Background
Jewel I. Pookrum, M.D. brings a sense of vitality and boundless energy
to her work. She is the Medical Director and founder of Perfect Health Institute of
Nutritional Medicine, a health environment where clinical medicine and wholistic
practices
are combined in a highly individualized approach. Her treatments have helped patients to
heal visible signs of cancer, erase aging lines and learn to live happy, balanced and pain
free lives.
According to Dr. Pookrum, nothing in our world has the power to make us
weak, sad or diseased if we adopt the proper attitude, diet and commitment to wellness.
Each of us can live in infinite perfection. Dr. Pookrum s wholistic philosophy
incorporates her physician al gynecological training and a 10.year odyssey into wellness
therapies and techniques. The capacity for health lies within the human body. The body is
a barometer for assessing one’s ability to live in harmony with his or her
environment.
Techniques
Bringing the body into balance, Dr. Pookrum blends the best of modern
medicine with American Indian healing techniques, Bach flower remedies, neurolinguistic
programming macrobiotic diets, Pisonic cell regeneration and a cornucopia of concepts
gleaned from travel lectures, textbooks and directed studies. Dr. Pookrum founded Perfect
Health Institute 1986 to share these therapies with the wholistic medical professionals
and an ever-expanding list of patients.
The Perfect Health Institute conducts a full patient history and
physical examination, provides nutritional and life style patterning counseling and
recommends wholistic, somatic, mental and spiritual therapies. In Tandem with medical
professionals, each patient develops a plan to get control of life and live it in a
centered and positive manner.
Achievements and Recognition
Dr. Pookrum is an acknowledged leader in the natural healing movement.
Among her most notable recognition was the selection by Nelson and Winnie Mandela to be
their consulting physician during their historic visit to the United States in 1990. She
has hosted wellness talk shows on WCHB and WQBH radio stations in Detroit., Michigan from
1986 to 1991. She has conducted lectures for major corporations, secondary education,
college and medic organizations and churches. She has received high praise for her
dedication to sharing her vast knowledge of wholistic healing techniques. She has been
cited as one of the Outstanding Young Women of America, named by the Detroit News as one
of Detroit's leading physician honored by the Coalition of 100 Black Women, selected as a
subject of a Commemorative
Personal
Born in Detroit in 1948, Dr. Pookrum grew up in Chicago and returned to Detroit for
residency and medical practice. She is the
mother of four children and she credits her great grandmother and an aunt with helping her
shape a preventative and wholistic career path.
Jewel I. Pookrum, M.D. brings a sense of vitality and boundless energy
to her work. She is the Medical Director and founder of Perfect Health Institute of
Nutritional Medicine, a health environment where clinical medicine and wholistic practices
are combined in a highly individualized approach. Her treatments have helped patients to
heal visible signs of cancer erase aging lines and learn to live happy, balanced and pain
free lives.
According to Dr. Pookrum, nothing in our world has the power to make us
weak, sad or diseased if we adopt the proper attitude, diet and commitment to wellness.
Each of us can live in infinite perfection. Dr. Pookrum s wholistic philosophy
incorporates her physician al gynecological training and a 10 year odyssey into wellness
therapies and techniques. The capacity for health lies within the human body. The body is
a barometer for assessing one’s ability to live in harmony with his or her
environment.
Education
Dr. Pookrum graduated from Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois in 1968, where
completed graduate work in microbiology and received her Master degree in 1971. Pookrum
graduated from Creighton University Medical School in Omaha, Nebraska in 1975. She
completed her Obstetrics-Gynecology residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan
in 1979 where she remained on staff from 1979-1981.
Wholistic Studies
A growing interest in wellness and self-Initiated healing prompted Dr. Pookrum to
pursue a independent education in foods, nutrition and related subjects for six years
before attending formal programs. She has completed Macrobiotic seminars, intensive
workshops and lectures with Michio Kushi and Michael Rossoff. She studied with the
Fultonia Institute and Fasting Center in Chicago, Illinois where Dick Gregory developed
his fasting and nutrition plan. Dr. Pookrum also attended the Iridology Institute,
International Institute of Reflexology, School Orthomolecular Nutrition, the School of
Pisonic Medicine of Cellular Regeneration in London, England. She also completed a number
of interpretive astrology courses, studied neurolinguistic programming with Tony Robbins
and Richard Morales, and learned ancient healing techniques in Mexico, Egypt, West Indies
and North America.
Professional Experience
Dr. Pookrum began her medical career as Director of the Gynecology Obstetrics
Department Woodrow Wilson Clinic, at Henry Ford Hospital. Supervising a 10-member staff.
As she practiced traditional medicine, she observed that surgery did not always cure acute
pain as is presented. At the same time, she became aware of the fact that the body often
cured Its by simply changing and improving the patient's diet. Dr. Pookrum soon became
aware of U fact that by examining certain parts of the body -- the iris or the feet, for
example, she could have a barometer of the body's current condition of health. She quickly
understood that U human body is a whole entity in which the anatomical structure, the
physical function ax emotional state are interdependent and reciprocal in relationship; a
patient got well when the healing was self-initiated and seif~achieved. Dr. Pookrum opened
the doors of her individu practice in 1981 and founded the Perfect Health Institute of
Nutritional Medicine in 1986.
Perfect Health Institute of Nutritional Medicine
The principle that every health condition is "perfect" guides the mission of
the Perfect Heal Institute. Within every challenge are the lessons of giving and receIving
more love, and in doji so, the impact of disease Is neutralized. The Institute provides
instruction and support for those seeking a balanced diet, attitude and lifestyle that
builds a perfect health consciousnes The staff includes licensed and certitied physicians,
chiropractors, registered nurse psychiatric social workers, nutritionists, trained
acupuncturists and massage therapist Specialties include internal medicine, nutrition,
sports medicine and adjustment techniquc and life style patterning counselors.
Philosophy
"Perfect health is our birthright, a gift we already possess. I can help you
discover by supporting you mentally, spiritually, emotionally and physically. Medical
techniques are designed specifically for each patient"
No one needs to live with pain, fear or disease. We are all
individually responsible for the quality and
condition of our health. I support the use of natural, non-invasive therapies. I will
guide my patients past a reliance on the more external modalities of treatments such as
drugs and surgery. Both the Perfect Health Institute and the Double Helix Medical
Corporation support the use of diet as the body's natural medicine. Used in combination
with hen vitamins from food sources and appropriate physical activity and mental
conditioning, the body begins to heal and the aging process slows or reverses itself.
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