An Interview with Dr. Gilbert Jaudy
By Mike Bundrant

Healthy Times is pleased to introduce Dr. Gilbert Jaudy, who practices Functional Neurology in Palm Desert. Dr. Jaudy’s unique approach to the treatment of chronic conditions is having a dramatic impact in the lives of many who have not found solutions in spite of a seemingly endless quest. Read on for a glimpse of his brain-based approach to health care.

HT:  Welcome Dr. Jaudy.  Can you tell us about your work and the field of Functional Neurology?     

DR. JAUDY:  Actually, my very first degree was in journalism. I believe that was very helpful because I carried over an inquisitive and investigative approach to health care.  After my doctorate degree in chiropractic, I pursued post-graduate training in the field of Clinical or Functional Neurology.  President George Bush Senior in 1990 signed a declaration designating the 1990’s to be the “Decade of the Brain” which gave birth to this neuroscience. There was an explosion of active brain research that consisted of world-class researchers and scientists.  It is a never-ending field of study!  I regularly travel all over the U.S. and the world pursuing the latest in research and clinical applications.

HT:  You mentioned that the approach to the treatment was brain-based?

DR. JAUDY:  Yes.  These exciting breakthroughs and latest scientific discoveries have changed the way the medical community views chronic pain and how it should be treated.  Also, we understand more about how the brain interacts with the rest of the body as well as what goes wrong when it is injured or damaged; the actual mechanism of suffering and pain.  Now, finally, we have treatment procedures and diagnostics for the underlying aspects of brain function that are behind the cause of symptoms. Our treatments are brain-based, non-surgical and non-pharmaceutical.                  

HT:  If you could convey one message to the reader, what would it be?

DR. JAUDY:  That it’s never too late.  Age has nothing to do with function.  The research of brain mapping and fixing dysfunctions through neurological circuitry is at the forefront of modern science.  I want to relay the impact of the advanced breakthroughs and applications in Functional Neurology to achieve full brain integration for quality of life.  If you are not integrated, then you disintegrate! 

It will open your eyes to the truth about human function vs. dysfunction and how the brain can be rewired or “re-mapped” to correct brain misfiring, which leads to a myriad of neurological and metabolic conditions and symptoms.  We are meant to pass on in this life because it is time, it is ripe; not succumb to a miserable end or a poor quality of life.  Sorry Mike, I think that was more than one message and then some!

HT:  Not at all, I can sense the genuine passion for your work.  Are there any cases that stand out?

DR.JAUDY:  I have many people that come to me and say I am doctor number twenty-three or twenty-four.  I had a very sweet young lady referred to me by another doctor and I was her doctor number eighteen.  I had full medical records on her.  The girl lives in the L.A. area, but she would drive up here twice a week.  The girl was young, but she was very, very sick.  Again, age does not have anything to do with function.  The bottom line is that the girl is better than ninety-five percent today, and she now comes once a month or every two months. 

You can be fifty years old and someone might say that these are the problems of a fifty year old person.  If you are a bit older they will say, “Well, you’re done now.  Go home and sit there and die, or do whatever you need to do.”  That is wrong!  I had one man that was flown in from out of the country to see me.  He had already seen many doctors from all over the world.  He came in with right-sided arm, facial, arm, throat, and top-of-the-lung paralysis.  He couldn’t say a word.  He only wrote things on a piece of paper.  He couldn’t even swallow.  The doctors told him that they were going to permanently put a tube in his throat.  He is seventy-five years old. 

Again, I will go back to what I said earlier. Age has nothing to do with function.  You might be eighty or ninety years old but you are functional.  We spent two months with him and after that he was able to call his family overseas and speak with them.  They were crying and he was so emotional because he could speak. 

We are very passionate about what we do and we are letting the whole world know about these procedures.  I tell my patients all the time that this care is not a luxury. It is a necessity.  Every person needs to be evaluated to find out his or her neurological status.  You shouldn’t wait until you have a problem.  When you’re functional, you are happy and enjoy life.  I hear this from my patients all day long.  They tell me, “Dr. Jaudy, I am happier with my family I can walk and I enjoy life better.  I enjoy walking my dogs.  I am losing weight and I’m not trying.”

HT:  Where do you begin to approach the problem? 

DR. JAUDY:  We address the function of the nerves starting from the brain.  The brain is a neurological entity that is extremely complex.  It has different divisions, different lobes, and different layers and compartments.  It’s like you.  You are the CEO of Healthy Times and you have different divisions and have different people sending you information, article and ads.  You need to get all this information, assimilate the information, distribute the information and put it into a newspaper context. 

What happens is that the brain functions at a very high level and gets all this information and sorts it to different departments in the brain and starts assigning functions.  If there is a problem in any department or division, function would be compromised.  As a result of that the human body, little by little, day after day, year after year, starts suffering and suffering manifests into symptoms.  If symptoms are not addressed they can become diseases.