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Integrated Medicine at the Highest Level
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Powerful through precision… better by design…
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The Spitfire of Medicine
As a consumer you know that the latest version of a product is usually more advanced than the previous versions. For example, today's computers are vastly superior to the computers of the 80's, 90's or even last month's!
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 But we have been a little intrigued about something…. When you get to the 'bare bones' of the situation, the development of Integrated Medicine hasn't really progressed at quite the same rate as other things, such as PCs - or, let's face it, surgery.
We wondered why not… How could it be that all the amazing advancements in science and diagnostics could have 'by-passed' the Integrated Medicine cooking pot?
All the exciting research papers - libraries packed full with volumes of information about the human body and diseases - lab testing, scanning, technological advances, home equipment…
Surely some of it must be of value in Integrated Medicine? (Or, indeed, complementary medicine…).
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From 'Spitfire' to 'Concorde'
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 After all, isn't this the way of other 'evolutions'? Like 'keyhole surgery' for example - fast, straight to the point of need, patient in/out and happy, doctor very happy - great results, less complications - resource manager also happy…
We wondered about this… and decided to do something about it. Why don't we, we thought, develop new Integrated Medicine (IM) models which work with much greater precision, have more 'reach', create more impact, and get better results in shorter timeframes…
Why not create new Integrated Medicine models that meet these criteria - get IM 'to catch up' with mainstream medicine - and then enrich these models with under-utilised science…
So that is what we did… We have developed what we believe are exciting openings in Integrated Medicine, with big advancements and the best opportunities for your health and well-being.
In summary, from the starting point of Integrated Medicine we went on to develop:
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Precision Integrated Medicine
Constitutional Medicine
Syncro-medicine™
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More on these in just a second…
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From creation to dissemination
Our focus is the general public. Our inspiration is every individual who is not at 100% - or who is at 100% and really would like to stay there. So we don't just want it to be us who can provide all this wonderful medicine to you…
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 We make our work available to other health practitioners through seminars and trainings - live and, shortly, online - knowing that they can each take our insights and 'make them meaningful' to you in their own clinics.
We have even set up a professional association - The International Association of Transformational Change (www.IATC-net.org) - to inform public choices regarding the selection of professionals practicing these well-founded new approaches to your health.
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 We will shortly also be setting up online systems that will provide you - 'the health consumer' - with your own 'living room' (or office) access to this amazing new system of Integrated Medicine, helping you choose what to do, who to see and why…
It is our aim to provide you with insights and information that have never before been available to you in this way… helping you address your own health issues - in conjunction with your own medical doctor - through a brand new system of diagnostics, creating fresh opportunities, opening often-closed doors ….
In the meantime, this is our story:
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Better by design
Here is how we have developed our work. Each stage of development has been designed very deliberately - with great focus and clarity of mission - to give you the best prospects for securing and 'growing' your health.
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We started with 'Integrated Medicine' as it stood. This has been available for many years. It combines both mainstream medicine and complementary (CAM) approaches. This means that integrated medicine can be significantly more effective than when either mainstream or complementary medicine is used separately.
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But we felt that there was more….
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Integrated medicine tends to focus on the 'condition', the ailment itself in a fairly unsophisticated system of 'add-ons'.
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It goes:
'Take X (something medical) for these symptoms.
Y (something complementary) is also good for these symptoms - take/do that too'.
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Sometimes someone has researched whether taking X + Y is better than taking just X or just Y alone.
But often that research has not yet been done.
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So Integrated Medicine, as it usually stands, generally does NOT consider:
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- why, biologically, a given person
- has developed their given presentation
- and whether there is anything about that individual
- which may give more 'leverage'
- with the treatment protocol of that specific condition
- in that specific patient.
So we took the next stride forward:
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Precision Integrated Medicine
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From these 'summary observations', we decided that the next logical step would be a new Integrated Medicine system that focused more on the individual with the condition, rather than just on treatment options for the condition itself.
Precision Integrated Medicine asks lots of questions about the particular person with the condition - and looks at many individual factors that might influence the outcome of treatment…
In Precision IM, the condition is still the key driver (unlike Constitutional Medicine). But treatment selection is very precise for the individual.
So we look at how conditions arise and what favours a good outcome. We start from scratch looking at the precise pathways involved and working out factor by factor what governs a 'good prognosis' in a given disease.
