Bill Bergman, M.D. is a physician and educator in the fast-growing field of alternative and preventive medicine, and has a particular interest in a spiritual and holistic approach to health promotion and stress management.
Raised in New York City, Dr. Bergman attended Westbury High School, graduating in 1962 with the American Legion Citizenship Award and the Bank of Westbury Outstanding Student Award. A Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude graduate of Amherst College in 1966, he went on to Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons as a member of the International Fellows Program at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and a Edward John Noble Foundation Fellowship recipient in 1968. Dr. Bergman completed his post-graduate training at Denver General Hospital in 1971, where he first began researching preventive healthcare and methods for reducing the risk of serious disease.
In 1972, Dr. Bergman affiliated with the New York City Department of Health, serving as staff physician at Rikers Island Adolescent Remand Shelter and as chief physician at the Bronx House of Detention where he had first-hand experience with the impact of personal behavior on health and disease.
After working as an Emergency Department physician in three hospitals in California and a period of research, study and private practice, in 1980 he established one of the most innovative preventive and holistic family practice clinics in New York City, where he specialized in homeopathic medicine, nutrition and stress management.
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Health may be defined as the unified harmony and balance of a whole person, including body, mind, and spirit. To maintain an optimum level of health and well being, we have to understand the principles of a health-promotional lifestyle and be empowered to implement these principles in a practical and effective way.
Disease is ultimately the impaired functioning of individual cells that leads to organ dysfunction only when enough cells of a particular organ have been affected. Therefore it is at the level of cellular function that disease begins, where it can be best prevented and the most effective place for it to be treated.
At this most fundamental level, what are the basic causes of cellular dysfunction? It is a result of a combination of either stress, nutritional deficiency or toxicity. Stress involves primarily the interpretation or beliefs we hold regarding what is happening to us, deficiency relates to vital nutritional factors that are insufficient for optimum cell function and toxicity refers to poisonous elements that interfere with proper cellular biochemistry.
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