Non-Toxic, IV Therapies
In this video, Jennifer Wicher spends about 19 minutes speaking on "Non-Toxic, IV Therapies" at the 45th Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Jennifer Wicher
JENNIFER WICHER, N.D. P.T. is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor and the Medical Director of Synergy Natural Medicine Clinic. She has worked in private practice at Synergy since 2003. Dr. Wicher maintains a general medical practice and is a leading expert in the use of diet, nutrition, supplementation and a wide variety of holistic therapies to treat many different health problems. Her combined experience work in both the standard medical system, and as a Naturopathic Doctor, provides her with tremendous insight into effectively treating her patients’ health problems.
Prior to opening Synergy, Dr. Wicher worked for more than 10 years as a physical therapist and athletic trainer in a wide variety of healthcare settings – from hospitals to nursing homes and rehabilitation centers. Her experience working in the conventional health care system, learning both its strengths and weaknesses, convinced Dr. Wicher to attend Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine – where she was valedictorian of her class in 2002. In 2003, she moved back to California and opened Synergy Natural Medicine Clinic.
In addition to her private practice, Dr. Wicher was an adjunct professor at the USC School of Pharmacy from 2005 through 2007 and had the pleasure of teaching Pharmacy students about Nutrition and Naturopathic Medicine. In her free time, Dr. Wicher lectures on preventive medicine, nutrition and other various health topics in a variety of venues in Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley in California.
From her previous work as a Physical Therapist, Dr. Wicher has a special interest in rehabilitation programs for patients who are recovering from Surgery, both Orthopedic Surgery and General Surgery. By minimizing inflammation and enhancing the body’s natural recovery processes from the trauma of Surgery, she has helped many patients recover quicker from Surgery, with far less pain and better long term prognosis.
Dr. Wicher may be contacted at her Synergy Clinic by phone 626-303-3300.
Transcription
Hello. Good afternoon, everyone. Hopefully you all had a delicious lunch and are ready to hear an interesting topic today.
We're talking about nontoxic, nontoxic, toxic I.V. therapies for oncology patients. Thank you for the introduction, Frank. I'm just going to give you a few more words about myself before we get started. I graduated from Southwest College, a natural product medicine, in 2002. I started Cinergy Naturopathic Medicine in 2003. And I've been practicing at the same location in Monrovia ever since then. Prior to that, I have been a least licensed physical therapist graduating from the University of Buffalo in 1993. So between my L.O. pathic background and my naturopathic background, I decided to come up with a name Synergy, since it kind of combines the best of both worlds together. And that's kind of how I practice at my clinic. I'm not sure if everyone knows what natural pathic doctors are. We're only licensed in about 20 states right now, but hopefully one day that will change and we'll be licensed in all states in this country. But we are primary care doctors who use the best of both worlds. So both traditional medical therapy is standard allopathic medicine, combined with natural healing methods. At Cinergy, we focus on the whole person in treating our oncology patients holistically, not just treating one of their symptoms or treating a particular disorder, but the whole person. So we feel if you have cancer, whether it's me or somebody else, you should always have an a natural pathic doctor on your team.
Just some background here as a doctor working with oncology patients. We have certain goals in mind when our patients come in to see us. And our primary goals and most of them are actually going through standard conventional therapies. So we want to try to improve their survival rates in length of survival by strengthening not only their immune system, but supporting other bodily systems as well. We want to enhance whatever standard conventional therapy they're going through and address risk factors that might be associated with poorer outcomes. Of course, we also want to improve their quality of life by mitigating or decreasing the side effects associated with the cancer progression. And most standard cancer therapies, even though we use certain I.V. therapies in our practice that do create oxidative damage to cancer cells. We like to use the term cytotoxic to describe the body's ability to fight cancer by creating a more cytotoxic environment in less hospitable environment for the cancer in the body. We don't use or prescribed substances that are directly cytotoxic to cancer cells. That is chemotherapy and that is reserved for