This may come as a surprise to you, but it's entirely possible and very likely that everything you believe to be true about food, medicine, health, illness and aging is nothing more than a set of subjective ideas put forth by people who really don't have a handle on truth, don't know what they're doing, or worse, don't have your best interests at heart—-people who are playing by a faulty rulebook or, worse, with no rule book at all.

Uninformed ideas, blind assumptions and outright lies underlie many of the food and (increasingly prevalent) drug commercials that air on television and radio. I'm sure you're familiar with many of these assumptions: that milk does a body good; that meat is real food for real people; that cancer can't be cured; that the common cold is inevitable; that allergies can only be relieved not ended; that hormone levels, hair growth and one's vitality inevitably decrease at certain ages; and that the drugs these companies are pushing actually heal and aren't, in fact, more dangerous than the ills they claim to cure given the mountain of (sometimes even fatal) side effects warned of in the disclaimers.

The sales pitches for these products start with these assumptions as “givens” and are never challenged. As a result, people buy into them (operative word “buy') and continue a vicious cycle that only ends up perpetuating the very lifestyle that caused their ills in the first place.

The society seems to have lost a vital roadmap and is headed off in a direction of devolution that serves nothing more than to support the industries that profit from peddling the products. The products allow people to believe they can maintain the destructive lifestyles, while purchasing so-called "cures" that in actuality do nothing more than temporarily relieve, mask and replace the symptoms of the diseases the lifestyles cause.

I've always lived my life with a healthy dose of skepticism towards that which most everyone else takes as true. In my own quest for truths related to health, I've met people who've actually cured lupus, sent their cancers into remission, gotten rid of their allergies, eliminated colds, and now live pain-free lives all based on truths that few are addressing publicly, or worse, truths which are lampooned, ridiculed or suppressed.

Therefore, when I read the manuscript for The Ageless Adept, I was elated to see this brand of healthy skepticism and an empowering self-care perspective reflected within its pages.

For those pursuing a new paradigm of health, wellness, disease, aging and youth, The Ageless Adept offers: