Layton Office

(801) 771-2200

West Haven Office

(801) 731-9899

Ever since I was a little kid, I had a knack for human touch. I felt it was a gift I was given. In retrospect, I recognize this from early childhood. I would often work on my older siblings, scratching backs and tickling and massaging for long periods of time. I remember they would bribe me to do more by paying me in nickels and dimes for working on their backs. Fast forward to my teen years when my sister injured her leg with a deep contusion. In severe pain, she struggled to walk and would cry into the night. After a few days of this, I began stretching and massaging her leg before bed and that service not only helped her sleep well, she claims it caused her to heal fast and complete. In high school, I took a sports medicine class and really enjoyed assisting the trainer and working on the athletes, so at that time I made the decision to be a sports therapist.

Less than a year later at 17 years old, I learned about chiropractic care and it caught my attention. From that day, the more that I learned about the healing art of chiropractic, the more intrigued I became. Eventually, I decided that my path would lead to chiropractic school. When I learned that chiropractors were actually doctors, I nearly changed my mind, but after interviewing a chiropractor to learn more of what was required, I received my very first adjustment. It so overwhelmed my senses that I wasn’t sure at first whether I was broken or actually improved, but it was then I realized my destiny was to become a Doctor of Chiropractic.

Just after getting married, I began to receive regular chiropractic adjustments while going to school and working full time at Autoliv in Ogden. My mentor, Dr. Kris Davis, allowed me to shadow him and receive chiropractic adjustments in exchange for time spent assisting him. In our time together, he discussed posture and stretches with me, and gave me many tips along the way. When he took x-rays of my spine, he taught me that I had a stressed and injured spine, and that I would need lots of adjustments because my back at age 22 was "as bad or worse than a 40 year old." I loved getting adjusted and would occasionally do my stretches, but I was non-compliant at drinking water or improving my posture. I loved my time with him so much, I decided I wanted to serve people as he did. I also wanted to attend the same school because that college was known to have a great science curriculum and the best statistics of students passing the national board exams. In addition, it helped that I really wanted to move to the northwest to live, and this was a great chance to try it out for 4 years. 

Eventually I completed my undergraduate courses from Weber State while working assembly line work at Autoliv in Ogden. I was then accepted at Western States Chiropractic College in 1999 (now Western States University). Toward the middle of my second quarter, I was practicing palpation with another student who was a massage therapist. This other student told me I was dehydrated and that I should drink much more water and should probably quit drinking soda as well. After quitting the soda a few weeks later, I learned that dehydration was one of the major reasons for my chronic achy back. All I did was stop soda and it made a major difference in my lower back in a very short time. That was the end of my soda drinking after years of addiction. I have been soda free since the spring of 2000.

As my schooling continued, my family also began to be adjusted. My wife and 2-year-old were treated by students for over a year before I started adjusting them. My son stopped getting sick, and my wife felt better from prior car crash injuries (more on auto accident treatment here), so we were converted to chiropractic adjustments. I also noticed that adjustments greatly reduced my chronically recurring sinusitis as well as my irritable bowel symptoms. Eventually, I gave my x-rays from Dr. Davis to the school’s radiology instructor. After reviewing my x-rays, she showed me the late effects of injuries in my lower spine and said that I had a spine worse than a 40-year-old! I then understood that my crazy “stunt man” lifestyle as a kid had consequences years later.

Approximately 1 year after becoming a Chiropractic Physician, I had another profound experience that reinforced the power of chiropractic care. My practice was in West Haven but I was still living in Layton and I was home dreadfully sick with the seasonal influenza with a temperature of 104!  I called a colleague friend who had just moved to Syracuse and asked if he would adjust me if I wore a mask. Of course he was happy to help (it was near lunch time so he had me come right in). As he began the adjustment, I noticed that it felt so tender that I thought he might break me. Within a minute of him adjusting my neck, I broke out in an intense sweat. He took my temperature a few minutes later and it was normal! I felt so much better and continued that way with no residual effects. It reminded me of newspaper articles I’d seen from 1918 after the great flu pandemic when chiropractic care saved sick people’s lives. They’d been turned away by the medical community saying they were too sick and to go home to die. But they chose to try chiropractic and saw great improvement by being adjusted. I had experienced for myself the same powerful healing that’s found in the human body and may be expressed properly by the chiropractic adjustment.

