Founded in 1994, the Carolina Center for Integrative Medicine assists patients of all ages in regaining their health and maintaining good health throughout their lives through proactive self care, scientifically-based complementary therapies, and preventive medicine. We believe that the best medicine involves the careful integration of conventional, complementary, and alternative therapies and that this approach will lead to safer, more affordable, and more effective healthcare. We believe that the most effective health care is aimed at comprehensively addressing the unique and diverse needs of each individual.  We provide a range of biologically based, innovative treatments for chronic disease as well as self-care strategies for keeping people healthy over the long term.  As the oldest integrative medicine facility in the Triangle area, the Carolina Center combines complementary, alternative, and conventional therapies in a systematic way so as to establish a strong foundation for health and healing.

Hyperbaric Therapy May Aid in Stroke Recovery

Stroke is among the more common and costly causes of disability and death in the United States.  Each year, about 795,000 people suffer a stroke, which is usually due to a disruption in the blood supply to the brain.  Though physicians typically tell their patient that nothing can be done other than bed rest, this belief may soon become outmoded. ....Read More

Chelation Therapy for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease?

Much research suggests that mercury, lead, iron, copper and other metals can accumulate in the brain and may contribute to the development of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer's.  This has logically led to the idea that chelation therapy may be a therapeutic option for these conditions, as proposed by Belgian researchers in the April 2012 issue of Current Medicinal Chemistry.  The authors review chelators currently available and capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier.  They note that chelation’s potential for treating these “diseases of the aging brain” has yet to receive in-depth scientific attention, even though numerous studies have linked accumulations of these metals to brain degeneration.

IV Vitamin C Holds Promise for Cancer Treatment: 3 Reports

The role of vitamin C in cancer care has had a complex history dating back to the 1970s.  In several of the earliest studies, two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling reported an unexpected increase in survival in advanced cancer patients who had received high-dose vitamin C daily.  This approach was later dismissed when a randomized controlled trial (RCT) showed no impact on survival.  However, whereas the RCT used the oral form of vitamin C, Dr. Pauling had relied heavily on intravenous vitamin C, which is capable of achieving a much higher blood level of the vitamin.  Recent studies have shown that only the high-dose, intravenous form has an anti-tumor impact....Read More