John R. Roland, M.D. trained in Biochemistry, then pursued his doctorate through the University of Texas where he pursued interest in Neuroscience and Neurosurgery. He continued his post-graduate work at Duke, and he trained in Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine. He obtained additional boards in Sports Medicine. The Neuroscience background enabled him to help develop TPA for stroke protocols for hospitals and helped several hospital gain accreditations. His administrative success led him to numerous medical directorships at a number of hospitals. He became an Area Medical Director for the largest free standing ER in the country.

But despite success in a number of areas in his medical and personal realms, he felt there was always something missing. He knew the treatments being delivered were treating only part of the problems that patients were experiencing. He began to reflect on how obesity is linked to so many diseases, but the approaches to treating obesity seemed to miss the mark. He began to recognize patterns of disease and lifestyle in his patients that continued to be unaddressed. He saw how fractured health care has become. He began searching for the underlying cause of disease. He found other doctors who were also becoming interested in the same method. He became aware that physicians were generally good at one thing: prescribing medication. The unhealthy lifestyles and the habits remained unaddressed, causing people to only get worse over time.

What was missing was that doctors weren’t addressing the true causes of disease. Understanding biochemistry, the first rung of his medical training, was the key. The most important elements to health are those things that make individual cells healthy. The cell has the requirement to oxygenate, respirate, absorb nutrients, dispose of waste, rebuild, repair and communicate with other cells in the body to effect total health. This dynamic occurs on the microscopic scale, as well as the macroscopic scale in the body.