Experience Optimal Health!

My personal story can be helpful and inspiring for others desiring optimal vibrant health now and into their later years. The true story of the health journey through my life, and helping others attain optimal health follows:\n\nGrowing up as a child I often resisted eating breakfast, ate horribly, craved sugar and the most balanced meal I had each day was only dinner. At 16 years old, I became interested in bodybuilding to build up my puny body. Naturally, I realized I would have to regularly eat balanced meals throughout the day. \n\nI studied and memorized the "Nutrition Almanac" as a 16 and 17 year old and I began giving my body the nutrients it craved. This was in the year 1974 and 1975 , way before nutrition was seen by most people as a primary method for significantly improving your health and reversing disease. Also weight training and bodybuilding at the time was viewed as strange, making you "musclebound", stiff and inflexible. Within a year I had gained 50 pounds of mostly muscle and felt better than I had ever felt in my young life! \n\nUpon beginning college in the pre-computer days (1976), though I was an engineering major because I thought I could make a good living doing that, in my spare time I devoured books on anatomy, physiology, nutrition, and even biochemistry on my own. My motivation at the time was to improve my results for competitive bodybuilding. During this time I became aware that if I enjoyed reading books related to human health, I should probably change my major to something I enjoyed studying. I was getting terrible grades in engineering anyway, primarily because it was such a drudgery to study for the classes I loathed but realized I needed just to get my degree to get a good job when I completed college. Thankfully, I changed my major to Biology/Human Physiology, studying now with joy and enthusiasm and graduated with my bachelors in science degree in 1983.\n\nContinuing my bodybuilding competition hobby and beginning to work in Sports Medicine at St. Francis Memorial Hospital Center for Sports Medicine in 1983 as a Physical Therapy Aide, I was living my newfound dream of making a living at something I enjoyed! I continued personal study of nutrition and optimizing physical and mental performance, read books and magazines on health optimization, and started a side business as a personal exercise trainer, in 1985 even before it became a popular profession.\n\nIn the mid 1980's to 1987, I worked at various sports medicine and physical rehabilitation clinics, and was involved in treatment of many professional athletes. I picked their brains finding out how to improve my performance in optimizing my health and for bodybuilding. \n\nIn late 1987, due to an injury while working out, I grudgingly agreed to have a chiropractor adjust me. Prior to this time I thought chiropractors were "quacks". But I was desperate for relief from the pain of the injury so I tried it. Immediately after being adjusted, the pain was gone! I was amazed and studied about chiropractic on my own, rather than listening to what the medical doctors and physical therapists I was working under were saying. I entered Chiropractic School in 1988 and completed my training and license on an accelerated schedule in 1991. I began practice in 1991 and have never regretted that decision, being able to help many people since that time!\n\nKnowing the importance of nutrition, I earned my board certification as a Certified Clinical Nutritionist in 1996. When I began incorporating advanced laboratory testing to diagnose underlying biochemical deficiencies involved in disease, and incorporating dietary and nutritional supplementation with chiropractic treatment principles, my patients results improved exponentially! This intrigued me to do further study, and in 2000, I earned board certification as an Anti-Aging Health Practitioner. Thirsting for knowledge and wanting even better outcomes for my patients, I pursued training in Functional Medicine with the Institute for Functional Medicine in 2003.\n\nI now have the joy and privilege of helping others from all over the world restore, improve and optimize their health, initially motivated by the desire of a 16 year-old boy to improve his results in bodybuilding! \n\nIf you have any comments or inquiries, I can be contacted at inquiry@drhusbands.com or at 650-593-4447.\n\nGraciously,\nDouglas Husbands\n\n