Kunin A Richard, MD

I rarely see doctors so when I decided, after 15 years, to see one, there was only one I would go to. I live 5 minutes from Stanford Med and how easy it would be to go there if only I could find someone there worth seeing. I’ve known about Richard Kunin and his work for as long as I can remember (thanks to a few enlightened MD’s and Linus Pauling) so off I went to see him in San Francisco. The medical industrial complex hasn’t hijacked the brain and expertise of every MD so the time with Dr. Kunin was worth it. If you want a strong intellect coupled with a native intelligence that practices real personalized medicine long before it became a buzz word, go see a real MD. RK is one of them.

Dr Richard Kunin is a physician who thinks instead of blindly following the dictums of the profession. I started seeing him about the year 2000 when he introduced me to CoQ10 and more importantly he was (still is) the pioneer of genetic testing. His advanced testing amazed my then cardiologist.
Most doctors open their DSM manual, read the symptoms, prescribe a drug. That’s not all bad of course as it provides some agreed upon check points, however, real doctoring by real physicians includes that the physician be a hands-​on thinking investigator. Dr. Richard Kunin is such a rare medical point of care.

I highly, highly recommend Dr. Kunin and his office.
Dr. Kunin is not only thoughtful but is full of knowledge to share and gives his patients his full attention.

I just googled Dr. Kunin after telling my fiancé that she should contact him about her very strange health conditions. I clicked on his Unilocal page and found that another reviewer took the words out of my mouth for my description of how Dr. Kunin pretty much saved my life in the past. I had a very severe case of reactive hypoglycemia which 4 doctors had failed to diagnose over the course of nearly 4 years. For those years I was suffering physically from often extreme fatigue, dizziness, and my nerves felt like I was on some kind of an amphetamine. Mentally I was sometimes clearheaded and other times I couldn’t understand the lead sentence in a newspaper story. I often imagined that people were spying on me from behind the walls of my room. Once, after I had left a store I had a very strong impulse to attack a middle-​aged man who just happened to be walking in front of me. Fortunately, I was able to inhibit this action. As you can see, I was a bit of a basket case and my psychiatrist, although an enormously kind, and empathic doctor, wasn’t much of a help. One night, after nearly 4 years of being non-​functional and heartbroken over my incapacities, I decided to walk to the Golden Gate Bridge to escape my pain. Fortunately I decided I could hold out a little longer and I ended up walking to a bookstore and finding a book, «Nutrition and the Mind» which described my symptoms as being a consequence of a problem digesting carbohydrates. I soon phoned the SF Medical Society and was referred to Dr. Kunin. He chose the correct blood tests to arrive at the correct diagnosis and prescribed various vitamins, minerals, enzymes and the diet to prevent the symptoms that had pretty much driven me mad for the previous 4 years. Thanks to Dr. Kunin I returned to college, earned graduate degrees and certificates and enjoyed decades functioning as a healthy, successful professional. So Dr. Kunin saved my life as well and I’m referring my fiancé to him this evening.

After meeting Dr. Kunin, I realized that his depth of knowledge and his understanding of the very complex interactions and synergies between nutrition and health is beyond the combined knowledge of all doctors I’ve ever met in my life, even the functional/​integrative ones. He has a very wide spectrum knowledge if I may call it this way, and understands so many things about medicine in a lot of depth, whereas many doctors even integrative ones tend to focus on one aspect (ie thyroid) and link everything to it. I believe Dr. Kunin has some of the best credentials in Orthomolecular Medicine and Orthomolecular Psychiatry today hands down, and is in the same category of Drs. Linus Pauling and Abram Hoffer. I believe that he is very effective for chronic illnesses and psychiatric illnesses, and helps find solutions and to the root cause using natural methods.

It’s no exaggeration to say that Dr. Kunin saved my life. I saw him in the early 1970’s and I was in bad shape… hypoglycemia and a variety of stress related problems had pushed me to the brink of despair… Dr. Kunin immediately saw what 11 other doctors had missed and got me off all the drugs which had been prescribed by the other docs. Dr. Kunin prescribed trace minerals, and amino acids… and within weeks, I was «normal»!! The other docs kept asking me about my relationship with my father… and wanting to treat me like a nut case :-)) God Bless Dr. Kunin!

I’m almost hesitant to put the word out on Dr. Kunin because I don’t want him to get overloaded with new patients. Dr. Kunin is a very very special and unique doctor. He’s a leading Orthomolecular practioner and one of the founders of Orthomolecular medicine. He’s deeply steeped in bio-​chemistry and science. He’s in his mid-70’s now, and has a lifetime of experience. I’ve never found a topic of health he doesn’t know something about. He’s a warm and kind person. A visit with him is more like visiting the dean or a professor in his office, than a doctor in a white lab coat. You and your health will be like a puzzle and he will try to solve the puzzle and provide you with natural non-​invasive paths to improving health and giving you insights you may have for the rest of your life. His practice has limited hours. If you have a difficult health matter and the normal doctors aren’t getting you anywhere, if you want to learn more about who you are genetically and bio-​chemically — Dr. Kunin will tell you stuff that few if any doctors can tell you, he’s very much at the edge — and pushing the edge of science. Its helpful if you can be concise and prepared, you will get more out of your visits. Im’ very grateful for all I’ve learned with Doctor Kunin. He does not take insurance directly, but I’m finding few of the really good docs do because if you are a healer, you can’t easily be a business-​person — they are rarely compatible.