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What Services Do We Offer To You?

We offer a wide variety of health care services, including comprehensive physical, neurological, orthopaedic and nutritional diagnostic evaluations. We also offer many choices in stress reduction and stress management, weight management and fitness, nutritional and detoxification care programs, and preventive/wellness lifestyle programs for optimal health.

What Happens on The First Visit?

First we greet you and make you feel genuinely welcome in our relaxing, atrium-like reception area. We want you to know that we are happy to see you and pleased to have the chance to work with you to help you improve your health to optimal levels.

There are several simple forms to complete, and after that you will have a private consultation with Dr. Bowman to discuss your health questions in detail. After the consultation, Dr. Bowman will tell you whether he believes our work may be helpful to you. If he feels referral to another specialist is needed, he will discuss that with you fully and with your permission will make the referral.

If, after the private consultation with Dr. Bowman, he feels you may benefit from our programs, he will explain that in detail and give you the choice as to whether you want to begin care. If you choose to begin care, he will explain which of our diagnostic services he recommends, and you will be scheduled for those evaluations. After the evaluations have been completed, he will talk with you privately again, explain all the findings and his clinical recommendations, and he will design an individualized health rebuilding/recovery program for your unique needs.

Periodically through your recovery program Dr. Bowman will provide progress evaluations to determine how you are responding to care, and what other services may be appropriate to completing your healing program.

After you finish your recovery program, Dr. Bowman can design an individualized wellness/preventive program to help you keep the health improvements you gained during your initial recovery program, as well as to help prevent future health problems.

Meet Dr. Bowman:

Dr. Bowman's areas of training include traditional medicine, emergency medicine, nutritional healing and detoxification, as explained earlier on this website,as well as stress reduction and stress management, wellness, preventive health care, fitness and lifestyle programs. He provides comprehensive health care services for newborns, infants and children, as well as teens, adults, and senior citizens.

Why Do We Emphasize Nutrition & The Nervous System?

There is a certain, wonderful wisdom in nature and natural healing. The principle here is known as "FIRST THINGS FIRST!" This means that the most important things come first and those which are dependent upon them come afterward. So it is with human health and healing.

The two systems which control everything else inside of us are our nervous system (brain, spinal cord, nerves), and nutrition. These are the two MASTER CONTROL SYSTEMS for all normal human growth and development.

At the earliest stages of human development in the womb, called EMBRYOGENESIS, the nervous system forms before anything else. That means that the nervous system comes first, before there is blood, a heart to pump blood, skin, bones, joints, or any internal organs. All these things are outgrowths from the nervous system. They are connected to the nervous system for life, and all life inside us depends directly and constantly upon a healthy, balanced functional nervous system.

As for nutrition, it determines how our bodies grow and maintain health. Research is now establishing that more than 90% of the serious health problems we experience are strongly influenced or directly controlled by our nutritional balance and body chemistry.

For many centuries, this was understood and faithfully practiced for healing and health promotion. Then, in the 16th century, certain "thinkers," and "philosophers," among them Descartes, decided that man is smarter than nature, and man can do things better or can improve upon nature's laws.

This changed things a great deal and instead of following natural principles, we began to look at the world and at life in a very mechanical fashion, and we began looking for external, synthetic ways to improve health and promote healing. This evolved into what we now call "modern medicine."

This approach tells us that synthetic is better than natural, that instead of healing a sick or injured organ, for example, it can be fixed using synthetic chemicals (drugs), or if that fails, it can be surgically removed and we can do just fine without it.

This turns out not to be so. For example, for many years it was believed that tonsils and the appendix were "vestigial organs," meaning not necessary for life, so removing them was no big deal. Research over the past few decades, however, has proven just the opposite. We now know that these two organs are vital parts of the immune system and play an important role in maintaining our health against harmful pathogenic disease-causing micro-organisms.

With this new knowledge comes greater appreciation of and respect for how nature has designed our bodies and how natural healing is better. Now, instead of seeing them as useless organs to be cut out, the natural doctor will provide safe, effective ways of healing the organs, strengthening them, making them work better as they were designed by nature to work! Pretty simple, but still a lot of people don't understand this very well.

