I had the privilege of meeting with him for lunch during my DC trip, along with many other heavy hitters in the internet health field. I’ll post pics soon.

My take-away will help you guys in your own quest for health. Here we go…

First, Joe brought his own food. He actually found a Whole Foods, ordered organic salads, some lean beef I believe, and a huge avocado. In short, he walks the talk. The rest of us were having diet sodas. In short, we were not walking our talk…but that’s okay, as I was taking a break from walking. My feet hurt.

Oh, don’t freak — I had a yummy steak Caesar salad.

Joe echoed much of what I’ve been saying over the years. Here’s a synopsis:

• The pharmies suck. He uses statins only when patients will not respond to any traditional therapy, and even then I could tell this was for anti-inflammatory benefits. That was about 3% of his patients.
• I told him my cholesterol story — 350ish unless I’m training and eating well, then it’s 230ish, and he, like I, could care less about that. “Oh, that’s fine.” The real concerns were omega 3s, antioxidants and natural foods from organic sources. Go figure.
• He is also a huge fan of Krill Oil, one of my recent discoveries. Do check it out. It’s loaded with omega 3s — more so than any other fish oil.
• He loved the fact that I was a nutritionist, and really railed on RDs…heh. I loved that. RDs mostly suck, although a few have surfaced from the meaningless “Food Pyramid Of Knowledge” and entered the light of day. Usually it takes a rogue guy like me or a CCN (I’m actually almost both) to realize how much RDs can suck. However, in fairness to RDs, they suck far less than most doctors, who suck beyond description (except for the heroes I’ve already mentioned, of course…you guys rule.)
• The bottom line: “health care” is nothing of the sort. It’s “disease and symptom treatment”, not “health care”. We’re not caring a hoot about health otherwise we’d be doing tons more to prevent disease rather than treat it and the symptoms associated with it. There is simply a lot more money in solving a problem when it happens than doing something about it prior. It’s the Katrina Strategy of health care — wait for the levees to break and then over-react by wasting tons of money on stuff that won’t work anyway.

That was my take-away…hope it helps you.

Today I made a great connection to peace and exercise. I will be sharing that in my upcoming “Education In Destiny” seminar. Only 4 e-seats left.

More later…Bingo needs to walk. {10}