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4 New Offerings for Rapid Healing: Peptides, Postbiotics, Plaquex and Nutritional Tools

August 10, 2021Kanodia MD Heart Health Nutrition Sleep Stress Treatments

4 New Offerings for Rapid Healing: Peptides, Postbiotics, Plaquex and Nutritional Tools

Article by Dr. Anup Kanodia
Functional Medicine Physician

At KanodiaMD, we believe that the quality of healing moves with the speed of science. That’s why we like to stay at the forefront of trends and treatments that are backed by research and creating amazing results with our patients.

Today, I’ll share with you four of our newest and most cutting-edge treatments that we offer here at KanodiaMD—some of which are not only effective, they’re actually regenerative! I’m so excited about these, because it will offer new ways to provide more rapid and successful healing in patients who really need it.

Peptides

What Are Peptides?

Peptides are a form of regenerative cell therapy that are light years beyond what we’ve ever been able to offer to patients. These brand new peptide pills are a nutritional supplement that works on cell renewal and stimulation to delay the aging process. It also helps fight free radicals and oxidative stress in our body.

Your body needs a lot of supplies to run optimally—food, supplements, etc. These are the raw materials your body uses to fuel many, many processes that keep you running optimally. Peptides are what those raw materials create. When you’re able to give the body an already-made substance, it can use it much easier and MUCH more effectively. It’s like moving into a house that’s already built instead of starting from scratch with a piece of land, a hammer and nails!

What Are Some Benefits of Peptides?

More energy & vitality
Faster recovery for active people & competitive athletes
Reduction of chronic joint pain
Better quality sleep & rest
Mood elevation
Mental alertness & prevention of brain degenerative disease
Lower glycemic & blood sugar levels
Better sexual performance & satisfaction
Slow down biological aging & more youthful complexion

Why Am I So Excited About Peptides?

Many conditions stem from the fact that things aren’t working properly in the body—whether there’s an injury, a condition has developed or we’re simply aging. Now we can actually repair and fix the body, restoring it for optimal performance.

Peptide Treatment Details:

These come in capsule form and can be obtained with dosage instructions through KanodiaMD. The typical costs can range from $350 – $700 per month. Please consult with Dr. Kanodia to determine if you’re a good candidate and what dosage is recommended.

Postbiotics

What Are Postbiotics?

The world has been pretty focused on getting good amounts of prebiotics (fiber) and probiotics—and we should still be consuming these. The reason there has been so much attention on prebiotics and probiotics is because they fuel the good gut bacteria in order to help them produce postbiotics.

Postbiotics—a type of gut bacteria waste—are what we’re finding actually leads to all those great benefits of having a healthy microbiome. Now we have a way to get all that great postbiotic material—without asking our own gut bacteria to make it.

What Can Postbiotics Help Treat?

Inflammation
Gut symptoms & digestion
Leaky gut
Food sensitivities
Weakened immune system
COVID prevention support
Weight issues
Allergies
Heart disease
Type 2 diabetes
Cancer and chemotherapy
Nervous system (stress, anxiety & depression)

Why Am I So Excited About Postbiotics?

The concept of postbiotics isn’t new, but the effectiveness of this new delivery method (capsule pill) is unrivaled! I’ve seen multiple patients rapidly improve their gastrointestinal conditions and have even seen those going through chemotherapy find amazing relief from symptoms. I believe this will be a common supplement people take in the near future.

Postbiotic Treatment Details:

These come in capsule pill form and can be obtained with dosage instructions through KanodiaMD. This particular postbiotic pill I found costs $625 for a 50-pill supply. Please consult with Dr. Kanodia to determine if you’re a good candidate and what dosage is recommended.

Plaquex

What Is Plaquex?

