What skill(s) are you still striving to perfect in your profession?
“I continue to strive for honesty and compassion in my practice. I am honest with patients, and if I don’t know the answer, I will say so and recommend a way to help them find the answer. Most importantly, I continue to have a caring attitude with patients and families.”

Why are you passionate about Vasayo?
“I love the products and the company. We have a crisis today with addiction to opiates and benzodiazepines (sleep medications). With our CBD One, Renew, and Sleep products we’re able to offer solutions.”

Why are liposomes such a difference maker?
“One of the main problems with supplements is they don’t get well absorbed. Liposomes are a game changer as they increase absorption; and we’re one of the few companies that use them with nutraceutical products!”

What is your favorite Vasayo product? And why should people be using it?
“Renew. I take it to decrease inflammation and because I believe curcumin is good for everyone. Virtually all the speakers at the integrative healthcare symposium I attended this year mentioned that everyone should be taking it for its anti-inflammatory effects.”

Outside of medicine and Vasayo, what hobby or cause are you very passionate about?
“I’m an avid skier and a diehard NY Mets, NY Jets, and NY Knicks fan…and they disappoint me most of the time.”

If you didn’t choose medicine, what alternative career path would you have chosen?
“Fitting in with my sports interests, I would have been a sports announcer if I wasn’t a doctor. I used to do impersonations of famous sports announcers.”

What advice do you give people about maintaining their health?
“In my opinion the key to good health is good nutrition. It’s about eating healthy most of the time. Our family eats organic, gluten free, dairy free and sugar free foods most of the time. Think of it as a healthy lifestyle where you also treat yourself from time to time.”

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What are you most proud of when you think about your career as a doctor?
“Every life I’ve touched, every case I’ve handled, every injection I have done, and every opportunity I’ve had to listen to and interact with my patients—for them to trust me with their healthcare needs is what I am most thankful for and most proud of.”

What goals are you still striving for in your profession?
“My goals are to educate and encourage colleagues in this field to understand the importance of complementary and alternative medicine, such as nutrition and nutraceuticals, in the overall management of pain and diseases and the maintenance of health and well-being. I also want to extend this education into academia because those physicians in training need to have a foundational knowledge of nutrition and this budding branch of medicine—functional, integrative, and complementary medicine.”

Why are you passionate about Vasayo?
“I am passionate about everything about Vasayo: the mission of creating a generation of healthier individuals; the mission of partnering with Hearts and Hands for Humanity and its projects; the science behind the products; the phenomenal group of leaders and Brand Partners with their dedication and commitment to the cause; and, the incredibly amazing positive outcome on the health and well-being of those who use the products.”

Why are liposomes such a difference maker?
“Being an anesthesiologist, I really do appreciate the significance of a liposome. To have a system and protective mechanism that assures delivery of vital ingredients to achieve optimal, positive, beneficial results is short of a medical miracle.”

What is your favorite Vasayo product? And why should people be using it?
“I have several favorite. Being a pain management specialist, I educate my patients to try Renew with its potent ingredient, the liposomal curcumin. A lot of my patients in pain have sleep issues; hence, I recommend the use of Sleep. But, my real favorite is Neuro since it is the very product that made me look into Vasayo.”

Outside of medicine and Vasayo, what hobby or cause are you very passionate about?
“I love music. In fact, it was my first love before medicine. I find joy in singing and playing musical instruments such as the piano, guitar, and the drums. I’m very passionate about my medical and surgical mission work through my community, Couples for Christ’s action arm Answering the Cry of the Poor to different parts of the world serving the marginalized members of society.”

If you didn’t choose medicine, what alternative career path would you have chosen?
“I would like to be in the music industry, primarily creating melodies and composing songs.”

What advice do you give people about maintaining their health?
“Health is wealth. Be informed. Listen to your body; it will dictate what you should or shouldn’t be doing. Preventative medicine is the key to optimal health and wellness.” 

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What are you most proud of when you think about your career as a doctor?
“I’m most proud of the close relationships I’ve developed over the years with my patients. People can share their deepest needs with me, and they trust that I will give them the best advice I possibly can.”

What accomplishment/goal are you still striving for in your profession?
“I want to continue to speak into people’s lives in a helpful and compassionate way. That someday I can hear God say, ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant.’”

Why are you passionate about Vasayo?
“Because of the many wonderful friends and relationships that will be with us lifelong. My wife, Alisa, and I love seeing the positive changes in people’s lives and are honored and privileged to have the opportunity to share this with so many. We are firm believers in paying it forward and want very much to impact people’s lives—not just physically, but financially, spiritually, and socially as well.”

Why are liposomes such a difference maker?
“People often think that putting good nutrition into the body is all that’s necessary. If it were that simple, we’d all be doing it. Absorption really is the name of the game. Unless you can get the nutrition in a form your body can absorb, it is useless. Liposomes make this absorption possible.”

