Dr Joel Wallach : The Joel Wallach Revolution

An Unauthorized Biography of Dr Joel Wallach, a Medical Genius

Published by the Citizens Committee For Better Medicine

Dr Joel Wallach : The Joel Wallach Revolution

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION

No Obstacle Too Great

A Nutrition Science Leviathan
Diseases of Exotic Animals
Treating People Like Pachyderms
Years of Autopsy, Research, and Scholarship
The Cystic Fibrosis Discovery Suppressed by Yerkes Primate Center
Knocked Down, Wallach Stands Up
The Conventional Medical Paradigm
The Naturopathic Way
Wallach’s Global Empire
Cystic Fibrosis in China: Further Debunking the Gene Theory of Disease
The Race Based Gene Fallacy
Epigenetics Versus Genetics
The Importance of Bioavailability
Ma Lan, Wallach’s Brilliant Partner
Wallach Defeats FDA Censorship
Wallach’s War on Conventional Medicine
Wallach’s Global Army
Transformations
Reflections
Wallach’s Unrelenting Drive, Vision and Legacy

No Obstacle Too Great

From the time he was able to walk, Joel Wallach has never backed down from a challenge and
has overcome each obstacle placed in his way. In his view nothing is impossible; rather, what
others call impossible he views as ultimately achievable through the application of consistent
effort over time.

The word defeat is not in Joel Wallach’s vocabulary. Because when he encounters an obstacle,
he maneuvers to overcome it, he has never been defeated. When knocked down, he stands up.
In short, he wins precisely because he refuses to lose. That characteristic is the critical
difference that defines all great entrepreneurs, inventors, and scientists. Dr. Wallach’s greatness
is in that respect indistinguishable from other great achievers, like Thomas Alva Edison, Bill
Gates or Steve Jobs.

As Wallach explains in his book Epigenetics, and as has been confirmed in an independent
scientific review, Wallach was the victim early in his career of a successful smear campaign
orchestrated by an otherwise respected body, the Yerkes National Primate Center at Emory

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University. As explained in this book and in that independent review, Wallach discovered the
first case of cystic fibrosis in a non-human species, a rhesus monkey, raising doubts as to
whether cystic fibrosis was in fact a genetic disorder, something long accepted as dogma even
to this day. Moreover, Wallach discovered that selenium deficiency caused cystic fibrosis and
that selenium deficient mothers experienced in utero alterations in gene expression, resulting in
cystic fibrosis in their babies. He also established that the condition could be caused later in life
by selenium deficiency, as in the case of the rhesus monkey colony he evaluated while at
Yerkes.

While others can be derailed from achieving their ambitions because they have come to believe
their dreams beyond their abilities, Joel D Wallach simply does not accept the idea that anything
is beyond his reach; instead, he learns precisely what is required to reach his goals, carefully
but expeditiously evaluates all options that can achieve the objectives, and then pursues
zealously avenues well calculated to bring about the objectives. That strategy he learned as a
boy, has applied throughout his life, and has triumphed repeatedly because of it. His dogged
pursuit of success has taken him from the humblest station in life (a farm boy who was not well
to do) to the status of an accomplished scientist, innovator, and entrepreneur. Although now 75
years of age it is as if Wallach’s journey has just begun.

While others often accept accomplishments as a reason for rest and reflection, it is not in Joel
Wallach’s DNA to be idle. He is on a lifelong mission, and he is restless. He travels and lectures,
researches, writes, and communicates on radio multiple times a day over 300 days a year.
Once he has achieved an objective, he simply sets a new, more ambitious one and then applies
the same kind of zealous, dedicated, and tireless effort to achieve that new objective that he
used in every prior instance. In this way, he has transformed academic success into commercial
success and personal commercial success into the creation of a global health and financial
empire that elevates the physical and economic conditions of millions worldwide.

Since his formative years, Joel D Wallach has been on a mission to find a way to improve the lot
of all animals, including man. In particular, he wants to enable people from all walks of life to live
better longer, indeed to maximize their life spans and quality of life. He is directed like a laser
beam to achieve that goal. Few people possess the powers of concentration, the dedication to
achievement, and the indefatigable will of this man. He is like a pit bull affixed to a precious
bone. He will not relent, he will not give in, and he will not be dissuaded from achieving his
objectives. There is simply no earthly force capable of stopping him so long as he remains alive.

For reasons explained later in this volume, in the independent review, and in Epigenetics,
Wallach became the victim of character assassination shortly after his discovery, resulting in an
effective blacklisting of him in veterinary medical circles, academia, and research institutions.
As it turned out, that horrible event, roughly coincidental with the death of his second wife
Josephine E. Wallach, led Joel Wallach to a different path toward fulfillment of his life’s mission.
That turning point eventually catapulted Wallach to levels of achievement, success and notoriety
vastly superior to anything he likely could have attained in the academic field of veterinary
pathology. Precisely because of that event, Wallach entered the field of medicine, formally

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crossing the line from the world of animal health and disease to the world of human health and
disease, relying on comparative pathology to establish a unique new perspective on the best
way to prevent and treat human disease, a way that defines a truly unique and revolutionary
medical paradigm that, increasingly, tempts away from conventional medicine those victimized
by it.

Wallach’s natural resilience and determination are combined with another set of characteristics
with him since childhood, high intelligence and decisiveness. All of those attributes help explain
why Wallach enjoys success after success, never detained by life’s tragedies. That is not to say
that his successes have come easy or that he has not suffered great hardship along the way.
Indeed, he has paid very dearly for several of his most precious victories, but he has weathered
each storm and come out on the other side no worse for the wear. Unlike others who may lose
their way when confronted with significant opposition, Joel Wallach has remained focused on his
life’s mission with a sure command of his destiny. His pattern is well established throughout
each phase of his life. He studies obstacles, rapidly commits to new ways to overcome them,
and is invigorated by the challenge of doing so, prevailing in each instance. He applies a
combination of will power, intellect, cunning, and skill to eliminate or get past hardships in a
never ending drive for success. His life’s mission is ambitious but attainable for Wallach: to
enable each person to achieve his or her maximum life potential through complete nutrition and
superior lifestyle

Wallach acquired his powerful work ethic at a very young age. He was born in humble
circumstances on a beef cattle farm in West St. Louis County, Missouri on June 4, 1940. His
family lived in a small house with wood siding, few rooms, a wood stove for food preparation
and heat, and a well pump for water. West St. Louis County was unincorporated at that time
with 274,230 people resident there. St. Louis was an independent city, having seceded from the
County in 1876.

West St. Louis County was a suburban enclave in Missouri, located very near the center of the
United States. A farm boy accustomed to back breaking chores and long hours of work,
Wallach is a product of a quintessentially American environment, a way of life that was hard but
productive and that was close to the land and the environment. He was not only physically
centered in the heart of America at birth, but America has always been in the center of his heart,
a nation he loves greatly. Wallach epitomizes Yankee spirit and ingenuity. Inculcated within him
is a profound work ethic. His mind is inquisitive, analytical, creative, and iconoclastic. He is
inquisitive like Thomas Alva Edison, patriotic and courageous like General George S. Patton,
and possessed of scientific acumen akin to one of his mentors, Linus Pauling. Born into a free
country, he has lived to the fullest extent, caring more about what he can do for the betterment
of others than he has cared for his own lot and, in the process, has become renowned and
financially secure.

Wallach is of Ukrainian descent. His grandfather was a decorated Cossack assigned to the
personal guard of the Russian Czar, Nicholas II. At the time of the Russian revolution, his

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grandfather fled Russia to the Ukraine. Wallach’s mother and father were Ukrainian immigrants
to the United States. Typical of most immigrants, his mother did not go to school beyond high
school (had graduated from high school); his father never finished the 10th grade. They were
very hard working cattle farmers who, upon entry to the country through Ellis Island, moved
West to Missouri in search of arable farmland and pastures. They settled in West St. Louis
County, Missouri.

In his most famous and best selling book- ‘Dead Doctors Don’t Lie’, Wallach recalls:

Not being college educated or a sophisticated man of letters my father transmitted all of his
Missouri wisdom relating to God, honesty, duty to family and country, and courage to me
through the spoken word at the kitchen table, while chopping wood, during morning milking,
truck trips to the market, and sitting at the campfire. He also encouraged me to read books that
he believed were important. The Bible, My Early Life by Winston Churchill, and the complete
works of Rudyard Kipling led the list. When I turned nine years old my father gave me a framed
copy of Kipling’s poem “If” which summarized my father’s personal philosophy and outlined his
hopes and expectations of me.

‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired of waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream and not make dreams your master;

If you can think and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,

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And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “hold on;”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man my son!

Like most Missourians, Wallach is plain spoken, honest, loyal, financially independent, and
humble. Although accomplished in medicine and science and, based on his discoveries,
rightfully termed a medical genius, Wallach is affable and humble, capable of conversing with
people from all walks of life. He is not judgmental but embraces the lives and difficulties of
people without the slightest tinge of moral indignation or condescension. In short, he loves
humanity, all of humanity, and works to bring about cures for afflictions regardless of how
acquired or tolerated. In no small measure, those basic virtues are lessons he learned from
equally humble, hard-working, loyal, and honest parents. He is cut from the same cloth.

From his earliest days, Wallach applied himself enthusiastically to tasks. He has never been
gingerly or halting in his approach, and he has never been intimidated by the enormity of
challenges. Until he left home for college at the University of Missouri, he performed physically
grueling farm chores on a cattle farm with few, if any, complaints. The work had to be done, and
he made sure he did more than his part. He knew that complaining about the difficulty of the
work did not get it done, so he did not complain and, instead, made haste to complete each
task. Involved daily in the care of cows and calves and farming, Wallach would not allow himself
to settle for a common life. He knew that he would not be fulfilled by a life of farming alone, and
his parents likewise wanted something better for their precocious boy. He would be guided by
the noble wisdom in Kipling’s “If,” a wisdom that beckons to the very soul to be great in
character and deed, a wisdom imparted to him by his father on his ninth birthday.

Wallach was naturally inquisitive and wanted to know everything about the animals in his care
and the world around him. The feeding of the animals and their physical challenges interested
him greatly. He found it curious that great effort was expended to ensure that animal feed
contained the right proportions of vitamins, minerals, trace minerals, amino acids, and fats, but
comparable attention was not paid to human diets.

Although bookish, young Wallach was not reclusive. He was engaging and athletic, a physically
fit boy who excelled at varsity football, wrestling, and weight lifting. At nine years of age he
began to experience episodes of eyelid twitching that baffled him and his family members.
Given no adequate answer for the condition from an eye doctor, Wallach pursued the answer
himself by combing through medical literature in a research pattern that has been repeated

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throughout his life. Dissatisfied with the answers given him which he found illogical, he chose
instead to find the answers himself by reading voraciously on the subject until convinced of a
sound hypothesis.

As Wallach relates in the biographical sections of his best selling book- Dead Doctor’s Don’t Lie-
he came to understand that the eye twitching was due to a calcium deficiency. Aware that
certain of the feed pellets he fed to his family’s calves contained calcium, he began ingesting
those pellets daily and, in a relatively short period of time, the eye twitching came to an end;
Wallach proved his hypothesis.

That event, as well as his day to day experience and insatiable appetite for information about
the anatomy, physiology, and health conditions of cattle led Wallach to the field of veterinary
medicine. In high school he became increasingly interested in veterinary science and medicine.
Fixated on the goal of becoming a veterinarian, he would not be deterred from attaining it.

Filled with boundless energy, Wallach not only mastered chores on the farm but also found time
to participate actively in the Boy Scouts, earning enough merit badges to qualify himself for the
prestigious rank of Eagle Scout. He then capitalized on that achievement by choosing as his
scouting vocation, work with veterinarians at the St. Louis research and feed facilities of the
Ralston Purina Company. While at Ralston Purina, he learned that the animal feed formulations
used by the company were carefully selected based on scientific evidence linking vitamins,
minerals, and fatty acids to a lessened incidence of disease and favorable health outcomes. He
wondered whether that same approach might not be tried successfully in people. He was vexed
by the fact that people seemed to eat based on taste alone without regard to ingesting the right
kind and amount of minerals, vitamins, amino acids, and fats, yet farmers treated the animals
better than humans, by Wallach’s estimation, because the farming industry had become adept
at ensuring that animals had diets precisely tailored to maximize their good health.

A Nutrition Science Leviathan

With his formidable ability to concentrate and his tenacious pursuit of objectives, Joel Wallach
committed in his teenage years to become a veterinarian. More than that, he intended to learn
from animals the key elements to healthful existence with the goal of one day making
discoveries that could be translated into benefits for mankind.

Many born into humble circumstances find it hard to dream of achievements far beyond the
limits of their life’s experience, but not Joel Wallach. He dreamed of achieving greatly since
youth and believed fundamentally in his own ability to transform his dreams into reality. His
worldly experience taught him that nothing was truly impossible and that with a strong will,
intelligence, and enough determination he could always find a way. He knew not to leave things
to chance but to make change happen. Indeed, he appreciated that in America there really is
no limit to what one can achieve, the determining factors were strength of conviction, savvy, and
will power. Even if others could not find a way to make their dreams come true, Wallach knew
he could and would. That self-confidence has been with him since youth and has never left him
even in the darkest of times. It defines who he is to this day.

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>At the summer breaks his freshman and sophomore years of high school, Joel Wallach worked
at the St. Louis Zoo where Marlin Perkins also worked. Perkins later achieved world renown as
the host of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom. Wallach and Perkins shared similar backgrounds.
Both Wallach and Perkins are Missouri natives. Both were humble, hard-working,
entrepreneurial, and led to achieve their dreams despite the obstacles. Perkins was born in
Carthage, Missouri. Perkins also attended the University of Missouri for a time, albeit he left the
university before graduating so he could work at the St. Louis Zoo. After working elsewhere as
a zoo director, Perkins returned to the St. Louis Zoo, serving as its Director from 1962 until his
death from cancer in June of 1986. In 1963, Perkins became the host of Mutual of Omaha’s
Wild Kingdom. Perkins retired from Wild Kingdom in 1985, a year before his death.

It is often said that people from Missouri are plain spoken and honest. President Harry S.
Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri. Former Vice President John Nance Garner supposedly
said of President Truman that he “is honest and patriotic and has a head full of common sense.
Besides, he has guts.” That same description applies to Missouri native Joel D. Wallach.

Like Perkins, Wallach was one who has lived by his word. If he made a deal, he abided by its
terms and expected others to do the same. He had promised at his interview for the St. Louis
Zoo to do anything they desired him to do so long as he was given a chance to work with his
idol, Marlin Perkins. When he was asked therefore to evacuate the colons of elephants so they
would not discharge large quantities of dung while doing circus acts, Wallach obliged without
complaint. He had said he would do whatever was required, and he fulfilled that pledge. With
bare hands and arms, as was the practice, he put his entire arms deep into the colons of the
elephants and removed as much excrement as he could muster. Even hardy farm boys would
recoil from this dangerous and offensive task, but not Joel Wallach; he said he would do
whatever it took to work with the famed Marlin Perkins. Wallach was a man of his word.

Wallach, like Perkins, is also plain spoken. He does not coat his expression with insincere
compliment, caveats, or hyperbole. He speaks to the point without sugar coating. Wallach has
always been one known for his frankness and unvarnished presentation. He will not cow to the
generally accepted position or bite his tongue while others profess it if he knows that the
position conflicts with science and logic. He has always been one to reveal hypocrisy without
fear of retaliation from those who stand to lose from the telling of the truth.

When Wallach graduated from high school, he considered a military career. Neither he nor his
parents had the means to send him to college. Despite the lack of resources, Wallach’s parents
expected him not to enlist in the military, as was a common practice at that time, but to go to the
University of Missouri. They wanted their son to become an accomplished American citizen.
Joel Wallach would be the first in his family to go to college. Few high school age kids at that
time acquired an education much beyond high school, but Wallach knew that to become a vet
and to achieve his goals he would have to do so.

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The notion that his parents would pay for his college was out of the question. They did not have
the means. The notion of going out of state for a college education was likewise unaffordable.
Consequently, Wallach would have to work multiple jobs at the University of Missouri in order to
pay the tuition. He was not dissuaded by the notion of hard work. He would do whatever it took
to reach his goal.

He was admitted to the University of Missouri in 1958 at the age of 18, majoring in animal
husbandry and nutrition and minoring in field crops and soils. The courses he took were well
suited for veterinary school. Wallach worked several odd jobs to support his way, causing him to
replace time for sleep with study, sports and dating. He thought he could manage it all, but
even the tireless must get enough sleep to handle a full course load. Wallach’s first semester
grades were mediocre and his counselor at school recommended that he forget about going to
veterinary school. Then as now admission to veterinary school depends on academic
excellence, particularly in the sciences. But Wallach was not a quitter. He would not abandon
his dream. He would alter his lifestyle and resolve to do better.

Wallach realized that he had sacrificed his primary goal of veterinary school because he had
taken advantage of all of the social and work opportunities his school had to offer. Refusing to
accept that veterinary school was beyond his reach, Wallach united with an academically
accomplished roommate to refocus his energies to achieve that single objective of admission to
veterinary school. He remained on the school wrestling team but gave up a social life and all
other collegiate activities, using that time to attend to his studies.

He so invested himself in academic work that soon he achieved top marks in all of his classes.
In a bold move, Wallach applied for veterinary school half way through his second year of
undergraduate school. That move was bold indeed for a student who had lackluster grades his
first semester. Ordinarily students were accepted on excellent grades into veterinary school
after their third year. By applying early and with a first semester grade average that was
average, Wallach risked rejection, but he thought it worth the try. In an unusual move,
apparently impressed by his extraordinary turn to excellent grades, the University of Missouri
School of Veterinary Medicine admitted Wallach.

With admission to veterinary school in hand, Wallach could have abandoned his undergraduate
curriculum and proceeded directly to veterinary courses. That was the preferred and common
way. But Wallach was not a quitter, so he resolved to complete his undergraduate course work
while simultaneously taking the full veterinary school course load. He masterfully achieved both
objectives, again by following his well-tested method of laser like focus on academics and
unrelenting drive, unalterably pursuing his goal regardless of the cost in time and effort. He
obtained his Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture in 1962 with a major in animal
husbandry and, two years later, his Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine.

Throughout veterinary school, Wallach remained fascinated with the role of nutrition in animal
health and with comparative pathology (the study of comparable diseases in animals and man).
He knew that deprivation of certain nutrients would produce disease states in animals that could

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often be reversed by simply restoring the missing nutrients. He theorized, however, that
disease states not recognized as nutritionally based were in fact the products of nutritional
deficiencies in both animals and man. That concept, radical for its time, became a mainstay of
Wallach’s thinking as he entered the field of veterinary medicine after college.

