Hippocrates, known as the father of medicine coined the phrase now repeated in the Hippocratic Oath: do no harm. The idea just as it was taught by the Greek philosopher and scientist is vital and alive even today.

How well do you think that is being adhered to today?

My teenage son has flat feet that point out, and even though I believed the problem related to his whole alignment, the pediatrician sent me to a podiatrist.

The podiatrist looked at him for a whole 30 seconds and began to tell me right in front of my son that he needed an immediate triple surgery where a portion of his foot would be removed and a steel plate inserted. He would not be able to walk for a year, and it would likely give him trouble for the rest of his life.

Do no harm? Are you kidding me?

Cut into the feet of a healthy child?

Fortunately I’m not a parent that is cowed by a doctor. He is now doing daily exercises that are addressing the root cause which was his body’s alignment issues.

I wish this was an isolated case. Being sold by a doctor for a $30,000 procedure (the insurance would pay for that, but not the therapy he is having), using fear tactics made me angry. But many people, who are skeptical of other sales “jobs” are afraid.

It goes back to the training in medical schools today: it’s all pharmaceutical interventions and surgery.

While emergency operations and medications can sometimes save lives, the problem is that they’ve become the only way. Other means don’t even come into their heads.

In searching for better answers, I found a rare gem; a place founded on the belief that the body is an amazing self-healing live “mechanism”.

Rather than traumatic interventions, they teach people to give the body all the nutrition it needs and stop overworking it with processed “foods”, and amazingly it will go into high gear in healing itself.

Known as the Hippocrates Health Institute, it was named after the greek Hippocrates. Doing no harm and teaching people to take responsibility for their own health is the cornerstone of this healing center.

Hippocrates Institute was totally unlike anything I had ever experienced in healing. For me, it was a taste of paradise.

It seems like a miracle when the body goes into healing – from all manner of conditions: high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer and tumors.

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