When a cancer diagnosis arrives, the search for answers becomes urgent. Patients and their families want to know everything that is available. Not just what their oncologist is recommending, but what else exists. What can be done to support the body, improve treatment tolerance, and restore quality of life during one of the most difficult chapters a person can face.
For a growing number of patients across Louisiana, including people traveling from Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Lafayette, the North Shore, and across the Gulf South, that search has brought them to a clinic on Metairie Road in Old Metairie, just outside New Orleans.
The Remedy Room, led by Dr. Mignonne Mary, has become one of the most sought-after destinations for integrative cancer support in the region. And the story of why begins not with the clinic, but with a physician who healed his own cancer more than thirty years ago.
The Father Who Proved It Was Possible
Dr. Charles Mary Jr. was not an ordinary physician. He became the Director of Charity Hospital in New Orleans at the age of 33. He later founded the prestigious Mary Medical Clinic of New Orleans. And he was one of the first physicians in the United States to introduce intravenous Vitamin C therapy and complementary medicine into both inpatient and outpatient care, at a time when the medical establishment had little interest in either.
In 1990, Dr. Charles Mary Jr. was diagnosed with colorectal cancer.
He treated it with high-dose intravenous Vitamin C.
He healed.
Dr. Charles Mary Jr. did not wait for the research community to validate what he was seeing clinically. He had been using high-dose intravenous Vitamin C on his patients for years. When his own diagnosis arrived, he trusted the therapy he had built his practice on. And it worked.
That story is documented in The Remedy Room’s own history and is not a marketing claim. It is a verified part of the Mary family’s medical legacy, available to read at theremedyroom.com/our-story.
Dr. Charles Mary Jr. was also among the first physicians in the country to use high-dose intravenous Vitamin C for sepsis, Epstein-Barr virus, and cancer more broadly. What he was doing in New Orleans in the 1980s and 1990s, the research community is now confirming in peer-reviewed journals.
His Daughter Carried the Work Forward
Dr. Mignonne Mary grew up in her father’s practice. She watched him administer these therapies. She understood their effects before she ever entered medical school. She graduated from LSU Medical School in New Orleans and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Charity Hospital, the same institution her father once directed.
When she founded The Remedy Room in 2013, high-dose intravenous Vitamin C was among the first therapies she established. Not because it was trending. Because she had seen what it could do, beginning with her own father.
Over the years, her practice grew to include EBOO therapy, NAD+ IV therapy, metabolic nutritional protocols, peptides, ozone therapy, and a full integrative approach to complex chronic illness. The clinic became known not just in New Orleans but across Louisiana and the broader South as a destination for patients who needed more than conventional medicine was offering.
From Clinical Practice to Published Research
In September 2024, Dr. Mary was named as a contributing author on a peer-reviewed paper published in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. The paper, titled Targeting the Mitochondrial-Stem Cell Connection in Cancer Treatment: A Hybrid Orthomolecular Protocol, was co-authored alongside Dr. Paul Marik, one of the most published critical care physicians in the history of medicine, along with researchers from the University of Puerto Rico, the University of South Florida, the Riordan Clinic, and institutions across North America and Europe.
Her affiliation in the paper: Remedy Room Integrative Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana.
The paper formally documents what the Mary family’s clinical practice had been built on for decades. Cancer is primarily a metabolic disease. The dysfunction begins in the mitochondria. And targeting that dysfunction through orthomolecular therapies, dietary intervention, and systemic support offers a clinically grounded path to supporting the body alongside conventional treatment.
What Dr. Charles Mary Jr. was doing in 1990 has now been validated in the peer-reviewed literature, and his daughter helped put it there.
Why Patients Travel Across Louisiana for This Care
Integrative cancer support done properly is rare. Most conventional oncology practices focus on surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. These are essential tools and no one at The Remedy Room would suggest otherwise.
But the question of what supports the body through that process, what reduces toxic burden, improves treatment tolerance, restores cellular energy, and helps patients feel human again during and after treatment, is a question that most conventional practices are simply not equipped to answer.
That gap is what The Remedy Room fills.
Patients come from Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Shreveport, Metairie, the North Shore, and across the Gulf South. Some are in active treatment looking for support. Some have finished conventional treatment and are working to restore their health. Some are newly diagnosed and want to understand all of their options before anything begins. Some have been told there is nothing more to be done.
What they find at The Remedy Room is a physician whose family literally proved that more is possible.
