Welcome to Alchemist Lab, The Premier Provider of Personalized Natural Health Care for Hepatitis and Other Infectious Diseases.

Alchemist Lab, founded and operated by Steven Finkbine, L.Ac., specializes in and offers information, treatment, natural health care products (herbs and supplements), and hope for patients suffering from a variety of acute and chronic health conditions and medical needs.

We at Alchemist Lab set ourselves and the AlchemistLab.com Web site apart in that we are dedicated to providing individualized and sophisticated protocols to naturally treat a variety of chronic illnesses. Click the “MORE” link in this post to learn more about natural health care approaches to treating Hepatitis C and Hepatitis B, the Herpes Family [CMV (Cytomegalovirus ); EBV (Mononucleosis); Herpes Simplex I & II; Varicella (Shingles], Lyme Disease and Neurological Disorders / Neurological Diseases [Multiple Sclerosis (MS); Parkinson’s Disease; Peripheral Neuropathy; Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS or "Restless Legs")].

Diseases and Conditions that you’ll find help with at AlchemistLab.com:

Hepatitis

Hepatitis C
Hepatitis B

Detoxification

Herpes Family

CMV (Cytomegalovirus )
EBV (Mononucleosis)
Herpes Simplex I & II
Varicella (Shingles)

Lyme Disease

Neurological Disorders / Neurological Diseases

Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Parkinson’s Disease
Peripheral Neuropathy
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS or “Restless Legs”)

Take a look around. You’ll find a wealth of information about using a natural, safe approach to treat Hepatitis C as well as other illnesses.  Alchemist Lab’s therapeutic approach focuses on herbs and supplements, the highest quality of which are available though our online store. We also provide personalized recommendations for complementary health approaches from diet and lifestyle to acupuncture to Western medicine, to help treat and heal whatever ails you.

The Alchemist Lab Apothecary / Store

One of the central aspects of the AlchemistLab.com Web site is out Apothecary / Store. We feature the highest quality natural herbs and supplements that we’ve sourced from around the world, along with our proprietary herbal mixtures, which are concocted to taste good as well as be highly effective in their results.

We’re working to make all of our products available online, here at the Alchemist Lab Apothecary / Store. However, PLEASE NOTE that if a product mentioned in a treatment protocol at this site is not in the online store yet, we stock anything that we recommend. You can order any of the contents of the online Apothecary Store and any other herbs and supplements we carry by phone: 877 – 454 – HERB  (877 – 454 – 4372).

About Steven Finkbine

Alchemist Lab is owned and operated by Steven Finkbine L.Ac. who has devoted his career to researching, understanding and treating Hepatitis C and other viral and infectious diseases.

Steven Finkbine provides private consultations with you (and your doctors, family and/or care-takers if you desire) world-wide via phone, email, and fax, and designs a highly personalized treatment regimen to help you bring your disease under control and then bring yourself to your optimal health and wellness.

Patients wishing to see Steven in person can do so at his private clinic:

Dragon Heart Healing Arts in Fairfax, CA.

On March 26, 2010, Alchemist Lab launched the new, updated version of our AlchemistLab.com Web site in a blog format, and it will be updated frequently to better match the pace of new developments in natural health care and the diseases we treat.

Although for many years we have clinically treated a wide range of illnesses at both the Dragon Heart Healing Arts Clinic and with individual Alchemist Lab patients around the world, on the prior version of the AlchemistLab.com Web site we chose to focus our energies solely on Hepatitis C.

The new edition of he Web site branches out to feature information about the treatment of a much wider variety of diseases and health issues, including Hepatitis C and Hepatitis B, Detoxification, Herpes, Lyme Disease, and Neurological Disorders and Diseases, and more.

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I often image Hepatitis C as a smoldering or awakened fire. Prehistorically in the Paleozoic Era, oxygen levels were much higher than they are today, making fires much more frequent. Excess iron feeds the fire by generating oxidative stress.

Anemia is a deficiency of hemoglobin in the blood. It is theorized that because iron deficient anemia was highly problematic in our evolution, our bodies were crafted to conserve iron. Except for menstruation/ blood loss as well as breast feeding there are no control mechanisms for high iron levels. Breast milk contains lactoferrin (milk iron) which regulates iron levels.

The liver is the major storage organ for iron. In hemochromatosis, a hereditary genetic condition that causes excess iron levels the liver can become cirrhotic simply by high iron levels. For patients with Hepatitis C and iron overload this puts double stress on the liver. High iron fuels oxidative stress by generating free radicals.

HCV does not directly damage hepatocytes. The cellular response to try to kill the invading virus generates reactive oxygen species (ROS). The lysosomes, which are the little chemical factories found in each cell are what produce the ROS. Both excess iron and other heavy metals such as lead and mercury share this primary mechanism as well, they all generate oxidative stress. I have also observed that Hepatitis C patients who have had their lead and mercury chelated from their bodies, their liver enzymes went down.

Calcium and Lithium Orotates stabilize lysosomes membranes and quiet down ROS productions. Many anti-oxidants are also very important in treating Hepatitis C to mitigate the liver damage, these include Glutathione, Lipoic Acid, Milk Thistle, Resveratrol, Selenium among others. Glutathione is the major intracellular anti-oxidant found in the liver.

Let’s talk about iron tests, so you can correctly understand your bloodwork:
Serum iron measures the level of iron in your blood.
Serum ferritin indicates the amount of stored iron in your body.
Ferritin is the main storage protein for iron inside of cells.

Total Iron Binding Capacity TIBC measures the amount of transferrin that you have. Transferrin is a blood protein that transports iron from the gut, where it is absorbed from food. When iron stores arelow, the body will make more transferrin. If there is too much iron being absorbed, the body will reduce production of transferrin. On average about 1/3 of the transferrin in the body is being used to transport iron. Our bodies have an excess iron-binding capacity. This is called the Unsaturated Iron Binding Capacity (UIBC). UIBC plus serum iron equal TIBC.

How do we naturally regulate excess iron? The first key is lactoferrin. Here at Alchemist Lab we use Apolactoferrin which is iron reduced. Lactoferrin naturally both regulates and contains iron. I only recommend the iron reduced form!! I have seen enormous success in using Apolactoferrin for high iron in Hep C patients. IP6 did not work for my patients, though I have been told by some people that it worked for them. I no longer use it. If something does not produce tangible results I discard it.

Lactoferrin has a further virtue in that also acts as a direct anti-viral. It interferes with E2, a protein found on the lipid coat of HCV that allows it to dock onto hepatocytes.