Most weight-loss gurus come from nutrition, fitness, or psychology. Dr. Deborah Hill came from treating some of the worst chronic pain cases in Los Angeles.
As former director of West Burbank Chiropractic Center, Deborah Hill, D.C. spent years developing Myoprobe Therapy®—a specialized hands-on approach that frequently eliminates arthritis pain, restores full range of motion to frozen joints, and gets people off pain medication entirely. Her office walls are covered with thank-you letters from patients who thought they’d never move normally again.
While teaching mind-body techniques to help patients manage pain, Dr. Hill kept noticing an odd side effect: patients were spontaneously losing weight and reporting they no longer felt controlled by food. That observation eventually birthed the Shield Method—but the surprises didn’t stop there.
In her first large test group, 55.17% of participants—without receiving any specific instruction on alcohol—reduced their drinking by at least 75%. Several quit smoking entirely. One man quietly pulled Dr. Hill aside after a session and thanked her in tears because he had used the same Shield techniques to almost instantly resolve a long-standing sexual behavior problem that years of therapy hadn’t touched.
Joyce W. wrote: “Instead of going through life experiencing a series of small failures, you will now experience successes. This gives you a healthy, positive self image…”
Sue S. called the core concept “BRILLIANT.” S.L. said it was “bordering on the miraculous.”
Dr. Hill never marketed the Shield Method as a tool for smoking or alcohol control, yet the underlying increase in personal willpower seems to spill over into every area of self-control. She is now formally researching additional applications while continuing to be amazed at what her original pain patients accidentally started.
From frozen shoulders to lifelong freedom from compulsive behaviors, Dr. Hill’s career has taken a path no one—including her—could have predicted.