What Integrative Cancer Support Looks Like at The Remedy Room
Every patient who comes for cancer support begins with a comprehensive consultation. Cancer intakes are held on Mondays and the consultation fee is $299, reflecting the depth of assessment involved. Labs are ordered as soon as payment is received because time matters.
The protocol built from that consultation is specific to the individual. But the therapeutic tools Dr. Mary draws from are grounded in the same published science she contributed to.
High-Dose Intravenous Vitamin C
The therapy Dr. Charles Mary Jr. used on his own cancer in 1990. At pharmacological intravenous doses, Vitamin C behaves fundamentally differently than it does when taken orally. It acts as a pro-oxidant that selectively targets cancer cells, disrupts the fuel pathways tumors depend on, supports mitochondrial function in healthy cells, and has been shown in multiple published studies to improve tolerance of chemotherapy and radiation.
The lineage of this therapy runs directly through The Remedy Room. It is not a service they added. It is where they come from.
Learn more about High-Dose IV Vitamin C at The Remedy Room
EBOO Therapy
Extracorporeal blood oxygenation and ozonation. Blood is cycled through a medical-grade ozone filtration process that reduces the body’s toxic burden, improves cellular oxygen delivery, and supports immune function at a systemic level. For cancer patients whose internal environment is often severely compromised by both disease and treatment, this kind of deep systemic support matters.
Learn more about EBOO Therapy at The Remedy Room
NAD+ Therapy
Cancer and its treatments are profoundly destructive to mitochondrial function, which the published research identifies as the central mechanism in cancer’s origin. NAD+ IV therapy restores the cellular energy systems the body depends on to repair, regenerate, and mount a response. Patients undergoing conventional treatment frequently report improved cognition, energy, and resilience when NAD+ is part of their support protocol.
Learn more about NAD+ Therapy at The Remedy Room
IV Glutathione
The body’s master antioxidant, and one of the molecules most aggressively depleted by chemotherapy and radiation. Replenishing it intravenously supports healthy cell protection, detoxification, and recovery between treatment cycles.
Metabolic Nutritional Therapy
The published research identifies glucose and glutamine as the primary fuels cancer cells depend on. Ketogenic and fasting protocols that restrict these fuels while supporting healthy cellular energy are among the most evidence-based dietary interventions in integrative oncology. The Remedy Room helps patients implement these approaches in a supervised, clinically informed way.
Drainage and Detoxification
Before any deeper support can work effectively, the body’s elimination pathways must be open. The Remedy Room uses structured drainage protocols to systematically support the colon, liver, kidneys, and lymphatic system before deeper detox is initiated. Always open drainage first. This principle governs everything.
Biological Dental Evaluation
Every cancer patient seen at The Remedy Room is referred for a cone beam CT and a biological dental assessment. The connection between dental foci and systemic disease including cancer is documented in the research and taken seriously here. Most conventional oncology practices never consider it.
The Remedy Room does not treat cancer. It supports the body’s ability to fight it, tolerate conventional treatment, detoxify, and restore cellular health, always in partnership with the patient’s oncology team.
What Patients Have Experienced
A patient who came to The Remedy Room during a cancer diagnosis agreed to share their experience.
Traveling to New Orleans for Cancer Support
The Remedy Room is located at 123 Metairie Road in Old Metairie, Louisiana, minutes from downtown New Orleans and easily accessible from Interstate 10. Louis Armstrong International Airport serves New Orleans with direct flights from cities across the country.
Many patients who travel for care coordinate a series of treatments over several consecutive days to minimize the number of trips. The Remedy Room team works with out-of-town patients to plan visits efficiently and ensure continuity between sessions.
Baton Rouge is approximately 80 miles from the clinic. Lafayette is approximately 130 miles. Shreveport is approximately 320 miles. For patients who cannot find integrative cancer support locally, the distance is consistently described as worth it.
Starting the Conversation
A cancer diagnosis demands action and information. The conventional system provides one part of the picture. The Remedy Room provides another, and the two are not in conflict.
If you or someone you love is navigating a cancer diagnosis and wants to understand what integrative support looks like alongside conventional care, the first step is a consultation. Cancer intakes are held every Monday at The Remedy Room. They are comprehensive, unhurried, and built around your specific situation.
You do not have to be in crisis to come in. The earlier the conversation begins, the more options are available.
Book Your Cancer Intake Consultation – $299
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