School of Advanced Nutritional and Medical Research

About Dr. Gordon

GARRY F. GORDON, MD, DO, MD(H), received his Doctor of Osteopathy in 1958 from the Chicago College of Osteopathy in Illinois. He received his honorary MD degree from the University of California Irvine in 1962 and completed his Radiology Residency from Mt. Zion in San Francisco, California in 1964. For many years, he was the Medical Director of Mineral Lab in Hayward, California, a leading laboratory for trace mineral analysis worldwide.

Dr. Gordon is on the Board of Homeopathic Medical Examiners for Arizona and is Co-Founder of the American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM). He is Founder/President of the International College of Advanced Longevity (ICALM) and Board Member of International Oxidative Medicine Association (IOMA).

With Morton Walker, DPM, Dr. Gordon co-authored The Chelation Answer. He is advisor to the American Board of Chelation Therapy and past instructor and examiner for all chelation physicians. He is responsible for Peer Review for Chelation Therapy in the State of Arizona.

As an internationally recognized expert on chelation therapy, Dr. Gordon is now attempting to establish standards for the proper use of oral and intravenous chelation therapy as an adjunct therapy for all diseases. He lectures extensively on The End Of Bypass Surgery Is In Sight.

Currently, Dr. Gordon is a consultant for various supplement companies. He is responsible for the design of many supplements, which are widely used by alternative health practitioners around the world. Dr. Gordon can be reached by calling 928-472-4263 or through his website www.gordonresearch.com

Biography

I was born in Madison Wisconsin in 1935. I was the second of three children born to Richard Gordon DO and Louise Gordon. My father was a dedicated osteopathic physician who due to health problems that I was born with, which included being cross eyed, stuttering, etc. became interested in Cranial Sacral Therapy and sought out a Dr. Sutherland (the founder of Cranial Sacral Therapy) and became his first major student. My father taught Cranial Sacral Therapy and Manipulation at the Philadelphia College of osteopathic medicine, although he had graduated from the Des Moines College.

My brother went to the Chicago College of Osteopathy, which I entered two years after my brother entered. I entered that school in 1954, having been born in 1935 at the age of 19. I took undergraduate training at the University of Chicago. Entering there on my sixteenth birthday under a special program that the University of Chicago had for gifted students having only taken at that time two and a half years of high school. I then completed the premedical requirements for the Chicago College of Osteopathy at between Roosevelt University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin.

I graduated from CCO in 1958 and at that time, I helped my brother and father set up a twenty-four hour emergency clinic in Los Angeles in the Watts section. Since my brother had suffered a fracture of the spine and was in a total body cast, I actually saw patients for the next four months until I then entered my internship in Boston at the Boston Osteopathic Hospital. During my one year of internship, I believed that I would be practicing in Rifle, Colorado and would be expected to give full general anesthesia and do full surgery on patients because of the remote location where I planned to practice. Thus, I pushed my hospital for training beyond what they normally gave and when they couldn't provide hands on surgical training, I went to Boston City Hospital where they provided the training I was unable to get at my institution.

Upon completion of the internship, I went back to Los Angeles and took over the twenty- four hour emergency practice, which my brother had been running and within six months had to hire three additional physicians to handle the rapidly expanding twenty-four hour emergency practice. After approximately one year in Los Angeles, I decided I could not handle the pollution and traffic congestion and chose to become the only doctor in a small mountain town of Forest Hill California. I took over the existing practice of Dr. Stanley Jolivette as he was closing the practice and moving to the city to facilitate the education of his growing family.

I purchased from him the clinic, X-ray machine and pharmacy. The population of the town was twelve hundred, but within a few months, the American River Construction Project was begun with an additional twelve hundred employees plus their families moving to the area in trailers and construction parks. I became the industrial physician for the entire project. That supplied me with a helicopter to handle the remote areas where the dams were being built. In those days, there was a hundred and ten million dollar dam project and it was often believed that they would loose one life per five million dollars and there were a tremendous number of accidents each day.

