- Would you like to find out WHY your body is not getting well?
- Would you like a doctor who really LISTENS to you?
IInstead of treating symptoms, would you rather find the CAUSE of your health problems?
We are a RESULTS-driven practice, using only non-invasive techniques. Instead of treating disease or medical conditions, we provide natural ways of finding out why the body is functioning incorrectly. Once this is found, correct function can be restored using our natural techniques.
If you have a nagging health problem, please read through our site to understand how we might be able to help you. Better yet, attend a free workshop to get all your questions answered fully, or take our online Life Quality Evaluation Test to have a free phone consultation with a doctor.
AHIC was founded as a holistic practice in 1996, integrating several holistic techniques and effective patient management practices. In 2000 the clinic moved to its current location, 1640 Powers Ferry Road SE, Building 30, Marietta, GA 30067.
Our founder, Dr. Melodie Billiot, knew she was going to be a doctor at the age of three. She was derailed off of her medical school plans when she was 19 years old by her family chiropractor who opened her eyes to the simple concept of the body healing itself. She graduated with a doctorate in chiropractic from Life University as valedictorian of her class in 1993 and had purchased her first practice within the year.
Co-founder Norman Lowrey started his first business at the age of 26. He created a specialty retail store that dominated a three-state area by the time he sold the business 8 years later. He then became a partner in a marketing business that served chiropractors, dentists and optometrists. Later, he spent several years as a consultant reorganizing over 20 businesses, from heavy manufacturers to software companies. Norman is an accomplished computer programmer, graphic designer, writer and organization expert. When he met Dr. Billiot a perfect partnership developed, creating Alternative Health Improvement Center.
The first three years of AHIC were a blur of seeing patients, researching, flying all over the country to meet with other practitioners, seminars, researching, and (always!) seeing patients. At the end of this time we’d learned two facts: 1) We could help patients get well from most of the chronic health problems we were presented with, and 2) accomplishing this required very exact actions and standards and a lot of advanced organization.
Somewhere in those first years we started to dream: If it was possible for people to recover their health to the dramatic extent we witnessed every day in the clinic using only natural, non-invasive techniques—why couldn’t the general public be educated about this? Why couldn’t sufficient clinics be brought into existence everywhere to help these people with stubborn health problems? The more we observed the state of chronic illness that passes as “normal health” in the general population and the more we read about pharmaceutical atrocities, bizarre surgeries and destructive treatments that pass as “health care,” the more we dreamed.
We realized that if we were to help holistic clinics expand dramatically that we would have to make our treatment and organization systems complete and polished. This project has taken us a decade to complete, encompassing over 30,000 lines of computer programming, hours of custom video and audio, and thousands of pages of job instructions, checklists, books and training materials.
The result has been a practice with a level of organization that astonished the top nutritionists in the country during a recent clinic tour.
We are now working to help other holistic clinics achieve greater results with our new company, Holistic Practice Solutions (visit holisticpracticesolutions.com).
We have discovered that the more we learn and the more experience we gain, the more additional areas we find to research and learn in.
In just the past three years, we have decreased the length of several key treatment programs by two thirds. We have increased the efficiency of our individualized supplement programs (clinical nutrition) so that patients are taking up to 25% fewer supplements and getting even faster results. Using a new in-house computer testing system, we are able to identify and correct neurological issues that could cause difficulty healing in a large number of our patients.
We expect our continued research to yield additional benefits in the future as we never stop striving to help our patients recover their own health faster and more completely. |
