Guest Profile: Dr. David Gersten

David Gersten, M.D. practices nutritional medicine and integrative psychiatry, and is a diplomate of The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. His current practice and philosophy evolved out of the realization of the limitations of both clinical psychiatry and medicine. The subjects least explored in medical school, according to Gersten, are nutrition, spirituality, sexuality, and bioelectrical fields. “A long time ago, I stopped thinking of illness and symptoms in terms of the narrowly-defined boxes that medicine provides. I look for and test for “causes” of symptoms and suffering. I also help people find their purpose, passion, and meaning, for without “meaning” in place, no treatment modality will be fully successful.”

He is an expert in Amino Acid Therapy and has a website dedicated to this treatment approach: www.aminoacidpower.com.

On the mental side, he is an expert in Interactive Guided Imagery, author of “Are You Getting Enlightened Or Losing Your Mind?” (Harmony Books, 1997), and “The POW Survival Guide” dedicated to the Allied Troops of Operation Desert Storm. He has contributed to Rodale Press/Prevention Magazine on 18 books as their Imagery consultant, and published Atlantis, the Imagery Newsletter for 7 years. The top 27 Mental Imagery experts in North America served as contributing editors to Atlantis.

Dr. Gersten is also an expert in the use of "Earthing." “Earthing” is what happens when living systems are in barefoot contact with the earth. “Grounding” is what happens when non-living systems are in contact with the earth. Barefoot Connection products deliver “Earthing,” the earth’s endless flow of free electrons and the earth’s natural rhythms inside our homes. Through our home’s grounding system, people can sleep on conductive sheets that bring the earth’s healing bioelectrical fields to us while we sleep.

After 30 years of clinical practice as a medical doctor, Dr. Gersten spent most of 2006 developing a model of “why people get sick and how they recover – a 7 step process.” In his quest to try to take as many factors into account as possible, he began to integrate the role of the human bioelectrical field into his model, as well as the role of inflammation. Inflammation is now recognized as the cause of 80 chronic diseases. By being in barefoot contact with the earth for hours a day, through earthing, adrenal function is normalized, adrenal stress and exhaustion are healed, and inflammation is turned off. Sleep improves in 95% of people, according to research. The pain, stiffness, insomnia, and depression associated with arthritis, lupus, and MS are dramatically improved. The research is solid, large, and growing rapidly. Thousand of case studies and personal experience are at least as revealing as the hardcore science. It turns out that inflammation is one-and-the-same as free radical damage. Free electrons from the earth are the most powerful anti-oxidants known to man. The free radicals that cause inflammation and chronic illness are “in search of” one free electron. Because we have a huge “electron deficit” due to our earth disconnection, free radicals attack healthy tissue in order to become neutralized by obtaining a free electron. The earth provides an infinite supply of free electrons, doing more healing in 3 days than could be obtained by consuming a pound of anti-oxidant supplements every day.

Currently, Dr. Gersten is the only medical doctor in America who has integrated earthing/Barefoot Connection technology into the fabric of his clinical work, and he has published 3 articles on the subject. Dr. Gersten says, “I have worked with the whole person, as best I can, my entire career, finding more and more pieces to “try” to complete the picture. Getting people in prolonged barefoot contact with the earth is the most profound, powerful healing modality of any I’ve worked with in my 3 decades of clinical practice.”

Website: www.earthingusa.com

Dr. David Gersten's Shows:

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Oct 26, 2007

Founder of the Gersten Institute is also an expert on Earthing - a method for reconnecting to the earth's energy to promote health and healiing.

Founder of Small Planet Institute and author of Diet for a Small Planet has a new book out called -Getting A Grip

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