Transcript
Hi, I’m DeLaney Gabriel. I’m a holistic anti-aging practitioner. My primary practice is in Santa Barbara, California. I also have offices in Sacramento which is where I established my practice in 1984 and then opened a second office in Carmel in 2000. I’ve been in Santa Barbara for the last three years, and I’m going to be running through a seminar that I gave in Montecito last year.
My goal is to share the work that I do with anybody who’s interested and to people who may not be able to come to see me or may not have access to others in the holistic community, who have the broad knowledge base that I do both in treatment and in management, as well as diagnosing hormone deficiencies and other chemicals and imbalances in the body through what I call deficiencies and imbalances.
My seminar was prompted by the support of my family, my daughter, Camila, and my granddaughters Catie and Maggie. These two girls and my daughter have greatly inspired me to share my philosophies, which otherwise are referred to as my religion because I’m so steeped in the work that I do and the experience that I have. I want to leave this to my daughter and my family as my legacy; because I know the work that I do has so much value and it goes beyond what’s commonly done in medicine. I want my granddaughters, my daughter, and my family to know their options and to learn how to trust that inner voice when your doctor says, “Do this. Do that,” and that’s not what you want to do, but you don’t have anybody to rely on. I want them to be able to look back and look that grandma introduced them, so thank you girls.
I started out back in the ‘60s, studying nutrition and getting a lot of information about health. I went into dietetics and learning about the four basic food groups and so forth. That never felt right to me. What that felt like, was that it could likely be enough to keep a healthy person healthy. So, over the years, in my training as Dietitian, I learned that I couldn’t even recommend vitamins or supplements to people who were unhealthy. I couldn’t help them regain their health fast enough.
So I pretty quickly dropped out of that level, but what’s good and I realize now is that I have that base which is really important about food and the food groups. And I know better ways of doing that, that helps people who are ill.
So, after I’d spent time with that and had established my practice in Sacramento dealing with Candida, Epstein-Barr virus, Chronic Fatigue — those kinds of things, I moved my practice to Preventive Medical Clinic of Sacramento and worked with world-renowned physician Garry Gordon.
What I learned from Garry Gordon and at the clinic was profound, because it was different from anything that medicine really relied upon and used as their base. It felt right to me. It felt like truth to me. It was thinking outside the box. I was a naturopathic doctor training with a medical doctor who became my mentor, so I had the opportunity to learn things hands-on and in real-life situations, which is very different from being in medical school, or naturopathic college, or in herbal studies – to work with real people with real diseases and conditions, who came to that clinic because other doctors around the world had failed them.
So, I became a very integral part of that clinic and Dr. Gordon referred all of his patients to me. That was where I first got introduced to lab tests. Insurance back in 1988 and ‘89 was pretty good about covering any blood test that a physician would order, because physicians, I really believe, were more revered then and had more freedom. Whereas now they’re so confined by insurance companies and if doctors now ordered all the tests that I recommend, for the most part, they’re committing insurance fraud. So, if they write a diagnosis for assessing or to rule out a condition or disease and that person doesn’t really have it and you’re really looking for anti-aging and how do you stay healthy, again, the doctors are committing insurance fraud. So don’t expect your doctor to do that. He’s only going to be able to run tests that are what you have as primary symptoms, and you know that that will rule out most people who are wanting help with their hormones in refining their health and looking at optimum health instead of just getting by free of symptoms.
So, when I was looking into all these conditions that people came to the clinic for and when I was trying to help them through nutrition, through what I knew about homeopathy, herbology, all kinds of sophisticated, progressive, anti-aging tools, I learned that there was something that was missing.
So, after being there for about a year-and-a-half and helping all these people with all of my knowledge and with all of Dr. Gordon’s knowledge that he passed on to me, I was sitting at my desk in my office one day with the door closed, and I was sitting there doodling on a piece of paper with a pie graph. And I looked at it and noticed, we were treating a lot of cardiovascular disease.
