Jeff Clark ND

There is a new test in town that has inspired me to assemble information on strategies to prevent cancer and detect it early if you feel at risk. Prevention starts with a healthy environment and lifestyle and extends into proactive steps we can take.

Early detection involves looking into our inherited DNA for enlarged risk factors and into our blood for signs that cancer may already be emerging.

All important considerations for an aging population where all too many of us will in fact suffer, and then die from a cancer.

Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Strategies: Jeff Clark, ND LLC While no one can provide a 100% guarantee of success for any plan to avoid cancer, there are definite strategies to reduce your statistical risks for acquiring many cancers. If you have elevated concern, or a family history of cancer, there are now modern testing methodologies found in the Galleri

I definitely have better approaches to offer for this problem than the narrow offerings of conventional medicine.

$62,000 and three years later: Long COVID continues to upend this California couple’s lives — Los Angeles Times Three years and $62,000 in medical expenses later, a musician and her caregiving partner struggle to navigate the financial, mental and physical challenges of long COVID.

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Abbie's HCG Diet SD 480p Do HCG diets work? Listen to Abbie's recount of hers.HCG diet should always be conducted under supervision of a medical professional who attends to your over...

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NIR Photobiomodulation for arthritis Linda has a history of chronic arthritis that had been reducing her quality of life. A series of Near Infra Red treatments twice a week for 4 weeks has signi...

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I heavily consulted the science literature and what was available to purchase ready made. Then I concluded that the current product marketers were not understanding the totality of the messy science on this topic of Photo Biomodulation (PBM).

The prototype devices I have come up with reliably deliver a measured therapeutic photon dose of deep penetrating NIR when following the treatment protocols I've worked out for using them. I continue to refine those protocols as I gain more clinical experience on more conditions and body locations, organs and systems.

Right now there is an aching need for effective treatment for long Covid "brain fog" and traumatic brain injury (TBI) aka concussions. I'm ready to start helping as many as I can.

Please send me your people who need to get unstuck from these debilitating brain conditions. We can get them to a higher functioning level with this very gentle therapeutic intervention.
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Ps. There will also be some supplemented nutrients involved in the treatment plans.

NIR Photo Biomodulation (PBM) for “stuck” brain and body conditions Near infra-red (NIR) Photo Biomodulation (PBM) is a bio-hack that can resolve mitochondrial dysfunction. Specific wavelengths of NIR pe*****te deep into the...

A new patient testimonial linked in the first comment. Also found inside this webpage.

Photobiomodulation Therapy For Brain and Body: Jeff Clark, ND LLC Transcranial Photo Bio-modulation Therapy PhotoBioModulation (PBM) using the Mito Photon™ 800 nm band NIR Photon Illuminator Trans Spinal Photo Bio-modulation Therapy PhotoBioModulation (PBM) using the Mito Photon™ 800 nm band NIR Photon Illuminator Trans Musculoskeletal Photo Bio-modulation The...

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Helped by an Herb: A CIDP Journey: Jeff Clark, ND LLC Helped by an Herb: A CIDP Journey Jeff Clark ND 1/1/2023 The End of DenialOne evening in February 2022 I was unable to move my right leg. In one stunning moment all denial about what I had been experiencing, stretching back at least a decade, suddenly and abruptly ended. This began my medical journe...

What's New for 2023!

What's new for 2023?: Jeff Clark, ND LLC Dr Clark's New Office Location 6956 SW Hampton Street, Tigard, OR 97223 Hampton Square AnnexMany thanks to Gentle Chiropractic for hosting my practice in 2022.The new office is outfitted and decorated to reflect Dr Clark’s passions in life. The plan is to be at this location indefinitely. Dr Clark...

New practice location, more in person hours available in 2023. Newsletter coming soon.

