Lotus Holistic Medicine

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Sandeep Gupta is a medical doctor, nutritional and environmental medicine specialist, ayurvedic consultant and wellness coach.Dr Gupta graduated from medical school at the University of Queensland 1999. Since then he served in a range of public and private hospitals in the South-East Queensland region, serving as a cardiology, medical and anaesthetic registrar. He also has approximately five years experience in working in Intensive Care, particularly in the area of post-cardiac surgery care.

Dr Gupta has received specialized training in integrative medicine, and was awarded a Fellowship of the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine in 2008 and a Fellowship of the Australian College of General Practitioners in 2010. He has also actively lectured Ayurveda House in Northern NSW, at the University of Queensland Medical Course in Brisbane, the Australian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine and for the Brisbane Holistic Health Group.

He is currently accredited as a visiting medical officer at Wesley and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospitals, Holy Spirit Northside Hospital and the Sunshine Coast Private Hospital.

Dr Gupta strives to walk his talk in his own life, keeps up to date with current developments in the field, and genuinely aims to approach clients with respect, service and empathy.

Some of Sandeep Gupta’s areas of interest are in integrative depression and anxiety treatment, adrenal gland and thyroid dysfunction, and treatment of parasite and other gastrointestinal infections and food intolerances and allergies. His real interest is in helping people to be educated about staying well, learning to keep track of their health goals and monitor when their health is going out of balance.

Dr Gupta feels his role is provide information, support and guidance, but the results an individual gets will depend primarily on their actions, and the way they live. This learning process is something we all have to go through. A doctor in the purest sense is a teacher, an educator and an inspiration for others.

Dr Gupta doesn’t aim treat “diseases”, but rather to help clients to learn to treat their own underlying physical, emotional and spiritual setup so as to address the causes of disease. Of course specific treatment protocols can help us to “turn the corner” on our health situation, but an underlying foundation of healthy living is vital for long-term results.


Modalities Available

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Nutrition & Environmental Medicine
The fundamental principle of nutritional and environmental medicine is to provide the body with the building blocks it needs to carry out growth, repair and detoxification of metabolic wastes. Secondly to minimize or eliminates anything hindering this process. In practice this often means making changes to diet, exercise, lifestyle, the use of supplements etc. This all occurs in line with well established protocols, including a low-reactive diet regime, supplemental nutrient support, heavy metal elimination etc. This approach to medicine can be used in combination with conventional medicine, or in isolation.

Ayurvedic Medicine
Ayurveda is the ancient system of self-healing from yesterday’s India. Some of the fundamental principles include:

• Understanding your own body constitution (prakriti) and tailoring your lifestyle according to it
• Maximizing digestion and elimination so as to minimize the presence of ‘ama’ (toxin)
• Having a regular daily routine (dinacharya) to maintain balance and harmony in one’s life
• Understanding the changes in season, age and life circumstances and the effect these have on our current state (vikruti)
• Balance digestive fire (agni) and vitality (ojas)

Raw & Living Foods Approach
The pivotal principle behind the living foods approach is to maximize the amount of live, raw plant-based foods in the diet. The benefit of this is a great increase in the amount of nutrients available from foods, an increase in the amount of plant enzymes available, a huge increase in the bio-photon energy from foods, and an activation of anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer and anti-ageing genes. Of course those with low-digestive fire (agni) or a vata constitution may need to make a gradual change to this approach, and individualize their style of living foods, however almost all people can benefit from the vibrant benefit of more living foods in the diet.

Injectable Nutrient Therapy
For those suffering from diseases of the gut, and general cellular dysfunction, absorbing nutrients into the blood-stream can be extremely difficult. This is where nutrients given directly via the injectable route can be extremely helpful. For those with severe viral infections and post-viral fatigue, intravenous vitamin C in particular can be dramatically effective. In other instances, injectable B vitamins, Zinc or other trace minerals can provide much-needed nutritional support.

