About My Practice

I am board-certified with the Clinical Nutrition Certification Board as a Certified Clinical Nutritionist (C.C.N.), and with the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine as an Anti-Aging Health Practitioner. Additionally, I am a Doctor of Chiropractic (D.C.).

My focus is a functional medicine approach towards wellness and prevention. I provide assessment and treatment of acute and chronic health conditions by addressing the causes of compromised health utilizing individualized scientifically-based dietary modifications, herbal, nutritional supplement, and homeopathic therapy, therapeutic lifestyle modifications including individualized exercise programs and BioSET Allergy Elimination. Chiropractic methods are also a very necessary component for structural affects on function.

I seek to find and treat the underlying causes of disease and compromised health and not just alleviate the symptoms. This is accomplished with a comprehensive medical history and physical examination including:

• Functional laboratory and physiologic assessment
• Caring and compassionate holistic consideration of health-influencing factors
• Individualized health enhancement and preventive care
• Coordination of care with other health professionals and integrative medicine
• Therapeutic Lifestyle Programs and Exercise Therapy
• Nutritionally-based hormonal balancing

My Expertise

Combining nutritionally-based methods and chiropractic structural-functional care with integrative medicine has provided excellent results in resolving a wide variety of health conditions. This holistic primary care approach is highly successful for:

• Resolution of menstrual irregularities, PMS, menopausal symptoms
• Treatment of immune disorders, including allergy elimination and desensitization
• Nutritionally-based weight management and sports performance enhancement
• Treatment of acute and chronic pain syndromes including sciatica and disc protrusions

My Philosophy

Radiant optimal health - not just the absence of disease - is the normal state of the body. After a thorough evaluation, I strive to provide my patients with guidance in making changes to eliminate factors which interfere with thier health. This comprehensive wellness, or functional health approach can help maintain and achieve optimum health.

Functional health care is a science-based field of health care that is grounded in the principles of Nutritional Biochemistry, patient-centered medicine, health as a positive vitality, and that the human body functions as an orchestrated network of interconnected systems, rather than individual systems functioning autonomously.

The privilege of caring for others health requires my responsibility to be highly knowledgeable of various modalities. For this reason I commit significant time and money towards extensive continuing education in nutrition, Womens health disorders, herbology, homeopathy, BioSET Allergy Elimination, nutritionally-based hormone balancing, healthy aging, and weight management.

What I Love About What I Do

I gain the most satisfaction from seeing the transformation in people from when they first use my services, to when they become true partners with me in taking responsibility for their own health care, with resolution of their health problems.

Let me explain: Many people who initially see me know and do very little (or are unsuccessful) about improving and maintaining their health. After implementing the health enhancing recommendations, there begins to be a change both physically and emotionally to where they become more energetic and enthusiastic about how good they feel. The most memorable complements I've received have been from the patients I've helped successfully resolve Chronic Fatigue Syndrome who have proclaimed... "I've got my life back!". There is no amount of money that could give the satisfaction and joy in being able to give others such life-changing joy!

My Credentials

• Bachelor of Science in Human Physiology, San Francisco State University, 1983
• Doctor of Chiropractic, Cleveland Chiropractic College of Los Angeles, 1991
• Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist, 1996
• Board Certified Anti Aging Health Practitioner, 2000

Publications

• 1) Husbands DK, Pokras R: 1991 year-end compendium: The Use of Flexion-Distraction in a Lumbosacral Posterior Arch Defect with a Lumbosacral Disc Protrusion: A Case Study. ACA J of Chiropractic 1991; December, pgs 21-24
• I'm presently in the process of writing articles for submission to various wellness and peer reviewed journals.

I belong to the following professional associations:

• International and American Associations of Clinical Nutritionists
• American Academy of Anti Aging Medicine
• American Chiropractic Association
• Institute for Functional Medicine

Insurance

We do not accept insurance, but provide a properly-coded super-bill that allow our patients to bill their insurances and be reimbursed by their insurer.

Languages

English, some Spanish

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