Save your money and go to a real doctor because there's a reason why insurance probably won't cover these people, as was the case for me. The whole thing was a colossal waste of time and money that shook my faith in the goodness of the human race.
First off, Heitkotter is unlicensed as a medical practitioner and has been fined $5,000 by the state of Illinois for passing herself off as a real MD. See page 9.
https://www.idfpr.com/Forms/DISCPLN/2012_11dis.pdf
Her partner, Mary Veltri had her nursing license suspended indefinitely and was similarly fined $5,000 for allowing an unlicensed person (presumably Heitkotter) to dispense medical services. See page 16.
https://www.idfpr.com/forms/discpln/2013_05dis.pdf
My experience was of being led into a room and instructed to place my hand on a hand-cradle called "Zyto", which was hooked up to a computer.
http://www.devicewatch.org/reports/zyto/overview.shtml
I forget how many hours for which I sat there but this contraption was supposedly able to arrive at a multitude of conclusions about my needs based on "signals" that it sent into my body and the responses that my body generated. When I asked if the results were repeatable (an essential criteria for scientific validity), Veltri likened the process to quantum physics, in which the act of looking alters the phenomenon being observed. I strongly doubt that Heitkotter, Veltri or anybody else at this place has education as a theoretical physicist and I viewed the whole process as an insult to my intelligence. Don't believe them or anybody who tries to tell you that this toy can draw accurate conclusions about your medical and dietary needs that would normally take blood-work, X-rays, CT scans, MRI's and innumerable other tests which, while expensive, time consuming and require the use of complex machinery, are scientifically proven and therefore covered by insurance. If you've ever gotten an x-ray, then you should know what I'm talking about. Heitkotter and Veltri didn't ask to see any of my medical records.
As icing on the cake, Veltri filled a pill bottle with dietary supplements of some kind and placed the bottle next to a small device she called a "tower" which infused the pills with some sort of healing essence. It looked like an ionic breeze that you would've gotten from Sharper Image. They charged us $250 for these pills and another $250 for the session, which came to a total of HALF A THOUSAND DOLLARS.
The only nice thing I can say about these people as that they allowed us to return the pills for a refund but, when all was said and done, we were still OUT A QUARTER OF A THOUSAND DOLLARS. I felt dirty.
People like them prey on the general lack of scientific education and distrust of the scientific and medical establishment. If anybody tells you about the evils of the pharmaceutical industry and the shortcomings of "western medicine", just remember that people in Asia love "western medicine" because it's methodically tested for safety and effectiveness. The idea of a distinction between "western" and "eastern" medicine is false. There is only medicine that is proven to work and medicine that is not. Remember that university hospitals, like the ones at the University of Chicago and Northwestern, perform research to advance understanding and not for a profit motive. Their findings are TESTED and RE-TESTED and the results are REVIEWED BY PEERS.
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