Cindy Soto

Hippocrates, the father of medicine taught healers the basic principle to do no harm. Now part of the Hippocratic Oath, the words are eternal, they are that crucial.

How well do you think that is being adhered to today?

My teenage son has flat feet that point out, and even though I believed the problem related to his whole alignment, the pediatrician sent me to a podiatrist.

After sitting in a full waiting room, we were ushered in. In just one minute of looking at him, the doctor tells me he needs an immediate complicated surgery. Right in front of my son! He would be unable to walk for a year and have a steel rod for life.

Do no harm? Are you kidding me?

Cut into the feet of a healthy child?

I wasn't intimidated, but I was angry that he had scared my son. Instead, he is doing exercises to address the underlying issues.

I wish this was an isolated case. Being sold by a doctor for a $30,000 procedure (the insurance would pay for that, but not the therapy he is having), using fear tactics made me angry. But many people, who are skeptical of other sales "jobs" are afraid.

Look at the training the medical profession receives: it's all drug intervention and invasive surgeries.

Sometimes this is essential and will save lives, but how many times are other alternatives simply overlooked?

For years I had been searching for a better way. In the process I found a very unique place, that is based on the crazy notion that the body is amazing and self-healing.

Rather than traumatic interventions, they teach people to give the body all the nutrition it needs and stop overworking it with processed "foods", and amazingly it will go into high gear in healing itself.

Named after the father of medicine, the Hippocrates Health Institute truly believes and practices "do no harm" as it teaches people how to create their own healing.

To me, the experience I had at Hippocrates Institute was a taste of heaven. It was so uniquely different.

People call it a miracle when some with cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, various tumors and so many other health conditions bring about their own healing using what they learn.