Dr. John's testimonial

My Story: Why I Have Returned to Practice at 62

I was born in the late 1948,and grew up in the 50's. As to my diet, it was controlled according to the good standards of the day, meaning no desert (read "sugar") until after I finished my dinner! Of course, soon as I was old enough, I was down at the corner deli buying Devil Dogs, Snow Balls, Hostess Cupcakes and Twinkies daily, washing it down with a Orange or Pineapple Crush! I also learned how to throw away or flush some of my dinner away, especially liver, green beans and turnips, so could eat more desert!

By the time I was 15, my dentist said I had the worst mouth he had ever seen in a teenager! At 20, I got bad strept throat again (a chronic problem as a child for which I took frequent antibiotics) which turned out to be mono. I spent three months in bed in my room. So I had time to read! Fortunately, I started to read about yoga and eating well to get well and stay well. I was now finally motivated to change! Now at first my idea of "eating well" was to have Wheaties instead of Trix cereal and to put lettuce and tomato on my baloney sandwich on a Kaiser roll! However, I soon learned more and more and experimented with raw food diets, vegetarianism, supplements and fasting. Supplements I took in those days were more like food concentrates than vitamins: alfalfa and liver tablets, brewers yeast, wheat germ oil, cod liver oil, bone meal, black strap molasses and a multi vitamin, not all the isolated, mega dose nutraceuticals you see today which are actually closer to pharmaceuticals (drugs) than foods.

The most dramatic change, besides not getting sick with colds and sore throats and stop getting so many cavities, is that from then I was always "the smartest kid in the class". And I went to school until I was thirty! Now, admittedly, this was New York State University and Cleveland Chiropractic College, not Duke University and Harvard Medical School. Still, before I started eating well, the teacher's reports were, “Johnny is a bright boy but he does not achieve according to his potential." With good nutrition, it was like my brain was "turned on".

That interest in nutrition led me to an interest in natural health care, namely chiropractic. I incorporated nutrition in my chiropractic practice right from the start. I practiced chiropractic for 20 years. I spent the next 12 years co-founding two nutritional companies, conducting research and writing and teaching on nutrition.

At 62, it became time to go back into chiropractic practice again. However, I had learned so much in the previous 12 years about how our increasingly bad nutrition, increasing environmental toxins and overuse of drugs, (over the counter, prescribed and illegal) and the related food sensitivies and allergies these caused, not to mention all of the new viruses and bugs around now, I knew that the alternative treatments I added to my chiropractic services I used in the 80's where no longer going to bring about the miracles that make being a doctor rewarding and a practice fun.

You know that when the fastest growing group of diabetics and obesity is children, when the average age of puberty goes from 16 to 11, when autism is at least 10 times more common then when I was a kid, when some many kids are on meds for ADHD, allergies and asthma that something has gone very wrong. Each generation is getting sicker!

When the average American over 60 takes 5 prescription medications a day, and the average fetus in America whose mother lives in or around a large city has 260+ detectable toxins in their blood, (including arsenic, mercury, lead, plastics & pesticides), that the recommendation for vaccinations by the age of two is over 60 injections, and when the air pollution in cities is so bad that in one city in China just breathing in the air for 24 hours is equivalent to 3 packs of cigarettes a day, that another new drug, super antioxidant vitamin pill, or even yet another chiropractic adjustment or acupuncture treatment is all to often not going to be more than temporary relief, just a finger in the dike!

When the average American eats over 160 pounds of sugar a year, 1/3 of all Americans are obese, not just over weight, when prescriptions for anti depressants, indigestion, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and so on are so common and expensive that the whole medical systems in America and Europe need massive government intervention just to survive, something has gone terribly wrong.

I "needed a better mouse trap". I needed a more elegant system of analysis. Also, as insurance today does not cover many natural approaches to health and healing, I searched for that nutritional analysis system and products that would not only be both most effective but also be the most affordable. Only until I found these could I feel good about going back into practice.

Fortunately, I found that "better mouse trap". One that, for those willing to make the commitment to themselves, provides miracles on a regular basis. It is called Nutrition Response Testing (NRT). With it I create personalized Designed Clinical Nutrition programs for you and then coach and guide you, one doable step at a time, towards a truly healthier life. It is centered around whole foods, organic whole food supplementation and easy does it, one step at a time, natural detoxification and cleansing, not fad diets, synthetic mega vitamins or the latest "super berry" sold via net work marketing. Nor does NRT require expensive X-rays or lab analysis. Your own bodies responses tells me what nutrition it needs. That's why it is called Nutrition Response Testing!

My purpose is simple: to make available the miracles of Nutrition Response Testing and Designed Clinical Nutrition to the families of North County San Diego so they have the opportunity to take charge of their own health and get well, be well and stay well, naturally and affordably.

Unfortunately, not everyone is a Nutrition Response Testing (NRT) case. I can find out easily by analyzing you with NRT if you like. But let's hope that you are because in all my studying and experience, nothing can help you as much.... Dr. John H Maher, Crossroads Holistic health Center, 28630 Valley Center Road, Ste 9,

Valley Center, CA 92082, 1-760-751-2208 www.newnatualmedicine.com