Cheng Integrative Health Center
6149 St. Andrews Rd
Suite C
Columbia, SC 29212
Biography
Dr. Cheng is the founder and director of Dr. Cheng Integrative Health Center and Doctor’s Anti-Aging and Weight Loss Center, of Columbia, SC, since inception in 2003. Dr. Cheng and his colleagues take an integrative approach to help patients with chronic disease esp. diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Dr. Cheng also serves as consultant to Shenzhen BaoAn Central Hospital and Shenzhen Medical Association, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. Dr. Cheng is also a consultant to SuHa International Hospital, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. Dr. Cheng serves on the editorial board of Journal of Nutritional Oncology, China and Orthomolecular Medicine News Service.
In recent years, Dr. Cheng grew particularly interested in functional medicine or anti-aging medicine. The current healthcare focuses on symptomatic treatments for many diseases, ignoring the root causes. For example, when we control the blood sugar of a diabetic patient or the blood pressure of a hypertensive patient, we are only treating the symptoms. We are not doing anything to the underlying disease processes. Functional medicine tries to holistically address the disease processes in addition to the symptomatic treatment.
Dr. Cheng is a Fellow and board certified anti-aging physician by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) and also a Fellow and board certified, A4m Integrative Cancer Therapy.
Dr. Cheng served in the United States Army as a commissioned officer (Major) and an Army physician and completed his Army duty in Dec. 2006. While in the Army, Dr. Cheng served in various positions including Chief and Medical Director of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Member of Risk Management Committee, Credentialling Committee, and Staff Physician of Soldier Readiness Program, Consultant to the Shaw Air Force Base Laboratory, and College of American Pathologist Inspection Team Leader for the Greenville SC Hospital Lab Inspection.
Prior to serving the United States Army, Dr. Cheng was a senior physician scientist at Variagenics, a research organization affiliated with MIT and Harvard Medical School, in Cambridge, MA. Variagenics later merged with Hyseq. At Variagenics, Dr. Cheng’s main responsibilities include overseeing joint clinical studies with Massachusetts General Hospital and University of Pennsylvania Hospital, establishing a cancer tissue bank and developing protocols for tumor gene library. While at Variagenics, Dr. Cheng was invited as a host of a research conference held by the National Institutes of Health at Bethesda, MD on tumor gene library establishment using laser microdissection technology. Dr. Cheng was also a visiting scholar to the Netherlands TNO (national health institute) on a NATO Scholarship.
Dr. Cheng served as a medical staff fellow at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD in hematology/pathology. While at NIH, his time was split between patient care and clinical research. He participated in several clinical research projects, in collaboration with the National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH (Dr Francis Collins’ group) and research groups in Europe, Hong Kong and Japan.
Dr. Cheng completed residency training programs in internal medicine and laboratory medicine in Shanghai Medical University and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Dr. Cheng completed his medical school at Shanghai Medical University in Shanghai, China, and completed his Ph.D. degree at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in biochemistry and molecular biology.
Dr. Cheng published several research papers in peer-reviewed scientific and medical journals and was a invited speaker at several scientific conferences by Dr. Harold zur Hausen (2008 Nobel Laureate) of the German Cancer Research Center, Shanghai Medical University and China National Genome Center (Shanghai) (upon invitation of Dr. Zhu Cheng, former Health Minister of China).
Dr. Cheng has medical licenses in several states including South Carolina (active), Arkansas, Maryland and Virginia (inactive).
Contributions to Orthomolecular Medicine
Joined the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service editorial board and serves as the editor of Chinese edition. Working closely with other members of the International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine to promote the public awareness of orthomolecular concepts and the adaptation of orthomolecular medicine in the prevention and treatment of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Cheng and his coworkers helped to make Vitamin C a worldwide topic in the fight against COVID-19, continuing the lifetime passion and devotion of both Drs. Linus Pauling and Abram Hoffer, the two giants who created the concept of orthomolecular medicine and founded the ISOM organization.
Publications
1.Can early and high intravenous dose of vitamin C prevent and treat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)?https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590098620300154
2. http://www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v16n17.shtml
3. http://www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v16n16.shtml
4. http://www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v16n11.shtml
5. Chinese Edition of Primal Panacea, amazon.com, https://www.amazon.com/s?k=万应灵丹&ref=nb_sb_noss
6. https://www.amazon.com/隐形杀手-补钙剂-中文版-补钙无助于骨质疏松-反而促进血管硬化-心脏病/dp/1520414919/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=隐形杀手&qid=1586210145&sr=8-1. Chinese edition of Death by Calcium, amazon.com,
7. On the cause and management of atherosclerosis (冠状动脉粥样硬化病因病理及功能医学临床干预探讨), 肿瘤代谢与营养电子杂志 2019年 9月 9日 第 6卷第 3期 ElectronJMetabNutrCancer，Sep.9，2019，Vol.6，No.3.
8. Cancer as a metabolic disease (Chinese edition). China Science Press. Beijing, August 2018
9. The Carnivore Code (Chinese edition), amazon.com, March 2020.
