I have always held a special fascination in the sciences.  In grade school, I entered the school science fair and came away with a blue ribbon for my project, "The Human Body".  This passion led me into a career in dentistry and medicine. 

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As far back as I can remember, there were 3 things I always wondered about as a young boy:

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   What did it look like at the bottom of a lake? 

   What did it look like inside the human body?

   How did the body work?

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As I grew older, I had the opportunity to satisfy my first two curiosities, and as of this writing, I remain engaged in working on the third.

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I was trained and certified in rescue and advanced Scuba-diving in the mid-1990’s and have since seen the bottom of quite a few lakes, including the Great Lakes where, on a diving expedition, I very nearly lost my life at 70 feet at the bow of the Maderia shipwreck.  

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While attending college I worked as a pathology autopsy assistant at Fairview-Southdale Hospital in Edina, Minnesota, where I experienced quite a few autopsies and head posts with some very brilliant pathologists. Check off goal number 2! Figuring out how God’s Grand Design is put together remains a passion and a calling, and I will be working on this one, for the rest of my life.. .

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My Early Education

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In 1974, I received a BA degree (Cum Laude) from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, majoring in Biology with a special emphasis in Biochemistry and Physiology. After being accepted into the Endocrinology program at Colorado State College, I opted to enter Dentistry at the University of Minnesota, graduating in 1979. Over the years my interest and knowledge base deepened in Orthodontic and CranioFacial procedures in dentistry, in which I took hundreds of additional hours in CDE credits to advance my career.

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So, How Did I Begin My Work in Holistic Dentistry?

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In the early 1990’s, I began to see there was something missing in traditional medicine and dentistry. Believing there was a connection between nutrition and wellness I began questioning the inherent logic of prescribing pharmaceuticals for every symptom that came along. As I continued treating my patients and expanding my education, it became increasingly clear there was a proven connection between nutrition and optimal health.

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At that time, it seemed to me, clinicians had not yet made the connection between optimal health and nutrition. This furthered my journey into, “What does nutrition have to do with it?”

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I began focusing on nutritional, probiotic, glyco-nutrient, enzyme, and endocrine therapies, and I joined the American Nutraceutical Association (ANA) in 2001. What I noticed was a body of new scientific information that completely supported this new rationale.

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When a 2001 Harvard Medical Study connected silent inflammation to periodontitis and heart disease, the link was complete.

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The One Trip that Changed Everything for Me

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I made a trip to Nashville after joining the ANA and was fascinated to have discovered a group of MD’s, DDS’s, and DC’s that were plugged into a nutritional- medical model. I immediately bought in and it changed my life.

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A month later, as I was attending a nutritional seminar, the speaker said something very powerful. He proclaimed, “There is a battle being waged, but it’s not against your doctor or the medical establishment or your insurance. The battle is being waged in the GROCERY STORE.” It hit me that the piece that was lacking in the medical puzzle was nutritionally-based yet medically-missing.

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I thought about this for years and have finally concluded that this speaker was correct. This was well before I’d ever heard of GMO foods or really understood much about nutrition. So now - we will fast forward a bit in time together.

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