About

Upon graduating from Illinois State , I took a job working as an engineer at John Deere and struggled to make it through the days. I could literally sleep 10 hours and feel like I needed another 5. At no point in time was I ever out of shape. It was quite the opposite. I was working out frequently thinking that I just wasn’t in good enough shape. I had no idea about the function of adrenal glands and how I was rapidly depleting them, impairing an already weak immune system.

After about a year at John Deere, I found myself having a conversation with a friend of a friend attending Chiropractic College, and became intrigued at the thought of getting the body to heal itself and figuring out what was wrong with me. That conversation was a pivotal point in my life, as I doubt I would be alive today if I continued the path I was on then. Shortly thereafter, I enrolled at Logan College of Chiropractic. While attending Chiropractic College I encountered many chiropractic techniques, learning the chiropractic view of health.

I discovered that virtually every natural form of health care, including Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), homeopathy, Ayurveda, and naturopathy looked at health from a vitalistic viewpoint. Vitalism looks at the whole individual with regard to all health problems, not focusing simply on symptoms and their treatment. In essence vitalism looks for the cause and how various body components and systems work in harmony to maintain homeostasis or body function.

This made sense to me. Likewise, techniques known as Applied Kinesiology and Chiro + Plus Kinesiology very much embraced other aspects of health, in comparison to a straight structural approach, as does much of chiropractic.