Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

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Today’s video:

This series will focus on ANALYSIS AND ACTION
- What tests in what context
- What are you going to do about it
- Any social or “big picture” considerations
My history with this material:
- Yes, we actually had dedicated classes in Clinical Laboratory and Patient Management in chiro/ND school while none of this was mentioned in “medical school”—just like Radiographs, Clinical Therapeutics, EENT, and a bunch of other important topics that needed dedicated courses.
- Decades of reviewing lab tests in patient care.
- Most common and important lab tests are reviewed in Chapter 1 of Inflammation Mastery 4^th Edition.
  - Click here to see the first few pages, including the table of contents and index (size: 6 MB)
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- I have taught many courses that include laboratory interpretation including Orthopedics, Rheumatology, and Clinical Laboratory Medicine—the latter for about 4 or 5 years in a Master’s / Postgraduate program for doctors, and by the final year (2011) the class was actually competent—those course notes are now included in Inflammation Mastery 4^th Edition.
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- I taught theLaboratory Assessment lecture of our 3-instructor Immune/Inflammatory Disorders Conference at the Institute for Functional Medicine (where I was Faculty since 2003) until 2013 until IFM President David Jones “Mr Spirituality and Community” sent me a hyperarrogant email demanding free access to my 2013 International Conference on Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, which I of course rejected out of respect for my own work (I paid for the entire conference myself, including venue, printed notes, travel, hotel, food, and generous compensation for the presenters) and also respect for my graduate students, some of whom were single mothers working up to 2 jobs to pay for their tuition; later that year, IFM announced my replacement on Facebook but never had the courage to tell me directly. So much for my 11 years of nonprofit “service” and helping grow the organization from a time when they could not even pay their faculty!

You have to know the “core competencies”—the more you know, the better.
You have to have systems and strategies for patient assessment, this demonstrates that you know what to look for (eg, what is likely, and what is dangerous) and that you have thought out the process ahead of time
You have to look for and try to make more than one diagnosis at a time; then each diagnosis carries its responsibilities. Just because you find a diagnosis does not mean that you found the only diagnosis— “Patients are entitled to more than one disease.” Ron LeFebvre DC
Real experts know and respect real diseases, and they rule-out real diseases before looking for “functional” problems
You must have backup plans for your strategy because sometimes your first strategy does not work perfectly.
1. What if your patient refuses lab tests?
2. What is the difference between CHRONIC PAIN with a ferritin of 4 vs a ferritin of 450, assuming a benign CRP et al?
Most common and important lab tests are reviewed in Chapter 1 ofInflammation Mastery 4^th Edition.
- Click here to see the first few pages, including the table of contents and index
- Click here for a larger sample with photos
- DOWNLOAD a *free* sample of Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition here via the *free* Kindle software from Amazon

LABORATORY TESTING of CHRONIC PAIN (1) Review of TWO (2!) lab tests that actually direct treatment in CHRONIC PAIN AND MIGRAINE and yet most doctors don’t even know about them

Clinical-Laboratory Assessment of Chronic Pain…

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LABORATORY TESTING of CHRONIC PAIN (2) Common Problems occur Commonly which is why these tests have to be part of your routine system, not an occasional afterthought

Note: PDF articles are provided at the end of this page, along with any related infographics/images…

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Clinical-Laboratory Assessment of Chronic Pain (3) IRON DEFICIENCY vs IRON OVERLOAD flow diagram, management

Too much or too little iron = possible major health consequences…

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LABS for CHRONIC PAIN (4) What if your patient refuses lab tests? What is the difference between CHRONIC PAIN with a ferritin of 4 vs a ferritin of 450, assuming a benign CRP et al?

Note: PDF articles are provided at the end of this page, along with any related infographics/images…

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LABS for CHRONIC PAIN (5) What is the probable diagnosis and next lab test?

Image and case presentation from PMC1114910 with full-text PDF provided below…

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LABS for CHRONIC PAIN (6) VitaminD deficiency causes CHRONIC PAIN and PAIN AMPLIFICATION

VitaminD deficiency causes CHRONIC PAIN and PAIN AMPLIFICATION…

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LABS for PAIN (7) Testing MELATONIN? before using Melatonin for CHRONIC PAIN conditions like MIGRAINE and FIBROMYALGIA??

In order to understand today's video, you need to have seen my video review of the disastrous 2026 guidelines published by the American Academy of Neurology, which guarantee the failure of treatments for patients who suffer with migraine…

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POLICY: new Chronic Pain category “NOCIPLASTIC” is complete nonsense—a garbage pail label to apply to diverse treatable conditions to make them untreatable and highly drugable for max Pharma sales

INFLAMMATION MASTERY — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:10:46 GMT

In the videos for this weekend, I will start by deconstructing the absurd nonsense floating under the title of “nociplastic pain” which I began to discuss yesterday (with those discussions from yesterday included on this page below).

You can take her or leave it, but I will advance the argument that this nonsensical categorization is just a garbage pail to receive “medically untreatable conditions” that now have a new treatment option based on this absurd categorization of “nociplastic pain” which “justifies” the use of an entire category of dangerous, expensive and therapeutically worthless drugs.

Part1: My initial review and critique

The first video that will be made available is completely raw and uncut and will later be at least partially edited if not only to improve certain aesthetics or sound quality, etc.
The first unedited video will be made available for free: so take advantage of it while you can because later after I’ve invested time to edit the video only a certain portion will remain available for free and the remainder will be available for people who actually pay to support this work.
The edited version is now available with substantiation of my assertion

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Part2: “Nociplastic pain” is simply a garbage pail to receive very treatable conditions that the medical profession refuses to treat effectively

Confirming the opinion that most medical doctors are incapable of independent thought, this new categorization of pain has received a list of very treatable and explainable conditions that the medical profession as a whole/hole has repeatedly proven itself incapable of understanding, despite the fact that some of us have understood and have explained these conditions for more than two decades.
I do not believe that any rational intelligent literate person can look at this new categorization of “Nociplastic pain” and consider it valid. You are welcome to disagree with me and you are also welcome to think that the Earth is flat and that President Nixon used a land telephone to talk to astronauts on the moon in 1969.
The medical profession is putting all of its greatest failures into one single category, despite lacking any biological rationale, let alone therapeutic success:
1. restless leg syndrome,
2. chronic fatigue syndrome,
3. fibromyalgia,
4. temporomandibular disorder,
5. migraine or tension headache,
6. irritable bowel syndrome,
7. multiple chemical sensitivities,
8. whiplash injury
Any semiconscious clinician will note the stupidity of putting these divergent conditions into the same category, and any expert-level clinician should feel nauseous or at least offended by this absurdity.

Part3: My biochemically-plausible clinically-justified evidence-supported correction to their miscarriage of medical science

What they present as a mystery I can solve spontaneously and I will do so in the second video so be subscribed and stay tuned.

As a general rule, the more names a condition has (especially when it is called a “syndrome”) and/or the more weird and nonsensical the name is for a condition, the more likely is the hijacking of that condition for medical-pharmaceutical profiteering:

Example: Type-2 diabetes was formerly called “glucose intolerance” to underscore the fact that these patients had lost the ability to tolerate overconsumption of carbohydrates and therefore the obvious solution was to avoid carbohydrates to restore physiologic function. But a diet-centered approach did not maximize drug profiteering, so the condition was renamed “syndrome X” (eg, Syndrome X: is it for real? Genet Epidemiol 1998) in the 1990s and then renamed to “insulin resistance” to complicate the understanding and then sell more drugs, especially pancreas-pushing Sulfonylureas—given as pills to force the beta-cells in the pancreas to produce and release more insulin. Later, “bariatric surgery” was pushed as the definitive treatment, but only after many years of drug pushing to maximize profits from both.
Example: Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) was previously called “reflex sympathetic dystrophy” (RSD) because RSD describes the neurological pathways involved and the physical appearance of the consequences. CRPS does not tell anyone anything except that it is something painful and that it is “complex” which is the entire goal of the nomenclature—make doctors think the condition is too complex to understand so they will be intimidated and passive so that they just quit thinking, quit searching, and just use the drug buffet guidelines to keep these patients on drugs for the rest of their lives, which is obviously the most profitable.

After decades of therapeutic failure in the management of chronic pain, the medical-pharma profession stopped looking for new solutions and new causes, and instead they just created a new category of pain called “nociplastic pain” which is defined as “your pain is causing itselfand you’ll have to be on maximum drugging and multiple drugs for the rest of your life.

This renaming was a rebranding in 2017 just in time for the 2018 launch of the new migraine drugs that cost $7,000 - $10,000 per year with a failure rate of about 6 per 7 patients (85%!!). Now doctors were authorized to keep a straight face when they lied to patients and just told them that “your pain is causing itself and you’ll have to be on drugs for the rest of your life.”

Disorder of sensory processing = your brain is screwed up
Neurogenic neuroinflammation = your brain is causing its own inflammation
Nociplastic pain = we are desperate for a confusing name so now we are going to say that your pain is reforming your brain and it is your brain’s fault!

Example of “Disorder of sensory processing” = your brain is screwed up

Example of Neurogenic neuroinflammation = your brain is causing its own inflammation

Example of Nociplastic pain = we are desperate for a confusing name so now we are going to say that your pain is reforming your brain and it is your brain’s fault!

I have been clear and consistent for years per my books, articles and videos (linked below) that I think the medical management of these chronic pain conditions is an INTENTIONAL FAILURE and example of STRATEGIC STUPIDITY in order to sell more drugs and maintain control over these populations of patients.

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Furthermore and clearly from a Nietzschean perspective, this is what he called SEDUCTION BY GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTION which is using language to confuse people and thereby control them.

SEDUCTION BY GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTION is using language to confuse people and thereby control them.

Thanks, STANFORD PAIN MEDICINE! I feel so happy when they keep proving that I’m right about their misperception and mismanagement of CHRONIC PAIN: My new work on MIGRAINE is going to Flip the Script!

Stanford Medical School/Center just published a recent post under the title of “Stanford Pain Medicine“ describing “four types of chronic pain” as you can see in the image provided below, which includes my comment to them.

As you can imagine, I’m quite delighted that they still think this way because this proves that I was right when I said six years ago that the entire medical profession is hopelessly lost in their perception of chronic pain conditions and that’s why their treatments for chronic pain have a 97% failure rate, even by their own pro-medical guideline-endorsed standards.

If the medical model of “chronic pain” is wrong, then “targeted treatments” are only going to hit the wrong targets, and this explains the >95% failure rate of medical pain guidelines.—DrV

They keep falling into the same hole of bad modeling, logical errors, bad treatments and 30 years of therapeutic stagation, bad failure-guaranteeing guidelines, and perpetual nutritional ignorance.

You can see in the screenshot below from my video review of “vitamin D deficiency in chronic pain” that I was already critiquing this outdated medical model 6 years ago, even when I myself still had CRPS (!!!) as I discussed recently.

You will have noticed in my video review of “the role of vitamin D deficiency in chronic pain” that I specifically attacked the medical model of chronic pain because of its emphasis on these two types of chronic pain—nociceptive and neuropathic—that they most commonly treat with their ineffective drugs. If the model is wrong, then “targeted treatments” are only going to hit the wrong targets.

They feel very proud of themselves that they have now added a third condition which is called “nociplastic pain“ which is an extension of the absurd “neurogenic neuroinflammation” model published around 2016 which I addressed in my correspondence to the journal Nature Reviews Rheumatology after deciphering their physiology gaslighting titled—citations for those publications are provided here:

Littlejohn G. Neurogenic neuroinflammation in fibromyalgia and complex regional pain syndrome. Nat Rev Rheumatol. 2015 Nov;11(11):639-48
Vasquez A. Neuroinflammation in fibromyalgia and CRPS is multifactorial. Nat Rev Rheumatol. 2016 Apr;12(4):242

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HUMAN MICROBIOME AND DYSBIOSIS IN CLINICAL DISEASE are being re-uploaded in Feb-Mar 2025 to provide direct and reliable access through the substack platform:

Can you answer these 10 questions on dysbiosis and microbiome?
VIDEO with discussion of QUESTIONS and ANSWERS 1-5 with Test-Taking Strategies
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS for Dysbiosis & Microbiome (6-10) with Test-Taking Strategies
Microbiome Dysbiosis (1) Course Overview and Introduction to Major Concepts and Mechanisms
Microbiome Dysbiosis (2) Physiologic and Pathologic Mechanisms of Dysbiosis and Subclinical Microbial Colonizations (VIDEO:1hour,15minutes)
Microbiome Dysbiosis (3) Prototypes of Dysbiosis-Induced Disease(VIDEO:1hour,42minutes=102minutes)
Microbiome Dysbiosis (4) Conceptual Expansion Exploring Clinical Testing, Microbial Relevance and Irrelevance [VIDEO:1hour,18minutes=78minutes]
Microbiome Dysbiosis (5) Microbial Consequences in the Mouth, Oral Cavity[VIDEO:1hour,44minutes=104minutes]
Microbiome Dysbiosis (6) Microbial Imbalances in the Respiratory Tract and Sinuses[VIDEO:1hour,35minutes=95minutes]
Microbiome Dysbiosis (7) Dysbiosis by Location—Genitourinary Tract
Microbiome Dysbiosis (8) Dysbiosis by Location—Blood, Tissue, Parenchymal Dysbioses
Microbiome Dysbiosis (9) Dysbiosis by Location—Skin and Environmental Dysbiosis

TREATMENT of CHRONIC PAIN (migraine, fibromyalgia) with MELATONIN

INFLAMMATION MASTERY — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:58:12 GMT

In order to understand today’s video, you need to have seen my video review of the disastrous 2026 guidelines published by the American Academy of Neurology, which guarantee the failure of treatments for patients who suffer with migraine.

Questions from today’s video:

Should we use laboratory testing before using melatonin as a therapy for chronic pain conditions?
Why does the medical profession as a whole so commonly ignore its own published and verified data?
Why do humans as a group commonly prefer to avoid thinking and using their brains when thoughtfulness and perspectivism are among the defining characteristics of our species?
In what ways does the medical profession self-select for obedient zombies with psychopathic tendencies rather than thoughtful scientists trying to help humanity?
Should people who can think and read accept their positions as separate and outside of the larger human society?

You have to know the “core competencies”—the more you know, the better.
You have to have systems and strategies for patient assessment, this demonstrates that you know what to look for (eg, what is likely, and what is dangerous) and that you have thought out the process ahead of time
You have to look for and try to make more than one diagnosis at a time; then each diagnosis carries its responsibilities. Just because you find a diagnosis does not mean that you found the only diagnosis— “Patients are entitled to more than one disease.” Ron LeFebvre DC
Real experts know and respect real diseases, and they rule-out real diseases before looking for “functional” problems
You must have backup plans for your strategy because sometimes your first strategy does not work perfectly.
1. What if your patient refuses lab tests?
2. What is the difference between CHRONIC PAIN with a ferritin of 4 vs a ferritin of 450, assuming a benign CRP et al?
Most common and important lab tests are reviewed in Chapter 1 ofInflammation Mastery 4^th Edition.
- Click here to see the first few pages, including the table of contents and index
- Click here for a larger sample with photos
- DOWNLOAD a *free* sample of Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition here via the *free* Kindle software from Amazon

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ARTICLE: Mitochondrial Medicine Arrives to Prime Time in Clinical Care: Nutritional Biochemistry and Mito Hyperpermeability (“Leaky Mitochondria”) Meet Disease Pathogenesis and Clinical Interventions

INFLAMMATION MASTERY — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:58:47 GMT

REPRINT: Mitochondrial Medicine Arrives to Prime Time in Clinical Care: Nutritional Biochemistry and Mitochondrial Hyperpermeability (“Leaky Mitochondria”) Meet Disease Pathogenesis and Clinical Interventions

Citation:

Vasquez A. Mitochondrial Medicine Arrives to Prime Time in Clinical Care: Nutritional Biochemistry and Mitochondrial Hyperpermeability (”Leaky Mitochondria”) Meet Disease Pathogenesis and Clinical Interventions. Integr Med 2014 Aug;13(4):44-9. PMID: 26770108; PMCID: PMC4566442

Mitochondrial Medicine Arrives to General Practice and Routine Patient Care: from Orphan Status to Daily Consideration

Mitochondrial disorders were once relegated to “orphan” status as topics for small paragraphs in pathology textbooks and the hospital-based practices of subspecialists. With the increasing appreciation of the high frequency and ease of treatment of mitochondrial dysfunction, this common cause and consequence of many conditions seen in both primary and specialty care deserves the attention of all practicing clinicians.

