Richard Ruhling, MD, MPH
I studied medicine at Loma Linda University, a community featured on the National Geographic cover story on Longevity as the only ‘Blue Zone’ for health in North America (Nov, 2005)
National Institutes of Health gave my school $40 million to learn why the community lives ~7 years longer than other nonsmokers.
After a Cardiology Fellowship and becoming board-certified in Internal Medicine, I returned to Loma Linda University to teach Health Science. I did Executive Health and was responsible for treadmill stress testing them.
While attending an American College of Cardiology Convention, I heard Nathan Pritikin tell how his diet and exercise program helped 85% of people off their blood pressure and diabetic drugs while reversing heart disease. This later was the basis of the US News cover story on How to Reverse Heart Disease in 1990, featuring Dean Ornish, a California cardiologist copying Pritikin.
I went to NYC and had a 65-year old executive who had three cardiologists who felt he was too risky for by-pass surgery and he was taking 12 pills a day and getting worse--he couldn’t walk two blocks without severe chest pain. One of his cardiologists said if he quit his medicine, he would die, but he lived another 30 yrs. a star witness that healthy habits beat medical care. Obituary
His extra 30 yrs is the advantage that Dr. Lester Breslow found for people who have 7 healthy habits compared to people that break them. We remember them by NEW START (see graphic)
A Blue Cross manager brought his wife to my series and said it’s the best he had seen in wellness that he works so much with. The healthcare costs broke General Motors and are breaking many companies today. I have a guarantee for cost-containment that I discuss with decision-makers for any company wanting to save huge costs--so what have you got to lose? Please call me!
Richard Ruhling, MD, MPH * Total Health * 928 583 7543 [email protected]
Total Health Seminar Topics
Corporate Cost Containment Guaranteed, Half Price
Medical Care as a Leading Cause of Illness & Death
How to Reverse Heart Disease & High Blood Pressure
Answers for Cancers & Prevention is Better than Cure
The Better Weigh Without Counting Calories or Dieting
Hoping You’re Coping--3 Keys Most People Overlook!