Wallach graduated as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Missouri in 1964.
For those unfamiliar with the DVM degree, it is one of the most rigorous medical degree
programs, considered more academically rigorous and challenging than even an M.D. for
human practice.

There are only 28 universities in the United States that offer a doctorate in veterinary medicine
in satisfaction of the American Veterinary Medical Association’s requirements. Admission to
veterinary school is highly competitive. For example, in 2007, 5,750 applicants competed for
2,650 seats in the 28 accredited vet schools.

To gain admission to veterinary school, most accredited schools, including the University of
Missouri, demand excellent performance in science classes such as those in organic chemistry,
inorganic chemistry, physics, general biology, vertebrate embryology, general biology, and
calculus

While in vet school, Wallach worked in the veterinary anatomy department, beginning what
would become the most extensive set of animal autopsies ever performed by a single medical
practitioner. He also performed human autopsies for comparisons. Wallach gained
considerable expertise in comparative pathology, making him a formidable diagnostician within
a few years after graduating from vet school.

After vet school, Wallach served as a pathologist and instructor in the Department of Veterinary
Pathology at Iowa State University for a year, 1964 to 1965.

>Through thousands of autopsies, Wallach continuously discovered instances of death and

disease in domesticated and wild animals that appeared to be a result of nutritional deficiencies.
Increasingly he viewed nutrients as therapeutic agents, not simply responsible for sustaining life
and fending off classic nutritional deficiency diseases but also as means to treat a wide range of
diseases. That perspective was unique, indeed revolutionary, for the world of the 1960’s.
Wallach was among a precious few scientists in the world who were beginning to view individual
nutrients and combinations of nutrients (when consumed at above levels identified as necessary
to sustain life) as means to cause natural systems to work preferably and hasten disease cure.

When an Iowa State veterinary pathology graduate student had to give up an opportunity to
work as a Project Veterinarian and Capture Officer for the Natal Parks and Game Service
(Umfolozi and Hluhlue Game Parks), Natal Republic of South Africa in 1966, Wallach seized the
opportunity to replace him. Wallach was soon working with enormous and wild pachyderms
(elephants, rhinos, and hippos) at first in Botswana in a region infested with life threatening
blood flukes and then in various other game reserves in South Africa. In his second series of

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expeditions, Wallach studied drug therapies and animal tranquilizers along with the rare, near
extinct white rhino. Wallach served as a veterinarian and capture officer for Operation Rhino in
the Republic of South Africa, involving the rescue and protection of that rare and threatened
species, and for Operation Elephant, involving efforts to protect the African elephant in the
Southern Rhodesian Wankie Game Reserve (now a part of Zimbabwe).

Always fascinated by the role of nutrition in animal health, Wallach repeatedly observed
pachyderms consuming clay from termite nests and limestone along road beds, calcium
deposits, and other trace minerals. He speculated that those eating habits were purposeful
attempts by the animals to obtain adequate mineral intake, including trace minerals. He made
record of the fact that the healthier and larger animals he observed in Africa were the ones that
had ready access to mineral deposits, while those more prone to chronic disease and early
deaths appeared in regions where minerals were deficient in the soils and plants. That
observation would remain with him going forward and would cause him later to observe that
human populations likewise enjoyed the greatest longevity in regions where mineral deposits
were rich and humans included minerals and trace minerals in their daily diets. That
observation led Wallach to conclude that pica and cribbing, whereby animals engaged in binge
eating, were really a manifestation of the animal’s hunger for particular sources of minerals. He
correlated those animal conditions with people and, in time, likewise observed that inadequate
mineral intake by people led them to crave fattening foods.

In late 1966, three years after the start of his enormously popular Wild Kingdom program, Marlin
Perkins asked Wallach to leave Africa, return to St. Louis, and join him as a post-doctoral fellow
in comparative pathology and medicine at the newly created and NIH funded Center for the
Biology of Natural Systems at the St. Louis Zoo. Perkins had grown to admire Wallach who, in
many respects, emulated his own creative energies and traits and, like Perkins, was a man who
could be counted on to accomplish difficult tasks expertly and without complaint.

Had it been another person asking, Wallach would have had little difficulty declining the offer,
and, at first, Wallach even drafted a letter politely declining Perkins’ offer. Upon reflection,
however, Wallach could not break the bonds of loyalty that are so much a part of him. Wallach
would always be grateful for Perkins’ decision to give him a chance to learn under his tutelage
at the St. Louis Zoo. Wallach returned to St. Louis and took up his new post. In doing so, he
left behind work that he truly loved and would recall fondly for decades thereafter.

In this aspect, we learn another important lesson about the character of Joel D. Wallach. He is
fiercely loyal. For those who have been there for him, he is there for them. Years may pass,
people may change stations in life, and circumstances may change, but Wallach’s loyalty
remains solid and dependable come what may. He never forgets a good deed and ordinarily
rewards the person responsible. He has built solid alliances over the years precisely because
he is not only loyal but goes out of his way to help those loyal to him. It is a brand of loyalty
more commonly seen among battle hardened troops who have survived death due to that
synergistic combination of grit, courage, ability, and leadership that they share with their
commanding officers. Likewise, Wallach, in a battle to transform how the world looks at disease

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and treats it, regards those who have been in the trenches with him, fighting against orthodoxies
and advancing his mission as indispensable. He remains loyal to them for a lifetime.

At the Center for Biology of Natural Systems, Wallach performed thousands of autopsies over
the course of three years, the largest number he performed in his entire career to that point,
expanding his knowledge of the nature, kind, and degree of disease affecting different species
and his research into the role of nutritional deficiencies in contributing to disease.

At the Center, Wallach began systematically to associate specific disease states in animals with
chronic nutrient deficiencies, most often mineral in nature. That association was revolutionary,
because even among the enlightened at that time their focus was almost exclusively on vitamin
deficiencies without any serious regard to mineral, trace mineral or amino acid deficiencies.
Wallach speculated, with good scientific grounds and convincing logic, that deficiencies
produced disease in animals of different species and, so, likely also contributed to those same
disease states in humans. Increasingly, he became convinced that nutritional therapies were
the solution not only to the health problems of animals but also to those of humans.

By the conclusion of his work at the Center, Wallach had spent the better part of two decades
performing thousands of autopsies, involving hundreds of different species and also thousands
of human cadavers for comparison. He had become a nutrition science Leviathan, one of the
few comparative pathologists who had performed large numbers of animal and human
autopsies and one of the few people in the world who had come to the knowledge that minerals,
not just vitamins, played a critical role in preventing and treating a whole host of disease states.

Although by the late 1960’s, the nutrition science revolution was in its infancy (and some
scientists toyed with the idea that vitamins were capable of serving as effective disease
mitigating agents and treatments), no one other than Wallach had come to the informed opinion
that minerals too were indispensable. Wallach was the lone expert in mineral and trace mineral
treatment of disease, and he had not yet been given an opportunity to present his findings to
peers, let alone the world at large.

Diseases of Exotic Animals

The academic publisher W. B. Saunders wanted to publish a definitive veterinary treatise on the
known physiology, disease states, and treatments for non-domesticated, so-called exotic,
animals. The undertaking was mammoth–so comprehensive, scientifically detailed, and
research based that the publisher anticipated the need for dozens of veterinary scientists
participating, each with expertise in a peculiar species or disease state. That plan went awry,
however, when all but two of the veterinarians who had signed up for the job failed to complete
the work assigned.

According to its original plan, the publisher wanted to invite 28 different experts to write a
chapter each. Dr. Joel D. Wallach was among those asked to be a chapter author. He was
asked to write three chapters. After years had passed and few chapters were satisfactorily
completed but for those by Dr. Wallach, the publisher wanted Wallach to write all of the

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remaining chapters. Wallach was asked to find a co-author for the book, one who would be
given the privilege of having his name appear as a co-author without having to write book
content. Wallach chose another University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine alum, Dr.
William J. Boever. Wallach respected Dr. Boever for his work at the St. Louis Zoo.

The writing of the entire book fell to Wallach, causing him to review the universe of scientific
evidence, both animal and human, germane to the assessment of every known disease state
and treatment for exotic animals. In short, the massive research undertaking would cause
Wallach to become invested in the most far reaching and intensive study of all aspects of animal
disease and treatment. At the conclusion of this work, Wallach became one of the most well
educated and deeply sophisticated experts in animal disease and treatment in the world. No
one else had singularly invested the time and energy in researching all manner of animal
disease and treatment. It was daunting enough for a veterinarian to become expert in one class
of diseases but to master them all seemed superhuman.

The book is divided into three major parts, covering mammals, aves (birds), and ectotherms
(reptiles and amphibians). It explains not only the characteristics of each kind of animal but also
their metabolic processes, hematology, and blood chemistry characteristics, the best means to
anesthetize them, treatments, and, in particular, common nutritional deficiencies and symptoms
manifested in animals suffering from those symptoms. It also explains in detail the diseases
known to be associated with each kind of animal, the symptoms associated with the diseases,
the testing methods recommended for diagnosing the presence of the diseases, and the
treatments appropriate for the diseases. The book is filled with photos and drawings of the
proper containment facilities for the animals, examples of abnormal animal activity, examples of
appropriate medical equipment, appropriate medical procedures and techniques, autopsies,
microscope enlargements of bacteria, viruses, and parasites from infected animals, and
restraint and immobilizing equipment. It is encyclopedic and scrupulously documented.

Although an intimidating task for over a dozen other veterinary scientists, Wallach was not
dissuaded by the enormity of the work. He simply strove to acquire the additional expertise,
painstakingly evaluating the vast universe of published works, research papers, and reports. He
did it all. Mastery of the work reveals true medical genius. At the same time that he devoted
countless hours on animal autopsies from captive animals who died in zoos across the country,
making him one of the most well versed experts in animal pathology, Wallach also read
thousands of veterinary medical and medical journals in his quest to master everything that was
known or discernible about exotic species.

To achieve mastery of such a broad range of species and diseases requires a thorough
understanding of science germane to the investigation: organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry,
pharmacology, biology, genetics, calculus, and physiology. Ordinarily limitations in one’s
scientific skills would make it all but impossible, even for a talented veterinarian, to perform the
enormous research task Wallach assumed, but not for Wallach.

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Not only was he performing autopsies to determine the cause of death of thousands of animals,
ultimately more autopsies than have been performed by any other single individual, but he was
also immersed deeply in all aspects of veterinary and human medicine, biology, chemistry,
physiology, comparative pathology, and pharmacology, making him after in excess of a decade
of effort one of the most well educated medical scientists on earth.

During the eighteen years that Wallach researched every known disease of, and treatment for,
exotic animals, he also performed more animal autopsies, and he went to work as an animal
pathologist at different zoos, including four years of pathology work at the Brookfield Zoo in
Chicago and then at the Jacksonville Zoological Park in Jacksonville, Florida and the Memphis
Zoo. Wallach spent countless hours investigating the veterinary, medical, and pathology
literature and even more time performing consultations with colleagues, producing this
mammoth work after ten plus years of relentless effort. Wallach revealed the breadth of his
undertaking in a preface to the book:

We began our project with extensive literature searches far afield from traditional veterinary
sources; we collected our own data, performed thousands of autopsies, and encouraged each
other to publish and to maintain an intellectual curiosity when considering the health care of our
exotic charges—thus this book is not to be considered an end point, but rather a staging for all
veterinarians and professionals who work with exotic species to “come up to speed” with the
state of the art without the need to re-invent the wheel. It is our wish that this book provide a
widespread understanding of the anatomy, physiology, diagnosis, and treatment of the rainbow
of species with which we share this planet.

Diseases of Exotic Animals: Medical and Surgical Management, a 1,159 page tome, was finally
published in July of 1983. Comprehensive in its identification of disease states, symptoms,
causative factors, and treatments, the book remains a trusted academic treatise found in the
libraries of veterinary schools across the country as well as in the Smithsonian in Washington,
D.C. (where it is listed as a “National Treasure”). The book contains some two thousand
illustrations, references to over 25,000 autopsies, and references to some 10 million tissue
chemistries and slides.

The book is a rich source of information covering a large number of exotic animal species,
informed not only by Dr. Wallach’s academic research but also by his years of clinical
experience in the field. Because it is so comprehensive and detailed, it remains a valuable
resource for veterinary research decades after its publication.

Its size, breadth, and content are remarkable when one comes to the realization that it is the
product of a single man, Joel Wallach. The tome is a validation of Wallach’s medical genius and
of the enormous foundation of evidence and analysis that he brings to bear when making
diagnoses and prescribing treatments.

Among the many extraordinary findings contained in the book are those related to what were
often termed “natural” animal deaths. Based on a trove of autopsies, Wallach was able to

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establish that animal deaths were in fact not “natural” at all, in the sense of being non-cause
specific. Rather, he found nutritional deficiencies the root cause of the vast majority of deaths
witnessed in the animals he autopsied. Based on Wallach’s comparative pathology, he found
diseases of man paralleled those in animals but given different names. He identified
cross-species treatments that often eluded physicians and veterinarians because of the
compartmentalization of the two professions, a compartmentalization that did not affect Wallach
who made comparative pathology his primary method and basis for discerning the true causes
of disease.

For Wallach, the knowledge that, for example, pica was a condition of mineral deficient animals
translated easily into the conclusion that human cravings were likewise indicative of mineral
deficiencies in humans. For Wallach, muscular dystrophy deemed incurable in humans was
substantially the same as white muscle disease, stiff lamb disease, and mulberry heart disease
in sheep and pigs where it was understood to be curable through complete vitamin
supplementation complemented by extra doses of the trace mineral selenium. For Wallach,
Type II diabetes in humans was substantially the same as Type II diabetes in marmosets,
alligators, and shrews where it was preventable and curable with the trace minerals chromium
and vanadium. For Wallach, cerebral palsy in humans was quite similar to cerebral palsy in
llamas, where it resulted from a copper and zinc deficiency. For Wallach, spina bifida in humans
was largely indistinguishable from spina bifida in monkeys, where it was preventable through
prenatal ingestion of folic acid and zinc. The associations Wallach made cover nearly the
universe of all major human diseases. In each case, Wallach had found comparable cases in
animals. He established in animals that each disease was associated with a particular kind of
vitamin, mineral, amino acid, or fatty acid deficiency and would either be curable or preventable
by ensuring adequate amounts of the nutrient in the daily diets of the animals. In his later
experience as a human physician, Wallach found repeatedly that the treatments he used to cure
animals frequently worked to prevent and cure the disease in humans.

In Chapter 6 of his book Let’s Play Doctor, Wallach lists over 350 different disease states in
humans that he has found through animal and human research to be associated with nutritional
deficiencies or nutritional toxicities resulting from ingestion of specific nutrients to excess. In
Chapter 10 of Let’s Play Doctor, he identifies specifically tailored nutritional interventions,
combinations of nutrients at specific dose levels, that he has discovered to be effective in
treating disease. He provides that listing for each of the over 350 diseases referenced in the
book.

Treating People Like Pachyderms

In 1982 Joel Wallach graduated from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland,
Oregon, with an N.D. degree. From 1982 to 1993, Wallach worked as a naturopathic physician,
treating humans. “He’ll treat you like a dog, but you will get better,” became an adage
associated with Dr. Wallach’s medical practice, meaning that many of Wallach’s remedies for
animal disease were applied to humans and worked just as well.

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In his lectures, Wallach often informs audiences of this fact to much hearty laughter. He
facetiously explains how a patient would come in for a medical exam, see Wallach’s University
of Missouri doctor of veterinary medicine degree on the wall, and then see him approach with an
enormous glove designed for the rectal examination of pachyderms, whereupon more seasoned
patients in Wallach’s waiting room would announce that he treats you like a dog, but you get
better.

In all seriousness, however, it is common for basic research concerning the effects of nutrients
on human health to begin in animal studies. While animals differ from human beings in several
important respects, many species are enough like humans or, if not, the particular mechanisms
of action involved are enough like those in humans, that extrapolating from animals to humans
is reasonable. Indeed, the customary scientific method is to begin with animal research and
progress to human research in the study of diseases and treatments for disease. Unusually,
Wallach knows both sides of this equation. Most scientists who engage in animal experiments
are not also ones who engage in human experiments. For decades, Wallach performed
comparative pathologies, dissecting animal and human cadavers and comparing pathologies in
both. That experience made him an extraordinary diagnostician. Because of his high mental
aptitude, it also blessed him with superior insight yielding discoveries that are the product of true
medical genius.

In Wallach’s case, the extrapolation from animals to humans occurred first predicated on his
investigation of nutritional formulas in the treatment of animal disease, then predicated on his
reliance on safe nutritional interventions with his human patients, and then based on responses
to nutritional recommendations he has made to the public at large.

Having acquired in depth knowledge of the veterinary and human sides of medical science,
Wallach finds the failure of medical science to include veterinary science underpinnings vexing.
In Let’s Play Doctor, he writes:

“All ‘orthodox’ doctors should be required to go to veterinary school as a pre-med course . . .”

The body of evidence Dr. Wallach has acquired over the years confirms the wisdom of his
approach. He not only finds parallels between animal and human diseases at every turn, he
also finds that what works well in animals oftentimes works well in humans. The sources and
kinds of ingredients he uses in his formulations for animals and humans are all food grade and
safe at the dose levels recommended.

Among the many innovations in nutrition science that Dr. Wallach pioneered is the liquid
suspension of minerals and trace minerals. He has succeeded in creating formulations that not
only contain the right forms of ingredients but also the easiest means for delivery, most often in
a liquid.

Individuals who have trouble taking pills appreciate this right away but also those who for one
reason or another have not experienced benefits from powders and traditional pills.

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The body works on the basis of homeostasis, meaning that at the cellular level quantitative
amounts of nutrients from foods that are needed are absorbed and excess amounts are
discarded, either being eliminated from the body through excretion or stored by the body in fat.
The trouble comes when either nutrients are in a form that prevents their absorption, are
affected by other foods that provoke reactions (i.e., gluten, etc.) that diminish absorption, or are
in a form where absorption is compromised by such things as low stomach acid long before they
are available for absorption in the intestines.

Wallach has studied these difficulties and has endeavored to design diets and dietary
supplements for animals and people in ways that maximize nutrient bioavailability. His
approach is informed by the literature but also by a vast clinical experience.