By 1964, I had so little sleep and worked so many hours that I was a complete health wreck myself. I seldom got an entire night’s sleep without being up to deal with some emergency. In early 1964, I collapsed with total disabling chest pain and was so weak I was unable to stand, so I had to continue the practice sitting in a chair until I was able to close the practice and go into my residency training in Mt. Zion Hospital, San Francisco, where I decided that due to my serious health problems, I needed a lower pressure work schedule which permitted me to go home at five o'clock and recuperate every day. After one year in radiology in San Francisco, I became conversive with the fact that the radiologist in a major teaching hospital is the major consultant to every medical specialist in the hospital. I was expected to be able to competently discuss cases with neural surgeons, orthopedic surgeons, vascular surgeons, pediatricians, internist, etc. and it was a tremendous year of training. However, at the end of that year the hospital ignored my condition I had made clear when I entered the training program that I would not do radiation therapy and asked me to become the resident in charge of the new multi-million dollar cancer treatment center they had just built. I declined and left radiology forever at that point. I had told them that I did not believe in that as a therapy for cancer and I was only there for the three-year residency training in diagnostic radiology.

Upon leaving there, I visited my father who was practicing in Las Vegas at that time and I was there a few short days when he told me there was an interesting conference going on in Las Vegas that I might find it interesting to attend. That conference did significantly change my life because the speaker was John Miller, PhD former Chief of Research for Rohrig and Pfizer Pharmaceutical companies and Editor in Chief of Chem Atrax, the most prestigious chemical journal in the world.

While Chief of Research, he had developed the first mineral vitamin combination in the history of the world. Until he did it, it was believed that minerals could not be packaged with vitamins as they would cause interactions and explode on the shelf of the pharmacy! He developed the first one a day known as Viterra throughout the world. Subsequently, in his continuing research he concluded that minerals would not be widely bio-available to the body unless they were chelated; thus, he developed chelated minerals. But, upon retiring at the age of approximately 70+ years of age, the pharmaceutical company indicated that they had no desire whatsoever to develop a line of chelated minerals and he was given full permission to develop that on his own.

Thus, when I met him he was president of Miller Pharmacal Company. Later, his accountant took much of the information from Miller Pharmacal and started a competing company called Albion Company of Salt Lake City. Dr. Miller's lecture that I attended in Las Vegas showed that a garden treated appropriately with mineral balancing in which you diagnose the deficiency of mineral in the soil and you bring these minerals back in the form of chelated minerals, would have incredible award winning (in terms of size and resistance to infection) flowers including a rose that was still opening on a snowy day in Chicago.

Duly impressed, I decided to work with Dr. Miller and use those principals of chelated minerals on the property that my brother and I owned on the Forest Hill Divide, known as the Walker Ridge and associated properties. We had been told by the Department of Agriculture and the Forest Service that that land would never support more than bare clover. Utilizing the approach to diagnose the deficiencies and treat these deficiencies with chelated minerals, we turned it into a veritable park and the alfalfa grew deep enough to support Black Angus.

This impressed me sufficiently enough that I decided to utilize this kind of knowledge in the treatment of my patients and went ahead and started doing mineral analysis by hair, blood and urine on my patients and replacing the mineral deficiencies that I detected. This lead to increasing recognition that only adding good minerals to the body would have a limited benefit if the body continued to be poisoned by lead, mercury, aluminum, or cadmium and other toxins in which we increasingly were able to diagnose in our patients biological samples utilizing the ICP (Inductively Coupled Argon Plasma Spectro Photometer).

Thus, my life led me to become an expert at chelation. Not only putting minerals in the body, but then the more fascinating area of utilizing chelation therapy to remove the toxins from the body. This lead to my study of the subject called EDTA. EDTA actually is a big chemical name for something that is basically four molecules of vinegar tied together. Everyone knows that vinegar (otherwise known as acidic acid) will actually start to dissolve egg shells over a period of hours, so the chelating power of acidic acid and, in fact, every weak organic acid becomes understandable and in a world that is polluted for the average man, women and child has a thousand times more lead in our bony tissues today than we did a few hundred years ago. The appropriate use of these weak organic acids, whether it's ascorbic acid or acidic acid (EDTA) or malic acid or a combination of these and or ferulic acid etc. becomes increasingly important in a world in which every single disease or health goal of a person is affected by the level of toxic metals in their system.

Thus I started looking into the medical library and reading up on EDTA and was instantly astounded to find that there were in excess of a thousand articles already published because EDTA was used to prevent the clotting of blood. When you donate a unit of blood, we have to keep that blood from clotting and we use EDTA or citric acid, which is another weak organic acid to bind the calcium and prevent the clotting. The more I read up on EDTA, the more it became clear that there was something here that actually had been FDA approved and once sold by Abbott Laboratories for several things such as lead toxicity and elevated levels of calcium in the blood and that even tablets of this had been approved by the FDA to deal with what they called elevated AA symptomatic levels of elevated lead in the body.