We all know that mitochondria are the intracellular organelles responsible for the production of the currency of cellular energy in the form of the molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP); by this time, contemporary clinicians should be developing an awareness of the other roles that mitochondria play in (patho)physiology and clinical practice. Beyond being simple organelles that make ATP, mitochondria play clinically significant roles in autoimmunity, inflammation, cancer, insulin resistance, cardiometabolic disease such as hypertension and heart failure, and neurologic disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. As I stated during the recent International Conference on Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine1 in Portland (see my scoping review at ICHNFM2013), Oregon, in September 2013, we have collectively arrived at a time when mitochondrial therapeutics and the contribution of mitochondrial dysfunction to clinical diseases must be considered on a routine basis in clinical practice.

Mitochondrial medicine is no longer an orphan topic, nor is it a superfluous consideration relegated to boutique practices. Mitochondrial medicine is ready for prime time— now—both in the general practice of primary care as well as in specialty and subspecialty medicine.

More details and clinical interventions are provided in Chapter 4 of Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition

Mitochondrial medicine is no longer an orphan topic, nor is it a superfluous consideration relegated to boutique practices. Mitochondrial medicine is ready for prime time— now—both in the general practice of primary care as well as in specialty and subspecialty medicine. What I describe here as the “new” mitochondrial medicine is the application of assessments and treatments to routine clinical practice primarily for the treatment of secondary/acquired forms of mitochondrial impairment that contribute to common conditions such as fatigue, depression, fibromyalgia, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative conditions, and other inflammatory and dysmetabolic conditions such as allergy and autoimmunity.

Beyond Biochemistry

Structure and function are of course intimately related and must be appreciated before clinical implications can be understood and interventions thereafter applied with practical precision. The 4 main structures and spaces of the mitochondria are (1) intramitochondrial matrix—the innermost/interior aspect of the mitochondria containing various proteins, enzymes of the Krebs cycle, and mitochondrial DNA; (2) inner membrane—the largely impermeable lipid-rich convoluted/invaginated membrane that envelopes and defines the matrix and which is the structural home of many enzymes, transport systems, and important structures such as cardiolipin and the electron transport chain (ETC); (3) intermembrane space—contains noteworthy molecules: creatine-phosphokinase and cytochrome c; and (4) outer membrane—comparatively more permeable (to molecules <10 000 Dalton) and—like the inner membrane—very lipid-rich and with active and passive transport systems for select molecules that need to enter and exit the mitochondria. Clinicians need to appreciate that mitochondrial membrane integrity is of the highest importance; just as we have come to appreciate the importance of mucosal integrity of the gastrointestinal tract and the pathophysiologic complications of barrier defects (eg, “leaky gut”), so must we also now appreciate the clinical importance of defects in mitochondrial membranes (eg, “leaky mitochondria”). Hyperpermeability of the mitochondrial inner membrane (MIM) compromises ATP production and promotes loss of function and cell death; consider the implications for mitochondrial dysfunction in the brain (eg, dementia, Parkinsonism), muscle (eg, fibromyalgia), and pancreas and peripheral tissues (eg, diabetes, insulin resistance). Hyperpermeability of the outer membrane releases cytochrome c into the cytosol, likewise triggering cell death by apoptosis. Thus, the clinical implications of leaky mitochondrial membranes are immediately apparent. Leaky mitochondrial membranes cause mitochondrial impairment promoting progressive functional loss resulting in clinical disease. The pattern of clinical expression and thus the accompanying diagnosis are dependent on many variables, including the location of the most affected tissues, severity of impairment, resilience and adaptation, and other concomitant influences such as age, nutritional status, microbial colonizations, hormonal balance, and xenobiotic accumulation.2 Note that each of these latter-mentioned variables also contains virtually innumerable subvariables, hence the multitude of disparate-yet-related entities that are encountered clinically, depending on the host’s unique combination of dysfunctions.

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Clinicians must appreciate that mitochondrial disorders are varied and heterogenous, ranging from simple (1 focal defect) to complex (several simultaneous defects), including primary (genotropic), secondary (acquired), and mixed (gene defect along with acquired mitochondrial impairment) etiologies. Severe genotropic mitochondriopathies are rare in outpatient clinical practice; much more common are the milder mitochondriopathies of secondary or mixed origin. Mitochondrial performance can be casually described along a continuum starting with optimal (think Olympian: healthy and with abundant physiologic reserve) with a conceptual midpoint of average (think of your average person who can give a full day’s work but who gets winded and has to rest when climbing stairs [eg, low physiologic reserve, fails when stressed]) to a terminal endpoint of a very frail and fragile mitochondrion, whose performance barely sustains life and whose performance becomes subvital when stressed for example by the addition of some physiologic insult such as toxin exposure, infection, or nutrient deficiency. In order to obtain and maintain optimal health, we as clinicians need to promote optimal mitochondrial function, moving the frail and failing mitochondria toward average, and the average (suitable for low performance but intolerant of stressors and incompatible with optimal longevity and health) toward optimal, Olympian status, at least ideally.

Memorization of part or all of the ATP production pathway is a common requirement for biochemistry courses in medical schools; yet, ironically, few medical graduates go on to apply this information clinically. Familiarity with the main components of the ATP production pathway allows us to visualize locations of defects and anticipate the pathophysiologic sequelae. In my visualization of this pathway, I consider the 5 main components to be (1) glycolysis—the cytoplasmic enzymatic conversion of sugars into pyruvate/lactate; (2) pyruvate dehydrogenase complex—enzymatic and nutrient-dependent conversion of pyruvate to acetyl-CoA; (3) Krebs/citric acid cycle—intramitochondrial enzymatic degradation of acetyl-CoA into its constituent carbon and hydrogen atoms to fuel ATP production; leading finally to (4) the ETC complexes 1 to 5, the last also called ATP synthase. A fifth component—(5) accessory fuel sources— feeds other sugars such as fructose into the glycolysis pathway and feeds nonsugar fuels such as alcohol, amino acids, and fatty acids into the Krebs cycle as acetyl-CoA. Genotropic defects can occur at any of the enzymatic and transport steps along this pathway; likewise, certain microbial and xenobiotic toxins impair specific points along the ATP production pathway. For example, the food preservative sulfite (-SO₃²⁻) impairs the conversion of glutamate by glutamate dehydrogenase into α-ketoglutarate, an important fuel source for the Krebs cycle; by this mechanism, sulfite can cause a 50% reduction in ATP production in various human/animal cell types, with human brain neurons suspected to be the most vulnerable3 whereas clinically sulfite is known to exacerbate migraine headaches.4The microbial toxin hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) poisons the ETC, with potency greater than that of cyanide.5

Speaking as a former medical student who memorized and could graphically recite every step of the 5 components of the ATP production pathway (see diagram onlinei), I see now an important shortcoming to this academic and biochemistry-centric approach. Such an approach focused almost exclusively on substrates and enzymatic conversions but without consideration of the anatomy and physiology of the surrounding subcellular milieu; furthermore, our memorization of biochemical pathways was—except for the inclusion of various fuel sources—essentially devoid of the real-world implications of diet and the effects of particular foods on mitochondrial function. Isolated biochemical pathways only exist as a simplification of reality for the sake of our comprehension, so that we can grasp one particular facet of a phenomenon; in reality, pathways do not exist outside of the networks in which they are contained, interconnected, and influenced.6 This “clinical contextualization” is what makes all the difference when translating our basic science education and research into real-life clinical effectiveness. Let us look at 4 examples in the following paragraph by contextualizing mitochondrial function with respect to (1) fructose as a fuel source, (2) ROS-induced damage to the MIM, (3) exposure to microbes, and (4) exposure to xenobiotics (persistent organic pollutants, or POPs).

If we simply draw all glycolytic and ATP-producing pathways on paper, the flow of fructose into the glycolytic pathway gives the appearance that fructose is a benign fuel suitable for human (over)consumption; in reality, fructose’s conversion to fructose-1-phosphate drains ATP from the cell, promotes a dramatic inflammatory response, and leads to clinical features of insulin resistance, hypertension, and metabolic syndrome via several mechanisms, one of which is increased production of uric acid.7 Clearly, therefore, not all carbohydrate substrates are equivalent; carbohydrate type and dietary context affect mitochondrial function independently of calorie quantification. The clinical importance of the integrity of the MIM has been demonstrated by the research of Nicolson reviewed in an accompanying article in this issue8 and is discussed below. Briefly, Nicolson’s clinical trials have shown significant reductions in subjective and objective measures of fatigue (the most common clinical syndrome associated with mitochondrial dysfunction) with the use of orally administered phospholipids targeted to rebuild/restore the mitochondrial inner membrane; reduction of MIM permeability restores the potency of the trans-MIM electromechanical gradient necessary for optimal and efficient protonic propulsion of ETC complex 5 (ATP synthase) for its energy-dependent phosphorylation of adenosine diphosphate (ADP) into ATP. Microorganisms such as viruses and Gram-negative bacteria greatly affect mitochondrial function and can promote the clinical phenotype of mitochondrial disease (ie, microbial mitochonriopathy). Herpes simplex virus destroys mitochondrial DNA9 and likely contributes to Alzheimer’s disease,10 a condition that is well known to have a significant mitochondriopathic component.11 Endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide, or LPS) from Gram-negative bacteria impairs cellular bioenergetics, as evidenced by postexposure increased lactic acid production,12which probably originates from immunocytes.13 LPS activates of the mammalian/mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR)14 and induces mitochondrial polarization, which increases inflammatory mediator production and skews the clinical phenotype toward one consistent with autoimmunity, as seen for example in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE, lupus).15,16 Finally, environmental toxins such as POPs are bioaccumulative, and the body burden of POPs in humans correlates with induction of human disease such as diabetes mellitus17 and Parkinson’s disease18 via mitochondrial impairment, what I refer to as xenobiotic mitochondriopathy. Thus, per these simple examples, we can appreciate at least 4 types of acquired mitochondrial disorders—dietary, oxidative, microbial, and xenobiotic; readers can ponder the overlapping effects of these mitochondriopathic influences when combined together as they always are in the real world. Picture the prototypic pristine mitochondria performing prodigiously, and now contextualize that otherwise-perfect mitochondria within a patient who overconsumes high-fructose corn syrup, has multiple antioxidant deficiencies caused by poor diet choices and lack of nutritional supplementation, harbors small intestinal bacterial overgrowth with Gram-negative bacteria, and has accumulation of POPs; now you should see how mitochondrial function is critically affected by lifestyle choices, occult infections/dysbiosis, and environmental exposure to corporate pollution. You now see the development of a sufficient recipe, augmented by adding an inactive lifestyle and perhaps (optionally) genetic predispositions, for pandemics of obesity, allergic and autoimmune disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes, and dysinsulinemic and inflammation-driven cardiovascular diseases.

Reasons for the emergence of routine mitochondrial medicine include (1) progress in basic sciences—increased awareness of the full spectrum of roles played by mitochondria in health and disease; (2) changes in clinical landscape—increased prevalence of mitochondriopathy-related disorders ranging from diabetes to neurodegeneration; (3) increased awareness of the adverse effect that certain foods can have on mitochondrial function—consumption of mitochondria-impairing foods such as high-fructose corn syrup can promote hypertension and insulin resistance; and (4) awareness that many common pollutants impair mitochondrial function—we are all exposed to pollutants, particularly herbicides and pesticides, and many of us also to mitochondria-poisoning medications.19 Science in “mitochondriology” has advanced at the same time as the prevalence of diseases associated with mitochondrial dysfunction, thus culminating in a perfect storm for the condensation of a “new” clinical science and therapeutic opportunity: mitochondrial medicine.

In this issue of Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal, Professor Nicolson reviews the literature and his primary research experience regarding the importance of and means for enhancing mitochondrial function in clinical practice. Two aspects of his work and perspective that I like most are as follows: (1) the approach he advocates is safe, effective, and logical, and I am a fan of each of these; and (2) Dr Nicolson’s approach focusing on MIM restoration is unique in its respect for the importance of restoring subcellular structure as a means by which to improve physiologic function and thereby positively influence the patient’s clinical presentation. Thus, the effectiveness of his approach provides proof of principle, validating and underscoring the importance of mitochondrial membrane integrity for the alleviation of human diseases related to mitochondrial dysfunction. Proton leak across the MIM, which occurs in several types including basal (transmembrane), augmented (via uncoupling proteins), and xenobiotic/pharmacologic (eg, salicylic acid and 2,4-dinitrophenol) forms, is biologically expensive, commonly accounting for 20%–35% of biological energy expenditure in different cell types from various species. The work of Dr Nicolson and his colleagues emphasizes the use of oral supplementation with phospholipids unique to the MIM to restore its structure and function by replacing damaged MIM phospholipids and thereby reducing MIM hyperpermeability to protons; again, MIM hyperpermeability reduces ATP production via oxidative phosphorylation by reducing the electromechanical gradient necessary to physically drive ATP synthase’s rotary catalysis. Stated simply, if the MIM is leaky because of oxidative damage, then the “ATP-producing pump” (ETC complex No. 5, the ATP synthase enzyme) cannot function at optimal efficiency because the protons will leak across the hyperpermeable MIM in a random manner rather than being funneled through the channel of ATP synthase.

Clinical Applications

Genotropic mitochondrial disorders generally manifest in infancy and childhood; however, some genotropic mitochondrial disorders have a surprising presentation later in adulthood following an apparently normal childhood and adolescence. Secondary or acquired mitochondrial disorders can present at any age but are more common in adults, for example following acquisition of persistent microbial colonizations or accumulation of organic pollutants. Clinicians have to base their evaluation and treatment on the perceived genesis and severity of the patient’s presentation.

On one end of the spectrum might be an infant with failure to thrive, seizures, and neurodevelopmental delay suggesting the possibility of a rare, specific, severe “primary” genotropic mitochondrial disorder; such cases necessitate full evaluation (likely including genetic testing, neuroimaging, and cell/tissue analysis) and are best managed by a subspecialist. More commonly, clinicians in outpatient practice will encounter either “secondary” or “mixed” mitochondrial disorders, which are of mild-moderate severity and which do not necessarily require extensive or specialized laboratory assessments.

The clinical approach to assessing and treating mitochondrial disorders can be simple or complex; the clinician’s experience and the patient’s presentation are important determinants of the need (if any) and extent and expense of the evaluation. Some clinicians like to profit from the use of numerous “justifiable” laboratory tests, whereas others of us focus on patient-centered clinical efficacy (see Author Disclosure Statement). Assessment of mitochondrial disorders may need to take very different routes depending on the age of the patient, nature of the disorder, speed of onset, severity of manifestations, and overall clinical picture and the presence/absence of multisystem disease. In general outpatient practice, the assessment and treatment of most mitochondrial disorders is best performed empirically, based on the clinician’s ability to pattern recognize, correlating the patient’s complaint(s) with known data from published research; response to mitochondria-enhancing treatment supports the assessment (ie, success of prospective treatment supports/confirms the diagnosis).

The full spectrum of assessments for mitochondrial disorders can range from relatively simple laboratory tests (eg, serum lactate, serum coenzyme Q₁₀, blood/urine organic acid analysis), to analysis of cells and tissues (eg, measurements of mitochondrial function in skin cells, peripheral blood monocytes, muscle biopsy), to genetic analysis and neurodiagnostic tests; most of these tests are best reserved for the evaluation of more severe cases of suspected mitochondrial disease, because their routine use in the evaluation of the more commonplace mild forms of mitochondrial impairment emphasized in this article is clinically unnecessary while adding unnecessary financial burden to patients and the health care system. The authentic “objective” need for laboratory and invasive assessments is determined by clinical severity of the presentation; perceived “subjective” needs for such tests include patient reassurance and the desire of some clinicians to financially profit from expensive tests. More commonly than not, clinicians can implement mitochondria-enhancing interventions without the use of specialty testing. Furthermore and very important, when treating secondary/acquired mitochondrial disorders, we obviously have to “think outside of the mitochondria” to address the cause(s) of the mitochondrial impairment, most commonly arising from various combinations of nutrient deficiencies, carbohydrate excess, toxin exposures, and microbial colonizations. My approach to treating mitochondrial dysfunction includes 3 main categories of interventions: (1) promotion of mitophagy, (2) mitochondrial support and stimulation, and (3) therapeutic disinhibition.1

Conclusions

Whether they appreciate mitochondrial disorders or not, practicing clinicians see patients with mitochondrial impairment virtually every day in their clinical practices. As noted in the popular article by Pieczenik and Neustadt,20clinical disorders associated with mitochondrial dysfunction include schizophrenia, bipolar disease, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, migraine headaches, stroke, neuropathic pain, Parkinson’s disease, ataxia, transient ischemic attack, cardiomyopathy, coronary artery disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, retinitis pigmentosa, diabetes mellitus, hepatitis C, and primary biliary cirrhosis; to that list I will add/specify hypertension,21 allergy, autoimmunity, and many acute care disorders such as those treated in intensive care units, including sepsis and trauma.22 Many clinical conditions involve vicious cycles of oxidative stress, mitochondrial impairment, tissue damage, and inflammatory/immune responses; the cycle can and must be addressed from as many facets as possible.2Given the wealth of information implicating mitochondrial dysfunction in the common health disorders that are encountered in routine clinical care, one finds a very curious underreporting of this association in the standard clinical medicine literature. This information-practice discordance could be attributed to the typical bench-to-bedside translational time lag, but it is probably strongly promoted by the fact that the main interventions for restoring and optimizing mitochondrial function are not drugs but are nutrients: vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, phospholipids, and phytonutrients—therapeutics not generally taught in standard medical schools.23,24 If clinical practice is to be science-based, and if we as clinicians are to deliver the best possible care to our patients, then mitochondrial interventions need to be implemented on a routine basis to many of the conditions that we commonly see in clinical practice. The data are already published, the model is sufficiently substantiated, and the therapeutics are safe and effective. Similar to the paradigm shift by Vasquez, Manso, and Cannel25 that this journal published 10 years ago on the clinical importance of vitamin D, we are ready for another paradigm shift and change in clinical practice: this time, for mitochondrial interventions. Indeed, the time for action is now.

