Dr. Hampton of Arizona Prohealth in Gilbert, AZ has developed a unique and exclusive treatment strategy called IDNS, Identify, Detoxify, Nutrify, Stand by. The third part of IDNS is all about nutrition.

Nutrition is the foundation upon which the entire human organism is built. Generally, good nutrition equals strength and poor nutrition equals weakness. Attempting to build a strong body with poor nutrition is similar to building a house upon a foundation of sand.

The leading nutritional problem in the United States is that people consume far too much of the foods that lack quality nutrients and contain far too many chemicals. Examples include but are not limited to the majority of fast foods, processed foods and many frozen foods.

The excessive consumption of fast foods, processed foods and frozen foods is often referred to as the Standard American Diet (SAD). Although people generally eat plenty of food, it is usually not the kind of food that builds strong bones, provides energy and stimulates a vital immune system.

Many studies have concluded that nearly two thirds of an average American’s diet is composed of unhealthy fats and refined sugars that have minimal or no nutritional value. These dietary habits contribute to nutrient deficiencies even though people are eating more than enough food. The SAD
has been routinely cited by numerous researchers and studies since the 1960’s as a contributing and frequently causative factor in a variety of “killer diseases” including cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and cancer, just to name a few.

Most doctors typically only recognize severe nutritional deficiencies such as Beriberi (Vitamin B1), Pellegra (B3/Niacin), Scurvy (Vitamin C), or Rickets (Vitamin D). Fortunately these severe deficiencies are less common today, however, even mild to moderate nutrient deficiencies can be problematic, the symptoms of which may often be subtle, overlapping and greatly varied.

Many times the symptoms of nutritional deficiencies are mistaken as being a normal part of the aging process. However, many symptoms are actually subtle signs that can be responsive to nutrient supplementation and dietary modification.

For example, the symptoms of a B Vitamin deficiency include, insomnia, moods swings, depression, anxiety and fatigue. Oral forms of B Vitamins can be effective in the majority of cases, however most people respond much quicker to the use of intravenous infusions of vitamins that rapidly increase levels of this and other nutrients in the body.

Your specific levels of vitamins, minerals and amino acids can be measured using sophisticated laboratory tests which can help to replenish deficiencies while monitoring treatment progress.

The father of medicine, Hippocrates, is credited with the quote “Let Food Be Thy Medicine and Let Medicine Be Thy Food”. Those were and still are very simple yet profound words.

Everything we put into our mouth in the form of food and drink, including drugs and nutritional supplements, results in changes to our biochemistry and physiology that will either contribute to health or disease.

In today’s fast paced modern lifestyle laden with convenient, preserved, chemical rich food and drink, the need has never been greater to carefully examine the impact our dietary choices have upon our health.

Numerous complex, chronic and difficult cases can begin to resolve be merely supplying the body with the nutrients it so desperately needs. Attempting to restore health and treat illness without addressing one’s nutritional status is similar to expecting high performance from your car’s engine using watered down gasoline. Nutrition is simply that important.

What is Naturopathic Medicine? It is alternative, integrative and scientific natural medicine. It is a medical speciality that combines the wisdom of the past with the science of the present to deliver the medicine of the future, today.

Naturopathic physicians are primary care providers in the state of Arizona and are the highest trained physicians in the United States in integrative, natural and alternative medicine.

Naturopathic medical education and curriculum is comparable to that offered at John Hopkins, Yale and Stanford. A four year undergraduate degree is required for admittance to an accredited four year graduate level medical school, leading to the degree of Naturopathic Medical Doctor (NMD).

Course work includes but is not limited to the following:

Basic & Clinical Sciences: anatomy, physiology, cell biology, histology, biochemistry, pharmacology, pathology, lab diagnosis, genetics, epidemiology, public health, medical history and philosophy, and ethic.

Clerkships & Allopathic Therapeutics: dermatology, family medicine, psychiatric medicine and counseling, radiology, pediatrics, obstetrics, gynecology, neurology, minor surgery, pulmonology, cardiology, opthamology, gynecology, rheumatology, endocrinology, and clinical electives.

Naturopathic Therapeutics: clinical nutrition, detoxification, intravenous therapy, botanical medicine, homeopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, colon hydrotherapy, physical/manipulative therapy, Ayurvedic medicine, acupuncture, immunotherapy, and clinical electives.

