Potential Physician to help in SoCal

[cv1]

David Gersten, M.D. practices nutritional medicine and psychiatry out of his Encinitas office and can be reached at 760-633-3063. Please feel free to access 1,000 on-line pages about holistic health, amino acids, and nutritional therapy at www.aminoacidpower.com.

Thought those of you in Southern California searching for a doctor may want this information.


Gersten wrote: "Full recovery from alcoholism requires a change in thinking. There are multiple causes of alcoholism. There are tremendous problems with brain chemistry that can be repaired. There are huge problems from head to toe that I call ?metabolic chaos.? Hypoglycemia, candidiasis, adrenal exhaustion, and digestive problems are the major causes of metabolic chaos. All of these problems can be tested for, diagnosed, and treated.
What is required for full recovery is a powerful commitment to change your life, your diet, and how you handle stress. You can also re-define what is really a stress for you. You can move out of the mind-set that alcoholism is an untreatable disease. You will need a good doctor, determination, understanding, and the willingness to go the distance until you achieve your level of optimal health. Do not let anyone determine or define what your highest level of functioning can be. Such labeling is usually destructive. It's your life. Go for broke, and realize that there is no false hope. To quote Bernie Siegel, ?There is only false no-hope.? When you are ready, begin your climb out of a lifetime of metabolic problems to discover that a wealth of energy, peace of mind, physical strength and well-being is probably a reasonable dream to strive for. "

Hope it helps someone.:l

[Quiescent]

Potential Physician to help in SoCal

CV1,

Those are powerful words to live by.:thanks:

I for one believe it is true and it just put into words what I have been feeling all along.

Too bad I live so far away from Dr. Gersten:upset:

All the time and reasearch you put into this board is greatly appreciated by me and I am sure by many others:l

[RoseKat]

Potential Physician to help in SoCal

So Cal is a Big Place!

Thanks, CV. Encinitas is a little out of reach for me, personally. I'm in L.A. so it's a 3-hour drive. But that website is an EXCELLENT source of reading material.

I'm going to copy the words you quoted into a Word document and save it in a folder I keep on my computer for inspiration. Once in a while I need to read items like that, and it helps to keep them where I can find them quickly.

I'd also like to add my thanks to Rachele's for all the time and research you do here. It is much appreciated, even if I don't always say so.

Kat
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