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The Clinical Significance of the Mitochondrial Intermembrane Space

ETC structure, with additional emphasis on the “nonstructure” of the innermembrane space created by the inner and outer mitochondrial membranes, permeability of both of which must be tightly regulated for optimal mitochondrial performance, including but not limited to ATP production: The semicontained mitochondrial intermembrane space allows the accumulation of protons from the ETC to concentrate into a “pressurized” electromechanical gradient that powers ETC complex No. 5, also called ATP synthase. ATP synthase is powered via the transmittal of protons from their high concentration gradient in the intermembrane space through the structure of the ATP synthase enzyme, which acts as a “pore” or “pressure valve” allowing protons to move to an area of lesser concentration inside the mitochondria. If the ATP synthase enzyme is bypassed because of a defective or “leaky” inner membrane that allows protons to leak back into the mitochondria, then the production of cellular energy will be reduced, leading to metabolic impairments such as increased free radical production (as the ETC works harder to compensate for reduced efficiency) and clinical manifestations such as fatigue, dyscognition, and muscle (eg, heart) impairment including body aches and pains consistent with clinical presentations of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. Transmembrane potential of the MIM is essential for the electromechanical gradient that drives ATP synthase; compromise of this membrane caused by dietary faults (eg, fatty acid deficiency, antioxidant deficiency) or biochemical faults (eg, overproduction of free radicals, which damage the MIM) will lead to hyperpermeability of the MIM (“leaky mitochondria”) and reduced ATP synthesis.

Footnotes

Author Disclosure Statements

Clinical preference for intervention rather than extensive/superfluous laboratory testing: Regarding the management of many nonurgent clinical problems, I acknowledge my personal bias in favor of empiric treatment, because effective treatment and not extensive testing is what helps patients and provides the ultimate proof of the diagnosis and clinician’s skill; I have resonable concern that too many clinicians charge exorbitant fees and profiteer by running unnecessary laboratory tests in their “functional medicine boutiques” wherein superfluous testing is a major profit center of the business at significant and sometimes debilitating cost in time and money to the unsuspecting patient. A recent patient of mine was charged more than $15 000 for an initial visit with a prominent functional medicine expert largely for the sake of receiving a detailed genetic and biochemical analysis, for which the clinician lacked the skill to translate into an effective therapy. Financial disclosure: Dr Vasquez has served as a researcher and lecturer for Biotics Research Corporation. Dr Vasquez is the author of many books and is the Director of Programs for the International College of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine.

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MIGRAINE MECHANIC™ is now on YouTube: youtube.com/@InflammationMastery

INFLAMMATION MASTERY — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:48:58 GMT

MIGRAINE MECHANIC™ is now on

YouTube.com/@InflammationMastery
instagram.com/InflammationMastery with a completely new account
Twitter/X at x.com/MigraineMechani but notice that the 15-character limit cuts off the final C in “mechani” so that the address is https://x.com/MigraineMechani

This is a new (starting in 2026/2027) program focused on Migraine and other conditions of “painful neuroinflammation” such as Fibromyalgia, CRPS, and Cluster Headache that will also have direct relevance for conditions of “nonpainful/painless neuroinflammation” such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson’s disease, and autism.

I started writing scientific-medical articles in 1994, and I became a Professor of Orthopedics and Rheumatology in 2000 and 2001, respectively.

I have helped tens of thousands of doctors and patients through my books, presentations, and articles.

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- NEUROINFLAMMATION,
- FIBROMYALGIA, and
- CRPS—COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME:

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- AUTISM and
- GUT MICROBIOME DYSBIOSIS:

Alex Kennerly Vasquez DO ND DC (USA), prior Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN), prior Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM, London UK):

{education} An award-winning clinician-scholar and founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Dr Alex Vasquez is recognized internationally for his high intellectual and academic standards and for his detailed expertise spanning and interconnecting many topics in Medicine and Nutrition. Dr Vasquez holds three doctoral degrees as a graduate of University of Western States (Doctor of Chiropractic, 1996), Bastyr University (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, 1999), and University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, 2010). Dr Vasquez has completed thousands of hours of post-graduate and continuing education (certifications) in subjects including Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Basic and Advanced Disaster Life Support, Nutrition and Functional Medicine; while in the final year of medical school, Dr Vasquez completed a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research hosted by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
{teaching, directing, organizing} Dr Vasquez has served in many teaching roles at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate levels in various accredited universities and colleges throughout the United States and has lectured internationally at the post-graduate level including accredited Continuing Medical Education (CME) for medical physicians. DrV was the founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, and almost-single-handedly orchestrated the entirety of the five-day 2013 International Conference on Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine.
{books} Dr Vasquez is the author of more than ten textbooks, including Integrative Orthopedics (2004, 2007, 2012), Functional Medicine Rheumatology (2014), Musculoskeletal Pain: Expanded Clinical Strategies (commissioned and published by Institute for Functional Medicine, 2008), Chiropractic and Naturopathic Mastery of Common Clinical Disorders (2009), Integrative Medicine and Functional Medicine for Chronic Hypertension (2011), Brain Inflammation in Migraine and Fibromyalgia (2016), Antiviral Strategies and Immune Nutrition (2014), Autism, Dysbiosis, and the Gut-Brain Axis (2017) and the 1200-page Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition (2016) also published as a two-volume set titled Textbook of Clinical Nutrition and Functional Medicine. Dr Vasquez’s books are available internationally via bookstores such as BookDepository, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, ThriftBooks, AbeBooks, BetterWorldBooks, WaterStonesBooks.
{journals—publishing} “DrV” has written approximately 100 letters and articles for professional magazines and medical journals including:

{journals—reviewing and Editing} Dr Vasquez served as the founding Editor of Naturopathy Digest, founding Editor (2013-) of International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine and Editor (2018-2019) of Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and has previously served on the Review Boards for Acta Neuropsychiatrica, Journal of Pain Research, Autoimmune Diseases, PLOS One, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Neuropeptides, International Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal of Inflammation Research, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (all PubMed/Medline indexed), Integrated Blood Pressure Control, Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry, Chiropractic Journal of Australia, Journal of Chiropractic Humanities, and Journal of Naturopathic Medicine,
{high-level profitability} Dr Vasquez has spearheaded low-resource high-quality high-profit educational programs that were instantly profitable to several million dollars; Dr Vasquez has created several products for the nutrition industry with multi-million-dollar valuationsvaluations, including the popularization of higher-dose vitamin D supplementation with his 2004 “vitamin D paradigm shift” followed by publications in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), British Medical Journal (BMJ), The Lancet (website), and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
{bio} Dr Vasquez lectures internationally to healthcare professionals, has a consulting practice and service for doctors and patients, and constantly reviews research to produce new articles, videos, educational materials, and innovative product formulations. Dr Vasquez served as Director of Medical Board of Advisors, senior consultant, product designer, writer and lecturer for Biotics Research Corporation (Texas) from for 18 years (2004-2022) and continues producing educational materials and products for the nutraceutical market. Dr Vasquez has lived in Colombia, throughout the United States (Houston, Fort Worth, Austin, Miami, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Gainesville GA, Portland OR) and Spain (Barcelona, Tarragona, San Sebastian, Ourense).

Update: This page is being updated in 2026 to provide articles and videos. In the meanwhile, please see our listing of informative and relevant videos linked below as an extension of InflammationMastery.com:

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INFLAMMATION MASTERY — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:44:01 GMT

MIGRAINE MECHANIC™ is now on

instagram.com/InflammationMastery with a completely new account
Twitter/X at x.com/MigraineMechani but notice that the 15-character limit cuts off the final C in “mechani” so that the address is https://x.com/MigraineMechani

This is a new (starting in 2026/2027) program focused on Migraine and other conditions of “painful neuroinflammation” such as Fibromyalgia, CRPS, and Cluster Headache that will also have direct relevance for conditions of “nonpainful/painless neuroinflammation” such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson’s disease, and autism.

I started writing scientific-medical articles in 1994, and I became a Professor of Orthopedics and Rheumatology in 2000 and 2001, respectively.

I have helped tens of thousands of doctors and patients through my books, presentations, and articles.

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- NEUROINFLAMMATION,
- FIBROMYALGIA, and
- CRPS—COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME:

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- AUTISM and
- GUT MICROBIOME DYSBIOSIS:

Alex Kennerly Vasquez DO ND DC (USA), prior Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN), prior Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM, London UK):

{education} An award-winning clinician-scholar and founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Dr Alex Vasquez is recognized internationally for his high intellectual and academic standards and for his detailed expertise spanning and interconnecting many topics in Medicine and Nutrition. Dr Vasquez holds three doctoral degrees as a graduate of University of Western States (Doctor of Chiropractic, 1996), Bastyr University (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, 1999), and University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, 2010). Dr Vasquez has completed thousands of hours of post-graduate and continuing education (certifications) in subjects including Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Basic and Advanced Disaster Life Support, Nutrition and Functional Medicine; while in the final year of medical school, Dr Vasquez completed a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research hosted by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
{teaching, directing, organizing} Dr Vasquez has served in many teaching roles at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate levels in various accredited universities and colleges throughout the United States and has lectured internationally at the post-graduate level including accredited Continuing Medical Education (CME) for medical physicians. DrV was the founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, and almost-single-handedly orchestrated the entirety of the five-day 2013 International Conference on Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine.
{books} Dr Vasquez is the author of more than ten textbooks, including Integrative Orthopedics (2004, 2007, 2012), Functional Medicine Rheumatology (2014), Musculoskeletal Pain: Expanded Clinical Strategies (commissioned and published by Institute for Functional Medicine, 2008), Chiropractic and Naturopathic Mastery of Common Clinical Disorders (2009), Integrative Medicine and Functional Medicine for Chronic Hypertension (2011), Brain Inflammation in Migraine and Fibromyalgia (2016), Antiviral Strategies and Immune Nutrition (2014), Autism, Dysbiosis, and the Gut-Brain Axis (2017) and the 1200-page Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition (2016) also published as a two-volume set titled Textbook of Clinical Nutrition and Functional Medicine. Dr Vasquez’s books are available internationally via bookstores such as BookDepository, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, ThriftBooks, AbeBooks, BetterWorldBooks, WaterStonesBooks.
{journals—publishing} “DrV” has written approximately 100 letters and articles for professional magazines and medical journals including:

{journals—reviewing and Editing} Dr Vasquez served as the founding Editor of Naturopathy Digest, founding Editor (2013-) of International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine and Editor (2018-2019) of Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and has previously served on the Review Boards for Acta Neuropsychiatrica, Journal of Pain Research, Autoimmune Diseases, PLOS One, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Neuropeptides, International Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal of Inflammation Research, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (all PubMed/Medline indexed), Integrated Blood Pressure Control, Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry, Chiropractic Journal of Australia, Journal of Chiropractic Humanities, and Journal of Naturopathic Medicine,
{high-level profitability} Dr Vasquez has spearheaded low-resource high-quality high-profit educational programs that were instantly profitable to several million dollars; Dr Vasquez has created several products for the nutrition industry with multi-million-dollar valuationsvaluations, including the popularization of higher-dose vitamin D supplementation with his 2004 “vitamin D paradigm shift” followed by publications in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), British Medical Journal (BMJ), The Lancet (website), and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
{bio} Dr Vasquez lectures internationally to healthcare professionals, has a consulting practice and service for doctors and patients, and constantly reviews research to produce new articles, videos, educational materials, and innovative product formulations. Dr Vasquez served as Director of Medical Board of Advisors, senior consultant, product designer, writer and lecturer for Biotics Research Corporation (Texas) from for 18 years (2004-2022) and continues producing educational materials and products for the nutraceutical market. Dr Vasquez has lived in Colombia, throughout the United States (Houston, Fort Worth, Austin, Miami, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Gainesville GA, Portland OR) and Spain (Barcelona, Tarragona, San Sebastian, Ourense).

[MUSIC-FREE] MIGRAINE DRUG REVIEW—2026 MIGRAINE GUIDELINES from American Academy of Neurology + American Headache Society

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:34:00 GMT

This is the same video provided earlier but without the music in the background—please let me know if you prefer with or without music.

READ IT AND WEEP: Here are the new 2026 MIGRAINE GUIDELINES from American Academy of Neurology + American Headache Society

PDF provided here:

Migraine 2026

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“How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare?

That became for me more and more the real measure of value.”

Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is (Preface, Section 3)

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The normalization of junk content and stupidity will be the downfall of democracy and of humanity.

In 2019 I wrote that drug companies now have more cash and therefore more power than the government itself. This is why drug companies are now the “overlords of democratic governments.”

Dr Alex Vasquez 2019 Ijhnfm Pharma Echo Vortex

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Dr Alex Vasquez 2019 Jom Editorial Viruses Vitamins Vaccines Bmj

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Dr Alex Vasquez 2019 Pizzorno Editorial Scientific Integrity

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Dr Alex Vasquez 2020 Censorship Interview Banned Books Controlled Narratives

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Drug companies are the biggest advertisers ($10 billion annually on direct-to-consumer DTC marketing in the USA) and therefore they dictate the content of all social media and information sources + they bribe your politicians.

Because drug companies have enough cash to overpower politicians, governments, and all of the (social) media outlets, censorship and “grooming the audience” in favor of the drug paradigm has become normalized such that any stupidity in favor of drug dependence is allowed and any intelligence in favor of philosophy or alternative viewpoints is subject to automated censorship by nonhuman algorithms.

In the video clip provided: This is a medical specialist recommending sugar, Coke, and vegetable oil fried potatoes (all of which trigger inflammation) for the treatment of migraine, a disease worsened by inflammation. Excedrin Migrainecontains acetaminophen (250 mg), aspirin (250 mg), and caffeine (65 mg); acetaminophen is a known neurotoxin and also causes antioxidant depletion, thereby worsening inflammation and brain fragility.

“Our NORMALIZATION of JUNK content AND INATTENTION +++ EMBRACE of STUPIDITY and PSYCHOPATHY will be the downfall of health, democracy, and of humanity.” DrV

I was shocked (first time that day) when I watched this 2018 presentation from Harvard Medical School titled “The Science of Pain Management” and the entire presentation was outdated junk that was already outdated when we learned the same ideas when I was in medical school from 2006-2010.

Even worse was that their information was not even up-to-date with what I had already published in as the 4th Edition of my textbook Inflammation Mastery two years earlier in 2016! YES—I in 2016 was far ahead of Harvard Medical School in 2018!

2018 Harvard Medical School pain paradigm—just throw more drugs at the problem to stop the nerves from transmitting pain signals
2004,2006,2014,2016 Inflammation Mastery pain paradigm—the only way to stop chronic pain is by treating the primary source of the inflammation and tissue damage; pain is amplified by these same inflammatory and damage-sensing pathways, as demonstrated in the model on the cover of my book!

Indeed—one of the most bizarre things that I have repeatedly witnessed during the 35+ years of my study of health/nutrition/medicine is that the medical profession refuses to advance in its understanding of any disease except that it will readily throw new drugs at old problems but without ever considering the more complete model of disease and treatment that also includes diet and —especially— nutritional supplementation.

YES—I have published research reviews that have established this point, in particular regard to the prevention of cardiovascular disease (2019) and the prevention and treatment of viral infections (2014 and 2019).

Dr Alex Vasquez 2019 Pizzorno Editorial Scientific Integrity

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Dr Alex Vasquez 2014 Antiviralstrategyenes Pro

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Dr Alex Vasquez 2019 Jom Editorial Viruses Vitamins Vaccines Bmj

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Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

I was shocked (second time that day) when I read this clinical review article published by the American Academy of Family Physicians in their journal American Family Physician—they openly admit that their drug treatments for chronic pain conditions have very little evidence of safety and effectiveness, and of course they offer no possibility whatsoever of actually curing-escaping these problems.

