Dr. Schachter, a conventionally trained medical doctor, discusses why he has been using a variety of alternative therapies with his patients for 40 years, including Vitamin C, Enzyme Therapy, Laetrile Therapy, Hydrazine Sulfate, Herbs and Homeopathy.

DR. MICHAEL B. SCHACHTER, M.D., C.N.S. is a magna cum laude graduate of Columbia College, and received his M.D. Degree from Columbia's Physicians and Surgeons in 1965 in New York City. Originally trained and Board Certified in Psychiatry, he has devoted most of his professional career to treating all kinds of patients, using a Complementary and Alternative or Integrative Approach. He is also a Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS), and has achieved Advanced Proficiency in Chelation Therapy from the American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM). Co-author of The Food Connection (1979) and Food, Mind and Mood (1980, 1987) and author of The Natural Way to a Healthy Prostate (Keats, 1995) and What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Depression (Warner, 2006), Dr. Schachter was a major contributor to Alternative Medicine's Definitive Guide to Cancer (Future Medicine, 1997). The Schachter Center for Complementary Medicine in Suffern, New York, is one of the first Nutritionally Oriented Orthomolecular, Integrative, Complementary and Holistic Practices in the New York tri-state area.

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