Naturopathic medical doctors receive over 250 hours of education in therapeutic and clinical nutrition while conventional medical doctors receive little to none.

There are six principles upon which the foundation of naturopathic medicine is built.

1. Vis Medicatrix Naturae (the healing power of nature). The human body has considerable power to heal itself. The role of the naturopathic physician is to facilitate that natural process with the aid of safe, natural and non-toxic therapies.

2. Tolle Causum (treat the cause): Naturopathic physicians seek the underlying cause of illness or disease rather than merely suppressing symptoms. We generally avoid suppression of the natural healing wisdom of the body. Symptoms are viewed as expressions of the body’s natural attempt to heal itself as causes can originate from the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels.

3. Primum Non Nocere’ (first do no harm): By employing safe and effective natural therapies, naturopathic physicians are strongly committed to the principle of causing no harm to the patient.

4. Tolle Totum (treat the whole person): each individual is viewed as as whole, comprised of a complex amalgamation of physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, social and other factors. This multifaceted philosophy results in a therapeutic approach in which no disease is automatically viewed as incurable.

5. Prevanarae (prevention is the best medicine): Naturopathic physicians are preventative medicine specialists. Prevention of illness and disease are accomplished through education and the promotion of lifestyle and behaviors that support health while preventing disease.

6. Docere’ (doctor as teacher): The word doctor is derived from the Latin word Docere’, which literally means “to teach”. Naturopathic physicians are first and foremost teachers who educate, empower and motivate the patient to assume more personal responsibility for his or her health by adopting and maintaining a healthy attitude, lifestyle and diet.

Naturopathic medicine is exceptionally beneficial when used alone. But under certain circumstances, it can be improved upon when combined wisely with homeopathic and conventional medical techniques.

The continual increase in popularity of natural medicine is growing proof that the public is desperately seeking options to the standard and customary conventional medical and pharmaceutical approach. Naturopathic medicine is a strong option and and a logical solution to many of the ills that ails our population.

Conventional medicine is also known as allopathic, orthodox, regular and reactive medicine. It is best suited for crisis management, emergency medicine and the short term management of serious symptoms. Unfortunately, it is not technically “health” care at all, rather it is “disease” care.

Conventional medicine is the type of medicine that is promoted and utilized by the majority of the physicians and hospitals in this country. It is a system of medicine in which the use of technology, pharmaceutical drugs and surgical procedures prevail. It is a system of medicine that has introduced spectacular life saving techniques and medications to an ailing population.

The advances is these areas have been nothing short of miraculous. In fact, conventional medicine in the United States is clearly the best in the world when it comes to crisis management and emergency medicine. The use of synthetic, prescription medication is clearly needed, highly beneficial and even life saving in many circumstances.

While the use of medication is very helpful for many conditions, my professional clinical experience has clearly revealed that the long term use of drugs is in most cases, simply not necessary. Generally speaking, most drugs suppress or block normal biochemical processes from occurring which is the primary reason so many drugs have negative side effects. The severity of those side effects range from mild to severe, vary from drug to drug and are often dose dependent.

Whenever a prescription is written, every doctor should consider the risk/benefit ratio of each
drug and for each condition, while also taking into consideration the interaction of multiple drugs when prescribed together. Regardless of the so called “safety” profile of each drug.

For example, a common problem with cholesterol lowering drugs (statins) is that they impair the liver’s ability to detoxify properly. Another problem is that the statin drugs deplete from the body a very important nutrient and anti-oxidant known as CoQ10. This nutrient is vital for many physiological functions and is especially beneficial for heart health.

If you are taking a statin drug, it is strongly recommended that you also consider taking CoQ10 to avoid a deficiency of this very important nutrient. The drug companies have known about this for a long time so it comes as no surprise that they have recently introduced a statin drug that contains CoQ10!

This is only one of many, many examples that could be listed, however the main point is that prescription medication is not without it’s problems. Additionally, it is equally important to understand that safe and effective options exist for the treatment of the majority of disease and illness that afflicts humanity.

Did you know that plant sterols work as well as statins in lowering total cholesterol and LDL while increasing HDL without harming the liver and without depleting COQ10?

