-partum) which explain why diastolic often higher in women
• inflammation (obesity)
• Toxicity (smoking, drugs, heavy metals)
Harms of HTN (especially in conjunction with atherosclerosis)
• Stroke, MI, kidney damage, dementia, sight , CHF
Harms of low BP:
• MI, syncope
Lifestyle changes:
• exercise
• yoga
• plant-based, eat midday, chew
Medications
• Diuretics work on the kidney
• Vasodilators: CCB, nitrates work on muscle of artery
• ACEI, ARB work on hormone system to decrease blood pressure
• BB work on heart rate and smaller blood vessels of the gut heart and brain
Endocrine concerns:
• menopause HTN
• obesity- diabetes/MetS
• Accelerated aging
Kidney -
Renovascular hypertension and diastolic CHF
Checking BP:
• Check at home
• At rest and after duress and again after recovery at rest
The Columbia Center for Integrative Medicine offers the highest quality continual healthcare in the world today.
The mission of CCIM is to help patients restore optimal and physiologic and psycho-spiritual functioning by resolving chronic inflammation, creating dynamic clinical support systems, and by providing the highest quality integrative medical service available today.
Our philosophy is inherently universalist: we acknowledge the mutally interdependent and inter-connected systems of the body, of the human heart, of the species, and of the planet.
Dr DV is dual board certified in internal medicine and integrative medicine. He is licensed to practiced medicine in California and Maryland. As a result of his work with CCIM, Dr DV was named “Top Internist and Integrative Medicine Specialist” in Maryland in 2013, and among the “Top 10 Holistic Doctors” in Los Angeles in 2015.
I have significantly increased muscle mass, tone, flexibility and strength, and am leaner and in better shape than I have ever been, and have increased confidence as well! Working with Dr. DV in the SCULPT program provided me with the right tools, support and medical foundation that expertly fit together all the interlocking pieces to succeed. Dr DV’s deep-level, detailed diagnoses and solutions, and his ongoing meticulous and caring attention was effective to reverse physiological imbalances that were limiting me and causing deteriorating health, and then continued to support me to take the next steps to lose weight, tone my muscles, build strength and achieve overall good health. I am really enjoying the program and the results! -Nantz Rickard Washington, DC 12/22/15
