My interest in science and medicine dates back to early high school. I remember looking under a microscope in high school biology class, looking at muscle fibers under high resolution. To this day, it is the most impressive work of art I have ever seen. I began exploring other tissues and felt like I discovered a whole new world, a world I wanted to spend my life exploring.
 
During my third year in medical school when I first began hospital rotations, I realized that traditional medicine was focused on disease, not health. Of course, as doctors we need to learn about disease, but somewhere along the way the message of how miraculous the body is, and how most of the time it can heal itself if given some assistance, was lost.
 
This realization became all too evident when working in the emergency room. Every day I would see the end result of failing to keep people well: heart attacks, strokes, hip fractures and other problems that began years ago, never addressed until it was too late. So, I opened a practice in Charlotte, North Carolina, with the focus on keeping people healthy, getting them off unnecessary drugs, and optimizing nutrition and hormone levels to more youthful levels. The results were incredible. The problem was that I could not convince the insurance companies that they should support health rather than wait for disease to appear.

After an extensive search, I found the Platt Medical Center. Dr. Platt's philosophy of optimizing the body's health was what I was looking for. In August 2006, I left North Carolina and moved to California to join the Platt Medical Center. It was at the Platt Medical Center that I found a colleague and staff unlike any I had worked with before.