About Lyle Murphy, ATMC’s Founder
Lyle Murphy is the founder of Alternative to Meds Center. Lyle did his pre-med scholastics at West Georgia University receiving the only recommendation for advancement to medical school in his class. Though accepted to Emory Medical School, he instead chose to attend LIfe University school of Chiropractic because of their naturalistic approach.
A traumatic event changed the trajectory of Lyle’s goals in life, which ultimately proved to be instrumental in manifesting and sharing his love and appreciation of natural holistic approaches to health to thousands of people.
Immediately after completion of chiropractic school, Lyle suffered a low blood sugar event that resulted in a crisis. At the end of his time at Life University, he had exhausted his financial resources and described himself as a starving student. After an incident of hallucinating for no known reason, Lyle was justifiably concerned and went to the emergency room. While at the hospital and trying to differentially diagnose himself, Lyle insisted on a blood sugar test as it seemed the only logical conclusion. The test result showed 39 mg/dL, which is deathly low, yet instead of the hospital appropriately treating an obvious medical situation, he was instead injected with Haldol, and soon after dropped into a low blood sugar coma for 2 weeks. He suffered stroke-like residuals and had to re-learn how to talk, walk, and communicate all over again without any professional help or hope. Still highly impaired after ten years and looking forward to at best living a disabled life, he began researching and utilizing holistic modalities that are similar to those offered at Alternative to Meds Center today. This life experience gave him a potent exposure to how inadequate the mental health system truly is, and demonstrated the effectiveness of the holistic approaches that he chose for his own recovery.
But he optimistically observed a “sea-change” beginning to appear in the medical community. In recent years, schools have sprung up, training the new nutritional psychiatrists, the integrative doctors and therapists who are fast becoming the most trusted “go-to” sources for true healing. And a new awareness has arisen in the general public about the liabilities of drug-based treatment. These were and are signs of great positive change in the medical community — a most welcome expansion and evolution in healing protocols.