The "synthetic is better" approach to health is really very false and not logical. It would tell you this: Want to get pregnant? Take a pill. Want to NOT get pregnant? Take a different pill. Can't sleep? Take a pill. Sleep too much, take a different pill. And so on and so on.

If we were intended to be full of pills, we would have been born in a pharmacy with a fistful of credit cards! We weren't. Natural healing is safer, longer lasting, less risk prone, less expensive and more natural than drugs or surgery - doesn't it make perfect sense to try this approach first?

One of the most exciting and medically important discoveries of recent times is that of "BIO-TERRAIN." I have studied health and nutrition my entire life, but not until learning and practicing bio-terrain did formerly unanswered questions about why certain chronically ill people never seem to get well find an answer. Our "bio-terrain" is our inner state, our chemical makeup, our individual biochemistry fingerprint, as specific as our DNA, unique in the entire universe, and our physical and mental health are directly controlled by the quality of normal, healthy balance, called "homeostasis," which we have. If our homeostasis or internal balance is very good, then our health is very good, balanced, and we feel and look healthy. If that internal balance is disturbed or harmed in any way, we feel sick to the degree of the loss of this healthy internal balance.

How do we determine your present bio-terrain? We do some very specific and sophisticated laboratory work, and also other kinds of evaluations and testing, to know your precise, individual internal condition, and based on these bio-terrain markers, we know precisely where the imbalances are and how to help our body correct them naturally, without the risks and side-effects of dangerous medications. This work is ground-breaking in the field of human healing, and currently there are no traditional hospitals in the U.S. which perform these tests. Please ask for more information, we have a lot of scientific information we can share with you about this, and it is a foundational part of our natural healing practice.

What About Ear Infections in Children?

Very glad you asked. Scientific research has found that at least 70% of all ear infections are caused by spinal nerve pressure in the upper part of the neck, which affects normal ear function and also decreases the defenses of the immune system, allowing pathogenic organisms to start an infection.

What proof? Among others, internationally recognied researcher and author, Dr. Michael Schmidt has proven this, and it holds true in our practice as well. On a very regular basis children are brought to us for help with immune problems and ear infections. They have had many rounds of various antibiotics, have had tubes surgically implanted in their ears, have received every possible modern medical treatment, but still failed to get well or stay well.

When we examine such children we find upper spinal nerve pressure affecting immunity and normal ear function. We give very gentle, very specific little adjustments to the spine, correcting and relieving the abnormal nerve pressure. We also often include immune-enhancing nutrients into the care program. In my many years of active family practice we have never once had a child who did not respond extremely well to this approach and we have never had a child who had to again rely on synthetic antibiotics to remain well.

What About Women's Health Issues?

One of the most important reasons why I have placed such special emphasis on women's health and children's health is that they are frequently overlooked and not taken very seriously in other medical settings.

Women are often not listened to, not given respect or recognition and this holds true for children as well. We think this is completely wrong and we work very hard to do a thorough and proper job of helping women and children receive the very best possible health care in the world through natural methods only.

For example, research has recently proven that nation wide, 70% of all hysterectomies are UNNECESSARY and would have responded very well to natural methods of care. Do you know where the term HYSTERECTOMY comes from? We find it very offensive; In the late 1800's it was determined that women who showed mood changes connected with their monthly cycles or menopause were a serious bother to their husbands. What resulted was surgical removal of the uterus and/or the ovaries in order to stop these women's "HYSTERICAL BEHAVIOR." If you remove the appendix it is called "appendectomy." If you remove the tonsils it is called "tonsilectomy." But where is a woman's "hyster?" It doesn't exist as an organ, but medical science to this very day uses the term and demeans women by peforming unnecessary surgeries and sterilizing many women who could have been helped with safe, natural methods. We think there is a better way.

Instead of shoving drugs at them, we take lots of time to speak with them, listen to them, treat them with dignity, examine them and give them the very finest natural care available anywhere.

What do we recommend? If you are a woman or if you have children, and you are not satisfied with your level of health and the medical services you have received in the past, or if you are simply looking for a more natural approach to health, or if you just want a second opinion regarding certain health issues, please contact us for more information. We'd be very happy to hear from you and to help you in every possible way we can.

