We all make decisions – some poor, some good. Some bad decisions are based on incomplete or incorrect information. Even though the choice to work with a holistic health care practitioner is a road less traveled, it is a worthwhile one. Some courageous medical doctors have even ventured out to traverse the lands of the healing arts. They are holistic medical doctors who treat the cause of diseases instead of merely suppressing symptoms. They are the few, the strong, the brave – a minority. 
Before the 1950s, most medical doctors were holistic. From the 1930-1950s, Dr. Royal Lee delivered lectures all over the country to medical doctors Canadian Health and Care Pharmacy. Many of them even instructed their patients to consume whole food concentrates and observed countless healing miracles. Dr. Lee was knowledgeable about every aspect of human physiology, the science and study of the function of the body’s systems, organs and cells. His knowledge of the effectiveness of whole food concentrates to support the healing process is why medical doctors sought him out.
In 1937, Dr. Lee invented the endocardiograph, a tool for graphing heart sounds. Previously, most nutrition-minded healthcare providers depended on the subjective stethoscope for a reading of the heart. Dr. Lee invented this tool to provide practitioners with an objective, accurate and detailed recording for evaluating the health of the heart and nutritional status.
For years, Dr. Lee traveled across the U.S. and taught chiropractors, cardiologists and other medical professionals how to use this device because it could detect nutritional deficiencies and imbalances long before a patient experienced symptoms. The endocardiograph amplifies and records both audible and inaudible heart sounds as the blood moves through the various chambers, valves and vessels over a five-minute period. This device demonstrated that the heart almost instantly reflects changes in body chemistry immediately after ingesting specific whole food concentrates.
The endocardiograph signature reflects the opening and closing of the valves, the contraction and strength of the heart muscles, and the efficiency of the movement of the blood, thus giving a clear view of heart function. It allows health care professionals to record the location, duration and intensity of murmurs and to hear variations too slight to be detected with a stethoscope.
In contrast, the modern electrocardiograph (EKC) used in hospitals today only records the surface electrical impulse as it moves through the nerves of heart tissue. The EKG primarily indicates if the heart’s nervous tissue network has experienced trauma or permanent damage to its electrical functioning. Unfortunately, it will not discriminate valve function, muscle efficiency, nutritional deficiencies, etc.
Medical doctors and cardiologists who practiced medicine in the 1940s and 50s provided Dr. Lee’s whole food concentrates to patients. Over time, they are becoming a rarity. Why are modern day medical doctors choosing not to incorporate whole food nutrition into their practice when it was used by the doctors before them with great success? A look into history shows us that many medical doctors took a detour down a slippery slope and never found their way back to the road of healing with whole food nutrition.