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 Here's a little info about Eddie Vos, the man behind health-heart.org.I am a 61 year old material sciences engineer with no sign of the diseases I write about. I work close to Montreal, just North of the Vermont border. My work is to determine the causes of technical failures. I go on location, establish physical data and facts and add those up in a report --and try to do the same with some of the disease conditions that have popped up in the last century .. and why arteries corrode and fail. Growing up in Holland, my first English book was The Origin of Life by Russian scientist A.I. Oparin. I got a scholarship to study biochemistry but chose material sciences engineering, so a long-term hobby about how-life-works was born. Now my reading material comes from journals and sites like Medline, anyone's free internet medical library or consumer info. We all deserve a hobby so this site is a model-train of sorts and to keep it on-track and independent, it won't generate money from the proposed approaches. Medical or dietetic association and drug or food companies can't sanction me, so I am free to follow unadvertised and less traveled tracks, if that is where the science goes. The reward from this hobby is in meeting and corresponding with some of the remarkable people in the field, from lay-people to icons, in following the science and in attending a few scientific conferences each year. I contributed to 16 references in Medline.
The concept behind the site, the age-old "let foods be your medicine", is based on the fact that all diseases may be helped, caused or made worse by nutrition. You are what you ate, and become what you don't eat -deficient and ill. A well balanced diet won't get you all the nutrients you need is a reality confirmed by almost every issue of the Journals I read. While healers and websites have views one should consider, balancing many ideas, and listening to one's body, seems most effective in helping health. I've never had a regular doctor, fry my eggs in butter and order my weekly liver sautéed in butter, and take my daily Twinlab multi and a few other supplements, including calcium/magnesium + D, and a few grams of C, niacin and betaine [B14]. I keep up my omega-3's and avoid hydrogenated or deep fried foods and commercial cereals. Yes, it's easy to not get enough fruits and vegetables but as the Lipitor ad on U.S. TV says: "no body is perfect."
I hope this website serves you well. While I take responsibility for the site, I extend my appreciation to the many others who have contributed. Publications:
* Vos E, Mascitelli L, Rose CP. Does simvastatin save lives: if so, when and in whom? J Vasc Surgery April 2008. |
The responsibility of running this website is that it can affect people's health. I answer all e-mail and while careful to indicate I'm not a doctor and while supplements cause about 1 million times fewer premature deaths than drugs, some nutrients can act like them or change their action. With people taking increasing amounts of drugs, it is evident, for example, that people on blood thinners shouldn't overdose on fish-oil or vitamin E and there are many such drug-nutrient effects.