He graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a degree in Physical Education in 1973, and graduated magna cum laude from Cleveland Chiropractic College in Los Angeles in 1983. He began practicing at The International Sports Medicine Institute in West Los Angeles where he treated many of the athletes in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. He opened his own practice in Apple Valley, California in 1985 where hew discovered the diet/pain connection. He has written four books on Chronic Pain: the latest is Chronic Pain Gone 90 Days.