All of the cells in the body are continually absorbing nutrients and expelling toxins through the cell wall. With certain conditions and as we age, these cell walls become impenetrable, blocking vital nutrients and not allowing proper detoxification. Then we can have heart attacks, strokes, inflammation, stress, insulin resistance, accumulation of free radicals, toxins, heavy metals, hypertension—and the list goes on.

The “miracle molecule” in Plaquex IV treatment—Phosphatidylcholine (PC)— is the building block of all cell membranes. It rejuvenates cell membranes and optimizes their function, which in turn improves the function of the cell and ultimately the organ that the cell is part of (including the skin).

What Are The Benefits of Plaquex?

Removes plaque buildup from the walls of your arteries
Repairs damaged cell membranes
Increases energy & sexual function
Improves liver & kidney health
Improves memory
Promotes youthful-looking skin

Why I’m So Excited About Plaquex:

Plaquex is a way to help people heal who have not seen success thus far. Many of my patients struggle with issues of the gut and brain, and this has been able to provide them with more mental clarity and much improved digestion.

Plaquex Treatment Details:

We offer Plaquex IV therapy and pills at KanodiaMD. The IV cost ranges from $210 for a single infusion to $6,058 for a full 30-infusion treatment course. Contact the office for more info on Plaquex pills and IV therapy. Please consult with Dr. Kanodia to determine if you’re a good candidate and what dosage is recommended.

Nutritional Tools

What Are The New Nutritional Tools?

Because so many of our patients see such a phenomenal change when they optimize their nutrition, we decided to add a set of “tools” to our practice's treatment plan. Introducing The Nourishing Plate—our state-of-the-art, gluten-free kitchen at KanodiaMD. It was created to help patients and non-patients alike incorporate functional foods that support the whole body for healing and to show how to make eating healthy achievable and flavorful.

What Are The Nourishing Plate’s Offerings?

We are currently offering group culinary classes and private cooking sessions (both in-person and virtual) tailored to your dietary needs and nutrition protocols. Additionally, we have weekly YouTube kitchen demos, monthly blogs on our website and special chef events. It’s also a fun place to host a girls' night, family cooking activity or even a date outing. We invite individuals of all skill levels!

Why Are You So Excited About It?

The Nourishing Plate takes the nutrition journey to a whole new level. This is the piece that supports the implementation part of the process and gives people the support they need to make it happen! There are many barriers when it comes to food. We want to help keep food simple and nourishing. Food should be joyful, flavorful, and make you feel good! This space allows us to break through those barriers and curate nutrient-rich meals.

We’re thrilled to be able to offer these amazing treatments and services to you. Our goal at KanodiaMD is to make connections with purveyors of groundbreaking treatments, so that we can offer them to our patients. We’re committed to identifying what our patients need most and then discovering the best way to help them take back their lives!

As always, we’re happy to discuss your health needs. Just contact our office to set up an appointment or visit our Kitchen Page for info on nutrition and our class offerings . Check out our snack-sized, healthy cooking tutorials filmed straight out of our state-of-the-art teaching kitchen called “The Nourishing Plate.”

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Dr. Kanodia’s Super Simple Tips for Heart Health

February 24, 2021KanodiaMD Heart Health

We hear it all the time, “wine is great for the heart” and “make sure you exercise for cardiovascular health.” But these continuously repeated pieces of “advice” aren’t always true for everyone. And they aren’t exactly prescriptive—how much wine and exercise do we need? The answer is, we have to find the right personal balance for our own heart-healthy lifestyle.

In my practice, I have found four key areas that people often struggle with: Sleep, Stress, Exercise and Diet

I’ve also found that giving people small and easy things to add to their daily routines actually helps them deal with these struggles in achievable ways. They are surprised to see results with such simple changes!

Try adding some of these small additions to your everyday routine and see how your life (and heart) change for the better.

Sleep

You need restorative rest every night, so your body can repair itself, your mind can take a break and your body can work to regenerate and create things you need. (Like producing cytokines to support your immunity!) Proper sleep allows your heart rate to slow, blood pressure to drop, and breathing to stabilize—reducing stress on the heart and allowing it to recover from the day’s activities.

