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Allen Lawrence, M.D. and
The Preventive Medicine Clinics of the Desert
After many years in solo practice, in 2007 Dr. Lawrence joined with Neal Rouzier, M.D. and the Preventive Medicine Clinics of the Desert (PMC) in Palm Springs, California. Dr. Rouzier, is a Family Practitioner and Specialist in Emergency Medicine and the Medical Director of the Preventive Medicine Clinics of the Desert. Dr. Rouzier is also a nationally known expert in Natural Hormone Replacement, Hyperbaric Medicine and working with techniques such as chelation, vitamin immune drips, Plaquex and Hydrogen Peroxide and prevention.
The Preventive Medicine Clinics of the Desert is well known for the quality of their medical care and for their commitment to both standard western medicine and alternative therapies. Dr. Rouzier is highly acclaimed and well loved and appreciated by his patients.
Dr. Lawrence along with Dr. Rouzier approaches patient care by considering not only which medical treatment program is best for their patients, but also on what type of care their patient’s desire. There is no routine approach to any person nor to any health problem. Each person is a unique individual and their return to health, their need for preventive treatments as well as their therapeutic care program, is based equally on what they need and what they want. Drs. Lawrence and Rouzier tell their patients, “As a physician we need to provide our patients with what is in their best interest.” Care at PMC is a shared responsibility where the patient has an equal role in making all decisions.
With a long history and experience working with stress-related illnesses, nutrition and healthy diets, prevention and healing, Dr. Lawrence's has added a new dimension to PMC. For more than 20 years, PMC doctors have worked with patients exposed to toxic substances, particularly heavy metals as well as patients with heart disease, elevated cholesterol, atherosclerosis, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, cancer, diabetes problems causing negative life altering problems for their patients. Through treatments such chelation, hyperbaric oxygen, and the prescription of appropriate supplements and medications, along with using exercise, positive thinking, positive energy and positive lifestyle changes they help their patients to regain their vitality and optimal health.
Dr. Lawrence often tells his patients, “I have believed that illness is not a deficiency of one or another medication or drugs, nor is it simply, a problem of genetic. Each illness has its unique cause, and more often than not, poor health is due to a combination of reasons. Finding the specific cause or causes of your illness will allow us to help you heal yourself fully and forever.”
Illness, Dr. Lawrence says, often revolves around four basic factors: 1) Inadequate diet: The foods you both chose to eat and chose not to eat, can lead to specific deficiencies of certain essential nutrients, vitamins, minerals and micronutrients. If your body needs these nutrients to function properly then not having them can lead to illness. Over eating can also be harmful and the combination of deficiencies and excess can lead to illness. One common and well recognized illness which exemplifies this is diabetes. 2) Stress: Physical, emotional and spiritual stress can overwhelm and undermine the immune system and hence lead to illness, 3) Toxic chemicals which enter into our body from the environment, coming from the foods you eat, the water we drink, the air we breath, and the substances and products we use and are exposed to, on a daily basis. And, 4) Lifestyle conflicts (recurring injuries, not doing the work we need to do, emotional distress, unresolved conflicts, lack of meaningful support systems are another common source of illness.
While genetics may play a role in many illnesses, they often play a secondary role. For example, an individual may have a gene or complex of genes that increase their risk for becoming a diabetic, but they may not become a diabetic until these genes are triggered by a poor or inadequate diet, nutrient deficiencies, weight gain, lack of exercise, stress. or heavy metals toxicity which activate these genes and cause the individual to become a diabetic. By understanding these factors and undoing those triggering factors which have activated the illness, we can undo the illness and return the person to optimal health and well-being.
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