This adds great sophistication to the selection of treatment approaches…
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| For example in standard Integrated Medicine some specialist 'cancer' doctors may recommend 'antioxidants' before, during or after chemotherapy. Now there is a lot of debate about using these substances alongside mainstream anti-cancer medicine…
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| In Precision IM we would look at how the particular cancer that a person has comes about. We then look at that person as an individual and work out precisely 'where they are' and precisely where we 'think they should be' - given all available science - to get the best possible results for them. |
| Then we work out precisely how to get them - as an individual - from one place to another. We look at how each anti-oxidant works and decide whether they may add value - or whether they may not. We also look at the exact mainstream anti-cancer agents that the person is on and find out exactly which anti-oxidants may have greatest benefit, if any, and why. |
| We work all this out from the raw science and all relevant treatment data. And we consider what would be the best timing for that individual for this or other approaches given their mainstream medicine programme. |
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So Precision IM looks at an individual with a given condition and predicts on an individual by individual basis:
- Precise combinations:
the best, precise combination of treatment approaches
- Minimum time:
how to get the greatest possible results in the shortest time
- Most effective protocol:
the precise order and sequence for using the different
treatment modalities selected for maximum impact
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Which means that we can devise a treatment programme precisely for YOU.
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 To do this we have to read copious amounts of science and work out, afresh, what 'it is saying' for any condition we work with.
We have to build a very clear picture about how a particular condition actually develops - and what factors stack the odds in favour of it resolving, in a given individual.
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Then we ask: 'In this individual, what precisely do we need to change? Why? When? What with?'…
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During our exploration we realised that there are also subtle nuances that make the very same condition really quite different in different individuals... This research has added huge value in fine-tuning our diagnostic work with an individual…
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And in seeking to make treatment protocols maximally effective, Dr Concorde also started to understand how many therapies - for example in complementary medicine - actually work. All founded on that wealth of science sitting in our libraries…
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This led her to be able develop the next step forward:
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Constitutional Medicine
Constitutional Medicine is the next step on from Precision Integrated Medicine - but it also includes Precision IM.
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This is because in Constitutional Medicine we look at, and work with:
- The condition (like in Integrated Medicine) +
- The person with the condition (as in Precision Integrated Medicine) +
- The person's 'constitution' (Constitutional Medicine)
So we look at your presenting issue, ailment or diagnosed disease AND we look at your entire human-being/human-body system. Here's an example:
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| Look at the problem of a mouldy wall in a house (the condition). The mould can be managed by applying various anti-fungal agents (the equivalent of the mainstream medicine/pharmaceutical approach). |
| However 'constitutionally' we would look at all and any factors which could possibly favour the growth of the mould…. |
| Why is it there, what are all the possible factors that could be making this a damp wall, why this wall and not the one opposite, why this house and not next door - and all relevant environmental factors…. |
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| … so at the same time as treating the mould with anti-fungals to manage the 'condition', we would also tackle everything from the roof downwards, including the ventilation, the water system, the damp-proofing, the heating, the foundations of the house…. |
| We know that if we address every possible angle that could in any way influence the risk of damp and the growth of mould, we have the best chance of clawing back and preventing further occurrence. |
| However in the process our aim is to make the house generally more robust and weather-proof, not just to fix the problem. |
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In Constitutional Medicine the same applies to the individual. And the scope of variables for any given condition is vast… given all the possible variations from one individual to the next…
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There is a really key and really new concept to treatment approaches based in Constitutional Medicine.
We are not actually looking to fix things as such….
We are looking to make an individual 'totally sound' in the way that is most likely to 'collapse' the problem, or at least that is most likely to minimise the risks of very serious consequences to any given disease.
And so in Constitutional Medicine we are aiming to create 'robustness', - the exact psychological and biological robustness that is most likely to lead to:
'Presentation negation'
Where we are aiming to 'create' the very sort of biological health and well-being that will 'cancel out' the problem that the individual starts out with (where possible) …
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'Psycho-biological minimisation' '
Where we are aiming to 'create' the very sort of biological health and well-being that gives the individual the best possible chance of NOT getting the most serious consequences of a given disease - or which stops the disease progressing.
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This all requires a tremendous amount of specialist thinking and science. In fact Constitutional Medicine includes volumes of research into all these 'constitutional fields':
- Around you factors:
numerous environmental, nutritional, lifestyle and ecological considerations
- Stresses:
a new understanding of stress and the biology that creates the consequences of stress
- Medicine:
a specialist knowledge of medicine and a thorough understanding of medical specialties
- The basis of body 'normality' and 'abnormality':
an advanced understanding of bio-physiology (the workings of the various organs, system and cells of the body), pathology (what's wrong in a given disease) and pathogenesis (how a disease comes about, biologically)
- Human-being/human-body systems:
a scientific and clinical understanding of every level of the human-being/human-body system and the possible contribution of each dimension to disease: mind to molecule, spirituality to cell.
