About Us

1987 Lake Tahoe, American Academy for Environmental Medicine-Sherri Rodgers on EI Syndrome and others

1987-1995 Cascade Park Health Group –Worked very closely with Richard P. Huemer, M.D. for three years. Dr. Huemer, a former president of the Orthomolecular Medical Society, personally knew Linus Pauling giving him tribute to one of his publications, “The Roots of Molecular Medicine”. Dr. Huemer was on the editorial board of Mechanisms of Aging and Development and is the author of numerous professional and technical papers, abstracts and recipients of awards from National Cancer Institute, American Medical Association, and the American Physical Fitness Research Institute. He was also a member of the Los Angeles County Task Force on Nutrition. During this time I strengthened my work related to allergy and nutrition.

9/1988 State of Washington Health Care Assistant Category ACDEF- certified in IV & venous access.

1994 – Attended Internation Society of Chelation Technicians’ Workshop in San Diego, California.

1994 American Academy of Neural Therapy by Dietrich Klinghart, MD and Louisa Williamson, ND regarding mercury and heavy metal toxicity, nutritional implications and chelation.

1995 HealthComm International & Great Smokies Laboratory- “Seminar Solving the Digestive Puzzle”. Curriculum included implications related to altered intestinal permeability, hepatic detoxification, chemical sensitivities, osteoporosis risk and menopause. Featured Jeffrey Bland, Ph.D., Martin Lee Ph.D., Tori Hudson, ND, Sid Baker, MD and others.

1995 HealthComm with Jeffrey Bland, Ph.D.-Applying New Essentials in Nutritional Medicine-Applications in fibromyalgia, irritable bowel, gastritis, men/women health issues and atopic disorders in children.

1996 HealthComm with Jeffrey Bland, Ph.D.-New Perspectives in Nutritional Therapies; Improving Patient Outcomes-neuromuscular disorders, benign prostatic hypertrophy, food related disorders in children, managing inflammation

1996 The American Academy of Nutrition graduate

1997 HealthComm with Jeffrey Bland, Ph.D.-Nutritional Improvement in Health Outcomes; The Inflammatory Disorders

1998 HealthComm with Jeffrey Bland, Ph.D.-Improving Genetic Expression in the Prevention of the Diseases of Aging

2006 NeuroScience-Understanding Neurotransmiter Imbalances in the Central Nervous System

2006 NeuroScience-Adrenal Stress & the Nervous System

2006 The France Foundation-Peer Connections Phase I & Phase II, Treating patients with Bipolar Disorder in Primary Care

2007 American Academy of Environmental Medicine-The Diagnosis and Treatment of Inhalant Allergies

2007 NeuroScience-Clinical Applications in Women’s Health & ADD/ADHD

2007 NeuroScience- Clinical Applications in Anxiety and Insomnia

2007 Providence- Screening for Cornary Heart Disease

2008 Providence- Asthma, COPD, Spirometry

2008 Providence-Hearing Loss-Diagnostic and Treatment

2008 Providence-Parkinson’s Disease including nutritional influences

2009 NeuroScience- Neurotransmitter Assessment: Concepts, philosophies, & business by Eileen Wright, MD.

Many of us grew up in poverty but really didn’t know it. We knew there wasn’t enough money to meet all our wants or needs but not a word for it that we could focus on. Instead, our view was provided for us by our family, teachers and other authorities in our life. We built character, values, had dreams, lived and breathed just like those who did have money. We had hope.

My husband, John grew up on a farm and eventually went to Washington State University and studied Range Management. After he graduated, he served in the Marines for 2 years followed by a career with the US Forest Service for 30 years as a soil scientist. It was two years before he retired when we opened our first clinic, Northwest Center for Environmental Medicine. He eventually became the office manager, managed accounts payable and employee needs. For John, the clinic met his need to help others but it was the hope that I would get well that inspired him.

I grew up in Roseburg in a family of seven children. My parents owned a small sawmill where we all spent time and l learned a strong work ethic. In addition, I ran the house cooking and cleaning for the entire clan including all the kids who would hang out.