Directions + Contact Information: Jeff Clark, ND LLC Tualatin, Tigard, Sherwood, Lake Oswego, Beaverton, Newberg, Portland, West Linn

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Biography: Jeff Clark, ND LLC Previously engineer, public service, expert witness malpractice, legislative chair, cattle rancher

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This form of memory loss is common — but most Americans don't know about it — NPR Mild cognitive impairment, a common brain condition, can be an early sign of Alzheimer's disease. But most people don't know the symptoms. And some may mistake it for normal aging.

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ACT NOW! Oregon Ways and Means Committee needs to Pass HB 4006, ND Pay Parity! HB 4006 "ND Health Insurance Pay Parity" has passed the House Health Care Committee and is waiting to be scheduled at Ways and Means, the state's budget committee. This is the "short" legisltive session. It will all be over on March 4th.We need your help ASAP to get this bill to move. Using the form...

ND Vs MD: Jeff Clark, ND LLC  What is the difference between a Naturopathic Doctor and a Medical Doctor? There is not as much difference as some might assume or want you to beleive. Both types of doctors are highly educated and practice modern, science and evidence based western medicine. Philosophically Naturopathic Doctors (...

A new area of special interest in my practice. Aimed at those who are aging and recovering from Covid and chronic fatigue syndrome.

Cognitive Health: Jeff Clark, ND LLC Cognitive Dysfunction After Aging and COVID-19. Once you reach age 60 dementia becomes an important concern/question for how the remainder of your life will unfold.  Rates of diagnosed dementia increase with age. The point of greatest increase occurs in the mid to late 70’s.  Signs and symptoms ...

Study: Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Severe COVID People with a vitamin D deficiency are more likely to have a severe or critical case of COVID-19.

Please help Oregon NDs receive fair pay from health insurers. This is the 3rd time we've taken this same language to the Oregon Legislature.

Insurers pay NDs on average 50% for the same visits. The inequity from this pay discrimination makes it really hard for small businesses like True Health Medicine to remain open and for the doctors to pay off student loans and live reasonably.

Please take the action to send emails to the legislature and please forward this link to your friends and groups.

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ACT NOW! Ask your Oregon Legislators to Pay Oregon NDs Fairly - Yes on HB 4006 HB 4006 "ND Health Insurance Pay Parity" The House Health Care Committee hearing on this bill is at 8AM, Friday February 4th. ACT NOW! This Fair Pay bill is desperately needed in Oregon. Health insurance has been paying NDs as little as 50% of what they pay every other healthcare provider for each d...

ND Pay Parity 2022: Patient Advocates for Naturopathic Physicians. We are sending you a message from a patient advocate who strongly supports her naturopathic doctor and the care she is receiving. She would like to see Oregon Naturopathic Physicians achieve health insurance pay parity in the 2022 legislative session starting this February. She wants to do all she c...

COVID VACCINATION INJECTIONS, BLOOD CLOTS AND HEART INFLAMMATION

I encourage everyone who is eligible to become fully vaccinated for COVID-19 as soon as possible. If you are high risk and/or constantly exposed to risk of COVID exposure, then a booster may also be appropriate for you.

The most serious harms noticed with Covid and other vaccinations are blood clots and heart inflammations called myocarditis and pericarditis. All three of these outcomes can cause death and lingering health problems when that worst outcome is avoided. These harms are most commonly occurring in young men, but all genders and age groups are susceptible.

Statistically this is happening at a very low rate. However, if it is you, it happened more than one time too many. So how do you minimize this risk?

A recent study was conducted with covid vaccines and lab animals where these worst case effects were reliably produced by injecting the vaccine into veins instead of muscles. While not absolute proof, this is very much a smoking gun. Especially considering that the countermeasure is simple, easy and of insignificant cost.

Aspiration before injection. This simple technique of pulling back on the plunger to see if any blood is drawn up before injection could potentially resolve this small risk for a serious harm for most people. If blood enters the syringe, the dose is tossed and the injection is repeated in a new location.

Here's the problem. Everyone properly trained to provide injections in the USA knows about this technique and are instructed to use it when injecting medications, but not vaccines. Its worse, the current US guidelines specifically instruct DO NOT aspirate before injecting vaccine.

