Steve E here in month 1 of 09.

I've gathered up ALL of our customers email address's current and non current and I’ll be sending an email message every other month (on average) that I’ll archive on the website under the heading:

Steve's Writings: Tips For An Abnormally Healthy Life.

Of course I'll be writing about health. But it will be like an ongoing conversation with an old friend; casual. As all of you know I scour for health tips to keep me from aging normally.  I'm not interested in aging how most people age. Normal means after 40 the body starts aching in certain joints, skin goes, memory fades, body fat increases, energy decreases,  etc etc. I know genes have a lot to do with it and it's not that normal aging is bad. I just think the culture of aging is programmed into us physically and mentally, so that we don’t use our resources. 

I want you to be able to use my resources.  To improve the quality of my life and your life in a tremendous way.

Since I’ve been 22 (I'm 55 my picture was taken when I was 53) I’ve been on a lifestyle experiment to slow the process down. On some days when I’m totally dialed in, the experience of having a body is absolutely exquisite. I don’t have a particular regime that I’m following or a dogma that I profess. I like tons of studies to back up health claims, and I’ve found plenty of answers in places that in theory were off limits. I like to test assumptions and see what actually works. Repeatedly. I have tapped into crowd sourcing (also called “the hive”) that vast reservoir of others like me doing research and writing about it. A variety of experts who themselves use a variety of experts so that the experiences and results of others are multiplied many times over until it arrives at you.  These days we can learn things very fast by accessing the experiences of others through blogs, twitter, and social media. It’s all about sharing information.  What seems to work and what does not work.

I’m all about passionately wanting you to be able to better the quality of your life. Things get cloudy in all this passion for information sharing when someone is selling something.  Because there are promises that are easy to make that sell hope, energy, youth.  There are no laws really to keep someone from making those promises just to sell something, and certainly no laws to force one to prove what really works..  No one in the industry really likes to talk about that.  So here I am, doing the same, yes?

My life says differently. Everyone who knows me here in Sarasota, Florida knows if I am about one thing, its obsessed with exploring the limits of good health. I take the products I sell and our house is full of 25 and 50 kilo drums containing powders of sprouted quinoa and amaranth, crystals from algae that grow in a lake in Oregon, spores of bacteria that live in the gut and defy heat and cold, exotic mushrooms, freeze dried berry extracts, micronized roots, and cold processed fruit powders from the Amazon.  I promote what I live.

It’s true my company Edible Science offers a service and a product. We are like short order chefs in that we create your daily supplement program totally differently than any one else’s. It’s actually fun for us to try and match your lifestyle and goals to a food supplement program that is easy and designed to go anywhere.

Eventually we want to expand our services to provide you with a complete daily kit of health..the drinks, powder formulas, supplements, and foods to make every day an abnormally healthy experiment in living totally full out; energized and alive.  All the colors literally of a healthy diet.. kind of a “rainbow on the go”.

A quick thought on the articles that made headlines in December of 2009 about the huge study showing that certain vitamins don't do any good. Even though I own a supplement company I largely agree with the article.
The article concentrated on using vitamin c, beta-carotene, vitamin e and selenium for heart problems and cancer (something my research has never robustly shown to be health issues these products addressed). The headlines definitely created a stir and will at first glance satisfy the vitamin nay-sayers. Fine.
The study did not go into products like omega 3’s from wild salmon oil, milk thistle, food based vitamin c,  broccoli extract, aged garlic extract, acetyl l carnitine,  beta glucan, curcumin, vitamin D, or coenzyme q10; just some of the supplements that make up the cornerstone of our custom packs. It will be hard to dispute the value of these products in effecting the immune system, heart health, cellular aging, and energy production.
Food and extracts of food and herbs still rule, and for getting powerful nutritional protection the closer you can get a synthesized nutrient to replicate the molecules of those nutrients found in nature the better. Which is exactly why I started ediblescience.com; to provide supplements and plant extracts as close as possible to the way nature created them.