Dr. Emmanuel Varipatis

Integrative Medicine GP

North Shore Sydney

Sydney

Neutral Bay

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Dr. Emmanuel Varipatis graduated from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 1979 and began private practice in 1984. His interests and training in Integrative Medicine have become an essential part of his general medical practice. Dr. Varipatis specialises in: Chronic Fatigue, Weight Management, Smoking Cessation, Lifestyle Medicine, Children‚'s Health, Learning, and behaviour Conditions, Autism and ADHD, Adjunctive Cancer Care, Mood Disorders (Anxiety and Depression), Digestive and Bowel Disorders (IBS, SIBO, Crohn's, Ulcerative Colitis) and more.

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Autoimmune Conditions

Chronic Fatigue

Functional Medicine

Obesity

Thyroid & Adrenal Conditions

Neurodegenerative Disorders

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Dr. Emmanuel Varipatis

Integrative Medicine GP

02 9133 8500

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His special interest areas include:

Digestive & bowel disorders

- IBS - irritable bowel syndrome

- IBD - inflammatory bowel diseases of Crohn’s & Ulcerative Colitis

- SIBO, SIFO & IMO -

- Small Intestine Bacterial & Fungal Overgrowth

- Intestinal Methanogen Overgrowth

Supportive & adjunctive therapies for cancer patients

- including intravenous therapies & repurposed drugs & botanicals.

Chronic infections & biofilms

Using the new technology provided by USA-based MicrogenDx laboratory to help diagnose and select treatments for bacteria & fungi that can be underpinning chronic persistent & recurrent infections, especially when biofilms are involved.

**- **Chronic sinusitis

- Chronic prostatitis

- Chronic recurrent cystitis (UTI’s) / Interstitial cystitis (IC) / Painful bladder syndrome

Toxic metal treatment / chelation therapy

- The use of oral & injectable chelating agents, including EDTA, DMPS, DMSA to treat toxic metal burden of Lead, Mercury, Arsenic.

- The use of DMPS & EDTA intravenous infusions to do provocation challenge testing to diagnose and quantify the level of stored toxic metals and to be able to quantify detoxification progress through standardised retesting of levels.

Intravenous vitamins, minerals, antioxidants

- Dr Varipatis commenced the use of intravenous Ascorbate (Vitamin C) and other injectable vitamins & minerals in the 1990’s, as guided initially by ACAM (American college for the Advancement in Medicine), and then later by ACNEM (Australasian College for Nutritional & Environmental Medicine), and also by AIMN (Australasian Institute for Medical Nutrition).

Low-dose Naltrexone

- The use of Naltrexone to help manage chronic inflammation, chronic pain conditions, Long-covid, and some auto-immune diseases.

- Dr Varipatis first started to use LDN in the 1990’s when evidence first started to appear about its potential role in the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Crohn’s disease.

Educational Background

Dr Emmanuel Varipatis graduated from the University of NSW in 1979 and commenced private practice in 1984.

His interests and training in Integrative Medicine commenced at this time & have continued ever since, and aspects of these have been progressively incorporated into his practice of medicine. He has several decades of accumulated experience and training in various aspects of nutritional & environmental medicine, clinical metals toxicology and lifestyle medicine.

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Areas of interest

Autoimmune Conditions

Chronic Fatigue

Functional Medicine

Obesity

Thyroid & Adrenal Conditions

Neurodegenerative Disorders

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