Video Transcript:
I started my medical career on the path to becoming a conventional dermatologist and I started to struggle with acne really for the first time in my life and it was extremely frustrating and I tried everything. I tried a lot of different medications oral medications topical medications tried a lot of different cosmetic treatments skin care products. And I had the experience of those conventional treatments failing me as a patient. So not only did they not really work and give me the results that I was looking for. But a lot of them irritated my skin and made my skin really dry on top of that and they certainly didn't give me any lasting relief and so on some level I knew that there was a deeper root cause that I was missing that wasn't being addressed.
And so while I was going through that personally, I was also at the point where I was starting to get a lot more exposure in dermatology and I was seeing a lot of patients with these really severe autoimmune skin conditions and I was devastated, I was devastated by the treatment options that were available to them because these powerful medications were being recommended that have very harmful.
Very damaging side effects, especially on the immune system and you know, I witnessed the damaging side effects of a lot of those medications and I also saw that a lot of these patients they were looking for other options and they were exploring Natural medicine and they wanted to know if you know if there were Natural approaches that could help them and so at that point I decided that as a Doctor I wanted to be in a position where I could truly Do no harm and I didn't want to be cornered.
I didnt want to be in a position where the only treatments that I could offer my patients were these harmful damaging medications because I didn't have any other training and I wanted the knowledge. I wanted the knowledge and the tools to be able to work with my patients and be able to help them. Really address the root cause of what was going on and hoping to heal and so, you know as these personal experiences, these personal experiences are what led me to functional and holistic medicine first as a patient and then as a practitioner and there what continue to fuel my passion for helping people with unresolved skin conditions to this day.
I founded Well Ahead Chicago to help people find answers and to help people with unresolved skin conditions be able to heal from the inside out a lot of a lot of times people don't understand with skin conditions, you know that they're not a vanity issue that they are a symptom of a deeper problem and a skin condition, you know can really be an opportunity. It can be a powerful signal from your body that something is off and if you listen to that signal and take it seriously.
You can really have a profound opportunity to not only heal your skin, but restore your health and prevent other problems down the road.
So if you or someone that you know is struggling with unresolved acne or an unresolved skin condition. It's time to see what wall has Chicago can do to help.