As a child it was clear to me I lacked the energy of others. When I started school, I recognized some classrooms made me sick, sleepy or more confused than usual. My vision was poor and was legally blind, without correction, by the 4th grade. By the time I was nine, I recognized I reacted to different foods and experienced hayfever in my teens. My fourth grade teacher, Ms. Duke-I want to give her personal recognition here- told my mother I was a near moron. Mother was furious but I actually thought the teacher might be right because I knew my brain didn’t work right; I often felt confused, dazed and dizzy. It wasn’t until I left my smoke filled home at age 16 that my brain started to function as the clouds of confusion began to dissipate. It was then I realized the negative impact chemicals had on my life. Still I was plagued by fatigue. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome didn’t find a name for many years thereafter.

After attending business school, at age 20 I took a position at a vitamin company and quickly entered management. The longer I was there, the better I felt. Nutrition had an impressive impact on my health. I was already a vegetarian but little did I know that I was severely IgG allergic to the mustard family which includes broccoli, cauliflower and other considered essential vegetables such as the lettuce family and beans, to name a few. I ate these things most every day! I remember John expressing concern about my health before we married and I was utterly convincing that I would get well. I believed it. But I soon found that my issues were bigger than I imagined. Things didn’t get better. It wasn’t until I was 36, shortly after John and I married, that I was asked by my doctor’s office to come and learn to be an allergy technician using techniques that helped environmentally challenged patients. I attended a conference and worked for a period of time there.

When asked if I wanted to purchase the practice I worked at, with no doctor or business experience, it didn’t seem reasonable but I was convinced that the allergy treatment helped manage the reactions I continually experienced. This form of testing is called provocative neutralization. Addressing the allergy certainly helped my daily walk but it wasn’t the whole answer. I took another position for eight years where I developed the skill of testing and became proficient at muscle testing. Due to some questionable business practices, I left that employment after eight years.

Our Calling

Sometimes opportunities arise and against all adversity, a business is born. We all have dreams-some are even our own, but in our wildest imagination we had not seen owning a medical clinic as part of our future. John and I are not doctors or even medical professionals. We had a personal need, similar to what we knew others could benefit from and I had a unique skill in allergy and hypersensitivity testing for people who suffer from environmental illness. I also had a unique history in vitamin manufacturing being trained by a pharmacist.

We believed we were called to serve others and the way we were introduced to the idea of a clinic was evolutionary. In our hearts we believed “if” it was true that we were called to this service, then we would also be provided grace. We approached a doctor who expressed an interest, we financially backed the project and our first clinic opened in 1995. Northwest Center for Environmental Medicine was the first clinic of its kind in Portland, Oregon. We had a medical doctor, naturopath, acupuncturist, microcurrent specialist, and massage therapy. We were well known. While grace abound, we were faced with many challenges that stretched and grew us to recognize success comes in many packages.

We resigned from Northwest Center for Environmental Medicine in 2000 due to ethical disagreements with our business partners that robbed us of our joy and causing the business to debunk. We opened Center for Environmental Medicine and decided to not take on business partners and hired private contractors instead which worked out well.

Doctors have always given me a stamp of being “healthy” although my quality of life has been limited. The truth is that mainstream medicine has never had an answer for patients who have environmental illness. This scope of medicine is embraced only by those doctors who are capable of looking outside of the box. Patients who previously were referred to psychiatrist by mainstream doctors for their issues find hope and help by doctors who look to environmental factors such as heavy metal burden, oxidative stress, allergy, pesticide exposure, mold toxicity, organ stress, detoxification and nutrition to name a few. Integrative doctors work to resolve the underlying causes and suffer the scoffing of their peers because of their walk less traveled.

Some mainstream medical doctors, nonetheless, have my respect. Over the years I have had a team of excellent doctors I relied upon in getting correct diagnoses within their specialties. With the information given, I set out to resolve the problem within the nutrition and the alternative field of medicine. My gastroenterologist, who is well known and respected, retired a few years ago. We had a conversation. He said, “You’re not going to believe this Cambor, but I’m almost as much of a naturalist as you are. I don’t like drugs. And if you want to use one, you better try it this year because it will probably be gone the next.”