Dr. Wallach also follows other cultures rather closely, attempting to identify what causes some
people to live longer lives in healthier states than are common in the United States. He notes
that Americans not only fail to eat the right kinds of foods but also fail to be adequately
nourished even when they do consume large quantities of fruits and vegetables. He also points
out that while Americans spend more per capita on health care than all nations on earth we rank
low among industrialized nations on the longevity scale.

For Wallach, the goal is to ensure that all essential nutrients are consumed on a daily basis. He
believes that by providing the body all of the nutritional elements it needs for optimum
functioning, people become more resilient, less prone to disease, more alert, and less likely to
suffer age related disease conditions until late in life, if at all.

For Dr. Wallach, it is an outrage of modern life and proof of the failings of conventional medicine
whenever young people are diagnosed with hypertension (high blood pressure), type II diabetes
(insulin resistance), coronary heart disease, or osteoarthritis (pain and immobility of the joints),
because he views each of those conditions largely affected by dietary choices. Were Americans
to ingest the right kinds of nutrition daily and supplement properly, they would be far less apt to
suffer from any of those disease conditions and, once acquired, would be more apt to eliminate
them without the toxic effect of drugs. That level and kind of nutrition cannot be obtained from
food sources alone, and so he advocates supplementation. Getting Americans, indeed getting
people the world over, to do what is in their own best nutritional interest is Dr. Wallach’s mission.

Nutritional influences on health and disease are increasingly appreciated by academics who
study them, but conventional medicine still clings to the notion that, with rare exceptions, foods
are not therapeutic. Wallach rejects that notion and does so based on a wealth of scientific
literature. Since the 1960s, the nutrition science literature has become so prolific that there are
often thousands of articles based on original research associating specific nutrients with
therapeutic effects. Since childhood, Wallach reasoned that if only we could unlock the
associations that exist between specific nutrients and physiological processes, we could come
to discover how a full complement of nutrition could not only fend off disease but prolong life
and the quality of life for much longer periods. He reasoned that if rations for animals could be
perfected such that animals enjoyed maximum good health and survived far longer in captivity

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than in the wild, so too man could ingest an ideal complement of nutrients, avoid deleterious
habits, and likewise extend life.

With animals, Wallach’s effort to prove nutrition therapeutic was comparatively easy. All he
needed to do was place the nutrients in the animal’s feed or make edible pellets out of the
nutrients. In the case of people, the challenge is far more difficult, because once acclimated to
particular foods and lifestyle choices, people tend not to deviate from them (even when their
lives are at stake!). Wallach must therefore excel at the art of persuasion, a skill he has honed
through years of presentations around the world.

Wallach’s lectures deliver complicated scientific theories in understandable form and are also
motivational. People who hear him often come away with an epiphany about their lives and
health, taking steps immediately to take control of their biological destines and alter their health
directions toward healing and self-improvement

Wallach seeks to empower people not only to change their lifestyles and make good nutrition
and supplementation a daily habit, but also to convert his audience into exponents of that same
nutritional advice. The power of his message, combined with the conversion effect on his
audiences, magnifies each presentation manifold as word spreads from lecture hall to the
contacts of those who have attended each lecture. That viral dissemination of the electrifying
message conveyed by Wallach is a main element responsible for his great success.

Although Wallach is most definitely an American patriot, who has served his country in the
military reserves, his message is global. He seeks to uplift people in every nation, resolving
nutritional issues in country after country.

The marketing approach he chose in 1997 when he founded American Longevity (now,
Youngevity), multi-level marketing, is ideally suited to achieve a very important secondary
benefit. It is no coincidence that poverty and riches each carry with them grave threats to
health. The poor, of course, have difficulty accessing adequate nutrition because cost is an
obstacle. By contrast, the rich have difficulty changing their lifestyles because they can afford to
maintain their bad habits. Wallach speaks to both. For those who are not financially
independent, his multi-level marketing system offers them a genuine chance to become
financially independent through distributing the very products that are best for their health and
by becoming proponents of Wallach’s message of how best to live better longer. For those who
are already financially independent, his message offers the chance to integrate, simply, key
nutrients into their daily routines that can have profoundly beneficial health effects.

When whole companies adopt Wallach’s nutritional program, employees can experience health
benefits that make them less dependent on insurance and less costly in missed work hours to
employers. Savvy employers comprehend this advantage and find ways of bringing the
formulas to their employees as an added benefit.

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Wallach is intent on treating all people the same way he did pachyderms, but we should
remember that Wallach treated elephants, rhinos, and hippos very well indeed, saving them
from extinction with carefully tailored nutritional interventions. Likewise, the promise of his
recommendations for humans is that adherence to his advice will bring about longer, healthier
lives.

Years of Autopsy, Research, and Scholarship

Long before the rest of the scientific community had an inkling that minerals and trace minerals
were keys to good health, Dr. Wallach was hypothesizing about and studying their role in
preventing and treating diseases in animals and people. He began his research in earnest in
the late 1950’s, over two decades before general publication in the scientific literature
concerning the effects of vitamins on disease and disease prevention.

No other scientist in the world has devoted more time and has discovered more physiological
effects associated with mineral deficiencies than Dr. Joel Wallach. No other scientist or medical
practitioner in the world has performed as many autopsies as Dr. Wallach. When he began his
research in the late 1950’s, few if any scientists in the world thought of minerals as therapeutic.
Those who did understood only a select few, including calcium, magnesium, and lithium, to have
disease mitigating properties.

University of Missouri Professor William A. Albrecht was among those who had a profound
impact on Wallach’s formative thinking concerning minerals and human health. Albrecht, who
died in 1974, was the Chairman of the Department of Soils at the University of Missouri. An
agronomist, Albrecht established links between soil quality, nutrients in food, and human health.
In particular, he demonstrated that poor nutrient quality in soils and plants (a loss of vitamins,
minerals, and trace minerals) led to poor health of livestock and, ultimately, to poor health in
humans. He also discovered that colloidal clay particles, including micronutrients, were
indispensable to animal diets and health, because of their rich supply of minerals.

Albrecht’s career included emphasis on the loss of minerals brought about by modern
agricultural techniques. He discovered that soils were rapidly becoming depleted of nutrients.
Failure to rotate crops, compounded by deep plowing, and the removal of brush and natural
obstacles, like large rock, contributed to the Dust Bowl of the 1930’s and early 1940’s. During
the Dust Bowl, winds blew top soil into drainage, resulting in an increase in pollution to streams
and rivers and a loss of arable land across the West and South. Although not the subject of
remark at the time, the Dust Bowl also helped deplete the soils of nutrients.

Dr. Wallach Talks Minerals

The lack of crop rotation was falsely thought to be the sole source of mineral depletion. In the
late 1950’s and forward, as farmers began using chemical fertilizers to replenish lost nutrients,
those fertilizers failed to reinfuse the soils with a complete and adequate array of minerals,
favoring instead just three macronutrients: nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium. Albrecht
discovered that the nutrient value of food and feed crops grown at the start of the Twentieth
Century vastly exceeded the nutrient value of food and feed crops after World War II.

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Mineral Depletion
60 Minerals, Wallach insisted, were required for achieving and maintaining good health and was
then, as it is now, a novel proposition. To this day, the scientific community has yet to catch up
with Wallach’s understanding. But Wallach’s view stems in part from the work of Dr. Albrecht,
who established that depletion of nutrients in soils parallel poor animal and human health.
Wallach complemented that work and expanded upon it, by identifying the full complement of
nutrients lost and establishing that oral supplementation would most effectively ensure that
humans receive the nutrients which the soils, plants, and animals do not provide in health
sustaining and enhancing quantities.

Wallach alone discovered that the employment of electricity resulted in the loss of the traditional
source of dietary minerals – wood ashes. Wallach realized that at 3:00pm in the afternoon,
Monday September 4th, 1882, Thomas Edison pulled the switch on the first commercial electric
generating plan on Pearl St. in New York City. Within ten years every city and town in the
industrialized world converted from wood as the universal fuel to electricity.

Oral Supplementation
Because no one knew that their traditional dietary mineral source (wood ashes) was no longer
available. No one made the connection between wood ashes and nutritional mineral sources,
and therefore no one supplemented to make up the difference. Because people liked electricity,
hydroelectric dams were built which provided large supplies of electricity, however there was an
unintended consequence – flood control. No more spring floods, no more mineral rich silt to
plow back into the soil each spring to renew depleted minerals

A Rich Source of Minerals

Not only that, but Wallach also studied geology, identifying layers beneath the earth’s surface in
specific regions of the world where humic shale existed and embodied the mineral remains of
prehistoric plants. These veins of mineral rich soil he knew would have to be tapped to provide
the best organic forms of minerals.

90 For LifeTM
With a combination of state-of-the-art manufacturing and superior raw materials, Dr. Wallach
and his team have created an exceptional oral supplement. The product contains 60 minerals,
16 vitamins, 12 amino acids, and two essential fatty acids. It ensures the ideal absorption of
nutrients, resulting in the body’s optimal function.

Through these products with minerals designed for optimum absorption, thousands of patients
suffering from chronic diseases have been helped. Above all, he continues to educate the public
about the issue of mineral deficiency and the power of oral supplementation.

Science often plods along behind great discoverers whose life’s work usually propels science
forward only after their deaths and after scientists who cling to the conventional wisdom have
exhausted themselves in defense or have died. Although Galileo discovered that the earth

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orbited the sun, the scholars of the time rejected the notion, condemned him for suggesting it,
and insisted for decades thereafter that the earth was the center of the universe. In like manner,
many in conventional medicine and science insist that minerals are largely worthless, although
over time their numbers continue to dwindle as more and more research proves Wallach to be
correct!

The notion that minerals are worthless challenges our basic sensibilities. We know that
minerals variously exist in the soils. Wallach teaches that they occur in veins through the top
layers of the earth, much like chocolate in chocolate ripple ice cream. Some locations have
greater quantitative amounts of minerals than others. Consequently plants that absorb minerals
have varying quantitative amounts of minerals in them depending on their location. Decades of
modern agricultural exploitation of the soils, along with the advent of electricity, has depleted
much of the land in the industrialized world of key nutrients, a concept Wallach developed while
in undergraduate school and one borne out by his subsequent world-wide research.

It stands to reason, then, that if our generation depends on plant food sources that are less
replete with minerals than prior generations, we necessarily are experiencing deficiencies not
known to our forebears. Moreover, we know that all manner of minerals are present in the
human body and perform roles requisite to normal cell metabolism, growth, digestion,
respiration, and elimination of wastes. We also know that the sources of minerals in our bodies
upon which we depend come only from what we ingest. It therefore offends common sense for
some to insist dogmatically that supplemental minerals are irrelevant.

Wallach points out how selenium, a mineral, was viewed for years as an inherently toxic
substance that ought not be ingested. That notion, dangerous because selenium is an essential
mineral, has now been thoroughly debunked in science, as research has finally proven what
Wallach understood more than a half century ago, that selenium in the right dose levels is safe
and plays a key role in supporting the healthy functioning of our immune systems and reducing
the risk of disease conditions such as certain kinds of cancer, “auto-immune” disorders, such as
fibromyalgia, lupus, cardiomyopathy, heart disease, muscular dystrophy, SIDS and cystic
fibrosis.

Wallach based his knowledge not only on academic research but also on experimentation in
animals and humans. Time and again through the conduct of thousands of autopsies and
through the treatment of those whose disease conditions vexed his colleagues, Wallach
discovered evidence of mineral deficiencies and effective nutritional treatments. When he
provided minerals to his patients, he found their recoveries hastened and were more complete
(not simply a masking of symptoms but a cure of the underlying diseases).

This led him to publish in the peer reviewed literature and to perform more research. He
discovered the mechanisms of action of the minerals in many cases, and he developed sound
hypotheses for mechanisms of action in others. Wallach has over 70 peer-reviewed scientific
publications in which he is author, a large number for a professional not in academia. Wallach’s

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views are well supported in science and in logic yet conflict in many respect with the orthodox
medical view.

Science ordinarily evolves slowly. Because scientists must test hypotheses repeatedly and
undergo critical review before a consensus emerges, science is too slow for the needs of those
suffering illnesses now. For them, physicians possessed of medical knowledge, skill, and a
willingness to try new approaches become critical.

Discovery and innovation threaten orthodoxies upon which science in academia depends. One
would think that the academic environment would encourage novel theories and debate
concerning them, but, as Dr. Wallach knows well, that is most often not the case. That is
because science tends to move along incrementally without earth shaking discoveries. There
is, in that slow movement, security for those who cling to orthodoxy and have built academic
reputations upon it. Where revolutions in scientific thinking embraced in academia, few
academic icons would exist unchallenged. Because it is natural for people, including scientists,
to flee from states of uncertainty, one common method used in academic circles is to challenge
extensively every new theory or proposition and to deem it unproven until virtually every
member of the scientific community of repute has acknowledged it, or has died and given way to
a new generation more willing to acknowledge it.

Because Wallach is the quintessential example of a medical innovator whose inquisitive mind
yields discovery after discovery, he is like fissile material in an academic environment.
Academics who depend on slow progress find Wallach’s rapid progress unsettling and
unwelcome. It is therefore that orthodox nutrition science has taken decades to adopt several of
the theories Wallach has been publicly articulating since the 1970’s.

When a patient suffers an illness that medical science does not recognize or cannot treat,
physicians necessarily depend on a forensic approach of credible hypotheses and innovative
treatments. Wallach’s career with animals and people caused him to confront thousands of
such cases and to devise innovative means for care that were beyond those known in medical
science. He did so methodically and logically, carefully diagnosing ailments by reference to all
available environmental information concerning the patient. In this way, Wallach is among the
world’s best diagnosticians.

Repeatedly Wallach has found that nutritional interventions, and, in particular, provision of
minerals to apparently mineral deficient patients, yielded positive results. As he dug deeper, he
discovered why that was the case, and yet general scientific publication concerning these
effects lags years, even decades, behind Dr. Wallach.

In recent years, science has slowly been catching up. Increasingly nutrition scientists in the
universities are coming to understand that minerals like boron and strontium in addition to
calcium play critical roles in maintaining bone health. They are coming to appreciate the
multi-faceted anti-carcinogenic properties of selenium. They are coming to understand that
trace minerals are used in metabolic processes and their absence can cause malfunctions in

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those processes. But still, conventional medicine and science have a long way to go before
they catch up with Dr. Wallach.

The Cystic Fibrosis Discovery Suppressed by Yerkes Primate Center

Although educated in conventional veterinary medicine, Joel Wallach has never been one to
confine his thinking to convention. A plain spoken Missourian with tremendous scientific
acumen and a highly inquisitive mind, Wallach did not limit his focus to veterinary findings when
assessing vexing ailments of animals. Since veterinary school Wallach has been a comparative
pathologist, assessing human and animal data in determining the cause of death of animals
presented to him for autopsy.

Like other great Missourians, Wallach prefers to call it like it is, and not as others might prefer it
to be. His genius in comparative pathology combined with his frankness and realism got him
into big trouble at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, Department of Pathology, in
Atlanta, Georgia on the campus of Emory University.

After Wallach left the Brookfield Zoo, the Memphis Zoo, and the Jacksonville Zoo, he went to
work as a pathologist with Yerkes in 1977. Dr. Harold McClure was Wallach’s supervisor in the
pathology department. From his dealings with McClure, Wallach understood that if he, Wallach,
made a discovery at Yerkes, he would be the lead author on the scientific publications about
that discovery and McClure would be the co-author. If, on the other hand, McClure made the
discovery, Wallach would be the co-author.

In November of 1977, McClure went on vacation. During the two weeks while McClure was
away, Wallach was called upon to examine the cadaver of a diminutive and anemic six month
old male rhesus monkey. The monkey had white hair instead of the normal grayish green and
was one of approximately twenty-six in the NASA experiment at Yerkes. Wallach performed an
autopsy and considered all of the forensic details.

Ordinarily veterinary pathologists review the veterinary pathology literature in search of disease
causes. Wallach pursued an unconventional and far more sophisticated approach based on his
training in comparative pathology. Since veterinary school, Wallach had made it a practice to
review the human pathology literature for clues into the causes of animal diseases. It was that
approach, in this instance, that brought about a profound discovery not only of benefit to animal
populations but also to human. It is a discovery that should have netted Wallach international
acclaim and perhaps would have but for a set of unfortunate circumstances that led to an official
rejection of the discovery.

It was in the human pathology that Wallach found an apparent match to the peculiar anatomical
symptoms found in the rhesus monkey cadaver. From that human pathology, Wallach believed

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the monkey’s condition strongly indicative of cystic fibrosis. Among other symptoms
characteristic of cystic fibrosis, Wallach found the monkey’s pancreas scarred and cyst filled, its
liver and lungs scarred, its growth stunted, and its weight below normal.

If indeed the monkey had cystic fibrosis, Wallach’s discovery would be earth shaking in a
number of ways. The conventional medical wisdom was that cystic fibrosis was a genetic
disorder of humans. If tied to human genes, how could it possibly occur in non-humans?

Wallach performed a forensic investigation that evaluated the monkey’s diet and environment
with a secondary assessment of blood and tissue biopsies of pancreas, liver, and lungs from all
twenty-five other monkeys in the NASA experiment at Yerkes. In combing over that data,
Wallach discovered that the feed given the monkeys had been modified in one critical respect.
The feed had been doused in corn oil, a known pro-oxidant.

Dr. Nelly Bourne had discovered that the adult female monkeys (the mothers of the baby
monkeys) suffered hair loss. She concluded that the hair loss was due to an omega-3 fatty acid
deficiency when in fact it was more likely the result of the pairing of adult males and females in
small cages where the more aggressive males yanked the hair out of the captive females.
Peculiarly, only the female monkeys experienced the hair loss. Dr. Bourne had the monkey feed
placed in vats of corn oil to compensate for what she perceived to be an essential fatty acid
deficiency. That action appears to have increased oxidative stress in the monkeys, causing
them to require more selenium than was ordinarily present in the feed to compensate.

The rhesus monkey Dr. Wallach examined and the blood he tested from all of the 25 other
monkeys at Yerkes (which were of different genetic lines) revealed selenium deficiency, with all
of the twenty-five exhibiting cystic fibrosis lesions (biopsy) and symptomology. That data
revealed that selenium deficiency was the common thread and that even monkeys in different
family groups were suffering the same symptoms, thus negating the notion that the disease was
genetic in monkeys.

By calling into question the gene theory of cystic fibrosis disease with proof that heritable
alterations in gene expression were in fact caused by a selenium deficiency in mothers, Wallach
had landed upon a monumental discovery, which would belatedly garner him ultimate
recognition in 2011 when he received the Klaus Schwarz Commemorative Award by the
International Association of Bioinorganic Scientists.

