Charles Gant MD Ph.D
Specialty:
Supporting the Body with Natural Remedies and Nutritional Therapy
Practice Philosophy:
Melding various approaches of nutritional and spiritual healing. I believe that being healthy and enjoying mental clarity gives us the potential to discover a spiritual purpose for being alive and joyfully sharing this human experience with others.
Areas of Focus:
Non-pharmaceutical natural options for ADD/ADHD, substance abuse disorders (drug, alcohol, nicotine addiction), and mood disorders (depression, anxiety). Supporting the body with natural remedies.
Formal Training/Education:
- B.S. in Chemistry - Hampden-Sydney College
- M.D. - University of Virginia Medical School
- Ph.D., Psychology - Columbia Pacific University
- Internship in Family Practice - Somerset Community Hospital
- Member, American Naturopathic Medical Association
Dr. Gant is involved with several Integrative and Orthomolecular Medicine research initiatives.
In the past 26 years of practicing Integrative and Orthomolecular Medicine and Psychotherapy, Dr. Gant has melded various approaches of nutritional and spiritual healing and has passed on this helpful information to many thousands of patients. He does not envision healing as an end unto itself but as a means to an end. Dr. Gant believes that the longer we can stay reasonably healthy and enjoy mental clarity, the more potential we have to discover a spiritual purpose for being alive and joyfully sharing this human experience with others.
While serving in medical directorships and consultancies to many clinics and hospitals in the Central New York area, Dr. Gant has instituted various programs of healing using nutritional therapies, psychotherapy and spirituality to support the recoveries of his patients from chronic medical and psychiatric disorders.
Dr. Gant has treated many kinds of medical disorders, but a significant portion of his work has focused on natural, medication-free treatments for ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), substance use disorders (drug, tobacco and alcohol addiction) and mood disorders (depression).
This work culminated in the publishing of two books, "ADD and ADHD: Complementary/Alternative Medicine (CAM) Solutions" (1999) and "End Your Addiction Now" (2002 - Warner Books).
Dr. Gant's philosophy is to help patients to integrate the four modalities of Integrative Medicine, the structural, energetic, bio-molecular and psycho-emotional, especially as they apply to addictions, ADD & ADHD, depression and anxiety and other common mental disorders. He concentrates most intensively on the bio-molecular modality, providing patients with strategies to restore neuro-nutrition and to detoxify the brain. Massive scientific research suggests strongly that the root causes of alcohol, tobacco and drug addiction, ADD & ADHD, depression, anxiety, and other common mental disorders, are reversible brain toxicities and brain nutritional deficiencies. Rather than covering over symptoms with drugs, this science-based approach employs laboratory and diagnostic testing to identify and reverse the causative toxicities (such as mercury or food allergy) and the causative nutritional deficiencies (such as magnesium or certain amino acids).
CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr. Charles Gant, Ph.D.
Current Professional Activity:
- Private practice of Preventative and Complementary Medicine at above address.
- Medical Consultant, Natural Solutions Research, Inc, East Syracuse, NY
- Medical Director, Holistic Center of Central NY
- Research, writing and lecturing on neutraceutics, psychiatry, nutrition, and
- preventative and complementary medicine.
Past Professional Activities:
- Medical Consultant, Family Consultation Center, Syracuse, NY
- Medical Director, Tully Hill Alcoholism Inpatient Treatment Center, Tully, NY
- Medical Consultant, Brickhouse Alcohol Treatment, Syracuse, NY
- Medical Consultant, Amethyst Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center, Oneida, NY
- Psychiatric Consultant, VFC Alcohol and Drug Clinic, Cortland, NY
- Member, Committee of Physicians Health, Medical Society of the State of New
- York, Pelion Building, Syracuse, NY
Present or Past Professional Affiliations:
- American Academy of Psychiatrists in Alcoholism and Addictions
- American Psychiatric Association
- American Orthopsychiatric Association
- New York State Education Dept. Medical License #141276-1
- U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA #AG9257165
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- American Academy of Psychiatrists in Alcoholism and Addictions
- Phobia Society of America
- American Society of Bariatric Physicians
- American Society for Addiction Medicine
- Credentialed Alcoholism Counselor (CAC)
Professional Experience:
- Private Practice (Addictionology, Bariatric Medicine, Psychotherapy)
- Adjunct Law Professor, Syracuse University College of Law, Syracuse, NY
- Psychiatric Consultant, Horizon House Day Treatment, Cortland, NY
- Forensic Psychiatric Services Central New York Psychiatric Center, Utica, NY
- Psychiatric Consultant, Cortland County Mental Health Center, Cortland, NY
- Family Therapy, Alcohol Rehabilitation, General Medicine, Psychiatric
- Services, Marcy Alcohol Center, Marcy, NY