Try these small tips:

Lights Down Low: Before bedtime, use candlelight or low blue lights only.
Bedtime Ritual: Create a routine that involves separating from screens (TV, phone, computer, etc.) two hours before bed. You can journal, read or take a bath.
Take Melatonin: Melatonin, often referred to as the sleep hormone, is a central part of the body’s sleep-wake cycle, increasing with evening darkness, promoting healthy sleep and helping to orient our circadian rhythm. It’s also being studied to help prevent the effects of COVID-19! (Cleveland Clinic study)

Stress

Believe it or not, we experience stress for a very good biological reason. Survival! If we are faced with a life-threatening danger (like a saber-toothed tiger chasing us), our body triggers our adrenals and then sends resources to the areas that we need to escape—like elevating our heartbeat and respiration to give the body energy and oxygen it needs to fight the tiger or run away.

In modern days, we don’t see too many tigers out and about. But we do experience other stressors constantly throughout the day and our body still goes into that alerted response. You can see how perpetual demand on the heart can create problems. When we can recognize that we’re stressed, we can find ways to get back into a homeostatic state, when our body is in equilibrium, and we can access our self-repair mechanisms.

Try these small tips:

Identify Stress: Inner Game of Stress by W. Timothy Gallwey teaches fantastic techniques to recognize your stress and turn it around.
Calm Your Mind: Meditation has become quite buzz worthy these days, but that’s because it works! I like the Insight Timer app.
Breathe It Away: The Wim Hof Method of breathing truly works—it’s easy, powerful and free!

Exercise & Movement

We absolutely need regular movement and exercise, not only for heart health, but for health in general. I usually see one of two extremes: 1) people who live a sedentary life and rarely get their blood moving in any significant way or 2) people who over-exercise and are taxing their system on a regular basis. I like to encourage people to find the balance they need for their personal health goals. Regardless, I do tell them, “if you’re not sweating, huffing and puffing, it’s not a great heart workout.” Whatever you’re doing—briskly walking, lifting weights, even dancing around the living room—you’ve got to be creating effort.

Try these small tips:

How Much Is Too Much: Ask yourself! How do you feel right after exercising? After 2 hours? If the answer is tired or drained instead of good and energized, then you may have not done enough or done too much. Adjust until you feel good.
The 7-Minute Workout: These 12 exercises get you going and only take a small amount of time to do.
Take a Stand: If you find yourself sitting all day, get a standing desk. Like I always say, “sitting is the new smoking!”

Diet

I often like to recommend the Pegan Diet, coined by my friend Dr. Mark Hyman. This combination of paleo + vegan reduces the risk of chronic disease, curbs inflammation, and promotes general health (see tips below). Food is super important when we talk about the heart, but we also need to pay attention to what we drink, like alcohol and caffeine. People metabolize these substances differently, and they both can stress the heart in excess. For example, one glass of wine could make one person intoxicated, while another person wouldn’t feel a thing. See below for how to tell what how you personally metabolize alcohol and caffeine.

Try these small tips:

Look at Caffeine Intake: How do you feel on caffeine? Jittery or anxious? Do you get heartburn or palpitations? Then it’s too much. Experiment with what amount of caffeine makes you feel good (hint: it may be none!).
Ask Yourself About Alcohol: How do you feel on alcohol—do you sleep okay after drinking, how do you feel the next day? Again, just experiment with the amount of alcohol and figure out the amount that doesn’t compromise your sleep, energy or wellbeing.
Clean Your Diet: The Pegan Diet by Dr. Mark Hyman gives easy to follow practical tips and advice on how to eat for overall (and heart) health.

I hope you found these tips helpful. Please feel free to comment below or reach out and let us know if you’ve tried these and what changes you’re seeing. We love to hear about what’s working, so we can help more people take back their lives!