Explore and Discover Health Firsts

Bob was born in New York City, began cello studies at age 9 in the public school system and gave his first recital one year later. He entered the Juilliard Preparatory

Division as a scholarship student and later enrolled in the Juilliard School where he received Bachelor and Master of Music degrees.

After graduating Bob played chamber music full time and served on the faculty of the University of Virginia until 1983 when he became a regular with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He later joined the Baltimore Symphony and in 1985 became a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

As an avid soloist and chamber musician, he has performed recitals and appeared in major cities of the world.

In 1999, Bob was stricken with a virulent case of Multiple Sclerosis, which left him nearly blind and without the use of his hands. His doctor told him he would be on permanent disability. Bob has made a complete and remarkable recovery and has written a book detailing his journey: When the Music Stopped: My Battle and Victory against MS.

Bob is in demand as a motivational speaker, delivering inspiration and hope to those afflicted with chronic illnesses.

Nick Littlehales is recognized as the world’s first and leading Elite Sport Sleep Coach, probably the world’s first Sleep Coach and regarded as a leading human recovery innovator. He has over 35 years’ experience within the sleep and sleeping product industry and over 22 years dedicated to elite sport. His unique, passionate and proven approach, is endorsed by leading sport science professionals, managers, coaches, organizations in sport and now business, health and education worldwide.

Nick is the author of a ground breaking and revolutionary #1 best selling book SLEEP. Published in the UK in October 2016 by Penguin Random House and now published in 15 different languages worldwide. SLEEP sets out to debunk common sleep myths as well as educating the reader on his revolutionary R90 Human Recovery Technique. Considered to be a game changing performance tool that many refer to as a paradigm shift in our human recovery approach.

As a former aspiring professional golfer onto International Sales & Marketing Director of the Slumberland Group and Chairman of the UK Sleep Council, Nick has conducted many practical and clinical research projects into the varied sleeping habits adopted by the modern-day sleeper and athlete.

Dr. Alan Goldhamer is one of the world’s leading experts on medically supervised, water-only fasting. Articulate, inspiring, and energetic, he is a frequent lecturer and speaker on fasting, diet, and treatment of chronic diseases to achieve optimum health. In 1984, Dr. Goldhamer founded and became Director of TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, California; since then, he has supervised the fasting and care of more than 20,000 patients.

TrueNorth Health is a multi-discipline practice that includes doctors of medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, naturopathy, and psychology. Its healthcare providers treat patients with conditions ranging from high blood pressure and diabetes to autoimmune disorders and lymphoma. The Center is the largest facility in the world specializing in medically supervised, water-only fasting and one of the premier training facilities for doctors to gain certification in the supervision of therapeutic fasting.

TrueNorth Health utilizes a nutritional medicine approach based on an exclusively whole-plant-food diet free of added salt, oil, and sugar (SOS). The Center is affiliated with the TrueNorth Health Foundation, whose mission is to expand evidence-based knowledge of how medically supervised, water-only fasting and diet impact human health; train clinicians in the use of these interventions; and share its findings with researchers and the public.

Dr. Goldhamer is the author of The Health Promoting Cookbook and co-author of The Pleasure Trap—Mastering the Hidden Force That Undermines Health and Happiness. He is also the principle author of two landmark studies that showed evidence of the benefits of water-only fasting, as well as numerous case reports published in peer-reviewed indexed journals evaluating the effects of water-only fasting in the treatment a variety of conditions.

Cynthia Thurlow is the CEO and founder of the Everyday Wellness Project, nurse practitioner, international speaker, and globally recognized expert in intermittent fasting and nutritional health. She has over 20 years experience in health and wellness and is a 2x TEDx speaker. Her 2nd talk, Intermittent Fasting, a Transformative Technique, has over 8 million views. Cynthia has been featured on ABC, FOX5, KTLA, CW, and in Medium and Entrepreneur. In August 2020, Cynthia was listed in Yahoo Finance as one of the, “21 Founders Changing the Way We do Business.”

She’s also the podcast host of Everyday Wellness, which was listed as “21 Podcasts To Expand Your Mind in 2021,”by Business Insider. Cynthia’s mission is to educate women on the benefits of intermittent fasting and overall holistic health and wellness so they feel empowered to live their most optimal lives.

Dr. Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo was born in Geneva (Switzerland), where she graduated in medicine in 1981. At the age of 18, she discovered fasting and dedicated her life to guiding long-term fasting (LF) patients at the Buchinger Wilhelmi clinics in Überlingen (South-Germany) and Marbella (South Spain).

These clinics were founded by Dr. Otto Buchinger 100 years ago and are now led by his family 4th generation. They a medical infrastructure with multidisciplinary staff in a unique natural environment. They treat every year around 6000 people from all over the world, 70% of them practicing LF.

As Medical Scientific Director she is in charge of the scientific documentation in partnership with international university centers. In 1986 she co-founded and chaired the German Medical Association for Fasting and Nutrition (ÄGHE e.V.) and has organized international medical congresses every two years since then. She is also chairwoman of the Maria Buchinger Foundation, whose goal is to support research on therapeutic fasting.

Dr. Wilhelmi de Toledo has a unique comprehension of fasting and different nutritional strategies relying on her clinical and scientific background as well as on her personal experience of more than 40 years. Besides her activity at Buchinger Wilhelmi, she also guides every year groups of fasting with a spiritual dimension in a Swiss ecumenical community.