Official Guidelines GUARANTEE FAILURE in Treatment of CHRONIC PAIN per American Family Physician journal and American Academy of Family Physicians 2021

Citation: Raymond et al. Nonopioid Pharmacologic Treatments for Chronic Pain. Am Fam Physician. 2021 May 1;103(9):561-565
Publisher: American Academy of Family Physicians

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Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition (IM4) combines the recently updated Functional Inflammology and Dr Vasquez’s previous Integrative Rheumatology into a new colorized updated textbook of almost 1,200 pages. This work is the culmination of several thousand research publications combined with Dr Vasquez’s many years of clinical experience and teaching graduate-level students and doctorate-level clinicians worldwide. With radiographs, photos, acronyms, illustrations, flowcharts, and detailed-yet-simplifying explanations, Dr Vasquez makes it easier than ever for clinicians to grasp important concepts in integrative care and functional medicine and then to translate the basic science research and molecular biology into treatment plans that can be explained and used in “the real world” of clinical practice with patients. The associated video tutorials and recorded live conference presentations further help students and clinicians “get it” via Dr Vasquez’s effective teaching style which embraces complexity while always emphasizing clinical applicability and psychosocial context. The Inflammation Mastery & Functional Inflammology series of books and videos translates important concepts and nutritional/biomedical science into easy and practical clinical applications for the prevention and treatment of disorders of sustained inflammation, which Dr Vasquez describes as “patterns of metabolic disturbance and inflammatory dysfunction” existing in three sequential and overlapping categories: 1) metabolic inflammation, 2) allergic inflammation, 3) autoimmune inflammation. This book includes access to video presentations which introduce the origin and components of the Functional Inflammology Protocol and FINDSEX® acronym. Post-publication updates to this information and important social and clinical contextualization are made available in videos and online repositories (access provided in the book), and the e-newsletter available from InflammationMastery and FunctionalInflammology.com. This textbook also provides access, via reprints or hyperlinks, to Dr Vasquez’s published articles—an example of which is his recent paradigm-shifting editorial published in the journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine (2014 January). The updated section on pain management allows students and clinicians to understand and apply manual, pharmacologic, nutritional and botanical medicine treatments for musculoskeletal pain, thereby providing better relief for patients and avoiding the hazards of NSAIDs, coxibs, steroids, opioids, immunosuppressants/immunoparalytics and biologics.

Product Details:

Paperback
8.5 x 11 inches
1182 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9906204-8-8
Full color printing

Amazon.com: paper and digital ebooks—immediate download!

Barnes and Noble.com: paper and digital ebooks

This is a new program focused on Migraine and other conditions of “painful neuroinflammation” such as Fibromyalgia, CRPS, Cluster Headache, and Neuropathy that will also have direct relevance for conditions of “nonpainful/painless neuroinflammation” such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and autism.

Let your friends and family know about this new resource so they can learn from an experienced doctor, professor, and author of dozens of articles and books!

Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

I have been publishing on Nutrition, Pain, and Inflammation for more than 30 years, starting with my first articles published in professional magazines and journals in 1994

I started writing scientific-medical articles in 1994, and I became a Professor of Orthopedics and Rheumatology in 2000 and 2001, respectively. My course notes were eventually published at textbooks for doctors as INTEGRATIVE ORTHOPEDICS (2004,2012) and INTEGRATIVE RHEUMATOLOGY (2006,2014) and eventually expanded into INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4TH EDITION in 2016.

INFLAMMATION MASTERY clinical protocols InflammationMastery.com

INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4th EDITION (video) discount pricing directly from publisher

Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition: The Colorful and Definitive Guide Toward Health and Vitality and away from the Boredom, Risks, Costs, and Inefficacy of Endless Analgesia, Immunosuppression, and Polypharmacy…

Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition: The Colorful and Definitive Guide Toward Health and Vitality and away from the Boredom, Risks, Costs, and Inefficacy of Endless Analgesia, Immunosuppression, and Polypharmacy

Bookstore links:

Sample PDF downloads:

Click here to see the cover
Click here to see the first few pages, including the table of contents and index (size: 6 MB)
Click here for a larger sample with photos (size: 43 MB)
DOWNLOAD a *free* sample of Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition here via the *free* Kindle software from Amazon.

I have helped tens of thousands of doctors and patients through my books, presentations, and articles.

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- NEUROINFLAMMATION,
- FIBROMYALGIA, and
- CRPS—COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME
I myself also had fibromyalgia (cured in 2015) and CRPS (cured in 2021) so I have much more than “academic perspectives” on these topics, as I had to live these conditions daily and had to eventually cure myself!

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- AUTISM and
- GUT MICROBIOME DYSBIOSIS:

I have published many articles and books/chapters on dysbiosis and the human microbiome; I also produced a 30-hour CME (continuing medical education) course for doctors on microbiome/dysbiosis—its pathophysiology and its treatments.

As you know, many “influencers” pretend to be experts, but they clearly don’t have either the clinical experience or the teaching/authoring experience that differentiates “influencers” from true “experts.”

Alex Kennerly Vasquez DO ND DC (USA), prior Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN), prior Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM, London UK):

{education} An award-winning clinician-scholar and founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Dr Alex Vasquez is recognized internationally for his high intellectual and academic standards and for his detailed expertise spanning and interconnecting many topics in Medicine and Nutrition. Dr Vasquez holds three doctoral degrees as a graduate of University of Western States (Doctor of Chiropractic, 1996), Bastyr University (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, 1999), and University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, 2010). Dr Vasquez has completed thousands of hours of post-graduate and continuing education (certifications) in subjects including Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Basic and Advanced Disaster Life Support, Nutrition and Functional Medicine; while in the final year of medical school, Dr Vasquez completed a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research hosted by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
{teaching, directing, organizing} Dr Vasquez has served in many teaching roles at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate levels in various accredited universities and colleges throughout the United States and has lectured internationally at the post-graduate level including accredited Continuing Medical Education (CME) for medical physicians. DrV was the founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, and almost-single-handedly orchestrated the entirety of the five-day 2013 International Conference on Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine.
{books} Dr Vasquez is the author of more than ten textbooks, including Integrative Orthopedics (2004, 2007, 2012), Functional Medicine Rheumatology (2014), Musculoskeletal Pain: Expanded Clinical Strategies (commissioned and published by Institute for Functional Medicine, 2008), Chiropractic and Naturopathic Mastery of Common Clinical Disorders (2009), Integrative Medicine and Functional Medicine for Chronic Hypertension (2011), Brain Inflammation in Migraine and Fibromyalgia (2016), Antiviral Strategies and Immune Nutrition (2014), Autism, Dysbiosis, and the Gut-Brain Axis (2017) and the 1200-page Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition (2016) also published as a two-volume set titled Textbook of Clinical Nutrition and Functional Medicine. Dr Vasquez’s books are available internationally via bookstores such as BookDepository, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, ThriftBooks, AbeBooks, BetterWorldBooks, WaterStonesBooks.
{journals—publishing} “DrV” has written approximately 100 letters and articles for professional magazines and medical journals including:

{journals—reviewing and Editing} Dr Vasquez served as the founding Editor of Naturopathy Digest, founding Editor (2013-) of International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine and Editor (2018-2019) of Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and has previously served on the Review Boards for Acta Neuropsychiatrica, Journal of Pain Research, Autoimmune Diseases, PLOS One, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Neuropeptides, International Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal of Inflammation Research, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (all PubMed/Medline indexed), Integrated Blood Pressure Control, Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry, Chiropractic Journal of Australia, Journal of Chiropractic Humanities, and Journal of Naturopathic Medicine,
{high-level profitability} Dr Vasquez has spearheaded low-resource high-quality high-profit educational programs that were instantly profitable to several million dollars; Dr Vasquez has created several products for the nutrition industry with multi-million-dollar valuationsvaluations, including the popularization of higher-dose vitamin D supplementation with his 2004 “vitamin D paradigm shift” followed by publications in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), British Medical Journal (BMJ), The Lancet (website), and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
{bio} Dr Vasquez lectures internationally to healthcare professionals, has a consulting practice and service for doctors and patients, and constantly reviews research to produce new articles, videos, educational materials, and innovative product formulations. Dr Vasquez served as Director of Medical Board of Advisors, senior consultant, product designer, writer and lecturer for Biotics Research Corporation (Texas) from for 18 years (2004-2022) and continues producing educational materials and products for the nutraceutical market. Dr Vasquez has lived in Colombia, throughout the United States (Houston, Fort Worth, Austin, Miami, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Gainesville GA, Portland OR) and Spain (Barcelona, Tarragona, San Sebastian, Ourense).

MIGRAINE DRUG REVIEW—2026 MIGRAINE GUIDELINES from American Academy of Neurology + American Headache Society

INFLAMMATION MASTERY — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:33:27 GMT

Looks like Amazon is practically giving my book away at half pricea.co/d/0dxtgXaQ…. Note that I have no control over the prices at Amazon.

READ IT AND WEEP: Here are the new 2026 MIGRAINE GUIDELINES from American Academy of Neurology + American Headache Society

PDF provided here:

Migraine 2026

547KB ∙ PDF file

“How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare?

That became for me more and more the real measure of value.”

Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is (Preface, Section 3)

MIGRAINE MECHANIC™ is now on Twitter/X at x.com/MigraineMechani but notice that the 15-character limit cuts off the final C in “mechani” so that the address is https://x.com/MigraineMechani

The normalization of junk content and stupidity will be the downfall of democracy and of humanity.

In 2019 I wrote that drug companies now have more cash and therefore more power than the government itself. This is why drug companies are now the “overlords of democratic governments.”

Dr Alex Vasquez 2019 Ijhnfm Pharma Echo Vortex

2.91MB ∙ PDF file

Dr Alex Vasquez 2019 Jom Editorial Viruses Vitamins Vaccines Bmj

318KB ∙ PDF file

Dr Alex Vasquez 2019 Pizzorno Editorial Scientific Integrity

1.39MB ∙ PDF file

Dr Alex Vasquez 2020 Censorship Interview Banned Books Controlled Narratives

1.74MB ∙ PDF file

Drug companies are the biggest advertisers ($10 billion annually on direct-to-consumer DTC marketing in the USA) and therefore they dictate the content of all social media and information sources + they bribe your politicians.

“Our NORMALIZATION of JUNK content AND INATTENTION +++ EMBRACE of STUPIDITY and PSYCHOPATHY will be the downfall of health, democracy, and of humanity.” DrV

I was shocked (first time that day) when I watched this 2018 presentation from Harvard Medical School titled “The Science of Pain Management” and the entire presentation was outdated junk that was already outdated when we learned the same ideas when I was in medical school from 2006-2010.

2018 Harvard Medical School pain paradigm—just throw more drugs at the problem to stop the nerves from transmitting pain signals
2004,2006,2014,2016 Inflammation Mastery pain paradigm—the only way to stop chronic pain is by treating the primary source of the inflammation and tissue damage; pain is amplified by these same inflammatory and damage-sensing pathways, as demonstrated in the model on the cover of my book!

Dr Alex Vasquez 2019 Pizzorno Editorial Scientific Integrity

1.39MB ∙ PDF file

Dr Alex Vasquez 2014 Antiviralstrategyenes Pro

1.7MB ∙ PDF file

Dr Alex Vasquez 2019 Jom Editorial Viruses Vitamins Vaccines Bmj

318KB ∙ PDF file

Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

I was shocked (second time that day) when I read this clinical review article published by the American Academy of Family Physicians in their journal American Family Physician—they openly admit that their drug treatments for chronic pain conditions have very little evidence of safety and effectiveness, and of course they offer no possibility whatsoever of actually curing-escaping these problems.

Official Guidelines GUARANTEE FAILURE in Treatment of CHRONIC PAIN per American Family Physician journal and American Academy of Family Physicians 2021

Citation: Raymond et al. Nonopioid Pharmacologic Treatments for Chronic Pain. Am Fam Physician. 2021 May 1;103(9):561-565
Publisher: American Academy of Family Physicians

Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition: available for immediate download to always have with you!

SOLUTIONS—all of the major clinical protocols including Migraine and Fibromyalgia are included inside INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4th Edition, available for immediate download:

Bookstore links:

Amazon.com: paper and digital ebooks—immediate download!
Barnes and Noble.com: paper and digital ebooks
Also: ThriftBooks, AbeBooks, BetterWorldBooks, WaterStonesBooks

Sample PDF downloads:

Click here to see the cover
Click here to see the first few pages, including the table of contents and index
Click here for a larger sample with photos (size: 43 MB)
DOWNLOAD a *free* sample of Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition here via the *free* Kindle software from Amazon.

Description

Product Details:

Paperback
8.5 x 11 inches
1182 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9906204-8-8
Full color printing

Amazon.com: paper and digital ebooks—immediate download!

Barnes and Noble.com: paper and digital ebooks

This is a new program focused on Migraine and other conditions of “painful neuroinflammation” such as Fibromyalgia, CRPS, Cluster Headache, and Neuropathy that will also have direct relevance for conditions of “nonpainful/painless neuroinflammation” such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and autism.

Let your friends and family know about this new resource so they can learn from an experienced doctor, professor, and author of dozens of articles and books!

Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

I have been publishing on Nutrition, Pain, and Inflammation for more than 30 years, starting with my first articles published in professional magazines and journals in 1994

I started writing scientific-medical articles in 1994, and I became a Professor of Orthopedics and Rheumatology in 2000 and 2001, respectively. My course notes were eventually published at textbooks for doctors as INTEGRATIVE ORTHOPEDICS (2004,2012) and INTEGRATIVE RHEUMATOLOGY (2006,2014) and eventually expanded into INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4TH EDITION in 2016.

INFLAMMATION MASTERY clinical protocols InflammationMastery.com

INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4th EDITION (video) discount pricing directly from publisher

Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition: The Colorful and Definitive Guide Toward Health and Vitality and away from the Boredom, Risks, Costs, and Inefficacy of Endless Analgesia, Immunosuppression, and Polypharmacy

Bookstore links:

Sample PDF downloads:

Click here to see the cover
Click here to see the first few pages, including the table of contents and index (size: 6 MB)
Click here for a larger sample with photos (size: 43 MB)
DOWNLOAD a *free* sample of Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition here via the *free* Kindle software from Amazon.

I have helped tens of thousands of doctors and patients through my books, presentations, and articles.

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- NEUROINFLAMMATION,
- FIBROMYALGIA, and
- CRPS—COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME
I myself also had fibromyalgia (cured in 2015) and CRPS (cured in 2021) so I have much more than “academic perspectives” on these topics, as I had to live these conditions daily and had to eventually cure myself!

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- AUTISM and
- GUT MICROBIOME DYSBIOSIS:

I have published many articles and books/chapters on dysbiosis and the human microbiome; I also produced a 30-hour CME (continuing medical education) course for doctors on microbiome/dysbiosis—its pathophysiology and its treatments.