What About Serious Health Challenges?

We see patients with many different serious health challenges, including many different kinds of cancer, MS, diabetes, depression, and many other health problems. Sometimes we work closely with other specialists, sometimes we work independently. We always work to bring a very focused, comprehensive approach to each patient's unique needs. Our statistics and our healthy patients tell us that what we do can be a great benefit to them.

There are natural methods which can and which should be included in every health recovery and rebuilding program, no matter what the name of particular illness or disease may be.

Think about it: there is never a time when we don't need good nutrition and excellent absorption of nutrients, but when our body is in trouble, that is absolutely the most critical time to make 100% sure we are having the highest quality nutrition and the most effective digestion and absorption. Nutrition provides all the building blocks for our cells and organs. If those cells and organs are damaged or diseased and our body needs to repair or place them, where but from optimal nutrition can the body get what it needs to heal us, and to bring us back to health?

Has Your Child or Grandchild Been Diagnosed with a LEARNING DISABILITY?

As the parents of five children, my wife and I know what it's like to worry about your children's health and school experiences. I am often asked to examine young family members by parents and grandparents whose children have been diagnosed with AD/HD or a similar "learning disability".

In my many years of examining and caring for patients I HAVE CONSISTENTLY FOUND THAT CHILDREN AND ADULTS WHO HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES MAY NOT HAVE THAT PROBLEM AT ALL!

What they do most often have is a combination of two things:

1. a nervous system badly out of balance
2. internal body chemistry badly out of balance due to nutritional
imbalances

So what looks like AD/HD really isn't at all. It turns out to be a very different problem indeed, but relying on superficial impressions of symptoms rather than taking the extensive time needed to do a thorough evaluation of the nervous system and the nutritional condition leads to the quick idea: it must be AD/HD, let's give RITALIN or CYLERT or DEXADRINE.

We look at things differently, and what we do has proven very effective and very safe compared to drug therapy. PLEASE BE INFORMED BEFORE MAKING A SERIOUS DECISION ABOUT IMPORTANT FAMILY HEALTH ISSUES: there are significant questions about the overdiagnosis of learning disabilities and the overuse of RITALIN and other similar drugs, and there are many side effects from such medications.

Did you know that a person who has taken RITALIN or similar drugs cannot work for many government agencies such as the FBI, Department of Defense, Secret Service, or branches of the military without problems arising and the need for special medical evaluations and waivers?

Did you know that one of the original psychological reserachers of RITALIN, Dr. Stephen Bruening, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychology and Research, was found guilty by the National Institute of Mental Health of faking his reserach, that he lost his university credentials, tenure, and position, went to federal prison and was fined $12,000.00? He was not allowed to teach or perform research in any American colleges, and was last reportedly teaching at a university in South America. All his original research has been debunked.
Did you know some of the side effects of RITALIN include: drowsiness, aggitation, insomnia, rapid heart beat, liver damage, depression and more? Did anyone you have ever spoken with, a teacher, a school counselor, a school psychologist, a school principal, a nurse, or a doctor, ever tell you any of this?

Maybe it's time you took a closer look. Maybe it's time you demanded more thoroughness and honesty and accuracy in dealing with what science shows is the truth behind many health problems. We have many scientific studies which clearly support everything we are telling you right here.

We work using only natural, safe, proven and effective methods and often we are able to help adults and children with such problems to stop using dangerous drugs, stop being exposed to dangerous side effects, and start living normal, healthy lives again. As a father, an educator, and a doctor, I am dedicated to helping every child, every adult, and every family in our community to have optimal health without relying on dangerous, over-prescribed and over-used drugs.
Please contact us for more information.

What About Stress and Health?

Excellent question. Who are the only people who have no stress? Those who have passed on. Everyone else has stress in one form or another. So the questions is not: "Do I have stress?," but rather "What is the stress in my life doing to me?"

There are simple, safe, effective methods which can be learned to reduce stress and to handle it in a much more positive way. If we do nothing about our stress, it takes control of us and runs us ragged and damages our health. That does not have to be what happens to us - we have a choice in how to handle it.

