Looking at the beginning of my evolution into the health care field; the education focused on what is currently called “traditional allopathic medicine” as I spent my first six years as an athletic trainer. My mentors, educators, and the doctors around me were quick to negate any type of natural health care and branded it as “unproven, ineffective, quackery”. At the end of my Master’s Degree program, my intention was to go on to attain a Sports Medicine Doctorate. However, I had a commitment to service in the U.S. Army, and my Doctorate was put on hold. Being stationed in Wisconsin with my now ex-wife and a new baby was a definite lifestyle change from living in the South and being in the service. A few months after the birth of my son, he not only had mild colic, but began projectile vomiting after each feeding; which became more and more violent as time went along. Soon, he was no longer gaining weight or having bone growth as he should have.

Our pediatrician recommended exploratory surgery on my son’s stomach. Something inside of me said no. But since my education just exposed me to the medical health care system, I ignored all the innate signals and initially agreed to the surgery. But, after much pressure from my ex-wife, her having low back pain after childbirth, she wanted to try Chiropractic for both.

I agreed to allow my son to go see a Chiropractor, but I wouldn’t go in with them. I waited in the car. After the treatment, my wife and son returned to the car and it was time for a feeding. I saw it as a time to test the treatment my son had just received and I expected him to projectile vomit as usual shortly after feeding. However, even after 30 minutes, there was only a little trickle of milk from his mouth. All the vomiting, cramping, and colic were gone. Never again did he projectile vomit and the other symptoms were gone within days. This amazed me and at the next appointment, I was right there in the chiropractor’s office with my wife and son to discover what Chiropractic was all about.

The more questions I asked, the more I realized how this kind of health care not only made logical sense but was scientifically solid and sound. This experience opened up a new world for me and my future. I wanted to educate myself so that I could help educate others and for them to know there are other choices of health care. I wanted people to know about safe, natural health care; to know they have a choice to work with the amazing natural healing system that is already inside their own body. So education was my priority. I have a Doctorate of Chiropractic, Doctorate of Naturopathy; Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Natural Health Practitioner; Colon Hydrotherapist, Certified Nutritional Counselor, Certified Raw Food Chef and Educator. In this past 44 years, working through my natural health care training, and utilizing all these different natural health care modalities; I have been blessed to work with thousands of people, educating and helping them achieve their goals in a whole wellness living system, a system that gives them the responsibility for their choices of health care that includes experiences provided by the spiritual, mental and physical aspects of healing.