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My Passion For Natural Healing And Alternative Medicine
How it all began
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I have been passionate about natural healing and alternative medicine since around 1973.
At that time I was living with my parents. There I would often go to the recycling room in my building and find stacks of nutrition and medical journals.
The Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and also stacks of Prevention Magazine.
In those days, Prevention magazine had a column by Dr. Carlton Fredericks an educator that would list studies that had been done in traditional journals relating to Alternative Medicine, nutrition and other research related to a natural approach to healing different types of diseases.
I was fascinated. I went out and bought a deck of 3x5 cards and began compiling the names of different diseases, different nutrients, and herbal approaches that could be used to heal diseases. Many that might not be used Many of these techniques had been validated and published in traditional journals and yet had never been integrated into the traditional…