This is an area of special emphasis in our work. Why? Because everyone has stress, and no matter what else is going on in our lives or with our health, having less stress is always better than having too much.

If you would like more information on this, please contact us. We have lots of interesting and helpful information to share with you and we'd like very much to know that by helping each individual member of our community to reduce and handle stress better, we are helping to make a healthier, more productive, less-stressed community in which to live and work.

Consider this:

DANCE as if no one else is looking. SING as if no one else is listening. LIVE as if this is your very last day.

We look forward to hearing from you and working as partners in your healing rebuilding and preventive/wellness lifestyle decisions.

Fact Sheet: Dietary Intake of U.S. Children - A Matter of Great Concern

In a study of 3,148 children and adolescents ages 2-18 in the U.S., the following results were found on the ways in which fruits and vegetables are consumed by children:

Nearly 1/4 of all vegetables consumed by children and adolescents were FRENCH FRIES. Their intakes of all fruits and of dark green and/or deep yellow vegetables were extremely low compared with minimal daily dietary recommendations. Only 1 in 5 children consumed five or more servings of fruits and vegetables per day. (Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Jan. 1996; 150(1):81-6)

Researchers studied the diets of 51 children ages 3-6 at twelve different child-care centers around the U.S. and found that 84% of the children consumed fewer vegetables than the minimum daily recommendation for nutrition. Children frequently did not eat enough food at the child-care center to obtain even 1/2 of the RDA (recommended daily allowance, a minimal standard of nutrition) for energy, niacin, iron or zinc. 8 of the 51 children had a daily dietary intake of less that 67% of the RDA for zinc, iron and for energy. (Journal of the American Dietetic Association 1999; 99:950-954.)

A study was conducted using 116 2-year-old children and 107 5-year-old children who were scheduled for a non-emergency doctor visit between the years of 1992 and 1993. The study found that preschool children consumed, on average, about 80% of the recommended fruit servings per day, but only 25% of the recommended vegetables serving per day. LOW INTAKES OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES WERE ASSOCIATED WITH INADEQUATE INTAKES OF VITAMIN A, VITAMIN C, AND DIETARY FIBER, IN ADDITION TO HIGH INTAKES OF TOTAL FATS AND SATURATED FATS. (Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 1998; 17(4): 371-8.)

Researchers studied 3,307 children in the U.S. ranging in age from 2 through 19 to determine the number of children meeting national recommendations for food group intake and found that ONLY 1% OF THESE CHILDREN MET ALL THE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DAILY NUTRITION. (Journal of Pediatrics, 1997; 100:323-329.)

The above information is meant to inform you, to inspire you to take control of your life, your health, and that of your family members by learning the real story on the "Average American Diet," before it slowly kills you. We are a recognized regional education resource and care facility specializing in alternative and nutritional health care services. Please contact us for more information.

Fact Sheet: Are We Overmedicating Our Children ?

More than 1,000,000 (one million) children regularly take psychiatric prescription drugs such as RITALIN, PROZAC, CYLERT, and others to "calm them, cheer them up or, otherwise,alter their behavior." The medications allow some to concentrate better and do better in school. For others, the drugs help tame rowdy behavior. Yes, for many experts, serious questions remain regarding the safety and necessity of dispensing psychiatric drugs to so many children.

MIRACLE DRUG OR QUICK FIX?

Pediatricians prescribe powerful stimulants and antidepressants to chemicallly treat conditions which contribute to behavioral problems in children or which affect their schoolroom performance and concentration. Prozac and Zoloft can help with depression and obsessive-compulsive behaviors, and Ritalin is used for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD), a condition that prohibits sufferers from filtering distracting stimuli and being able to focus or concentrate attention on one subject or task.

Although some doctors, teachers, and parents hail these medications as miracle cures, many more rail against them as a wrong move, a quick fix, with serious side effects physically and psychologically.

