General Practitioners

• Arthritis
  4) People with compromised or disordered immunity (e.g., lupus, MS, rheumatoid arthritis, arthritis, cancer, chronic fatigue, Epstein-Barre, candida, or other infections)
• Fibromyalgia
  These antigen-antibody complexes then deposit into joint spaces and muscle tissue, further aggravating the symptoms of fibromyalgia. Musculoskeletal complaints can also vary widely in ME/CFS/Fibromyalgia patients, with symptoms often coming and going in cycles. This is a strong indicator of an underlying digestive disorder as one of the factors contributing to this condition.
• Medical Weight Loss
  Our approach at the Carolina Center makes strategic use of whole-food-based meal replacements that include highly nutritious shakes and bars. This approach enables you to feel well-nourished throughout the day with very little effort or planning. Clinical studies indicate that these programs provide the best outcomes in terms of successful weight loss and reduction of disease risk. To complement the meal replacements, we recommend low-glycemic meals that have been shown in numerous studies to engender long-term weight control. Dr. Pittman is available to address medical issues such as insulin resistance, metabolic weaknesses, circulatory problems, and chronic inflammation, and to provide individualized nutritional, metabolic and hormonal testing when needed or desired.
• Nutritional Counseling
  How we utilize diet and nutrition as the foundation of our programs, giving specific instructions as to how to adjust your diet to eliminate any food sensitivities or allergies
• Pediatric Care
  Amanda Roper is a native of North Carolina. She has always been interested in health care and knew from an early age that Physician Assistant was the career path for her. She received her Bachelors in Biology with minor in chemistry from Methodist University in Fayetteville, NC in 2011 and continued at Methodist University PA Program, receiving her Masters of Medical Science in Physician Assistant Studies in December 2013. Amanda has held various positions before finding her way to Carolina Center. She has experience in family medicine, pediatrics and women’s health. Amanda has a passion for Integrative Medicine, seeing firsthand the issues with traditional medical practices and understanding the need for a holistic approach to healthcare and health concerns. Amanda has been happily married for 5 years to her husband Powell, also a native of NC. She enjoys relaxing, spending time with friends and family, crocheting, and cuddles with her Border Collie, Jackson.
• Primary Care
  A substantial percentage of our patients have multi-system illness, are more debilitated and require extensive therapies for stabilization and symptom management. Many are receiving relatively poor care from their primary care physicians, often bouncing from one doctor to another having their treatment very compartmentalized. Therapies provided are generally only for symptom management with no real effort being made to find the underlying cause. As a result, we are often the last place where many come when nothing else has worked so we have an obligation to provide a level of care and service that they have never received. Providing this higher level of service creates significant challenges for our office and staff but it comes down to the fact that these complex patients need much more time in our encounters in order to cover the multiple issues often present.
• Family Practice
• Emergency Care
  John C. Pittman, a fourth generation physician, has long been dedicated to the research-based integration of alternative, complementary and conventional treatments for achieving optimal health and maximizing the natural healing capabilities of the body. He received his B.S. in biology in 1980 and completed studies for a master’s degree in biochemistry and microbiology at the University of Georgia in 1982. He received his medical degree from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia in 1986 and attended the Pediatric Residency Program at NC Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with an emphasis in Preventive Medicine. Later, while serving as Emergency Department Director at hospitals in Rocky Mount and Southport, NC, he began exploring ways to combine conventional medicine with nutrition, botanicals, and other natural therapies as an integral part of clinical medical practice.
• Constipation
• Erectile Dysfunction
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
  Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a widespread condition involving recurrent abdominal pain, along with either diarrhea or constipation or both; this is often associated with stress, depression, anxiety, or hidden intestinal infections. IBS is thought to afflict millions of Americans, and yet three out of every four IBS sufferers in the nation will go undiagnosed. At the Carolina Center, our main treatment objectives for helping people with IBS including the following...
• Diarrhea

