BY KAREN BOSSICK

Dr. Michael Galitzer likes to think of the organs and other parts of the body as members of an orchestra.

“If some are sluggish, we need to make them strong,” he said.

Galitzer, a nationally recognized expert in health energy medicine, anti-aging integrative medicine and hormone replacement therapy, brings poor performing parts of the body up to speed with a variety of treatments, including intravenous therapy, blood irradiation therapy and even light therapy.

And, he says, he’s able to help those he works with, including Suzanne Somers and Tony Robbins, look and feel years younger.

Galitzer will offer an overview of his work with tired and stressed body parts during the 2017 Sun Valley Wellness Festival, which kicks off today and runs through Monday, May 29, at Sun Valley Resort.

He will present “Outstanding Health: How the Body Influences the Mind and How the Mind Influences the Body” at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 28, Sun Valley Inn’s Limelight Room (www.sunvalleywellness.org).

The Los Angeles doctor practiced emergency medicine for 15 years as one of the first hundred doctors in the United State to become board certified in emergency medicine. But he began studying  integrative medicine, including herbs, nutrition, homeopathy, energy medicine and medical acupuncture, after watching a friend undergo electro acupuncture to combat poisoning from mercury in his teeth.

Galitzer published the book “Outstanding Health: The 6 Essential Keys to Maximize Your Energy and Well Being and How to Stay Young Healthy and Sexy for the Rest of Your Life” in 2015. His most recent book, “A New Calm,” describe stress reduction techniques that he says has anti-aging effects.

Stress, including that caused by noise and traffic pollution, is one of the biggest obstacles to good health, contributing to as much as 95 percent of disease today, Galitzer said. One easy way to reduce stress, he said is earthing. That is, walking barefoot on grass or the beach. It grounds us to the earth, which gives us food and water and a natural energy.

Vitamin G—or Vitamin Ground, so to speak.

Optimizing hormones through the use of natural hormones and other means can help, as well, he said.

“Most people think of things like progesterone when they think of hormones. But the most important is hormones associated with the adrenal gland, which can be depleted by stress, whether emotional or nutritional,” he said.

“Our hormones don’t decline because we age—we age because our hormones decline. The challenge with people over 60 is increasing their energy, and we can do that with hormone therapy.”

Another cause of energy loss and energetic imbalance is toxins, Galitzer said. Toxin-related imbalances can result in a wide range of physical, emotional, and mental health issues.

Many of the toxins that plague us are environmental, found in tap water, smog, alcohol, artificial sweeteners, food preservatives and additives, tobacco, pesticides, petrochemicals, heavy metals, viruses, bacteria, and even prescription and over-the-counter medicines.

Others are internal toxins produced in the body as a result of compromised digestion and efficient metabolism resulting from poor eating habits, wrong food combinations and things like pancreatic digestive deficiency.

As they accumulate, they stress the liver, kidneys, lymph glands, colon, lungs and skin which then become less efficient in excreting them. The endocrine or hormonal glands get tired trying to combat them and illness invades, Galitzer said.

“Conventional medicine recognizes two classes of toxins: exogenous and endogenous. I add a third class: toxic emotions.”

The first step to treating acute toxicity is creating drainage, Galitzer said. Start each day by drinking a glass of pure, filtered water with juice of a fresh squeezed organic lemon.

Green drinks made of ingredients like cucumber, green apple, kale and parley can help, as does Vitamin B, he added.

Galitzer  takes care of himself by exercising, meditating and eating well. His office is full of energy  instruments, such as energy-balancing crystals, music and light.  

“Everyone’s looking for the newest greatest, latest thing but it’s really a combination of this, this, this and that,” he said.