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Tell me about your vision.

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OK, I'm living my vision.

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I wrote a book called From Mountains to Medicine,

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Scaling the Heights in Search of My Calling.

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It's on audio, Kindle, and paperback.

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And it's about my 10-year journey trying

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to find what my purpose is in life.

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And I finally, after 10 years, realized my purpose

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was right in front of my nose.

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I come from a lineage of doctors from Switzerland.

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But I didn't think that maybe I had a false idea of what

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it was to be a doctor, because I never went to doctors,

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because I was very healthy.

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And the only doctor I knew was my uncle in Switzerland,

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who is like a genius and way 50 years ahead of his time

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treating people with terminal illnesses

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and successfully and stuff.

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So I had this misconception that you

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had to be a genius to be a doctor.

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So I didn't even consider it.

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And then as part of my 10-year journey,

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when I was getting my master's degree

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in experiential education, I decided

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to take some science classes.

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Because when I went to college, 30 years before that,

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I tested out of all my requirements,

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because I had such a good education back in Germany,

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where I went to high school.

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And so then I thought, well, I missed out on so much,

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because new developments and stuff.

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So I decided to sign up for this advanced placement biology

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and chemistry course.

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And I was, of course, 10 years older than all the students.

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And to my shock, I discovered that everyone

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in that class, except for me, was pre-med.

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And that's when I had a realization, like an epiphany.

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These people who are future doctors were not geniuses.

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They weren't brilliant.

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They were really good at memorizing things

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and spitting back the answers and taking standardized tests.

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So I thought, oh my god, I've been

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under this misperception for all this time.

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And that's when I realized, yeah, being a doctor

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is my calling.

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And so I got into medical school.

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And gradually, I realized that this

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isn't the kind of healing that I had hoped to be engaged with.

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It was very pharmaceutical-oriented,

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very sort of corporatized, sort of politically infused

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with an agenda that the pharmaceutical company wanted

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to impress upon us, that everything

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can be cured with a pill.

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And I was so dissatisfied.

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And this is not my idea of real healing.

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And so I eventually went.

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I left mainstream medicine and went on my own

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and practiced according to the way

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I thought was the best way to help heal patients.

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And it was the most meaningful experience of my life

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and has been for the last over 30 years, practicing this way.

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So I am living my vision.

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I am helping people get well.

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I mean, really well.

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I'm not about treating symptoms and stuff like that.

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I mean, yes, treating symptoms if we absolutely cannot find

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the underlying causes.

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And so people ended up coming from all over the country

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because they couldn't get the help they needed.

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And a lot of their problems were things

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that doctors never learned in med school,

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like the nutrition, like the terrible nutrition

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that Americans eat is just awful.

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And they never talked about that in med school.

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Nothing, nothing.

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And that's so important.

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But back then, they lifestyle, they

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didn't pay any attention to that, which was ridiculous.

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And then the second thing is toxins.

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They don't teach you anything about toxic chemicals

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and what they do to you.

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They don't teach you anything about food sensitivities,

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allergies, and stuff like that.

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Well, they teach you the classical allergy thing

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where they do skin testing, but then they miss out

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most of the real problems.

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And Lyme disease, mold problems, occult infections,

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we never learned any of that stuff.

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And that's what's happening.

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That's what's really getting to people.

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It's affecting their cognitive abilities, their energy.

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They're tired all the time, have insomnia and stuff.

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And then their mainstream doctor just gives them

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a pill for each symptom.

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It's so disturbing to me.

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But anyway, so my vision was always

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to make a difference in the world.

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So you take what you're gifted at.

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I'm gifted at this thing.

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It comes naturally to me.

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You take what you're good at and what you enjoy doing,

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and you do it even if you weren't paid for

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because you enjoy it so much, but you want to be paid for.

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And in service to others.

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And so I am living what I always wanted to do.

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And I can't tell you how meaningful it is for me

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and how much joy it brings to me to help people feel better

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in a real way, not from pills.