Introducing The Chiropractor Who Serves West Hollywood &l Beverly Hills
As a Doctor of Chiropractic I understand that life and healing come from within. And that the promotion and maintenance of health is vastly superior to the treatment of disease. My journey to this awareness was long and arduous. I endeavor to help others learn from my experience.
In 1895 Dr. DD Palmer, the discoverer of Chiropractic, determined that that the cause of dis-ease which led to disease was "trauma, toxins and autosuggestion". Sixty years later in his famous classic, “The Stress of Life”, Nobel Prize nominee, Dr. Hans Selye, confirmed Palmer's idea that stress or "dis-ease" is the underlying cause of all disease. Physical, chemical or emotional stress that exceeds your capacity to adapt ultimately lead to exhaustion and disease. Therefore the key to health is to strengthen your inner capacity to adapt to stressors. Living a chiropractic wellness lifestyle has helped me and my patients regain and maintain vitality and vigor.
It all started shortly after I was born. I was given a shot of penicillin to treat a minor infection to which my body reacted violently. I was hospitalized for a number of weeks when all my joints became swollen and painful with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis-like symptoms. My parents told me that I was so swollen that I could not even be held or touched because of the painful inflammation. I was treated with heavy doses of corticosteroids which damaged my endocrine and immune systems.
At age six, my tonsils were surgically removed as a treatment for a sore throat. Tonsillectomies have since been determined to be harmful as they remove important lymph tissue which protects the body, especially from cancer.
Shortly thereafter, while my family was driving along an icy road near Niagara Falls, our car was rear ended and I suffered a concussion and a whiplash. This injured the vital nerve supply to the lymph nodes in my neck.
Behind my elementary school ran a little stream. I was and amateur scientist collecting water samples to look at algae under my microscope. Upstream, General Electric was polluting the creek with waste transformer oil contaminated with cancer causing PCBs (Agent Orange).
At age 12, I discovered a lump in my neck glands. Hodgkin’s lymphoma was diagnosed. My parents were told that I had a 5% chance of survival I was irradiated and I spent the summer losing my hair and vomiting.When my skin turned black and began falling off, I was sent home to die. Fortunately no one told me that I was supposed to die. I never identified with being sick. I wanted to be healthy and play baseball. I eventually recovered!
I went on to college with the goal of helping children with cancer. I was awarded a full academic scholarship by the Quaker Oats Foundation to attend the University of Rochester where I received Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Biology. The University awarded me the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for my PhD studies in molecular genetics.
At that time I was suffering from shooting pains in my neck and skull, a condition that began in high school. During the treatment of cancer, a biopsy of the lymph nodes in my neck injured my long thoracic nerve. As a result of this nerve injury, it felt as if an ice pick was being driven into my skull every time I lifted my left arm over my head. The pain would literally knock me to the ground. Eventually my hands started going numb. Seeking to help myself, I began practicing Kundalini yoga. Thankfully, my first yoga teacher, the late Mahatma Singh of Rochester, NY taught me the basic principles of a healthy lifestyle and referred me to his chiropractor, Dr. Mahlon Blake for help.
When Dr. Blake first adjusted me it felt as if he had pulled out a knife that had been stabbing me for years. The relief was tremendous. I would ride my bike every week an hour in both directions just to get adjusted. Over time, I regained my health and the vitality that was lost as a result of the cancer treatments. At that time I experienced a spiritual calling to leave medicine behind and become a Doctor of Chiropractic. Dr. BJ Palmer, the developer of chiropractic once said: “Medicine is the study of disease and what causes a man to die. Chiropractic is the study of health and what causes a man to live.”
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