From Psychiatry, to General Practice, to Hormone Restoration, to Chronic Babesiosis
Dr. Lindner graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1984 from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Being more interested in
philosophy and neuropsychology than medicine, he entered a psychiatric residency. However, he soon realized that psychiatry was committed to a pharmaceutical "diagnose and drug" scheme based upon false genetic and neurotransmitter theories. He resigned after a rotating internship, deciding to do "real medicine" instead. He was assigned to be a general medical officer and flight surgeon in the US Air Force. After service in Izmir, Turkey and Lowry AFB in Denver, he left the Air Force in 1989 and took a position in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as the chief physician for the employees and families of Boeing and McDonnell-Douglas corporations in that country. It was not until he returned to the US in 2004 that he discovered there was an alternative to pharmaceutical medicine. He was introduced to bioidentical hormone replacement by Dr. Sandra Lane--a chiropractic physician who had taken a course with Dr. Neal Rouzier. Click here for Dr. Lindner's full CV.
To educate himself in this--for a physician--unknown territory, Dr. Lindner attended Dr. Neal Rouzier's basic and advanced
BHRT courses, and symposia sponsored by the Professional Compounding Centers of America (PCCA) and the American
Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M). He read the works of all the most of the prominent practitioners in the field. Most
importantly, however, he reviewed hundreds of scientific studies in the course of his own research. He continues to spend
many hours each week at the PubMed site and subscribes to UpToDate. He has tried and failed to find any evidence to indicate that balanced hormone restoration has any risks that could possibly outweigh the well-known benefits. He is continually amazed at the amount of research that shows the importance of optimal hormone levels/effects, and that invalidates the current written and unwritten endocrine guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of hormone deficiencies.
He thought initially that he would just replace hormones typically lost with age--the male and female sex hormones. However, he soon began to see many women seeking hormone replacement who had severe fatigue, brain fog, pain, insomnia, and other symptoms. They did not respond to sex hormone replacement, and sometimes could not tolerate estradiol replacement. Seeking a natural explanation for their symptoms, he found that they often suffered from undiagnosed or undertreated iron, Vitamin D, thyroid and/or cortisol insufficiencies. He began to treat these deficiencies clinically--according to the patient's symptoms and began to see improvements in the vast majority of these women.
For the past 18 years, he has observed how hormone and basic nutrient restoration can transform lives--to an extent unimaginable to a conventionally-trained (pharmaceutical) physician. Having seen these impressive benefits, and having witnessed the propaganda wars waged by drug companies against natural, non-patentable human hormones, he slowly came to realize that the science and practice of medicine has been captured by pharmaceutical corporations. It's quite simple: The endocrine professional associations are funded by drug companies. Journals are supported by drug company advertisements. Money and awards go to doctors who toe the drug corporation line (See Why Docs Don't Get It). Dr. Lindner has joined the growing number of physicians who are choosing minimize the use of pharmaceuticals and instead seeking to find and correct the causes of their patients' disorders--and attempting to optimize their health and quality of life using molecules that are natural to the body and to the biosphere, whenever possible.
In 2018 Dr. Lindner realized that his eldest daughter was suffering from some kind of chronic infection that she had obtained from deer ticks when she was 10 years old (See Chronic Babesiosis). He then realized that many of his chronically fatigued, brain-fogged patients whom he had helped partially with T4/T3 thyroid optimization and cortisol supplementation actually had chronic babesiosis caused by Babesia odocoilei. He had to invent a treatment for this unique parasitic infestation and is now treating many of his long-term patients for it. He has presented this information at ILADS conferences. He is working with laboratories to develop tests for it and hopes to publish a paper proving the existence of the common infection and discussing its pathophysiology and treatment.