As I started looking deeper into the research on this chelating agent and others, it became clear that this was a neglected area of medical practice that was going to require a group effort to formalize the existing knowledge base and move the field forward and thus I along with several of my colleagues formed the American College for Advancement in Medicine approximately thirty years ago. This group has expanded to over one thousand members in the recent past and the treatment that I helped develop for the appropriate intravenous use of one of the multiple chelating agents available in the market place; EDTA has been used on over one million patients at this time. About 85% of the patients believe that it has been useful in that it helped them relieve symptoms of what we would call today vascular occlusive disease or poor circulation.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work in every patient. But about 85% of patients feel that they were significantly improved sufficiently that they feel the money was well spent that they expended on getting 20, 30, 50 or a hundred of these treatments. I subsequently went into the field of finding out what other things we could do to assist this wonderful almost miraculous molecule EDTA so we wouldn't have 15% of the people not being benefited and hopefully tried to find out what the intravenous treatment was doing so that we could either find a stronger or more efficient agent that might take less than thirty plus treatments to provide these wonderful benefits that the plus or minus 85% of patients claimed to have received and hopefully lead to some understanding of how some of these benefits could be achieved in mankind with oral programs, which would clearly be more affordable, since they would be less intrusive into our days work without the need for sitting in a doctors chair for two to four hours and traveling back and forth to the doctors office.

As I went forward then in this field, I was fortunate enough as program chairman of the American College for Advancement in Medicine to continue to have total control of who spoke to the chelation doctors and I continued to find world experts at lead poisoning or copper toxicity or the use of some new oral chelator such as DMAS in the treatment of hyperactivity. Finally, I wound up one day having a doctor (Lester Morrison) speak in approximately 1983 to the ACAM members. (Note: in those days, the organization was still called AAMP - American Academy of Medical Prevention).

In 1950, Dr. Morrison had published in the journal of the AMA his outstanding work in the field of involving cholesterol in the pathogenesis of arteriosclerosis. By the time I met him, he had evolved far beyond that rather simplistic approach and was now interested in preventing the blood clots, which he felt the hyper coagulability was clearly helping to set the stage for the hardening of the arteries and the fatal heart attacks and strokes that people were having. He had wound up researching Heparin and, thus, led into other Muco polysaccharides and his research had led him to finding a very interesting and promising electro negative compound that he was able to find in seaweed related compound. Namely red algae - the carrageenan aspect.

The exciting thing was that when I met him, he still had to take a large amount of this material that was not pleasant to take and two tablespoons twice a day required a patient to be highly devoted to taking what was then called the institute formula, which had many other active ingredients by that time. When we got together after he spoke to ACAM, it turned out that I was able to convince him that research published in Nature in 1961 had proven that the EDTA I was working with, would make his treatment work far more efficiently and we were able then to bring the dose down to taking a few tablets twice a day instead of a rather cumbersome and less than tasty tablespoons of material that had to be dissolved in fluid.

Thus, that important part of my life really came together and we were able to put a formula, which affordably would help prevent heart attacks and strokes in many people. At the same time, I continued to try to find in my role as medical director of the largest laboratory in the world doing trace element testing in Europe, Asia and the U.S. - Mineral Lab home offices of Hayward California ways to eliminate the heavy metal toxicity we were finding in sixty to eighty percent of the hair, blood and urine samples we were collecting from our doctor clients patients from around the world. In this regard, clearly, there were many choices of chelating agents that could be administered both orally and intravenously and there were many nutritional supplements that would offer significant protection such as selenium providing significant protection against mercury toxicity.

My role as medical director of Mineral Lab on three continents was to interface with our physician client base, put on seminars, to train doctors in the diagnosis and treatment of mineral imbalances including how do you eliminate the excessive levels of the toxic metals and to get rid of the low levels of the desirable (what we call) trace minerals, without which, serious diseases could appear such as zinc and chromium and even magnesium.

As this career went forward, I wound up then devoting a great deal of my time to the training of physicians through the ACAM organization, as well as from the more esoteric meetings of associations involved in (for example) the International Academy of Bio- Inorganic Chemistry as well as various trace element focused associations and the American College of Nutrition etc. In this role, I served them as a consultant to all of the clients from three continents that used the services of our laboratory and I found that I was required more and more to remain up to date on all aspects, not just the trace element imbalances that we had initially focused on. In fact, the laboratory (Mineral Lab) was approached by one of the wealthiest men in the world (Dr. Sackler) who owned the patents on Librium and Valium. He was a billionaire at the time and he decided that it would be interesting to purchase Mineral Lab if we could get into testing other nutrients. After he did his due diligence, his team of attorneys decided that there were some features of the staff at Mineral Lab that were less than ideal, so they gave up on their acquisition.

