Your Lungs Are Shrinking

Dear Member,
When it comes to physical health, there are few things more important than “lung power”. Great martial artist’s like Bruce Lee knew physical strength and robust health depend on your lungs. The strong men of my father’s era knew it too. Part of what gives you the capacity to live robustly is getting enough [...]

Fish Oil – Italian Doctors Prescribe It

Dear Member,
A patient of mine brought me an article from the October 3, 2006 edition of The New York Times. I just finished reading it and thought I should pass it on to you. The basic message of the article is this: If you’re a heart attack survivor, your government is preventing you from getting [...]

You’re Genetically Programmed to Exercise

Dear Member,
You are genetically programmed to exercise. I’ve known this for decades, but never was it so clear to me as when I saw the native Ashaninka in Peru. In case you haven’t read my last few letters, I trekked through the jungles and met with these people in their remote lands near the Amazon.
The [...]

Seven Years to Seven Figures

Dear Member,
I’m writing this from Peru’s remote jungle outpost of Puerto Ocopa. It’s 9pm and the canopy of stars above me is so dense it’s truly beyond words. The natural beauty and seclusion has got me thinking about how I came to be here – living my life’s dream. So despite my exotic locale – [...]

Ashaninkas Spit Brew

Dear Member,
Yesterday, after crossing the world’s highest paved mountain pass, we descended from the Andes into the Amazon basin. Snow-capped mountains turned to forest, then forest to jungle. The pave road turned to dirt and eventually the dirt road ended. Then we went by boat, deeper into the jungle.
On the Rio Perene – which flows [...]

Octavio’s Maca Fields

Dear Member,
I’ve been in Peru since Saturday. One of my patients, Nina, has a personalized travel business to Peru (www.ancientsummit.com ) and she set me up in a cozy hotel in the Mira Flores district of Lima overlooking the Pacific. Yesterday, I traveled to another part of Lima near the University to meet with my [...]

Cod Liver Oil

Dear Member,
Last week, I told you about the benefits of getting the right fats in your diet. You heart and brain depends on them. In fact, every cell in your body relies on a healthy dose of omega-3s to function properly.
But the amount of omega-3s in your food keeps shrinking. Even your “heart-healthy” salmon may [...]

In Search of High Powered Maca

Dear Member,
As I write this, I’m on a plane headed for the remote Andean highlands of Peru. I’m on the trail of a special high-powered maca. If you’ve never heard of it, maca is the root of a plant that has adapted to grow at altitudes as high as 15,000 feet in the Andes Mountains. [...]

The Importance of Omega 3’s

Dear Member,
You’re probably not getting enough of the right fats in your diet. But you’re not alone. We all have the same problem. Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids are essential to life. Your heart and brain depend on them. But the natural levels of omega-3s in your food keep getting lower and lower.
That means you [...]

Mutant Fish in The Potomac

Mutant fish swimming the in Potomac River are threatening your energy levels, your sexuality – even your future.

A few days ago, a team from the US Geological Surveys reported they are finding large numbers of male fish with female traits.1 This is nothing new, but the numbers today are far higher than anyone has ever seen before.

In some Potomac tributaries, nearly all the male smallmouth bass caught in the survey were abnormal. In the Potomac itself, 7 out of 13 largemouth bass had female characteristics. Some of them were even producing eggs!

Aspartame – Ant Poison, FDA Complaints

When you reach for a packet of NutraSweet or Splenda, you feel relieved that you’re dodging the evils of sugar. But did you know that these artificial sweeteners make good ant poison.

I just read a story from a lady who had a problem with carpenter ants. After spending thousands of dollars on professional exterminators and industrial poisons, she dumped 2 packets of NutraSweet in the corners of her bathroom and it killed the ants.1

The Dietary Acne Cure

Something they told me in medical school has to be wrong. I’ve been seeing more and more acne in mature adults. Yet convention claims that the primary cause is genetic. If it were genetic, how can it change in a single generation?

Heart Diet Cure

Dear Member,
The American lifestyle may be a threat to your health. A new report from New York City’s health department revealed some surprising facts.1
When foreign-born residents first arrive in New York, they are generally in better health than US born residents. But the longer they stay, the more unhealthy they become.
And that says a lot, [...]

Lactic Acid

Dear Member,
Finally, the old theories of aerobic training are crumbling under the weight of new evidence. At the center of the breakthrough is lactic acid. You’ve probably heard of it, especially if you’ve ever had a coach or a trainer. Conventional wisdom said you had to avoid lactic acid because its build up in your [...]

Prostate Cancer/Cod Liver Oil

Dear Member,
You may not realize it, but you are at higher risk for prostate cancer than your father or your grandfather. While most other cancers have declined, prostate cancer is growing at an alarming rate. In fact, 1 in 6 men alive today will get this cancer.
But that doesn’t mean you have to [...]