About 30 years ago, I proposed a holistic health course to Beverly Burkhardt, the head of Adult Ed at Grossmont/Cuyamaca College in San Diego County. Beverly informed me that paid health classes never worked for them since people could go to free lectures from registered dietitians at many of the local hospitals many times each year. I explained to her that my course would contain totally different and important information which registered dietitians either were not taught, or were taught wrong due to who funded their training and I gave her some examples. She agreed to let me try a course of three 90-minute classes but made it clear that if at least 6 people did not sign up and pay, they would have to cancel it.

After driving back to my office and working on a preliminary course outline, I gave up. Three 90-minute classes (4-1/2 hours of instruction) was too short for me to work with. I phoned Beverly and asked her if it would really be much more difficult to cancel a five week course than a three week one and she caved and agreed to make it five weeks, but told me now the minimum was 8 students as they needed to make enough to pay me. I wrote up an outline, which was sent to Sacramento for approval by some educational body, and the course was scheduled. She was certain it would be canceled due to lack of attendance. That first course had 16 students and it has now been running for close to 30 years.

Every year or two I would call Beverly and tell her I needed more hours of class time and she would tell me that we would need more students to bring in enough money for me to be paid. The class kept growing and the hours kept increasing.

After many years, my course, Attaining Optimal Health in the 20th Century, was at 7 weeks and had been raised to 2-1/2 hours per class for a total of 17-1/2 hours of instruction. Average classes ranged from 25 to 30 students and they got it changed to an “approved for seniors” course which made it free, but I still got paid. I have no idea how that works, but as soon as it became free, class attendance jumped to between 40 and 50 every semester! When the centuries changed, we had to change that part of the course name to 21st Century.

Later, we had to move the course to the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation in Lemon Grove, when the economy tanked and the college was no longer allowed to rent me any off campus space, since my classes were too large for on campus classrooms. An interesting thing happened at that time because in order to get approval to do this, my course had to be re-reviewed by someone or some group in Sacramento. Imagine my surprise when I was notified that after reviewing my old original on file course outline, Sacramento decided the amount of information should be taught in a longer course and it needed to be increased to 30 hours! Geez, well twist my arm! I was thrilled and we increased it to ten weeks at three hours per class and that is where it has remained.

A few years ago, once again due to budget cuts by the state of California, the entire extended studies department, that my course was a part of, was discontinued. Many dozens of teachers received emails thanking us for our years of service and that was all we got. Since I was the Vice President of the Price-Pottenger Foundation, we decided to keep running it and advertise it ourselves, which is what we have been doing for some time now.

Listening to the many testimonials (which are on my website) that students have recorded for me about how this course has changed their lives, it bothered me that only local San Diegans were benefiting from this massively important course.

So I professionally videotaped the entire course as well as all the equally important video clips I show during the course and then had my webmaster build a streaming video website where anyone around the world can now rent or buy the rights to take the course. My course is educational only and there are no tests of any kind. The only test, as I tell my students every semester, is your life and your health. That site with my course, as well as my 18-hour nutritional supplements course, can be accessed from the green banner on my home page at either https://naturopath4you.com or simply http://www.DavidGetoff.com.

I include a great deal of information on supplements in my 30-hour course, but so many students asked for an even longer more comprehensive course on supplements only, that this was added as a second course a couple of years ago and the most recent one was professionally videotaped as well. If you subscribe to my website you will be notified any time I run any special discounts or when I put up new courses. If you subscribe to my YouTube channel, you will be notified by YouTube when I upload new content, and there is quite a lot there already for free.

The course includes information about vitamins, minerals, herbs, homeopathy, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, depression, gingko, antioxidants, enzymes, algae, fluoride, chlorine, ozone, mold, vaccinations, water electro-magnetic radiation, immunity, naturopaths, herbalists, nutritionists and homeopaths. Additional topics include:

• Why low fat diets can be extremely dangerous.
• Should we eat beef, poultry, eggs & fish, or be vegetarian, and why.
• The problems with vegetarian diets.
• The truth about dairy products.
• Good vs bad fats and oils.
• Why coconut oil & butter are good but margarines, corn oil and soybean oils are bad.
• The truth about soy products.
• The top three causes of death are all related to diet so how do we prevent them or reduce our risks.
• Do headaches, dandruff, eczema, asthma, ADD, and other conditions respond to nutritional interventions? YES!
• Why vitamins and other supplements have become necessary for good health.
• Which vitamins should we take and can any be harmful.
• How about herbs?
• The role of anti-oxidants and what are they anyway?
• Why you need minerals and why they should not be colloidal.
• Is salt good or bad?
• Are eggs good or bad?
• Is organic really better?
• Learn about products like flax seed oil, cod liver oil, Aloe Vera, Pycnogenol, DHEA, CMO, OPC’s, Melatonin, “green foods,” and more.
• Learn the truth about vaccinations (do they immunize?).
• What are the best forms of exercise?
• Are cancer and other degenerative diseases preventable?
• What is homeopathy and does it work?
• Are your silver fillings silently destroying your health?
• Why an aspirin a day may do more harm than good.
• Why the media’s reports on nutrition always contradict each other and why most doctors will never learn the facts about nutrition.
• The effects of light & sun on our health.
• What are the problems with our current cancer research and treatments?
• A brief look at non-traditional cancer treatments and other types of alternative therapies and practitioners.

I love helping people improve their health and I am thrilled that my course can finally be viewed by those not living in the San Diego area.

Best wishes for your continued and improved health.

For more information go to the Naturopath For You - Holistic Wellness By David Getoff website or directly to the Naturopath For You Classes, Lectures Seminars page.