Board of Advisors

Vic Shayne, PhD

Vic Shayne, PhD, was graduated in 1978 from the University of Florida and received his post graduate degrees from the University of Natural Medicine, specializing in Clinical Nutrition. Dr. Shayne’s thesis on Whole Nutrition was published and used as the basis for his work in formulating NutriPlex Formulas’ clinical line of whole food supplements. Based on his research and years as a practitioner, Dr. Shayne has published five books on natural health care, including Man Cannot Live on Vitamins Alone, an evidence-based treatise on the benefits of foods over isolated vitamin pills, and has written more than 200 articles. He is personally committed to organic and biodynamic foods, chemical free lifestyles and natural healing.

 

Mark Cooper, ND

Mark Cooper, ND, LAc, MAcOM, is a naturopathic physician practicing in Colorado Springs, Colorado. A graduate of the National College of Naturopathic Medicine with certificates in Homeopathic medicine and Bowen Manipulation, Dr. Cooper  received a degree in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. He is in private family practice and has extensive experience in lab and clinical diagnosis, nutrition, minor surgery, allergies, Chinese Medicine and Botanical Medicine.

 

 

George Siegfried, DC

Dr. Siegfried was graduated from Western States Chiropractic College in 1981. His earlier patients included dancers and performers in many Broadway shows in the San Francisco Ballet. He then practiced in Italy at the Orthopedic Medical Center for Sports and Physical Therapy in Pisa, Italy, caring for athletes from the Italian Olympic Team Training Center in Tirrenia, shortly after which he was invited by the athletes, coaches, and Directors of the Italian Olympic Committee to be the Chiropractor for the Track and Field Team. Leaving the Orthopedic Clinic in Pisa in 1983, Dr. Siegfried treated Track & Field athletes, along with other athletes, until the end of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. For more than 25 years, Dr. Siegfried has been teaching patients the benefits of a Healthy Back, Neck, and Nervous System and Whole Food Nutrition.

 

Victoria Bruce, RN

Victoria was graduated from Pasadena City College in 1988 and is an AD, RN. She was graduated from the Lactation Institute for specialization in Lactation 1993 and received International Board certification in 1989. Victoria began working at Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park 1998 as their Lactation Consultant and has helped more than 12,000 mother/baby couples over the years. Victoria is committed to pursuing more healthful lifestyles with whole food nutrition for prenatal and nursing mothers.