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I am Founder and CEO of the non-profit organization, No More Medicines, Inc and the creator of its website, <url removed>. I am a recently retired Professor of Medicine from UCLA School of Medicine. A few years back I was voted best internal medicine teacher of the year by the residents. My specialty was Nephrology/Hypertension. Now it is healthy living and disease prevention.
I have been a doctor for 50 years. The first third was in Academic Medicine at the National Heart Institute, Duke University and UCLA. The 2nd third I created and directed a preventive/healthy living program in downtown Los Angeles called Inner Health. My books, “Control Your High Blood Pressure Without Drugs” and a companion healthy cookbook were based on that experience. The last third I worked as a hospital based doctor taking care of patients who had been taking multiple blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes and other pills and yet there they were anyway with all the problems the pills were supposed to prevent. That was indeed a tough lesson for me. I retired from that practice at age 71.
I have dedicated the rest of my life to promoting wellness and healthy living and eating. At age 40 I quit a 25 year tobacco habit, started jogging, ran marathons in my 50's, dropped my cholesterol from 240 to 140 by diet change, no statins!
For the last 34 years I have kept this up and thus defied a male family history of dying young. When I promote healthy diets and lifestyles I have a great deal of personal credibility. I do walk the talk. I have spoken in prisons, churches, high schools, the YMCA, the Elks club and senior communities. I haven’t tried street corners yet but won’t rule that out.