In India, where this graphic originates, they have decided there is enough evidence to employ the precautionary principle and advise that the syringe be aspirated before injection. It literally adds a 1/2 second to the procedure and only rarely causes a dose of vaccine to be discarded. If each of those rare discards prevents a blood clot or a serious heart complication for a person, it is well worth the extra 1/2 second and small wastage.

So what can you do? Insist the syringe be aspirated before injection and that the dose not be given if there is a blood show. By the experience of others, it is essential that you get this agreement ahead of time and that both of those points be reviewed. Aspirate before injection. Do not inject if there is a show of blood.

You are just another jab for the worker providing the injection.

You are your one and only life in this body of yours, so yes, it IS far more important to you than it is to them.

BETWEEN VACCINATION AND INTUBATION

Your naturopathic doctor has many recommendations for what you can do to avoid hospitalization. You are going to find the biggest doughnut hole of care ever if you turn up sick and look for help at the allopathic doctor's office...go home. If you get bad enough we will send you to the hospital. Until then, go home and ??

Do not delay seeking licensed naturopathic care if you become ill.

Breakthrough cases are rampant among the vaccinated, though most are not seriously ill. What it means for the unvaccinated is that everyone can catch and spread the disease to you.

Do not delay seeking licensed naturopathic care if you become ill.

DELTA VARIANT UPDATE

DO NOT DELAY self quarantining and seeking early naturopathic interventions should you find yourself with even a sniffle, or tickle in the throat.

This article predicts: "If SARS-CoV-2 is here to stay, then most people will encounter it at some point in their life..."

Everyone can become infected and become a spreader of the Delta variant of Covid-19. There is a higher prevalence of break through, symptomatic infection amongst the fully vaccinated. A significant risk of serious, life threatening disease amongst the unvaccinated.

The delta variant is estimated to be 3 orders of magnitude more infective, around a 1000x what the original virus was. That means it spreads faster inside you and back into your airways to infect others when you breath out. For an unvaccinated person it takes about 2 weeks for a fully competent immune response to be formulated.

Being fully vaccinated, which I highly recommend, is a head start on having an immune response ready to go should you encounter the virus. Vaccination doesn't mean that your response will be fast enough to be symptom free or unable to spread the infection. Vaccination significantly reduces your risk of a serious disease course and outcome.

There are three main reasons for breakthrough infections.
1. Initial viral load. If a person has been exposed to substantial numbers of virus particles from an infected person, there will be many cells of the respiratory system infected all at once. Avoid being indoors with people who may be infected. Protect your airways with effective personal air filtration if you must take that risk.
2. The delta variant is 1000x more effective at entering cells, so it spreads within a person much more rapidly than the previous variants. Even with pre-programming through vaccination, it takes time for the immune system to recognize there is an infection and then turn that response on.
3. Not everyone has a fully competent immune system. We hear about this with cancer and transplant patients and people with known immune deficiencies. Yet it also applies to everyone who is in a state of malnourishment. Vitamin D3 has stood out as the single most important modifiable immune factor throughout this pandemic. There are other nutrient factors also important to producing an optimal immune response in addition to D3.

My general treatment plan for upper respiratory infections are
1. Contact your primary care provider, in the case of me, your naturopathic physician. A specific treatment and monitoring plan should be made for you.
2. Isolate from others so as to not spread infection
3. Drink plenty of water
4. Avoid NSAIDs except for the worst pain as they inhibit immune activity, especially antibody production.
5. Ramp up targeted immune supportive nutrients
6. Apply antiviral agents to the pharynx via gargling to slow the spread of viral particles. There are many such agents. Some have better evidence than others. Some are among your kitchen spices. None are FDA approved as a specific treatment for COVID-19. FYI There is nothing, including what they use and do at the hospital that is approved as a specific treatment for COVID-19. Everyone is doing the best they can with what they know works in other situations. Gargling antiviral herbs is time tested for cold and flu season.
7. Monitor vital signs. SpO2, a measurement of how much oxygen is getting into your bloodstream is the most important. Pulse-oximeters are readily available for anyone to purchase. In the age of Covid, important to have at home alongside a thermometer. A SpO2 value below 90% should signal you to contact your health care provider ASAP.