Unlike John’s family who live into their 80’s to 90′s, my family history is full of cancer, heart disease and stroke. Both of my parents died at age 56 from cancer and other family members who lived into their 70’s suffered from diabetes, stoke and Alzheimers. My grandmother died in a state institution after brain surgery and malfunctioning thyroid, not even a close image of her prior self who was poised, dignified and selfless. My oldest brother died at age 52 of esophageal cancer and my youngest sister of brain cancer at age 55. My other siblings have heart disease, depression, diabetes, obesity and other issues. Though I have had my challenges, I have none of these issues.

I believe that has much to do with the lifestyle I have lived with respect to what I ate, what I drank, and what I breathed. I just lived differently because there wasn’t a choice for me. The thought of not having my independence due to illness was not an option, at least not without a fight. Each of us must be good stewards to do the best we can with what was given us.

What more could I do to gain and retain health? What would it take to live a healthy lifetime? This became the focus for me and resulted in the common good of others. With the birth of my second child, I learned I was blood type A-. Some research suggests because this is a newer blood type, adaptation is not easy. Thus, this class of individuals has the greatest risk of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. They typically do not detoxify well. My particular issues include anti-phospholipid syndrome, a clotting disorder that is autoimmune. I should have high fibrinogen, but I don’t. I have two out of three of the markers for diabetes, but I don’t have diabetes. A calcium heart scan, EBT, indicates I have no calcium buildup in my heart. Over time with proper diet, detoxification that included chelation, and good health habits, I no longer have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome nor Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.

Many of the patients I have worked with over the years are people who remained patients or have kept in touch over the years remaining healthy. Some stay in touch from as far away as Guam, Germany, Mexico and the Philippines. As John and I saw patient after patient improve and were able to return to a productive life, it strengthened our commitment and resolve.

There is a rising core population who can see the writing on the wall. The array of prescriptions the elderly can’t afford that line the medicine cabinet and a pile of medical bills to match. Now we see more and more doctors opting out of Medicare than ever, so although Medicare is available, the doctor is not. What can be done?

Alternative or Complementary Medicine use to be referred to as “preventative medicine” but that term was adopted by insurance companies to mean health screenings and specific lab tests. Thus, alternative, complementary or functional medicine is often used when referencing this type of medicine. Whatever the term, it addresses the underlying cause of disease, adds components of anti-aging nutrition, exercise and results in improved health. Just as I have had improved and sustained health, so have others. Through adversity, diligence and grace this business has survived and we take that as a sign. We vowed to continue to provide this service doing as much as we can for as long as we can. This became a vow that was hard to keep when I had contracted a parasite in Texas that I couldn’t get rid of and which left me devastated after three years and then years of recovery thereafter. Still, I found it better to go to work each day than to sit at home.

As a graduate of The American Academy of Nutrition, where I received a diploma in Comprehensive Nutrition with a focus on environmental health and nutrition, I worked as a Nutritionist in Oregon. I continued to improve and apply principles of nutrition that had roots back in the 70’s when I ran the manufacturing department at the vitamin company. Today I am healthier than I ever imagined, full of vitality, an excellent memory and optimistic about my future.

As a nutritionist, I have worked closely with the patients and doctors. Many patients with environmental illness cannot use synthetic drugs and feel well, so finding viable options that work is rewarding. As it turns out, because of my personal history of chronic illness, John and I are committed. We have compassion, empathy, and are sympathetic to the plight of people. Helping them was our focus and the best part of having the business.

Some 19 years later we looked back and realize it really was time to pass the baton. Our interest is the same but we need a different level of responsibility as we look to the future. Thus, Health Watch Central will be the new face of where our efforts will be expressed. We will exchange patients for clients and the relationship will change a bit but we have confidence we will develop the same types of relationships in this business as we have in the past. You have now gotten to know us a bit, and as we get to know you please realize we tend to view our clients as extended family. The family is a very import cohesive factor in our culture and lives and it is always great to hear from family! We look forward to serving you.

“It is imperfection — not perfection — that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain,” Dr. Levi-Montalcini wrote in her autobiography, “and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.” A few years earlier she wrote, “At 100, I have a mind that is superior — thanks to experience — than when I was 20,” She died at age 103. Dr. Levi was a world class renowned neuroscientist awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work resulting in Nerve Growth Factor.