Neurologists

• Autism
  Dr. Pittman founded the Carolina Center in 1994 and has enhanced his understanding of integrative medicine through clinical training at the Autism Research Institute and the International Lyme and Associate Diseases Society’s Physician Training Program. He lectured often at the UNC School of Medicine’s Program on Integrative Medicine and serves as a member on the state’s Vector Disease Task Force.
• Multiple Sclerosis
  Age-related neurodegenerative diseases are becoming increasingly common as the number of elderly people in the U.S. population continues to increase. These diseases include multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease, Dementia, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), and other disorders that threaten the personal well-being and sanity (from the Latin sanitas, meaning “health”) of so many Americans with advancing age. There is increasing evidence that excessive levels of free radicals—as occurs during normal and pathological brain aging—contribute to the loss and dysfunction of brain cells. Some research has shown that natural antioxidants may help prevent or delay the occurrence of age-related cognitive deficits and neurodegenerative diseases. Other related contributors are mitochondrial dysfunction, heavy metal overload, chronic inflammation, and hidden infections. For example, lead exposure has been implicated in age-related cognitive decline, and chronic viral infections have been implicated in MS.

Psychiatrists

• Stress Management
  Memory loss is commonly associated with the aging process. In most cases, the process manifests early with a tendency to forget little things such as appointments, details from a recently read book, or key items for a “to-do list”. It may eventually progress to forgetting important dates, locations, or even names of friends and family members. Nutrition, exercise, stress management, and mental activities can all play vital roles in preventing memory loss or slowing its progression. Nutritional factors serve as the raw material and fuel for neurotransmitter production. At the same time, environmental toxins or pollutants must be minimized and removed. Toxic metals, pollutants, pesticides, and radiation are examples of environmental factors that eventually may erode memory. In some cases, chelation therapy and hyperbaric therapy may play important roles in restoring cognitive health.
• Depression
• Behavioral Health
• Anxiety

Endocrinologist

• Diabetes Care
• Hypothyroidism
  Natural thyroid hormone replacements to include pharmaceutical and herbal therapies along with detailed laboratory testing to identify those with clinical hypothyroidism and hypometabolism.
• Thyroid

Radiologist

• Mammography
  Infrared thermal imagining, also known as thermography, is a safe and promising tool for detecting changes in temperature on various parts of the body that provides insight into physiological function.  Thermal imaging of the breast is a complementary screening tool that looks at the conditions that could fuel the growth and spread of breast cancer. In this way, it can help you pick up a potentially cancerous process long before a breast tumor actually develops and becomes a threat. The ultra-sensitive medical infrared camera provides a color-coded “fingerprint” of the breast that can indicate whether specific measures are needed to improve breast health. Research suggests that breast thermography can detect first signs of breast cancer 6 to 8 years before mammography, and that an abnormal thermagram is ten times as important as having a family history of breast cancer. In recent years, breast thermography has evolved dramatically in terms of technological sophistication and thanks to newly developed guidelines approved by the American Academy of Thermology (AAT). The new guidelines provide international standards for understanding the indications for using thermography, the type of equipment, specifications and criteria for optimal administration, consistency and reliability of results, and the training required for thermologists. By adhering to AAT guidelines, our patients are getting the greatest possible benefit from thermal imaging. Thermascan may be the best screening option for women under 50, women with dense breasts, and older women who want more assurance that mammography is not missing a potential disease situation.
• Chemotherapy
  Intravenous vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) was originally proposed by two-time Nobel Prize winning chemist Linus Pauling as a way to treat viral infections and cancers. Research indicates that IV vitamin C (but not oral vitamin C), when administered at the proper dose, has the potential to selectively kill tumor cells in a manner similar to many conventional chemotherapy drugs, as reported in the

Surgeons

• Gangrene

Dermatologists

• Eczema
• Fungus
  Molds reproduce by forming tiny spores that not visible to the naked eye. Mold also generates Mycotoxins which are toxic chemicals that are present on spores and small fragments of mold and fungus that are released into the air.
• Psoriasis
  We have treated a number of patients with autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s disease, scleroderma, psoriasis, and dermatomyositis. Multiple therapies are often utilized in treating these patients, including targeted support for cellular and intestinal detoxification processes, and the correction of nutritional deficiencies. Overall, the goal is to calm down the immune system rather than increase its activity. In many cases, toxic factors or infectious agents may trigger or further amplify these autoimmune processes, and combinations of innovative therapies have shown the potential to resolve these health problems.

Allergists

• Allergies