| When I was a teenager, I was involved in
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| | accident, I didn't feel it was as
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| a serious car accident that left me in a
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| | effective in the rehabilitation phase. In
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| coma. In the hours, days, and weeks that
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| | fact, I felt that Western medical
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| followed, I was kept alive by a vast
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| | treatment sometimes produced adverse side
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| array of sophisticated medical
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| | effects that impeded my progress towards
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| technologies, high-precision devices, and
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| | whole body health.In Search of Natural
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| advanced western pharmaceutical
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| | Health and Wellness AlternativesThat's
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| treatments. Fortunately, that was
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| | when my interest in alternative forms of
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| precisely what my body needed following
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| | healing first took root. As a young
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| my near-fatal accident. And that is
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| | adult, I researched and experienced a
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| precisely what "conventional" Western
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| | wide range of "alternative" healing
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| medicine does best -- keeps bodies
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| | modalities: Chinese medicine,
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| functioning in the face of acute trauma,
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| | acupuncture, and Ayurvedic medicine were
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| life-threatening illnesses, or severe
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| | just some of the ancient medical systems
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| accidents.During my post-coma
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| | I explored as I blazed my own trail
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| rehabilitation, I had to relearn
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| | towards natural health and wellness. I
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| everything. Literally. While other teens
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| | also experimented with and integrated
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| were learning how to drive, I was
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| | meditation, a healthy diet, and yoga into
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| re-learning how to walk, how to talk, how
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| | my bag of natural health tricks.
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| to read and write and dress myself.
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| | Ultimately, though, the medical science
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| During that time, I began to question the
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| | that made the most sense for my health
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| role of conventional medicine in my
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| | was homeopathy.Contemporary Western
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| recovery. While Western medicine had done
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| | homeopathic medicine was developed by an
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| a great job of keeping my body alive
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| | 18th-century German physician, chemist,
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| during the crisis phase following my
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| | and scholar named Samuel Hahnemann. Dr.
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