Doc Lew Childre Jr. (born September 7, 1945)[1] (pronounced "Chill-dree")[2] is an American author[3] and the founder of the Heartmath Institute, a non-profit organization whose objective is to help the development of "heart-brain-coherence".
[5] After serving in the National Guard, Childre started a recording studio in Boulder Creek, California.
[5] In his early twenties, he developed some health problems that caused him to look for alternative treatments and that is when he began researching stress.
[4] The music was played in alternative radio stations in 35 of the nation's largest 100 markets, and remained on the Billboard charts for over a year.
[1] Redford Williams, director of the Behavior Medicine Research Center at Duke University, was skeptical of Childre's claims saying Childre had "no basis for drawing any of these conclusions" about stress reduction, saying "there's only one standard to judge, and that's by the presentation to the medical community of findings in research that pass a muster called peer review.