With over 30 years experience in Preventive Healthcare, Dr. Walker works in partnership with her clients to achieve greater wellness, vitality and longevity. Dr. Walker's Health Coaching practice evolved from ten years experience as a dental hygienist and over twenty years practicing chiropractic and clinical nutrition.

       Her extensive education and training combine skills from dentistry, chiropractic, natural healing, nutrition, Functional Medicine, herbology, laboratory diagnosis and Oriental Medicine. She helps her clients look at the big picture and facilitates a whole body approach to regeneration and healing that is often missing in this world of medical specialization. Her passion and devotion to health, fitness and a balanced lifestyle is the basis and primary focus of her health coaching practice. In 2001 she wrote Conquer Fatigue in 30 Days to give her clients a roadmap for achieving better health.

Education:
AS in Dental Hygiene, St. Petersburg Junior College, FL,
BS in Human Biology, Doctor of Chiropractic, cum laude, and Certification in Acupuncture and Physiotherapy, all from the National College of Chiropractic, Lombard, IL

       In addition, Dr. Walker has taken hundreds of hours in Postgraduate Seminars in Clinical Nutrition, Functional Medicine, Laboratory Diagnosis, Sports Medicine, Endocrinology, Orthopedics, Neurology, Radiology and Oriental Medicine. Below is a partial list of Dr. Walker's post-graduate courses attended over the past ten years.

       Dr. Walker's long health career has included practice in the Tampa Bay area of Florida, Kansas City, MO, Fort Collins, CO and presently at the Ageless Living Center in Lakewood, CO. In addition, for two years she taught Physiotherapy and was a part-time clinician at the Cleveland College of Chiropractic in Kansas City.

       Dr. Walker believes that the greatest role of a physician is that of a teacher. Dr. Walker is a doctor who has taken her own healing journey, experiencing firsthand the principles of healing and regeneration. She has learned what works and what does not. Her vast knowledge and experience can help you find the shortest route to better health.

       Your health is your most precious asset. There is nothing that makes you feel more weak and powerless than being ill. Overcoming a sickly childhood and learning how to stay healthy without antibiotics for over 30 years has been a very life-changing and empowering experience for Dr. Walker. In 1980, she faced another health challenge that made her an even better physician. She developed an autoimmune disorder caused by multiple chemical exposures.

       With any chronic illness, there are multiple contributing factors that require a variety of tactics to improve the outcome. Anyone who believes there is a single cure or one doctor who can help all facets of your chronic disease is doomed to eternal frustration and disappointment. Complex diseases require the help of multiple healing modalities and a variety of health practitioners. Dr. Walker’s role is to help you understand how you became ill and what you can do about it.

      Most doctors have not had time to learn the vast subject of nutrition and regenerative healing. Therefore, when you implement these important principles into your healing regimen, many symptoms that had previously been difficult to resolve can often be improved. This can allow you to achieve a higher level of healing, improved function and greater vitality.

       With her Health Coaching and educational websites, Dr. Walker is extending her sincerest desire to be of service to you -- with the flexibility of accessing her expertise in whatever way you need it. Whether you need to ask a question, explore a topic of interest or investigate a new product, you can do so from the comfort of your own home. Dr. Walker targets all information and product recommendations to your specific needs and interests. You can experience a new world of healthcare and explore information on these sites that will become an invaluable tool in your journey to health and wellness.

       In recent years, Dr. Elizabeth Walker returned to dentistry on a part-time basis in order to view first hand how her knowledge of Preventive Medicine could enhance the practice of dental hygiene. The mouth has always been the most efficient and direct way for a clinician to view both hard tissues (teeth and bone) and soft tissues (gums, cheeks, tongue, mucosa, etc). Now more than ever, we can appreciate that the health of the mouth gives many clues about a person's general health and nutritional status.

       In this era of specialized medicine, it is common for practitioners to adopt a narrow focus in their healing parameters. Dentistry is only recently awakening to the recognition that what is happening in the mouth relates to similar health problems in other organs and tissues. For instance, research now indicates that chronic inflammation and infection of the teeth and gums is often related to other inflammatory disorders such as diabetes, heart disease, blood diseases such as leukemia and premature childbirth.

       With the increasing incidence of chronic diseases we must adopt a multidisciplinary approach, because multiple risk factors have to be addressed in order for an individual to achieve maximal healing. This can only occur when health practitioners of various disciplines share their knowledge. Changes to standards of care are unsettling at first to long-time practitioners, and this often leads to professional criticism.

       For years, the medical profession resisted the exploration of natural healing methods and even sanctioned their members who did so. Thankfully this behavior finally seems to be abating, in part, due to numerous drugs being removed from the market due to issues with toxicity, adverse reactions and deaths. Nutrition and Oriental Medicine seminars are now exploding with medical doctors, eager to find new and safer ways to help their clients.

       With this site, Dr. Walker explains concepts to enhance healing of both general health problems and dental conditions utilizing the same safe and scientifically sound protocols she has used for years in her chiropractic and health coaching practice. Her primary focus in clinical practice has been to understand symptoms and their underlying causes because symptoms are literally the language of disease. When a clinician understands this language they can provide interventions that not only clear up multiple symptoms but also prevent or decrease the severity of chronic diseases.

       The foundation of our health is the chemicals known as vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. Minerals literally hold us together. Deficiencies in any of these areas cause biochemical imbalances that create symptoms first, and then disease. All health care practitioners should strive to understand and recognize the signs and symptoms of nutritional deficiencies. You will be amazed as Dr. Walker initially was, how many signs and symptoms disappear when the body is well nourished.

