Ask a New Yorker: Dr. Raphael Kellman…we started sharing a moment ago
and I was explaining Ask a New Yorker to you. Your thoughts on New York were
great.
Dr. Kellman: I feel that New York City is the center of the world. I think energetically,
the intellectual creativity is centered here in New York City. I look at New
York City as my office, the entire city as my office. It’s my think tank,
the entire city. I don’t have an office of four walls. (laughs). My website
is medicineoftomorrow.com.
Ask a New Yorker: Speaking of your office, I understand it is run by your lovely
wife Jhasya Kellman, who I am very happy to meet today. And who is this guy
here?
Dr. Kellman: This is Proteus. He was one of the Greek Gods. He’s a Burmese
Mountain Dog. There rescue dogs and really look after human beings in need.
He’s a very compassionate dog.
Ask a New Yorker: Who are you? I understand you are a pioneer in combining holistic
medicine with AMA practices. Pray tell?
Dr: Kellman: AMA is American Medical Association or conventional medicine. My
main interest really is not only to synthesize the two, holistic and conventional
, but to blend the two or integrate the two but also to understand where both
disciplines of medicine which are heading. It’s heading into a new paradigm,
into a new understanding of health and healing which is changing right in front
of us, or behind our backs, I should say. Not everyone is aware of this new
paradigm that is beginning to evolve. I think it’s going to play a dominant
role in the medicine of tomorrow.
Ask a New Yorker: Hospitals suck. How do they fit into this paradigm shift?
Dr: Kellman: Unfortunately they’re the last ones to change or to get on
to this wagon of change. Because they’re very much entrenched in protocols
on what they think is good medicine. By and large they’re dealing more
with acute, very, very serious conditions and certain form of medicine is needed
in a hospital setting. But in the doctor’s office before one ends up in
a hospital, that’s where this new paradigm is going to play a major role.
It’s not uncommon to go to a hospital, even to a cardiac step down unit,
and after you suffered a heart attack they’re feeding you not only saturated
fat or trans fats, which we now know is a major cause of heart disease. For
some reason it takes a number of years for this knowledge to enter to hospitals.
Ask a New Yorker: Don’t stop now.
Dr: Kellman: Many people think that holistic medicine or natural medicine (we
sometimes call it functional medicine) is not based in science. This is the
farthest from the truth. It is absolutely routed in science. Many of the natural
compounds, I should say all the natural compounds that I use (when I say natural
compounds I mean compound that we call nutroceuticals) are not necessarily vitamins
but are natural compounds that are either found in our bodies itself or are
found in nature. As opposed to a pharmaceutical drug that is not the same molecular
configuration. Many of these compounds have been well studied, good scientific
studies, we use then in holistic medicine or natural medicine to improve cellular
function, to improve organ function, to improve systems function and to improve
the way systems work together in a systems theory kind of approach to health
and healing.
Ask a New Yorker: I’m all ears.
Dr: Kellman: What really distinguishes holistic medicine or natural medicine
is not so much what you’re using to heal but in your understanding of
how we heal, of how the body heals and why we get sick in the first place. I
believe that is where the convergence, where the merger, now is happening in
conventional and holistic medicine. I’ll give you an example: In cancer
treatments the old way– unfortunately it’s still the current way– of
treating cancer is destroying cancer cells with chemo therapy. This is the atom
bomb approach. The newer way of thinking that’s emerging now is how we
can use the body’s immune system to kill off the cancer cells or to to
keep the cancer cells in check. How can we activate the body’s own intelligence
and the body’s own power in the immune system to kill cancer cells. Now,
that could be through vaccines that they’re developing or through other
methods of getting the immune system to be more active to awaken it to the cancer
that is in front of it. Our immune system is killing off cancer cells all the
time. But for some reason something goes a-rye. They’re not getting it.
They’re missing it. They’re not picking up the fact that there is
cancer. But we now know that the immune system has the potential to destroy
the cancer better than any drug, but we just have to figure out a way to get
the immune system to recognize the cancer is there and to activate the immune
system. This is the philosophy of holistic medicine that I’ve been practicing
for the last 15 years.
Ask a New Yorker: What other ailments do your clients have that come see you?
Dr: Kellman: I get a lot of patients with unexplained problems, people with
unexplained fatigue, unexplained brain fog, difficulty concentrating, difficulty
focusing, sometimes and depression. And weight gain. There a constellation of
symptoms that we see frequently. This group of people tends to be easily dismissed
from the doctor’s office. They fall through the cracks of modern medicine
and that is because the test that doctors are using frequently misses the real
problem that most people are presented with. Most people present with a constellation
of symptoms and problems and there isn’t an obvious diagnosis that the
doctors can pin on them. Frequently it’s because the test are not looking
deep enough to understand the deeper metabolic and deeper hormonal issues that
are at play.
Ask a New Yorker: O.K., I want to talk about into the benefits of that health
drink I just drank. What was in that?
Dr.Kellman: Actually just drinking that juice with all different types of kale,
broccoli and a few other greens in itself is a functional medicine treatment
because we are using all these nutrients and antioxidants to improve cell function,
to improve brain function. I can make a cocktail of natural compounds that people
will feel a higher lever cognizant function right afterwards.
Ask a New Yorker: I love it, the natural high which eliminates all brain fog,
neuro enhancement, brilliant. Thank you Dr. Kellman.
