I’m doctor John Herzog and this question used to keep me up at night. So much so that few years ago I started on a journey to create something that had never been done before:
A comprehensive doctor’s book of survival home remedies filled with scientifically proven ways to keep us strong and healthy in difficult times.
John Herzog Md,Board Certified Surgeon
This information is very important now in this time of uncertainty, when the healthcare system can be at any moment stressed to its limit.
I Should Know… I’m
An Orthopedic and Trauma Surgeon
I gravitated to this profession, walking in the footsteps of my grandfather, father, and uncle.
But Dad influenced me the most. He was kind of a cross between James Bond and a cowboy.
A medical pioneer, who performed the first total hip and total knee replacement in the state of Michigan.
My Focus Is To Keep People Out Of The Emergency Room
But if there’s one thing I’ve learned, after three decades in medicine, it’s that caring for folk isn’t easy.
Putting new joints in hips has a very distinct protocol. Putting a kid’s foot back together after a lawn mower accident takes the art of medicine.
Mom and Dad, The Cowboy Doctor
Then you’ve got to understand not only the physical problems, but the psychological issues in dealing with grief, guilt, and ongoing medical problems.
I was good at it. But I had doubts…
You see, many of the treatments I’d recommend cost waaaay too much, they weren’t always effective, with catastrophic side effects, and could even put patients at risk.
Me, as a younger man
But I soldiered on. I trusted my training. How could I not?
But Trauma… Is Also An Amazing Teacher
Something I understand firsthand.
My first encounter came, in fact, when I collided with – of all things – a moose. At Moosehead Lake in Maine – I kid you not!
At 50 years of age, I sustained a head injury in the collision. I bet you’re wondering what happened to the moose!
I can’t tell you, but I suspect he was better off than me, as he likely recovered in the forest. With a healthy diet.
Me on the other hand, I was in a critical state.
Only a week after the collision I attempted to go back to work. But fate had other plans for me.
Because on my way to surgery my world turned upside down.
I had a major seizure and ended up a patient instead of a doctor.
Instead of saving a patient’s life I needed to be saved!
This Was My Light Bulb Moment…
Because it was then that my doubts about my profession came to rest.
After I was:
- Stranded on meds. With disturbing side effects.
- Fundamental elements of my health were flat out ignored, in place of more expensive (financially ruinous) options that, as a doctor — one link in our health system’s long chain — I didn’t fully appreciate at the time.
- Robbed of sleep. Rushed back and forth from hospital. Stressed. Snapping at loved ones. Which I hated…
- My bathroom scale started to buckle.
Leading to high cholesterol, and painful arthritis. Chronic ailments our health system neglects.
In short, I’d become my own victim. Despite my best intentions.
I was devastated.
What would gramps and my father have thought?
Our hippocratic oath said, “do no harm”, but was I so innocent?
You see, their approach had been remarkably different.
Focused on prevention, and helping the body do what it was designed to do – heal itself-with as few drugs as possible.
They were true doctors. Focused on what helped. Using old-school, traditional remedies and new. Without prejudice.
Only, back then, not everyone was as prudent as they were.
I’m sure you’ve heard of them…
Folk remedies that claim to do X but end up causing you harm.
Like putting butter on a burn, which feels soothing, but is also an infection’s paradise.
(Think about it, our skin is there to protect against bacteria, whereas a burn removes this dermal layer, leaving you exposed).
Enough for most to assume many traditional remedies are junk.
Throwing the baby out with the bath water.
As would I. If it wasn’t for…
A New Scientific Medical Breakthrough
…on natural remedies, I read at the time, and absorbed like a dry sponge.
Like a starving man at a thanksgiving buffet.
Including studies from prestigious medical institutions like John Hopkins, Harvard, and the New England Journal of Medicine123.
Studies which (unlike our less diligent forefathers) successfully tested these remedies for their effectiveness and risk.
This time, it was different.
I was ecstatic.
These were inexpensive, low-risk solutions, with fewer side-effects that could avoid the hospital outright and attack medical problems at their source.
That’s why, soon after, I launched my own study with medical students and moved to a home -remedy based lifestyle.
These studies radically changed my diet, my way of treating myself and my patients.In fact, it changed my whole life.
I learned from experience for example how the best diet converts to the best fuel for the human body and mind…
Not only is diet extremely important, but it may be the most under-utilized portion of medicine today.
I truly believe if we all moved to a correct diet, we would spend 80% less on our healthcare. Our diet is killing us.
With that flash of insight 10 years ago, I knew three things for certain:
I needed to:
1. Get rid of my arthritis
2. Get back in shape
3. Get off pharmaceutical medications
I realized, in short, the last thing I wanted was to spend my life dependent on our health system
So, I turned myself into a guinea pig and, simply by embracing these, alternative remedies and a healthy diet, got my cholesterol reading back to where it should be. I don’t have pain in my back or knees, and I’m fully fighting fit.
I’m also happier and more energetic.
Simply because of a tiny change, I now feel like I’m in my 20s again. I wish everyone could feel this way.
That’s why I developed…
THE DOCTOR’S BOOK OF SURVIVAL HOME REMEDIES
This book is an all-in-one health resource with reliable scientifically-backed remedies for when help can’t reach you.
This “Health Survival Encyclopedia” is 401 pages chock-full of over 100 scientifically researched natural home remedies that can keep you and your family healthy and safe, even when going outside might be the worst option.
Excerpts from The Doctor’s Book of Survival Home Remedies can be read in the “DIY Remedies” section of this website or you can simply scroll down to discover bits from my book
It is the best alternative health insurance you could possibly have for when modern medicine goes out the window, and survival is on the line.
Simple, Smart & Easy
I wrote “Doctor’s Book of Survival Home Remedies” as a smart, simple, and easy way for people to stay healthy and strong, and to understand all their options, while granting access to hundreds of remedies for the majority of health problems we face.
This information can help anyone before, during and after SHTF.
It’s also easy to read, to understand and to apply. For experts and novices alike.
Plus, it doesn’t matter where someone lives.
Whether it’s the city, suburbs or out in the sticks. And it doesn’t matter how prepared or underprepared someone feels about their “survival” situation.
“The Doctor’s Book of Survival Home Remedies” can be a powerful ally that keeps many of us healthy for as long as possible.
