Joseph Mercola, D.O.
Dr. Mercola, the New York Times best-selling author, has helped countless people to reach their health and weight loss goals. An osteopathic physician, board certified in family medicine, Dr. Mercola is passionate about empowering people to take control of their health using solely natural means.
Dr. Mercola’s natural health Web site, www.Mercola.com, has been the most visited natural health site on the Internet, with over 12 million page views every month. More than 1 million people subscribe to Dr. Mercola’s free e-mail newsletter, which has been in circulation since 1998.
Both national and local media have featured Dr. Mercola’s health and nutrition advice, including ABC News with Peter Jennings, The Today Show, CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox News.
After graduating from both the University of Illinois and the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, Dr. Mercola served as the chairman of the department of family medicine at St. Alexius Hospital in Hoffman Estates, IL. In 1985, he founded The Optimal Wellness Center in Schaumburg, IL, which quickly became well-known for its whole-body approach to medicine.
Dr. Mercola’s best-selling books have taken the country by storm, offering simple and natural solutions to the chronic ills facing so many people. Most of all, Dr. Mercola’s philosophy centers on using food, exercise, stress management, and lifestyle approaches to tap into your body’s inherent ability to heal.
Through his decades of experience, he has been able to successfully help people recover from chronic illnesses -- typically without using drugs or surgery. Today, Dr. Mercola continues to share his health knowledge with the world through his Web site and his all-new clinic, The Natural Health Center. Ultimately, he hopes to transform the disease-centered conventional medical paradigm in the United States, into one of healing, transformation, and personal empowerment.
On a personal level, Dr. Mercola has been an active runner since 1968, and completed the Chicago Marathon in just over three hours. He has also been a computer hobbyist since 1985, with an interest in the Internet that dates back to the early 1990s. It is now through this venue that Dr. Mercola is able to speak to the world, exposing the many problems with modern health care, and conferring with the top experts in the world on how to fix them.
At the most basic level, whether you are a patient at The Natural Health Center, or a member of the Mercola.com community, Dr. Mercola wants you to know how to become healthy, and he has dedicated his life to making that happen.
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Dr. Joseph Mercola