It is well known that conventional medicine does little to address the underlying reasons for disease and illness and that medication only provides symptomatic relief. The problem is that it is also well known that disease and illness are not caused by a lack of medication!

Conventional medicine is valuable and will always be needed. However, in order to optimize the health of the population while reducing medical expenses, conventional medicine will be required to adopt the philosophy and practice of scientific naturopathic medicine.

This would involve the true integration of the best therapies and treatments from the conventional, homeopathic and naturopathic medical models. This approach places emphasis upon what is best for the patient in terms of assisting them to prevent disease, treat illness and improve health.

Your conventional doctor is surely doing the best they can with the knowledge provided to them in medical school. They have been taught to treat symptoms of disease and illness with little knowledge about how to prevent disease or improve health without medication.

Most doctors do not know about alternative treatments and likely would not tell you about them if they did.

All I’m suggesting is that you educate and inform yourself about the risks and benefits of all treatments in order for you to have the ability to make a more informed and educated decision about what you choose to put into your body.

You might be surprised to learn that those medications you have been taking may not be as necessary as you previously thought.

Conventional medicine is disease medicine, which is truly valuable and needed, but health has a much broader definition than the mere absence of disease.

Dr. Eric Hampton

Fatigue is one the most common reasons people visit a physician, and fibromyalgia (FM) isn’t far behind. FM often has associated fatigue but is especially associated with body aches and pains from unknown origins. The exact causes of FM remain under debate, however my professional experience has revealed that there are three primary causative factors.

1. Stress
2. Toxicity
3. Lack of Nutrition

Excessive and poorly managed stress results in an accumulation of epinephrine and norepinephrine, collectively known as adrenaline. If the adrenaline is not sufficiently metabolized it gets deposited within joint spaces and the fibrous sheathes surrounding muscles. Adrenaline looks like shards of glass under the microscope and it’s these sharp edges that can cause pain.

Toxicity results from living in our modern, technological world with it’s abundance of fake food, chemicals and polluted air and water just to name a few. We are organic humans being forced to live within an ever increasingly inorganic environment. As a result, our organs of elimination, the lungs, skin, liver, kidneys and colon become heavily burdened while trying to effectively eliminate all the toxins we are all exposed to each and every day. When the accumulation of toxins exceeds the rate at which our bodies can eliminate them, Ill health can result, and fatigue and FM are frequently the first clues.

The Standard American Diet (SAD), composed of genetically modified ingredients, countless chemicals, too much sugar and not nearly enough vitamins, minerals, amino acids and essential fatty acids is simply making everyone sick!

So short of quitting your job and moving to a pristine island in the pacific eating what grows on the land, what is one to do to combat all this fatigue and chronic body pain known as fibromyalgia?

Consider Intravenous Therapy. The administration of specific substances directly into your blood stream delivers much needed nutrients directly into your cells allowing them to function in the manner in which they were designed. Minus the stress, toxicity and nutrient deficiencies.

B Vitamins can alleviate stress. Glutathione and EDTA can remove toxic elements, including excess adrenaline. And a variety of nutrients can feed and nourish your tissues, organs and glands, allowing your body to regenerate and rejuvenate.

Simply put, IV Therapy can reduce and eliminate fatigue and fibromyalgia in a manner that few other therapies can. If you have tried other therapies with minimal results and are frustrated with your lack of progress, you might give IV Therapy a try. It just might be the best decision you have ever made!

Call Dr. Hampton at 480-831-7970 for additional information.

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The United States of America does not have a true health care system. If it did, the incidence of chronic disease would be steadily decreasing. If it did, the use of prescription medication would be on the decline.

The fact is, our poorly named health care system is in reality a disease care system. It is focused primarily upon the treatment of signs and symptoms without any attention being provided toward the development and maintenance of health.

This system is a proverbial cash cow as profits are gained not from health, but from disease, illness and infirmity. The USA has the most expensive medical system on earth yet ranks 77th in the world in the health of its population. The reason is simple. A healthy population does not generate revenue. Profits would dry up if people began experiencing a legitimate level of health that would dramatically reduce the need for expensive medical care and treatments.