To seek peer review of his findings, Wallach again did the unorthodox. Rather than limit review
to veterinarians, he asked medical doctors to examine slides of the pancreas of the rhesus
monkey and asked each to give a diagnosis. One of those he asked was an expert in the study
of cystic fibrosis. Wallach kept from him word that the patient was a monkey, leading him to
believe the evidence pertained to a human infant. The doctor, Victor Nasar, a pediatric
pathologist at Atlanta Grady Memorial Hospital and Emory University School of Medicine,
confirmed to Wallach that indeed the cystic fibrosis diagnosis was correct. Nasar was
convinced of it.

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Wallach then revealed to Nasar that the patient was a rhesus monkey, the first non-human
species ever diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. Amazed, Nasar visited Wallach at Yerkes and
reviewed the data for himself. He again confirmed to Wallach that the monkey died from cystic
fibrosis. He soon shared the findings with his colleagues, who began spreading word of the
finding far and wide in the medical community. Among those who also confirmed the cystic
fibrosis diagnosis were Dr. E. H. Oppenheimer, considered one of the leading experts in the
world on cystic fibrosis, at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Dr. John Easterly, an
authority on cystic fibrosis resident in pathology at Chicago Lying-in Hospital, and none other
than Dr. Robert Beale, another cystic fibrosis expert, who subsequently became the Director of
the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Cystic fibrosis is an often fatal disease that causes severe hardship during life and shortens
existence by decades. The disease afflicts tens of thousands annually. It primarily affects the
pancreas, liver, and intestines. It produces a number of debilitating and, ultimately, life
threatening symptoms, including lung infections, impaired breathing, sinus infections, stunted
growth, low body weight, and infertility in males. The conventional medical wisdom remains to
this day that cystic fibrosis is an incurable genetic disorder. Indeed, it is diagnosed in the womb
based on ‘genetic factors.” Conventional treatments are limited, involving chronic prescription of
antibiotics, digestive enzymes, and certain other medications. Lung transplants are often
prescribed. Most cystic fibrosis patients die before the age of 40.

At the outset, Wallach’s extraordinary discovery of the first ever case of cystic fibrosis in a
non-human species generated excitement and a positive buzz within the Yerkes Center and in
the Emory University medical community, but that did not last. A new veterinary pathologist at
the Center, and a plain spoken native of Missouri not willing to deny the truth, Wallach had little
interest in bureaucratic politics. The notion of being less than fully candid on a matter of critical
importance to the tens of thousands who suffered from cystic fibrosis was for him offensive, as it
would be for most people not caught up in the academic politics of a competition for status,
self-preservation, and blame avoidance.

One aspect of his discovery was of immediate concern to Dr. McClure: the revelation that the
feed given the rhesus monkeys in the NASA funded experiment had been altered in a way that
caused a selenium deficiency. The person responsible for changing preparation of the feed was
none other than Dr. Nelly Golarz de Bourne, the wife of the Center’s director, Dr. Geoffrey H.
Bourne.

Dr. Nelly Bourne was the histologist and psychologist in charge of the NASA rhesus project at
Yerkes. It was her decision to alter the monkey feed, and she would be to blame for a finding
that the alteration resulted in a deficiency that compromised the health of all twenty-six NASA
monkeys and the underlying NASA experiments. Dr. Nelly Bourne did not realize the
significance of her decision to change the monkeys’ feed. In particular, she took no note of the
fact that alterations in the preparation of the feed caused it to diminish selenium stores in the
monkeys’ bodies and that selenium deficiency could produce adverse effects in the primates (in

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this case, inducing cystic fibrosis). With federal funding possibly implicated on a key project at
the Center, endorsement of Wallach’s discovery would inevitably lead to serious questions
about management of the NASA experiment, focusing unwanted and embarrassing attention on
the wife of the Center Director.

Wallach thought that McClure and Dr. Geoffrey Bourne might find this issue problematic but he
hoped the two men were intelligent and mature enough to deal with it. He fully expected that
the finding would provoke highly critical remark from the many entrenched medical interests that
had staked reputations and careers on the notion that cystic fibrosis was a human genetic
disorder. Those within the Emory community, the NIH, and academia, those who had spent
decades researching cystic fibrosis and publishing the conclusion that it was a genetic disorder,
would perceive themselves under assault rather than assisted by Wallach’s earth shaking
findings.

A novice at Yerkes, Wallach had produced an intellectual revolution but did not have an
academic or political base of support to defend his findings. New to the Center, he had made a
discovery so impactful that it caused the life’s work of veterans there to appear trifling by
comparison. As is so often the case, here again self-interest would prevail over science,
denying the public the benefit of Wallach’s discovery.

Dr. McClure returned from vacation and to the word that Wallach, the new veterinary
pathologist, had made a discovery of such magnitude that it surpassed what he and other senior
academic leaders had accomplished in their entire careers. A veterinarian new to Yerkes had
upstaged his superiors of long standing with what reasonably could be described as one of the
most important discoveries in modern animal and human medicine—the first case of cystic
fibrosis diagnosed in a non-human species and the finding that selenium deficiency was a
cause and provocateur of cystic fibrosis. Rather than be grateful for Wallach’s achievement,
McClure reversed himself and reacted defensively to protect his own position, his relationship
with the Center Director and, in particular, the Center Director’s wife.

Before they appreciated the implication of the discovery on Center Director Bourne’s wife, Drs.
Geoffrey Bourne and McClure spoke favorably of the discovery, contributing to an Emory
University press release touting the significance of it. That supportive view would soon change
as the basis for the selenium deficiency came to light.

Issued March 5, 1978, the Emory University Press Release quoted from McClure and others
words of praise for the Wallach discovery, but soon they would reject the very findings they
celebrated as an extraordinary discovery.

News copy from

EMORY UNIVERSITY

Release Date: Sunday AM’s – March 5, 1978

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Subject: First case of Cystic Fibrosis Discovered in Nonhuman

Scientists at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center of Emory University have
discovered cystic fibrosis in a young rhesus monkey at autopsy–the first nonhuman case of this
disease known to medical science.

“This appears to be the first animal model of cystic fibrosis, and we’re excited about its
implications,” said Drs. Joel Wallach and Harold McClure, veterinary pathologists at the Yerkes
Center.

Since cystic fibrosis is thought to be a genetic disease, there is a possibility that the parents or
relatives of the affected monkey can have additional offspring with cystic fibrosis.

An animal model of cystic fibrosis will permit investigators to learn a great deal about the basic
causes of the disease and how it might be treated, the Yerkes scientists explained. At present,
the basic defect of the disease is not known.

Cystic Fibrosis is a disease of children, adolescents, and young adults, which is characterized
by abnormal mucus secretions and fibrous scarring in various organs such as the pancreas,
liver, lungs, and reproductive and digestive systems. Many of its victims die in early life of
complications such as malabsorption and pneumonia.

More than 25,000 white people in the United States have the disease, but a much larger
number–five percent of the white population–are thought to be carriers of the recessive gene of
cystic fibrosis. It is rarely seen in the black population or in people of Asiatic origin.

The discovery came as Dr. Wallach, assistant veterinary pathologist at the Yerkes Center, was
performing a routine autopsy on a six-month old male rhesus monkey that had died of unknown
causes. He noticed pancreatic disease and bronchial mucus production; evaluation of the tissue
later under the microscope revealed “a classic textbook case” of cystic fibrosis as pictured in
human medical literature, the Yerkes scientist said.

Studies of tissue from other organs confirmed that the monkey was indeed a victim of cystic
fibrosis, Dr. Wallach said. Dr. Wallach’s diagnosis was confirmed by Dr. Victor Nassar, an Emory
pediatric pathologist at Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital and by Dr. John Easterly, pathologist
at the Chicago Lying-In Hospital, who is a national authority on cystic fibrosis.

A report on the discovery was made yesterday (Saturday, March 4, 1978) at a Primate
Pathology Workshop held in Atlanta. Drs. Wallach and McClure gave the presentation at
Emory’s Glenn Memorial Building near Grady Hospital.

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They said the affected animal was bred in a colony of rhesus monkeys supported by the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration for studies pertaining to the U.S. space
program.

“We have here a classic example of serendipity,” said Drs. Wallach and McClure. “These
animals were being studied for the space program but are now also providing us clues in a
different area altogether.”

Dr. Nelly Golarz de Bourne, histologist at the Yerkes Center, is conducting NASA studies on the
monkey colony in collaboration with Dr. Geoffrey H. Bourne, Yerkes Center director. Their
records go back at least 10 years, and include information pertaining to breeding and diseases
of the animals. “We can now go back and look at slides of animals that died to see whether any
of them might have had any of the more subtle changes of cystic fibrosis,” Dr. McClure
explained.

“This discovery has made us aware that these animals can have the disease, so we can make
an all-out search for new cases, both in the past and future. If we can breed a supply of animals
with cystic fibrosis, using the parents, siblings, or other relatives of the one that had the disease,
this will be a great boon to researchers.”

Up to now, research efforts toward understanding and curing cystic fibrosis have been severely
hampered by lack of an animal model.

“We are very fortunate that the rhesus monkey is the animal model that was found by Dr.
Wallach, because more is known about this animal than about any other nonhuman primate,”
Dr. McClure said. “They are also available for research in fairly large quantities.”

Dr. James A. Peters, medical director of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, which has its
headquarters in Atlanta, commented: “We eagerly await the results of Dr. Wallach’s studies
because of the importance of an animal model to both basic and clinical research on cystic
fibrosis.”

He noted that Dr. Wallach will participate in a May 25-26 workshop in Bethesda, MD., on the
animal model for the study of cystic fibrosis, which will be jointly sponsored by the U.S. National
Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Disease and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

The Emory University press release triggered stories in publications across the country extolling
Wallach’s discovery. The Telegraph published the findings on March 7, 1978, writing: “A routine
autopsy of a young rhesus monkey revealed the first known case of cystic fibrosis in a
non-human and provided ‘a great boon’ to researchers seeking a cure to the disease, scientists
say.” Likewise, on that same date, The Albany Herald published on that same day, quoting from
the release: “This appears to be the first animal model of cystic fibrosis, and we’re excited about
its implications,” said Drs. Joel Wallach and Harold McClure, veterinary pathologists at the

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Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center at Atlanta’s Emory University, where the discovery
was made.”

The Telegraph-Herald published on August 24, and The Pittsburgh Press published on August
25, 1978 the following identical content:

A maverick scientist who found a mysterious sickness in five monkeys was cystic fibrosis has
upset the theory the disease is an inherited disorder – and raised the possibility that
environmental factors are the cause.

Dr. Joel D. Wallach of St. Louis said yesterday that he traced the first finding of the ailment in a
primate colony to dietary factors—“supplemental feeding with large amounts of polyunsaturated
oil which interfered with normal cell metabolism of the trace elements selenium and zinc, plus
vitamin B-2.

It happened late last year at the Yerkes Primate Center in Atlanta, Ga.; and in a colony of
research monkeys involved in unrelated investigations for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.

Shortly after it became clear that the cystic fibrosis discovery would implicate Dr. Nelly Bourne in
the rhesus monkey feeding faux pas, McClure distanced himself from Wallach. Wallach had
generated a revolution in thinking about cystic fibrosis that brought national attention. To protect
the reputation of Dr. Bourne’s wife, to protect NASA funding for the Center, and to keep in
fellowship with the scientific community that had long endorsed genetics as the cause of cystic
fibrosis, McClure, Bourne and others at Emory reversed course and conspired to oust Wallach
and suppress his discovery.

With McClure in line, the head of the Center, Dr. Geoffery Bourne, called Wallach into his office
and fired him on the spot in April of 1978. Wallach asked for an opportunity to defend his
findings before his peers, a courtesy ordinarily given among graduate level professionals in the
sciences. Bourne refused. Wallach was given no opportunity to prove his findings; Bourne put
it this way to Wallach: “Everyone knows cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease.” In other words,
how dare you challenge the orthodox medical wisdom. Wallach was sent packing.

Wallach deeply resented the fact that his superiors would sacrifice the chance to capitalize on
one of the greatest discoveries in medicine in the 20th century, one that could lead to the
treatment and cure of an awful disease afflicting man and animals. They had done so for
parochial interests, protecting their own skins, but they were the “official” voice. Against their
formidable reputations, Wallach stood little real chance of convincing the world of the contrary
proposition, at least not at that time.

After Wallach left Yerkes, Director Bourne and Dr. McClure moved to complete suppression of
Wallach’s discovery. They effectively rescinded the press release by discrediting Wallach’s
evidence, identifying Wallach as a fraud. That action caused Wallach to be black listed in the

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veterinary academic community. Although next hired that same year to be the Director of the
Laboratory Animal Research Colony at St. Louis University, as soon as word arrived at the
medical school of the Yerkes’ firing, Wallach was terminated (even before his first day of work).
St. Louis University had received word from officials at NIH dissuading them from making the
hire after those same officials had been given a copy of St. Louis University’s employment
announcement. Because of the University’s need to guard its federal funding, the hiring of
Wallach against NIH wishes could place grants in jeopardy.

With four children to care for and nowhere else to turn, Wallach was grateful when his father
offered him a job loading trucks with scrap metal. It was physically demanding work, but
Wallach could do it and welcomed the chance to earn money to feed his family. Moreover, his
father was quite willing to allow Wallach to set his own time schedule provided the work was
done. That enabled Wallach to continue appearing on the lecture circuit and at media
interviews. Wallach thought that by doing so he would not only persuade the academic world of
the gravity and worth of his discoveries but also secure professional employment, but that was
not to be. The institutional blacklisting of Wallach proved too pervasive and powerful.

The Director of the Yerkes Center moved quickly to reverse media attention on the Wallach
discovery and isolate him. Rather than give credence to Dr. Wallach’s discovery and refer to it
as a scientific find worth further research and debate (something they could have done even
were they skeptical of his discovery), the Yerkes team rallied scientists to condemn the finding,
even rewriting history by denying key facts first communicated in Emory University’s own press
release.

In the Times Daily of December 1, 1978, there appeared the following:

The director of the Yerkes Primate Research Center Tuesday denied the claim of a St. Louis
veterinary pathologist that the center had discovered a cure for cystic fibrosis.

Dr. Frederick A. King said the prestigious center had never even looked for a cure for the
disease, one of childhood’s deadliest.

“Unfortunately, there is no known cure for cystic fibrosis,” said King. The national headquarters
of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in Atlanta also issued a denial the disease could be prevented
or cured.

Dr. Joel D. Wallach held a news conference at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago last
weekend to announce that medical science had found the answer to cystic fibrosis.

Wallach said the disease, long thought to be a genetic disorder, is caused by a nutritional
deficiency during pregnancy and can be cured. He said it also could be prevented by proper
diet and that autopsies and tests of thousands of monkeys at the Yerkes Primate Research
Center in Atlanta supported his theory.

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King said Wallach was assistant pathologist at Yerkes in 1977-78 and that during that time the
death of one monkey revealed lesions of the pancreas resembling those of cystic fibrosis. He
said that whether this single case represents or is even similar to cystic fibrosis in humans
“remains to be proven.”

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At his news conference, Wallach said the disease was caused by a lack of selenium, a trace
element during the first three months of pregnancy. It can be prevented, he said, and also
cured—by surgery in some cases and selenium in others.

The official condemnation of Wallach’s discovery burdened him for years. It led many to shun
association with him for fear of its effect on receipt of federal funding and peer disapprobation.
Ironically, at the same time efforts to make Wallach a pariah in the academic world were
preventing him from securing professional employment, he was offered invitation after invitation
from government and academic centers all over the world to give lectures on his discoveries.
While those audiences gave Wallach standing ovations, he left to return home to haul scrap
metal for his dad. Although he could not find a job in his profession, he was offered lecture
opportunity after lecture opportunity because peers were intrigued by his findings.

Wallach’s discovery fascinated academics but offended the status quo and, without Yerkes to
back him (and instead with Yerkes condemning him), he lacked the institutional support to
obtain steady academic employment. He had become persona non grata in the veterinary
academic world and among the nation’s research centers and zoos. Wallach had planned a
career in veterinary pathology. Now, wherever he turned for work, whether at zoos or in
academia, the Yerkes’ condemnation stood in the way. In the world of veterinary science,
Wallach had become a man without a country. He would have to reinvent himself. There was
no alternative. But Wallach would not abandon his central mission; he could not do that and
remain true to himself. Instead, he would abandon his chosen profession and enter another.

Wallach was determined not only to prove those who fired him to be in error concerning the
origins and treatments of cystic fibrosis but also to overcome the personal hardships caused
him (and, not simply overcome those hardships, but do so in a way that would eventually cause
him to come out on top).

Wallach had been vexed since boyhood that people did not regulate their diets in the same way
they did animals to ensure optimum intake of nutrients. It had been his passion, in veterinary
science, to identify nutritional deficiencies as the underlying cause of animal disease and to do
this by comparative reference to human pathology. All along Wallach had been led back to a
core conclusion, that disease was most often either a manifestation of nutritional deficiency or
curable through nutritional intervention.

Although the pull of a career in academia, in veterinary pathology, had been strong because of
his fascination with the discovery of root causes of animal disease, his true calling and purpose

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had all along been something else. The natural progression for Wallach was from animal
science and pathology to human science and pathology. He was destined to have a greater
impact on the world than solving the mysteries of animal disease. He was destined to solve
mysteries underlying human pathology. To be sure, his controversial find that cystic fibrosis,
even in humans, was not a genetic disease but was fundamentally a selenium deficiency was
both a career turning point and, itself, indicative of a basic fulfillment of his overall true mission.

The Yerkes’ firing is the critical turning point in Wallach’s professional life. It came at a most
inauspicious time, roughly coincidental with the death of his wife Josephine E. Wallach from
Hodgkin’s Disease and the murder of his uncle. Wallach had become a widower with four
children aged one to eight and no means to support them. Jobless but for the scrap metal work,
stripped of his reputation, blacklisted and in a state of great bereavement over the loss of his
spouse, Wallach would have to find another way. He would have to give up the career he
planned since childhood, veterinary medicine and the comparative pathology he loved, and find
a new career outside of veterinary medical scholarship. The decision was difficult, even painful
and sickening to him.

He would never forget the harm caused to him by Yerkes, but unlike others he would not recede
into the background. Instead, true to form, he would come out fighting, vowing to confirm at
every opportunity his discovery that cystic fibrosis was not a genetic disease but was a condition
that arose from selenium deficiency.

