Hello. I'm Marshall Price, of Miami, FL.

I was born in 1946, and have been interested in nutrition since before I
was born! My mother studied it, along with yoga and the then-new LaMaze
method, in preparation for bearing me.

I took a college course in nutrition (getting straight A's) and have
read various books about it, though I must admit it has only been a
minor interest among many.

In the 1960s, I learned from Carleton Fredericks, Adele Davis, and the
pioneers of Orthomolecular Medicine. In the 1970s, I studied it in more
orthodox ways, from textbooks and journals. Since then, I've picked up
news from popular general science magazines, browsed in medical
libraries, and occasionally bought books, especially text- and reference
books.

I have a few nice ones on hand: /Understanding Nutrition/, 8th
(teachers') edition; /Clinical Guide to Nutrition and Dietary
Supplements in Disease Management/; /The Molecular Biology of the Cell/,
4th edition; /Robbins' Pathology/ (actually a misnomer for /Pathological
Basis of Disease/), 7th edition; /The Merck Index/, 13th edition; and
/Metabolism at a Glance/, 3rd edition.

I haven't studied dietetics, cooking, or meal planning, and by 1967, at
the age of 20, I weighed 186 pounds and stood five foot seven. I took
Carleton Fredericks' advice (Which he later recanted!) and avoided
carbohydrates, more assiduously than he advised, for one month. It
worked, and I reached my goal of 135 pounds by my 21st birthday.

I was misdiagnosed by a psychiatrist who had only spent a few minutes
with me and (after my mother threatened to sue him) suggested I might
have schizophrenia. (I'd made a half-hearted attempt at suicide in
college, probably a result, mainly, of malnutrition, low blood sugar,
stress, and insomnia.) Though the diagnosis was wrong, it got me
interested in "megavitamin therapy," from which I derive my interest in
Linus Pauling, Abram Hoffer, Humphrey Osmond, Alan Cott, Carl Pfeiffer,
etc. -- the "Orthomolecular" theorists. (I was a patient of Cott in the
60s and Pfeiffer in the 70s.)

Later influences included people who showed up on PBS during pledge
drives (particularly Covert Bailey and Nicholas V. Perricone) and Ray
Kurzweil, whom I knew as the creator of the Kurzweil electronic piano,
among many astonishing inventions. (I'm a piano technician.)

Within the past couple of years, I again lost a great deal (one third)
of my weight, this time by fasting for 44 days. (Alan Cott advocated
fasting.) At the same time, my health improved amazingly, and about
thirty long-standing chronic problems disappeared, including hair loss!

Though my weight is now 120 pounds, and I feel healthy, I intend to fast
again some time soon, in an attempt to "eat" some of my newly loosened
skin (from the inside); to shrink, detoxify, and sensitize my
intestines, pancreas, and liver (to improve my digestion and stave off
some of the deterioration associated with aging); to recover from
gradually progressive balding (which has recurred since my fast); and to
gain more vigor.

I'm especially interested in dietary supplements, calorie restriction,
inflammation, nootropics (brain helpers), and increasingly, endocrinology.

That's plenty for now!

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Marshall Price of Miami
Known to Yahoo as d021317c

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