Sufferers of fibromyalgia there is hope!  I had suffered from fibromyalgia for over 20 years and had found no relief from the symptoms.  I suffered from exquisite pain and tenderness all over my body along with that fuzzy-headed feeling, extreme fatigue and inability to get a good night's sleep due to the body pain. 

After several visits to Dr. Nik he suggested that I be tested for heavy metal toxicity.  Lo and behold, the test came back showing levels of mercury that were off the chart along with extremely elevated levels of lead.  I had several old amalgam fillings in my mouth that were leaking toxins into my body over several years. 
I had my old fillings removed and started on an oral chelation and heavy metal elimination diet.  Within 2 months, all that body pain had vanished - no more fuzzy-headed feeling and I was able to sleep more comfortably. 

Thanks, Dr. Nik
Linda DeLude

Suddenly, after a lifetime of robust health, I felt terrible all the time.  I was 48 and exhausted, bloated,  stiff and sore.  I had negative mood swings, lethargy, sugar/carb cravings, weight gain, and horrible constipation. I had just stopped smoking after 30 years and I was certain I had some horrible disease and that my hormones were imbalanced.   I did a hormone blood test with the National Womens Health Initiative and it showed that my progesterone was non-existent.   I started eating soy products and using yam cream.  I studied bio-identical hormone replacement (which I couldn'™t afford to do).     Then I went to Dr. Hedberg's talk about womens hormones and I learned that unfermented soy and  yam cream are toxins.  I learned that the only way to determine hormonal imbalance is to start with a healthy gut.  I had a VERY unhealthy gut.  Dr. Hedberg had me do a stool test sent to a lab in Germany, which gave him a lot of information about my body.   Dr. Hedberg put me on a very gentle, pleasant, food-based cleanse and some food-based supplements to support my liver and gall bladder.  It was a wonderful experience and I couldn'™t believe how easy it was for me to avoid unhealthy foods while I was cleansing.  It was all just a few hundred dollars.  I felt so good that I didn't go back!     Then my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and I worried about my hormones.  Dr. Hedberg gave me a urine test to do over a 24 hour period.  And miracle of miracles, my hormone panel shows that they are almost 100% perfect.  The slight imperfection is being addressed with a scientifically tested and absorbable food-based supplement that costs $12.50 a month.  He has me order them from a place that buys small quantities so they are guaranteed fresh and never compromised by heat in shipping or storage.    Because I attended Dr. Hedberg'™s lecture on  detoxification, I learned that my issues have been connected with toxicity. (Given my smoking and constipation, it is no surprise, yet I was convinced it was hormones because of the media).  At the detox lecture, I sat next to a woman whose husband grew up near a chemical factory.  He spent $1400 to get tested with an MD who handed him a bottle of chelation therapy that he could have purchased online.  The Dr. told him to come back for another round of $1400 tests.   Dr. Hedberg can give him better results with much lower cost and best of all, her husband will get his health back.  Now, along with my awareness of the need for on-going  detoxification (we are all constantly bombarded by toxins) I will get tested for food allergies.  Dr. Hedberg says that many problems can be solved with addressing food allergies.  It turns out that a "health food" is not healthy for everyone.  In fact, favorite "œhealthy" foods are often the culprit.   

What do you get if you cross your chiropractor, naturopath, family physician, allergist, acupuncturist, physical therapist and your exercise trainer?  You get Dr. Nikolas Hedberg.  Finally a doctor who looks to get to the root of your health problems instead of putting a band aid on them (ie. drugs that only mask your symptoms, don’t heal anything and may do more harm than good).  You also have a doctor who doesn’t talk down to you,  is not arrogant as many doctors seem to be and doesn’t herd you through his office like cattle just to get the insurance money.  Dr. Hedberg really takes the time to talk to you and find out the source of your problems.  My first visit with Dr. Hedberg lasted about an hour and a half.  He’s willing to sit down and answer your questions and if he doesn’t know an answer, He’ll say so and find an answer rather than just making something up.  This is the way all doctors should be! This is truly wellness care!  

When I first went to Dr. Hedberg’s office I felt terrible. I was a 36 year old Mom and I had no energy, I hadn’t slept through the night in almost three years.  Yes my daughter was two years old at the time and that explains some of the sleep loss, but even when she slept, I couldn’t.  In spite of working out 45 minutes a day, 6 days a week, and watching my diet for eight months, I was unable to loose weight.  I had cold spells where I couldn’t get warm either with many blankets or with a hot shower.  My husband thought I was nuts because he would get in my car and I’d have the heat cranked up to 80 degrees in June!  I joked that my “thermostat”was broken.  I had frequent unexplainable fevers.  I was miserable with allergies and sinus problems.  My neck and back hurt.  I had a stiff achy leg that physical therapy hadn’t helped much. I had frequent severe headaches and I was depressed.  For those of you who had record players as a child, I felt like a 45 record being played on 33!  I was a mess!  There were honestly days that I had to pray and ask God to help me to just get through my shower.  I was basically nonfunctional.

At my first appointment Dr. Hedberg put me on a special iodine supplement and a chelated iron supplement.  Previous testing with my former family practice physician had shown I was low on iron, though that doctor hadn’t even recognized this or seemed to care. He just treated me like I was crazy.   Dr. Hedberg on the other hand was very reassuring. He ordered some lab tests to determine what was going on with me.   When the test results came back it turned out I had a fungus in my intestines, as well as inflammation in both small and large intestines.  I  had allergies to foods I was eating every day, my pancreas was not functioning properly and I had elevated levels of cortisol (the reason for my lack of sleep and not being able to loose weight.)  I wasn’t crazy after all!  Dr. Hedberg put me on an herbal regimen to take care of the fungus in my gut, which also took care of the sinus problems.  He explained to me that what we commonly think of as allergies is often really a fungal infection in the sinuses.  He also put me on supplementation to normalize my pancreas and adrenal glands.  Within two weeks I felt like a different person.  My energy began to return, the headaches went away, my “thermostat” began to work properly, and I began to sleep better.  Dr. Hedberg was able to help me work through past injuries to my head, neck and leg in ways that past chiropractic care nor physical therapy had been able to do.   I’ve also been able to finally lose the weight!

I’m truly grateful to God for leading me to Dr. Hedberg and truly grateful to Dr. Hedberg for the great wellness care he has given to me and my family!  I’m healthy and happy and I have my life back!    Tamara P.