Wallach’s hallmark characteristic is an unrelenting drive to achieve his mission. He will not
allow a setback to become permanent and instead depends on steely resolve to overcome what
others might consider an insurmountable obstacle. Nothing deters him from his mission. For
Wallach, nothing is impossible, what others call impossible he understands to just require more
time to solve.

As that realization set in and as he came to grips with the reality that his first love of a life in
academia, studying veterinary pathology, had come to an end, he decided to lead a revolution in
nutrition science that would prove through medical practice the validity of his theories about
nutritional intervention as a means to prevent and treat disease, not just in animals but in
humans.

We can see that change as he went on the road to lecture about his cystic fibrosis discovery.
Freed from Yerkes, albeit involuntarily, Wallach was now free to tell the world what he really
thought: not just that his discovery proved cystic fibrosis not a genetic disease but that it also
proved the true cause of the disease in humans to be at root a selenium deficiency.

The flap with Yerkes became an issue of national import when Wallach’s cystic fibrosis
discoveries (and the controversies associated with them) first appeared in major national
newspapers and televised news reports and then became the subject of an ABC News 20/20
story and interview. Although the story revealed elements of truth, it failed to do Wallach justice
and it propounded the myth that selenium, known then to be an essential mineral, was

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inherently toxic. Public awareness of the truth and the full story would have to wait until later.
The Wallach discovery of a selenium-cystic fibrosis link continued to elude the public and the
medical community, as it does to this day.

Wallach’s research at Yerkes and, indeed, his entire history to that point involved his repeated
reliance on comparisons between animal and human models. In trying to find a way around the
blacklisting in vet and zoological circles, Wallach increasingly eyed the prospect of becoming a
human physician. As a physician, Wallach could test his comparative theories, establishing
nutritional treatments he had found effective in animals to be equally effective in people.

Conventional medicine was based on a pharmaceutical model. Ordinarily patients’ underlying

disease states were not treated or cured, rather drug agents masked the symptoms until the
body healed itself. Wallach knew the healing process to depend on nutrients, and he harbored
disdain for the majority of physicians who rejected nutrition in favor of a “drugs only” model of
care. Moreover, years of medical school at his stage in life would have taken too lengthy and
economically taxing. He had to support his family, alone. In addition, having been dealt a blow
by the Yerkes’ bureaucracy for his discoveries and having lost his wife and other dear relatives
to what passed as conventional medicine, Wallach was loath to become a part of the very
institution he detested, to contribute in any way to the myopic and controlling medical
bureaucracy that he believed sacrificed, rather than saved, lives.

Knocked Down, Wallach Stands Up

No doubt the management at Yerkes had no idea who they were dealing with when they sacked
the newly hired veterinary pathologist Joel D. Wallach. They did not understand his history and
what made him tick. They likely did not know that he was a consummate fighter with
unrelenting drive who acquired what he had not by a privileged birth or a hand out but by hard
work. They did not know that he would never relent, would never accept defeat, and would
overcome any barrier put in his way.

The process of getting a graduate degree in the sciences is often one that is humbling, forcing
the student to conform to the mental framework and dictates of his or her academic master.
That old school view holds sway and is rarely upset. Innovation is regulated so that it conforms
to what the tenured regard as appropriate. Although Wallach had proven himself academically
brilliant, he had not been reduced to hold a slovenly regard for the views of his academic elders.

In academia, as well as in the real world, discovery is ordinarily brought about by iconoclasts,
those who view much of the same facts and information through different eyes, eyes that
perceive new paradigms, new ways of connecting the information that provide explanations that
previously eluded leaders in science. Joel D. Wallach is precisely that kind of iconoclastic
thinker. He perceived nutritional deficiency origins to disease that others never perceived. He
was able to identify disease states across species lines that eluded all others until his arrival.
He was able to engage in comparative pathology in ways never undertaken before precisely
because he had discovered a new paradigm linking nutrition with disease and disease across
specie lines.

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Arrogant, those who ran Yerkes simply did not expect that Joel D. Wallach would ever find a
way out of obscurity after they banished him. They thought he would become just another
invisible casualty of a wooden system that would not accept innovative ideas which upset the
personal interests of academic superiors and the conventional medical wisdom.

So it was that when they effectively shut the door to Joel Wallach’s academic career in
veterinary pathology, they unwittingly opened a new one for him of far greater potential. They
did so not because it fell into Wallach’s lap somehow, but because Wallach was that innovative
genius who could not sit still, whose mission was greater than a job, academic approbation, or
conventional wisdom.

Since childhood, Wallach had drawn parallels between animal and human health and disease.
Throughout his veterinary training, as he performed more autopsies than any living pathologist
(totaling 17,500 on 454 animal species and 4,700 on humans), he drew comparisons to human
cadavers and to the human medical literature. He would now make the leap beyond veterinary
medicine to human medicine but would do it, characteristically, in an unconventional way.

From his earliest days, Wallach had been drawn to the notion that humans were remiss
because they did not view food as an aggregation of nutrients which had pharmacologic effects
on their bodies. That view dominated the commercial perception of animal feed, however, as
Wallach learned from studying feed labels as a child and from his experience at Ralston Purina.

That view also predominated in the thinking of one of Wallach’s early great influences,
University of Missouri Professor William A. Albrecht. The logic of the position overwhelms the
superficial view that vitamins and minerals simply create expensive urine. Protest as they
might, opponents of the view that you are what you eat are repeatedly confronted with the
reality that humans, like all other life forms, depend on a wide range of vitamins, minerals,
amino acids, and fatty acids to achieve their optimal biological potential. Deprive them of an
essential nutrient and they falter, but supply them with above recommended daily intake levels
of certain key nutrients and they thrive, not only living longer but living a better quality of life free
of disease than could otherwise be achieved.

The academic, medical, and regulatory establishments had endeavored for decades to draw a
clear line of demarcation between drugs and foods, emphasizing that drugs were to treat
disease while foods were consumed for their taste, aroma, or general nutritive value but not as
therapies. Since boyhood Wallach knew better.

In his experience on the farm, at the zoos, in the wilds of Africa, and in examining thousands of
cadavers to determine the causes of animal deaths, Wallach had come to a different
understanding of nature. Everything ingested, whether food or drug, had effects on the
functioning of cells, tissues, organ systems, life itself. The conventional demarcation was one
Wallach knew to be a lie, an artificial construct that misleads. At a young age, he understood
the genius of animal feed preparation lay in choosing the right kind and quantity of nutrients to

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maximize the animal’s favorable characteristics, freedom from disease, and longevity. How, he
thought, can we be so intelligent as to unlock this secret for animals yet be blind about it when it
comes to humans? It had been since his teen years a source of vexation for Wallach that
farmers would meticulously ensure that their animals received the right nutrients but when it
came to their own sustenance, they consumed foods that met their caloric needs but did not
give them ideal amounts of minerals, vitamins, amino acids, and fatty acids on a daily basis.

Wallach looked at humanity and realized, long before nutrition science became a popular
discipline, that he was surrounded by people who were starving themselves, despite their
abundance of food. He understood that they were starving because they were not ingesting all
of the minerals, vitamins, amino acids, and fatty acids they needed on a daily basis to optimize
their health, ensure the greatest longevity free of disease, and the highest quality of life. They
were also starving themselves because the advent of electricity had eliminated the traditional
source of mineral nutrients, wood ash and flood silt, and fertilizer contained only a small fraction
of those nutrients. He knew that a tomato grown in 1960 was far less nutrient dense and rich
than a tomato grown in 1920, yet no one seemed to care as long as the tomato retained a red
appearance and a full and unblemished exterior.

From farm feed to Ralston Purina’s nutritional program for animals to the extensive evidence of
nutritional deficiencies in his animal and human autopsies, the consistent pattern and direction
of Wallach’s thinking from the late 1950’s forward led him to believe that he could add years to
human life free of disease by bringing about a revolution in human thinking concerning the
importance of nutrition (not simply as something consumed for taste but as something
intentionally consumed to nourish, enhance the effectiveness and strength, and protect the
integrity of every cell in the human body).

The national media uproar over Wallach’s dismissal from Yerkes attracted Dr. John Troxel, a
fellow graduate from the University of Missouri, School of Veterinary Medicine. Troxel offered to
pay for media campaigns for Wallach to counter those of Yerkes and Emory University.
Wallach, told Dr. Troxel that he would never be able to pay back the $20,000 that the campaign
would cost and Dr. Troxel came back with, “Doc, I believe you one hundred percent and the CF
Families need to hear the information!” The results of the media campaign yielded just what Dr.
Wallach needed – access to the medical community.

He would come to find out in the 1980’s that there was an entire community of scholars,
researchers, and for profit enterprises dedicated to bringing about the very nutrition revolution
that he had envisioned in the 1950’s and 1960’s. In 1978 he discovered that community at a
convention of the National Health Federation. Clinton Miller, a health advocate and lobbyist
contacted Wallach and asked to tell the cystic fibrosis story to thousands of people. Inspired by
a group of naturopathic physicians he met there to teach nutrition at the National College of
Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon, he went on to acquire a degree in naturopathic
medicine in just two years from that same institution. He did so by doubling up on his courses
and getting transfer credits for all of his graduate studies from the University of Missouri, Iowa
State University and Washington University. He worked in the college’s clinic to satisfy his

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internship requirements, as well, and excelled in patient practice. At last, what he had learned
from animals, he now could apply in humans.

Upon graduation, he then set out to prove in medical practice that humans could maintain
excellent health and conquer disease, living longer and in a better condition, if they
supplemented their diets with complete nutrition in ways that would ensure no overt or
subclinical deficiency in any key nutrients, minerals, vitamins, amino acids, or fatty acids.

Even then he was not thinking small (he never did). He would use his medical practice as a
training ground, a research laboratory, to determine precisely what nutrient admixtures, many of
which he had perfected for use in animals, performed best in humans. He quickly latched onto
the idea that if only he could develop the financial means, he could translate his findings into
product formulations for mass distribution and sale and he could champion delivery of his
findings and formulations to the world. His aim was momentous. Aware that almost every
person alive suffered or would suffer from at least some form of nutritional deficiency and
disease brought about by inadequate nutrition or aggravated by a deficiency, he would foment a
health revolution one person at a time.

Wallach’s revolution would arm each person with knowledge of the best nutritional means to
perfect the functioning of their bodies, instantaneously causing those who received and applied
his message to be transformed from varying states of deficiency into optimal states, leading
them to the best health achievable and, thereby, to live better longer.

As it turned out, Wallach would discover that there were some 90 nutrients essential for
optimum human health. Again, he would engender controversy for his bold and honest
statements derived from science, but, as usual, he would not be deterred from his mission.
And, in the back of his mind, always, he remembered the injustice he experienced at Yerkes, the
sacrifice of a discovery that could have saved tens of thousands of people from great physical
hardship and death each year. His revenge would come about through his triumph in achieving
the health revolution that was his essential mission.

Freed of institutional constraints, which had always limited his remarkable potential, Wallach
now would chart his own course without limits. He would build on his own an economic and
health empire. Others would look at the cost of doing so and the amount of effort required as
impossible for one man, but Wallach never understood anything worth doing to be impossible, it
just required more time to achieve, more effort to be expended, more honing of his focus to
attain.

The Conventional Medical Paradigm

Man has always struggled with how best to treat disease. Medical practice has been a
combination of healing arts and healing sciences with the balance between the two shifting
depending on popular demand and political will. Never in the history of medicine has science
been able to keep up with the evolution of diseases confronting man and, so, healing has
depended on application beyond the known, beyond the proven. As a consequence, medical

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science offers effective treatments for but a small subset of the universe of diseases that afflict
man and depends heavily on the healing arts. Rather than bring about a cure, drugs more often
than not mask symptoms, depending on the body to bring about a cure.

Since the first moment man had a rational thought, he has been operating based on predictions
born from observation. Having seen the sun rise each morning, man came to believe it would
each morning thereafter. Primitive man, aware that superficial wounds would heal themselves,
no doubt marveled, as do children today, that the body was possessed of extraordinary healing
properties. Primitive man also gained knowledge from observing the effect of various natural
substances on his ability to overcome the ravages of nature and endure disease.

The nomadic tribesmen of Northeast Asia road on short stocky Mongol horses for miles during
their marauding campaigns against the walled cities of ancient China. They were capable of
sustaining themselves on a diet derived from drinking the blood of the horses they road. They
would make small incisions into a minor vein in the necks of the horses and draw the blood into
a cup, instantaneously giving them a whole food source. Although traversing for months atop
arid mountain steppes of Mongolia, they were able to sustain themselves in no small measure
on the blood of their horses. This they learned from difficult experience.

From observation and experience, man came to acquire anecdotal knowledge of the healing
properties of plants and animal food sources. This paradigm of natural healing and of so-called
old wives tails, passed down from family to family and civilization to civilization combined with
spiritual healing to form the basis of medical practice until the modern era.

Since classical times, at least since the time of Aristotle in the 4th Century B.C., man has
applied a somewhat formal reasoning to vexing problems of science, including those of disease.
Increasingly, in the post-Newtonian world, spiritual methods of healing have been discounted or
abandoned. Instead, modern medicine has associated itself with what is referred to as science
based medicine, where legitimate treatment is distinguished from illegitimate based on scientific
proof of its efficacy. This secularization of medicine constitutes a bias that pervades medical
education, albeit most medical practice still depends on guesswork of one kind or another.

Science based medicine proceeds in accordance with the scientific method, which became a
mainstay of scientific inquiry at least as early as the Renaissance and has consistently gained in
popularity ever since. Under the scientific method, problems are analyzed through observation
to form hypotheses which are educated guesses about the relationships between two or more
things. Hypotheses are then tested to determine if they are accurate descriptions of a cause
and effect relationship.

It is from applying the scientific method that great scientists in modern medical history have
either purposefully or, quite often, accidentally discovered agents that are effective treatments.
Reliable repetition of experiments leads to what is called scientific proof. Scientific proof is
confirmation of a hypothesis and reveals a probability that following the methods studied will
more often than not lead to the results found.

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Early in the nineteenth century, specific substances, like mercury, ether, chloroform, morphine,
opium, quinine sulfate, and alcohol became staples in the treatment armamentarium of
physicians. Since the 17th century, publications have categorized as medicines substances
derived from nature, mainly based on the experiential effects understood to come from use of
them. In 1821 the first pharmacy school appeared in the United States, the Philadelphia
College of Pharmacy. The school taught chemistry to a limited extent and primarily botany,
focusing on plant based derivatives that were believed to have healing properties.

The Civil War vastly expanded demand for and interest in pharmaceutical products. Although
willow bark was used as a pain reliever, the principal constituent in it, salicylic acid, was
discovered and isolated in 1853 by French Chemist Charles Frederic Gerhardt. The German
company Bayer AG created the first trademarked aspirin product (comprised of salicylic acid) of
higher potency in 1899. In 1860 there were some 84 manufacturers of pharmaceutical products
in the United States but by 1870 that number more than tripled to 300. Increasingly, medical
practice focused on the provision of pills or liquid admixtures as treatments. The mass
manufacture of medicines became a lucrative business, but it would require another two great
wars, World War I and World War II, to transform pharmaceutical business into very big
business and to make drugs the understood treatments of choice for almost every disease.

The medicines available in World War I were only slightly more advanced than those used in the
Civil War. In 1900, however, Karl Landsteiner, a Viennese pathologist, invented the ABO
system of blood groups, and proved instrumental in the development of blood transfusions.
Landsteiner founded the field of immunohematology.

The enormous global carnage of World War II created demand for standardized, field ready
disease treatments like never before. That enormous demand led to the creation of large
pharmaceutical manufacturers and the formal establishment of chemistry labs in those
commercial enterprises for the discovery of new drugs capable of mass manufacture.

The most awe-inspiring discoveries that cemented the privileged role of pharmaceutical
companies in society and with the government were the so-called “sulfa drugs” which proved
effective agents in combating a wide range of infectious diseases and then, smash it of them all,
the “wonder drugs,” the antibiotics.

The sulfonamides were the first effective agents to treat bacterial infection that were mass
manufactured and marketed worldwide. The first sulfonamide, Prontosil, was invented at Bayer
AG in 1932. Bayer AG was a subsidiary of the enormous German chemical company IG
Farben. Before Prontosil, no drug existed for public use that could effectively treat a wide range
of bacterial infections. Although capable of producing significant, even life threatening adverse
effects, Prontosil proved to be life saving in the battle against bacterial infection raging in field
hospitals as well as in combating bacterial ailments on the home front.

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The sulfonamides were enormously popular. In December of 1936, the New York Times
reported that Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s son had recovered from a near fatal streptococcal
infection after successful treatment with sulfa drugs. Six years later, Winston Churchill
announced to the English public that he had been cured of pneumonia by sulfa drugs. In their
field kits, soldiers in World War II were given packs containing sulfa drug powder, which they
were encouraged to pour into any open wound to fend off infection. The public variously
referred to the sulfa drugs as “magic bullets” and “miracle” drugs during the period from 1936 to
1946 because their healing properties became widely known and celebrated.

Although advances in hygienic practices undoubtedly led to the saving of tens of thousands of
lives during this period, Seema Jayachandran, Adriana Lleras-Muney, and Kimberly V. Smith, in
their article “Modern Medicine and the 20th Century Decline in Mortality: Evidence on the Impact
of Sulfa Drugs,” conclude that “sulfa drugs were responsible for a 24 to 36 percent decline in
maternal mortality, a 17 to 32 percent decline in pneumonia mortality, and a 52 to 65 percent
decline in scarlet fever mortality between the pre-1937 and post-1937 periods. In addition, we
find larger declines in urban areas, consistent with historical evidence that sulfa drugs diffused
more rapidly in cities than in rural areas.”

The stark reality that pills containing sulfa drugs were responsible for wiping out a number of
illnesses that were previously considered difficult to cure or incurable led to a popular reaction
that galvanized public interest and support for the protection of the institutions responsible for
creating these “miracles.” There were few positions of greater prominence and public acclaim
than to be involved in the new pharmacological sciences. If sulfa could perform so ably, why not
other drugs?

At once the public became intoxicated with the notion that disease itself was capable of being
eliminated from the world if only the right agents were synthesized in the big pharmaceutical
labs. Natural remedies began to look anachronistic against the new science of pharmacology.
Science based medicine became all the rage.

The extraordinary defeat of bacterial infections that had for generations taken the lives of
millions worldwide, such as puerperal fever, pneumonia, scarlet fever, meningitis, gonorrhea,
and erysipelas led to enormous consumer demand. By the end of the third decade of the
Twentieth Century, over 400 manufacturers competed for this enormously lucrative market.
Among those producing the drug were unscrupulous purveyors. They manufactured unsafe
versions that caused approximately 100 people to be poisoned with diethylene glycol
(antifreeze) which had been added to the elixirs said to contain sulfa drugs. Public outrage at
the offense led to the passage of the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938 and the
creation of the Food and Drug Administration.

