About Us
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About Us
Holistic health consulting with modern, alternative and traditional Chinese medicine
Call or email: 602.565.9273 realhealth411@gmail.com
Dr. Linda Wright
I got started in alternative medicine at the age of 5 when my mom’s favorite sister developed colon cancer. The two of them went to the Hoxsey Cancer Clinic in Texas, and that changed my life forever. We got exposed to Adele Davis books, organic gardening, whole foods, raw milk, chiropractors.
I ate really well but I was born a sickly child. I nearly died before I was one year old. In the winters, I had constant upper respiratory infections and many courses of antibiotics. In the summers, I struggled with allergies.
I left home at age 20. When I was a ski bum in Aspen it hit me I was bored. I wanted to understand the two worlds I had seen – the conventional medical approach with all the surgeries and medications, versus everything my mom had brought into our lives. Who was right? I completed my undergrad work at University of Colorado, Boulder with a B.A. in Chemistry, Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and was accepted into the Chemical Honors Society. Then I went on to the University of Colorado Medical School, followed by a 3 year internal medicine residency.
When I began my practice, I used what med school had taught me. A lot of it was what we called cut, burn, and poison. This is the standard of care for a medical doctor. It basically means you follow the cookbook – you take a medical history, do a physical exam, order tests, give the patient a diagnosis, then turn to the appropriate page of the cookbook (Physicians Desk Reference) to write a prescription for the appropriate drug(s) or refer the patient to a sub-specialist. I was frustrated that I was basically swatting at symptoms with pharmaceuticals.
One day, I met with a natural health practitioner. He gave me some supplements, changed my diet, and in four weeks, I was a different person. I thought, “Maybe there is something to this alternative medicine quackery, maybe my mother was right.” I started going to different kinds of medical conferences, reading different books. As I started to use my new knowledge, my patients began doing much better. Some even said that I saved their lives.
Our modern medical system can be great when it comes to handling emergencies. But 8 of 10 patients who come to see a doctor have chronic issues and modern medicine mostly fails them. Medical schools did not train us to put a plan in place to actually heal the body. In the United States, we call this a system of “health care” but it is really a system of “disease management.” We’ve figured out how to make money when you’re sick. We haven’t designed and monetized a national system to keep you well.
If you do not figure out the cause of the problem and a way to address it, you can’t fix it. You’ll only cover up symptoms for a while, you won’t get well, and the underlying problem progresses.
High blood pressure and heart disease are closely related, for example. We dispense a drug to force the body to lower the high blood pressure, but we don’t look at what is causing the high blood pressure in the first place. Symptoms should not be looked at as a nuisance that needs to be suppressed with pills. Symptoms are the body’s shout out to you that it needs help. As long as you are alive, there is hope to turn around whatever disease process is working on you.
The body has an intelligent design, a blueprint. We cut our finger and it heals. We break a bone and it heals. We get an infection and we get well. To heal, the body uses natural building blocks that fit into that blueprint – minerals, vitamins, phytonutrients, amino acids, essential fatty acids, even exercise and sunlight. But without those, the body has significant trouble regenerating new tissue and restoring health. Pizza and soda – what Americans consume by the ton – is not delivering what we need to keep us healthy.
Heart disease was not in the medical books in the year 1900. Cancer, autism, and dementia were rare. Today, heart disease and cancer are the two leading causes of death. And the third cause of death today? Medical mistakes. Patients on average, 50 years old or more, are on 5 to 10 pharmaceutical drugs. In the 1950s, 4% of adults had a chronic illness. Today, 50% of children have a chronic illness. There is something very wrong with this picture.
Most of the people who come to me are not getting the necessary nutrients to heal, according to the body’s intelligent design, and that is why they haven’t healed. Our food has changed dramatically in the last 60 years and we are not healthier for it.
Many patients come to me because they cannot get well with conventional medical therapies. They’ve mostly been given drugs which didn’t work well, but did deliver a bunch of side effects. I find non-drug solutions, including herbs. Chinese medicine, for example, has always looked for the fundamental reasons for bodily dysfunctions. I also suggest homeopathy, nutrition, and sometimes a machine or two that speaks to the body in its electrical language.
Doctors in practice have little time to read; the workdays flow at an aggressive pace. It is, frankly, exhausting. Now that I’ve retired from that daily grind, I have more time to read, to study, to question, and to solve problems – especially the chronic illness problems.
If you are not into drugs and surgical interventions, I am here for you!
HOW CAN I HELP YOU?
- Gut and digestive issues
- Menopause
- Men’s hormones
- Low T
- Chronic Fatigue
- Fibromyalgia
- Allergies
- Recurrent infections
- Chronic inflammation
- Diabetes
- Arthritis
- Autoimmune diseases
Dr. Linda Wright
I got started in alternative medicine at the age of 5 when my mom’s favorite sister developed colon cancer. The two of them went to the Hoxsey Cancer Clinic in Texas, and that changed my life forever. We got exposed to Adele Davis books, organic gardening, whole foods, raw milk, chiropractors.