DISCLAIMERS:
1. The information provided here is meant to be general and not specific medical advice for anyone. Please contact me or your other licensed provider(s) for specific medical advice.
2. There are no drug claims intended in this informational writing. Vitamin D3 is a nutrient widely available from many sources as a supplement. Contact me or your other licensed provider for a serum Vitamin D3 lab test to assess your specific status, potential need for more D3.

How the Pandemic Now Ends Cases of COVID-19 are rising fast. Vaccine uptake has plateaued. The pandemic will be over one day—but the way there is different now.

Apologies for the pejorative in the cartoon. Having hesitancy, questions and concerns about the jabs does not require a person be an "antivaxxer."

But we have two worlds now, vaccinated and unvaccinated. Both can be easily infected by the Delta variant and spread it to others.

Group A needs about 2 weeks for their immune system to figure out a competent response to the viral infection. Delta spreads inside and outside the body about 200x faster than the original. Yet still looks very much the same to the immune systems antigen detectors.

Group B has pre-programmed their immune system through the jabs so that the response to the virus is on the shelf, ready to go as soon as infection/antigen is recognized.

For the record, I've placed my bet on being in group B. Yes there is a non-zero risk to the pre-programming jabs. All, in my understanding are triggered by your own immune system. Pre-programming the immune system is worth the very small risk for most people. It conveys a distinct survival advantage.

There is more to being healthy and having a competent immune response than just pre-programming. That is in part why there are safety risks with the inoculations and why there are breakthrough cases in the vaccinated requiring hospitalization.

If you see an ND like me, you can gather up all the advantages for yourself.

Should NDs be paid fairly in Oregon? URGENT SB 772 "ND Insurance Pay Parity" rests at the desks of the Oregon Joint Committee on Ways and Means Co-chairs awaiting assignment to a sub-committee for a hearing and vote. The legislative session ends in a very short couple of weeks. It is essential for them to act ASAP. This Fair Pay bill is there...

Oregonians: Support Fair Pay for Naturopathic Physicians!

Hey everyone, I've been working on a bill at the Oregon legislature that requires health insurers to pay NDs the same rates they pay every other provider type for the same services. What they do now is beyond the pale of what is fair and reasonable. As little as and even less than 50%.

If you sign up to my association's Action Alert System at the link below, we can send you an email when it is time to make your wishes known to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means.

The Alert System is super easy for you. Register now, then push the send button when you get the request. I really appreciate it!

Fair Pay for Naturopathic Doctors

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VACCINATED FOR COVID?

Hooray!! We have all wanted this pandemic to be over since it started more than a year ago. No one wants to hear about any more loved ones dying before their time, because of this virus. As many of us as can get our heads straight about it -- getting vaccinated -- is the quickest way to the end from here.

Vaccinations pre-program your immune system to recognize the virus with minimum delay should you become exposed. They do not prevent you from acquiring the infection, and they do not prevent you from spreading the virus while you have an active infection.

In people with a healthy, well working immune system, vaccination means an extremely quick resolution of the infection. That should typically include little or no symptoms beyond feeling a little extra tired for a day or so. It also means a minimum amount of time that you might be able to spread the virus to others. Enough of us pre-programmed this way and the virus loses its ability to spread very much until it can't spread at all.

In the article linked below you can see that not everyone has a healthy, well working immune system and vaccination alone is not enough.

In the single agent pharmaceutical model of "proof" each and everything I am going to mention from here on requires a specific trial or test to make any specific claim about how it affects your outcome with a COVID infection. Impractical, and not the paradigm by which anyone is ever going to be able to attain and maintain truly good health.

