Personalized Nutrition Therapy in Hashimoto's Thyroiditis and Herpes Zoster Oticus, Recalcitrant to Conventional Therapy: A Case Report

Abstract

Personalized nutrition therapy (PNT) has been developing in terms of functional medicine. Its efficacy has been controversial. In the scope of functional medicine, the diagnostic methods to analyze blood are generally based on two kinds of perspectives; biochemistry, blood chemistry and CBC with differential counts. Out of two methods, I devised the latter of my own with imbibing the result of my Pulse Pattern Diagnosis (PPD). The PPD established by me can measure the metabolic, inflammatory, and/or hemodynamic states of major organs, using the radial artery in the wrist of each person. For example, when hepatobiliary tract cells are metabolically activated, and/or the liver is hyper-perfused, my PPD indicates correlation with the increased value of uric acid in blood analysis. The effect of vitamin B5 on liver decreases the metabolic rate and blood flow into the liver in terms of my PPD. It has been reported that vitamin B5 is important in breaking down the excess of uric acid in our body. Likewise, my blood analytic algorithm for PNT is created. I have four clinical records of two kinds of disease entities; herpes zoster oticus with acute otitis media (1 case), thyroid Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (3 cases). These cases were not recalcitrant to conventional therapy but improved after PNT. In summary, PNT may be an alternative to the invincible infectious and autoimmune diseases recalcitrant to conventional therapy.