THE ALLEGATIONS:

Most children fidget, talk out of turn and act rambunctiously at times. Some people claim that intolerant parents and teachers use psychiatric drugs to quell their very normal behaviors. In fact, many experts dispute the existence of AD/HD at all, saying its symptoms are a result of undiagnosed learning disabilities, which occur when normal internal bio-terrain and homeostasis of those children or adults has been damaged. Personally, I have found that children diagnosed with such problems are actually suffering from a combination of three problems:

1. Abnormal nervous system function due to undetected imbalances
2. Abnormal body/brain chemistry due to nutritional imbalances
3. Sensitivities or allergies to certain foods or other chemicals

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

If you suspect your child may have a learning or behavioral problem, the following guidelines are recommended to assure correct diagnosis and care:

1. Visit a specialist with training and experience in the following areas:

a) Clinical therapeutic nutritional diagnosis and treatment
b) Neurological diagnosis and treatment
c) Pediatric health care needs
d) Education

Behavioral and learning problems usually involve nutritional imbalances as well as neurological imbalances, both of which generally respond quicker and much better to natural methods rather than prescription psychiatric drugs.

2. Schedule your child for a complete diagnostic evaluation by the specialist to include a physical exam, a neurological exam, and appropriate in-depth nutritional analysis to detect any nutrient imbalances or deficiencies, as well as food allergies or sensitivities which are often major contributors to behavioral and learning difficulties.

3. Know your options and read available studies and research. There are many issues to consider before making a decision about your child's mental and physical health. For safety sake, as well as effectivensss, we recommend the natural approach of combining neurological rebalancing and reintegration care with nutritional care.

4. For more information about options, visit the website for the American Association For Health Freedom at: www.healthfreedom.net. They are an exceptionally good source for such information.

You can also call them at 1-800.230.2762, use Dr. Bowman's name as your contact.

Fact Sheet: A Short Course in Restoring Health, Losing Weight the R I G H T Way and Getting Your Life Under Control Again . . . .

Promising new scientific research now finds that lifestyle is THE controlling factor in health issues. Genetics play a role, certainly, but lifestyle has a lot to do with whether certain negative genetically-based things actually happen or not.

Example: If a woman walks for 45 minutes three times a week, with no other dietary or exercise changes in her life, she can decrease her risk of breast cancer by about 33%. If she adds just ONE MORE DAY to her weekly walking program, she decreases her risk of breast cancer by a whopping 66%! Knowing this, how many people would choose instead to sit at home, eat junk foods, and increase their risk of breast cancer? Not many, thank goodness. This is an example of how scientific knowledge and personal motivation can come together to help make us wiser, healthier, and more productive, besides enjoying life a whole lot more. Interested in other ideas of health and wellness? Give us a call, we're happy to share our knowledge with you to restore your health and get your life back!

What About "Quackery" In Health Care?

As with anything else in the world, a good thing can be turned into something bad by people seeking to harm or exploit you, and medicine in no different. We strongly recommend and advise that before you bring the priceless gift of your health to someone and ask them to help you improve your health, you thoroughly investigate that practitioner to determine to your satisfaction that he or she is trained, experienced, and qualified to address your health needs.

In addition to this, we also strongly advise that you visit a couple of websites which are widely known and accepted for their reliability and honesty in health care questions, especially involving alternative medicine. We recommend that you visit the website:

1. mercola.com
2. jurimed2@earthlink.com

Both of these are listed here on our "Important Links" page, and both can give you excellent insight into any questions about ethical versus unethical medical practices.We also recommend you contact investigative reporter PAT SIMMS, Health & Medical Reporter, The Wisconsin State Journal, 1901 Fish Hatchery Road, Madison, WI. 53713, tel. 608.252.6126, fax 608.252.6119, cell 608.469.6612, email her at: psimms@madison.com - use the name of the medical/legal consultant TIM BOLEN when contacting her, that will put things into the proper context.