While disease care will always be required, a shift in perspective is necessary if we are to realize real health care. This shift will require physicians and other providers to begin thinking less like mechanics and more like gardeners. Disease and illness are not caused by a lack of medication. A headache is not caused by a Tylenol deficiency. High blood pressure is not caused by a beta-blocker deficiency and you don’t get arthritis because you don’t have enough NSAID’s in your body!

True health care addresses the cause of illness and disease and treats accordingly. The health of your “soil”, which is composed of your tissues, organs, glands and blood, is of utmost importance in the treatment of any condition. Ignoring your soil is equivalent to expecting your tomatoes to grow in the absence of adequate sunshine, water and maintenance. 

As long as doctors continue to treat chronic illness like mechanics, health care will continue to suck! And the health of the population will only follow suit. Health care would rule if doctors took lessons from the gardeners of the world.

Yours in Health,

Dr. Eric Hampton

Disease and illness are not caused by a lack or deficiency of prescription medication! In most cases, the long term use of medication is simply not necessary provided one is willing and able to do what is necessary. 1) Work first to Identify the root cause of your condition. 2) We must Nutrify your body with the necessary and frequently deficient nutrients. 3) Detoxify, or remove from your body that which does not belong. 4) Stand By! Once the first three steps have been accomplished, we can all sit back and allow Nature to bring your body back onto the path toward health. IDNS. Simple!!!

What do asthma, allergies, high blood pressure, anxiety, arthritis, fatigue, insomnia, pain and other conditions all have in common?

They are the red light that shine on the instrument panel to alert you of a malfunction in your car. Instead of treating the light, treat the REASON it came on!

Come join the discussion in this first of a series of interactive presentations designed to explore the systems of your body while empowering you to actively listen and understand your body’s own unique language.

Presented by Dr. Eric R. Hampton, founder and medical director of Arizona Prohealth, LLC.

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
6:00 – 7:30 pm

1400 N. Gilbert Rd., Suite P, Gilbert, AZ 85234

Seating is Limited, please RSVP at 480-831-7970.

The following post has been recreated from an article written by Angela Gonzales and published in the Phoenix Business Journal on 3-4-11.

Despite the closure of sick child care centers at two Valley hospitals, a Gilbert doctor is venturing into the business and plans to franchise the concept nationally.

Dr. Eric Hampton, founder and medical director of Arizona Prohealth, LLC, opened his second Sick Child Day Care center this week. The first opened in January.

Pro-Kids, Get Well Child Care centers, may be the only facilities in Arizona that meet the needs of working parents whose children become ill, Hampton said.

John C. Lincoln Hospital-Deer Valley closed its Wee Care program two years ago for lack of volume, said Kathy Northrop, director of pediatric services at the hospital.

Chandler Regional Medical Center closed its sick child care facility last June after 12 years of operation, said hospital spokeswoman Danielle LeBlanc. She declined to comment further about Chandler Regional’s Sick Kid Care program.

Hampton said the hospital services struggled because of the relatively low number of sick kids using them. He said his business model is unique in that he created joint venture agreements with existing day care and preschool facilities.

His Pro-Kids, Get Well Child Care centers are located inside the Maxwell Preschool Academies in Mesa and Chandler. The centers accept children ages 6 weeks to 15 years suffering mild to moderate illnesses such as cold, stomach flu, bronchitis, strep throat, pink eye and ear infections.

Hampton said he would like to have five centers open by year end and double or triple that number by the end of 2012.

“The long term goal is to franchise this model,” he said. “We are already investigating options in that respect to take it statewide and continue throughout the Southwest.”

Connect with Angela Gonzales at agonzales@bizjournals.com or on twitter at @AngelaMGonzales.

Dr. Eric Hampton, founder and medical director of Arizona Prohealth, was invited on CBS channel 5 to discuss Sick Child Day Care. Dr. Hampton was interviewed by Nicole Crites, Phoenix anchor/reporter at KPHO and host of the morning news segment called MOMsters. During the segment Dr. Hampton talked about his program called
Pro-Kids, Get Well Child Care, it’s origin and benefits for all working parents and their employers.

To learn more about Dr. Hampton’s unique program, click the “Sick Child Day Care” link on his website at www.azprohealth.com. You can also watch the interview by clicking on ‘Media Coverage”. Call Arizona Prohealth for more direct and specific information at 480-831-7970.