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Dr. Thompson had an interesting journey in his health education in that he was ready to quit practicing medicine, and then was honored with the selection as one of the Best Doctors in America in 1996. He had an epiphany at that time and decided to go back into the field of medicine with a renewed vigor at seeking the true underlying cause of most of his patient’s problems.
Although he was able to resolve many illnesses with supplements and herbs and other less toxic alternatives to drugs, he progressively realized that similar to the pharmaceutical industry, the nutrition industry had its own flaws. He concluded that enormous amounts of money were being wasted on supplements that had little or no health benefit, and in some cases were actually worsening people’s health.