The new FDA was, from the start, given the mission of ridding the big pharma market of small
competitors. The threat of food and drug contamination was largely viewed as the product of
small unscrupulous players or those who were more interested in a fast buck than a science
based approach to drug creation and sanitation.

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The public lather created in favor of miracle drugs received a second and even more
extraordinary boost with the creation of penicillin antibiotics. In 1897, French physician Ernest
Duchesne was the first to publish an article on the healing properties of penicillin. The Nobel
laureate Alexander Fleming while working in his lab in 1928 identified with particularity the
appropriate substrate for the growth of effective penicillin and coined the name penicillin.

Penicillin was extraordinarily difficult to produce in a stable dose form. Merck & Company
produced the first stabilized, patented version of penicillin in March of 1942. In July 1943,
Merck’s penicillin went into mass production for Allied troops in Europe. The drug proved
essential to containment of bacteria and to the defeat of infection throughout the conflict and on
the allied home front. There were far fewer deaths associated with infectious disease, far fewer
amputations, and more rapid recoveries recorded all as a result of the ubiquitous use of
penicillin based antibiotics.

Science based medicine was heralded as the way of the future. If enough money was invested
in research, if enough brilliant minds were applied to the science of pharmaceutical discovery,
no disease, regardless of its current lethality, would be unconquerable. The popular viewpoint
vastly exceeded scientific reality and continued to de-emphasize the importance of basic
elements in nature to sustain life. If drugs could cure disease, then man could use comparable
chemicals to alter food and enhance its flavor, give it unusual color and new attraction, and
cause it to take on shapes and sizes never before seen. The day of junk food also arrived with
the rise of the biochemical industry.

To maximize profit associated with pharmaceutical invention and novel foods, companies
needed to obtain patents to ensure market exclusivity (monopolies). While the pharmaceutical
industry studied all manner of compounds and their relationships to disease, none moved
beyond the discovery phase unless they could be synthesized into new chemicals, ones alien to
the human body. So synthesized, they could be patented and then marketed under government
monopoly protection.

The excesses of pharmaceutical invention soon came to the fore as increasingly individuals
were experiencing problems with the synthetic drugs entering the market. Safety concerns
arose from medical practice but none were so pronounced as accompanied yet another marvel
of synthetic invention: thalidomide.

In 1957 the German drug company Chemie Grunenthal invented and then marketed a drug it
named Contergan. The active ingredient was thalidomide, which the company said was an
effective treatment for anxiety, insomnia, gastritis, and tension. It was widely used by pregnant
women to cope with nausea and morning sickness. Within months of its release in Germany
cases began to appear of increased infant mortality and of births where children were afflicted
with phocomelia (malformed limbs). Some 10,000 cases were eventually documented
worldwide.

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Although thalidomide had not been approved for marketing in the U.S., the drug industry
nevertheless seized the opportunity to protect its interests and to channel public concern in
favor of a regulatory solution that would benefit industry leaders. Fearing stringent new
regulations that would interfere with the marketing of existing drugs while welcoming an excuse
for new market protection against industry entrants, major pharmaceutical companies lobbied
the United States Congress to come up with amendments to the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act
that would purportedly ensure greater drug safety. In point of fact, the new law and regulations
grandfathered all drugs then on the market and imposed new, costly regulatory hurdles on the
introduction of new drugs. Existing firms with major market shares would thereby enjoy added
protection against competition while retaining and consolidating their market positions based on
existing drug sales.

Senators Estes Kefauver of Tennessee and Congressman Oren Harris authored the
amendment (the Kefauver Harris Amendment) that grandfathered drugs then on the market
while requiring manufacturers to present the FDA with evidence of safety and efficacy to the
agency’s satisfaction. FDA would then approve the drugs for marketing if the evidence supplied
was deemed sufficient. President John F. Kennedy signed the law on October 10, 1962.

From the start the new law failed to serve its purported public interest purpose. To be sure, all
drugs then on the market were exempt from any review, grandfathered so as to allow them to be
sold in perpetuity. Moreover, the agency review process was entirely driven by studies
performed by the drug companies themselves. The drug companies performed the clinical trials
and determined for themselves whether the drug agents they wished to market were sufficiently
safe and effective. In other words, the party with the greatest conflict of interest, the party that
had its own interest in marketing the drug on the line, was given plenary authority to do the tests
that would show whether the drug was safe and efficacious. Unsurprisingly, no new drug
applications were ever filed in which the company submitting them recorded that its own drugs
were unreasonably unsafe or insufficiently efficacious.

The anti-competitive aspects of the law not only arose because it grandfathered existing drugs
and imposed costly new regulatory hurdles to introduction of new drugs, but also because the
law defined the term drug in a way that excluded competition. The Food Drug and Cosmetic Act
defined the term drug based on intended use, not on therapeutic composition. A drug was not
something that was used to cure disease but rather anything intended for such use.
Consequently, an orange would become a drug under this definition if it was intended for use in
mitigating the effects of a cold. Sell it for its nutritive value and taste, and the law would allow it
as a food without requiring FDA pre-approval. Sell it as a way to help lessen the length or
severity of a cold, and the FDA would declare it a drug, bar it from sale, and prosecute those
who sold it for putting in commerce contraband (an unapproved new drug). In this way, the FDA
not only protected big pharmaceutical interests from competition within the drug industry (by
erecting a byzantine set of regulatory barriers that imposed enormous costs on anyone who
dared seek drug approval), not only by granting synthetic drugs monopoly patent protection, but
also granting drug companies with FDA approved drugs a monopoly on therapeutic claims.

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Despite the extreme conflict of interest that exists when a company that is the sponsor of an
application for drug approval is also the party that tests its own drug for safety and efficacy, over
the years FDA medical reviewers have discovered grounds to call into question the safety and
efficacy of drugs. Nevertheless, political appointees who run the agency quite frequently have
demanded that drugs be approved for marketing even when evidence exists to call safety and
efficacy into question.

In 2004, Dr. David J. Graham, the Associate Director of the FDA Office of Drug Safety, had had
enough. Year after year he watched with horror as political bosses within the FDA did the drug
companies’ bidding by overruling agency medical reviewers and approving drugs for market that
those bosses knew were unsafe. Graham went to Senator Charles Grassley, then head of the
Senate Finance Committee, with the evidence proving that the American people were the
victims of FDA abuse, were being given unsafe drugs to further the interests of some of the
largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.

In the September/October 2005 issue of the Assocation of Certified Fraud Examiners’

publication, Fraud Magazine, Dr. Graham explained in an extensive interview
government-industry collusion at the FDA, a collusion that imperiled and sacrificed the lives of
Americans in service of the financial interests of pharmaceutical companies.

Graham stated:

FDA is inherently biased in favor of the pharmaceutical industry. It views industry as its client,
whose interests it must represent and advance. It views its primary mission as approving as
many drugs as it can, regardless of whether the drugs are safe or needed. . . . The pro-industry
bias leads to an environment where FDA tends to see things from industry’s perspective. Many
are the advisory committee meetings where the drug company presentation and the FDA
presentation are virtually super-imposable. It makes you wonder who wrote the presentations. .
. . Safety isn’t on the radar screen regardless of what FDA officialdom would have you believe.
Scientifically, FDA uses statistics in a biased manner that favors industry at the expense of
patient safety. You see, when FDA reviews a new drug, it assumes that the drug is safe, and it
facetiously asks the company to prove that it’s not safe. Of course, there is no incentive for a
company to prove that their drug is not safe because then FDA might not approve it. So, with a
nod and a wink, drug companies jump through very low hoops that FDA sets up for safety, and
the public pays in two ways—with their money and their lives . . . . What has emerged is a
lethal triangle involving FDA, the pharmaceutical industry and Congress. Pharmaceutical
money funds FDA and exerts great influence with Congress. FDA allows deadly drugs onto the
market and Congress pretends that nothing is the matter.

In fact, since 1962, despite FDA approval of thousands of new drugs as “breakthroughs,” there
has been virtually no change in the life expectancy of those suffering from chronic disease.
Without question, the discovery of sulfa drugs and of antibiotics proved a boon to the world,
saving and extending countless lives, but since then the reality of the pharmaceutical model has
fallen far short of the health utopia predicted for it. Despite hundreds of billions of dollars, public

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and private, invested in pharmaceutical industry discovery, research, and development, not a
single major affliction (e.g., cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, liver
disease, kidney disease, or auto-immune disease) has been eliminated from the face of the
earth.

Awash in thousands of new drugs since World War II, we now have a society of drug
dependency but the promised eradication of illness has not happened. Indeed, in the United
States, where more money is spent on drugs and healthcare than in any other country in the
world, American life expectancy lags behind much of the industrialized world.

We have thus gone full circle. The drug model has failed to prove to be a panacea. Indeed, the
adverse effects of drugs often overwhelm their utility and add major afflictions to the hapless
person dependent on them. If we are not to see an end to disease from a treatment model that
depends on intervention at the time we become ill, where then are we to turn?

Having rejected natural remedies as anathema to the new drug model paradigm, the world is
now turning back to them. A majority of Americans, for example, depend on daily
supplementation on the obvious assumption that they are helping fend off disease and extend
longevity by doing so. Increasingly integrative medicine is replacing conventional medicine, as
physicians leap from bureaucratic practice back to accepting that medicine is an art and that the
means to heal are within us if only supplied with what the body needs to activate them.

Long before it was popular to attack the FDA for its approval of unsafe drugs and its unseemly
relationship with the drug industry, Dr. Wallach was attacking it. Viewed by some as an alarmist
and condemned vituperatively by practicing physicians and patsies for the drug industry,
Wallach would not budge from revealing the ugly truth that Americans were being had by an
industry and a profession that was pumping out drugs that were too dangerous. He explained
that synthetic alternatives to cures known to the body were an awful substitute, particularly
when they came with horrific side effects. Wallach is now best understood as ahead of his time,
having warned us that we were all victims of the drug model and having given us safer means to
prevent and treat disease than relying dogmatically on every new drug that comes down the
pike from what he has called the “medical-pharmaceutical complex.”

The Naturopathic Way

Naturopathic medicine depends upon many modalities not accepted by conventional medicine.
Among the most common modalities practiced by naturopathic physicians are nutrition,
counseling and homeopathy. Naturopaths subscribe to the view that the body, if given the
nutrients it requires, has the capacity to heal itself in most circumstances. They also often
accept above recommended daily intake of certain nutrients that are, at that level, associated
with positive effects on the immune system, heart function, brain function, muscular skeletal
function, liver function, kidney function, islets of langerhans function, and cellular function as
treatments for disease. Although largely dismissed by conventional medicine, a substantial
majority of Americans have chosen to follow the advice of nutrition counselors, including
naturopaths, and individual success stories related to that advice are common. Not only that,

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but most people in the world, those resident in China and in India, are far more familiar with
naturopathic medicine because traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurvedic Medicine commonly
practiced in India are largely naturopathic, depending upon plant based remedies instead of
synthetic drug substances as treatments.

Why did Joel D. Wallach, DVM, choose naturopathic medicine? It is difficult for some to
understand how a person conventionally trained in veterinary medicine with peer reviewed
publications in the field would choose an unconventional education thereafter, but Wallach never
was one to confine himself to conventions if he thought an alternative the right thing to do. His
veterinary education and career were marked by repeated instances in which he defied
conventions and, in so doing, made remarkable discoveries, such as the utility of nutrients as
disease interventions not only in animals but also in man, such as the earth shaking discovery
that cystic fibrosis was not a genetic disease after all but was a nutrient deficiency disease,
stemming from inadequate selenium, and such as his postulate that almost all chronic disease
is a byproduct, in part, of malabsorption, including gluten intolerance.

Wallach’s decision to become a naturopathic doctor (ND) was not based entirely on his
knowledge of the healing power of nutrition. He had also suffered his entire life with what may
be termed the plague of modern allopathic medicine, the myopic perspective of physicians who
practice medicine bureaucratically, avoiding any novel approach and avoiding what in many
instances are logical and obvious means to solve the problems patients present to them. In a
very personal way Wallach, like many Americans, had experienced the profoundly tragic
consequences that often follow from misdiagnoses, toxic treatments, and neglect. In Let’s Play
Doctor, Wallach put it this way:

My personal experience with “orthodox” doctors both as my physicians and fellow researchers
has been disastrous. The “orthodox” oncologist did not inform me of any alternatives when they
“treated” my wife and killed her with chemotherapy in 1978; the “orthodox” doctors deemed my
son to have “learning disabilities” when, in fact, he had severe and debilitating food allergies;
pediatricians missed a diagnosis of folic acid deficiency anemia and a fractured arm in my
children; and lastly, they killed my father with a nosocomial infection initiated during a very
simple procedure. I am a faithful servant to anything I believe in so it took me until 1978 to
realize that if I was to have a positive effect on human health I would have to go back to school
and become a physician! I chose to become an N.D. (a naturopathic physician) because they
believed philosophically in nutrition as a basic bulwark against disease.

Despite a classical education in veterinary medicine, Wallach used innovative methods of

research, comparative pathology, and nutritional intervention to diagnose and treat animal
diseases. He was an iconoclast. He was not intimidated by human institutions, even very large
ones like the medical establishment, universities, or government agencies. He views every
proposition in science from the ground up. If it does not logically follow, he remains a skeptic
until such time as he himself discovers the logical reason why.

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With his naturopathic degree in hand, Wallach went into private medical practice in 1982 in
Portland and Cannon Beach, Oregon, where he treated a wide range of ailments with nutritional
interventions. Among the patients he treated were those with cystic fibrosis, where he put into
practice his Yerkes discovery. Repeatedly he saw those with the condition improve (and
eliminate disease and the “genetic markers” in the positive sweat test) when selenium deficient
status and malabsorption were eliminated.

It was during this phase in his career that Dr. Wallach perfected much of the dosing and
ingredient designs of what would later be his liquid line of dietary supplements for humans. He
drew heavily from his veterinary experience, including comparative pathology.

His private practice flourished from 1982 to 1993. As it did he became increasingly convinced
that the drug model for medical practice, so common since World War II, was based on an
exaggerated premise, that all disease would one day be conquered by a synthetic drug. He
found that view a pipe dream, quite wide of the mark because it offended basic biology and
human physiology. He also found conventional medicine subject to corrupt influences from the
drug industry and from peers who condemned innovation in medicine as a threat to their
financial security. Those influences propped up and perpetuated the myth that sooner or later
every disease would be eliminated based on the discovery of a patentable synthetic substance.

From 1990 to 1993, Dr. Wallach worked as a naturopathic physician for Hospital Santa Monica
in Tijuana, Mexico. There, he continued to witness nutritional interventions effectively treat
chronic disease.

Over the years, he amassed an enormous amount of popular and peer reviewed publication
support for his positions, later articulated in his best-selling lecture and book, Dead Doctors
Don’t Lie. He found that physicians commonly died at ages younger (58) than the general
population (75) and that large numbers of people died in hospital following the use of drugs
prescribed in accordance with physician labeling instructions.

The drug model of medicine depends on use of inherently toxic substances, xenobiotic patented
substances that often obstruct normal, and essential, metabolic processes to mask disease
symptoms. But for a few notable achievements (hospital sanitation, antibiotics, and certain
medical devices), wave after wave of new drugs entering the market each year have not
changed health outcomes for most chronic disease states, such as cardiovascular disease,
diabetes, arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, liver disease, kidney disease, and cancer. Instead,
modern medicine, when better than placebo, masks disease symptoms but does not alter
ultimate disease progression or cure disease.

Year after year, the FDA would approve new drugs as “breakthroughs” that were not
breakthroughs after all, as FDA’s own Associate Director of the Office of Drug Safety, David
Graham, said in testimony before Senator Charles Grassley’s Finance Committee. Other FDA
whistleblowers, disgusted with a corrupt system that approved even unsafe drugs, despite FDA
medical reviewers’ contrary recommendations, formed a steady stream of brave witnesses in

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congressional hearings. Yet the political pull of the drug industry on Capitol Hill and at the FDA
proved too much. Nothing has changed to stop unsafe drugs from being approved and
marketed. The broken system remains broken without a single piece of corrective legislation
being passed due to the lobbying power of the drug industry.

Wallach’s experience taught him that nutritional interventions could halt or reverse chronic
disease states, and his political education taught him that the truth of that proposition would
continue to be locked out of the medical marketplace by the drug industry through its proxies,
the FDA and conventional medicine.

He discovered that if people relied upon 90 nutrients, comprised of minerals, vitamins, amino
acids, and essential fatty acids, and altered their lifestyles to avoid harmful practices, they would
in most circumstances experience major improvements in their conditions. Repeatedly those
who followed Dr. Wallach’s prescriptions overcame their maladies rather than continue in a state
of decline until death.

Wallach also discovered that malabsorption also lay at the root of many chronic disease states.
Whether the problem was hypochlorhydria (low stomach acid) or gluten intolerance, time and
again he found that patients suffering from chronic illness were also the victims of diets that
diminished the body’s ability to absorb key nutrients while, at the same time, patients failed to
ingest all 90 nutrients.

Wallach identified 60 essential elements, metals, minerals, trace minerals and rare earth
elements present in healthy humans and variously deficient in diseased ones: aluminum,
arsenic, barium, beryllium, boron, bromine, calcium, carbon, cerium, cesium, chloride,
chromium, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, erbium, europium, gadolinium, gallium, germanium,
gold, hafnium, holmium, hydrogen, iodine, iron, lanthanum, lithium, lutecium, magnesium,
manganese, molybdenum, neodymium, nickle, niobium, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus,
potassium, praseodymium, rhenium, rubidium, samarium, scandium, selenium, silica, silver,
sodium, strontium, sulphur, tantalium, terbium, thulium, tin, titanium, vanadium, yitterbium,
ytrium, zinc, and zirconium.

Wallach identified 16 essential vitamins: vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B12, C, D, E, K, bitoin,
choline, flavonoids, bioflavonoids, folic acid, and inositol.

Wallach identified 12 essential amino acids: valine, lysine, threonine, leucine, isoleucine,
tryptophane, phenylalanine, methionine, histadine, arginine, taurine, and tyrosine.

Wallach identified three essential fatty acids: linoleic acid, linolenic acid, and arachidonic acid.

