Dr Rick Donald
Doctor of Chinese Medicine (Australian Government Reg. No. A/0120), Clinical Nutritionist, Acupuncturist, Medical Herbalist, Naturopath

AACMA, ANTA, Adv Dip Health Science (Acup), Adv Dip Health Science (Nat), Dip Applied Science (Acup), Dip Applied Science (Nat), Dip Health Science (Herbal Med), Pract Dip Herbal Medicine, Pract Dip Nutrition, Post Grad Studies China (1999), B. Commerce, Dip Education, Assoc. Dip Arts

Rick is a natural healer who comes from a long line of healthcare professionals.

For the past 15 years, he has been successfully practicing a unique amalgam of Western and Eastern medicine in Australia, forged from the knowledge gained from formally studying both Western scientific medical principles and the empirical wisdom of the ancient healing arts, with a significant element of innate perception thrown in for good measure.

Whilst his formal education was in Melbourne, Australia, where he graduated as a Clinical Nutritionist, Doctor of Chinese Medicine, Medical Herbalist and Naturopath, Rick also spent considerable time in 1999 studying and working in the public hospital system in Nanning, China. When there, he studied and consulted in two separate major hospitals, along with being seconded to helping treat the sporting injuries of members of the Chinese Olympic team.

Rick has a thirst for knowledge and is an information ‘junkie’, spending countless hours each year updating and further adding to his knowledge at many medical conferences and seminars.

He is a dynamic forward thinker and an innovator and is absolutely dedicated to medicine and humanitarian efforts.

Rick’s passion is nutritional medicine and his life philosophy is that ‘we are what we eat’. He firmly believes that Hippocrates was correct when he stated over 2000 years ago that we should ‘let our food be our medicine’.

For Rick, the glass is always half full. His enthusiasm for life is evident in everything he attempts. He is not only skilled in the healing arts, but he is also an educator, writer and motivator who has an enquiring mind that is always looking outside the square to find a better way.

When not consulting with clients in his busy nutrition and lifestyle clinic in Melbourne, Australia, Rick is actively involved in promoting his lifestyle and nutritional programs around Australia. He is a frequent face in the media and is often seen or heard on TV or radio and is frequently quoted in the daily newspapers.

In 2006, Rick had a significant 330 page diet and lifestyle book published entitled Feast & Famine – natural and sustainable weight control. From the first week of its release, his book was very positively received in the market place and it soon became a best seller. Rick’s book was the result of some 3,500 weight loss consultations and it has made major inroads into effectively treating the world’s obesity epidemic.

His innovative Essential Stop Snoring Secrets program has its roots in a chance discovery made by Rick when he was devising his Feast & Famine Weight Loss Program some 12 years ago. He began to notice that not only were his patients losing weight, but many of their partners were giving Rick feedback that they were, often for the first time in years, able to get a full night’s sleep because his weight loss patient had either stopped, or at least significantly reduced, their snoring levels.

Quickly Rick put two and two together and realized that he had made a breakthrough discovery in the treatment of snoring by using appropriate changes in the patient’s dietary habits.

The rest is now history. After successfully trialing and fine tuning his Essential Stop Snoring Secrets program over the next few years, Rick then packaged it into a user-friendly and safe format that was suitable to be made available to the general population, and his anti-snoring program was launched on the web.

Rick is very proud of his achievements in this regard and is very pleased to make it available to world. Essential Stop Snoring Secrets is the first in a series of health related and nutrition-based websites which Rick will be releasing in the near future.