What this means for you is that there is now spectacular promise for the prevention and treatment of some of the most stubborn symptoms, conditions and presentations yet known…….
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And yet: we haven't even stopped there!
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Syncro-medicine™
Syncro-medicine™ is the most advanced, multi-disciplinary and specialist form of Constitutional Medicine and so it provides you with the highest level of healthcare that we have developed.
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We created Syncro-medicine™ to provide each of us concerned with our own health and well-being with a way to get the biggest possible gains in increased health and enhanced 'biological robustness' in the shortest time through the smallest changes.
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 How could this be possible?
Many biological pathways of the mind and body (and indeed 'mind to body') 'inter-connect' - they communicate with each other and work together, synchronously (ie at the same time).
This is part of the wonderful design of the human body. It has a system of 'biological cascades' which ensures that 'everything about the body' is 'working to the same agenda' at any one time - as in any great organisation!
This allows quite small adjustments - often 'high up' in the head - to have a big effect on how the body is working. This is the basis of Specialist Mind' Body Medicine.
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Alex Concorde thought it would be essential to have a clear understanding of the 'touch-points' which we should aim to work with to get the biggest impact in the shortest time for an individual.
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 This was not just for speed. Many people who are unwell have very low biological (and indeed mental) resources, and so there is not much 'money in the bank' to waste on 'biological inefficiencies' through un-informed approaches when working with a sick person….
She was looking for the smallest of changes which would create the most profound, powerful and lasting positive impact - at least 'cost' to the individual.
She decided to make the most of the body's natural 'biological cascades' and created a sort of 'domino effect medicine' - or Syncro-medicine - whereby by changing one thing, many things might change.
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The other really important concern here is that we needed to develop a new understanding of the contribution of every single aspect of science involved in people's health and well-being…. ('Medicine for the Integrated Person').
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 And we needed to work out how these various factors operate in and around any given individual - how they all 'work' and contribute to that person's pathology, synchronously ('The Thinking Behind Syncro-medicine').
This is because many of symptoms, conditions and diseases which have typically been outside of the easy reach of medicine, psychiatry, psychotherapy and complementary therapy are, it seems, due to imbalances in these synchronous systems.
So we have worked out the pathways and interfaces involved in the biological systems that relate to any particular individual in their given presentation - given their own profile, backdrop and their own life experiences.
And we looked at how to work with these contributory factors, knowing that they often interface somehow and that if one thing changes many things may change…
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What this means is that we now have numerous potent targets for preventing or treating disease - key 'touch points' for creating massive positive impact wherever possible by working at the highest levels of 'biological cascades' relevant in any given individual's presentation.
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IBI (Individual-by-Individual) Medicine is an advanced new form of specialist medicine which works because we look extensively - medically and scientifically - at what is creating your very own individual presentation.
We then use precision, constitutional, syncro-medicine and other approaches to 'unstick' stubborn imbalances... and then we 'backtrack' your condition by creating the equal and opposite biological 'pull' to reverse the very mind and/or body imbalances that made you ill in the first place.
As we say, this is a whole new approach with the clear focus of making medical sciences really work for YOU in a brand new way....
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Even better, the benefits go yet further…….
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 Benefits for the pharmaceutical industry…
It also seems that our work increases the efficacy of pharmaceutical preparations.
As we are working with the biological dimensions which create 'background noise' when drugs operate in the human body, it appears that we may be able to get rid of variables that adversely influence the biological outcome of prescribed medicines.
While these are as yet preliminary findings, we are developing systems that we believe will enhance the effectiveness of pharmaceutics when these are appropriately prescribed to individuals in the management of their condition.
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 Benefits for CAM…
And at the other end of the spectrum our insights and understanding, scientific formulae and systems are allowing us to create opportunities for a more sophisticated and individualised assessment of the effectiveness of CAM approaches.
This is important because many CAM approaches may work in a generalised way. What has largely been missing is the availability of scientific systems that assess the efficacy of singular and combined CAM approaches on an individual-by-individual basis.
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We believe that our work will lead to the development of enhanced levels of CAM specialisation and reproducibility which are much-needed in order to appropriately advance health options.
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