The Ideal Protein Diet/Treatment is, in my mind, the best weight loss program out there and has the ability to be "your last diet." Some get the desired changes, some start and don't finish and many that need to don't even start. What I have found in my 19 years as a chiropractor and wellness physician is that having the best programs, techniques and equipment (such as the Erchonia cold laser) for some people is not enough.

It is that way even in chiropractic or for that matter almost any other healing art or human endeavor. But for those that do start and struggle, weather on the Ideal Protein Diet/Treatment or to improve their health (either physically or emotionally), they are the ones who have caused me to embark on a long journey to find out why and seek out the most cutting edge ways to bring healing to the internal struggles that sabotage your efforts and for that matter, your life.

I have a total Holistic practice that is problem solving based. It is unique in that there are three basic premises that this practice is built on:

1. The body is self-healing. It will always try to achieve homeostasis (or health).

2. There are interferences to the body's ability to heal or to achieve homeostasis.

3. The obligation of true "health care" is to determine the causes of these interferences and fix or eliminate them to the best degree possible.

It is this third premise that makes my approach unique. It is the ability of Muscle Response Testing (MRT), aka Applied Kinesiology, to determine the interferences and to test them against the patient's complaints to determine if they are indeed, responsible.

Typically I start with a detailed history of the problem or injury including possible emotional triggers. (Even traditional medicine agrees that at least 75-90 percent of all doctor visits are stress related. In fact several prestigious medical schools such as Southwestern University Medical School, Stanford University Medical School, Harvard Medical School and New York University Medical School have all recently released research indicating that... "these type of cellular memories (emotional triggers) may very well be the missing piece of the puzzle in health and healing." The history provides approximately 80 percent of the correct diagnosis and the direction needed to go for determining the interferences or what I call (biological) "computer virus'" or "drivers."

I then examine the area(s) of complaint, the whole spine and extremities (even though not necessarily areas of complaint but which can offer clues to possible interferences).

The next step is what defines my practice. This is where I go through a list of known interferences ("computer virus'" or "drivers"), then with MRT I correlate the interferences to the areas of complaints and other findings and "delete" them with a process known as "brain balancing." By focusing primarily on this I find that I can achieve far and away the best results which has allowed me to also help people with autism, learning disorders, inability to successfully lose weight, kidney failure, phobias, etc.

Previous to my Chiropractic/Wellness clinic I worked in many hospitals for 20 years including Stanford University hospital and can testify that sadly this approach is not taken by most practioners in either traditional medicine or alternative medicine where the complaints are being treated instead of the cause. Perhaps this is why they have "treatment rooms" instead of "healing rooms." Remember: It's your body, it's your health, it's your choice.

Dr. Grandstaff can be reached at his new location: Integrative Wellness Center, 579 W. Hayden Ave., Hayden, ID 83835 or (208) 772-6015 (Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday) and in Sandpoint on Thursday.