Real Life Testimonial — From Shingles to Chronic Wellness

I received a note in my inbox this morn­ing, and wanted to share it with you all. As each case presents with its own unique cir­cum­stances, it would be care­less of me to claim that I can expect the same results in all of my clients. Nonethe­less, if you under­stand the trig­ger­ing pat­terns of a dis­ease process, and work to incre­men­tally cor­rect those patterns…I rou­tinely see dra­matic shifts in health over rel­a­tively short peri­ods of time. Here’s a recent client’s story…

From Shin­gles to Chronic Wellness

“I first met and went to see Dr. Rine­hart when I was suf­fer­ing from Shin­gles in August 2011. From online study, I essen­tially knew how I had come to get hit with this hor­ri­ble con­di­tion, which in my case was from run­ning myself ridicu­lously hard for a good 6 months prior, all build­ing up to a stag­ger­ing crescendo of phys­i­cal and men­tal exhaustion.

Addi­tion­ally, all of this cul­mi­nated as the out­door weather hit nearly 100 degrees for over a week in July 2011, a week when I had been work­ing long hours out­side and stu­pidly pro­pelling myself through all of it with a diet that con­sisted largely of sug­ary and processed foods and lots and lots of caf­feine as well as alco­hol at night to smooth the edges.

I real­ize of course how “not very smart” this sounds and in fact was, but I am being hon­est here. Life has a way of throw­ing sit­u­a­tions at all of us from time to time, sit­u­a­tions that can get any of us derailed as I had allowed myself to become.

In my par­tic­u­lar case, I had heavy dead­lines to meet and just basi­cally ignored all the usual and prac­ti­cal health mea­sures I prob­a­bly would have adhered to. The result how­ever was a pretty steep and painful learn­ing curve because all the above just taxed my 60 year old immune sys­tem hor­ri­bly; and I essen­tially opened myself up to shingles.

As a result of suf­fer­ing from that par­tic­u­larly nasty condition, I became utterly aware that a.) I never wanted this dis­ease ever again and b.) I needed to get really seri­ous about build­ing myself up and get­ting and stay­ing healthy. Pain does indeed instruct.

Although I had gone to see two doc­tors (my per­sonal physi­cian and a neu­rol­o­gist), all either could rec­om­mend to me were dif­fer­ent types of pain killers to relieve the symp­toms. Gee, that’s just great.

While I well under­stood that this was a viral con­di­tion and not eas­ily negated with phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal reme­dies, I was also per­plexed at the sin­gu­lar approach to deal­ing with the con­di­tion, which was essen­tially “here, take pain killers.” No infor­ma­tion or advice was given even once as to how to build myself up again, even though both doc­tors com­pletely agreed that in all like­li­hood the exhaus­tion, stress and nutri­tion fac­tors described were quite prob­a­bly the per­fect storm that got me into this unfor­tu­nate con­di­tion in the first place.

I was as amazed as much as I was unhappy, and I remem­bered what a doctor’s visit was like back when I as a kid, where some nutri­tional advice was always included as part of any given treat­ment regimen. I needed help, and I needed bet­ter help.

Dr. Rinehart’s con­sul­ta­tion and advice pro­vided every­thing I had hoped the other two doc­tors would have but didn’t. After the ini­tial phone inter­view and the fill­ing out of his com­pre­hen­sive forms, the very first equally com­pre­hen­sive ses­sion with him pro­vided sound and accu­rate advice for how to build myself up again so as to avoid any repeat shin­gle relapse devel­op­ments in the future.

All of his thor­ough advice and rec­om­mended sup­ple­ments were tai­lored specif­i­cally for me and explained in such an open and easy to under­stand way that it was all imme­di­ately comprehensible. I fol­lowed all of his advice to the let­ter and am cur­rently healthy, pain free, and have thrown the damn pain killers in the garbage. As I write this, it is Octo­ber 4th 2011, which gives you an idea of how fast every­thing worked once I got seri­ous about it all.

Please under­stand, Dr. Rine­hart is nei­ther God nor a mir­a­cle worker: if you aren’t com­mit­ted to get­ting real with your­self and mak­ing lifestyle and nutri­tional changes you may well be wast­ing your time.

But if — like I was and am — you are really seri­ous about want­ing to be health­ier and feel­ing bet­ter and stay­ing that way and are will­ing to do some work, you will not find a bet­ter ally for that jour­ney. I can’t say enough good things about this remark­able and insight­ful pro­fes­sional. He really helped me get back on track, where oth­ers were able to con­tribute very very lit­tle to the process.”

A.F.

This infor­ma­tion is made avail­able by the author for edu­ca­tional pur­poses only and is not intended to pro­vide med­ical advice or to diag­nose dis­ease. By access­ing the site, you under­stand and acknowl­edge that there is no physician-patient rela­tion­ship between you and the author. You fur­ther acknowl­edge your under­stand­ing that the site should not be used as a sub­stitue for com­pe­tent med­ical advice from a licensed physi­cian in your state.