Acknowledgments

First, I’d like to thank all the patients whom I have been privileged to serve and assist during the course of my 30-plus years of practice since 1984. It has been their willingness and patience—combined with a sincere yearning to know more, do better, and live a longer, healthier life—that has helped fuel my desire to assist them. Each of them has taught me to dig deeper, learn more, and go beyond the known and into the unknown to find the answers that they and so many others need. It is often through a willingness to abandon the safety of the known in order to discover new frontiers that a doctor finds the answers to the puzzles of imbalance that are reflected in disease. A doctor is forever a student to the patient.

I’d like to thank Adams Media for the opportunity to once again share the wealth of information that I have gathered during my years of practice as a doctor of chiropractic.

Thanks go out to Faith Kincaid for sharing with us her juice recipes while preparing for delivery of her baby girl, Stella. A huge thank-you to Hugo Alvarado for creating all the wonderful food recipes in this book. There must be a restaurant business in this somewhere for you, or perhaps, your own book? Thanks again to Hugo, as well as Blanca Dominguez for holding down the office while I researched and wrote this book.

Thanks to my father, who held out the example of what a true doctor can be, and my mom, who taught me to reach for the stars. Love to my siblings—Kim, Kelly, and Terry—for their lifelong support and love.

Loving thanks to Ana Maria and our children, Ethan and Ana Sophia. Two books in the period of a year is too much time for “Papi” to be away from both his family and fatherly duties. Your love makes it all possible. Time to play now.