Tell me about your vision.
OK, I'm living my vision.
I wrote a book called From Mountains to Medicine,
Scaling the Heights in Search of My Calling.
It's on audio, Kindle, and paperback.
And it's about my 10-year journey trying
to find what my purpose is in life.
And I finally, after 10 years, realized my purpose
was right in front of my nose.
I come from a lineage of doctors from Switzerland.
But I didn't think that maybe I had a false idea of what
it was to be a doctor, because I never went to doctors,
because I was very healthy.
And the only doctor I knew was my uncle
in Switzerland, who is like a genius and way
50 years ahead of his time treating people
with terminal illnesses and successfully and stuff.
So I had this misconception that you
had to be a genius to be a doctor.
So I didn't even consider it.
And then as part of my 10-year journey,
when I was getting my master's degree
in experiential education, I decided
to take some science classes.
Because when I went to college, 30 years before that,
I tested out of all my requirements,
because I had such a good education back in Germany,
where I went to high school.
And so then I thought, well, I missed out on so much,
because new developments and stuff.
So I decided to sign up for this advanced placement biology
and chemistry course.
And I was, of course, 10 years older than all the students.
And to my shock, I discovered that everyone
in that class, except for me, was pre-med.
And that's when I had a realization, like an epiphany.
These people who are future doctors were not geniuses.
They weren't brilliant.
They were really good at memorizing things
and spitting back the answers and taking standardized tests.
So I thought, oh my god, I've been
under this misperception for all this time.
And that's when I realized, yeah, being a doctor
is my calling.
And so I got into medical school.
And gradually, I realized that this
isn't the kind of healing that I had hoped to be engaged with.
It was very pharmaceutical-oriented,
very sort of corporatized, sort of politically infused
with an agenda that the pharmaceutical company wanted
to impress upon us, that everything
can be cured with a pill.
And I was so dissatisfied.
And this is not my idea of real healing.
And so I eventually went.
I left mainstream medicine and went on my own
and practiced according to the way
I thought was the best way to help heal patients.
And it was the most meaningful experience of my life
and has been for the last over 30 years, practicing this way.
So I am living my vision.
I am helping people get well.
I mean, really well.
I'm not about treating symptoms and stuff like that.
I mean, yes, treating symptoms if we absolutely cannot find
the underlying causes.
And so people ended up coming from all over the country
because they couldn't get the help they needed.
And a lot of their problems were things
that doctors never learned in med school,
like the nutrition, like the terrible nutrition
that Americans eat is just awful.
And they never talked about that in med school.
Nothing, nothing.
And that's so important.
But back then, they lifestyle, they
didn't pay any attention to that, which was ridiculous.
And then the second thing is toxins.
They don't teach you anything about toxic chemicals
and what they do to you.
They don't teach you anything about food sensitivities,
allergies, and stuff like that.
So they teach you the classical allergy thing
where they do skin testing, but then they miss out
most of the real problems.
And Lyme disease, mold problems, occult infections,
we never learned any of that stuff.
And that's what's happening.
That's what's really getting to people.
It's affecting their cognitive abilities, their energy.
They're tired all the time, have insomnia and stuff.
And then their mainstream doctor just gives them
a pill for each symptom.
It's so disturbing to me.
But anyway, so my vision was always
to make a difference in the world.
So you take what you're gifted at.
I'm gifted at this thing.
It comes naturally to me.
You take what you're good at and what you enjoy doing,
and you do it even if you weren't paid for
because you enjoy it so much, but you want to be paid for,
and in service to others.
And so I am living what I always wanted to do.
And I can't tell you how meaningful it is for me
and how much joy it brings to me to help people feel better
in a real way, not from pills.
Harry, does that make sense to you?
Well, you spoke to me, and I kid you not.
All the things that you just said,
I fully, heartedly believe all that.
This Kool-Aid of going to doctors
and seeing and curing symptoms.
I am an immigrant.
I moved from India.
And I don't know if you've been to India.
Oh, yes, I've been to India.
I worked in a hospital near Dehradun.
And I'm going to write about it in book number three.
This is my second memoir, and it's a trilogy.
And the third one will include my time
in India, which was profoundly impactful.
But go ahead, Harry.
I interrupted you.