Naturopathic physician Joseph Pizzorno, Jr. ’69 says, “We each have a tremendous ability to determine what our health is going to be.”
I
f you were told that someone had been cured of eschewed the traditional medical model of diagnosing and treat-
“incurable” arthritis, naturally you’d want to know ing disease, observing that often it does little more than suppress
how. symptoms. Instead, he helps patients discover the underlying
Joseph E. Pizzorno, Jr. ’69, certainly was intrigued. While reasons for the illness rather than focusing only on its particular
a researcher at the University of Washington, Pizzorno learned pathology.
that his college roommate’s wife had made a full recovery from “I’m much more interested in why a person is sick than in
debilitating arthritis. Pizzorno sought out her doctor and learned what particular disease they have,” said Pizzorno. “When you
that the naturopath detoxified her liver and taught her how to focus on the uniqueness of the individual and what they need to
eat properly. be healthy, then they are much more resistant to disease.”
“And thus began a 40-year story,” said Pizzorno, now a natur- In his book Total Wellness: Improve Your Health By Understand-
opathic physician who has established natural medicine’s cred- ing the Body’s Healing Systems, Pizzorno elucidates seven underly-
ibility and prominence in academia, public policy, corporate ing, health-sustaining systems of the body that must function
America and the healthcare industry. effectively to ensure optimum health and prevent disease, but he
Natural medicine’s loyal and fervent proponent, Pizzorno has names a whole foods diet of organically grown foods and a
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