David G. Williams (b. 1952) is the writer of the consumer-oriented medical newsletter Alternatives for the Health Conscious Individual. Alternatives is one of the oldest continually published health newsletters in the U.S., having begun publication in August 1985. It is still being published.


Dr. Williams maintains that no one can preserve and safeguard your health like you can, and that you will be far healthier if you educate yourself on some basic principles of health and follow them. But for those times when eating right, exercising, and avoiding health hazards aren’t enough to prevent disease, he also presents information on how to restore health as simply, effectively, and inexpensively as possible. Usually, that means doing it yourself with such methods, foods, nutritional supplements, and devices as he recommends.


Dr. Williams is first and foremost a chiropractic physician, having learned holistic methods of treating patients in accordance with the disciplines of Applied Kinesiology from the very first days of his medical training. He is also a businessman, having founded and run two successful medical clinics and independently built a newsletter business with over 100,000 subscribers. In 1996, Dr. Willams sold his newsletter business to Phillips Publishing, Inc., now Healthy Directions LLC where it attained a circulation of over 300,000.


Outside of his medical practice, Dr. Williams’ interests and hobbies extend to building and riding motorcycles of his own design; drawing (including illustrating his early issues of Alternatives); architecture; and flying traditional, experimental, and ultralight aircraft. He also enjoys scuba diving and sky diving.


Dr. Williams travels and reads extensively in an effort to find new and more effective ways to treat disease and human biological dysfunction. He has found effective treatments in some of the farthest reaches of the world. These have included traditional herbal treatments from India, Australia, South America, and China; a berry product from Israel for colds and flu, surgical techniques from an Australian pioneer in microsurgery, a micro-current device that treats serious eye ailments, and foods from almost every culture that can dramatically impact health for the better—along with hundreds of other therapies for everything from ingrown toenails to hair loss, from acne to cancer.

Birth and Early Life

David G. Williams was born in Dayton, Ohio on August 5, 1952. His father was an iron worker who worked on hydroelectric dams, including Hoover Dam. His father’s work eventually took the family to Texas, where Dr. Williams grew up on a farm and is now the area which he considers home.

Higher Education

Dr. Williams’ attended the University of Houston and later earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration at Southwest Texas State University at San Marcos. After college he became a claims adjuster with a large insurance agency in Texas.


Through his insurance work, Dr. Willams’ encountered injured people who he followed through treatment to final outcome, giving him exposure to their methods of treatment and progress. This vantage point gave him a first-hand view of a variety of treatment methods. He subsequently chose to go into the field of medicine as a chiropractor because he had seen clearly how effective that discipline could be.


He obtained his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Chiropractic from the Texas Chiropractic Clinic and later studied and conducted research projects at the University of Houston, San Antonio College, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Jacinto College, and Rice University.

Medical Philosophy

Dr. Williams’ philosophy of medicine was formed before he began his chiropractic schooling when he met Randy Thomas, the son of a chiropractor who was associated with George Goodheart, a prominent chiropractor in Michigan. Dr. Goodheart was the founder of a technique called Applied Kinesiology, a respected branch of chiropractic medicine. Traditional chiropractic teaches that the whole body needs to be treated, and approaches this by dividing the body into several areas and treating whichever one is injured. Applied Kinesiology integrates the treatment method so the body is treated as a whole.


Mr. Thomas introduced Dr. Williams to Dr. Goodheart. Dr. Williams attended several of the doctor’s seminars and these strongly influenced his medical career. This approach of viewing every person as unique and treating him or her holistically has formed the basis of Dr. Williams’s medical philosophy.


Following his Chiropractic training, Dr. Williams established the Williams Chiropractic Clinic – then, the largest non-invasive medical facility in central Texas. He treated everyone from children to the elderly in all aspects of chiropractic care, including specific injuries such as paralysis treatment. His patients also included many athletes, including members of the Houston Oilers, San Antonio Spurs, and the Houston Ballet.


Despite success at his Clinic, Dr. Williams yearned for a smaller town in which to conduct his business, so he moved to Kerrville, Texas – a retirement community. This move skewed Dr. Williams’ patient age demographic higher, so he began to focus on helping his individual patients tackle their specific needs, perhaps to reduce pain, to walk, or to improve their energy level.


As he treated this aging population, Dr. Williams recognized the need for greater dissemination of the crucial information he was uncovering and utilizing to help his patients. Dr. Williams wanted to aid people in practicing a responsible, disciplined, knowledgeable brand of medicine which was desperately needed to counter the “one-size-fits-all” mentality he saw in the medical establishment. From this desire, Dr. Williams decided to write a newsletter: Alternatives for the Health Conscious Individual. In 1997, he sold his newsletter business to Phillips Publishing, Inc. and began devoting himself to full-time research and writing.


Dr. Williams differentiates his newsletter by focusing on the practical emphasis of what he does. “There’s a lot of information out there and a lot of people … giving advice. But what I try to do is make it very, very practical. If it’s not practical, I don’t really get into it. I just look at it as if I was sitting across the table from someone, and they had a problem. I would try to give them something that they can put their hands on and actually do.”


As conventional—and even many forms of alternative—medicine fail to help people, people must help themselves. But in many cases they need to be taught how to do that, and Dr. Williams has dedicated his life to providing this service.

Commercial Interests

Dr. Williams formulates and sells nutritional supplements under the brand name Mountain Home NutritionalsBold text'. Products are available at his web site.

External Links

Official website

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