From the basic sciences of nutrition, biochemistry, human cellular anatomy and physiology we know there are external factors essential for our body to function properly. "Malnourished" does not apply simply to a lack of calories and starvation. It more generally applies to not having everything you need and even too much of things like calories.

I've posted many times now about vitamin D3. It continues to be the single most important, easily modifiable factor for a healthy immune system response to COVID that has shown up in the science literature. People of color anywhere in the US, people who avoid the sun by living and working indoors anywhere, anytime, and light skinned people living above 40 degrees latitude in winter are at risk of insufficiency and deficiency. Enough so that your risk of hospitalization and dying with a COVID infection increases significantly. There is no reason to believe this need for vitamin D is ameliorated by an excellent vaccination program. The question of sufficiency for most can be answered by simply adding an oral D3 supplement to your daily life.

Our immune system needs other micronutrients as well. Insufficiencies and deficiencies compound. Throw in chronic diseases, and the hypothesis for these break through cases of vaccinated people going to the hospital with COVID is self evident. They do not have sufficiently competent immune systems. At least some portion of them could remedy that through healthy food and essential nutrients as medicine.

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I'm still in practice, providing telemedicine for people in Oregon and Montana. My activities on behalf of the Oregon Association of Naturopathic Physicians at the state legislature for insurance pay parity have kept me quite distracted. I hope/plan to announce a new physical place of practice by June.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/14/health/breakthrough-infections-covid-vaccines-cdc/index.html?

Many millions have been vaccinated against the coronavirus; 396 were later hospitalized with Covid-19 About 5,800 people out of tens of millions who have been vaccinated against coronavirus have become infected anyway, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells CNN.

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Naturopathic Physicians Seek Same Reimbursement Rates As Other Physicians - American Association of Naturopathic Physicians House Bill 2673 would require insurers to reimburse naturopathic physicians at the same rate as other physicians for comparable services. Naturopaths and the bill’s backers say the bill is needed as a matter of fairness: They say they provide many of the same services yet are paid less.  Opponent...

The evidence for adequate amounts of vitamin D3 supporting a competent immune response to COVID-19 is by now extremely compelling.

In addition to the multiple large correlation studies there has also been an interventional pilot study conducted in an academic hospital in Cordoba, Spain. While the trial size was small, the results are extremely compelling with a P

Vitamin D can help reduce coronavirus risk by 54%: Boston University doctor Getting sufficient amounts of vitamin D, a nutrient the body makes in response to sun exposure, can reduce a person’s risk of getting coronavirus by 54%, new research from a Boston University…

There are no FDA approved treatments for COVID-19. That does not mean there are no treatments worth trying if you should come down with it. The hospitals are using FDA "unproven" treatments on COVID-19 patients every day.

Echinacea was introduced to European settlers of N. America by the indigenous people they found already living here. Treating seasonal respiratory illnesses with the plant is a traditional usage. For most people it is a safe herb to use with the most likely worst case outcome being that it made no difference. Modern science has demonstrated structure and function reasons for why this plant might be useful in treating viral respiratory infections.

Echinacea and a whole lot of other supportive "natural" treatments do not fit the pharmaceutical patent model that drives the high prices that can afford FDA approval. So the drug companies are only interested in the plant in-so-much as they can extract and patent a single compound. Herbal medicines are almost always complex with many compounds involved in positive effects.

This post is for educational purposes and not intended as specific medical advice.

Before you find yourself at the mercies of hospitalization and its steeply priced life or death financial aftermath, consult with your naturopathic doctor (ND). NDs are experts in herbal medicine that are licensed in Oregon, Montana and other states to diagnose, treat and prevent disease. They can treat you using any and all legally available materials, including echinacea.

Echinacea—A Source of Potent Antivirals for Respiratory Virus Infections Extracts of Echinacea species have been used traditionally in North America for the control of symptoms of colds, influenza, and other diseases, and some of them have become very popular as “herbal medicines”. Recent studies have revealed ...