My Philosophy

I believe the body has a wisdom and a power all its own and, if encouraged and supported, can heal itself.

Years ago, the stress of a demanding medical practice caught up with me. Not only was I often physically exhausted, and even normal mental processes sometimes seemed an uphill battle. Today, we would have called my condition "burnout."

To find a way to help heal myself, I started reading voraciously in the field of nutritional medicine.

The changes I made in my diet and the supplements I took really worked: I started to improve. I had more energy. I looked better and better. My strength returned. My digestive disturbances disappeared. I got better.

You can't imagine what a turnaround this was for me! I began to see health and medicine in a totally different way. Mind you - it was a matter of my own health and happiness. Not only did this new knowledge make sense, but it also made me feel a lot better about myself and about the possibilities for helping people by practicing medicine. But it would have to be a different kind of medicine.

I was convinced nutrition could play a critical role in healing. I transformed my own life first.

After that, it was the only way I could practice medicine. I was duty-bound to use what I knew worked. Though I'm sure there are many fine physicians for whom the conventional way works, and though I recommend drugs and surgery when necessary, I never knew the real meaning of healing until I started practicing Nutritional Medicine.

When I first began practicing Nutritional Medicine, we had a much more limited array of nutritional tools than we do now. Over the years, more and more has been learned about how specific nutrients can help us grow stronger and healthier. There are supplements available that we didn't even dream about just a decade ago.

Unexplained Chronic Fatigue is probably the main reason for the sudden popularity of Alternative Medicine.