Alex Kennerly Vasquez DO ND DC (USA), prior Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN), prior Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM, London UK):

{education} An award-winning clinician-scholar and founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Dr Alex Vasquez is recognized internationally for his high intellectual and academic standards and for his detailed expertise spanning and interconnecting many topics in Medicine and Nutrition. Dr Vasquez holds three doctoral degrees as a graduate of University of Western States (Doctor of Chiropractic, 1996), Bastyr University (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, 1999), and University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, 2010). Dr Vasquez has completed thousands of hours of post-graduate and continuing education (certifications) in subjects including Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Basic and Advanced Disaster Life Support, Nutrition and Functional Medicine; while in the final year of medical school, Dr Vasquez completed a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research hosted by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
{teaching, directing, organizing} Dr Vasquez has served in many teaching roles at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate levels in various accredited universities and colleges throughout the United States and has lectured internationally at the post-graduate level including accredited Continuing Medical Education (CME) for medical physicians. DrV was the founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, and almost-single-handedly orchestrated the entirety of the five-day 2013 International Conference on Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine.
{books} Dr Vasquez is the author of more than ten textbooks, including Integrative Orthopedics (2004, 2007, 2012), Functional Medicine Rheumatology (2014), Musculoskeletal Pain: Expanded Clinical Strategies (commissioned and published by Institute for Functional Medicine, 2008), Chiropractic and Naturopathic Mastery of Common Clinical Disorders (2009), Integrative Medicine and Functional Medicine for Chronic Hypertension (2011), Brain Inflammation in Migraine and Fibromyalgia (2016), Antiviral Strategies and Immune Nutrition (2014), Autism, Dysbiosis, and the Gut-Brain Axis (2017) and the 1200-page Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition (2016) also published as a two-volume set titled Textbook of Clinical Nutrition and Functional Medicine. Dr Vasquez’s books are available internationally via bookstores such as BookDepository, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, ThriftBooks, AbeBooks, BetterWorldBooks, WaterStonesBooks.
{journals—publishing} “DrV” has written approximately 100 letters and articles for professional magazines and medical journals including:

{journals—reviewing and Editing} Dr Vasquez served as the founding Editor of Naturopathy Digest, founding Editor (2013-) of International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine and Editor (2018-2019) of Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and has previously served on the Review Boards for Acta Neuropsychiatrica, Journal of Pain Research, Autoimmune Diseases, PLOS One, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Neuropeptides, International Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal of Inflammation Research, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (all PubMed/Medline indexed), Integrated Blood Pressure Control, Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry, Chiropractic Journal of Australia, Journal of Chiropractic Humanities, and Journal of Naturopathic Medicine,
{high-level profitability} Dr Vasquez has spearheaded low-resource high-quality high-profit educational programs that were instantly profitable to several million dollars; Dr Vasquez has created several products for the nutrition industry with multi-million-dollar valuationsvaluations, including the popularization of higher-dose vitamin D supplementation with his 2004 “vitamin D paradigm shift” followed by publications in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), British Medical Journal (BMJ), The Lancet (website), and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
{bio} Dr Vasquez lectures internationally to healthcare professionals, has a consulting practice and service for doctors and patients, and constantly reviews research to produce new articles, videos, educational materials, and innovative product formulations. Dr Vasquez served as Director of Medical Board of Advisors, senior consultant, product designer, writer and lecturer for Biotics Research Corporation (Texas) from for 18 years (2004-2022) and continues producing educational materials and products for the nutraceutical market. Dr Vasquez has lived in Colombia, throughout the United States (Houston, Fort Worth, Austin, Miami, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Gainesville GA, Portland OR) and Spain (Barcelona, Tarragona, San Sebastian, Ourense).

MIGRAINE NUTRITION vs PHARMA CENSORSHIP: Junk “advice” that promotes brain inflammation gets 10M views but TikTok won’t let me talk about MIGRAINE NUTRITION

INFLAMMATION MASTERY — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:47:35 GMT

“How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare?

That became for me more and more the real measure of value.”

Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is (Preface, Section 3)

MIGRAINE MECHANIC™ is now on Twitter/X at x.com/MigraineMechani but notice that the 15-character limit cuts off the final C in “mechani” so that the address is https://x.com/MigraineMechani

The normalization of junk content and stupidity will be the downfall of democracy and of humanity.

In 2019 I wrote that drug companies now have more cash and therefore more power than the government itself. This is why drug companies are now the “overlords of democratic governments.”

Dr Alex Vasquez 2019 Ijhnfm Pharma Echo Vortex

2.91MB ∙ PDF file

Dr Alex Vasquez 2019 Jom Editorial Viruses Vitamins Vaccines Bmj

318KB ∙ PDF file

Dr Alex Vasquez 2019 Pizzorno Editorial Scientific Integrity

1.39MB ∙ PDF file

Dr Alex Vasquez 2020 Censorship Interview Banned Books Controlled Narratives

1.74MB ∙ PDF file

Drug companies are the biggest advertisers ($10 billion annually on direct-to-consumer DTC marketing in the USA) and therefore they dictate the content of all social media and information sources + they bribe your politicians.

“Our NORMALIZATION of JUNK content AND INATTENTION +++ EMBRACE of STUPIDITY and PSYCHOPATHY will be the downfall of health, democracy, and of humanity.” DrV

I was shocked (first time that day) when I watched this 2018 presentation from Harvard Medical School titled “The Science of Pain Management” and the entire presentation was outdated junk that was already outdated when we learned the same ideas when I was in medical school from 2006-2010.

2018 Harvard Medical School pain paradigm—just throw more drugs at the problem to stop the nerves from transmitting pain signals
2004,2006,2014,2016 Inflammation Mastery pain paradigm—the only way to stop chronic pain is by treating the primary source of the inflammation and tissue damage; pain is amplified by these same inflammatory and damage-sensing pathways, as demonstrated in the model on the cover of my book!

Dr Alex Vasquez 2019 Pizzorno Editorial Scientific Integrity

1.39MB ∙ PDF file

Dr Alex Vasquez 2014 Antiviralstrategyenes Pro

1.7MB ∙ PDF file

Dr Alex Vasquez 2019 Jom Editorial Viruses Vitamins Vaccines Bmj

318KB ∙ PDF file

Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

I was shocked (second time that day) when I read this clinical review article published by the American Academy of Family Physicians in their journal American Family Physician—they openly admit that their drug treatments for chronic pain conditions have very little evidence of safety and effectiveness, and of course they offer no possibility whatsoever of actually curing-escaping these problems.

Official Guidelines GUARANTEE FAILURE in Treatment of CHRONIC PAIN per American Family Physician journal and American Academy of Family Physicians 2021

Citation: Raymond et al. Nonopioid Pharmacologic Treatments for Chronic Pain. Am Fam Physician. 2021 May 1;103(9):561-565
Publisher: American Academy of Family Physicians

Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition: available for immediate download to always have with you!

SOLUTIONS—all of the major clinical protocols including Migraine and Fibromyalgia are included inside INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4th Edition, available for immediate download:

Bookstore links:

Amazon.com: paper and digital ebooks—immediate download!
Barnes and Noble.com: paper and digital ebooks
Also: ThriftBooks, AbeBooks, BetterWorldBooks, WaterStonesBooks

Sample PDF downloads:

Click here to see the cover
Click here to see the first few pages, including the table of contents and index
Click here for a larger sample with photos (size: 43 MB)
DOWNLOAD a *free* sample of Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition here via the *free* Kindle software from Amazon.

Description

Product Details:

Paperback
8.5 x 11 inches
1182 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9906204-8-8
Full color printing

Amazon.com: paper and digital ebooks—immediate download!

Barnes and Noble.com: paper and digital ebooks

This is a new program focused on Migraine and other conditions of “painful neuroinflammation” such as Fibromyalgia, CRPS, Cluster Headache, and Neuropathy that will also have direct relevance for conditions of “nonpainful/painless neuroinflammation” such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and autism.

Let your friends and family know about this new resource so they can learn from an experienced doctor, professor, and author of dozens of articles and books!

Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

I have been publishing on Nutrition, Pain, and Inflammation for more than 30 years, starting with my first articles published in professional magazines and journals in 1994

I started writing scientific-medical articles in 1994, and I became a Professor of Orthopedics and Rheumatology in 2000 and 2001, respectively. My course notes were eventually published at textbooks for doctors as INTEGRATIVE ORTHOPEDICS (2004,2012) and INTEGRATIVE RHEUMATOLOGY (2006,2014) and eventually expanded into INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4TH EDITION in 2016.

INFLAMMATION MASTERY clinical protocols InflammationMastery.com

INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4th EDITION (video) discount pricing directly from publisher

Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition: The Colorful and Definitive Guide Toward Health and Vitality and away from the Boredom, Risks, Costs, and Inefficacy of Endless Analgesia, Immunosuppression, and Polypharmacy

Bookstore links:

Sample PDF downloads:

Click here to see the cover
Click here to see the first few pages, including the table of contents and index (size: 6 MB)
Click here for a larger sample with photos (size: 43 MB)
DOWNLOAD a *free* sample of Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition here via the *free* Kindle software from Amazon.

I have helped tens of thousands of doctors and patients through my books, presentations, and articles.

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- NEUROINFLAMMATION,
- FIBROMYALGIA, and
- CRPS—COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME
I myself also had fibromyalgia (cured in 2015) and CRPS (cured in 2021) so I have much more than “academic perspectives” on these topics, as I had to live these conditions daily and had to eventually cure myself!

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- AUTISM and
- GUT MICROBIOME DYSBIOSIS:

I have published many articles and books/chapters on dysbiosis and the human microbiome; I also produced a 30-hour CME (continuing medical education) course for doctors on microbiome/dysbiosis—its pathophysiology and its treatments.

Alex Kennerly Vasquez DO ND DC (USA), prior Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN), prior Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM, London UK):

{education} An award-winning clinician-scholar and founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Dr Alex Vasquez is recognized internationally for his high intellectual and academic standards and for his detailed expertise spanning and interconnecting many topics in Medicine and Nutrition. Dr Vasquez holds three doctoral degrees as a graduate of University of Western States (Doctor of Chiropractic, 1996), Bastyr University (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, 1999), and University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, 2010). Dr Vasquez has completed thousands of hours of post-graduate and continuing education (certifications) in subjects including Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Basic and Advanced Disaster Life Support, Nutrition and Functional Medicine; while in the final year of medical school, Dr Vasquez completed a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research hosted by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
{teaching, directing, organizing} Dr Vasquez has served in many teaching roles at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate levels in various accredited universities and colleges throughout the United States and has lectured internationally at the post-graduate level including accredited Continuing Medical Education (CME) for medical physicians. DrV was the founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, and almost-single-handedly orchestrated the entirety of the five-day 2013 International Conference on Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine.
{books} Dr Vasquez is the author of more than ten textbooks, including Integrative Orthopedics (2004, 2007, 2012), Functional Medicine Rheumatology (2014), Musculoskeletal Pain: Expanded Clinical Strategies (commissioned and published by Institute for Functional Medicine, 2008), Chiropractic and Naturopathic Mastery of Common Clinical Disorders (2009), Integrative Medicine and Functional Medicine for Chronic Hypertension (2011), Brain Inflammation in Migraine and Fibromyalgia (2016), Antiviral Strategies and Immune Nutrition (2014), Autism, Dysbiosis, and the Gut-Brain Axis (2017) and the 1200-page Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition (2016) also published as a two-volume set titled Textbook of Clinical Nutrition and Functional Medicine. Dr Vasquez’s books are available internationally via bookstores such as BookDepository, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, ThriftBooks, AbeBooks, BetterWorldBooks, WaterStonesBooks.
{journals—publishing} “DrV” has written approximately 100 letters and articles for professional magazines and medical journals including:

{journals—reviewing and Editing} Dr Vasquez served as the founding Editor of Naturopathy Digest, founding Editor (2013-) of International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine and Editor (2018-2019) of Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and has previously served on the Review Boards for Acta Neuropsychiatrica, Journal of Pain Research, Autoimmune Diseases, PLOS One, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Neuropeptides, International Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal of Inflammation Research, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (all PubMed/Medline indexed), Integrated Blood Pressure Control, Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry, Chiropractic Journal of Australia, Journal of Chiropractic Humanities, and Journal of Naturopathic Medicine,
{high-level profitability} Dr Vasquez has spearheaded low-resource high-quality high-profit educational programs that were instantly profitable to several million dollars; Dr Vasquez has created several products for the nutrition industry with multi-million-dollar valuationsvaluations, including the popularization of higher-dose vitamin D supplementation with his 2004 “vitamin D paradigm shift” followed by publications in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), British Medical Journal (BMJ), The Lancet (website), and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
{bio} Dr Vasquez lectures internationally to healthcare professionals, has a consulting practice and service for doctors and patients, and constantly reviews research to produce new articles, videos, educational materials, and innovative product formulations. Dr Vasquez served as Director of Medical Board of Advisors, senior consultant, product designer, writer and lecturer for Biotics Research Corporation (Texas) from for 18 years (2004-2022) and continues producing educational materials and products for the nutraceutical market. Dr Vasquez has lived in Colombia, throughout the United States (Houston, Fort Worth, Austin, Miami, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Gainesville GA, Portland OR) and Spain (Barcelona, Tarragona, San Sebastian, Ourense).

MIGRAINE MECHANIC™ is now on Twitter/X at x.com/MigraineMechani but notice that the 15-character limit cuts off the final C in “mechani” so that the address is https://x.com/MigraineMechani

INFLAMMATION MASTERY — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:41:24 GMT

MIGRAINE MECHANIC™ is now on Twitter/X at x.com/MigraineMechani but notice that the 15-character limit cuts off the final C in “mechani” so that the address is https://x.com/MigraineMechani

This is a new (starting in 2026/2027) program focused on Migraine and other conditions of “painful neuroinflammation” such as Fibromyalgia, CRPS, and Cluster Headache that will also have direct relevance for conditions of “nonpainful/painless neuroinflammation” such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson’s disease, and autism.

I started writing scientific-medical articles in 1994, and I became a Professor of Orthopedics and Rheumatology in 2000 and 2001, respectively.

I have helped tens of thousands of doctors and patients through my books, presentations, and articles.

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- NEUROINFLAMMATION,
- FIBROMYALGIA, and
- CRPS—COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME:

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- AUTISM and
- GUT MICROBIOME DYSBIOSIS:

Alex Kennerly Vasquez DO ND DC (USA), prior Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN), prior Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM, London UK):

{education} An award-winning clinician-scholar and founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Dr Alex Vasquez is recognized internationally for his high intellectual and academic standards and for his detailed expertise spanning and interconnecting many topics in Medicine and Nutrition. Dr Vasquez holds three doctoral degrees as a graduate of University of Western States (Doctor of Chiropractic, 1996), Bastyr University (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, 1999), and University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, 2010). Dr Vasquez has completed thousands of hours of post-graduate and continuing education (certifications) in subjects including Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Basic and Advanced Disaster Life Support, Nutrition and Functional Medicine; while in the final year of medical school, Dr Vasquez completed a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research hosted by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
{teaching, directing, organizing} Dr Vasquez has served in many teaching roles at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate levels in various accredited universities and colleges throughout the United States and has lectured internationally at the post-graduate level including accredited Continuing Medical Education (CME) for medical physicians. DrV was the founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, and almost-single-handedly orchestrated the entirety of the five-day 2013 International Conference on Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine.
{books} Dr Vasquez is the author of more than ten textbooks, including Integrative Orthopedics (2004, 2007, 2012), Functional Medicine Rheumatology (2014), Musculoskeletal Pain: Expanded Clinical Strategies (commissioned and published by Institute for Functional Medicine, 2008), Chiropractic and Naturopathic Mastery of Common Clinical Disorders (2009), Integrative Medicine and Functional Medicine for Chronic Hypertension (2011), Brain Inflammation in Migraine and Fibromyalgia (2016), Antiviral Strategies and Immune Nutrition (2014), Autism, Dysbiosis, and the Gut-Brain Axis (2017) and the 1200-page Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition (2016) also published as a two-volume set titled Textbook of Clinical Nutrition and Functional Medicine. Dr Vasquez’s books are available internationally via bookstores such as BookDepository, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, ThriftBooks, AbeBooks, BetterWorldBooks, WaterStonesBooks.
{journals—publishing} “DrV” has written approximately 100 letters and articles for professional magazines and medical journals including:

{journals—reviewing and Editing} Dr Vasquez served as the founding Editor of Naturopathy Digest, founding Editor (2013-) of International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine and Editor (2018-2019) of Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and has previously served on the Review Boards for Acta Neuropsychiatrica, Journal of Pain Research, Autoimmune Diseases, PLOS One, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Neuropeptides, International Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal of Inflammation Research, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (all PubMed/Medline indexed), Integrated Blood Pressure Control, Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry, Chiropractic Journal of Australia, Journal of Chiropractic Humanities, and Journal of Naturopathic Medicine,
{high-level profitability} Dr Vasquez has spearheaded low-resource high-quality high-profit educational programs that were instantly profitable to several million dollars; Dr Vasquez has created several products for the nutrition industry with multi-million-dollar valuationsvaluations, including the popularization of higher-dose vitamin D supplementation with his 2004 “vitamin D paradigm shift” followed by publications in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), British Medical Journal (BMJ), The Lancet (website), and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
{bio} Dr Vasquez lectures internationally to healthcare professionals, has a consulting practice and service for doctors and patients, and constantly reviews research to produce new articles, videos, educational materials, and innovative product formulations. Dr Vasquez served as Director of Medical Board of Advisors, senior consultant, product designer, writer and lecturer for Biotics Research Corporation (Texas) from for 18 years (2004-2022) and continues producing educational materials and products for the nutraceutical market. Dr Vasquez has lived in Colombia, throughout the United States (Houston, Fort Worth, Austin, Miami, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Gainesville GA, Portland OR) and Spain (Barcelona, Tarragona, San Sebastian, Ourense).

PAIN-DRUGGING PARADIGM IS OUTDATED—Harvard Medical School’s SCIENCE OF PAIN MANAGEMENT exemplifies the medical profession’s refusal to advance in understanding pain PATHOPHYSIOLOGY and TREATMENT

INFLAMMATION MASTERY — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:30:20 GMT

I was shocked (first time that day) when I watched this 2018 presentation from Harvard Medical School titled “The Science of Pain Management” and the entire presentation was outdated junk that was already outdated when we learned the same ideas when I was in medical school from 2006-2010.

