Today we’d like to introduce you to Linda Wright.
Linda, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I got started in alternative medicine at the age of 5 when my mom’s favorite sister developed colon cancer. The two of them went to the Hoxsey Cancer Clinic in Texas, and that changed my life forever. We got exposed to Adele Davis books, organic gardening, whole foods, raw milk, chiropractors.
I completed my undergrad work at University of Colorado, Boulder with a B.A. in Chemistry, Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and was accepted into the Chemical Honors Society. Then I went on to the University of Colorado Medical School, followed by a 3 year internal medicine residency.
When I began my practice, I used what med school had taught me. A lot of it was what we called cut, burn, and poison. This is the standard of care for a medical doctor. I was frustrated that I was basically swatting at symptoms with pharmaceuticals.
One day, I met with a natural health practitioner. He gave me some supplements, changed my diet, and in four weeks, I was a different person. I thought, “Maybe there is something to this alternative medicine quackery, maybe my mother was right.” I started going to different kinds of medical conferences, reading different books. Over 30 years ago, as I started to use my new knowledge, my patients began doing much better. Some even said that I saved their lives.
Our modern medical system can be great when it comes to handling emergencies. But 8 of 10 patients who come to see a doctor have chronic issues and modern medicine mostly fails them. Medical schools did not train us to put a plan in place to actually heal the body. In the United States, we call this a system of “health care” but it is really a system of “disease management.” We’ve figured out how to make money when you’re sick. We haven’t designed and monetized a national system to keep you well.
If you do not figure out the cause of the problem and a way to address it, you can’t fix it. You’ll only cover up symptoms for a while, you won’t get well, and the underlying problem progresses.
Symptoms should not be looked at as a nuisance that needs to be suppressed with pills. Symptoms are the body’s shout out to you that it needs help. As long as you are alive, there is hope to turn around whatever disease process is working on you.
The body has an intelligent design, a blueprint. We cut our finger and it heals. We break a bone and it heals. We get an infection and we get well. To heal, the body uses natural building blocks that fit into that blueprint – minerals, vitamins, phytonutrients, amino acids, essential fatty acids, even exercise and sunlight. But without those, the body has significant trouble regenerating new tissue and restoring health. Pizza and soda – what Americans consume by the ton – is not delivering what we need to keep us healthy.
In the 1950s, 4% of adults had a chronic illness. Today, 50% of children have a chronic illness. There is something very wrong with this picture.
Most of the people who come to me are not getting the necessary nutrients to heal, according to the body’s intelligent design, and that is why they haven’t healed. Our food has changed dramatically in the last 60 years and we are not healthier for it.
Many patients come to me because they cannot get well with conventional medical therapies. They’ve mostly been given drugs which didn’t work well, but did deliver a bunch of side effects. I find non-drug solutions, including herbs. Chinese medicine, for example, has always looked for the fundamental reasons for bodily dysfunctions. I also suggest homeopathy, nutrition, and sometimes a machine or two that speaks to the body in its electrical language.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
As a medical doctor, it is “not the standard of care in the medical community” to think outside the “cut, burn, and poison” medical box. Even nutrition, food choices, are not inside this limited tool box. So MD’s are not supposed to recommend dietary changes, despite the saying attributed to Hippocrates, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” So herbs, acupuncture, homeopathy and other “alternative” treatments are not to be recommended. But when you think about it, diet and herbal medicines were used long before mainstream “cut, burn, and poison” showed up. So what really is “alternative”?
Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about Dr Linda Wright?
I work with patients with chronic illnesses, including those with complex chronic illnesses, which are not limited to only one body system/one body part e.g. lungs, gut, skin, nervous system, etc. The whole body is interconnected and a symptom is telling us we need to stop and figure out why this is going on, not just suppress it with prescription medications. Over the last six years I’ve been working with all things COVID–prevention, early treatment, long COVID and vaccine injuries. I’ve worked with people who’ve been to 20 or more doctors before they came to see me. The mainstream doctors haven’t been able to figure out what’s wrong or how to fix it. I’ve helped many of these people recover their health.
Let’s talk about our city – what do you love? What do you not love?
I like the warm weather and not having to shovel snow and ice off the sidewalks and driveway, or scrape ice off the car windshield. Nor do I have to be careful not to slide off the road while driving in icy weather conditions.
I also live within a short distance of the modern conveniences I need daily–food stores where I can buy the healthiest food possible in a city, gas for the car, banking services, cell phone carriers, car repair shops, and so forth.
What I like least is the super-hot summer days when temperatures can reach 120+ degrees.
Contact Info:
- Website: DrLindaWright.net and ArizonaRealHealth.net
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arizonarealhealth
- Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/arizona-real-health-phoenix?osq=Arizona+Real+Health