We were treating diabetes, arthritis, and inflammatory diseases. We treated parasitologist cases from people around the world who came to the clinic. There was a lot of Candida, Epstein-Barr, Chronic Fatigue, a lot of issues like that, so I’m sitting there in the quiet of my office here in the center realizing – we were treating all these things – adrenal sufficiency and oh my gosh hypothyroidism, but we weren’t treating it to the extent that I felt like the people should be getting the results for why they came there.
So I sit here doodling, and I said “what in the world is it that all of these things have in common?” and in a flash over my right shoulder came the voice and it said to me “hormones.” It was so profound that I had to look around like somebody was there and in that moment I got what I call “God bumps” and I realized that was God talking to me.
And in that moment I reflected back to the time when I was nine years old in school in Sparks, Oklahoma and the teacher asked each of the classmates to stand and say what they would like to be when they grew up and what I said was that I wanted to be a preacher. So in that moment when I heard this voice say “hormones,” I knew that was my calling.
But having been born in Missouri, the Show-Me-State, I felt like I had to prove, that I had to find scientific studies, to validate my beliefs because this was not commonly practiced and, those of you who know Sacramento, know that it’s a government city and very conservative, so I had a lot of physicians who would be not happy and would be adverse to what I would be saying.
So I had to discover this knowledge base so for the next few years.
With the help of my daughter Kamla, I would go to UC Davis med library there in Sacramento and I would research the microfiche – everything that I could find. I wanted to prove myself right, but I was open to proving myself wrong because I knew that there were many good reasons to do the work that had led me to hormones, but I was looking for one better reason not to. I can tell you, to this day roughly 32 years later, I have not found that one better reason not to. I’ve only found more, better reasons to do that.
So, that opportunity led me to going to a conference in New Orleans and meeting Dr. John Lee, who was a pioneer in hormone therapy. While I had connected with Dr. Garry Gordon who was world renowned and a pioneer in all kinds of alternative and integrated medicine and the pioneer in chelation therapy, here, now I was with Dr. John Lee as my mentor in hormone therapy and mainly progesterone for the start.
Then I was asked by someone from the California Legislature to give a presentation to women in celebration of women’s rights and women’s suffrage. So, when I did that, I wrote my presentation on Super Women Need Super Hormones because that was what I had seen over the years. I had seen, in the ten years prior, that so many women (the corporate women, businesswomen) started retiring because they basically lost confidence. Because they were having hormonal issues, not sleeping well, night sweats, and then this woman came to me who was a big real estate agent representative with Coldwell Banker in Sacramento, and she was in her mid 50’s. She told me that she had been sitting at the conference table in a meeting and it was her turn to give an evaluation and that she started turning red from the neck up, started getting the little beads across her lip, and she noticed that this young guy, half her age, was sitting across looking at her tapping his foot and making some very smirky remarks. And she knew that her position was threatened because she could be replaced by somebody half her age and, sure enough, her knowing that caused her to want to drop out and just go out and ride her horses and work in her garden. That infuriated me because I saw that being really recognized, in her and in others, and that’s when I really took up the cross to bear for leading the march for women for their hormones and, from that, what I wanted is for everybody to know their options.
I want to keep women in the workforce. I want to keep people alive and functioning, doing whatever they want to do and not dropping out of society because of their hormone issues with memory loss, with insomnia, with all of those kinds of things.
So what I want to do is give you a little bit of my background, my different mentors, some in life education, and how I’ve gotten to where I am and then more about hormones will be covered in the next segment.
We’ll go through these and a lot of the work that I do with blood tests. I want to make clear that there’s a huge difference in the work that I do and in the work that is done in medicine, far to the left, and the health food store far, to the right. So, I practice integrating all of those therapies and managing that based on your symptoms and lab test results and looking how to treat and measure that. I integrate both of those, but I want everybody to know all the thinking that I do when I’m talking about how awful microwaves are, how awful roundup is, and the glyphosate and all these things and all the chemicals that cause the cancers that lead to blaming hormones for things when that’s not the issue. I want you to know that I believe in hormones for life and at levels that are appropriate, and I believe in continuous lab testing to modify and follow your treatment.
Thank you. Watch for segment two!