Among her many scientific publications*, her book " Therapeutic Fasting: The Buchinger Amplius Method: The Amplius Method” (2011), exists in 5 languages.

Abraham Heisler, is a Mindset and Performance Coach who helps business professionals reduce stress and increase productivity through leveraging FLOW STATES. ​

Abraham has spent the last 20 years researching the connection between mind, body, and business and has helped over 100 entrepreneurs increase their income and impact by accessing more of their potential. ​ Influences on Abraham’s work include ontological coaching, neuro-linguistic programming, gestalt therapy, group facilitation, co-active coaching, and 15 years as an award-winning filmmaker. ​

One of the most powerful tools Abraham uses with clients is breathwork – an active breathing technique that wipes away fear and anxiety while cultivating a sense of certainty. This phenomenon, which works with your own biology is called transient hypofrontality.

Stan Malek is a Homesteader who also works full time as a law enforcement officer.  After battling worsening psoriasis for years, he discovered the power of quality foods and it’s impact on his skin condition.  Recognizing the cost of organic food was very expensive, Stan knew he needed to do something to make obtaining these foods more affordable.  Without any experience, Stan decided to start growing his own food in his small backyard which was within a traditional city neighborhood.  Stan began with a few raised beds. As produce grew, confidence was gained.

More importantly, Stan’s psoriasis improved significantly.  The improvement to his psoriasis motivated Stan to produce and raise even more food.  Stan then made the decision to move just outside of the City to a 3 acre slice of heaven, where he created Rocky Creek Homestead.

Stan now grows even more of his own produce and preserves much of his harvest.   Along with growing produce, he also raises Kune Kune pigs, chickens and rabbits.  Stan is now a YouTube influencer sharing his experiences in hopes to help others who may be suffering from psoriasis or have an interest in growing their own food.

Shereen Yusuff refers to herself as someone who loves experiencing all that her body and her mind has to offer. She grew up in Oman where she played tennis competitively as a child, and later on, graduated with an engineering degree from a university in India. She moved locations numerous times (China, UK, U.S., Brazil, Colombia and Ivory Coast) through work and her stint in all of these countries helped her become more aware on how different everyone’s approach to life was and how the society we lived in had a huge role to play in terms of how we ended up as individuals. She realized that a lot of people, including herself, conformed to social norms instead of being true to ourselves.

This realization pushed Shereen to dig deeper to understand her true identity. She started exploring her inner being through different avenues – martial arts, free style dancing, lifting weights, travellng, hiking, climbing, long distance endurance events – marathons, ultra marathons, Ironmans – through which she grasped how important nutrition and sleep were in terms of recovery and fuel for the body. She also began to experience the power of her mind through being able to achieve these feats – some with no training !

In 2016, she had her first surgery – she tore her ACL and for the first time she was unable to experience life as vigorously as she was used to. This made her delve more into breath work. It was during this time that she went back to the basics, and started focusing more on strengthening her foundation through joint mobility again. She went on to getting certified by the Onnit Academy in Austin, and exposed her self to other certifications like FRC and workshops in Body Mind Centering and Animal Flow. The breathwork eventually led her to the Wim Hof Method and Buteyko Method where she went on to becoming a certified Breath Instructor in both the techniques.

What she learned through her journey of movement and breath has helped her understand the power associated with having total body mind alignment and having your brain and heart work for you versus against you. She is now excited to share this knowledge with as many people as she can.

Her vision is to have breath and movement taught to every individual through which everyone will lead a happier, healthier and stronger, and most importantly, a medication free life.

Adam turned to meditation when his Manhattan based advertising agency and the associated responsibilities were growing beyond what coffee and happy hour could handle. Although he was not necessarily looking for a spiritual path, and neither was he really doing all that he could for his health, to be honest, the blessings of these esoteric and occult teachings found him anyway.

Lifelong asthma, seasonal allergies, migraines, and other everyday issues vanished in mere months, and after only a few years, the profound depression from childhood trauma that Adam was experiencing began to dissolve and disappear. During more than a decade of exploration, Adam has studied with and been trained by many incredible individuals including several world champions of various martial arts, two Grand Masters of the Shaolin Temple, practitioners from The Medicineless Hospital, and a vast number of both well known and never-heard-of spiritual
teachers from Buddhist, Tibetan, Taoist, Hindu, and other established dogmas that altogether cultivated such a presence of being that people started to request that Adam teach these techniques and philosophies that were so clearly in his heart.

That’s how Relax with Adam came to be, and why Adam is devoted to helping his fellow humans find what resonates with them, because there’s a thousand ways to meditate and a million reasons why, but whatever your reason is, Adam makes it fun, so that you’ll stick with it.

Rena Yudkowsky, a professional memory coach and geriatric social worker, is the founder of Memory Matters. She teaches online memory improvement courses to mid-lifers and seniors. Over the past twenty years in the field, she has served as the director of an Alzheimer’s unit in an assisted living facility in Maryland, the director of development at a senior enrichment program in Israel, trainer for dementia caregivers, facilitator of support groups, and international lecturer on aging topics.

Currently, she is the memory coach for an international anti-aging clinic where she does 1:1 coaching and is working on a comprehensive program to prevent dementia.

She is super passionate about her mission of helping those 50 + to age more healthfully, both physically and cognitively as she empowers them to believe in their own memory with confidence and grace.