What a year 2016 was. I was honored as a finalist in both the Health Advocate Hero and Lifetime Achievement awards by patient community site WEGOHealth and received the Lifetime Fitness Inspiration Award from the Global Bodybuilding Organization. Kendra, my wife, and I opened our first OptimalBody Personal Fitness facility in Murrieta, California, held several 12-week MS Fitness Challenge events nationwide, and most important, [...]
Our fall 2016 MS Fitness Challenge was a huge success! Special thanks to all our participants and sponsors. The image above is our amazing MSFC 12-week participants and their trainers. Thanks to EMD Sereno for sponsoring the MS certification for our trainers; Champion Performance for their supplements;BioTrust Nutrition for their organic protein bars and cookies; and fitness legend Tony Little for [...]
As my wife, Kendra, and I travel the country for MS Fitness Challenge (MSFC), we meet many inspiring people who have decided to take their multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis and challenge it. The MSFC is our charitable program that matches people with MS with personal trainers for a free half-hour of individualized training once a week [...]
It’s been more than a year since American CryoStem, a company that specializes in collecting and storing fat tissue primarily for use in cosmetic procedures, sent me to the DaVinci Centre in the beautiful Cayman Islands to be “patient zero” in a clinical study on multiple sclerosis (MS) and stem cell treatment. Before I traveled to the DaVinci Centre (shown [...]
“Wow, you don’t look like you have MS!” I’ve certainly had my share of that comment over the past 10 years of battling this disease. In the past, my usual reply was, “thanks.” But recently, I’ve decided to put my foot down on being politically correct, and these days, when I get that comment, my [...]
Name: Lisa Dasis Age: 55 Hometown: Jackson, Tennessee I’ve known Lisa Dasis for several years now, through conferences on MS and other chronic diseases that we have attended together. Lisa is a very influential advocate and blogger for multiple sclerosis (MS), and a good friend. Recently, Lisa accomplished an amazing challenge despite her battle with MS — and crossed [...]
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