 Leigh Erin Connealy, MD
Specialty: General Practice
Years practicing: Since 1986
Tell us how you first got started in alternative medicine, about your educational background and how you have prepared yourself. I have been practicing medicine since 1986 and have been exposed to some very brilliant mentors who taught me other ways of treating medical problems than I was traditionally taught. Many patients would ask me about alternative treatments that I was not informed about. We would treat medical problems with medications and not find the root cause of their symptoms. I began to inquire and one avenue led to another and a whole new paradigm shift began.
Hippocrates, who was the founder of modern medicine, said “Let your medicine be your food, and your food be your medicine.” I find that even though several patients may have the same diagnosis, each must be treated as an individual because their biochemistry may have been altered.
After college, I matriculated at the University of Texas for a Masters in Public Health. Following this, I received my medical degree from the University of Chicago and did my postgraduate training in gynecology at Harbor (UCLA Medical Center).
Since then, numerous classes were attended in the following subjects: | Herbal medicine | Cancer Treatments | | Acupuncture | Alternative Therapies | | Homeopathy | Detoxification | | Neuro-endocrinology | Hormonal | | Anti-Aging | Biological Technologies | | Chronic Fatigue | Rheumatology | | Current treatments for Primary Care | Nutritional Therapy issues |
(It was during these years that Dr. Connealy
began to develop the new concept “New
Medicine”.) Would you like to share anything else? -
80% of treatment in the world is with integrative medicine. -
Poll by Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) stated doctors are becoming open to an integrative approach to medical problems. -
Over 100 million Americans use some form of supplementation. These individuals realize vitamins, minerals, and other food factors support good health and can be used to prevent and treat illness. Many of them are motivated by the knowledge that they are not getting all the basic nutrition they need from their daily food intake. -
JAMA has started recommending that everyone
take multiple vitamins and minerals on a daily basis.
Dr. Connealy is fluent in English and Spanish
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