       Ignoring the need to restore biochemical imbalances leads to excessive use of pharmacology and the secondary health problems brought about by the many side effects and nutrient depletions caused by medications.

       Because the subject of nutrition is extremely vast and complex, many medical and dental personnel avoid delving into it with their clients. You will see from the information in this website that a few simple core principles will provide outstanding results. If every one of our clients took a high quality, comprehensive nutrition supplement, ate good food the majority of time, and got a half hour of exercise a day, the majority of chronic health problems would decrease substantially.

       Nutrition and natural healing methods provide an outstanding vehicle for the treatment of health problems because they are the only healing modalities that can regenerate the body and reverse the course of disease. This is particularly true with inflammatory diseases. Many people have used diet, nutritional supplementation, and exercise to eliminate the need for medicines in type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, inflammatory bowel disorders, high cholesterol and osteoarthritis. Drug therapies can only manage these disorders, never cure.

       Health dysfunctions always have one or more reasons. Research often does not provide all the answers because they use parameters that are too small to fit clinical practice. You cannot just study one solution. Complex health problems require multiple solutions, often from more than one source. Many people with chronic health problems can benefit from utilizing a variety of health practitioners because no single profession knows everything about restoring health. 

       Dr. Walker's sincere desire is that the clinical practice of dentistry will be enhanced by inspiring both clinicians and clients to try multiple ways to improve oral health problems. The suggestions she has put forth engage the client in an active role in their healing. The former medical model of the client being a passive recipient of a clinician's healing modalities is outmoded and expensive and has nearly bankrupted our health care system.

       In decades past, some of the best nutrition scholars and clinicians were dentists. Dr. Royal Lee started a nutrition company in 1926 called Standard Process Labs, which is still going strong today. An Ohio dentist named Dr. Weston Price studied the association between dental diseases and diet among indigenous tribes of Africa Asia and the Pacific in the 1930's. His work is still promoted through the Weston A. Price Foundation (www.WestonAPrice.org).

        One of Dr. Walker's first nutrition mentors was Emmanuel Cheraskin, MD, DMD, who wrote over 700 books and scientific papers in his long career as head of the nutrition department at the University of Alabama. His book, Psychodietetics, Food as the Key to Emotional Health, cowritten with Ringsdorf and Brecher in 1974, was revolutionary in its information asserting that we need more than drugs to treat mental illnesses.

       In 1975, Elizabeth Walker was practicing dental hygiene when a patient who happened to be a chiropractor began to challenge both her beliefs about health and disease. She had always been the sickly member of her family and her frequent sore throats, earaches, coughs, flus, etc. caused her to be on antibiotics at least three times per year. He taught her that she was sick so often not because of the strength of the germs in her environment but because of the weakness of her immune system, which could be improved.

       She took his advice about changing her diet and lifestyle and got serious about taking nutritional supplements. During the next four years of practicing dental hygiene (without a mask) she never again needed antibiotics to fight an infection. This inspirational doctor taught her that the most important function of a health care provider is to teach their clients the cause of their problems and how they can take an active role in their own health. She realized that this was the medicine of the future and in 1979 she went to The National College of Chiropractic so she could learn about Preventive Medicine.

       Now, more than thirty years later, she still has never had to use antibiotics for an infection. Despite never having had a flu shot, she has not had the flu or a fever in over twenty-five years. Plus, she never gets cavities or gum disease. Her twenty-two-year old son has been raised without a single round of antibiotics and has also never had a cavity in his adult teeth. Obviously, there is more to the prevention and treatment of disease than killing germs, vaccines and immuno-suppressant drugs. 

       In this website Dr. Walker offers her knowledge and clinical experience to both laypersons and dental professionals to initiate some protocols for dentistry that combine preventive medicine, nutrition, diet and lifestyle recommendations. She has had the opportunity to use most of these recommendations personally and with hundreds of clients. Many of the diet, nutrition and lifestyle guidelines are explained more fully in her book, Conquer Fatigue in 30 Days.

        This is truly evidence-based medicine. For over twenty years, Dr. Walker has studied nutrition and Preventive Medicine with some of the most brilliant scientists this country has to offer. Her primary mentors at the Institute for Functional Medicine in Gig Harbor, WA operate a clinical research facility where extensive research and clinical trials are performed utilizing nutrition products as the primary mode of healing. Their brilliant work is featured in prominent scientific publications. Unlike many of the bogus nutrition fads that have come and gone, nothing she has ever been taught by these scientists has been retracted as invalid.

       Below is a partial list of Dr. Walker's recent semiar trainings. Thank you for visiting www.VitalityDoctor.com! Email Dr. Walker

1998 (Four days) Health Coach Training with Dr. Mark Percival

1998 Nutritional Alternatives and Adjuncts to Common Medications

1999 Mastering Nutritional and Natural Medicine

1999 Improving Intercellular Communication in Managing Chronic Illness – A functional medicine approach to regulating biochemical mediators

1999 Cardiovascular Disease, Dysbiosis, Impaired Detoxification, Female Hormone

          Balances and Dysglycemia

2000 The Essential of Herbal Care

2000 Nutritional Management of the Underlying Causes of Chronic Disease

2000 Certificate of Educational Attainment in Functional Laboratory Assessment

2001 Enhancing Sports Performance and Injury Recovery