Contact us: Email: winsfoundation@aol.com New York: 666 West End Ave., Suite 15-S New York, NY 10025 212-580-3051 (Phone) 212-580-0467 (Fax)

About WINS

WINS Foundation Board of Directors Dr. Karen Purcell, M.M., N.D., C.N., Co-Founder and CEO Mr. Roy Autry, Co-Founder and CEO Emeritus Ms. Jeanne P. Batterson Thomas Bryant Koch, Sr. WINS Foundation Board of Advisors Ms. Susan Sarandon Dr. D.A. Versendaal, D.C., C.R.A. Dr. Gary Young, Founder,  Young Living Essential Oils Ms. Jillian LaVelle, President  International Association of  Counselors & Therapists Ms. Dee Alpert, Esq. Ms. Fran Capo, Comedienne Ms. Tamie Laurance  Sales Director,  Mary Kay Cosmetics Mariana Jerolimov, N.D. Legal Counsel: Ms. Caroline Coulston,  Attorney at Law Art Director: Jeane McGrail Publicity Helen Hyatt

The WINS Foundation
We're Important, NOT Stupid

WINS funds campaigns to identify and help learning disabled students through two main efforts:

• First, WINS sponsors Dr. Purcell and other nutritionally-oriented doctors, chiropractors, and nutritionists to speak to schools, parent organizations, teachers, special education teachers, counselors, school boards, psychologists, and other professionals about the nutritional and natural methods that can be used to help these students.

• Second, WINS sponsors training programs for nutritionists, naturopaths, naturopathic physicians, chiropractors, and nutritionally-oriented M.D.s to teach the natural methods and protocols that help learning disabled students overcome the physiological difficulties that keep them from realizing their natural talents, abilities and worth. These health care professionals will also be able to assist children with ADD/ADHD (Attention Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder), PDD (Pervasive Developmental Delay), tic disorder, autism, and traumatic brain injury reach their maximum potential.

At last WINS can help those who previously were lost to take their rightful places among the best and the brightest!

WINS gratefully receives donations for its work. Please mail your contribution to the New York address shown at the top of the page.

Carl's mother, Dr. Karen Purcell, a naturopathic physician and a licensed clinical nutritionist, found natural therapies that aided Carl greatly in his concentration and in his ability to sustain a higher level of effort for a longer period of time. She learned of Essential Fatty Acid testing made famous in the film, "Lorenzo's Oil". The results of this testing and the excellent information provided by Dr. Patricia Kane, PH.D., along with other natural protocols made a remarkable difference in Carl's cognitive functions. That is, Dr. Purcell found, as she had long suspected, that: THE CAUSES FOR MUCH OF A LEARNING DISABLED STUDENT'S LEARNING DIFFICULTIES ARE PHYSIOLOGICAL AND TREATABLE! The message is clear: Most learning disabled students have at least one area of potential excellence which, if they can identify it, can prove to themselves, their families, and their teachers that they are of value, and Most learning disabled students can be aided greatly by appropriate natural protocols using pharmaceuticals as a last resort. In addition, Dr. Purcell has found that the protocols which help learning disabled children, teens, and adults can be coupled with additional tests and protocols to help children with ADD, ADHD, PDD, tic disorder, traumatic brain injury, suicidal/violent and anti-social behavior, multiple sclerosis, and even autism. While by no means "cures" for these disorders, essential fatty acid testing protocols, amino acid testing and supplementation, enzyme testing, heavy metal testing and detoxification, and the use if hyperbaric oxygen, implemented by knowledgeable health care professionals, have shown remarkable results in many cases. These may be early forms of protocols to alleviate these heretofore intractable disorders! Dr. Karen Purcell, M.M., N.D., C.N. considers the ability to identify and to help these young people so important that she and her husband have formed a not-for-profit organization to meet this need. It is called: The WINS Foundation We're Important, NOT Stupid.