origin story
Many people believe that we now live many lifetimes within one go ‘round. I can’t disagree. My long and winding road as a healer started in smoky music clubs in the 90’s. The music was fun. The smoke was not. The Cliffs Notes version is: we tried really hard, nearly got signed to Warner Bros, and imploded (like all bands do) magnificently. By the time it was all over, I was quite ill.
Back in the day, I didn’t know musician life is a recipe for disaster. The electrical grid, bad lighting, vampire hours, and wrecked circadian rhythms have killed many a rock star (BTW, booze and drugs may be attempts to compensate for physiological deficits caused by the aforementioned elements). Add to that secondhand smoke and a terrible diet and you have someone like me, on Death’s doorstep. I don’t think I’m exaggerating here.
It started in dwight yoakam’s studio
I was spiraling downward quickly. I was sick all the time and each new infection would be followed by weeks of bronchiole spams. The doctors kept saying it was chronic bronchitis followed by asthma and would prescribe antibiotics and then prednisone to stop the bronchiole inflammation. The intervals between infections shortened. I was sick all the time.
At this point I was convinced I would not live past 30. (This feeling was supported by a terrifying—some might say, paranormal, others would say, physiological—experience. Maybe one day I’ll reveal that part of the story). Suffice to say, something would’ve taken me out soon. It was in this state that I found myself in Dwight Yoakam’s studio listening to my friend Rosie Flores cut demos. I wheezed from 4 in the afternoon until 6 in the morning and finally Rosie turned to me and said, “You don’t sound so good. You should try changing your diet.”
Huh. I figured I had nothing to lose. I was gonna die soon anyway. So on her way to the airport, Rosie dropped off two nutrition books. They weren’t anything esoteric—basic stuff. I read them cover to cover, hobbled out to the store and started following what I’d read, and in a week, I felt a better. In a month, I was a LOT better. In three months, I was like a new person. Which made me angry. Really angry. How can you graduate Summa from UCLA and not know how to feed yourself? Turns out I would eventually have even higher educated clients who didn’t know either.
It was time to head back to school. It was quite a change from getting a UCLA degree in Communications Studies to studying biochemistry, but eventually I got my Masters in Nutritional Science at Cal State LA, The night before I headed into my clinical rotations at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, I played my last public gig with the singer of my favorite band—Exene Cervenka of X.
To this day, I take no medications for asthma. In fact, I take no medications, period. If you come to my office, now you’ll understand why there are guitars on the wall. That’s how it all started.
But it was only the beginning…
enter the dragon
The next phase of my career took an unexpected turn towards sports and performance nutrition. While in grad school, I started studying martial arts with Ted Wong, who had been Bruce Lee’s protege in the 60’s. (Many others have claimed the same, but it was recorded in Lee’s personal Daytimers that Wong had four times as many private sessions as any other person. For those of you who want to challenge this, I have actual copies of Lee’s actual Daytimers. Just sayin’.).
During my foray into the martial arts, I released three books through Tuttle Publishing, served on the Board of the Bruce Lee Foundation, and hit the cover of Black Belt Magazine.
It was through the martial arts that I came to work with Freddie Roach’s stable of fighters out of Wildcard Boxing Club. (Another fun fact: Most people aren’t aware that Bruce Lee’s art of Jeet Kune Do is based on boxing more than any other martial art). I was the sports nutritionist for Manny Pacquiao, UFC champ Andre Arlovski, Amir Khan, and Mikey Garcia, I helped guide Manny Pacquiao through his epic weight class jumps for the Oscar De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton, and Miguel Cotto fights.
This chapter of my career also set the stage for my current focus in quantum biology. The martial artists that I respected the most during this time all had incredible stories of being in street fights in which they were aided by some kind of extraordinary extrasensory perception or woo woo intervention. This maybe isn’t surprising since Bruce Lee repeatedly told Ted Wong he had a Sixth Sense. Miyamoto Musashi wrote often of “supernatural power.” Mike Tyson wrote about Cus D’Amato’s “telepathy” and practice of the “dark arts.”
How were these abilities and events possible? I believe it has something to do with cultivating a strong electromagnetic field. If we now know that the human heart has an electromagnetic field that extends 20 feet away from the body, why would any of this sound farfetched? This is an area of curiosity that has haunted me for many decades now. If we are electromagnetic beings, how can we enhance our electromagnetic fields to optimize our physical health? And might doing so help us better develop our intuition? Our Sixth Sense? Might it help us make better decisions? Help us lead better lives?
At some point I became disenchanted with practicing sports nutrition for professional sports, with its emphasis on winning over optimal health (yes, professional athletes are not my healthiest clients!) , I also got tired of jumping through bureaucratic money-making hoops, especially regarding supplements.
In my local practice, I was also seeing more and more complex health issues, sometimes clusters of inflammatory conditions. There were more cases of brain fog, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, tinnitus, migraines, eczema, joint pain, GI distress, severe allergies, asthma, you name it. And they were occurring in younger and younger people.
So about 15 years ago, I went looking for answers by completing the certification coursework for the Institutes of Functional Medicine. I loved it and with this new toolkit, I was able to help so many more people so much more effectively. The shift to functional medicine meant having to renounce a lot of what I’d learned in grad school. It was quite a paradigm shift.
And yet, still haunted by my questions of electromagnetism, I wondered if I could go even further upstream to help clients. Electromagnetic disturbance if persistent, will result in chemical imbalance, which will eventually lead to physical symptoms and disease. Why not treat people at the top of flow chart? At the root? I had already been teaching principles of electromagnetism, but only on the most basic level—photosynthesis, the Krebs Cycle, electron chain transport, ionized electrolytes, and the fascia. Might we be better equipped to deal not only with modern day chemical toxicities, but also with electrical pollution including blue light toxicity and 5G non-native EMF’s?
Thanks to the work of pioneers like Robert O. Becker and Doug Wallace, research is surfacing that supports many of the observations made in my practice over the last few decades. The puzzle pieces are finally coming together.
In the last few years, I’ve seen more and more clients—whose lifestyle habits would be deemed by conventional medicine as impeccable—come in inexplicably with pre-diabetes, high cholesterol, and debilitating fatigue. What the Medical Establishment is not yet telling us is how severe the consequences of modern technology are. When we address this, blood sugars, cholesterol, even heavy metals all miraculously come back into normal range.
I am convinced that quantum biology will be what leads us out of the many states of illness brought on by modern technology.