Marty Ross MD Doctor’s Bag

Experience Matters. I offer treatments that stand the test of time based on my 20(+) years experience managing tick-borne diseases, mold toxicity, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromylgia, and complex chronic illnesses.

• You won’t find any questionable fad or quick fix treatments like SOT or TruDose PRP here.

Herbal Medicines and Supplements

Marty Ross MD works with a full range of herbal antibiotics and nutritional supplements—including oral peptides—to support the natural functions of the body. Some people who see Dr. Ross choose herb and supplement only treatments while others work with supplements and prescriptions combined. For a full list of nutritionals Dr. Ross recommends go to the Marty Ross MD Supplements.

Prescription Medicines

Dr. Ross prescribes the full range of prescription medicines like oral and injectable antibiotics, methylene blue, low dose naltrexone, anti-depression medicines, anxiety medicines, adrenal and thyroid medications, hormones, sleep medicines, and non-narcotic medicines to manage pain.

Lifestyle Medicines

Diets. Marty Ross MD recommends various diets to improve health.

• A paleo type diet Marty named The Best Brain, Inflammation, Pain, Energy, and Detox Diet Ever

• The Elimination Diet to Find Problem Foods for people with various food allergies and sensitivities

• And Plant-based and Plan-forward Diets for chronic illness management.

Exercise. Dr. Ross also recommends exercise to tolerance where a person finds an amount they can do without paying the price the next day.

Sleep. Marty works with sleep hygiene plus cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia to correct most sleep problems.

Acupuncture, Energy and Spirit

Marty Ross MD is trained in medical acupuncture. While he no longer offers this service in his practice, he does refer people for acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine when he thinks they will help.

Other methods he uses include meditation and various mind-body stress reduction activities. Marty refers for professional mental health counseling as needed.

Dr. Ross also works to support the limbic system with programs like Annie Hopper’s Dynamic Neural Retraining System, The Gupta Method, and Primal Trust.

Shamanic healing practices can help some people. Ask Dr. Ross about these non-medical methods. For more information visit The Foundation for Shamanic Studies where Dr. Ross trained.

Lyme Disease, Bartonella, Babesia and Tick-Borne Diseases

Lyme and tick-borne diseases like Babesia and Bartonella are complex to diagnose and to treat. Marty Ross MD works with symptoms and specialized labs like IGenex, Galaxy Diagnositics, and TLab to help find answers.

Dr. Ross uses both short and longer-term herbal and prescription antibiotics as needed. In addition he works with supplements and prescriptions to correct sleep, lower inflammation, detox, correct hormonal imbalances, restore nutrition, fix mitochondria energy factories, boost the immune system. Dr. Ross’s treatments also focus on diet and exercise as tolerated.

Learn more about how Dr. Ross treats Lyme disease and tick-borne illnesses at his education website Treat Lyme by Marty Ross MD. As a starting point read The Ross Lyme & Tick-borne Diseases Support Protocol. Marty Ross MD follows the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS) Treatment Guidelines regarding the use of longer term antibiotics.

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME & FIBROMYALGIA

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromylagia have similar causes. Dr. Ross works with the best of natural and prescription medicines to get at the root causes of these problems.

As needed his treatments correct sleep, treat for a variety of chronic infections like intestinal yeast overgrowth and chronic viruses, restore the cell mitochondria energy factories, improve hormonal function, correct detox problems including treating mold toxin illness if present. Dr. Ross’s treatments also work with various diets and exercise as tolerated.

Dr. Ross trained with Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum who wrote Fatigued from Fantastic describing similar treatments to those he uses to get people well.

Mold Toxin Illness

According to the work of Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker, about 25% of all people exposed to mold toxins are unable to clean them out of the body. These toxins lead to a health state that looks a lot like Lyme disease, chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.

Marty Ross MD takes a careful history on each patient to see if they might have mold exposures currently or in the past. If needed he works with labs like RealTime Lab to test the urine to see if a person has a build up of excess mold toxins. If a person has mold toxin illness, Dr. Ross works with toxin binders and if needed, anti-fungal herbs and prescriptions to get a person well. His treatments also address sleep, hormone imbalances, damage to cell mitochondria factories, and special diets if needed. For more information about Dr. Ross approach to mold toxin illness read Mold Toxin Illness & Tick-borne Diseases.

Complex Chronic Illnesses

Marty Ross MD also treats complex illnesses for which western medicine does not have good solutions. These illnesses include

• sub-clinical low thyroid where labs are normal but a person still has many low thyroid symptoms

• mast cell activation syndrome which sometimes leads to extreme allergic reactions and environmental sensitvities and

• various detoxification problems like MTHFR and Heavy Metal Toxicity.

He also focuses on treating other complex fatiguing illnesses that do not fall in the categories of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and Mold Toxicity Illness.