A further warning: There is a long and dark history here in Wisconsin of out-of-state organizations funded by drug companies and whose goals are to mislead, misinform and manipulate you, the State of Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin Legislature, into believe many false statements regarding the safety and effectiveness of alternative medicine. The DRL (Department of Regulation & Licensing) under the State of Wisconsin, has openly and relentlessly wrongfully prosecuted very ethical, credible, well trained doctors, for no reason other than the politics of money, greed, and power as driven by the interests of traditional medicine and the drug comapanies. One of the organizations we name wihch advocates for truth in medicine here in Wisconsin, and which is the only group to have stood up and disproven the falsehoods of anti-alternative medicine groups is the Wisconsin Association for Health Freedom. We recommend you learn more about them, and their fight to preserve and protect your personal individual rights to honesty and ethical conduct in medicine, based on the truth and on facts, not on someone's agenda to mislead you in favor of the profit inetrests of the drug companies. In my opinion, having spent the better part of my life, in medicine, the real quacks are those who mislead and misinform you away from the truth to achieve their own purposes, not to protect you.

TRADITIONAL MEDICINE? ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE? WHAT'S THE REAL STORY. . . ?

"Traditional medicine," as noted earlier on this website, is a misleading term. What we today consider "traditional medicine," evolved in the last several hundred years, and is based on the false premise that technology and synthetic nutrition and drugs are the answers to life's recurrent problems. What real traditional medicine is, is based on the underlying, foundational, never changing principles and laws of nature, not that nature, sometimes, cannot be helped or improved upon, but in so doing, it will only work if the changes are still grounded in and work in accordance with the foundational principles and laws of science and nature.

Often, very often, I am asked what are the differences and similarities between modern western medicine based on synthetic chemicals (drugs) and surgery? Below are the basic important points to understand - there is more to the story, we encourage you to learn of it, and it is the heart of working with each patient when they come for our help in rebuilding their health:

Modern western medicine is based on:

1. SUPPRESSION: An example of this would be using drugs to suppress bronchial spasm in the treatment of asthma.
2. INHIBITION: Pain medications which are used to hide or mask pain by inhibiting or temporarily blocking pain receptors in the brain and nervous system would be examples of inhibition.
3. ANTAGONISM: This term means "working against" something, and an example would be using drugs to chemically force tight muscles to relax, as when a doctor prescribes muscle relaxants.
4. DISINTEGRATION: In cancer care, when radiaiton or chemotherapy are used to break down or destroy cancer cells, this is disintegration.

By contrast, alternative medicine is based on these principles:

1. EXPRESSION: Strengthening your body to express its full, natural, normal, healthy funciton. Western medicine, many times, considers you 'healthy' if your symptoms are controlled or suppressed. If your blood pressure is lower with drugs, that's considered OK, but when you stop the drugs, the blood pressure problem is there again - in never really left, it was just forced downward with drugs - but the undelrying cause of the high blood pressure (liver problems, kidney problems, stress, being over weight, many others) was never found or addressed. Alternative medicine seeks the CAUSES, it asks WHY and works to find and correct the underlying imbalance so true health returns. Health, real health that you can count on, is not the suppression, control or inhibition of symptoms, it is the full, natural expression of health and well begin.
2. ENCOURAGING: Working with the normal, healthy funcitons and systems of your body to promote normal, healthy, internal balance which produces wellness.
3. COOPERATION: By romoting cooperation, not conflict, within your body, and by seeing you as a whole person, not just a fragmented set of symptoms, greater normal, natural health and internal balance can be achieved and restored.
4. REINTEGRATION: Natural care is based on regeneration and rstoation of normal internal balance and fucntion. For example, in treating infections or other immune problems, using ANTI-biotics (meaning 'against life') you try to kill all the germs or bacteria in the body. In natural medicine, you use PRO-biotics (meaning 'for life,' or 'with life') which are natural substances which strengthen your immune system and allow it to conquer the infection without harming you.

When you base your knowledge and understanding solidly upon real science, grounded upon natural laws and principles, you will have the truth, you will know what to do, and it will not harm you. When you attempt cleverly outguess natural laws, or to exert your own will power or ego over these scientific truths, you lose your way, and things don't work. It is a simple lesson to learn, tp appreciate, and to practice: working WITH nature is healing, working AGAINST nature is destructive - that's the basic law.

How is it possible to eat right yet still gain weight & feel run down?

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Why do I need so many nutrients to get healthy?

That’s a question we hear often. It’s a great question, a very important one, and something we genuinely want you to completely understand. Why? Because it goes to the very heart of why you are here and what you are seeking.

