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Calcium Gluconate
Calcium gluconate is used to prevent and to treat calcium deficiencies.

*Calcium is naturally found in body, necessary for many normal functions of your body, especially bone formation and maintenance
Sermorelin Acetate
Sermorelin Acetate is a growth hormone-releasing agonist. It works by stimulating the pituitary gland to release growth hormone
Magnesium sulfate
Magnesium sulfate is used as a laxative to relieve occasional constipation.

*Mag Sulfate is important for many systems in the body especially the muscles and nerves.
Acyclovir (Zovirax)
Acyclovir is used to treat infections caused by herpes viruses
Bleomycin
Bleomycin is used to treat squamous cell carcinoma, a skin cancer that can affect the mouth, throat, nose and sinuses, penis, vagina, cervix, and others.

**Squamous epithelial cell - Scale like cell that can be one layer or multiple laters deep.
Magnesium Sulfate
Naturally recurring mineral in the body. Increases water in the intestines.

**Used as a laxative to relieve constipation
Papaverine
Vaso Dialator

Relaxes veins and arteries, which makes them wider and allows blood to pass through them more easily.

**Used for Spasms in intestines
Chelation
is the administration of chelating agents to remove heavy metals from the body.
Most common metals in the body that need to be removed?
lead, arsenic or mercury
What is Mesotherapy
This is a medical specialty that involves injecting microscopic quantities of natural extracts, homeopathic agents, pharmaceuticals and vitamins into the skin. It can be used to eliminate cellulite, promote weight loss, treat aging skin and redundant (sagging) skin, and rejuvenate the hands and neck.
What is BHRT
Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy
What is Anastrozole?
Anastrozole lowers estrogen levels in postmenopausal women, which may slow the growth of certain types of breast tumors that need estrogen to grow in the body.
What is Dehydroepiandrosterone or DHEA?
A steroid secreted chiefly by the adrenal cortex, but also by the testis; it is the principal precursor of urinary 17-ketosteroids.
What does DHEA stand for?
Dehydroepiandrosterone
(dē-hī′drō-ep′ē-an-dros′ter-ōn)

Die-Hydro-epi-androst-er-one
What is Finasteride?
Only taken by Men

Finasteride prevents the conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in the body.
What is DHT?
Dihydrotestosterone

(Men who are bald have HIGH DHT levels.)
*Also will show high stress, acne, balding on head but hair on body, high sex drive.
What is Qurtizole?
The Stress Hormone
What is Pregnenolone?
A steroid that serves as an intermediate in the biosynthesis of numerous hormones, including progesterone.
What does Pregnenolone do?
It helps balance the level of Pregnenolone and Qurtizole for stress control.