By that time, having become interested in the possibility of providing a full service nutritional testing and consulting service to doctors around the world, I took advantage of many of the leading doctors in alternative medicine in the world and raised money from them to start two limited partnerships in an effort to bring forth the broader spectrum of tests. One of these was to make it possible to identify the level of mineral imbalance in singe cells using the electron microscope with X-ray fluorescence. This exciting research was a little ahead of its time and we had to abandon the effort when it turned out that the laboratory then available did not meet this (unclear) required sensitivity for determining low levels of minerals such as magnesium inside of a single cell, although those problems have subsequently been resolved.

Furthermore, the other limited partnership was to bring out an improved test for reproducibly, accurately and cost effectively measuring amino acids in blood and urine. This meant that we also had to concurrently develop a computerized software program, since most doctors couldn't even spell forty one different amino acids much less have any idea of what they might mean if they were elevated or deficient in the human body.

Unfortunately, the cells of the institute formula, which we had packaged under the name Cardio Guard became a major part of the income that our laboratory was utilizing in our efforts to finalize these two exciting new diagnostic nutritional tests. Namely the intracellular mineral analysis and the amino acid testing. When a competing company decided to claim that they could sell the institute formula for half the price since they were not paying the royalties that we were paying to Dr. Lester Morison's Arteriosclerosis Research Institute, they were able to offer a lower price and fortunately, as my (unclear phrase) to this date that they didn't have the necessary knowledge to be sure that the product they were offering would, in fact, prevent the blood clots that we now know today are provably involved in 85% of heart attacks and strokes.

In any event, with this challenge to the major economic activities that our company was relying on to finish the multi-million-dollar efforts we were expending in developing these new refined nutritional tests, we wound up having to sell the company almost on the bankruptcy at our steps. The result of that is I went back into clinical practice of medicine, having been out of it since 1976 and I returned to practice in approximately 1985 in Sacramento, California taking over the old practice that I had in Sacramento from 1965 to 1976. I had started that practice shortly after completing a six-month tour of duty serving as an emergency room physician in the Sacramento County Hospital Emergency Room, where we usually averaged one death per eight-hour shift.

I took over that practice and grew it into the large practice, which I sold to Dr. Greenspan in 1976 and took over from him in 1985 again when he had run it into the ground and it was deeply in debt. I built that practice up so sufficiently over the next several years that we had to move into new quarters at 17,000 square feet with over forty employees and a fixed overhead of over ten thousand dollars a day with two hyper-baric chambers, forty plus chairs for intravenous chelation, hydrogen peroxide and other oxidative therapies as well as tread mill cardiology, a fully equipped laboratory while providing full service of all diagnostic tests available at that time, as well as a completely equipped physical therapy department with state of the art micro electric, current pulse magnetic and other therapies.

That practice gave me the experience to know that we can safely stack multiple non-toxic therapies on top of each other and do what in some cases amounts to nearly miraculous healing. For example, a patient with Parkinson's after several days in (unclear) facility gets up and walks down the hall for the first time in eight years without his walker and even nerve deafness restored to full hearing and other nearly miraculous healing occurring as a result of working with the body, doing detoxification. We also offered ozonated colonics and other things with over sixty different rooms in that 17,000 square foot facility.

Unfortunately, the denerval facility had a fatal flaw. A roof leak. Every time a major storm came, it left much of the facility under half an inch of water, which threatened (we believed) the health of our employees and our equipment. Based on legal advice, we withheld rent when nothing else would prevail upon the landlord to fix the leaky roof. And as it turns out, in the State of California when it's commercial property, you have to pay the rent even if you are continuously under one foot of water. You do not have the same protection that you do with residential leases. Thus, amazingly enough, the judge evicted our entire practice from the facility.

In retrospect, we can look back and state that perhaps the good Lord was looking after us and that was what was intended to happen even though it was clearly inconvenient for our huge practice of patients, many of them had advanced cancer that were only responsive to the alternative therapies we were providing; but at the same, if we had continued in that activity in that state, we would have had to spend a great deal of time and effort fighting with the medical society and/or the Medical Board of Examiners. We had already had a legal fight with both those entities in which I had sued both of them and at the Appellate Court pre-trial settlement conference, had successfully prevailed in both of those legal actions.