Where does your health come from? It starts with your ancestors and their genetics. Some people have excellent genetics, some people are genetically weaker and predisposed to certain health problems.

How much of a role do genetics play in your personal health? About 15% or less, that is what scientific research has confirmed.

So where does the rest of your health, the other 85%, come from? You! It comes from your habits, your lifestyle, your dietary patterns, your stress levels, your environmental exposure to toxins. Surprised? Most people are surprised to learn that 85% of their health comes from what they do with themselves, how they take care of themselves.

To a very large degree our health is in our own hands. If you choose to skip breakfast, you can, but you will pay a price in developing chronic fatigue, problems with blood sugar balance, high blood pressure, obesity, thyroid problems, cardio-vascular problems, and more.

If you choose more wisely, if you are willing to invest a little time in learning the real facts about your health and how to optimize it, your health can be much better. It’s like this:

BAD HEALTH CHOICES = POOR HEALTH

WISER HEALTH CHOICES = BETTER HEALTH

That’s an over simplification, but the principle holds true - do good things and your health responds in a positive direction - do bad things (or neglect doing the good things) and your health responds in a negative direction.

So you see that your health really depends on you, your understanding, your choices, you commitment to working for better health.

Notice the picture above, it is of a beautiful garden. Think of your health as this garden. To make a beautiful, attractive, well balanced garden takes understanding, time and effort. Gardens, like your health, are no accident, they result from good planning, personal effort, and persistent maintenance and care.

Do gardens weed themselves? No. Do gardens fertilize themselves? No. Do gardens maintain themselves? No. Who takes care of the garden? You do. To make this beautiful garden a variety of different kinds of plants are needed, not just one kind of plant.

It’s like that with your health. To build a healthy body you need a variety of many different kinds of nutrients, not just one. Protein, for example, is an essential nutrient for us, but you can’t live on protein alone, you need carbohydrates, healthy fats, fiber, minerals, enzymes, vitamins, trace elements, and more.

To rebuild better health and then maintain that new level of wellness takes correct nutritional support. Feeding the garden makes it grow and stay healthy - same for your health - feeding it all the right nutrients in the right combinations for a long enough period of time is the only way to rebuild better health and hope to maintain it.

Often when people begin to work with us, they complain about their bodies and how they are not working well. In truth, it is our bodies which should be complaining about US. Our bodies have not let us down, we have let our bodies down by failing to learn about them, understand them, and take proper care of them.

That’s the critical role we fulfill, teaching you about your personal health, what has gone wrong, why it went wrong, and how to hopefully improve it using safe, natural, proven effective methods including detoxification, nutrition, homeopathy, exercise and stress management. Please ask for the details, we have lots to share with you to help you. Thank you for the honor of working with you.

As your health gradually improves, you will need fewer nutrients from supplements because you are eating a better, healthier diet consistently, your digestion and absorption are better, you are more fit, and healthier. That’s our goal for you, to build such excellent health that in time you need minimal supplements because your health has returned.

We give you all our skills, expertise, experience and many years of academic training in science and medicine, but we need the same commitment from you - your patience, your understanding, your compliance - to make this work and help you find the health you are seeking. Without your full partnership it won’t work. You are the key to your health.

James R. Bowman, ND, DNHC, DCP, FAAIM & Staff
Alternative Health Concepts
715.341.4949

What about homeopathic medicine?

Homeopathy is a large subject, to do any justice to it would take much more space that what is provided here. Basically it was discovered and developed by european medical practitioners who were frustrated that the best of the medical knowledge of their day fell often so sadly short of the needs of the patients and the expectations of the doctors. Dr. Samuel Hannemann is credited with the basic concepts and the development of homeopathic medicine. The term roughly means "similar way," implying that it works to restore balance when unhealthy imbalances have arisen, but working to fix homeostasis. Homeostasis is the term for natural, normal, healthy internal balance.