What is your favorite Vasayo product, and why should people be using it?
“They are all so very important for different reasons. Core Complete is essential as our baseline nutritional support. We lose 80 percent of our bodies’ enzyme function by the age of 60, and Core Complete helps to replace that. Because of what I do for a living, I don’t ever want to be without Neuro. I see patients with cognitive decline on a daily basis, so I personally feel everyone over the age of 50 needs to be on Neuro. And last, but certainly not least, because of the pace that Alisa and I keep most days, V3 is a staple for us every single day. When you can hydrate the body at the cellular level, everything simply works better.“

What hobby or causes are you very passionate about?
“I love to travel with my wife experiencing new and exciting places. I am an avid Arkansas Razorback fan and have followed our local sports teams for many, many years. In addition, I have been integrally involved in the new state-of-the-art medical school just an hour south of us. It has been exciting for me to see these new medical developments and having the chance to speak into the lives of the next generation of physicians.”

If you didn’t choose medicine, what career path would you have chosen?
“I haven’t thought much about that, but I would probably like to teach at the college level or in a medical school. And if that doesn’t work out, I can always be a country western singer…NOT!“

What advice do you give people about maintaining their health?
“1. Exercise regularly.
2. Get at least seven hours of sleep per night.
3. Do something for others each day.
4. Find healthy ways to manage your stress.
5. Maintain a healthy and continuous prayer life.
And I agree with Dr. Schneider…more sex!”

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Why ophthalmology?
“Ophthalmology is a specialty in which I can help restore vision when someone is suffering from cataracts, glaucoma, or refractive errors. The technology I utilize every day with lasers, ultrasound, and almost-sci-fi diagnostic equipment makes my profession undoubtedly the best in all of medicine. It’s a fantastic feeling each time I am rewarded with a happy patient with 20/20 vision. Ten years ago I entered a fellowship-training program in anti-aging and regenerative medicine called A4M. This gave me the opportunity to gain insight into health, wellness, and prevention that allowed me to complete my passion in this area that I started in eighth grade.”

What challenges do you face that keep you from being the most effective you can be in your job?
“Well, the good news is that fantastic technology continues to make it easier to diagnose and treat ophthalmic diseases. The bad news is that as healthcare resources become limited (Medicare), the use of these technologies becomes too expensive and, thus, many of my patients are unable to enjoy the fruits of this technology.”

What opportunities do you see arising that will help you be more efficient as a medical professional?
“I am more interested in becoming more compassionate as a medical professional even though society says it’s all about efficiency.”

In what ways does nutritional technology play a role in your career?
“My passion for teaching health and wellness to my patients took a hiatus until I was introduced to Vasayo and liposomal technology. At that moment, the door opened to many ‘what-ifs’ because we can achieve meaningful delivery of nutrients never achieved before.”

Do you foresee nutritional technologies playing an even greater role in the field of medicine?
“Yes. With advanced delivery systems like Vasayo’s liposome and enzyme-assisted delivery, nutrition will be at the forefront in disease prevention. I see Vasayo as a vehicle to decreasing the number of patients who will need their MDs in the future by enabling food to be our medicine. ‘Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.’—Hippocrates.”

Why are you passionate about Vasayo?
“I am passionate about Vasayo because of the leadership, culture, and the fact that it represents people from all walks of life working together and creating meaningful friendships. The products are great as are the financial opportunities, but what life really comes down to is our relationships. That is really the only thing that matters, whether that relationship is with God, your family, or your co-workers. My Vasayo friends feel like my second family because the quality of people Vasayo attracts is extraordinary.”

Why are liposomes such a difference maker?
“Liposomes allow our nature-based nutrients to gain access to our bodies’ cells at a much greater degree than ever before. Food has lost much of its nutrition over the years because farmers were never rewarded for delivering us nutritious tomatoes, only tomatoes that looked good. Now we can deliver higher amounts of nutrients in a smaller-sized capsule, and technology has taught us how to mix and match nutrients to best benefit our bodies.”

We know that Renew is one of your favorite products. Why should people be using it?
“Because I said so? Seriously though, it’s because of two incredible molecules: resveratrol and curcumin. Just today, I was trying to figure out why I notice my heart having extra beats each time I eat a high-carbohydrate meal. This has been the case for a while, and I noticed thanks to the EKG function on my Apple 4 watch. I searched Google Scholar for my answer: when glucose in the blood goes up, O-linked N-acetylglucosamine modifies CaMKII. Besides avoiding high-carbohydrate meals, I asked myself if there was a natural inhibitor of CaMKII. So, I searched Google Scholar once again. Any guesses? Yup! Curcumin is a natural inhibitor of CaMKII! Should I be surprised? Heck no!

“Now, I know I’ve lost most of you; and, in fact, what I mentioned is not medical advice in any way but simply research. This molecule that comes from the turmeric plant is like a chameleon and does so many things to our cells depending on what cell it happens to be in. The good news about Renew is that most of you FEEL its effects and like it because of that. It shines as an intra-cellular scavenger and protector to keep us well. If we could only ‘feel’ prevention, we would all be healthier; but we can’t. So keep taking Renew (and all Vasayo products for that matter).”

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