2018 Harvard Medical School pain paradigm—just throw more drugs at the problem to stop the nerves from transmitting pain signals
2004,2006,2014,2016 Inflammation Mastery pain paradigm—the only way to stop chronic pain is by treating the primary source of the inflammation and tissue damage; pain is amplified by these same inflammatory and damage-sensing pathways, as demonstrated in the model on the cover of my book!

Dr Alex Vasquez 2019 Pizzorno Editorial Scientific Integrity

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Dr Alex Vasquez 2014 Antiviralstrategyenes Pro

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Dr Alex Vasquez 2019 Jom Editorial Viruses Vitamins Vaccines Bmj

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I was shocked (second time that day) when I read this clinical review article published by the American Academy of Family Physicians in their journal American Family Physician—they openly admit that their drug treatments for chronic pain conditions have very little evidence of safety and effectiveness, and of course they offer no possibility whatsoever of actually curing-escaping these problems.

Official Guidelines GUARANTEE FAILURE in Treatment of CHRONIC PAIN per American Family Physician journal and American Academy of Family Physicians 2021

Citation: Raymond et al. Nonopioid Pharmacologic Treatments for Chronic Pain. Am Fam Physician. 2021 May 1;103(9):561-565
Publisher: American Academy of Family Physicians

Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition: available for immediate download to always have with you!

SOLUTIONS—all of the major clinical protocols including Migraine and Fibromyalgia are included inside INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4th Edition, available for immediate download:

Bookstore links:

Amazon.com: paper and digital ebooks—immediate download!
Barnes and Noble.com: paper and digital ebooks
Also: ThriftBooks, AbeBooks, BetterWorldBooks, WaterStonesBooks

Sample PDF downloads:

Click here to see the cover
Click here to see the first few pages, including the table of contents and index
Click here for a larger sample with photos (size: 43 MB)
DOWNLOAD a *free* sample of Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition here via the *free* Kindle software from Amazon.

Description

Product Details:

Paperback
8.5 x 11 inches
1182 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9906204-8-8
Full color printing

Amazon.com: paper and digital ebooks—immediate download!

Barnes and Noble.com: paper and digital ebooks

This is a new program focused on Migraine and other conditions of “painful neuroinflammation” such as Fibromyalgia, CRPS, Cluster Headache, and Neuropathy that will also have direct relevance for conditions of “nonpainful/painless neuroinflammation” such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and autism.

Let your friends and family know about this new resource so they can learn from an experienced doctor, professor, and author of dozens of articles and books!

Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

I have been publishing on Nutrition, Pain, and Inflammation for more than 30 years, starting with my first articles published in professional magazines and journals in 1994

I started writing scientific-medical articles in 1994, and I became a Professor of Orthopedics and Rheumatology in 2000 and 2001, respectively. My course notes were eventually published at textbooks for doctors as INTEGRATIVE ORTHOPEDICS (2004,2012) and INTEGRATIVE RHEUMATOLOGY (2006,2014) and eventually expanded into INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4TH EDITION in 2016.

INFLAMMATION MASTERY clinical protocols InflammationMastery.com

INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4th EDITION (video) discount pricing directly from publisher

Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition: The Colorful and Definitive Guide Toward Health and Vitality and away from the Boredom, Risks, Costs, and Inefficacy of Endless Analgesia, Immunosuppression, and Polypharmacy

Bookstore links:

Sample PDF downloads:

Click here to see the cover
Click here to see the first few pages, including the table of contents and index (size: 6 MB)
Click here for a larger sample with photos (size: 43 MB)
DOWNLOAD a *free* sample of Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition here via the *free* Kindle software from Amazon.

I have helped tens of thousands of doctors and patients through my books, presentations, and articles.

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- NEUROINFLAMMATION,
- FIBROMYALGIA, and
- CRPS—COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME
I myself also had fibromyalgia (cured in 2015) and CRPS (cured in 2021) so I have much more than “academic perspectives” on these topics, as I had to live these conditions daily and had to eventually cure myself!

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- AUTISM and
- GUT MICROBIOME DYSBIOSIS:

Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

I have published many articles and books/chapters on dysbiosis and the human microbiome; I also produced a 30-hour CME (continuing medical education) course for doctors on microbiome/dysbiosis—its pathophysiology and its treatments.

Alex Kennerly Vasquez DO ND DC (USA), prior Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN), prior Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM, London UK):

{education} An award-winning clinician-scholar and founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Dr Alex Vasquez is recognized internationally for his high intellectual and academic standards and for his detailed expertise spanning and interconnecting many topics in Medicine and Nutrition. Dr Vasquez holds three doctoral degrees as a graduate of University of Western States (Doctor of Chiropractic, 1996), Bastyr University (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, 1999), and University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, 2010). Dr Vasquez has completed thousands of hours of post-graduate and continuing education (certifications) in subjects including Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Basic and Advanced Disaster Life Support, Nutrition and Functional Medicine; while in the final year of medical school, Dr Vasquez completed a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research hosted by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
{teaching, directing, organizing} Dr Vasquez has served in many teaching roles at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate levels in various accredited universities and colleges throughout the United States and has lectured internationally at the post-graduate level including accredited Continuing Medical Education (CME) for medical physicians. DrV was the founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, and almost-single-handedly orchestrated the entirety of the five-day 2013 International Conference on Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine.
{books} Dr Vasquez is the author of more than ten textbooks, including Integrative Orthopedics (2004, 2007, 2012), Functional Medicine Rheumatology (2014), Musculoskeletal Pain: Expanded Clinical Strategies (commissioned and published by Institute for Functional Medicine, 2008), Chiropractic and Naturopathic Mastery of Common Clinical Disorders (2009), Integrative Medicine and Functional Medicine for Chronic Hypertension (2011), Brain Inflammation in Migraine and Fibromyalgia (2016), Antiviral Strategies and Immune Nutrition (2014), Autism, Dysbiosis, and the Gut-Brain Axis (2017) and the 1200-page Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition (2016) also published as a two-volume set titled Textbook of Clinical Nutrition and Functional Medicine. Dr Vasquez’s books are available internationally via bookstores such as BookDepository, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, ThriftBooks, AbeBooks, BetterWorldBooks, WaterStonesBooks.
{journals—publishing} “DrV” has written approximately 100 letters and articles for professional magazines and medical journals including:

{journals—reviewing and Editing} Dr Vasquez served as the founding Editor of Naturopathy Digest, founding Editor (2013-) of International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine and Editor (2018-2019) of Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and has previously served on the Review Boards for Acta Neuropsychiatrica, Journal of Pain Research, Autoimmune Diseases, PLOS One, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Neuropeptides, International Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal of Inflammation Research, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (all PubMed/Medline indexed), Integrated Blood Pressure Control, Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry, Chiropractic Journal of Australia, Journal of Chiropractic Humanities, and Journal of Naturopathic Medicine,
{high-level profitability} Dr Vasquez has spearheaded low-resource high-quality high-profit educational programs that were instantly profitable to several million dollars; Dr Vasquez has created several products for the nutrition industry with multi-million-dollar valuationsvaluations, including the popularization of higher-dose vitamin D supplementation with his 2004 “vitamin D paradigm shift” followed by publications in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), British Medical Journal (BMJ), The Lancet (website), and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
{bio} Dr Vasquez lectures internationally to healthcare professionals, has a consulting practice and service for doctors and patients, and constantly reviews research to produce new articles, videos, educational materials, and innovative product formulations. Dr Vasquez served as Director of Medical Board of Advisors, senior consultant, product designer, writer and lecturer for Biotics Research Corporation (Texas) from for 18 years (2004-2022) and continues producing educational materials and products for the nutraceutical market. Dr Vasquez has lived in Colombia, throughout the United States (Houston, Fort Worth, Austin, Miami, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Gainesville GA, Portland OR) and Spain (Barcelona, Tarragona, San Sebastian, Ourense).

CHRONIC PAIN DRUGS (for everything including MIGRAINE and FIBROMYALGIA)—Official Guidelines GUARANTEE FAILURE in Treatment of CHRONIC PAIN per official journal of American Academy of Family Physicians

INFLAMMATION MASTERY — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:56:41 GMT

I was shocked when I read this clinical review article published by the American Academy of Family Physicians in their journal American Family Physician—they openly admit that their drug treatments for chronic pain conditions have very little evidence of safety and effectiveness, and of course they offer no possibility whatsoever of actually curing-escaping these problems.

Official Guidelines GUARANTEE FAILURE in Treatment of CHRONIC PAIN per American Family Physician journal and American Academy of Family Physicians 2021

Citation: Raymond et al. Nonopioid Pharmacologic Treatments for Chronic Pain. Am Fam Physician. 2021 May 1;103(9):561-565
Publisher: American Academy of Family Physicians

Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition: available for immediate download to always have with you!

SOLUTIONS—all of the major clinical protocols including Migraine and Fibromyalgia are included inside INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4th Edition, available for immediate download:

Bookstore links:

Amazon.com: paper and digital ebooks—immediate download!
Barnes and Noble.com: paper and digital ebooks
Also: ThriftBooks, AbeBooks, BetterWorldBooks, WaterStonesBooks

Sample PDF downloads:

Click here to see the cover
Click here to see the first few pages, including the table of contents and index
Click here for a larger sample with photos (size: 43 MB)
DOWNLOAD a *free* sample of Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition here via the *free* Kindle software from Amazon.

Science-supported clinically-proven protocols for Fibromyalgia, CRPS, and Migraine

Description

Product Details:

Paperback
8.5 x 11 inches
1182 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9906204-8-8
Full color printing

Amazon.com: paper and digital ebooks—immediate download!

Barnes and Noble.com: paper and digital ebooks

This is a new program focused on Migraine and other conditions of “painful neuroinflammation” such as Fibromyalgia, CRPS, Cluster Headache, and Neuropathy that will also have direct relevance for conditions of “nonpainful/painless neuroinflammation” such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and autism.

Let your friends and family know about this new resource so they can learn from an experienced doctor, professor, and author of dozens of articles and books!

Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

I have been publishing on Nutrition, Pain, and Inflammation for more than 30 years, starting with my first articles published in professional magazines and journals in 1994

I started writing scientific-medical articles in 1994, and I became a Professor of Orthopedics and Rheumatology in 2000 and 2001, respectively. My course notes were eventually published at textbooks for doctors as INTEGRATIVE ORTHOPEDICS (2004,2012) and INTEGRATIVE RHEUMATOLOGY (2006,2014) and eventually expanded into INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4TH EDITION in 2016.

INFLAMMATION MASTERY clinical protocols InflammationMastery.com

INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4th EDITION (video) discount pricing directly from publisher

Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition: The Colorful and Definitive Guide Toward Health and Vitality and away from the Boredom, Risks, Costs, and Inefficacy of Endless Analgesia, Immunosuppression, and Polypharmacy

Bookstore links:

Sample PDF downloads:

Click here to see the cover
Click here to see the first few pages, including the table of contents and index (size: 6 MB)
Click here for a larger sample with photos (size: 43 MB)
DOWNLOAD a *free* sample of Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition here via the *free* Kindle software from Amazon.

I have helped tens of thousands of doctors and patients through my books, presentations, and articles.

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- NEUROINFLAMMATION,
- FIBROMYALGIA, and
- CRPS—COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME
I myself also had fibromyalgia (cured in 2015) and CRPS (cured in 2021) so I have much more than “academic perspectives” on these topics, as I had to live these conditions daily and had to eventually cure myself!

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- AUTISM and
- GUT MICROBIOME DYSBIOSIS:

Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

I have published many articles and books/chapters on dysbiosis and the human microbiome; I also produced a 30-hour CME (continuing medical education) course for doctors on microbiome/dysbiosis—its pathophysiology and its treatments.

Alex Kennerly Vasquez DO ND DC (USA), prior Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN), prior Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM, London UK):

{education} An award-winning clinician-scholar and founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Dr Alex Vasquez is recognized internationally for his high intellectual and academic standards and for his detailed expertise spanning and interconnecting many topics in Medicine and Nutrition. Dr Vasquez holds three doctoral degrees as a graduate of University of Western States (Doctor of Chiropractic, 1996), Bastyr University (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, 1999), and University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, 2010). Dr Vasquez has completed thousands of hours of post-graduate and continuing education (certifications) in subjects including Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Basic and Advanced Disaster Life Support, Nutrition and Functional Medicine; while in the final year of medical school, Dr Vasquez completed a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research hosted by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
{teaching, directing, organizing} Dr Vasquez has served in many teaching roles at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate levels in various accredited universities and colleges throughout the United States and has lectured internationally at the post-graduate level including accredited Continuing Medical Education (CME) for medical physicians. DrV was the founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, and almost-single-handedly orchestrated the entirety of the five-day 2013 International Conference on Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine.
{books} Dr Vasquez is the author of more than ten textbooks, including Integrative Orthopedics (2004, 2007, 2012), Functional Medicine Rheumatology (2014), Musculoskeletal Pain: Expanded Clinical Strategies (commissioned and published by Institute for Functional Medicine, 2008), Chiropractic and Naturopathic Mastery of Common Clinical Disorders (2009), Integrative Medicine and Functional Medicine for Chronic Hypertension (2011), Brain Inflammation in Migraine and Fibromyalgia (2016), Antiviral Strategies and Immune Nutrition (2014), Autism, Dysbiosis, and the Gut-Brain Axis (2017) and the 1200-page Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition (2016) also published as a two-volume set titled Textbook of Clinical Nutrition and Functional Medicine. Dr Vasquez’s books are available internationally via bookstores such as BookDepository, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, ThriftBooks, AbeBooks, BetterWorldBooks, WaterStonesBooks.
{journals—publishing} “DrV” has written approximately 100 letters and articles for professional magazines and medical journals including:

{journals—reviewing and Editing} Dr Vasquez served as the founding Editor of Naturopathy Digest, founding Editor (2013-) of International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine and Editor (2018-2019) of Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and has previously served on the Review Boards for Acta Neuropsychiatrica, Journal of Pain Research, Autoimmune Diseases, PLOS One, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Neuropeptides, International Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal of Inflammation Research, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (all PubMed/Medline indexed), Integrated Blood Pressure Control, Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry, Chiropractic Journal of Australia, Journal of Chiropractic Humanities, and Journal of Naturopathic Medicine,
{high-level profitability} Dr Vasquez has spearheaded low-resource high-quality high-profit educational programs that were instantly profitable to several million dollars; Dr Vasquez has created several products for the nutrition industry with multi-million-dollar valuationsvaluations, including the popularization of higher-dose vitamin D supplementation with his 2004 “vitamin D paradigm shift” followed by publications in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), British Medical Journal (BMJ), The Lancet (website), and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
{bio} Dr Vasquez lectures internationally to healthcare professionals, has a consulting practice and service for doctors and patients, and constantly reviews research to produce new articles, videos, educational materials, and innovative product formulations. Dr Vasquez served as Director of Medical Board of Advisors, senior consultant, product designer, writer and lecturer for Biotics Research Corporation (Texas) from for 18 years (2004-2022) and continues producing educational materials and products for the nutraceutical market. Dr Vasquez has lived in Colombia, throughout the United States (Houston, Fort Worth, Austin, Miami, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Gainesville GA, Portland OR) and Spain (Barcelona, Tarragona, San Sebastian, Ourense).

SOLUTIONS—all of the major clinical protocols including Migraine and Fibromyalgia are included inside INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4th Edition, available for immediate download

INFLAMMATION MASTERY — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:26:27 GMT

Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition: available for immediate download to always have with you!

Bookstore links:

Amazon.com: paper and digital ebooks—immediate download!
Barnes and Noble.com: paper and digital ebooks
Also: ThriftBooks, AbeBooks, BetterWorldBooks, WaterStonesBooks

Sample PDF downloads:

Click here to see the cover
Click here to see the first few pages, including the table of contents and index
Click here for a larger sample with photos (size: 43 MB)
DOWNLOAD a *free* sample of Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition here via the *free* Kindle software from Amazon.

Science-supported clinically-proven protocols for Fibromyalgia, CRPS, and Migraine

Description

Product Details:

Paperback
8.5 x 11 inches
1182 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9906204-8-8
Full color printing

Amazon.com: paper and digital ebooks—immediate download!

Barnes and Noble.com: paper and digital ebooks

This is a new program focused on Migraine and other conditions of “painful neuroinflammation” such as Fibromyalgia, CRPS, Cluster Headache, and Neuropathy that will also have direct relevance for conditions of “nonpainful/painless neuroinflammation” such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and autism.

Let your friends and family know about this new resource so they can learn from an experienced doctor, professor, and author of dozens of articles and books!

Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

I have been publishing on Nutrition, Pain, and Inflammation for more than 30 years, starting with my first articles published in professional magazines and journals in 1994

I started writing scientific-medical articles in 1994, and I became a Professor of Orthopedics and Rheumatology in 2000 and 2001, respectively. My course notes were eventually published at textbooks for doctors as INTEGRATIVE ORTHOPEDICS (2004,2012) and INTEGRATIVE RHEUMATOLOGY (2006,2014) and eventually expanded into INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4TH EDITION in 2016.

INFLAMMATION MASTERY clinical protocols InflammationMastery.com

INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4th EDITION (video) discount pricing directly from publisher

Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition: The Colorful and Definitive Guide Toward Health and Vitality and away from the Boredom, Risks, Costs, and Inefficacy of Endless Analgesia, Immunosuppression, and Polypharmacy

Bookstore links:

Sample PDF downloads:

Click here to see the cover
Click here to see the first few pages, including the table of contents and index (size: 6 MB)
Click here for a larger sample with photos (size: 43 MB)
DOWNLOAD a *free* sample of Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition here via the *free* Kindle software from Amazon.

I have helped tens of thousands of doctors and patients through my books, presentations, and articles.

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- NEUROINFLAMMATION,
- FIBROMYALGIA, and
- CRPS—COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME
I myself also had fibromyalgia (cured in 2015) and CRPS (cured in 2021) so I have much more than “academic perspectives” on these topics, as I had to live these conditions daily and had to eventually cure myself!

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- AUTISM and
- GUT MICROBIOME DYSBIOSIS:

Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

I have published many articles and books/chapters on dysbiosis and the human microbiome; I also produced a 30-hour CME (continuing medical education) course for doctors on microbiome/dysbiosis—its pathophysiology and its treatments.

Alex Kennerly Vasquez DO ND DC (USA), prior Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN), prior Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM, London UK):

{education} An award-winning clinician-scholar and founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Dr Alex Vasquez is recognized internationally for his high intellectual and academic standards and for his detailed expertise spanning and interconnecting many topics in Medicine and Nutrition. Dr Vasquez holds three doctoral degrees as a graduate of University of Western States (Doctor of Chiropractic, 1996), Bastyr University (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, 1999), and University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, 2010). Dr Vasquez has completed thousands of hours of post-graduate and continuing education (certifications) in subjects including Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Basic and Advanced Disaster Life Support, Nutrition and Functional Medicine; while in the final year of medical school, Dr Vasquez completed a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research hosted by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
{teaching, directing, organizing} Dr Vasquez has served in many teaching roles at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate levels in various accredited universities and colleges throughout the United States and has lectured internationally at the post-graduate level including accredited Continuing Medical Education (CME) for medical physicians. DrV was the founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, and almost-single-handedly orchestrated the entirety of the five-day 2013 International Conference on Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine.
{books} Dr Vasquez is the author of more than ten textbooks, including Integrative Orthopedics (2004, 2007, 2012), Functional Medicine Rheumatology (2014), Musculoskeletal Pain: Expanded Clinical Strategies (commissioned and published by Institute for Functional Medicine, 2008), Chiropractic and Naturopathic Mastery of Common Clinical Disorders (2009), Integrative Medicine and Functional Medicine for Chronic Hypertension (2011), Brain Inflammation in Migraine and Fibromyalgia (2016), Antiviral Strategies and Immune Nutrition (2014), Autism, Dysbiosis, and the Gut-Brain Axis (2017) and the 1200-page Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition (2016) also published as a two-volume set titled Textbook of Clinical Nutrition and Functional Medicine. Dr Vasquez’s books are available internationally via bookstores such as BookDepository, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, ThriftBooks, AbeBooks, BetterWorldBooks, WaterStonesBooks.
{journals—publishing} “DrV” has written approximately 100 letters and articles for professional magazines and medical journals including:

{journals—reviewing and Editing} Dr Vasquez served as the founding Editor of Naturopathy Digest, founding Editor (2013-) of International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine and Editor (2018-2019) of Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and has previously served on the Review Boards for Acta Neuropsychiatrica, Journal of Pain Research, Autoimmune Diseases, PLOS One, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Neuropeptides, International Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal of Inflammation Research, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (all PubMed/Medline indexed), Integrated Blood Pressure Control, Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry, Chiropractic Journal of Australia, Journal of Chiropractic Humanities, and Journal of Naturopathic Medicine,
{high-level profitability} Dr Vasquez has spearheaded low-resource high-quality high-profit educational programs that were instantly profitable to several million dollars; Dr Vasquez has created several products for the nutrition industry with multi-million-dollar valuationsvaluations, including the popularization of higher-dose vitamin D supplementation with his 2004 “vitamin D paradigm shift” followed by publications in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), British Medical Journal (BMJ), The Lancet (website), and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
{bio} Dr Vasquez lectures internationally to healthcare professionals, has a consulting practice and service for doctors and patients, and constantly reviews research to produce new articles, videos, educational materials, and innovative product formulations. Dr Vasquez served as Director of Medical Board of Advisors, senior consultant, product designer, writer and lecturer for Biotics Research Corporation (Texas) from for 18 years (2004-2022) and continues producing educational materials and products for the nutraceutical market. Dr Vasquez has lived in Colombia, throughout the United States (Houston, Fort Worth, Austin, Miami, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Gainesville GA, Portland OR) and Spain (Barcelona, Tarragona, San Sebastian, Ourense).

DIABETES DRUGS (NEUROPATHY)—bogus research methods hide that Metformin causes B12-deficiency neuropathy in diabetic patients to maintain maximum sales of ineffective-dangerous neuropathic drugs

INFLAMMATION MASTERY — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:34:54 GMT

This is a new program focused on Migraine and other conditions of “painful neuroinflammation” such as Fibromyalgia, CRPS, Cluster Headache, and Neuropathy that will also have direct relevance for conditions of “nonpainful/painless neuroinflammation” such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and autism.

Let your friends and family know about this new resource so they can learn from an experienced doctor, professor, and author of dozens of articles and books!

I have been publishing on Nutrition, Pain, and Inflammation for more than 30 years, starting with my first articles published in professional magazines and journals in 1994

I started writing scientific-medical articles in 1994, and I became a Professor of Orthopedics and Rheumatology in 2000 and 2001, respectively. My course notes were eventually published at textbooks for doctors as INTEGRATIVE ORTHOPEDICS (2004,2012) and INTEGRATIVE RHEUMATOLOGY (2006,2014) and eventually expanded into INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4TH EDITION in 2016.

INFLAMMATION MASTERY clinical protocols InflammationMastery.com

INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4th EDITION (video) discount pricing directly from publisher

Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition: The Colorful and Definitive Guide Toward Health and Vitality and away from the Boredom, Risks, Costs, and Inefficacy of Endless Analgesia, Immunosuppression, and Polypharmacy

Bookstore links:

Sample PDF downloads:

Click here to see the cover
Click here to see the first few pages, including the table of contents and index (size: 6 MB)
Click here for a larger sample with photos (size: 43 MB)
DOWNLOAD a *free* sample of Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition here via the *free* Kindle software from Amazon.

I have helped tens of thousands of doctors and patients through my books, presentations, and articles.

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- NEUROINFLAMMATION,
- FIBROMYALGIA, and
- CRPS—COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME
I myself also had fibromyalgia (cured in 2015) and CRPS (cured in 2021) so I have much more than “academic perspectives” on these topics, as I had to live these conditions daily and had to eventually cure myself!

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- AUTISM and
- GUT MICROBIOME DYSBIOSIS:

Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

I have published many articles and books/chapters on dysbiosis and the human microbiome; I also produced a 30-hour CME (continuing medical education) course for doctors on microbiome/dysbiosis—its pathophysiology and its treatments.

Alex Kennerly Vasquez DO ND DC (USA), prior Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN), prior Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM, London UK):

{education} An award-winning clinician-scholar and founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Dr Alex Vasquez is recognized internationally for his high intellectual and academic standards and for his detailed expertise spanning and interconnecting many topics in Medicine and Nutrition. Dr Vasquez holds three doctoral degrees as a graduate of University of Western States (Doctor of Chiropractic, 1996), Bastyr University (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, 1999), and University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, 2010). Dr Vasquez has completed thousands of hours of post-graduate and continuing education (certifications) in subjects including Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Basic and Advanced Disaster Life Support, Nutrition and Functional Medicine; while in the final year of medical school, Dr Vasquez completed a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research hosted by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
{teaching, directing, organizing} Dr Vasquez has served in many teaching roles at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate levels in various accredited universities and colleges throughout the United States and has lectured internationally at the post-graduate level including accredited Continuing Medical Education (CME) for medical physicians. DrV was the founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, and almost-single-handedly orchestrated the entirety of the five-day 2013 International Conference on Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine.
{books} Dr Vasquez is the author of more than ten textbooks, including Integrative Orthopedics (2004, 2007, 2012), Functional Medicine Rheumatology (2014), Musculoskeletal Pain: Expanded Clinical Strategies (commissioned and published by Institute for Functional Medicine, 2008), Chiropractic and Naturopathic Mastery of Common Clinical Disorders (2009), Integrative Medicine and Functional Medicine for Chronic Hypertension (2011), Brain Inflammation in Migraine and Fibromyalgia (2016), Antiviral Strategies and Immune Nutrition (2014), Autism, Dysbiosis, and the Gut-Brain Axis (2017) and the 1200-page Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition (2016) also published as a two-volume set titled Textbook of Clinical Nutrition and Functional Medicine. Dr Vasquez’s books are available internationally via bookstores such as BookDepository, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, ThriftBooks, AbeBooks, BetterWorldBooks, WaterStonesBooks.
{journals—publishing} “DrV” has written approximately 100 letters and articles for professional magazines and medical journals including:

{journals—reviewing and Editing} Dr Vasquez served as the founding Editor of Naturopathy Digest, founding Editor (2013-) of International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine and Editor (2018-2019) of Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and has previously served on the Review Boards for Acta Neuropsychiatrica, Journal of Pain Research, Autoimmune Diseases, PLOS One, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Neuropeptides, International Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal of Inflammation Research, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (all PubMed/Medline indexed), Integrated Blood Pressure Control, Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry, Chiropractic Journal of Australia, Journal of Chiropractic Humanities, and Journal of Naturopathic Medicine,
{high-level profitability} Dr Vasquez has spearheaded low-resource high-quality high-profit educational programs that were instantly profitable to several million dollars; Dr Vasquez has created several products for the nutrition industry with multi-million-dollar valuationsvaluations, including the popularization of higher-dose vitamin D supplementation with his 2004 “vitamin D paradigm shift” followed by publications in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), British Medical Journal (BMJ), The Lancet (website), and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
{bio} Dr Vasquez lectures internationally to healthcare professionals, has a consulting practice and service for doctors and patients, and constantly reviews research to produce new articles, videos, educational materials, and innovative product formulations. Dr Vasquez served as Director of Medical Board of Advisors, senior consultant, product designer, writer and lecturer for Biotics Research Corporation (Texas) from for 18 years (2004-2022) and continues producing educational materials and products for the nutraceutical market. Dr Vasquez has lived in Colombia, throughout the United States (Houston, Fort Worth, Austin, Miami, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Gainesville GA, Portland OR) and Spain (Barcelona, Tarragona, San Sebastian, Ourense).

PAIN DRUGS (MIGRAINE)—new PACAP drugs give negligible benefit at high cost, high immunogenicity, and NO HOPE WHATSOEVER of actually curing Migraine or any other chronic pain condition

INFLAMMATION MASTERY — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:29:46 GMT

This is a new program focused on Migraine and other conditions of “painful neuroinflammation” such as Fibromyalgia, CRPS, Cluster Headache, and Neuropathy that will also have direct relevance for conditions of “nonpainful/painless neuroinflammation” such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and autism.

Let your friends and family know about this new resource so they can learn from an experienced doctor, professor, and author of dozens of articles and books!

I have been publishing on Nutrition, Pain, and Inflammation for more than 30 years, starting with my first articles published in professional magazines and journals in 1994

I started writing scientific-medical articles in 1994, and I became a Professor of Orthopedics and Rheumatology in 2000 and 2001, respectively. My course notes were eventually published at textbooks for doctors as INTEGRATIVE ORTHOPEDICS (2004,2012) and INTEGRATIVE RHEUMATOLOGY (2006,2014) and eventually expanded into INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4TH EDITION in 2016.

INFLAMMATION MASTERY clinical protocols InflammationMastery.com

INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4th EDITION (video) discount pricing directly from publisher

Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition: The Colorful and Definitive Guide Toward Health and Vitality and away from the Boredom, Risks, Costs, and Inefficacy of Endless Analgesia, Immunosuppression, and Polypharmacy

Bookstore links:

Sample PDF downloads:

Click here to see the cover
Click here to see the first few pages, including the table of contents and index (size: 6 MB)
Click here for a larger sample with photos (size: 43 MB)
DOWNLOAD a *free* sample of Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition here via the *free* Kindle software from Amazon.

I have helped tens of thousands of doctors and patients through my books, presentations, and articles.

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- NEUROINFLAMMATION,
- FIBROMYALGIA, and
- CRPS—COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME
I myself also had fibromyalgia (cured in 2015) and CRPS (cured in 2021) so I have much more than “academic perspectives” on these topics, as I had to live these conditions daily and had to eventually cure myself!

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- AUTISM and
- GUT MICROBIOME DYSBIOSIS:

Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

I have published many articles and books/chapters on dysbiosis and the human microbiome; I also produced a 30-hour CME (continuing medical education) course for doctors on microbiome/dysbiosis—its pathophysiology and its treatments.

Alex Kennerly Vasquez DO ND DC (USA), prior Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN), prior Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM, London UK):

{education} An award-winning clinician-scholar and founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Dr Alex Vasquez is recognized internationally for his high intellectual and academic standards and for his detailed expertise spanning and interconnecting many topics in Medicine and Nutrition. Dr Vasquez holds three doctoral degrees as a graduate of University of Western States (Doctor of Chiropractic, 1996), Bastyr University (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, 1999), and University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, 2010). Dr Vasquez has completed thousands of hours of post-graduate and continuing education (certifications) in subjects including Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Basic and Advanced Disaster Life Support, Nutrition and Functional Medicine; while in the final year of medical school, Dr Vasquez completed a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research hosted by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
{teaching, directing, organizing} Dr Vasquez has served in many teaching roles at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate levels in various accredited universities and colleges throughout the United States and has lectured internationally at the post-graduate level including accredited Continuing Medical Education (CME) for medical physicians. DrV was the founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, and almost-single-handedly orchestrated the entirety of the five-day 2013 International Conference on Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine.
{books} Dr Vasquez is the author of more than ten textbooks, including Integrative Orthopedics (2004, 2007, 2012), Functional Medicine Rheumatology (2014), Musculoskeletal Pain: Expanded Clinical Strategies (commissioned and published by Institute for Functional Medicine, 2008), Chiropractic and Naturopathic Mastery of Common Clinical Disorders (2009), Integrative Medicine and Functional Medicine for Chronic Hypertension (2011), Brain Inflammation in Migraine and Fibromyalgia (2016), Antiviral Strategies and Immune Nutrition (2014), Autism, Dysbiosis, and the Gut-Brain Axis (2017) and the 1200-page Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition (2016) also published as a two-volume set titled Textbook of Clinical Nutrition and Functional Medicine. Dr Vasquez’s books are available internationally via bookstores such as BookDepository, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, ThriftBooks, AbeBooks, BetterWorldBooks, WaterStonesBooks.
{journals—publishing} “DrV” has written approximately 100 letters and articles for professional magazines and medical journals including:

{journals—reviewing and Editing} Dr Vasquez served as the founding Editor of Naturopathy Digest, founding Editor (2013-) of International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine and Editor (2018-2019) of Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and has previously served on the Review Boards for Acta Neuropsychiatrica, Journal of Pain Research, Autoimmune Diseases, PLOS One, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Neuropeptides, International Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal of Inflammation Research, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (all PubMed/Medline indexed), Integrated Blood Pressure Control, Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry, Chiropractic Journal of Australia, Journal of Chiropractic Humanities, and Journal of Naturopathic Medicine,
{high-level profitability} Dr Vasquez has spearheaded low-resource high-quality high-profit educational programs that were instantly profitable to several million dollars; Dr Vasquez has created several products for the nutrition industry with multi-million-dollar valuationsvaluations, including the popularization of higher-dose vitamin D supplementation with his 2004 “vitamin D paradigm shift” followed by publications in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), British Medical Journal (BMJ), The Lancet (website), and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
{bio} Dr Vasquez lectures internationally to healthcare professionals, has a consulting practice and service for doctors and patients, and constantly reviews research to produce new articles, videos, educational materials, and innovative product formulations. Dr Vasquez served as Director of Medical Board of Advisors, senior consultant, product designer, writer and lecturer for Biotics Research Corporation (Texas) from for 18 years (2004-2022) and continues producing educational materials and products for the nutraceutical market. Dr Vasquez has lived in Colombia, throughout the United States (Houston, Fort Worth, Austin, Miami, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Gainesville GA, Portland OR) and Spain (Barcelona, Tarragona, San Sebastian, Ourense).