Wallach also bucked conventional wisdom in finding cholesterol levels above those set as safe
by the National Cholesterol Program to be not only safe but essential for healthy metabolism.
Wallach understood cholesterol to be critical for healthy metabolic function. He therefore finds
obsession over levels of cholesterol without regard to any other biological risk factors (ie

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inflammation, trans fat, heterocyclic amines, acrylamides) of vascular disease to be misguided
and extreme. For him, cholesterol is but one marker and not a very good one at that, because
medically acceptable cholesterol levels (i.e., those below 200) produce Alzheimer’s, low-T,
erectile dysfunction and early menopause. He looks to all physiological evidence of the
existence of cardiovascular disease before he concludes a person to be ill or at imminent risk of
atherosclerosis. In any event, he finds dietary modifications and nutritional intervention,
assuredly the safest and most effective means to prevent and help eliminate vascular disease.

As with all ingestible substances, dose and form determine toxicity. Wallach understood well
these factors and, so, formulated products containing forms of nutrients that were bioavailable,
that were a part of the diet ordinarily because they were present in human food sources from
time immemorial and were known to be safe, and that were at dose levels for which there was
no evidence of human toxicity. He also chose liquid rather than solid pill forms of delivery in
many cases to help those with trouble ingesting solids and pills, to improve bioavailability of the
nutrients, and to encourage daily ingestion necessary to maximize results. A significant portion
of his book Epigenetics explores these factors and explains why all 90 nutrients are essential to
optimize health through healthy cell, organ, and organ system function.

Repeatedly critics will challenge Wallach based on a false paradigm that has become law in
foreign jurisdictions and is viewed favorably by the FDA and the state of California. That
paradigm, the so-called Precautionary Principle, takes the position that we should presume
harmful any ingredients if at some dose level it is known to be toxic. By this logic, everything,
including water, is a toxin. Under it, governments condemn as unsafe every substance unless
industry proves it safe at a specific dose level. This shifts power from the individual to the
government by creating an economic obstacle to the marketing of the very things people
through decades, if not centuries, of experience know to be safe.

There is an alternative to this dubious thinking and that is what toxicologists have followed for
centuries, the so-called Paracelsian Principle. A Swiss physician, botanist, and alchemist from
the 16th Century, Paracelsus is known as the father of modern toxicology. He famously wrote,
“Dosis facit venenum.” That means the dose makes the poison. In other words, dose
determines toxicity. So, all substances we ingest are toxic at some dose level but that does not
justify the conclusion that they are inherently toxic. Rather, the very same substances are
ordinarily safe at customarily consumed levels and, quite often, at much higher levels. In fact,
the nutrition science literature of the past seventy years has confirmed repeatedly that nutrients
we consume often carry with them therapeutic properties greatly beneficial to prevention of
chronic disease and optimization of healthy cell, organ, and organ system function at levels
higher than those necessary to avoid nutrient deficiency diseases. Acutely aware of the reality
of these facts from the science and the practice of naturopathic medicine, Wallach is quick to cut
through the false paradigms and illogic that often become the subject of passionate debate
among critics who lack wisdom or who are driven by an anticompetitive economic motive.

Quick Read Summary about Dr Wallach and Youngevity

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In 1997, Dr. Joel Wallach, together with his new bride Dr. Ma Lan, established American
Longevity, which later became Youngevity. Based on the research and unconventional
perspectives of Dr. Wallach, Youngevity focuses on exceptional nutrition and healthy lifestyle
solutions for the public. The company currently offers products that are changing the wellness
industry all over the world.

90 For Life
Through research, Dr. Wallach discovered the health benefits of selenium and other minerals.
He found that human bodies require 90 essential nutrients to function properly and avoid
serious diseases. So, he developed the “90 for Life” products, which are specifically formulated
so people can absorb the nutrients they need to be more energetic, feel younger, and live
longer. Through Youngevity, Dr. Wallach, together with his wife and son, is able to offer
exceptional products containing such nutrients to the masses.

The Youngevity Mission

Dr. Wallach started out on a mission, to make his products available to everyone. Because of
the countless lectures and conferences he needed to attend as a biomedical researcher,
however, Dr. Wallach wasn’t able to focus on the company’s growth. So, he assigned the
management of Youngevity to his son, Steve Wallach.

Within several years, and through the efforts of Steve, Youngevity became a global health and
wellness empire. The company’s flagship products became known across the globe. The
company also expanded its line by adding mineral-based beauty & care items, as well as
healthy, unique foods and beverages. Now, the company has thousands of distributors and
offices in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, South Africa, Europe,
Mexico, Latin America, and Russia.

The company’s continued success is a testament to people’s endless search for alternative
solutions to improve their somewhat unhealthy, modern lifestyles.

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Dr. Wallach’s Youngevity
Wallach knew that with limited resources available to him as a naturopathic physician, he could
not hope to rely on traditional means to bring his health and wellness message to the world, to
wage his battle against conventional medical practices that caused injury to patients, and to
market his effective nutritional formulations to the public. He would once again have to think in
an unconventional way.

While committed to doing whatever it took to get that message and those products to as many
people as possible worldwide, he certainly could not do it himself and would not likely be able to
do it through retail marketing in conventional channels without hundreds of millions in capital.

Never one to back down in the face of apparently insurmountable odds, Wallach investigated
different means of marketing, studying each carefully. He finally decided that multi-level

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marketing (direct marketing) offered the best way to reach the most people with his message
and products.

Through that person to person marketing technique, Wallach knew his message was so
powerful and the products he designed so effective that individuals would come to try the
products and upon proof of effect would continue to buy them. He expected the products to sell
themselves.

After disappointment in a few initial ventures into existing multi-level marketing programs,
Wallach chose to design his own company. He intended to build a global health army that
would transform the world. The mission he accepted as a college student was coming to fruition
through a means he did not then expect to be his chosen path: international health lectures
complemented by a company he would found and direct that would supply products he
designed. This integration of education, marketing, manufacture, distribution, and sales was an
enormously complex and demanding one. Wallach was not trained as an engineer, a Wall
Street financier, or a market logistics expert but, as with all things he confronted, he learned
every aspect of the business inside out and he became not only proficient but expert in each
area.

While an admirer of the AMWAY marketing model, one he sought to replicate, in many respects
Wallach at first used the multi-level form as a means to market products conventionally. He
offered a generous compensation plan (which the company honors to this day) and sold
products of real value to distributors. Many distributors in the early days did not distribute the
products at all but relied upon them selfishly to improve their own health.

The company grew like a successful retail company, with good and steady growth year after
year, but not like the whiz bang growth patterns of comparable dietary supplement MLM’s. That
was because Wallach was selling his products and preaching a gospel of health rather than
exclusively selling business opportunities.

In retrospect, that distinction has established Youngevity as a solid and going concern, not a
pyramid scheme, because it has products of genuine value, a market for which is well
established, and a distributor base that appreciates the value of the products and is willing to
pay for personal use amounts that are set at MLM levels.

In 1997, Dr. Wallach and his new bride Dr. Ma Lan, M.D., M.S., created American Longevity,
which later became Youngevity. To ensure that day to day operations were handled masterfully
while he traveled the world lecturing, Wallach assigned executive control of the company to his
son, Steve Wallach. Within the span of five years, Dr. Wallach, Dr. Ma Lan, Steve Wallach, and
Michelle Wallach had built the foundations of a global health and wellness empire, replete with
an army of tens of thousands of distributors, offices in Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
Singapore, South Africa, and Japan.

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Early into the twenty-first century, the company passed $30 million in revenues and then, upon
merging with another company, FDI, Youngevity surpassed $130 million in revenues within the
span of four years.

The complimentary management styles and talents of Steve Wallach, Michelle Wallach (Steve’s
wife), and Bill Andreoli have not only produced this remarkable growth but have caused a huge
expansion in company acquisitions and markets, reaching markets across Europe, in Russia,
and in Mexico and Latin America generally. Increasingly Youngevity products include those
affecting all facets of life, including mineral based cosmetics, clothing, energy, financial services,
health insurance, and home security.

Youngevity’s continued success has caused great interest in the industry, reflected by Direct
Selling News’s decision to name Youngevity among its top 100 global direct selling companies.

Over the span of five decades, Joel D. Wallach has built a global health, wellness, and lifestyle
empire that transforms, uplifts, and extends the lives of those who are a part of it; gives them
residual income; and fulfills Wallach’s essential mission. From the ranks of relative academic
obscurity at Yerkes, Wallach is now of considerable renown with a reputation that grows every
day all over the world. His Dead Doctors Don’t Lie tapes, CDs, and books have collectively
been distributed to millions worldwide. He has appeared on thousands of radio and television
shows as well as on his own syndicated radio show which reaches over 400 stations nationwide
and is broadcast over the internet worldwide. He is among the most well-known figures in the
global health movement. Whether you are in San Diego (the location for Youngevity’s
headquarters), Tokyo, Russia, or Sydney, chances are if you mention the name Dr. Joel
Wallach, the person you are talking to will respond with an awareness of him and of his global
health mission.

Cystic Fibrosis in China: Further Debunking the Gene Theory of Disease

The generally accepted medical definition of cystic fibrosis identifies the disease as a genetic
one known to affect those of Northern European ancestry (i.e., whites) and largely unheard of in
Asians and Blacks. Having debunked the gene theory on the basis of his rhesus monkey
discovery and his selenium deficiency discovery, Wallach nevertheless wanted to disprove the
gene theory of disease further by establishing that, indeed, those of non-white extraction also
suffered from cystic fibrosis. Wallach believes congenital or postnatal selenium deficiencies
bring about cystic fibrosis in people regardless of race.

Joined by his wife Dr. Ma Lan, a noted Chinese medical doctor, clinician and micro-surgeon
(Harvard, Texas Medical Center, University of California), Wallach went to China in 1989.
Through Ma Lan’s familial and academic connections and based upon her good reputation in
Chinese medical circles, Dr. Wallach was invited to perform 1,700 autopsies of children who
suffered Keshan disease to see if any of them also suffered from cystic fibrosis.

Keshan disease is a form of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy caused by a selenium deficiency

(originally thought to be an infection with a mutated strain of Coxackievirus. The disease is

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named for Keshan County in Heilongjiang province in Northern China. There, poverty stricken
Chinese subsisting off of a diet largely comprised of locally grown wheat and corn were victims
of soils lacking selenium. Low selenium levels in the soils translated into low selenium levels in
the grain, leading to the deficiency that begets Keshan disease. Keshan disease is also more
commonly found in New Zealand and Finland where selenium soil levels are also low. Those
who are selenium deficient in these regions also have a higher incidence of cancer, vascular
disease, cataracts, arthritis, strokes, and infections.

Consistent with Wallach’s theory that congenital or postnatal selenium deficiencies cause cystic
fibrosis, he expected that a significant number of the 1,700 Keshan disease cadavers he
examined would also bear the characteristic symptoms of cystic fibrosis.

Wallach’s study confirmed his hypothesis. Of the 1,700 Chinese child cadavers autopsied, 595
(or 35 percent) had the classic tissue changer for cystic fibrosis! He also found that every one
of the 1,700 child cadavers had classic tissue changes of cardiomyopathy and mulberry heart
disease, a selenium-deficiency muscular dystrophy of the heart found in pigs. That later
discovery broke down another convention, that mulberry heart disease was thought to be a vital
disease peculiar to swine. Drs. Wallach and Ma Lan’s findings were published in 1990 in the
journal Biological Trace Elements Research and Chinese Medical Journals.

Increasingly, Wallach’s research has confirmed that the genetic theory of disease lacks a sound
scientific foundation. Repeatedly, as he explains in Epigenetics, Wallach has discovered that
diseases presumed to be genetic, such as sickle cell anemia, are in fact not triggered by a
genetic defect (i.e., do not involve a change in the DNA sequence) but are instead the
byproducts of nutritional deficiencies during pregnancy. In some cases, those deficiencies in
the pregnant mother translate into abnormalities in the children. Eliminate the nutritional
deficiency in the mother and the disease does not show up in the children. Sometimes if a
person born with the disease is given the nutrient, the disease disappears or becomes more
manageable. Such is the case with sickle cell anemia, another congenital defect falsely thought
to be genetically transmitted.

In Diseases of Exotic Animals, Wallach explained the research associating selenium deficiency
with a form of cystic fibrosis that occurred in white tail deer. The disease in deer was completely
eliminated by ensuring that the deer consumed adequate amounts of selenium.

Phil Oliver of the Sickle-cell Foundation of Georgia read Dr. Wallach’s book on exotic animals
and contacted him in 1991. Wallach then established a treatment regimen for 25 children with
the disease that ensured each received his 90 essential nutrient regimen along with added
selenium, and all were put on a gluten free diet. All 25 children were rendered in clinically
stable by the regimen, enabling the diseases to be managed survivably.

As Wallach sees it, the world of medical research has misinterpreted disease states caused by
environmental factors to be ones that arise from defects in the DNA sequence involving
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diseases the cure of which have eluded conventional practitioners are attributed, for want of
better science and logic, to defective DNA.

The theory is well accepted in areas of medicine that have been the subject of intense research
to find the real cause of disease. For example, spina bifida and anencephaly, both neural tube
defects, although once argued to be genetic defects have since been discovered to be evidence
of epigenetics, of a change in the expression of genes effected by a deficiency of one of the 90
essential nutrients, folic acid. Women given between 400 and 800 micrograms of folic acid in
dietary supplement form before they become pregnant ordinarily experience a significant
reduction in the risk of a neural tube defect birth.

Rejecting the genetic theory of disease, Wallach is a proponent of epigenetics. “Epi” is a Greek
term which means in this context “outside of.” Thus, epigenetics is the study of changes outside
of genetics. This science evaluates how non-genetic factors cause genes to express
themselves differently. British biologist, paleontologist, embryologist, and philosopher C. H.
Waddington invented the term in 1942. Wallach has given it new life in 2014 with the
publication of his book (co-authored with Dr. Ma Lan and Dr. Gerhard N. Schrauzer),
Epigenetics: The Death of the Genetic Theory of Disease Transmission.

He has done so at the apex of popularity of the genetic theory of disease and as billions are
spent by governments and industry on mapping the human genome in the quest to find what
genes are associated with which human characteristics. The ultimate aim is to then establish a
field of medicine that “treats” disease by replacing or correcting defective genes.

As Wallach sees it, this costly exercise is doomed to fail. He takes the position that it is
non-genetic factors such as dietary deficiencies which alter the expression of genes in
deleterious ways. It is not that the nucleotide sequence in DNA has been changed (a defect in
genes themselves), but, rather, it is the absence of one or more key nutrients that cause genes
to express themselves in ways that cause harm. Ensure the needed nutrient and the disease
will not appear or, if it has appeared, may well enter a state of remission or be completely
reversed.

The Race Based Gene Fallacy

August 28, 1963, is among the most critical dates in American history. On that date a large
mass of over 250,000 people participated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
On that sweltering August day, the temperature in Washington reached an uncomfortable 87
degrees Fahrenheit with high humidity. The Black and White marchers walked from the
Washington Mall to the Washington Monument and then to the Lincoln Memorial. There
huddled together in what was one of the largest gatherings ever to assemble at that point in the
nation’s history, the civil rights activists heard ten addresses, including among them those of civil
rights activists Roy Wilkins, John Lewis, and Charlton Heston. Before the very last speaker
rose to give his remarks, the President of the American Jewish Congress, Joachim Prinz,
equated the discrimination experienced by the Jews throughout history with that of Blacks. After
Prinz, there would be one more speaker. The audience was generally fatigued. It would take

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quite a lot to move them from a state of weariness induced by the long day, the high heat, and
the humidity.

The last person to speak had been forewarned by one of his advisors not to use lines he had
lately used in several other speeches around the country. That aide, Wyatt Walker, told the
speaker, “Don’t use the lines about ‘I have a dream.’”

As all three major television networks broadcast the speeches, including the last delivered by a
person who, until that point, remained largely unknown to most Americans: the Reverend Martin
Luther King, Jr. The words King uttered that day instantaneously entered that rarified lexicon of
history which records for all times the most momentous speeches ever made. From the
moment King opened his mouth to speak his words captivated the nation watching their black
and white television sets.

His “I Have a Dream” speech is among those works of rhetoric, so brilliantly crafted and
poignantly delivered, that it has never been forgotten, resurrected year after year in classrooms,
in programs, and in commemorative events that have occurred around the world ever since.
One year after King delivered his most famous speech, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
and the 1964 Civil Rights Act passed, tremendously fueled by the popular impact of that one
speech. King’s “I Have a Dream” riveted the nation North and South, starkly revealing the
horrible lie that was racial inequality.

In Black Gene Lies, Dr. Wallach utterly rejects the view that Black genes are inherently defective
and that Black genes put them at greater risk of disease. Wallach writes: “[T]here are many
diseases that appear in the Black community at a greater rate than in the white community (i.e.,
hypertension, type II diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity,
etc.), however, the underlying causes are simply cultural dietary choices and nutritional
deficiencies and they are absolutely not genetic.”

Although much racial animus and overt acts of discrimination have been rooted out of America,
vestiges remain. In his book Black Gene Lies, Dr. Joel Wallach explains that the conventional
medical establishment has categorized a substantial number of diseases that affect Blacks as
arising from genetic defects peculiar to the Black race. Blacks are said to have genetic
differences that put them at higher risk of hypertension, cardiovascular disease, diabetes,
obesity, arthritis, osteoporosis, and cancer. According to Dr. Wallach, that spin on the genetic
theory of disease is unscientific and racist. The theory lacks empirical support rooted in any
proof whatsoever of a single material difference in Black DNA and offends sound medical
science.

Generations of Black Americans have been told the lie, often by their own physicians who
simply regurgitate, unthinkingly, the dogma they have heard over and over again since medical
school. Black genes, they were told, are responsible for putting Blacks at a higher risk of
disabling and life-threatening diseases than Whites. In other words, Blacks are inherently

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defective, right down to their DNA, and, as a result, it should come as no surprise that Blacks
experience a higher rate of serious illness than whites.

The underlying message is clear. If Blacks are inherently at greater risk because of their genes,
than they must accept a disadvantaged status and suffer ultimately terminal maladies because
there is little that can be done to save them. That medical discounting of Blacks, relegating
them to substandard status on the theory that they are genetically predisposed to lose in the
end anyway, fuels a medical racism that locks Blacks out of quality care.

