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While I was working with Larry Trivieri on our book Outstanding Health in October 2014, my wife Janet told me to try NuCalm and include it in the book because it really works.
That is no small endorsement. My wife is Janet Hranicky, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist currently working on her medical degree. For more than 25 years, she has been a recognized expert in psychoneuroimmunology and, among her many accomplishments, is co-director of the Comprehensive Cancer Wellness Program at the Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach, Florida. She learned about the NuCalm technology there, and was impressed with its rapid ability to help cancer patients relax and rest, which helps with healing.
At the time, I decided against her advice because I did not know anything about NuCalm or the people behind it. However now, Larry and I agree enthusiastically with Janet. We decided that NuCalm deserved its own book.
Any technology that can balance the autonomic nervous system is fantastic, because doing so optimizes health. That is what we are all after, and that is what NuCalm does. The proof is in the years of testing and scientific research to qualify for its unique U.S. patent as the only system or method for balancing and maintaining the health of the human autonomic nervous system.
How NuCalm works, and why the autonomic nervous system is so important to your health, will be explained in detail in this book. Here, I will just mention enough for you to understand why I am so pleased to introduce this exciting technology to you. I would like to share the story of my initial experience with NuCalm, as well as a little about my own background.
A few months after hearing of NuCalm, I had a visit from Jim Poole, CEO of Solace Lifesciences, the company that makes it. He and Janet had been working together with the cancer patients, and they wanted me to examine the technology and the research results. I remember that it was the end of my working day. I was kind of on edge because I had not slept well for two or three weeks. Jim explained everything about the technology, set me up in a comfortable chair and got things going. I could feel the tension reducing in my body, and then I just drifted into a nice, pleasant state. In fact, I was so completely relaxed that I believe I passed out. Jim came back about an hour later to wake me up. That was my introduction to NuCalm.
I loved it. I realized immediately that NuCalm had huge advantages in promoting sleep, reducing stress and giving me an overall sense of well-being. I like to use NuCalm every day. Ive got one at home and one at the office. In my busy practice, I actually used to be angry when a patient canceled at the last second. Now, though, I go straight into a NuCalm session. I find that if I can do it regularly, its extremely beneficial.
It did not take long to realize that NuCalm would help my patients, too. Most of them come from the Los Angeles area and are high-powered, stressed people. I have introduced most of my patients to NuCalm when they complain about stress, explaining how it will benefit them almost immediately. Everybody has loved it, 100 percent of the time. They leave to go about their day looking calm and relaxed. Some have gone on to purchase their own, which I see as a credit to the value that people instantly perceive from using NuCalm.
Believe me, I know something about stress. I started my career as one of the first board-certified emergency room doctors and endured 15 years in Los Angeles ERs before burning out. When a clinic asked me to do nutrition and general practice there, I accepted even though I did not have a clue about nutrition. I remember trying to learn by reading books, going to lectures, listening to tapes, hiring a nutritionist, and doing all these new blood testsbut nobody got any better.
One of the patients who did not get better was my best friend who, I later discovered through blood testing, had mercury toxicity from his silver fillings. I found a referral for a dentist who would replace them, and who was able to pinpoint with an energy medicine device what metals could be put safely into his teeth. His results exactly matched the results of the blood tests I had done. My curiosity led to a discussion with the dentist about his techniques, which in turn led to my 30-year search for the safest, most effective methods to bring my patients to a state of robust health.
I try not to be skeptical about anything, because I think the key to being successful as a doctor is to stay open. I have practiced integrative or holistic medicine, using traditional and alternative techniques, for the past 30 years now. I like to call it energy medicine.
During these years, my search made plain to me that, philosophically, traditional medicine defines health as the absence of disease. Therefore, if you have normal x-rays, CAT scans, MRIs and blood tests, you are healthy. If you complain, you are either stressed out, need a vacation or you need something to relax.
When people come to me saying, I dont feel well, they may be speaking of well emotionally, mentally, physically or some combination of the three. You cannot see that I dont feel well on an x-ray, a CAT scan or an MRI, and you rarely see it in a blood test. However, on a deep electrical level, you can see imbalances. So, in energy or integrative medicine, we do not refer to diseased organs, we refer to sluggish organs that are not working as efficiently as they should.
From this perspective, we see health as one end of the spectrum and disease as the other. Most people are in the middle. They cannot sleep, they are fatigued, they have allergies, they have bloating, they have distention or they have constipation. They are not diseased, but they are not healthy, either. The holistic doctor says, How do we get you healthy even though you dont have a disease? That is a huge difference between the two philosophies.
When they are healthy, people have abundant energy. Health is energy. There is an electrical or energetic level to the body that is the foundation of what my practice has become since beginning my search. That is why I refer to what I do as energy medicine.
Following my conversation with the dentist about my friend, I started my search by taking a course in acupuncture for physicians given by UCLA and a three-year course on energy medicine being taught out of Europe. I realized that I could be much more effective using these kinds of technologies to figure out what people really need, and what dosages are correct. This extended eventually into hormone therapy, as well.
Consequently, I do not have any side effects with the therapies I use, which has been a real boon to my practice. I became popular enough to have patients now from six continents. After Suzanne Somers became a patient, I was pleased to participate in several of her books about health.
Over the years, I have investigated many therapies and technologies, investing in those I think will most help my patients. My office is full of them, and NuCalm is a welcomed addition.
Whenever I get these new technologies, my first thought is Now how does this help me in my practice? Of course, the best thought would be How can I benefit from this myself? If it helps me, it helps everybody.
I was very open to trying NuCalm in the beginning because I realize that the less stressed I can become, the more effective I can be as a doctor.
Furthermore, I encourage the doctors I know to try NuCalm and see for themselves. Physicians are always looking for ways to help our patients, taking the life or death part of our jobs seriously. I believe that patients cannot help but benefit if the quality of their physicians life improves by reducing stress levels. Everybody benefits down the line. Then I encourage doctors to use NuCalm on their patients because, in the Los Angeles area, there is no shortage of patients complaining about stress.