Generally homeopathy sees symptoms as they body's attempt to regain health, western medicine sees symptoms as something to suppress or control or mask.
Homeopathy looks at the whole person, their lifestyle, their personality, western medicine looks mostly at the symptoms to hide or suppress. Homeopathic care is aimed at assisting the body to heal, repair and regenerate, western medical care is aimed at stopping the symptoms with synthetic and toxic chemicals or surgery. Homeopathy considers the contributing factors of one's mental and emotional/stress state as part of the illness, western medicine, if it considers these facets of the patient's health, fragments and separates them, and recommends counseling, psychotherapy, or psychotropic drugs, again aimed at controlling or suppressing the symptoms.

If you have more questions please contact us, we are glad to share our knowledge and information with you. By the way, homeopathy has been practiced for several hundred years in Europe, is taught in their medical schools, and is practiced to a very wide degree is all the western european countries, including Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland. It has a rich and highly respected history, and is the preferred method of health care by all the nobility and royal families of the countries named above.

Dr. Bowman is an active member of the California Homeopathic Medical Society, founded in 1855, and one of the premiere homeopathic organizations in the world.

Balance is the secret to everything....

Why is ‘balance’ important? Stand up. Lift one leg so your knee is at waist level. Hold this position for 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 15 seconds if you can.. . What happened? Very quickly you began to wobble and then you lost your balance. You had to put your leg down so you could stand again on two feet to regain and maintain your balance.

Ah, that’s what we’re talking about. Just as you and I and all human beings are designed to stand and walk upright on two feet, when we do that we need to constantly maintain our balance. Standing on just one leg quickly shows us how dependent we are on balance to do anything - stand, walk, skip, jump, dance, climb stairs, participate in sports, in other words, to live a normal, healthy life.

It’s a little harder, however, for us to understand and remember that outward balance is just a small part of the bigger picture of balance. Balance is the key to everything because balance controls everything.

When we talk about normal, healthy internal balance, the situation is ever more important. Think about it: if your inner core temperature is too high, you have a fever, your body is being attacked by viruses or bacteria, and normal internal balance is lost until you restore it by activating your immune system.

If your core temperature is too low you have hypothermia and your body doesn’t work normally, and a coma can result. If your blood pressure is too high you can have a heart attack or stroke, yet if your blood pressure is too low you can lose consdousness. If your blood sugar is too high you are diabetic, and many health problems will result, yet if your blood sugar is too low you have hypoglycemia, and other health problems occur.

If your cholesterol is too high cardio-vascular problems arise, including stroke and death, yet if your cholesterol is too low, you will have depression, you won’t be able to conceive a child or carry it to full term, and other health issues will occur.

The key principle here is: BALANCE, BALANCE, BALANCE.

Have you ever flow on an airplane? How does the pilot guide the airplane from its point of departure to its destination? With a compass? Yes, but a compass alone will not do the trick, the pilot relies much more on his gyroscope, a very special instrument connected to the onboard computer which constantly checks the airplane’s position and constantly, second-by-second, makes small but critical course corrections to keep the airplane perfectly on track. Without these second-by-second course corrections you’d never reach your destination...

You and I have our own inborne biological gyroscope, it is part of our internal balance system called HOMEOSTASIS. That’s the word in science for ‘normal, healthy, internal balance.’ Whatever we are doing, we will only succeed if we maintain proper balance, and this is a foundational principle of rebuilding better health and maintaining it.

When you work with us you will learn about homeostasis, we will discuss it often, and provide literature and research studies to further your understanding and your experience of why balance matters, and how this approach to health is different from what you may have been offered before in the form of Rx drugs to suppress or control your symptoms.

If you treat the symptoms, you will miss the real problem. Our orientation and training is to seek the underlying, original causes, because understanding that is the key to finding the heart of the problem and knowing how to address and improve it, which is called healing, and has little at all to do with symptom control using Rx drugs.

There are times when Rx drugs are helpful when used with caution for limited periods of time, but often using a more natural approach is safer, and more effective at actually addressing the underlying causes and promoting real healing.

Please contact us for more information, we would be honored to work with you for better health naturally. Please also visit the rest of our website to learn more about us and our work: www.getyourlifeback.org.

James R. Bowman, ND, DNHC, DCP, FAAIM & Staff
Alternative Health Concepts
715.341.4949