Randy Travis

Fitness and nutrition have always been important to me. I work out six days a week and take vitamins and supplements. I never really gave much thought as to how what I ate and drank, and even the air I breathed affected my body. That is, not until the day I lost my voice! I was in my hotel room one morning following a performance when the telephone rang. When I went to answer it I found I could not speak. Shocked and frightened, my first thought was that I had lost my voice and quite possibly my singing career. After a voice specialist in Nashville found nothing wrong with my throat or vocal cords, I started searching for an answer.

I found it. One night while sitting up late watching television I saw an infomercial, which featured a doctor talking about his latest book. Being curious by nature, I sent for this doctor’s book and after reading it I contacted him. When I told him about the problem with my voice, this doctor said something that would change my life and the lives of my loved ones forever:

“The best place in the world for you to go for your health problems is a Clinic in Reno, Nevada. They work wonders there.”

So in August of 1995, I found myself in Sierra Integrative Medical Center (SIMC) at Reno, Nevada. The doctors at the clinic gave me a thorough physical examination and recommended laboratory testing. I will never forget the day one of the doctors walked into the treatment room and said to me, “You are allergic to every grass and tree known to mankind!” It was true, the lab tests confirmed that I had severe and multiple allergies.

For years doctors in Nashville and Atlanta kept telling me that I had a drainage problem in my nose and throat. One doctor suspected that I had allergies but never did a blood test to confirm it. The treatments they recommended were directed at treating the symptoms and not what was actually causing my problem. One of the things I learned from the doctors at the SIMC is that dairy products like milk, cheese and eggs and even fruits like pineapple were causing some of my health problems. Now I knew why after eating ice cream I could not sing for 3 or 4 days! I was allergic to dust, pollen and other things in the air and even to most of the vitamins and supplements I had been taking! I began treatment at the SIMC right away. My schedule wouldn’t allow me to spend much time at the clinic, so I took my treatment on the road. Within a few months of taking the custom-made medicines designed for me by the clinic, I felt a huge difference.

My wife, Elizabeth, also received treatment at the SIMC. She almost died from a bleeding ulcer and it was the doctors at the clinic who identified the cause of her ulcer as the H Pylori bacteria and treated it successfully.

I can honestly say that since I have been to the clinic nothing much bothers me anymore. Elizabeth and I both feel great and have a lot more energy. I just recorded a new album a couple of months ago. I sang every song of the twelve tracks and finished it in a week. Before coming to SIMC I would work on one album for at least five to six months. Last year I was filming in Canada for three months working seven days a week and sleeping only 4 to 5 hours a night. Everybody on the set was sick with the flu. I never got sick. A friend who was traveling with us contracted pneumonia and suffered a collapsed lung. He said to Elizabeth and I, “I don’t know how you do this!”

We do. And we have the Sierra Integrative Medical Center to thank.

In 1998, my father-in-law, Hill Roberson, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. His oncologist opened him up, saw the size of the tumor, and then sent him home to die. He was in terrible pain and we were afraid we would lose him before we could get him to SIMC. The doctors at the clinic identified what was causing Hill’s health problems and immediately started him on a treatment program. When Hill returned to his home in North Carolina he went back to his oncologist who, in disbelief, found that the tumor had shrunk to one-quarter of its original size. Hill was back home doing the things he loved most—shooting his gun, mowing the lawn, hauling hay.

I remember one story my cousin told me about Hill after he had come back home from the clinic. Hill was sitting in his truck with the windows rolled up in 100 degree weather when my cousin said to him, “Man, is it hot!” Hill rolled down the window, looked at my cousin and said, “I’m doin’ fine.” Hill passed away in October of 1999 at the age of eighty-six. He was feeling so good that he just quit taking the treatments recommended by the clinic. Elizabeth and I wonder how long he would have lived had he kept taking those treatments. We are grateful that he never experienced any more pain until just a few days before he died. We thank the SIMC for allowing Hill to enjoy life right up until his last dying day.

I tell people who are not feeling good or have sickness in their family that they need to go to Sierra Integrative Medical Center. I have met and spoken with people who were diagnosed with “incurable” diseases who found help and hope there. I witnessed a little girl with arthritis who, after receiving treatment at the clinic, could raise her arm for the very first time. I met a woman with multiple sclerosis who discovered that her disease was caused by being exposed to chemicals and is now on the road to recovery.

I believe God works through some people to heal others. I believe that God works through the doctors at SIMC to help people that have no other place to turn for help. This belief has changed my life and the lives of those around me. I believe it can change yours.

Will I always look to Sierra Integrative Medical Center to keep me, my family and friends healthy and able to enjoy life and all its blessings?

Yes – forever and ever, amen.