Welcome everyone. This is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today we are honored to be joined by Dr. Dieter Klinkhart, who is a long time mentor of mine and helped me understand some of the basics of natural medicine many decades ago.

So welcome and thank you for joining us.

Thanks Joe.

It's an honor to be here.

So for those who don't know who you are, maybe you can give a brief

history of your training and then we'll go to some other... All right, well I went to

medical school in Germany.

I'm actually born in Berlin, I'm a real Berliner,

and then went to medical school.

And after medical school for three years I worked on a thesis which at the time I wasn't

sure but it actually became very important because it was the subject was how the

autonomic nervous system communicates with the immune system.

At the time nobody wanted to take that on and so I'm going to award for it and so you know when other people do residency I did a

residency in surgery but only for two years and then...

The normal residence is like eight years or something.

Something crazy, six or eight years.

Yeah, yeah.

Anyway, so I, after I completed my thesis and defended it successfully. I spent two and a half years in India working at

a medical center there where I really gained a lot of experience, especially regards to parasites and infection.

So that became sort of my passion all the way through. through and then you know I spent almost a year in England

Apprenticesing with a wonderful man James Suriaks who was the father of non-invasive orthopedic medicine.

The prolotherapy, he had pioneered and the many injection techniques and many manipulative techniques.

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