Nonetheless, it was clear that the State of California felt that an MD offering non- standard therapy on a large scale to their patients was a major threat to status quo and they visited the clinic before we closed and made it clear that they were looking for any possible excuse to close the practice down anyway. Thus, suddenly one day, from working seven days a week, twelve/fourteen hours every day - I was unemployed. But again, as things work out, the last day the appointment schedule had included a visit with a young gentleman (the head of an international corporation) who was faced with going blind with a rare condition of pigmentary glaucoma. As it happened, he had been there that day, but under the judge's order of eviction, the building was impounded and he could not get in. He subsequently chased me down, having known me some years before because he and his family had tried to help bring the Institute Formula into broad use in the U.S. utilizing their money, knowledge and attorneys, they felt that the Lester Morrison product (Cardio Guard) was truly a gift to mankind to prevent heart attacks and they had tried with their efforts to help make this unique therapy available to Americans without having to go through the normal five hundred million dollars proving that it would have to go through if it was sold as a drug.

In any event, this gentleman contacted me and asked if I would be available to research his condition of pigmented glaucoma. At that point, I stated that based on the success we had seen in our clinic, there was virtuously no condition no matter how serious, whether it was terminal or genetic that didn't show some response when you fine tuned the body to eliminate major stressors including food sensitivities and detoxify the body and add in useful nutrient support therapy, often in aggressive levels so that we were using certain nutrients as an alternative to drugs in dealing with certain serious health problems.

Thus, I told the patient that I had no knowledge whatsoever of his condition called PG (Pigmentary Glaucoma) but I was an expert at identifying other unhealthy conditions utilizing laboratory medicine and optimizing his personal health by dealing with every abnormality we could uncover. This lead to a many year relationship after which today, the patient is still enjoying nearly perfect vision and has been one of the most gratifying experiences of my professional life in that this patient, motivated with the threat of not being able to run his families international business interests at an early age because of impending potential blindness, every day he actually would do whatever we recommended even if that meant hiring his own personal chef, buying all organic foods, moving out of his house into an environment that had correct living accommodations, etc.

Thus, the years in collaboration with that patient enabled me to visit the leading alternative and cutting-edge medical centers of the world. I have traveled extensively over three continents and have been involved in visiting any clinic or health facility or person that I heard of or learned of through publications, through the media, or from word-of-mouth that seemed to have an interesting or potentially useful new view point to optimize health. Thus, in these years I've truly had an opportunity to see healing in what would normally be considered incurable conditions because of those around the world who are choosing in their daily lives to push the envelope with whatever particular modality at which they have become an expert.

Therefore, in those intervening years, I was lucky enough to go to virtuously every major alternative medical meeting in the world and meet first-hand the leaders from three continents in alternative and holistic medical practices. This has now lead to my taking and developing a line of products for various companies that I believe will have significant benefit in enhancing the quality and length of life of virtually every human that is lucky enough to take some or all of the mutually supportive synergistic line-of- products that I have designed. Of course, I utilize all of this line-of-products on my own body since I feel this is a reasonable way to show the benefits of aggressive long-term nutritional and hormonal support.

I went so far as to start the International College based upon longevity medicine because we found that the only other organization attempting to train doctors in anti-aging medicine known as A4M, turned out to look too focused on money making and not focused enough on the science involved in making a program that would have more benefit than risk. We realize that every decision we make entails benefit-and-risk analysis. There is nothing you do, including getting in the car to drive to the doctors office that doesn't entail some risk. So, there ought to be some benefit to offset that risk.

When I formed ICALM, we immediately found ourselves in the position of an unwanted competitor to both ACAM and A4M with very nasty attacks from those organizations. We did have two successful meetings and we do now have some 29 doctors who started down the pathway of becoming trained in longevity medicine and are now board certified as diplomats in the field by the Board of International Advanced Longevity Medicine in Chicago.

I am a member of the American Aging Association for many years now, I do attend meetings with the top researchers from the National Institute of Aging/NIH and other leading research institutions and am extremely aware that there are break throughs that are on the drawing board from the Human Genome Project, Gene Therapy, Stem Cell Therapy, and what we would call Nutritional Minetics of calorie restriction, but should clearly augment the anti-aging benefits we have already seen from those few courageous patients who have chosen to take from one hundred to three thousand intravenous chelation therapies and look and function today often ten plus years younger than their actual chronological age.

