About Us - Richard DeAndrea, MD, ND and John Wood, ND

The 21-Day Detox was developed to give people the option to learn the basic fundamentals for self-healing. The present climate of traditional medicine in the United States deals very little with prevention and health education. This program is designed to teach a useful technique that can be applied to any condition. A well-designed detox can mean the difference between true healing and endless frustration.

Richard DeAndrea, MD, ND and John Wood, ND developed the program after 20 years of combined experience in holistic health and alternative medicine. It has been their personal healing experiences that have made health education and detoxification their crusade. Both Richard and John have benefited from pursuing a regular purification program.

In May of 1985, John was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, a debilitating condition that slowly destroys the digestive tract and becomes cancerous in seven years. He had internal bleeding and was left for disabled with a prescription for steroids and the all to common phrase, "you'll just have to live with it."

Through a regular detoxification program John reversed his condition.

In June of 1991, Richard left his residency program in general surgery, because he was disheartened by the terminal approach advocated for common conditions. He sought an alternative and applied the principals of holistic healing in South Central, Los Angeles. He has treated a wide variety of conditions from allergies, arthritis and AIDS to colitis, cancer and heart disease with detoxification. Dr. DeAndrea has seen many acute and chronic conditions resolve when a detox is part of the healing protocol.

Dr. DeAndrea is a Western trained physician that has been practicing holistic or natural medicine for 10 years. He is the medical advisor to the American Naturopathic Medical Association, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and Earth Save International. He is the recipient of the Los Angeles Outstanding Community Service Award for implementing nutrition education seminars in the inner city "Head Start" programs and is the inventor of the "Oxygen Bar."

John Wood, ND has ten years experience in the area of detoxification and rejuvenation. He served at the Internationally recognized Ann Wigmore Institute were the concepts of self-healing and disease prevention were pioneered. Mr. Wood is a private raw food chef and teaches interactive health and food preparation seminars in Los Angeles.

HEALTH FACTS:

According to the National Institute of Health, one in four children is destined for obesity, 70% of adult females and 50% of adult males are overweight.

Presently, 100 million Americans complain of symptoms related to chronic illness and 80% of the industrialized world is taking a prescription medication.

The connection between food and chronic disease is no mystery. Even the Surgeon General openly admitted, "most illnesses suffered in the U.S. are preventable or reversible when nutrition and lifestyle are the focus of treatment."