Only a few months after my miraculous healing from the flu, I attended a continuing education seminar in Oregon where Doctor and researcher Dan Murphy introduced me to multiple studies showing how factory-made dietary preservatives caused DNA damage and chronic disease. It was alarming new information coming out of the latest research and it was scary. That night, I went to a seafood restaurant with my family which included my 4-year-old and 16-month-old twins. The kind waitress gave us saltine crackers to hold the kids until the food came out. As they were munching on the crackers, I read the ingredients on the wrapper and gasped in horror. The 2nd ingredient (after enriched white flour) was hydrogenated cottonseed oil—the very preservative Dan Murphy had just taught me about that day! I realized that I needed to pay more attention to nutrition as well as be more knowledgeable and proactive for my children and family to live a disease prevention lifestyle. That began a journey and a passion that would lead to nutrition and lifestyle coaching (more info can be found here).

Less than 2 years later, I was challenged by a colleague from school to go through a correction care treatment plan that would significantly change how I served others and recommended care. To accomplish this, I set time out of my week to visit other chiropractors that I trusted to give me there honest opinion and I asked them to not only adjust my spine, but to also critique me in how I could change to improve in my spinal hygiene. I learned what it meant to be symptom free and have the stability to hold adjustments long term. I began recommending this type of care plan to my patients so others could experience what I had and live a better life. I am thankful to have witnessed lives changed and health restored through corrective care plans.

Also, in 2007, I began researching nutritional companies and then spent an additional 6 months of study and learning the difference from the micronutrient “old school” nutrition model taught in universities, versus the macro whole-food nutrient philosophy that has held true for thousands of years. With said research, I was convinced to start my first real cleanse with the Standard Process nutrition supplements and guidelines. It lasted 21 days and made a huge impact on my life. I began teaching more and more about natural nutrition and helping people cleanse their bodies from their toxic daily environment. My new mantra that came from Hippocrates is: “Let thy food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”

Over the years, I also have experienced many injuries due to my active and sometimes traumatic recreational lifestyle. I believe this experience has blessed me with empathy for the patients that I serve. In dealing with these injuries, I learned how to utilize chiropractic and nutritional strategies to accelerate healing and reduce the degenerative process. After at least 3 lumbar disc injuries and so many ankle injuries that I lost count, I now have a stronger back (due to my core) with less degenerative findings in my mid 40's than I did at age 22! I no longer use ankle braces, and even though I play competitive recreational basketball 3 to 4 times a week, my injury rate has dropped dramatically. It's interesting that I didn't get to this point with chiropractic alone, but also through dietary changes and nerve stimulus training. I began to practice what I had been taught and believed to be true, until it became reality. I have reversed the disease process in myself primarily due to a focus on and personal application of the health principles that I have taught now for many years (more info on sports injuries here).

With this new knowledge and experience, I began to preach and push nutrition so much that my staff kept complaining I was talking too much and causing backed up appointments. I soon found it was necessary to either schedule longer appointments, stop talking nutrition, or something else. After I tried the first 2 choices with no progress, I finally hired an assistant to work with patients on nutrition. Through trial and error and learning from others who have had the same or similar experiences, I have now implemented a complete care process that will help patients to heal from the inside out with long term results when followed correctly. I am helping others to do in a matter of months what it took me years to accomplish in my own life.

The past few years, I have been reading and learning a great deal about the brain and its amazing functions and control. I now fully understand that health and healing is the design of the human body and is controlled through proper nerve function. I am working on the implementation of "think well" treatments that will bring lasting lifestyle changes, and hopefully result in healthier, happier individuals that invest in the health of their family. I am thankful for all that I have learned and will yet learn in the healing and health promotion process of “Think Well, Move Well, and Eat Well to Be Well!”

Location

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West Haven Office

Monday

8:00 am - 6:00 pm

Tuesday

8:00 am - 6:00 pm

Wednesday

8:00 am - 6:00 pm

Thursday

Closed

Friday

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Saturday

Closed

Sunday

Closed

Layton Office

Monday

8:00 am - 6:00 pm

Tuesday

8:00 am - 6:00 pm

Wednesday

8:00 am - 6:00 pm

Thursday

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Friday

Closed

Saturday

Closed

Sunday

Closed

West Haven Office

Monday
8:00 am - 6:00 pm
Tuesday
8:00 am - 6:00 pm
Wednesday
8:00 am - 6:00 pm
Thursday
Closed
Friday
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Saturday
Closed
Sunday
Closed

Layton Office

Monday
8:00 am - 6:00 pm
Tuesday
8:00 am - 6:00 pm
Wednesday
8:00 am - 6:00 pm
Thursday
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday
Closed
Saturday
Closed
Sunday
Closed