Dr. Samuels became interested in nutrition during medical school and now emphasizes good nutrition in his practice. In addition to his medical practice in Texas, he has operated six clinics outside the United States: in Mexico, Costa Rica, the Caribbean, and Grand Cayman.

Since going to medical school and becoming an osteopathic physician, I've been continuing my educational journey to help people achieve better health. If I don't have the answer to people's particular questions or problems, I work with them to try and find the answer.

In many cases, the root disease is poor nutrition. Elderly people seem especially prone to nutritional deficiencies, often because of poor absorption. I'm convinced that one of the main reasons for degeneration in these people is that they're not receiving or assimilating the necessary nutrients.

And I'm begging to be concerned that even younger people are often unable to absorb a lot of their nutrients. This poor assimilation suggests a more pervasive problem.

When I graduated from medical school in 1982, Valium was the number-one prescribed drug in the world, but in 1992, it wasn't in even the top ten - six of ten were drugs for gastrointestinal problems. When a friend and patient of mine brought me a tape about Rice Bran Solubles, I was impressed with what I heard because I remembered learning about rice bran in medical school.

During my freshman year, I attended a lecture by someone trying to solve the problem of rice bran's extremely short shelf life. The bran contains sixty-five percent of the rice kernel's nutrients. But it also contains an enzyme that causes the bran to become rancid within a few hours.

I remember feeling skeptical when I heard in 1978 that rice bran couldn't be stabilized for a longer shelf life. That experience came back to me the minute I heard the tape about Rice Bran Solubles.

I was happy to learn that scientists had finally found a way to stabilize the bran. As I see it, the greatest benefits of this product are that the rice bran's nutrients can now be easily absorbed by the body and the product is palatable - even tasty.

This matter of absorption is essential. You can take all the vitamins you want, but if you can't absorb and distribute them where they're needed, they're useless.

Before I use any product in my practice, I test it first and check the patient's blood using a powerful, darkfield microscope, we take blood samples a couple of times a day.

It didn't take but five days of this testing for Rice Bran Solubles to impress me. Blood cells that showed marked signs of nutritional deficiency were improving greatly in those few days.

so I gave cans of the product to a couple of my severely diabetic patients and told them to call and tell me what they thought of it.

Both called me back with great results. In fact, one man is in a nursing home, and he's doing so well on Rice Bran Solubles that he's got almost everybody in the nursing home on it.

Some of the most dramatic results I've seen with this product are in diabetics and older people. If a patient is fifty-five years of age or older, I automatically put them on the product to establish a nutrient baseline. Elderly people need the better absorption of nutrients that Rice Bran Solubles offers.

I've had great results with some very sick children I'm treating. One has Crohn's Diseases, a gastrointestinal disorder, and two others have cystic fibrosis. Their improvement on the Rice Bran Solubles has been amazing. Before they started taking it, they were wasting away, but now they have color in their cheeks. Their energy levels are up, and their immune systems work much better.

I treat a lot of people who, for various reasons, have nutritional deficiencies. I feel my job is to teach people how to take care of themselves so they don't have to be dependent on a physician. I want them to know how to keep their internal houses clean.