Bio
Candice B. Hidegkuti, has a broad background in integrative medicine. For the last fifteen years, she has pursued her passion for natural healing and travels around the world to teach others the benefits of using foods and other natural modalities to live a healthful and joyful life.
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, she lived her early years alongside its beautiful beaches where eating fresh fruits and vegetables were a way of life. She left Puerto Rico for Ohio with her family at the age of ten and pursued her education in the Mid-West. She became interested in medicine and after observing open heart surgery, realized that traditional medicine focused on the end of the disease process, rather than preventing it. Her passion was to help people earlier in the process.
She left traditional medicine and for nine years was an entrepreneur in Naples, Florida. The long hours and stressful pace ultimately compromised her health. She was diagnosed with systemic lupus. Experiencing the "after-the-fact" approach of traditional medicine reawakened her medical interests. She found that the traditional medical "cure" (lupus is not really "curable") was worse than the disease. She brought herself back to disease-free functioning through alternative modalities, primarily focused on diet.
Wanting to help people prevent disease, she started the first integrative medical center in Naples, Florida. After eight years in integrative medicine in Naples, her youngest son's near fatal auto accident in Ohio changed her life and location. Non-traditional modalities brought him back from death, after traditional doctors had given up hope. Eventually, she studied alternative modalities in Spain for two years and brought back new medical alternatives when she returned to Ohio to be near her mother and adult children.
Currently, she helps people with natural approaches to healing. She also teaches kitchen therapy classes, including raw food preparation.
Everyone wants to be healthy. The body has amazing healing powers and will perform medical miracles if we let it. This is the basis of all alternative complementary, and integrative medicine, as well as the basis for Chinese medicine and other ancient remedies.
Candice has broad experience combining Eastern and Western Medicine. She has worked with some wonderful Medical Doctors around the world and has been instrumental in converting their traditional practices to include more holistic modalities. She attended ACAM for several years where she studied Chelation Therapy.
One of her many projects includes missionary work in the Dominican Republic several years ago where children were being poisoned by lead. The lead poisoning had originated from a factory which was manufacturing automobile batteries and discarding the casings on a pile of land near the village. Eventually, this action caused lead to leech into the soil where the village people would plant their crops and get drinking water. Acid rain damaged crops, and toxic conditions were making the people extremely sick. Candice was part of the clean up process and was instrumental with negotiating ways to cure the people with chelation.
Today, Candice is a referenced wellness advocate, enjoys sharing her wealth of knowledge, supporting others who believe in the importance of conserving our natural resources, and creating a better planet.
This website provides information on some alternative modalities. However, she believes the basis of all good health is the nutrients we feed our bodies and minds. She loves her kitchen therapy work with living foods, creating variety and wonderful flavors. Be sure to visit the kitchen therapy tab to learn more. (Insert link here) Living foods are the ideal nourishment for good health.