About Us

This will depend partly on my genetic makeup, but more importantly, on the lifestyle choices that I make. I've been researching and investigating this for the past 15 years and this website is the result.  I'm trying to "walk-the-walk" as well as talking the talk!

To provide a little background, I've had four careers, each of which has contributed in some way to this endeavor, and I suppose I could say that I'm starting my fifth.

Career #1 was a civil engineer and project manager, working in the UK, Canada, Guyana, Nigeria and the United States.  I learned to take large complex problems and break them into smaller chunks that could be resolved.

Career #2 was a systems analyst and systems developer, initially for specialized project and construction management systems, then on to more general business systems.  I learned to use computers and software to solve problems.

Career #3 was in academia. An MA in communication was followed by an MBA and PhD in management.  I learned social science research methods and statistics, a skeptical perspective, and how to develop and teach effective online and hybrid courses.

Career #4 happened by accident and has run more-or-less in parallel with #3.  As I was starting my doctoral thesis I was approached to design a data collection system for a clinical trial for a shingles vaccine, eventually marketed by Merck as Zostervax. This morphed into a 7-year assignment, and started my new career in data management and information systems for medical research.  I learned how a clinical study was put together and how to read the literature and evaluate the results.

When I started my MBA at Rutgers University in 1991 at age 50, it required a move to New Jersey, which I think must be the asthma and allergy center of the United States.  I was under a lot of stress at the time and not in the best of health, and for the first time in my life I had a full-blown asthma attack and continued to have them regularly.

I went on the usual drug regimen which controlled them, but with some side effects including weight gain and low energy.  After two-or-three years of this I came across a book on the Buteyko Breathing Method, and this worked so well for me I was able to stop taking medication on a regular basis and felt much better.  Some years later, In December 2005, my wife Gail and I decided to go to the UK and train to become Buteyko therapists, and I've been teaching it on a part-time basis ever since.

Buteyko can be very helpful, but it is not the complete answer.  Great Health, which is a lot more than managing the diseases of modern living with medication and surgery, requires a holistic approach.

Over the past 15 years I have been piecing together elements of breathing, exercise, nutrition, conventional medical and alternative health to form a highly structured and interactive program which seems to be working well for me.

Career #5 is going to be continuing the development and refinement of this program and website, and reaching and helping as many people as possible.