I ate really well but I was born a sickly child. I nearly died before I was one year old. In the winters, I had constant upper respiratory infections and many courses of antibiotics. In the summers, I struggled with allergies.
I left home at age 20. When I was a ski bum in Aspen it hit me I was bored. I wanted to understand the two worlds I had seen – the conventional medical approach with all the surgeries and medications, versus everything my mom had brought into our lives. Who was right? I completed my undergrad work at University of Colorado, Boulder with a B.A. in Chemistry, Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and was accepted into the Chemical Honors Society. Then I went on to the University of Colorado Medical School, followed by a 3 year internal medicine residency.
When I began my practice, I used what med school had taught me. A lot of it was what we called cut, burn, and poison. This is the standard of care for a medical doctor. It basically means you follow the cookbook – you take a medical history, do a physical exam, order tests, give the patient a diagnosis, then turn to the appropriate page of the cookbook (Physicians Desk Reference) to write a prescription for the appropriate drug(s) or refer the patient to a sub-specialist. I was frustrated that I was basically swatting at symptoms with pharmaceuticals.
One day, I met with a natural health practitioner. He gave me some supplements, changed my diet, and in four weeks, I was a different person. I thought, “Maybe there is something to this alternative medicine quackery, maybe my mother was right.” I started going to different kinds of medical conferences, reading different books. As I started to use my new knowledge, my patients began doing much better. Some even said that I saved their lives.
Our modern medical system can be great when it comes to handling emergencies. But 8 of 10 patients who come to see a doctor have chronic issues and modern medicine mostly fails them. Medical schools did not train us to put a plan in place to actually heal the body. In the United States, we call this a system of “health care” but it is really a system of “disease management.” We’ve figured out how to make money when you’re sick. We haven’t designed and monetized a national system to keep you well.
If you do not figure out the cause of the problem and a way to address it, you can’t fix it. You’ll only cover up symptoms for a while, you won’t get well, and the underlying problem progresses.
High blood pressure and heart disease are closely related, for example. We dispense a drug to force the body to lower the high blood pressure, but we don’t look at what is causing the high blood pressure in the first place. Symptoms should not be looked at as a nuisance that needs to be suppressed with pills. Symptoms are the body’s shout out to you that it needs help. As long as you are alive, there is hope to turn around whatever disease process is working on you.
The body has an intelligent design, a blueprint. We cut our finger and it heals. We break a bone and it heals. We get an infection and we get well. To heal, the body uses natural building blocks that fit into that blueprint – minerals, vitamins, phytonutrients, amino acids, essential fatty acids, even exercise and sunlight. But without those, the body has significant trouble regenerating new tissue and restoring health. Pizza and soda – what Americans consume by the ton – is not delivering what we need to keep us healthy.
Heart disease was not in the medical books in the year 1900. Cancer, autism, and dementia were rare. Today, heart disease and cancer are the two leading causes of death. And the third cause of death today? Medical mistakes. Patients on average, 50 years old or more, are on 5 to 10 pharmaceutical drugs. In the 1950s, 4% of adults had a chronic illness. Today, 50% of children have a chronic illness. There is something very wrong with this picture.
Most of the people who come to me are not getting the necessary nutrients to heal, according to the body’s intelligent design, and that is why they haven’t healed. Our food has changed dramatically in the last 60 years and we are not healthier for it.
Many patients come to me because they cannot get well with conventional medical therapies. They’ve mostly been given drugs which didn’t work well, but did deliver a bunch of side effects. I find non-drug solutions, including herbs. Chinese medicine, for example, has always looked for the fundamental reasons for bodily dysfunctions. I also suggest homeopathy, nutrition, and sometimes a machine or two that speaks to the body in its electrical language.
Doctors in practice have little time to read; the workdays flow at an aggressive pace. It is, frankly, exhausting. Now that I’ve retired from that daily grind, I have more time to read, to study, to question, and to solve problems – especially the chronic illness problems.
If you are not into drugs and surgical interventions, I am here for you!
“You don’t have to be living on the edge of the cliff. You can walk back from that edge and I know how to guide you through that. I’ve experienced it personally. The answer is not a magic pill. The answer is identifying where things have gone wrong and fixing them.”
“Our physical vitality peaks somewhere between ages 25 and 35. Then we start to feel the cumulative effect of our modern lifestyles: junk food, pesticides, exposures to environmental pollution, infectious agents, stress, medications. Eventually our body’s ‘garbage can’ overflows. What we used to tolerate, we no longer can. Then we get sick.”
“We don’t have to be living on the edge of the cliff. We can walk back from that edge and i know how to guide you through that. I’ve even experianced it personally. The answer is not a magic pill. The answer is identifying where things have gone wrong and fixing them.”
