Thinking Outside the Box What do you get when you combine natural healthcare and traditional Western medicine? Dr. Robert Milne suggests that the combination, called integrative medicine, provides his patients optimal medical care. Dr. Milne combines modalities of acupuncture, allergy testing, chelation, IV therapies, nutrition, homeopathy, bioidentical hormones, prolotherapy and laser therapy. With his innovative methods he has now treated over 90,000 patients around the world, received numerous accolades among the medical community and authored four books. Dr. Milne’s interest in complementary medicine started when his daughter, Brooke, became very ill and prescription drugs were no help to her. She was very young at the time, just an infant, and after eight long months of waiting for a solution to present itself, Dr. Milne became desperate for answers. He was introduced to homeopathic medicine and his passion to find alternative cures began. His daughter was saved and he began an entirely new career in integrative medicine. “My personal family crisis taught me that, as a doctor, I must keep an open mind and think out of the medical box for answers to the difficult medical problems that my patients face,” says Dr. Milne. Dr. Milne combines the advantages of Western medicine, including its acute care and diagnostic tools, with the benefits of complementary medicine and its wide variety of treatment modalities. Since beginning his integrative medicine practice, Dr. Milne has traveled to Europe, Central America and China in search of new modalities to incorporate into his practice. He is considered a pioneer in alternative medicine and has become a frequent lecturer on integrative medicine. His goal is to truly treat each patient as an individual case, help them understand their symptoms and figure out a strategy to correct their issues and move forward.
What is the single biggest change you’ve made for better health and what impact has it had on your life? I grew up with horrible asthma that plagued my childhood and my young adult life. My mentor suggested to me that asthma was a digestive related issue and I adjusted my diet to exclude milk, wheat and sugar. I haven’t had an asthmatic episode since. I also believe in juicing daily. Fruits and veggies provide the protons of life.
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What is the most important health issue you think our community is facing? Personally, I think there is a generalized lack of energy or fatigue which is usually caused by poor food intake or quality. America is faced with denatured food values. Europe has outdoor markets with fresh food and we have markets with foods that are three, five, even ten days old. With lower energy you start gaining weight which leads us to the obesity epidemic. Fatigue also causes headaches and I see many patients for headache related symptoms.
What activities do you enjoy to help you stay mentally healthy? First of all, I have to keep my body healthy with the right foods in order to keep mentally healthy. If I consume the proper nutrients with the right energy building ingredients, I will be better… healthy overall. I walk my dogs every day and I play tennis as often as I can. Mostly, I just eat as healthy as possible for me and my body and I haven’t missed a day of work in 35 years.
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