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Dr. James F. Balch, M.D.
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 Dr. James F. Balch, is the author of 10 Natural Remedies That Can Save Your Life, The Super Antioxidants and coauthor of Prescription for Nutritional Healing: A-Z Guide to Supplements. He is known as a prominent authority on nutrient healing.
Dr. Balch graduated with honors from the University of Indiana School of Medicine and spent over 30 years as a urologist in private practice before devoting his career to nutritional healing.
In the late 1970s my wife and children became chronically ill and despite my medical training and experience, I could not discover what was wrong with them. I took the traditional approach to seeking a cure for their illness, spending a vast amount of time and money on this endeavor. But even with access to the best medical advice available, I could not find the underlying cause of their problems. Finally, I realized that the traditional medical approach was not going to work in this instance. Reluctantly, I approached an alternative physician and famous naturopath who suggested that the problem could be an allergy, a reaction to the foods my family was consuming. I was surprised when he asked me the question, “Do you think that it is what your family is eating that is making them sick?” But I was even more surprised when he added, “Did you know that the foods your family eats can make them well again?”
The simplicity of his words shocked and stunned me but they also brought home the message that my family and I were becoming what we ate. At that time this concept was foreign to me. I had never really been taught the fundamental truth that the body’s health is linked directly to the nutrients we do or do not ingest or that we could be poisoning our bodies with the very foods we are eating.
But as I saw my wife and children get better and eventually become completely healed through dietary changes and supplementation, I vowed that this approach to health and healing would not go unexplored. It was then that my quest to understand alternative methods of healing began.
I quickly determined that the cornerstone of better health is the immune system and its integrity. Without the properly functioning “on board” defense system, the body is vulnerable to attack from a multitude of microbes (germs) and the ravages of free radicals (oxidants).
I began to understand that the theories of disease I had been taught in medical school were incomplete. Traditional modern medicine tells us that most diseases are caused by germs and in order to get well we must kill these germs. Toward that end we use drugs, antibiotics, chemotherapy, radiation and even surgery. However, many of the disorders I dealt with frequently could not be explained by the germ therapy.
I found that alterations in the immune system were responsible for cancer and heart disease, the major killing diseases of our society. At the same time I realized the importance of antioxidation in combating oxidative stress.
The school of thinking of which I have now become a part involves other forms of complementary healing arts that are not a part of the traditional medical practice. We are only now beginning to fully understand how disease results from an imbalance in the body and the chaos and disorder in the body function that is brought on by nutritional imbalance or “intoxication.” In order to re-establish health, one needs to balance the body by working with it, not against it.
As a urological physician and surgeon for 35 years I had followed a traditional course of treatment for my patients. However, I had become dissatisfied with many of the results of treating disorders that I confronted, particularly cancer of the urinary bladder and prostate. As I began complementing traditional surgical and treatment methods with nutritional supplementation and dietary change, I discovered that my patients were not only improving but many of them were being healed in an almost miraculous fashion. As a result they were much happier than patients who underwent radical surgical procedures followed by chemotherapy and/or radiation.
I had never really considered myself a teacher, but in truth doctors are teachers and I soon found that teaching patients better health through nutritional supplementation and dietary changes produced a healing that I had never before witnessed.
Finally, it also became apparent that any successful treatment of disease must deal with “the whole body.” The physical body is important of course, but the soul and the spirit must be dealt with as well. The mind emotions and the very will of an individual and the stresses linked to everyday existence can cause serious disease. Conversely they can act as a gatekeeper against the onset of disease, as well as mobilize the body’s natural ability to conquer even the most life threatening circumstances.
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