I am a homeopath. And a hugger.

A chiropractor and a chemist.

I am an animal lover (I grew up thinking I’d become a veterinarian) and I am that guy—the one who takes The Road Less Traveled.

I am a husband who married his college sweetheart, Helen, in 1979.

I practice natural horsemanship and Helen and I rescue dogs and horses.

I am also a certified animal chiropractor, a ceramicist, a nutritionist and a yoga practitioner.

Above all: I am a learner and a sharer.

And I believe, as I’m sure you do, that it’s vital we take ownership over our health. Looking back, that has been my path, my mission. And that is what I want to help you do as well.

What was even more of a challenge, and as exciting, was where I worked after graduating from LACC (in 1981). After interning at the Glendale Chiropractic Clinic, I did my residency at the Westside Chiropractic Center in Los Angeles, where I found a true mentor in Dr. David Denton, who owned the Center and who had, among many other techniques, developed Vector Point Cranial Therapy. By 1985 Dr. Denton had appointed me as Chief of Staff.

Later that same year, Dr. Denton convinced me to take over Westside altogether. My first move was to expand the practice and its staff, bringing in many other practitioners. We worked on people from all over, and all walks of life. And because of our growing reputation as an integrative health center in LA, many celebrities trusted us with their care: Penny Marshall, Sharon Stone, Barbra Streisand, Seal and Raquel Welch, among many others.

By 1995, my time at Westside had become more administrative than hands-on. And I’d begun lecturing to different organizations around the world, to chiropractors, acupuncturists and practitioners of all disciplines who worked in the realm of energy medicine. ​​Whenever I spoke with these people from my lectures, I was particularly impressed by the energy workers. But my administrative duties at Westside had taken a toll. I needed a break. (I remember one night going over paperwork in my office upstairs while hearing everyone at one of our art openings having so much fun downstairs . . . I missed that sense of fun.) Inspired by the people who’d attended my talks, I decided to reexplore homeopathy more deeply. I’d gotten away from what I most wanted to be: a healer. So, I took a sabbatical. And decided to pursue a PhD in homeopathy. I took coursework in the U.S. through London’s Hahnemann College of Homeopathy. And that was when I first learned about biotherapies, in a lecture given by Dr. Trevor Cook. Dr. Cook had served as the homeopath to the Queen Mother (the mother of the late Queen Elizabeth—the Queen Mother was a lifelong believer in homeopathy and lived to 102).

In 1997, I received my PhD in homeopathy—the first person in the U.S. to receive one—from Curentur University (later known as the American University of Complementary Medicine). Soon after, in my practice, I started using the biotherapies that Dr. Cook had lectured about.

When I returned to my practice (we had moved my office to Santa Monica in 1992), I continued to practice classical homeopathy, prescribing traditional constitutionally based remedies that had always worked for my patients. However, I could not shake the possibilities of Dr. Cook’s lecture on biotherapies and the possibilities and promise of combining the three biotherapies—Gemmotherapy, Lithotherapy and Organotherapy—into one.

So, always at home in a laboratory and wanting to provide my patients with relief if not actual cures, I took what Dr. Cook had talked about and began to apply biotherapies in combination with each other. I experimented. I dove deeper into Hahnemann’s writings, and into biotherapies overall. (Interestingly enough, Hahnemann himself was never against combining remedies—contrary to what most homeopaths have always thought.) I went back to my graduated cylinders and my Erlenmeyer flasks. I began mixing, for example, fig tree buds with silver birch seeds (two basic ingredients of gemmotherapy) and then combining these two with lepidolite, a lithotherapy essential, and then combining these three elements with an organotherapy staple—hypothalamus extract.

Eventually, I started treating some of my patients with these newly concocted homeopathic biotherapies. Even better, I got results. Positive results. These new biotherapies were helping patients with chronic conditions. Again, though, no homeopath that I know of, back then and even today, integrated any of the biotherapies—much less three—into one formula.

If they were put together in just the right way, I knew (suspected) they’d have the synergistic effect my patients needed. And indeed, they did.

Initially, I sold them only to my fellow practitioners. Only later did I give them a name—Dr. Garber’s Natural Solutions—and start selling them in Whole Foods.

In short, here are the primary advantages of what I now call my Bioformulas:

• They are not contraindicative. 
• They do not affect the action or efficacy of allopathic drugs—whether those are SSRIs, cancer drugs, allergy relief medications, blood-pressure medication, cholesterol statins, or diabetes medications. 
• They do not interfere with nutritional supplements; in fact, they actually enhance the body’s utilization of certain minerals.
• My bioformulas have no known side effects.

In other words: You can take my bioformulas in tandem with whatever supplement or drug you might be taking. And they will not interfere with your regimen, and, even better, at some point you may even begin to taper off a pharmaceutical drug or stop taking it altogether.

My colleagues in Santa Monica were my first champions—along with my patients and theirs. Then other practitioners began asking for my formulas, too. I formalized my company and my brand—known back then as Dr. Garber’s Natural Solutions—in July of 2004, then began selling them to the public in early 2005. First to other practitioners (homeopaths, chiropractors, functional medicine doctors), then out of Whole Foods. Then online. Since then, my bioformulas have helped thousands. And the reason I developed these biotherapy-based bioformulas was twofold: first, patients kept coming to me asking for something more, something better, something that actually improved their chronic conditions. And second, because I wasn’t happy with the results of what was already on the market.

In 2016, my wife Helen and I moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Despite just having served as president of the California Homeopathic Medical Society, and the growing success of Dr. Garber’s Natural Solutions (especially in stores there in California), we wanted more space—and horses of our own. Santa Fe had horses and plenty of land to keep them on. And to live with them. 

Soon after relocating to Santa Fe, I began working formally as a chiropractor for animals (mostly dogs and horses) in earnest. Within a year of moving here, I’d earned my Animal Chiropractic Certification (and started working as a chiropractor for Assistance Dogs of the West), joined the board of the New Mexico Center for Therapeutic Riding (for children and adults with special needs) and adopted yet more Springer Spaniels! And so, my life has come almost full circle: from the kid who’d started out in Long Island as a veterinarian’s assistant to a full-fledged animal chiropractor and homeopath. 

I had always wanted to start a pet line, but until moving to Santa Fe, I hadn’t the time to do so. And even though I was almost as busy here in New Mexico working on dogs and horses, I soon learned that the animals I was serving, that their “parents” had been using my human bioformulas on their animal friends—and getting results. 

That’s when I decided I had to come up with something more appropriate for dogs and horses (and mules, donkeys and ponies). So, after a bit more time in my laboratory, I launched Maxwell Pet—my bioformulas line for animals.

At first, the formulas were only for canines. Similar in chemistry to what I developed for humans, these bioformulas have proven just as effective for dogs. Then, two years ago, I came out with my equine line—my biotherapy-based bioformulas for horses, donkeys and the lesser-known equines, kiangs and onagers. Again: these too have proven to be extremely effective. And both Maxwell Pet bioformulas have been incredibly gratifying.

Today, I provide chiropractic services for dogs and other small animals out of a veterinary clinic in Santa Fe, while also attending to equines at area ranches and barns. 

Working with animals, and developing bioformulas for them as well, has only deepened my commitment to both animals and their humans. And since coming out of the pandemic, my commitment to the healing arts, to helping others heal, has broadened and deepened.

I’m not telling you what’s right. I’m sharing what’s possible.

My goal is to help people take control over their own bodies and their bodily destinies—physical, spiritual, mental—and to enjoy the best quality of life. And this applies just as much to people as to animals.