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.
What was your goal for being on the show?
I love educating people.
In fact, that was my first career.
I wrote it in my first memoir about my time
with the Navajo people.
You know the Navajos, you know Native Americans.
And this was 53 years ago.
I was a schoolteacher.
And during my 10-year search for my purpose, each thing I did,
like Peace Corps and outbound teaching students and so forth,
and then teaching on the Navajo reservation, in each place
I realized that I am an educator at heart.
And I'm that kind of educator as a doctor, too.
I'm not willing to say, do this and do that like I'm the boss,
and you do what I say and don't ask questions.
I think that's disgusting, that approach.
I, when a patient comes to me, I educate them.
I tell them why the diet makes a difference.
I tell them why this supplement might do this and that.
I don't just say take it.
I don't do that.
So as an educator, I'm looking for every possibility
to educate the public.
If they want to be educated, I learned the hard way
that you only, my son reminded me of this because he said,
Mom, you want to help everybody.
Some people don't want to be helped.
And Mom, you should stick with just people
who come to you for help and pay you for help.
They pay you so they have skin in the game.
And they're not just getting free care,
which they can just blow off and not take seriously.
And he's right.
He's absolutely right.
I should share my gifts with people who ask me to.
But there's a lot of people out there
that don't know this stuff.
And I would love to share with people
who are interested in learning how to be healthy.
I want to share one of my stories.
And it just came to my head.
This happened when COVID started.
And during COVID, I think a lot of people woke up.
And a lot of people drank the Kool-Aid.
So there was a big polarity of things.
During that time, one of my friends,
I was living in Virginia at that time,
he mentioned that we should not be drinking or eating
the beef that's usually on the shelves of things.
I'm like, why the heck would you say that?
What's the issue behind that?
And I was drinking the Kool-Aid.
I'm like, I don't care about those things.
And he said, yeah, my mom is having so much issues
because she can't handle that.
She can't handle the milk that we drink.
She can't handle all these things
from the grocery stores we have.
And I'm like, wow, that's something fascinating.
That opened the door, even though I brushed it off.
But that one statement that he shared with me
opened the door to curiosity.
And a lot of times, that doesn't go anywhere.
For me, it opened the door.
And eventually, I went down the road
where I got more and more curious and learned.
And I learned.
And then I was like, learned.
And then I'm like, do I want to believe this?
Or do I not want to believe this?
So I went down that path.
And I hope that from our segment,
some of these listeners at least have that,
if they're not ready, that they are able to get ready.
Yeah.
I hope that helps.
My next question for you, Erica, and we probably
will run out of time soon.
But my next question for you is, where are you
going with your vision?
I'm going the same place I've been for 30 years.
And I never lose inspiration.
And so I'm always heading towards more and more
how I can help more people who want to be helped.
And that's why I'm on your show.
I mean, that's why I want to be on your show,
is to fulfill my vision of being of service in the best way
possible that reaches the most people who
want to learn these things.
I really get it that it's a waste of time
talking to people who don't want to get it, not interested.
I get it.
Thank you for being here today.
I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live.
I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions
as these episodes continue to move forward.
This is going to get more and more fun.
We'll have more and more engagement as well.
We'll invite people to participate in the show.
And thank you for giving us your time and attention.
Have an excellent time building out your vision
and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.