How do I explain this to our patients?
What Is TruDOSE™?
It’s a treatment where we draw your own blood, concentrate the platelets to a dose specific, disease condition specific concentration meant only for you, and then it’s re-infused back into you. So, its your own blood healing your own body!
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The reason we utilize this therapy is because it has shown great results helping patients with all kinds of disease conditions get symptom relief and even reverse their conditions. Its safe, and because its your own blood, there is very minimal risk.
Understanding Systemic Inflammation
Unresolved immune and repair issues cause systemic inflammation and break the body down (see video above). These unresolved issues force the body to sequentially shut off functions (cellular, organ, and metabolic) in an order only the body knows. As functions shut down in the body, symptoms arise along with disease conditions. This cycle keeps repeating itself until the body is simply stuck perpetually in a state of systemic inflammation.
How do you know what dose I need?
The TruDOSE™ system figures that out. You come in and have your finger pricked to take a few drops of blood. The blood is measured and imported into software to determine the personalized therapy for you based on your disease condition.
What's the process like when I'm there at the office?
The whole process takes about 45 minutes to an hour. You come in and fill out some symptom questionnaires. You then have your finger pricked and a few drops of blood will be taken for measurement. After the software determines a personalized treatment, you’ll have your blood drawn…similar to having blood lab work done. An IV line will be put into your arm and blood will be drawn…somewhere between 4–8 tablespoons of blood. That blood is processed in a centrifuge to separate the platelets. After the centrifuge has processed your blood, your treatment will be ready to be infused back into you. After the treatment, you will stay for a few minutes just for observation and then you will be free to go.
Are there any risks?
To date, there have been thousands of treatments done across the US at other clinics and nobody has reported any side effects or complications. It’s your own blood going back in to your body…nothing more.
Are there any bad treatment effects that can happen?
Even though this is not a bad effect, there is a 50% chance that you could experience a herx reaction. The herx should only last 2-3 days. Some patients who have neurological conditions could experience pain that they otherwise did not have before the treatment. This is completely normal. Feeling pain is a good sign of healing inflammation happening. It’s a sign the body is waking up the nervous system. When you wake up the nervous system, it can feel painful. Think of sitting on your foot and making it go to sleep and then standing up.
What should I expect after treatment?
This depends on the individual and the disease condition. Each person’s healing progress will be slightly different…even if two people have the same disease condition. You should experience effects from the treatment within 24-72 hours. Some people have immediate effects before they leave the office. A majority of people experience great sleep, energy, cognitive improvement, and other small improvements to their body within the first 24-72 hour timeframe.
How do I know the treatment is working?
If you’re experiencing small changes (sleep, energy, clear headed, pain going away, etc.) then that means its working.
What if I don't experience those benefits right away? Does that mean the treatment didn't work?
Not necessarily. Its rare that the treatment does nothing for a patient, but it might not fix what you are wanting it to fix. The systemic effects of the treatment will go to work on things you had no idea were a problem or causing pain. For some people it just takes a little bit for the body to recalibrate these things that aren’t working properly. Again, the treatment effects will continue to occur up until the 8-12 week mark. Its not often, but sometimes people experience these real noticeable benefits at that time point so you just have to give the treatment time to work.
How long do the treatment effects last?
The treatment effects and benefits will continue up until the 8-12 week mark. All of the little benefits your body had been experiencing will maintain, and that will become your body’s new normal or homeostasis or balance. That’s when you need to get the next treatment because the benefits will build from there.
How does the treatment know what to fix? How does taking my blood and putting it back into me work?
Your platelets are responsible for overseeing the activities of your repair and immune systems. When you take your blood out, give it back at a super concentrated specific dose of platelets, it basically resets the repair and immune systems to activate again. Except this time, your platelets are seeing your whole body from a systemic perspective and determining which problem to tackle first, second and third. Unresolved repairs in your body become fixed and unresolved immune problems are cleared. Essentially, your body is being restarted and then recalibrated. The recalibration process lasts all the way until the 8-12 week time frame and then you have your new normal.
How many treatments will I need?
This depends on the disease condition and many individual factors to the person…but prepare yourself for a minimum of 4 treatments over the next year and getting a treatment every 8-12 weeks. Each treatment will get you better, but we are discouraging anyone from doing this if their intent is only to do one treatment. The reason is because 1 single treatment will get someone better, but the body can relapse backwards, so the 4 treatment program is the best to get someone to optimal health. We recommend you make a decision about future treatments after the 4th treatment. You and your doctor can decide what’s the best thing to do as part of your treatment plan. We have found that patients do one of two things:
1. They enter into a maintenance observation mode where they will come in the second they feel their body have a flare up or other inflammatory problem.
2. And this is what the majority of patients do…they continue with the 8-12 week program because the cost of doing the treatment is cheaper and has less risk of relapsing back to their disease condition. TruDOSE™ Therapy continues as more of a preventative treatment. Each a treatment will continue to improve your brain function, neurological system, immune system, and repair system and keep you at optimal health.
What should I do before treatment?
Your provider will give you specific prep instructions that will most likely start a week prior to treatment. This might include papaya leaf extract supplements to boost your platelet count, ivermectin, high dose vitamin C, or could ask you to cease taking certain medications or supplements.
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The bare minimum everyone should do is start drinking lots of water 2-3 days prior. You need to be well hydrated to make the blood draw process go smoothly. You should stop taking anything that has anti-inflammatory properties to it (NSAIDS, turmeric, etc.).
What should I do after treatment?
Take it easy. Your body will be experiencing a metabolic boost and everything will start working again. Even though you might feel the best you’ve felt in a long time, you should avoid excessive exercise or activities, or stressful events on the body. We want you to give your body time to work itself out.
When can I start doing my detox or other modalities?
As a general rule, the body will be massively doing many of these things on its’ own for the first couple weeks. You should avoid adding anything extra because it will additionally stress the body. However, your individual treatment protocol and post treatment modalities will be advised by your provider.
How much is treatment? Does insurance cover this?
The treatment is a cash pay of $XXX.XX. Insurance does not cover this.
How do I get started and treated?
If you are ready to commit now, there is a $XXX.XX deposit to hold your spot. We only do this treatment a couple times a month and have a limited number of people we can treat in a given day. When you come for treatment, you will be charged the remaining $XXX.XX. We encourage all patients to attend our educational zoom call to understand the treatment, ask questions, and make a well informed decision about the therapy.
