About Marie

        Surrounded by a family of physicians and educators, I wanted to be a doctor just like them. At the age of 8, I started reading all the medical journals in my uncle’s clinic. By the time I was age 10, I was having discussions about the viability of heart replacements with my doctor uncle. The next year (1967), Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant In South Africa.   It was while I was in college that I decided not to become a medical doctor after I learned a few things about how medicine was practiced. 

Medical schools, I was told, teach doctors to address the symptoms. The aim is not to heal or cure the patient but rather to address their symptoms. Also, the doctor was limited to “tried and true”{ traditional methods of diagnosis and treatment regardless of effectivity).   In most cases, the concern was not the well-being of the patient. They were more concerned with the physical response of the patient’s body to treatment.   Ancient medicinal practices such as acupuncture, ayurvedic or any form of energy healing  was discouraged and considered voodoo medicine – whether they worked or not. The use of supplements, herbs and essential oils was considered "snake oil". It was the doctors responsibility to discourage the patient from  using these practices and medicines, or  to consider the possibility of being healed or being cured.

This realization helped me make a decision to abandon the dream of becoming a doctor.   I wanted to help others heal.  That became 

my new direction and my course of lifelong study.

My first patient was myself.  As a young adult, I applied certain techniques and diets that helped me heal serious  juvenile asthma and allergies.

 As a mature adult, I used the same approach to recover from or manage breast cancer and Congestive Heart Failure and to manage hypertension, Graves disesase, and Leaky Gut Syndrome . I am a living testament to the benefits of combining traditional (olleopathic) and alternative medicine.

It is my personal mission to share ease of movement, freedom from pain and hope to whomever is willing to change their well-being.