As a physician in alternative medicine, it became very clear some years ago that patients and doctors inherently know many things we should be doing like avoiding sugar, exercising more and taking good doses of supplements etc. and eating less, but most of us tend not to do this without the eminent threat of a serious problem such as cancer. Interestingly, in my annual travel to Tokyo where I do (unclear phrase) cancer therapies, in the most recent trip of April, 2001 I met Dr. Kobayashi who has the documentation that fifteen thousand of his patients followed now for almost fifteen years have been able to remain entirely tumor free. This is done without drugs merely by alerting people from his extensive panel of what I call cancer/tumor markers as to how close they are to developing the clinical lump or bump stage where clinical cancer is diagnosed.

Patients it appears so fore-warned are able to make the simple dietary lifestyle supplements and start appropriate herbal support that is sufficient to enable the body’s immune system to handle the threat of cancer that we all face every day of our life. Thus, it is interesting to realize that by age fifty, fifty percent of all men have prostate cancer, yet it does not have to be the cause of death of the patient if they are taking some special effort to enhance their bodies overall level of function. It is my belief at this point in my career, at age 66 that one of the most expedient things we can all do is exercise and avoid obvious pesticides and toxic food, high sugar, etc. and even more interestingly, utilize appropriate supplements. These supplements can most readily be understood if we think of them as a method of helping our bodies detoxify. And it is not hard to understand that if we can take Bill Moyers on a CBS two-hour special called Trade Secrets and draw his blood and test him for a hundred and twenty two poisonous toxins like PCBs, dioxins, mercury and lead and he tested positive for 82 of them that those who are not as in tune, as he has been since he has been interested in alternative medicine for over fifteen years, will undoubtedly have even higher levels of even more of these toxic substances.

Thus, my approach at the current time is not to put off but take a week out of your life and try to go through an intensive detoxification program. It is my advice that we detoxify every day of our life. The natural proven tendency of all humans on the planet as they age is to have higher-and-higher levels of toxic metals in every cell of their body. This goes on faster when you have particularly weakened or sick tissues in your body such as in hypertrophic cardiopathy, where according to the Journal of Cardiology one year ago the average heart cell had five hundred percent more zinc and five hundred and twenty percent more cobalt and a thousand percent more antimony etc. than healthy cells contain.

Thus, I am teaching people that even though most fish today contains potentially dangerous levels of mercury, it's still a useful efficient protein and the Omega 3 fats in that same fish; so, why not be on an oral program each day that will aid your body in eliminating the toxins we are all exposed to either through the skin or through the bowels or the kidneys and not wait and put off detoxification until we finally are diagnosed as being a cancer patient or auto immune disease patient with multiple sclerosis or a patient with serious heart or blood vessel disease.

At this time I am opening a medical facility again, having been traveling, lecturing and teaching for the last ten years and developing a complete line of supplements. We simply sell out time and take whatever time it takes for which the patient has to pay because this is not a covered option under any health insurance program, but we love taking on challenges. The patients have been to many doctors or have been through the most extensive work up that Mayo Clinic can do and merely add a list of diagnosis and no effective therapy.

These are the fun patients. Also, because of the research in Japan and my own experience with patients receiving alternative cancer therapy, we will offer second opinions on all forms of cancer and will provide intensive local intravenous and nutritional support as well as distant nutritional support advice for any patient seeking to have another useful modality, namely nutrition to help them deal with a cancer challenge in their life. I feel alternative and holistic medicine has become so vast today that there will have to be some specialties within the field between those interested in alternative cancer, alternative cardiovascular and anti-aging. At this moment there are three fields that I feel I have tremendous experience in, but having been a consultant to thousands of doctors when we offered the trace elements and amino acids testing at Mineral Lab, I am comfortable helping all patients come up with some ideas in the management of anything from Mongolism and hyper activity to Autism and menopausal syndrome to osteoporosis and arthritis.

Fortunately, today the Internet has made it possible to chase down virtually hundreds if not thousands of alternatives that one may look at in assisting themselves with any given health challenge. I have had the privilege of meeting many of the authors of those papers and, they becoming familiar with the research on a tremendously large percentage of this information, I can put my knowledge base to assist the patient who is willing to look at the Internet and type in breast cancer, prostate cancer, chlamydia, infection, chronic fatigue or Lyme disease and try to help themselves, which is the ideal patient for us.

We live in a new age. It is information overload. The old meaning of physician was educator and that is largely the role that I feel my staff and I would be filling for patients as we attempt to assist them in helping themselves.