Fierce Healthcare May 22, 2024
Marcus Capone felt he had run out of options.
A highly accomplished former Navy SEAL who received combat awards in the military’s counterterrorism unit, Capone was struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety.
To deal with, as he describes, the hidden wounds of war, he was prescribed antidepressants and mood stabilizers for seven years, yet the symptoms persisted and the underlying problems were not getting resolved. Traditional medicine was failing him. His wife arranged for the veteran to try alternative therapy, a decision he credits as extremely positive.
“That radically changed my life,” he said at the Midwest Business Group on Health conference in Chicago this month.
Capone’s path is similar to many others. He learned he was suffering...