In the midwest, not a lot of people talk about what's going on with them. So when I got back to the US, I started a family practice. But the business side of it presented with unique challenges that, for my mind, was more of what I felt comfortable doing. That was very interesting to me and more of what I felt like my passion was, really. I really enjoyed the ability to create new products, to be able to fill a void in the marketplace where physicians were seeing problems regularly, but didn't have the tools to fix it. After the company sold to Metagenics, my wife and I moved back to the US with the idea that we were just going to have a family practice in the suburbs of Chicago. So we had Jeffrey Bland and all of his team over there teaching the physicians about functional medicine. I ran Functional Medicine Europe for the first 4 years of its existence. I had the opportunity to teach and travel around Europe with some of the leading European and American physicians. So at that time there were a lot more opportunities to interact with medical doctors. To be exposed to that, to be exposed to a family practitioner who is going to treat my bronchitis with homeopathy was totally new to me.
Not everybody does it but if you want a doctor who uses natural medicine, it's widely available to you there. So Metagenics Europe is my father-in-law's old company, the company my wife and I helped him run for those 4 years that we lived in Belgium. So we eventually sold that company to Metagenics. So we were integrating the functional testing for the physicians, putting together treatment plans using dietary and supplements to treat the test results. Back then it was Great Smokies, so we distributed the Great Smokies test then. I did product development, I did product research. I got involved in every aspect of the business. We went there and took over his practices, worked clinically in Belgium in his two practices, and we helped him with his business. So after we graduated from chiropractic school, we moved to Belgium because her dad had started a supplement company. So it kind of gave me this whole new look on medicine in general, and this opportunity to kind of be a GP, to be able to treat whatever comes through the door through the use of diet, lifestyle modification and food supplements. But through spending time with her and getting an understanding of what her family was doing, her brother was a chiropractor also, he was doing a lot of natural medicine. That's what kind of led me to chiropractic. I had gone with the idea of being more of a sports medicine doctor.
So she was in there to learn natural medicine.
So she was in chiropractic school to become a functional medicine practitioner. I moved to Chicago in 1991 to go to chiropractor school and I met a girl and so she was from Belgium, had grown up with her dad as a chiropractor and lived the life of natural medicine.
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