Vitamin D
In this video, Lucinda Messer spends about 30 minutes speaking on "Vitamin D" at the 41st Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Lucinda Messer
DR. LUCINDA MESSER, N.D. graduated from Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington with her Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine in 1994. She spent much of her Clinical Internship with chronically ill patients, particularly those with HIV. She earned her board certification in Family Medicine in 1996 while fulfilling a Residency Program at the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in Scottsdale, Arizona. She has also earned her Diplomate in Antiaging Medicine through the American Academy of Antiaging and Restorative Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.
In 2005, she began researching the effects of sunshine (Vitamin D) and health, and she noticed (personally) as a Clinician, that in general, there seemed to be less chronic illness in the Southwest vs. the Northwest. This led to her writing her book on Vitamin D and its effect on chronic illness, particularly cancer. Her book Powerful Medicine, Vitamin D, Shedding Light On A Worldwide Health Crisis.
The research rekindled her passion for helping patients with chronic illness. She decided in 2007 to earn her Fellowship in Integrative Cancer Therapies. She also trained with the Gerson Institute to become a Certified Gerson Practitioner.
With all the eclectic training and research she has acquired, she has integrated this knowledge into her practice in the Seattle Area. She practices Integrative Oncology with a Naturopathic twist. She combines cutting edge therapies with time-tested remedies to help the body heal from cancers and other chronic illness. She has recently developed a cancer coaching program to help reach the masses of patients that would otherwise not be helped. With blood and genetic tests, she has been able to create highly individualized diets, nutrient therapies and other targeted treatments for cancer patients.
Dr. Messer may be contacted through her Clinic called Pacific Health Restoration located in Kirkland, Washington by phone 425-827-9770 and website www.drlucinda.com.
Transcription
Good morning, everybody. I'm really proud to be here. I love, absolutely love this convention. One of my favorites and I was going to actually start by explaining the path I've been on the last 20 years that graduate from best year nineteen ninety four. I've seen chronic disease patients for many, many years being a natural path. Usually we attracts that. We track that to our practice. What happened to me was that about 10 years into my practicing family practice and samandar aging patients, I started noticing patients in our neck of the woods, which is Seattle in the northwest.
We're particularly sick, sicker than the average. And I was able to compare this because I did a residency down in the Southwest when I lived. But I live in Scottsdale.
I worked as a resident in Southwest College there and started a practice in Arizona. And for a couple of years to three years, you know, people came in with general acute infections. But the epidemic of cancer and rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune disease was much less. So when I came back up to the Northwest 97 and started a practice there and became it started attracting all these sick patients, even in their 20s and 30s, I started the search for the cause. What happened was I am realizing that it was dark all the time, that I started searching for the vitamin D, the not the vitamin D or the sunshine, which I was sure it was sunshine had no clue that it was vitamin D at that point, thinking it was must be serotonin. Why are people so sick here and not a sick in the southwest? I was quite sure at that point. It was just that the lack of limited, limited amount of light coming in through our retinas causing us to be sick. Well, when I searched and had my coauthor search, we we unearth a plethora of information of research that was done in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, but it was all hidden under the rug of research and not well-known to people. Doctor, my colleague back in the 70s and 80s had been had wrote his first book on UVB light. I forgot the name of it, which expounded on the effects of vitamin D. And so when we started our research, we found his stuff. And what we really wanted to do was to wake up this information and again allow everybody to see this research. Also, all the news that research was that had been done in the last 20 years was also put into my book. So we have an incredible amount of information and bibliography