Frank Shallenberger loved emergency medicine. It was fast, it was clear, and you could save a life. Then the ER started filling up with people who'd had a rash for six months, so he crossed the street, hung up a shingle, and opened a family practice. Six months in, he went to the hospital administrator with a problem. He was giving patients the right medications for hypertension and arthritis, and nobody was actually getting better. The administrator went through his cases with him every week for a couple of months and came back with the answer that changed Frank's career: you're doing everything right. Frank responded that if this is doing it right, then something is missing. What he found was a study group run by Linus Pauling. Before each evening meeting, the physicians would spend the morning wandering the stacks of a university library basement, pulling periodicals going back to the 1800s and bringing whatever looked interesting to the group. No internet, no Amazon, just yellow legal pads and a librarian who made copies. A few years later, as program director for a meeting of the Orthomolecular Medical Society, Frank booked a speaker named Charlie Farr, who was infusing an oxidant into patients at a time when everyone in the room believed oxidants were the problem. That talk, and Paracelsus's old line that the dose makes the poison, set the direction for the next 40 years. It also got him into trouble with the state of California, which is how he ended up in Nevada in 1991. The part I wanted every doctor listening to hear is what his practice looks like now. Frank runs a 15,000-square-foot clinic with three nurse practitioners, a naturopath, nurses, and an IV room, and every new patient is tested before Frank walks into the room. He's 80, he still loves the work, and he told me that if he ever retires, it'll be because of the red tape. We also got into the business side: what ozone sessions go for in big and small markets, why they're sold as a series, and where to get trained. I've been to Frank's big conference and his smaller Reno trainings, and most of the functional medicine doctors I work with have been through them. - - - - - About the Guest: Frank Shallenberger, MD, HMD, ABAAM, has been practicing medicine since 1973 and leads The Nevada Center for Alternative & Anti-Aging Medicine in Carson City, Nevada. He trained at the University of Maryland in one of the country's first shock trauma units, spent close to a decade in emergency medicine, completed a surgical residency in California, and then opened a family practice. His search for why patients weren't improving led him into Linus Pauling's orthomolecular study group in the San Francisco Bay Area, and later to Nevada, where he has been licensed by both the allopathic and homeopathic medical boards since 1991. Frank is one of the early pioneers of ozone therapy in the United States, a field he began researching in the 1980s. He helped form the American Academy of Ozone Therapy, which certifies physicians, dentists, and veterinarians, and he teaches its medical track. His clinic spans about 15,000 square feet and includes an IV infusion room and in-house testing for mitochondrial and endothelial function, including a computerized oxygen and carbon dioxide analysis system he developed about 25 years ago. He is the author of Bursting with Energy. - - - - - Learn about ozone therapy certification for physicians, dentists, and veterinarians at the American Academy of Ozone Therapy: aaot.us Request an appointment at Frank's Carson City clinic at antiagingmedicine.com - - - - - Connect with us: Schedule a Discovery Call at MavrixProfitSystem.com Subscribe: Spotify, Apple Podcast & iHeart Radio PODCAST Produced by: https://drtalks.com/channel-growth
