Dr. Jewel Pookrum Melanin Part 1
From 5/11/2000. Brother R.A. and Nina LaNegra interviews Dr. Jewel Pookrum. Dr. Pookrum talks about melanin, and the science and power of it. She also discusses the dynamics of the body and mind inrelation to our environment. Empowering information!Jewel I. Pookrum, M.D.Preventative and Wholistic Physician"My purpose is to see the perfection of every person's present state of health.I will support them in feeling joyful and energized in mind, body and spirit" BackgroundJewel I. Pookrum, M.D. brings a sense of vitality and boundless energy to her work. She is the Medical Director and founder of Perfect Health Institute of Nutritional Medicine, a health environment where clinical medicine and wholistic practices are combined in a highly individualized approach. Her treatments have helped patients to heal visible signs of cancer, erase aging lines and learn to live happy, balanced and pain freelives.According to Dr. Pookrum, nothing in our world has the power to make us weak, sad or diseased if we adopt the proper attitude, diet and commitment to wellness. Each of us can live in infinite perfection. Dr.Pookrum's wholistic philosophy incorporates her physician al gynecological training and a 10.year odyssey into wellness therapies and techniques. The capacity for health lies within the human body. The body is a barometer for assessing one's ability to live in harmony with his or her environment.TechniquesBringing the body into balance, Dr. Pookrum blends the best of modern medicine with American Indian healing techniques, Bach flower remedies, neurolinguistic programming macrobiotic diets, Pisonic cell regeneration and a cornucopia of concepts gleaned from travel lectures, textbooks and directed studies. Dr. Pookrum founded Perfect Health Institute 1986 to share these therapies with the wholistic medical professionals and an ever-expanding list of patients.The Perfect Health Institute conducts a full patient history and physicalexamination, provides nutritional and life style patterning counseling and recommends wholistic, somatic, mental and spiritual therapies. In Tandem with medical professionals, each patient develops a plan to get control of life and live it in a centered and positive manner.Achievements and RecognitionDr. Pookrum is an acknowledged leader in the natural healing movement. Among her most notable recognition was the selection by Nelson and Winnie Mandela to be their consulting physician during their historic visit to the United States in 1990. She has hosted wellness talk shows on WCHB and WQBH radio stations in Detroit., Michigan from 1986 to 1991. She has conducted lectures for major corporations, secondary education, college and medic organizations and churches. She has received high praise for her dedication to sharing her vast knowledge of wholistic healing techniques. She has been cited as one of the Outstanding Young Women of America, named by the Detroit News as one of Detroit's leading physician honored by the Coalition of 100 Black Women, selected as a subject of a CommemorativePersonalBorn in Detroit in 1948, Dr. Pookrum grew up in Chicago and returned to Detroit for residency and medical practice. She is the mother of four children and she credits her great grandmother and an aunt with helping her shape a preventative and wholistic career path. Jewel I. Pookrum, M.D. brings a sense of vitality and boundless energy to her work. She is the Medical Director and founder of Perfect Health Institute of Nutritional Medicine, a health environment where clinical medicine and wholistic practices are combined in a highly individualized approach. Her treatments have helped patients to heal visible signs of cancer erase aging lines and learn to live happy, balanced and pain free lives.According to Dr. Pookrum, nothing in our world has the power to make us weak, sad or diseased if we adopt the proper attitude, diet and commitment to wellness. Each of us can live in infinite perfection. Dr. Pookrum s wholistic philosophy incorporates her physician al gynecological training and a 10 year odyssey into wellness therapies and techniques. The capacity for health lies within the human body. The body is a barometer for assessing one's ability to live in harmony with his or her environment.EducationDr. Pookrum graduated from Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois in 1968, where completed graduate work in microbiology and received herMaster degree in 1971. Pookrum graduated from Creighton University Medical School in Omaha, Nebraska in 1975. She completed her Obstetrics-Gynecology residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit,Michigan in 1979 where she remained on staff from 1979-1981.Wholistic StudiesA growing interest in wellness and self-Initiated healing prompted Dr.Pookrum to pursue a independent education in foods, nutrition and related subjects for six years before attending formal programs. She has completed Macrobiotic seminars, intensive workshops and lectures with Michio Kushi and Michael Rossoff. She studied with the Fultonia Institute and Fasting Center in Chicago, Illinois where Dick Gregory developed his fasting and nutrition plan. Dr. Pookrum also attended the Iridology Institute, International Institute of Reflexology, School Orthomolecular Nutrition, the School of Pisonic Medicine of Cellular Regeneration in London, England. She also completed a number of interpretive astrology courses, studied neurolinguistic programming with Tony Robbins and Richard Morales, and learned ancient healing techniques in Mexico, Egypt, West Indies and North America.Professional ExperienceDr. Pookrum began her medical career as Director of the Gynecology Obstetrics Department Woodrow Wilson Clinic, at Henry Ford Hospital. Supervising a 10-member staff. As she practiced traditional medicine,she observed that surgery did not always cure acute pain as is presented. At the same time, she became aware of the fact that the body often cured Its by simply changing and improving the patient's diet. Dr. Pookrum soon became aware of U fact that by examining certain parts of the body -- the iris or the feet, for example, she could have a barometer of the body's current condition of health. She quickly understood that U human body is a whole entity in which the anatomical structure, the physical function ax emotional state are interdependent and reciprocal in relationship; a patient got well when the healing was self-initiated and self~achieved. Dr. Pookrum opened the doors of her individu practice in 1981 and founded the Perfect Health Institute of Nutritional Medicine in 1986.Perfect Health Institute of Nutritional MedicineThe principle that every health condition is "perfect" guides the mission of the Perfect Heal Institute. Within every challenge are the lessons of giving and receIving more love, and in doji so, the impact of disease Is neutralized. The Institute provides instruction and support for those seeking a balanced diet, attitude and lifestyle that builds a perfect health consciousnes The staff includes licensed and certitied physicians,chiropractors, registered nurse psychiatric social workers, nutritionists,trained acupuncturists and massage therapist Specialties include internal medicine, nutrition, sports medicine and adjustment techniquc and life style patterning counselors.Philosophy "Perfect health is our birthright, a gift we already possess. I can help you discover by supporting you mentally, spiritually, emotionally and physically. Medical techniques are designed specifically for each patient".No one needs to live with pain, fear or disease. We are all individually responsible for the quality and condition of our health. I support the use of natural, non-invasive therapies. I will guide my patients past a reliance on the more external modalities of treatments such as drugs and surgery. Both the Perfect Health Institute and the Double Helix Medical Corporation support the use of diet as the body's natural medicine. Used in combination with hen vitamins from food sources and appropriate physical activity and mental conditioning, the body begins to heal and the aging process slows or reverses itself. http://www.everlastinglife.net/people... Book: Vitamins & Minerals from A to Z With Ethno-Consciousness http://www.amazon.com