“Our physical vitality peaks somewhere between age 25 and 35. Then we start to feel the cumulative effect of our lifestyles: the junk food. The pesticides and other enviromental pollutant exposures. Infactious agents, the stress, medications. Eventually our “Garbage can” is overflowing. What we used to tolerate we no longer can then we get sick.”
Joseph Garner
I devoured books as a kid. At 4th grade, I was reading at a 12th grade level. I went to seminary school to learn how to be a minister. But it wasn’t meant to be. I switched to journalism. I joined the Army for 3 years. This was the post-Vietnam era so instead of handing me a rifle, they trained me to be a secretary. That came in handy when I applied for a job at the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and worked there during the time the DSHEA law was passed that protected unfettered access to dietary supplements. I was intrigued by the complexities of Chinese medicine and enrolled in the Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Denver. I graduated in 1995, moved to Phoenix two years later, and spent the next eight years teaching at the Phoenix Institute of Herbal Medicine & Acupuncture.
When people think of Chinese medicine, they usually think of acupuncture. But in my experience, herbs are the much stronger medicine. In fact, 80% of the drugs used today are based on herbs.
Aspirin, for example, was developed from willow bark. Willow and other salicylate-rich plants have been used in their natural form for millennia. The modern pharmaceutical industry, however, changes the molecular structure of an herb a little bit so it qualifies for a patent and turns a profit. Problem is, it is not nice to fool Mother Nature. Our body reacts to those unnatural changes made in the lab; we call that drug-related side effects. Aspirin has side effects, including stomach ulcers, stomach bleeding, worsening asthma, Reye syndrome, and high doses may result in ringing in the ears. Many feel that if aspirin were introduced today, it would never make it out of the lab because of its issues with gastric bleeding. Natural willow bark does not have these side effects. The active ingredient in willow bark is salicin, but the accompanying flavonoids and plant particles likely also make willow bark effective. In olden times, people chewed on the unprocessed bark of the willow tree.
Drugs tend to be one-trick ponies that tamper with a metabolic pathway, so your bothersome symptom appears to go away. Herbs are richly endowed with a full spectrum of nutrients from nature with the power to heal. Comparing an herb to a drug is like comparing an entire symphony to one snare drum. And herbal Chinese formulas have been used over thousands of years – we know about their safety.
The discipline teaches you various disease patterns. Once you diagnose the pattern, there is a specific treatment for that pattern. The herbal formulas I use resolve symptoms while also addressing the core reasons underlying those symptoms. That is the way of natural medicine.
The herbal formulas I use resolve symptoms while also addressing the core reasons underlying those symptoms.
Joseph Garner
I devoured books as a kid. At 4th grade, I was reading at a 12th grade level. I went to seminary school to learn how to be a minister. But it wasn’t meant to be. I switched to journalism. I joined the Army for 3 years. This was the post-Vietnam era so instead of handing me a rifle, they trained me to be a secretary. That came in handy when I applied for a job at the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and worked there during the time the DSHEA law was passed that protected unfettered access to dietary supplements. I was intrigued by the complexities of Chinese medicine and enrolled in the Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Denver. I graduated in 1995, moved to Phoenix two years later, and spent the next eight years teaching at the Phoenix Institute of Herbal Medicine & Acupuncture.
When people think of Chinese medicine, they usually think of acupuncture. But in my experience, herbs are the much stronger medicine. In fact, 80% of the drugs used today are based on herbs.
Aspirin, for example, was developed from willow bark. Willow and other salicylate-rich plants have been used in their natural form for millennia. The modern pharmaceutical industry, however, changes the molecular structure of an herb a little bit so it qualifies for a patent and turns a profit. Problem is, it is not nice to fool Mother Nature. Our body reacts to those unnatural changes made in the lab; we call that drug-related side effects. Aspirin has side effects, including stomach ulcers, stomach bleeding, worsening asthma, Reye syndrome, and high doses may result in ringing in the ears. Many feel that if aspirin were introduced today, it would never make it out of the lab because of its issues with gastric bleeding. Natural willow bark does not have these side effects. The active ingredient in willow bark is salicin, but the accompanying flavonoids and plant particles likely also make willow bark effective. In olden times, people chewed on the unprocessed bark of the willow tree.
Drugs tend to be one-trick ponies that tamper with a metabolic pathway, so your bothersome symptom appears to go away. Herbs are richly endowed with a full spectrum of nutrients from nature with the power to heal. Comparing an herb to a drug is like comparing an entire symphony to one snare drum. And herbal Chinese formulas have been used over thousands of years – we know about their safety.
The discipline teaches you various disease patterns. Once you diagnose the pattern, there is a specific treatment for that pattern. The herbal formulas I use resolve symptoms while also addressing the core reasons underlying those symptoms. That is the way of natural medicine.
