Livingston Foundation Medical Center was established in 1969 by the late Dr. Virginia C. Livingston, an internationally recognized clinician, healer and prominent medical researcher who devoted her entire life to the study of the body’s immune system and its relationship to a variety of human diseases.
Today, the Medical Center provides immunological treatment programs based upon the models developed by Dr. Livingston during her more than 50 years of research. Occupying a modern, well maintained facility including on-site clinical laboratory, examination and meeting rooms, and a complete nutritional kitchen, the Medical Center is staffed by licensed, highly committed, and specially trained physicians assisted by a complete staff of skilled nurses, technicians, laboratory specialists, nutritionist, and other support personnel.
During its more than 20 years in operation, Livingston Foundation Medical Center has successfully treated thousands of patients who have traveled here from around the world. The Medical Center offers patients specialized treatment based upon immunological enhancement--working with and strengthening the body’s own immune system utilizing therapies developed by Dr. Livingston. Included among these immunological enhancement therapies and techniques are vaccines, diet and nutrition, vitamins, psychological counseling, detoxification, use of antibiotics to overcome underlying infections, and traditional drug therapy--as long as it is consistent with enhancing the natural immune system. Therapy programs provided by Livingston Foundation Medical Center have been demonstrably effective in treating and preventing many potentially life-threatening diseases, such as Lupus, Arthritis, Cancer and Scleroderma, as well as providing relief for less serious conditions such as allergies and stress induced syndromes. In addition to its clinical treatment programs, the Medical Center offers a comprehensive diagnostic and preventative medicine program.
Hundreds of patients are treated annually at Livingston Foundation Medical Center, on an out-patient basis. While ambulatory patients are routinely seen for care and treatment, the Medical Center does not accept patients requiring bed care.
It’s a fact. The immune system is the body’s primary--and often its only--defense against invading organisms that would otherwise contaminate or infect it. When the natural immune system becomes weakened or destroyed, it can no longer attack or ward off the disease-causing elements in nature. The body then becomes vulnerable and we succumb to disease.
Immunology is the science that deals with the phenomena and causes of immunity in the body, while immunotherapy encompasses the actual clinical treatment of disease, utilizing and enhancing the body’s natural defense mechanisms. Long advocated by Livingston Foundation Medical Center, immunotherapy is today gaining broad acceptance throughout the medical community as an effective approach to the treatment of a variety of diseases. As the use of immunotherapy increases, so do your chances of overcoming debilitating or life-threatening afflictions.
Extremely complex in design and function, the body’s immune system is one of the most profound miracles of life. A strong, well-operating immune system routinely destroys literally millions of disease-carrying organisms and substances present at almost all times in our bodies. It also participates in the body’s repair and healing process after an affliction has been eradicated. The immune system defends the body from within; protecting against the poisonous by-products of its own biochemical reactions, and from without; challenging all foreign substances and toxic agents, including bacteria, viruses, poisons, pollutants and similar agents. The immune system discriminates between what is a natural part of the body, and what is not, between what is friendly and what is threatening. Without a strong, functioning immune system, our bodies could not withstand the hostile environment which surrounds us, and would quickly perish in an onslaught of disease.