Letter from the Publisher

The Nick Delgado Protocol

Medical lectures, even talks by nutritionally based doctors, are typically staid academic discussions peppered with the occasional cartoon and humorous quip. Most speakers seek to get across a number of “pearls,” educational nuggets, for the practitioner to take home and study further. The goal for the medical presentation is to establish a “logic paradigm” based on the more mundane scientific information, then introduce new medical research, published and unpublished scientific data, leading to a brand-new insight for understanding a diagnosis or treatment. If the lecturer can inspire such an “aha” moment, when the listener’s thinking turns on like a light bulb, the talk has succeeded brilliantly. When the conference is filled with light-bulb turning-on lectures, attendees return home invigorated to do more study and modify their practices.

The A4M conference in Las Vegas last December offered illuminating talks that are available for home listening on MP3 and CD recordings. One of the talks in the early hours before 9 a.m. was by Dr. Nick Delgado. Like most speakers, Dr. Delgado presented graphs to show the data providing evidence for therapeutic results. Then I was shocked out of my early-morning somnolence when he jumped away from the podium and continued his presentation by running down from the stage, running away off to the side of the lecture hall, back again to the stage, and back to the podium. And this exhibition of jogging and aplomb was repeated a few times again during the talk, along with a call for everyone to get up, to shout and cheer, and to breathe in and out with vigor. Dr. Nick not only talks the talk, he eats a diet that keeps him vibrant, and he exercises prolifically – his weight-lifting prowess is remarkable. He holds the world strength endurance record for lifting 50,640 pounds in one hour. (To watch Dr. Delgado perform this weight-lifting feat, look for a video at www.nickphd.com. He is training to set a new world record in the curls this year.)

Dr. Nick has established a plan for diet and exercise known as the Delgado Protocol. It calls for eating vegetables, fruit, barley, and more vegetables, fruit, and complex carbohydrates. Dr. Nick wants people to get off wheat and dairy foods; he theorizes that eliminating them are a must and does not depend on food-allergy testing. He calls for exercising, if possible, in cooler environments to maximize muscular development and fitness. Dr. Nick is convinced that most older adults can eliminate arthritis symptoms by abiding by such a diet, engaging in vigorous exercise, and judiciously using hormone replacement therapies. He is a big proponent of the newly emerging therapeutics of stem cell therapy, and his clinic focuses on stem cell work for support of injured and degenerated tissues. Dr. Nick also supports the academic work of A4M and participates actively in the education provided by www.worldhealth.net.

Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD

One of the pleasures of vacationing away from home is visiting colleagues and seeing their clinics. I had the pleasure of such a visit last Christmas with Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy at her clinic, the Center for New Medicine, in Irvine, California. Some clinics are large and multidisciplined; Dr. Connealy’s clinic is very large and very multidisciplined. Dr. Connealy has a strong academic background in medicine and public health, and her clinic seeks to integrate the best of conventional and integrative medicine.

Like most physicians, Dr. Leigh Erin uses conventional laboratory diagnostics and X-ray. For many patients, she also uses alternative diagnostics, including Ondamed, based on biofeedback; ZYTO, computerized-based diagnostics; and dark field microscopy. With other staff physicians, she evaluates protocols recommending formulations individualized for the patient based on their diagnostics. Burton Goldberg, the founding editor of Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide, believes that a clinic must substantiate diagnostic recommendations through confirmation by electronic acupuncture, computerized diagnostics, kinesiology, or some other means beyond prescription protocol. Dr. Connealy concurs that many treatment regimens ordered by physicians elsewhere or designed by the patient do not align with the patient’s bioenergetics. She recommends quitting such remedies to prevent treatment failures. She also prefers to make a trial of new remedies herself or with staff to ensure that new formulations are well tolerated and practical.

Dr. Connealy has had a long-standing practice of prescribing bioidentical hormone therapies. She has a staff pharmacy that compounds bioidentical hormones at the clinic to ensure quality and effectiveness. Her clinic offers chelation, intravenous therapies, hyperbaric oxygen, sauna detoxification, and acupuncture. The Center for New Medicine offers biological dentistry and aesthetic laser therapies. Dr. Connealy’s clinic adjoins the Oasis of Hope (California), a standard-of-care cancer treatment facility. The Oasis of Hope offers conventional cancer treatments that are modified to permit concomitant integrative therapies offered by Dr. Connealy’s clinic. At the Oasis of Hope, some patients are offered high-dose intravenous ascorbic acid in lieu of chemotherapy. The integration of cancer care at the Oasis of Hope and nutritional medicine at the Center for New Medicine has resulted in significantly better outcomes for cancer patients.

For those in Southern California, a visit to the Center for New Medicine is highly recommended. I thank Dr. Connealy’s director of operations of Perfectly Healthy supplement company, Kitty Smith, for arranging my visit. For more information, visit www.centerfornewmedicine.com.

Jonathan Collin, MD