Created: 11 Aug, 2025
Updated: 11 Aug, 2025
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We’re proud to welcome Dr. Al to the DeHealth Medical Advisory Board — a team of world-class experts guiding our mission to transform healthcare through innovation.
Our board members bring decades of experience in medicine, digital health, data science, and pharmaceutical innovation, ensuring that everything we create meets the highest global standards of safety, ethics, and effectiveness. Their insights help us develop solutions that truly address global healthcare needs while empowering individuals to take control of their health.
Dr. Al is a medical doctor and surgeon with over 33 years of experience in general surgery, and for the past 20 years, he has specialized in otolaryngology. He possesses extensive knowledge and expertise in general medicine, immunology, and nutrition, and is a strong advocate of preventive medicine. Dr. Al is deeply committed to accurate, evidence-based knowledge and to understanding the human body as an integrated and interconnected system.
Today, Dr. Al — a clinician who has helped hundreds of patients overcome stubborn ENT conditions — shares his perspective on one of the most underestimated chronic problems: tonsillitis.
“I’ve seen too many people treat tonsillitis like it’s ‘just a sore throat’ — and then wonder why it keeps coming back. In many cases, the problem isn’t only in your throat. It’s part of a bigger story in your body. If you only fight the pain and fever, you’re just putting out smoke while the fire is still burning.”
According to Dr. Al, hidden triggers often include persistent bacterial biofilms in the tonsil crypts that resist antibiotics, silent infection sources like bad teeth, chronic sinusitis, or gut inflammation, constant mouth breathing that dries the throat and lowers immunity, stress and hormonal changes that weaken immune defenses, and even food intolerances or gut dysbiosis, which are now proven to influence tonsil health.
• Precise diagnostics (PCR or NGS testing) to identify all pathogens — bacteria, viruses, and fungi.
• Targeted tonsil cleansing with vacuum lavage or ultrasonic methods to break biofilms.
• Laser or photodynamic therapy to heal tissues and destroy pathogens.
• Immune modulation with vitamin D, zinc, and bacterial lysates.
• Microbiome restoration through probiotics and anti-inflammatory nutrition.
Prevention is just as important: eliminate all chronic infection sources, restore normal nasal breathing, adopt an anti-inflammatory diet, manage stress, ensure proper sleep, and make throat hygiene a daily habit.
“I’ve seen patients go from 5–6 flare-ups a year to none for years — but only when they address the root cause, not just the pain,” says Dr. Al.
In rare cases, when all other treatments fail to provide lasting relief and the inflammation continues to damage overall health, surgical removal of the tonsils (tonsillectomy) may be recommended. This decision is made individually, after thorough diagnostics and careful weighing of the risks and benefits for the patient.
With experts like Dr. Al on our Medical Advisory Board, DeHealth App continues to create tools and solutions that make preventive medicine smarter, more precise, and truly patient-centered.