PAIN DRUGS (MIGRAINE)—Drug-based Migraine Protocols offer NO HOPE WHATSOEVER of actually curing Migraine or any other chronic pain condition

INFLAMMATION MASTERY — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 01:26:44 GMT

This is a new program focused on Migraine and other conditions of “painful neuroinflammation” such as Fibromyalgia, CRPS, Cluster Headache, and Neuropathy that will also have direct relevance for conditions of “nonpainful/painless neuroinflammation” such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and autism.

Let your friends and family know about this new resource so they can learn from an experienced doctor, professor, and author of dozens of articles and books!

I have been publishing on Nutrition, Pain, and Inflammation for more than 30 years, starting with my first articles published in professional magazines and journals in 1994

I started writing scientific-medical articles in 1994, and I became a Professor of Orthopedics and Rheumatology in 2000 and 2001, respectively. My course notes were eventually published at textbooks for doctors as INTEGRATIVE ORTHOPEDICS (2004,2012) and INTEGRATIVE RHEUMATOLOGY (2006,2014) and eventually expanded into INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4TH EDITION in 2016.

INFLAMMATION MASTERY clinical protocols InflammationMastery.com

INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4th EDITION (video) discount pricing directly from publisher

Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition: The Colorful and Definitive Guide Toward Health and Vitality and away from the Boredom, Risks, Costs, and Inefficacy of Endless Analgesia, Immunosuppression, and Polypharmacy

Bookstore links:

Sample PDF downloads:

Click here to see the cover
Click here to see the first few pages, including the table of contents and index (size: 6 MB)
Click here for a larger sample with photos (size: 43 MB)
DOWNLOAD a *free* sample of Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition here via the *free* Kindle software from Amazon.

I have helped tens of thousands of doctors and patients through my books, presentations, and articles.

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- NEUROINFLAMMATION,
- FIBROMYALGIA, and
- CRPS—COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME
I myself also had fibromyalgia (cured in 2015) and CRPS (cured in 2021) so I have much more than “academic perspectives” on these topics, as I had to live these conditions daily and had to eventually cure myself!

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- AUTISM and
- GUT MICROBIOME DYSBIOSIS:

Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

I have published many articles and books/chapters on dysbiosis and the human microbiome; I also produced a 30-hour CME (continuing medical education) course for doctors on microbiome/dysbiosis—its pathophysiology and its treatments.

Alex Kennerly Vasquez DO ND DC (USA), prior Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN), prior Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM, London UK):

{education} An award-winning clinician-scholar and founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Dr Alex Vasquez is recognized internationally for his high intellectual and academic standards and for his detailed expertise spanning and interconnecting many topics in Medicine and Nutrition. Dr Vasquez holds three doctoral degrees as a graduate of University of Western States (Doctor of Chiropractic, 1996), Bastyr University (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, 1999), and University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, 2010). Dr Vasquez has completed thousands of hours of post-graduate and continuing education (certifications) in subjects including Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Basic and Advanced Disaster Life Support, Nutrition and Functional Medicine; while in the final year of medical school, Dr Vasquez completed a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research hosted by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
{teaching, directing, organizing} Dr Vasquez has served in many teaching roles at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate levels in various accredited universities and colleges throughout the United States and has lectured internationally at the post-graduate level including accredited Continuing Medical Education (CME) for medical physicians. DrV was the founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, and almost-single-handedly orchestrated the entirety of the five-day 2013 International Conference on Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine.
{books} Dr Vasquez is the author of more than ten textbooks, including Integrative Orthopedics (2004, 2007, 2012), Functional Medicine Rheumatology (2014), Musculoskeletal Pain: Expanded Clinical Strategies (commissioned and published by Institute for Functional Medicine, 2008), Chiropractic and Naturopathic Mastery of Common Clinical Disorders (2009), Integrative Medicine and Functional Medicine for Chronic Hypertension (2011), Brain Inflammation in Migraine and Fibromyalgia (2016), Antiviral Strategies and Immune Nutrition (2014), Autism, Dysbiosis, and the Gut-Brain Axis (2017) and the 1200-page Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition (2016) also published as a two-volume set titled Textbook of Clinical Nutrition and Functional Medicine. Dr Vasquez’s books are available internationally via bookstores such as BookDepository, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, ThriftBooks, AbeBooks, BetterWorldBooks, WaterStonesBooks.
{journals—publishing} “DrV” has written approximately 100 letters and articles for professional magazines and medical journals including:

{journals—reviewing and Editing} Dr Vasquez served as the founding Editor of Naturopathy Digest, founding Editor (2013-) of International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine and Editor (2018-2019) of Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and has previously served on the Review Boards for Acta Neuropsychiatrica, Journal of Pain Research, Autoimmune Diseases, PLOS One, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Neuropeptides, International Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal of Inflammation Research, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (all PubMed/Medline indexed), Integrated Blood Pressure Control, Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry, Chiropractic Journal of Australia, Journal of Chiropractic Humanities, and Journal of Naturopathic Medicine,
{high-level profitability} Dr Vasquez has spearheaded low-resource high-quality high-profit educational programs that were instantly profitable to several million dollars; Dr Vasquez has created several products for the nutrition industry with multi-million-dollar valuationsvaluations, including the popularization of higher-dose vitamin D supplementation with his 2004 “vitamin D paradigm shift” followed by publications in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), British Medical Journal (BMJ), The Lancet (website), and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
{bio} Dr Vasquez lectures internationally to healthcare professionals, has a consulting practice and service for doctors and patients, and constantly reviews research to produce new articles, videos, educational materials, and innovative product formulations. Dr Vasquez served as Director of Medical Board of Advisors, senior consultant, product designer, writer and lecturer for Biotics Research Corporation (Texas) from for 18 years (2004-2022) and continues producing educational materials and products for the nutraceutical market. Dr Vasquez has lived in Colombia, throughout the United States (Houston, Fort Worth, Austin, Miami, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Gainesville GA, Portland OR) and Spain (Barcelona, Tarragona, San Sebastian, Ourense).

Welcome to the MIGRAINE MECHANIC™ program by Dr Alex Vasquez Kennerly

INFLAMMATION MASTERY — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:13:41 GMT

This is a new program focused on Migraine and other conditions of “painful neuroinflammation” such as Fibromyalgia, CRPS, Cluster Headache, and Neuropathy that will also have direct relevance for conditions of “nonpainful/painless neuroinflammation” such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and autism.

Let your friends and family know about this new resource so they can learn from an experienced doctor, professor, and author of dozens of articles and books!

I have been publishing on Nutrition, Pain, and Inflammation for more than 30 years, starting with my first articles published in professional magazines and journals in 1994

I started writing scientific-medical articles in 1994, and I became a Professor of Orthopedics and Rheumatology in 2000 and 2001, respectively. My course notes were eventually published at textbooks for doctors as INTEGRATIVE ORTHOPEDICS (2004,2012) and INTEGRATIVE RHEUMATOLOGY (2006,2014) and eventually expanded into INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4TH EDITION in 2016.

INFLAMMATION MASTERY clinical protocols InflammationMastery.com

INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4th EDITION (video) discount pricing directly from publisher

Share Migraine Mechanic (CRPS,Fibromyalgia,ClusterHA)

Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition: The Colorful and Definitive Guide Toward Health and Vitality and away from the Boredom, Risks, Costs, and Inefficacy of Endless Analgesia, Immunosuppression, and Polypharmacy

Bookstore links:

Sample PDF downloads:

Click here to see the cover
Click here to see the first few pages, including the table of contents and index (size: 6 MB)
Click here for a larger sample with photos (size: 43 MB)
DOWNLOAD a *free* sample of Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition here via the *free* Kindle software from Amazon.

I have helped tens of thousands of doctors and patients through my books, presentations, and articles.

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- NEUROINFLAMMATION,
- FIBROMYALGIA, and
- CRPS—COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME
I myself also had fibromyalgia (cured in 2015) and CRPS (cured in 2021) so I have much more than “academic perspectives” on these topics, as I had to live these conditions daily and had to eventually cure myself!

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- AUTISM and
- GUT MICROBIOME DYSBIOSIS:

I have published many articles and books/chapters on dysbiosis and the human microbiome; I also produced a 30-hour CME (continuing medical education) course for doctors on microbiome/dysbiosis—its pathophysiology and its treatments.

Alex Kennerly Vasquez DO ND DC (USA), prior Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN), prior Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM, London UK):

{education} An award-winning clinician-scholar and founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Dr Alex Vasquez is recognized internationally for his high intellectual and academic standards and for his detailed expertise spanning and interconnecting many topics in Medicine and Nutrition. Dr Vasquez holds three doctoral degrees as a graduate of University of Western States (Doctor of Chiropractic, 1996), Bastyr University (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, 1999), and University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, 2010). Dr Vasquez has completed thousands of hours of post-graduate and continuing education (certifications) in subjects including Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Basic and Advanced Disaster Life Support, Nutrition and Functional Medicine; while in the final year of medical school, Dr Vasquez completed a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research hosted by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
{teaching, directing, organizing} Dr Vasquez has served in many teaching roles at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate levels in various accredited universities and colleges throughout the United States and has lectured internationally at the post-graduate level including accredited Continuing Medical Education (CME) for medical physicians. DrV was the founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, and almost-single-handedly orchestrated the entirety of the five-day 2013 International Conference on Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine.
{books} Dr Vasquez is the author of more than ten textbooks, including Integrative Orthopedics (2004, 2007, 2012), Functional Medicine Rheumatology (2014), Musculoskeletal Pain: Expanded Clinical Strategies (commissioned and published by Institute for Functional Medicine, 2008), Chiropractic and Naturopathic Mastery of Common Clinical Disorders (2009), Integrative Medicine and Functional Medicine for Chronic Hypertension (2011), Brain Inflammation in Migraine and Fibromyalgia (2016), Antiviral Strategies and Immune Nutrition (2014), Autism, Dysbiosis, and the Gut-Brain Axis (2017) and the 1200-page Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition (2016) also published as a two-volume set titled Textbook of Clinical Nutrition and Functional Medicine. Dr Vasquez’s books are available internationally via bookstores such as BookDepository, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, ThriftBooks, AbeBooks, BetterWorldBooks, WaterStonesBooks.
{journals—publishing} “DrV” has written approximately 100 letters and articles for professional magazines and medical journals including:

{journals—reviewing and Editing} Dr Vasquez served as the founding Editor of Naturopathy Digest, founding Editor (2013-) of International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine and Editor (2018-2019) of Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and has previously served on the Review Boards for Acta Neuropsychiatrica, Journal of Pain Research, Autoimmune Diseases, PLOS One, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Neuropeptides, International Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal of Inflammation Research, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (all PubMed/Medline indexed), Integrated Blood Pressure Control, Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry, Chiropractic Journal of Australia, Journal of Chiropractic Humanities, and Journal of Naturopathic Medicine,
{high-level profitability} Dr Vasquez has spearheaded low-resource high-quality high-profit educational programs that were instantly profitable to several million dollars; Dr Vasquez has created several products for the nutrition industry with multi-million-dollar valuationsvaluations, including the popularization of higher-dose vitamin D supplementation with his 2004 “vitamin D paradigm shift” followed by publications in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), British Medical Journal (BMJ), The Lancet (website), and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
{bio} Dr Vasquez lectures internationally to healthcare professionals, has a consulting practice and service for doctors and patients, and constantly reviews research to produce new articles, videos, educational materials, and innovative product formulations. Dr Vasquez served as Director of Medical Board of Advisors, senior consultant, product designer, writer and lecturer for Biotics Research Corporation (Texas) from for 18 years (2004-2022) and continues producing educational materials and products for the nutraceutical market. Dr Vasquez has lived in Colombia, throughout the United States (Houston, Fort Worth, Austin, Miami, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Gainesville GA, Portland OR) and Spain (Barcelona, Tarragona, San Sebastian, Ourense).

Migraine Mechanic™ is a new program focused on Migraine and other conditions of “painful neuroinflammation” such as Fibromyalgia, CRPS, and Cluster Headache

INFLAMMATION MASTERY — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:00:59 GMT

This is a new (starting in 2026/2027) program focused on Migraine and other conditions of “painful neuroinflammation” such as Fibromyalgia, CRPS, and Cluster Headache that will also have direct relevance for conditions of “nonpainful/painless neuroinflammation” such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson’s disease, and autism.

I started writing scientific-medical articles in 1994, and I became a Professor of Orthopedics and Rheumatology in 2000 and 2001, respectively.

I have helped tens of thousands of doctors and patients through my books, presentations, and articles.

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- NEUROINFLAMMATION,
- FIBROMYALGIA, and
- CRPS—COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME:

I have published peer-reviewed scientific articles on
- AUTISM and
- GUT MICROBIOME DYSBIOSIS:

Alex Kennerly Vasquez DO ND DC (USA), prior Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN), prior Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM, London UK):

{education} An award-winning clinician-scholar and founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Dr Alex Vasquez is recognized internationally for his high intellectual and academic standards and for his detailed expertise spanning and interconnecting many topics in Medicine and Nutrition. Dr Vasquez holds three doctoral degrees as a graduate of University of Western States (Doctor of Chiropractic, 1996), Bastyr University (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, 1999), and University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, 2010). Dr Vasquez has completed thousands of hours of post-graduate and continuing education (certifications) in subjects including Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Basic and Advanced Disaster Life Support, Nutrition and Functional Medicine; while in the final year of medical school, Dr Vasquez completed a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research hosted by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
{teaching, directing, organizing} Dr Vasquez has served in many teaching roles at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate levels in various accredited universities and colleges throughout the United States and has lectured internationally at the post-graduate level including accredited Continuing Medical Education (CME) for medical physicians. DrV was the founding Program Director of the world’s first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, and almost-single-handedly orchestrated the entirety of the five-day 2013 International Conference on Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine.
{books} Dr Vasquez is the author of more than ten textbooks, including Integrative Orthopedics (2004, 2007, 2012), Functional Medicine Rheumatology (2014), Musculoskeletal Pain: Expanded Clinical Strategies (commissioned and published by Institute for Functional Medicine, 2008), Chiropractic and Naturopathic Mastery of Common Clinical Disorders (2009), Integrative Medicine and Functional Medicine for Chronic Hypertension (2011), Brain Inflammation in Migraine and Fibromyalgia (2016), Antiviral Strategies and Immune Nutrition (2014), Autism, Dysbiosis, and the Gut-Brain Axis (2017) and the 1200-page Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition (2016) also published as a two-volume set titled Textbook of Clinical Nutrition and Functional Medicine. Dr Vasquez’s books are available internationally via bookstores such as BookDepository, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, ThriftBooks, AbeBooks, BetterWorldBooks, WaterStonesBooks.
{journals—publishing} “DrV” has written approximately 100 letters and articles for professional magazines and medical journals including:

{journals—reviewing and Editing} Dr Vasquez served as the founding Editor of Naturopathy Digest, founding Editor (2013-) of International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine and Editor (2018-2019) of Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and has previously served on the Review Boards for Acta Neuropsychiatrica, Journal of Pain Research, Autoimmune Diseases, PLOS One, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Neuropeptides, International Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal of Inflammation Research, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (all PubMed/Medline indexed), Integrated Blood Pressure Control, Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry, Chiropractic Journal of Australia, Journal of Chiropractic Humanities, and Journal of Naturopathic Medicine,
{high-level profitability} Dr Vasquez has spearheaded low-resource high-quality high-profit educational programs that were instantly profitable to several million dollars; Dr Vasquez has created several products for the nutrition industry with multi-million-dollar valuationsvaluations, including the popularization of higher-dose vitamin D supplementation with his 2004 “vitamin D paradigm shift” followed by publications in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), British Medical Journal (BMJ), The Lancet (website), and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
{bio} Dr Vasquez lectures internationally to healthcare professionals, has a consulting practice and service for doctors and patients, and constantly reviews research to produce new articles, videos, educational materials, and innovative product formulations. Dr Vasquez served as Director of Medical Board of Advisors, senior consultant, product designer, writer and lecturer for Biotics Research Corporation (Texas) from for 18 years (2004-2022) and continues producing educational materials and products for the nutraceutical market. Dr Vasquez has lived in Colombia, throughout the United States (Houston, Fort Worth, Austin, Miami, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Gainesville GA, Portland OR) and Spain (Barcelona, Tarragona, San Sebastian, Ourense).

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