Clear Mind Secrets and its sister site Dynamic Self Care, are self-care resources for people who prefer to use natural and alternative strategies to support better health. Clear Mind Secrets focuses mainly on brain health issues such as ADHD, memory problems, anxiety and mood conditions. The Director of these sites is Dr. Iris Bell, MD PhD.

Iris Bell, MD, PhD has been a researcher and teacher in areas related to holistic, complementary and alternative/integrative medicine for over 40 years. She was chosen as one of the Best Doctors in the Pacific region of the US in 1996 and in the US in 1998. She has published over 150 professional papers and dozens of book chapters. Her current area of research is on the nanoparticle nature of homeopathic medicines, low-dose stimulation of healing processes, and the interaction of alternative therapies and treatments with the person as a complex adaptive system.

Currently retired Professor of Family & Community Medicine, Dr. Bell has served on the faculties at Harvard Medical School, University of California San Francisco, and the University of Arizona. She graduated magna cum laude in biology from Harvard University and then received her PhD in Neuro- and Biobehavioral Sciences and MD from Stanford University. Her psychiatry internship and residency were at the University of California–San Francisco, and she is Board certified in Psychiatry with past Added Qualification in Geriatric Psychiatry. She is licensed to practice conventional medicine in Arizona and California, among other states.

You can also find some of Dr. Bell’s professional paper publication listings at:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Bell+IR

She was also nationally certified in biofeedback, a fellow of the American College of Nutrition, and has been a licensed physician in homeopathy and integrated medicine in Arizona.

Dr. Bell’s award-winning book is Getting Whole, Getting Well: Healing Holistically from Chronic Illness. More recently, she published Natural Brain Boosters: Enhance Memory, Focus, and Mental Clarity. She has published scores of professional papers and book chapters on her clinical research in addition to a monograph on environmental illness. On a lighter note, she wrote the funny, touching, inspirational and award-winning books, Chew on Things – It Helps You Think: Words of Wisdom from a Worried Canine, and The Chew on Things Workbook for Fellow Worriers, to celebrate her beloved soft-coated wheaten terrier Casey’s life and help people with anxiety disorders find ways to cope with humor and a touch of courage.

Her passion is to teach people who find themselves with a chronic illness and are at the start of their own difficult journey home to themselves and to better health — a learning experience for us all. With her background in neurosciences, she studies how natural approaches can help support better brain health and function.

She writes, teaches, does research, and coaches, in Tucson, Arizona, usually ""assisted" by her two rescue dogs.