As usual, the support group meeting was filled with great questions and great
conversation. We spoke about many different topics and people had a chance
to "connect", which, is always wonderful.

I want to add some thoughts with regard to things that have come up lately.

During these meetings and via private emails, many times people ask me
about an enormous amount of other kinds of health protocols and programs.

To the person who is newly discovering health, all of this is fascinating and
finding new discoveries are attractive in that it may seem that one can expedite
a difficult process by including some other therapy in with what we are doing.

There are things such as foot bath detoxification, NAET, alkalizing protocols, oil pulling,
various kinds of microorganism protocols, homeopathic medications, ayurvedic medications,
sweating protocols, and the list goes on.
 
On my own path to wellness and my consequent choice to devote my life to my own
education in holistic medicine and the treatment of ill patients, I have seen pretty much
everything in terms of treatment protocols and patient symptoms.
 

The more a person studies, the more a person realizes how complex the human body is and how complex conditions of the body are.

Through my years of work on my Ph.D. and in the clinic I have learned how to apply this
knowledge and make important treatment choices, and how switching from one protocol to another can interfere with the path a person is on.
 
For example: I have had patients who are doing quite well in treatment decide they want to start eating a vegetarian diet. This has happened a multitude of times. In each case, the persons pain skyrocketed for weeks until I could get their condition back under control.

In one case I had a patient who was coming to see me for bowel problems go and get NAET and he ended up with IC. 
 
I have had numerous people have foot baths and after just one go into high pain mode
for weeks on end. 

I have had people take products that included other kinds of microorganisms they were not ready for or that were just not appropriate go backward in their progress.
 
I realize that this process is difficult- all processes in the treatment of chronic illness are.
Any path that a person chooses to take is going to be difficult and require lots of discipline. 
There are no short cuts. So, the only advice that I have to give anyone on this subject, is no matter which road you decide to take-stick to that protocol. When you mix protocols, it
will interrupt the process that of treatment that is going on in the body. One choice may be creating certain kinds of physiological processes to occur, while, another diverts the body's energy in a completely different way. This is very important point because one can negate the other.

I don't think I fully understood how complex the body truly is until I finished my Ph.D..
The process of compiling years of clinical work and others scientist's research coupled with my studies of the great masters of Chinese medicine really drove home many points on this subject.
 
When I was first studying for my master's degree, I remember one of my professors told me that when I finished my master's degree that only then would I be ready to start learning.

I was very offended by this comment. I thought to myself that he did not understand just how intelligent I was. But, I soon realized through practicing how right he was. I was humbled by the experience that comes with the opportunity that I had to treat so many unwell people.

Even today, I am in awe of the complexities of human life and the life force of the ecosystem within us that comprises a massive part of our immune systems.
 
So the bottom line is, I am asking, if you chose to trust in this process, please trust in it and work with me and do not start doing other protocols while doing this one unless you speak to me about it and I tell you that it is OK-because it may not be. It may adversely effect what I am trying to do. Even acupuncture can do this-a reason why I ask that people not get acupuncture while treating with me.
 
Working together, discipline with diet and lifestyle issues, and communication are all very important.