Video Transcript: Why I Got Into Alternative Medicine
Ty Bollinger: So let me start out to begin with, let me ask you… how did get involved with what you’re doing? You’re a chiropractor. You specialize in nutrition. You’ve treated people with cancer. I mean how did you get involved in this line of work? Did you dream of being a chiropractor when you grew up?
Dr. David Jockers: You know, that’s a great question. I never saw myself being a doctor. Growing up I really didn’t know anything about chiropractic. When I was 19-years-old my grandfather, who was always my biggest mentor growing up, I mean he was teacher of the year three times in New York State, military war hero. Everybody in our community looked up to him. We always thought he was healthy. He never complained of anything.
All of a sudden one day he comes home from playing golf. He actually had played golf that day. [He] went to open a sliding glass door, just a patio door to let the cat in, started pulling and tugging at the door and he couldn’t get it. So he tugged harder and his arm literally shattered, dropped right to his side, went completely limp; he was in pain.
My grandmother rushed him to the hospital. Obviously, they took an x-ray and found out he had broken his arm. But, of course, how do you do that opening a door? You don’t. So they were suspicious. They went in, they did a biopsy, found out he had metastatic cancer that spread throughout his body into his bones. And of course, in our society if we get cancer it’s right to chemotherapy and radiation.
I watched my grandfather go through that and literally in six months he lost over 100 pounds. So he went from being 6’3″, 210 [pounds], strong, stalky guy… to about 106 pounds. And during that period, he lost so much muscle mass he couldn’t even get himself up out of his own bed to go to the bathroom. And so, of course, my grandmother couldn’t physically pick him up so she needed help.
She checked him into a nursing home and that’s where he spent the last couple weeks of his life. And you know, I was 19. I saw him go through… I mean just everything. Ultimately when he died he was on 10 medications, Morphine drips, he had a diaper on because he couldn’t control his own bowels. He wasn’t really living, he was just barely existing. I saw that happen to him and I asked the oncologists and the doctors different questions.
I asked them, for example, “how did that happen to him?” Why couldn’t we pick that up earlier? I asked just several questions and they’d say, you know, just kind of how it works. Cancer is an insidious killer. And my grandfather had free healthcare because he was in the military so he had medical checkups every single year. Nobody ever picked this up and it wasn’t till obviously it metastasized throughout his body before it did anything.
And so at that time, at 19, this obviously intrigued me just as far as how the body works, how it heals. I was always into health. And at that time I was into just exercise and training and things like that. I eventually became a personal trainer and through that God just really showed me that I had a gift working with people and I loved seeing results. And he led me towards chiropractic which is really a natural approach to health working with the structure of the body.
I opened my clinic a little over five years ago in 2009. And you know, I didn’t specialize in treating tough cases. I was just—really still am just passionate about helping people reach their full potential. But what’s happened is really in our society we just have so many sick people. And so just my passion, my zeal for helping people has attracted a lot of very serious cases.
And as I started getting them I knew I needed to really step up my game as far as my knowledge, the applications of the strategies we talk about using advanced therapies, things like that because last thing I want to do is lead somebody down the wrong road or ultimately not be able to help somebody.
It’s been a constant evolution of just trying to learn everything I possibly can to help these really tough cases, and of course, helping really everybody that comes to see me reach their health goals.
Many people are undiagnosed Celiac…fix the Celiac and brain/body health issues may go away fast. I had 1000X more energy and felt 20 years younger after 2 weeks of no gluten which helped my intestines heal. The tough cases maybe just Celiac which Conventional medicine ignores so they may get 10 health issues from it. I have MS which I suppress by no gluten/dairy/soy/sugar/GMO/saturated/monounsaturated fat/heated oils etc and take vitamins/good oils/minerals..probiotic…LDN..detox. Zn/Mg/fish oil/evening primrose oil/lecithin/Vit D3/HCl and enzymes with meals/strong probiotic before a meal/rhodiola/coenzyme Q10/Vit B12 methylcobalamin shot/intrinsic factor kind/folate/5000mcg of biotin/Amour thyroid/bioidentical hormones and more. Yes…would be nice to need good food/water/sunlight/exercise only, but what I do helps me. Supplements may have hidden gluten. Hidden gluten is in many places and even in air. No person should have to wait until being an adult and after having suffered much when they were born Celiac and no doctor even told them about it. People often have to figure out the Celiac themselves. Celiac/gluten is not a fad. Doctors may have no one to help if people learned how to take care of their health at home and got Celiac help which to me is basically Asian style/Paleo/Celiac eating. Untreated Celiac may let a person die young and suffer much. People new to our country may get hurt by American food fast. If you add vaccines/Fluoride water/pesticides/chemicals/Roundup etc it makes it worse. Eating pure organic food..no food with a label, is what I need. Cancer maybe due to Celiac and cancer may come back again until the root cause is fixed.
Chiropractors are awesome help for health/nutrients/supplement/diet etc. Conventional doctors are not trained in diet/supplements/detoxing etc so may say there is nothing they can do, when there are hundreds of things people can do to help their health. Never a time with no help or hope. People can heal. Celiac/Vaccines/GMO may be causing Autism. Who is going help fix Autistic kids health? Conventional medicine doesn’t rebuild the brain/body/cells. We may lose a whole generation of kids/mostly boys who may get no help. God bless all the chiropractors/acupuncturist/health food stores/Alternative doctors/Naturopaths that they learn and grow/help people heal fast.
Thanks Dr. Jockers for your great articles that teach in detail about many health topics and mentor by your lifestyle. Thank you for mentoring all and giving them hope/real help. God bless!
Dr. Jockers,thanks for sharing that story to us about your grandfather. I am so sorry that he died of cancer and he had to do conventional treatments like chemotherapy and radiation therapy. In my opinion, alternative therapies should be used instead of conventional therapies, because I have heard that they cure terminal cancer much better and a person lives longer.
Even gluten ibtolerance and sensitivities causes inflamed stomach lining causing leaky gut. Why don’t doctors know this. Every person with an autoimmune disease should go gluten free