Bio

Dr. Anderson is a recognized educator and clinician in integrative and naturopathic medicine with a focus on complex infectious, chronic, and oncologic illness. Former positions include multiple medical school posts, Professor of Pharmacology and Clinical Medicine at Bastyr University and Chief of IV Services for Bastyr Oncology Research Center.  He founded Advanced Medical Therapies in Seattle, Washington, a clinic focusing on cancer and chronic diseases. Dr Anderson now focuses his time in collaboration with clinics and hospitals in the US and other countries. In addition to three decades of clinical experience, he also was head of the interventional arm of a US-NIH (national institute of health) funded human research trial using IV and integrative therapies in cancer patients.

Dr Anderson has also co-authored “Outside the Box Cancer Therapies” with Dr Mark Stengler and “Success Breakthroughs” with Jack Canfield (published through Hay house books). He is the co author of “A scientific Reference for Intravenous Nutrient Therapy” with Dr’s Osborne and Carter.  His most recent book published by lionscrest publishing is “Cancer, The Journey from Diagnosis to Empowerment”

He is a frequent Continuing Medical Education (CME) speaker and writer, and has extended his educational outreach creating an online Continuing Education website “ConsultDrA.com”. Dr Anderson also founded Advanced Applications in Medical Practice (AAMP) conferences. AAMP mission is to elevate physicians to a higher level of theoretical understanding and clinical application, for the wellbeing and improvement of their patients’ health. AAMP offers two unparalleled conferences a year delivering real tangible value to those health care professionals and vendors who become part of this community.

Most Importantly Dr Anderson is kind, extremely generous and continues to find ways to share his passion for organizing, interpreting and understanding the complexity of dis-ease in the human body.

**Note: As Dr A regularly says, “I am a doctor, but it's unlikely I'm your doctor”, so please recognize that this podcast is for educational purposes only and the information provided herein is not a substitute for individualized medical care, nor a substitute for diagnosis or treatment by a medical professional.

Show Notes

Wow… this episode is a complex, deep, and fast dive into the biochemical soup that we’ve all been swimming in for the past few years. It considers the multiple variables that may be contributing to the increased incidence of neurological, and endocrine, disorders primarily showing up and being labelled as the “Mental Health Crisis”. 

“So a lot of it first is knowing that this is a biologic process, it's sort of gone down a road it went down because it could, but our bodies weren't friendly to that, they didn't recover like maybe they used to, because of all of those reasons. So I think that it is really an important thing,  first to give yourself a bit of a break, and know you're not making this up.”

Dr. Paul Anderson guides us through a crash course detailing how neuroinflammation can influence how we feel, and how our immune systems can influence the ways that our brains work.

“The thing that's often missed is the intersection where your brain takes its marching orders from many of those same chemicals that the immune system does”

Dr. Anderson shares his own work reviewing over 100 recent publications from the Neuro Psychiatric Research and what he has shockingly learned from this review, as well as what he shares when educating doctors.

“What the neuro psychiatric literature is saying, just with COVID is, it's exactly the same process as a blunt force trauma to your head. So it's a traumatic brain injury. But you don't have the so called benefit of having a trauma to remember that you've injured yourself, you just suddenly have a brain injury. And what they're literally saying is, it's exactly like being in a high speed car accident and crashing your skull. Having this, you know, immunologic base problem, and because we're used to associating trauma with it, we don't realize that the immunologic trauma is that bad”

He outlines how our bodies are wired to heal and return to an optimally functioning state, and how environmental influences like our diet, stress, and environmental toxins influence that set-point.

“We're supposed to eat food that has nutrients in it. And if we just look at the neurotransmitters in our brain, a majority of them have a base that comes from amino acids that come from the protein you eat, for example. And those of course have to be digested appropriately and get in your bloodstream, but then your nervous system will take a certain amount of them and literally make neurotransmitters to help balance our brain chemistry”

“Our bodies have this incredibly well developed, sort of, course correcting compass, where if we get out of balance and get sick, your body tries to find neutral again and get us back to healthy.”

He discusses how it is never one thing, and there is never only one answer, and how important it is to get the help that can make a world of difference.

“Human nature is set up so that we believe bad things will just sort of naturally drift away at some point. But if you're really truly in a pattern of unhealth of any type, especially with the last few years, now's the time to do things to get your body back on the path to being healthy.” 

I loved this conversation. It addresses the complexity and the layers that are required to examine when we are looking at a whole picture approach to our own health.  I will definitely be turning over some more “rocks” to be getting back on track! Thanks, Dr. A, never a dull moment when we have the opportunity to connect! 

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New Book: (signed hardcover edition) https://drabooks.com/shop/cancer-the-journey-from-diagnosis-to-empowement/

Donations from The Center for Sacred Arts going to Paul’s choice :  TBD