Metabolic Typing ®
A fundamental principle of many ancient medicine systems was that each person’s constitution is unique. In practice, this means that dietary and lifestyle recommendations need to be tailored to the individual. Dr Roger Williams came out with a landmark work called “Biochemical Individuality” in the 1920s explaining this in detail. Since this work, extensive work has been carried out, predominantly in the United States, on determining an individual’s predominant homeostatic systems and balancing these through diet and lifestyle. In this sense, Metabolic Typing is a wonderful accompaniment to ayurvedic medicine as it provides an understanding of individuality on a biochemical level, rather than just on an energetic level. This is basically identical to Dr Mercola’s “nutritional typing” system, which was derived from the same research.

MetBio-identical Hormone Therapy
The bio-identical hormone therapy approach is to replace hormones that are biochemically identical to the compounds produced in the human body. For instance, synthetic progestins have some similar effects in the body to progesterone (the natural progestin), but on many organs have a neutral or even opposite effect to natural progesterone. Therefore supplying the biologically identical forms of hormones can produce excellent results. Generally short-term use of such hormone replacement is recommended and to be backed up by a solid foundational nutritional program to achieve long-term hormonal balance.

Biomesotherapy
Biomesotherapy is a form of injection therapy for musculoskeletal complaints, that utilizes European botanical formulations given in tandem with local injections of saline water to stimulate healing of the local area. Biomesotherapy assists in detoxification and normalising a damaged muscular system. Over 70 million biomesotherapy treatments take place in Europe each year, with excellent results. Treatments are given via a regulated injection device, which delivers a precise and safe injection every time.

Prolotherapy
Prolotherapy is a another form of injection therapy for musculoskeletal complaints which utilizes injection of glucose and xylocaine into ligament attachments to bone, where the glucose inhibits Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) which allows the body to heal chronically damaged ligaments and tendon and complete the inflammatory process. Multiple controlled studies have been conducted on prolotherapy, generally showing a positive tendency towards long-term improvement in ligamentous damage.



Philosophy

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Holistic medicine means an approach to medicine in which all factors contributing to wellness or unwellness are included. Integrative medicine is another name for it.

Holistic doctors are generally thoroughly trained in both conventional medicine and also in complementary medicine modalities.

Conventional medicine over the last couple of centuries has focused largely on disease as being like an external invader to the body. This is the premise of the widely-accepted “germ theory” of Pasteur and Robert Koch. This model probably served us well up until the early 1900s where the major causes of death and morbidity were infectious diseases such as polio, smallpox and the like. It has also become very adept at dealing with acute life-threatening illnesses like heart attacks, sepsis, trauma and the link.

However we are now in an era where chronic degenerative diseases are on the rise. We don’t die of polio anymore; it’s cancer, heart disease and complications of diabetes. Most of these aren’t acute attacks which come from nowhere, but rather conditions that start silently and progress and are related to diet and lifestyle.

We are currently seeing an epidemic of Type 2 diabetes and obesity in Australia. This epidemic is showing no signs of turning the corner. Our emergency departments are overflowing, not with people with acute life-threatening problems, but with chronic degenerative ailments that just don’t seem to be getting better.

Have we missed the boat somewhere?
Our core philosophy is that the health of the fish is only as good as the health of the water it is swimming around in. The biological terrain of our body becomes compromised through eating foods loaded with sugar, refined carbohydrates, animal proteins and dairy products. This combined with poorly managed stress, poor digestion, lack of exercise, circulation and spiritual and creative expression, and we’ve got a formula for a progressive decline to this precious terrain of our body.

The swamp breeds mosquitoes, not the other way around.
If we start to reverse the acidic, compromised terrain of the body using an alkalising, nutrient-dense plant-based diet, individualized to one’s constitution, and coupled with regular exercise, relaxation, meditation, spiritual and creative expression and joy, we will start to see our chronic conditions also reversing themselves without any antibiotics, complex medical investigations and procedures etc. Of course, these can be utilized in emergency situations, but really that is where their role probably ends. The key in the current era is in a holistic approach that reverses the morbid influences making us susceptible to chronic degenerative disease.

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