I became acutely aware of the value of exercise in the 5th grade. That was the first year we were required to take the Presidents Physical Fitness Test. I failed the test and was extremely embarrassed in front of my classmates. I was the class president and this physical failure was devastating. I started reading every body building book and magazine I could get my hands on. I hid in the basement and exercised in secret to over come the disability I was living with. I was all alone, miserable but I was adamant I could turn this problem I had around. It took a while but by the time puberty caught up with me I had built a fairly fit body. I was never an outstanding athlete but I did get most of my college tuition paid by pole vaulting. I finally had some self esteem. Exercise was my awakening to a new way of life. Now it is a part of my daily routine. It’s as natural to me as eating and breathing. Even through residency and my surgical practice when it would be easy to not exercise and instead devote those hours to society I found time to exercise. I found I gave more if I took the time to care for my self.

The bottom line to this story is that if I can be fit, anybody can be fit. You just need to know how to do it, and then follow through with effective exercise.

Nutrition became part of my professional duties during medical school and surgical residency. Surgeons learned how to feed people by vein in the early 70’s. Burn victims and patients with massive abdominal wounds can not be feed by mouth. With the GI tract unavailable, we learned how to give every gram of protein, carbohydrate, fat, and vitamins in liquid suspension intravenously.. I was very much involved from the ground up in surgical nutrition challenges with extremely difficult cases. We had incredibly gratifying results saving people that would have died just months before we learned these new techniques. The same nutrition science that heals massive wounds also builds fit bodies in healthy people. But I can assure you, it is a lot more fun to actually EAT protein, carbohydrates, and fat.

I developed the Heuser Clinic because I watched the overall health of Americans deteriorate over the past 30 years. As I got older my patients got sicker. Not from the diseases they were sent to the hospital to see me for, but they were sicker because they were getting fatter and fatter.. They all had heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes. My breast cancer patients were not ultimately dying of breast cancer, I could cure them of that disease.. They ended up dying several years later of heart attacks. If it wasn't heart disease it was something else. I saw more and more patients with surgical complications of diabetes. Easy operations were made hard because of all the fat. To make matters worse, no one in medicine was doing anything to help people stop or reverse all these preventable diseases. My interest in nutrition and exercise was the answer to this frustrating dilemma. The Clinic was developed to enable people to help themselves, by eating nutritious foods and exercising effectively, building fit healthy, vigorous bodies. 90% of the diseases Americans currently die from we reverse or STOP here at the Heuser Clinic, it's that simple.

The clinic is the place to come to learn how to take control of your life and live a healthy life-style. The whole family is invited to learn together to have generations of wellness.