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From the Townsend Letter
December 2015

Green Smoothie Bliss:
Was Popeye Secretly on Dialysis?

by Thomas Lodi, MD, MD(H)
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Thomas Lodi, MDThomas Lodi, MD(H), MD, CNS, is the founder of An Oasis of Healing in Arizona (Integrative Oncology Center) as well as the founder of the Institute of Integrative Oncology in Asia, which consults and certifies various cancer centers throughout Eastern and Southeast Asia. In addition to using an integrative approach with regard to medical interventions, he both teaches and provides training in life-style to modify the body's biochemistry and align the mind-body-spirit continuum such that malignancies and other chronic "diseases" resolve back into a healthy homeostasis.

 

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