In short, consistent with his findings that challenge the genetic theory of disease in general,
Wallach finds no sound scientific basis to support the notion that Black genes are defective and
place Blacks at greater risk of disease than Whites. To the contrary, he finds that the same kind
of nutritional interventions that eliminate so-called “genetic” diseases in Whites work equally well
to wipe out so-called “genetic” diseases in Blacks. In other words, Blacks and Whites are equal
and the deciding factor on whether individuals of either race contract disease are predicated on
environmental factors, like one’s diet, supplement programs, and not DNA.

When Wallach evaluates the dietary choices of Black patients, he often finds that they, like
Whites, suffer from poor dietary choices and little or no supplementation, revealing individuals of
both races deficient in the 90 nutrients that Wallach has found essential to maintenance of
optimal health.

Wallach finds the same illnesses affecting Whites and Blacks and stemming from nutritional
deficiencies in both races. In short, Blacks are not a different genetic species than Whites;
Blacks are not possessed of gene defects. Whites and Blacks are biological equals and the
nutritional influences on genetic expression responsible for greater predispositions to disease in
Whites are precisely the same ones in Blacks. According to Wallach, the Black gene theory of
disease is nothing more than a racist lie.

With the help of genetic councilor Phil Oliver of the Sickle Cell Foundation of Georgia, Dr. Joel
Wallach critically tested his theory about the absence of a genetic foundation for a
conventionally classified race based disease, sickle cell anemia. According to the conventional
wisdom, sickle cell disease is a hereditary blood disorder wherein red blood cells become
flattened and sickle-like in shape. When the cells so form in abundance, they trigger adverse
symptoms ranging from chronic propensity to contract disease to infections, extraordinary pain,
strokes, and even death. The common view is that those with sickle cell disease contracted the
condition from defective genes inherited from parents who were carriers of the trait.

Beginning in 1991, Wallach provided the full spectrum of 90 essential nutrients and added
selenium to children afflicted with the disease who are under the care of the Sickle Cell
Foundation of Georgia. The results were remarkable. The nutritional intervention prescribed by
Dr. Wallach, when applied, caused a substantial number of the patients to go into remission. All
experienced improvements in their quality of life, and none so treated experienced the
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Wallach’s experiment proved sickle cell anemia not hopeless but treatable and perhaps
ultimately provably preventable with nutritional intervention.

After the year 2000, Wallach proposed that sickle cell anemia is an inborn error of metabolism.
When the hemoglobin forming mechanism was being constructed in the fetal bone marrow, the
mother was deficient in nutrients resulting in a defective bone marrow forming system.

Epigenetics Versus Genetics

Joel Wallach rejects the conventionally accepted notion that genes themselves rather than
environmental factors, like nutritional deficiencies, are responsible for chronic or life threatening
disease manifested most often in defects apparent at birth or in adolescence. Rather, he holds
to the view that nutritional deficiencies influence genetic expression in ways that trigger disease
states. Once those nutritional deficiencies are rectified, the disease states either go away
altogether or become clinically manageable. Sometimes the deficiency is in the mother and
affects the newborn child, as in the case of Downs Syndrome, cerebal palsy, heart defects,
cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy and neural tube defects. Sometimes the deficiency affects
all who are similarly situated, such as in the case of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and
cancer.

The conventional wisdom undergirds the notion that diseases fall into two general categories,
those caused by the environment (nature) and those caused by one’s genes (nurture). This
divide between nature and nurture was the focus of research at the end of the Nineteenth
Century, when Charles Darwin’s half cousin, Francis Galton, coined the term. Galton sought to
apply Darwin’s theory of evolution to humans. He believed that desired traits could be achieved
through selective breeding, i.e., through hereditary means. In 1883 Galton named his new
science of selective breeding to achieve better hereditary traits “eugenics,” expounding upon the
concept in his book Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development.

Eugenics, the belief that improvements in human traits are achievable through selective
breeding of the population, led to widespread international acceptance of the notion that there
were certain human traits that were “desirable” and certain that were “undesirable” and that
public policy could rightly discourage the undesirable traits by coercing or compelling people to
be sterilized. In this way those said to have undesirable traits, such as the disabled, the
mentally ill, homosexuals, and others, were either encouraged to undergo sterilization or
compelled to undergo it.

The origins of the concept of selective breeding to achieve preferred traits dates back to
antiquity, to Plato. Plato thought it possible to create a guardian class by selective breeding. In
the mid to late 1800s gynecologist William Goodell advocated castrating and spaying the
mentally ill, accepting the theory of eugenics as scientific dogma.

During the first three decades of the Twentieth Century eugenic policies of forced sterilization
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Germany, Great Britain, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Japan, and Sweden. The Nazi Ernst Rudin
became a celebrated author of Nazi eugenic policies in the 1930s.

At root, eugenics contradicts the fundamental premise of America’s founding charter, the
Declaration of Independence, that all are created equal and endowed with unalienable rights.
Eugenics proceeds from a racist root, presuming that we may ascribe characteristics of people
to their genes and deem certain of them undesirable, deserving of discrimination, including
denial of the fundamental right of procreation. In this way, the Nazis aimed to eliminate through
selective breeding, forced sterilization, and genocide all races except those possessed of blond
hair, blue eyes, white skin, and certain other racially desired characteristics.

Adolph Hitler intended to make the XI Olympiad of 1936, the summer Olympics, a global
demonstration of the ability of eugenics to produce a master race. Nazi policies ensured
exclusion from the games of all Germans who did not meet the Aryan profile. Hitler expected
his Aryan athletes would win most, if not all, events in proof of the validity of his racist policies.
African American Jesse Owens had other plans, however. As Hitler watched, Owens destroyed
the myth of eugenics and the Aryan race by besting Hitler’s athletes in event after event and
doing so in a single day of competition. Owens was the most successful athlete of the games.
He won gold medals in the 220 yard dash, the 220 yard hurdles, the broad jump, and the 4 x
100 meter relay.

After World War II, the concepts of selective human breeding and racial cleansing fell into
disfavor as the world recoiled in horror at the sight of the Nazi death camps wherein Jews and
all others deemed “undesirable” by the fascist regime had been warehoused, subjected to
inhumane treatment and experimentation, and variously exterminated. Largely accepting that
eugenics was neither scientifically valid nor socially acceptable, Western governments defined
eugenics as the crime of genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of
the Crime of Genocide and, later in the Twentieth Century, in the Charter of Fundamental Rights
for the European Union.

Among those who questioned eugenics early on was the geneticist and biologist Thomas Hunt
Morgan. Based on redundant breeding experiments with red eyed fruit flies, Morgan was able
to call eugenics into question with hard science. Although selectively bred red eyed fruit flies
would be expected to beget only red eyed flies, Morgan found that in one instance they begat a
white eyed fly. He challenged the notion that characteristics of intelligence and proclivity to
commit crime were tied to genes and speculated that genes could not account for many human
characteristics.

Within the last decade, the scientific community has again become intoxicated with the notion
that human characteristics can be altered through genetic engineering in ways that will yield
“desirable” traits. The mapping of the human genome is based on the supposition that we may
be able to eradicate all disease in the world if only we learn how to tinker with specific links in
the DNA chain. This notion carries with it grave dangers of a revival of new concepts of a
master race, where subjective judgment as to which traits are “desired” and which are not lead

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to public policies that manipulate procreation. As Virologist Nessa Carey astutely observes in
The Epigenetics Revolution:

There’s no doubt that the DNA blueprint is a starting point. A very important starting point and
absolutely necessary, without a doubt. But it isn’t a sufficient explanation for all the sometimes
wonderful, sometimes awful, complexity of life. If the DNA sequence was all that mattered,
identical twins would always be absolutely identical in every way. Babies born to malnourished
mothers would gain weight as easily as other babies who had a healthier start in life. . . [W]e
would all look like amorphous blobs, because all the cells in our bodies would be completely
identical.

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[But instead] [s]cientists in both the academic and commercial sectors are . . . waking up to the
enormous impact that epigenetics has on human health. It’s implicated in diseases from
schizophrenia to rheumatoid arthritis, and from cancer to chronic pain . . . .

Gene research is now all the rage, as molecular biologists race to determine which genes are
associated with which characteristics. In 2003, the Human Genome Project declared that it had
completed the mapping of the human genome. Gene manipulation research is occurring
around the world, with new varieties of disease resistant crops, modified cows, and even a
limited amount of human gene manipulation. A new class of gene focused drugs is on the
horizon, where patented formulas that alter genes either in utero or in the grown human will be
marketed as means to transform man into a super human free of various diseases.

In Epigenetics, Wallach stands against the tide, recalling the horrible racial and ethnic cleansing
that occurred the last time politics and science united in the view that manipulating the gene
pool to produce “desired” characteristics was a noble objective. Wallach explains that the
genetic theory of disease is yet another folly, an enterprise which has absorbed billions in public
and private funds but is in many respects a fool’s errand. “The genetic theory of disease
transmission is based on manipulation of observations, lack of complete information, isolated
facts, descriptions of events and dogma,” Wallach writes. Moreover, Wallach emphasizes that
the Human Genome Project discovered a truth about the individual genome that confounds any
ultimate utility of the entire endeavor to link genes to disease states. No two genomes are alike,
except in identical twins, but even in twins genetic expression differs based on the environment.
That fact makes the notion of a one size fits all solution impossible, confounding attempts to use
gene manipulation stimulated by either a drug or medical device, as a general disease cure.

Wallach believes the hype (concerning how gene manipulation will one day cure all disease and
the notion that disease can somehow be traceable to gene defects and curable once those
defects are eliminated) depends on an enormous and dangerous misunderstanding of the
genome. He sees the budding seeds of racism in this. Once again scientists are presuming to
declare certain traits desirable and hope to manipulate the gene pool to achieve the end of a
people free of undesirable traits. He finds that scientifically naïve, because it ignores the more

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profound impact on life and health that comes from the environment, and politically dangerous
because it threatens to give new life to one of the greatest threats to freedom and progress the
world has ever known: Racism that is made the policy of government and industry under the
guise of bettering nature by manipulating genes.

Rather than DNA serving as an interchangeable mold into which we are all poured, Wallach
conceives of DNA as an inherently malleable surface through which different kinds of human
expressions are possible, depending on one’s environment. In other words, DNA is not a God
mold that confines man and must be hammered apart and rebuilt to effect a change in man’s
fate. Instead, DNA is inextricably intertwined with the environment comprised within and without
us to the extent that the environment interacts with us.

In this regard, Wallach draws from an intellectual mentor, Dr. Nessa Carey, whose 2012 book
The Epigenetics Revolution greatly impressed him and helped guide his conception of
epigenetics. Wallach complements the work of Carey, who well defines the limits of gene
theory. Wallach adds his unique understanding derived from a wealth of animal and human
autopsies and independent scientific research.

Beyond Carey, Wallach explains that genes are affected by the presence or absence of key
nutrients. If those nutrients are present in the right amounts, the genes affected express
themselves in ways that differ from how they express themselves otherwise. So, for example,
an adequate selenium quotient in the mother guards against cystic fibrosis in the child. An
adequate 90 essential nutrient quotient plus added selenium in the mother guards against sickle
cell anemia in the child. That same intervention combined with a gluten free diet ameliorates
symptoms of muscular dystrophy. Wallach’s mapping of the nutrient-disease associations
covers a wide range of diseases said by conventional medicine to be inherited and largely
impervious to treatment.

In the end, Wallach’s concept of nutritional influences on gene expression has behind it a wealth
of scientific proof and clinical experience which the new science of genomic medical research
lacks. His insights into the role of the genome and the environmental influences upon it has far
more logical credence, and scientific weight, than the self-admittedly flawed concept that the
genome, unique to each person, is somehow the source of replicable treatments with one
treatment suitable for all. It should not surprise us at all that the human genome is as unique to
each person as each person is outwardly unique to the world. No two of us is precisely alike,
but all of us depend on the healthy absorption of the same universe of nutrients to maintain
proper functions from the cell to every organ in the body.

The Importance of Bioavailability

Dr. Wallach is a stickler for quality. Ensuring that the right forms of ingredients and right sources
are used has always been a priority for him. Nutrient quality varies in the marketplace and, so,
attention to sources known for high quality and to testing to ensure it becomes imperative.
Once ingredients are properly sourced so as to obtain the purest and highest quality, the

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science of designing effective nutritional products is not over. Indeed, it has just begun. The
attention must then turn to the delivery method.

These is no one size fits all approach to choosing the best delivery method for a dietary
supplement. Each kind of ingredient invites a multi-factor assessment of its bioavailability. The
goal is to ensure that the nutrient when ingested is available for absorption. There are many
aspects of digestion which interfere with absorption. Oral absorption is notoriously inefficient
when compared with direct to vein or intravenous administration. Nevertheless with food items
and elements derived from foods, we all prefer oral ingestion over carrying an IV bag attached
to us.

Dr. Wallach applies a scientific approach to determining how best to deliver each particular
nutrient to the body. He often favors liquid supplementation, as he has for minerals, deeming
the liquid medium a better approach, in that instance, to a solid form. He chooses solid forms
for a range of vitamins, variously preferring gel caps to solid pill forms. In each case, he
determines which mode of delivery is best suited to maximize bioavailability.

Ordinarily, in the case of dietary supplements, bioavailability is defined as the proportion of

nutrient capable of being absorbed and available for use by the body. It is a fallacy to say that a
dietary supplement is 100% absorbed by the body if by absorption is meant absorbed by cells.
Cells absorb based on need dependent on homeostasis. Homeostasis at the cellular level
involves the cell’s regulation of uptake of available nutrients from the blood stream. The mere
fact that a nutrient is present in the blood stream does not mean that a cell will absorb it; rather
a cell will absorb it if it is available in the right form to the extent that the cell is deficient in the
nutrient. Cells do not “overconsume” absent a disease state. They maintain within a normal
range what uptake of nutrients they require to function properly. Organs, comprised of cells,
function in the same manner.

It is therefore a falsehood to state that a dietary supplement ensures 100% absorption. Rather,
the aim in this inexact science is to ensure that the forms of the nutrients are absorbable and
the method of delivery can overcome stomach acids and digestion processes to be rendered
available for cellular uptake by absorption into the blood stream.

Aware that bioavailability differs from person to person, Wallach is quick to focus on common
ailments that can interfere with absorption, such as digestive maladies and, in particular gluten
intolerances and hypochlorhydria, too little hydrochloric acid.

Wallach believes that a very large percentage of the population suffers from gluten intolerance,
which interferes with absorption. He finds that those who suffer from gluten intolerance have
inefficient absorption of vital nutrients. Essentially, their adverse reaction to gluten, an
inflammatory reaction (contact enteritis) in the digestive tract often characterized by abdominal
pain, bloating, constipation and diarrhea, limits the effectiveness of absorption and thereby
denies the body access to nutrients it needs. You are what you absorb!

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Many disease conditions interfere with the efficiency of nutrient absorption. Other common
ailments that interfere with absorption are among those gluten intolerance variations are
categorized as auto-immune disorders by the medical system (i.e.- celiac disease, colitis,
ulcerative colitis, IBS, Crohns Disease, etc.)

Wallach is therefore quick to focus on eliminating conditions that interfere with absorption as a
key first step to ensure that his nutritional interventions reach intended internal targets and have
maximum effectiveness.

Dr. Ma Lan, Wallach’s Accomplished Partner

Dr. Joel Wallach’s wife, Dr. Ma Lan Wallach, is, like Wallach, highly accomplished, courageous,
very passionate about saving human life, and brilliant. Ma Lan obtained her collegiate degrees
and residency experience principally in the 1960’s but not without overcoming enormous
obstacles placed in her way. She chose one of the most difficult and demanding areas of
speciality, transplant immunology. She became expert in the highly specialized field of
microsurgery.

Dr. Ma Lan’s indefatigable will to overcome obstacles and ambition to succeed for the
betterment of others mirrors that of her spouse and forms a common and powerful bond
between them. She, like Wallach, proceeds from science and logic. When solutions present
themselves that conflict with conventional medical wisdom, she, like Wallach, is unafraid to
embrace those solutions, make them known, and apply them in patient practice.

Dr. Ma Lan obtained her medical degree from Beijing Medical University, did her residency at
the Peoples Hospital in Beijing and was a staff surgeon at the Canton Air Force Hospitals in
Canton, China. She obtained a Masters of Science Degree (a rare degree bestowed on those
with a particular medical expertise) from the Zhong-Shan Medical University in Canton, China in
transplant immunology.

Dr. Ma Lan is a microsurgeon, noted for her exceptional talent in restoration of severed limbs, a
kind of surgery that requires exacting and highly technical reconnections of severed arteries,
nerves, ligaments, muscles, and tissues. As is true of all physicians trained in the Peoples
Republic of China, Dr. Ma Lan has extensive education and experience in traditional Chinese
medicine, including acupuncture, herbal tinctures, aroma therapy, chiropractic, massage
therapy, and hydrotherapy.

From 1966 until 1976, Chairman Mao Zedong of the Communist Party of China, initiated a
brutal campaign of arrests, demotions, relocations, and executions under the rubric, “The Great
Proletarian Cultural Revolution.” Ostensibly designed to re-impose Maoist ideology in favor of
worker control and redistribution of income and power, the Cultural Revolution became a means
for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, the Red Army, and Mao to attack political enemies
and to force from positions of accomplishment leading figures in industry, education, the
professions, the communist party and the military. In effect, the Cultural Revolution enabled
Mao to consolidate power and compel loyalty by removing all potential threats to his control

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under the guise of purifying the nation of elements at odds with his proletarian revolution. It also
gave the Red Army a domestic mission directly under the leadership of Mao, enabling him to
gain even greater political and operational control over the military, leap frogging past his
generals.

Ma Lan was among those charged in the Cultural Revolution and punished by relocation from
the city to the countryside. She was denied the opportunity to pursue her chosen profession.
She was compelled to engage in three years of agricultural labor. Her “crime” was that of being
an “educated person” who was “potentially dangerous to the revolution.” Although punished
with hard labor, Ma Lan was allowed to use “rest periods” to engage in general medical practice.
She treated local villagers in Northern China, which was one of the few bright moments in an
otherwise very difficult period of trial in her life.

Following her release, Mao’s death, the end of the Cultural Revolution, and the arrest of the
so-called Gang of Four in 1976, Ma Lan eventually re-established herself in medical practice
and academic circles. She emigrated to the United States and became a highly accomplished
medical researcher and author in the fields of transplant immunology and microsurgery with
over ten peer reviewed scientific publications.

An exceptional scholar in China, she became an exchange scholar at Harvard School of

Medicine in laser microsurgery. Recognized for her talent in the demanding field of
microsurgery, she was invited to teach residents at Harvard School of Medicine on the best
techniques for performing laser microsurgery. She also served as a research fellow in laser
microsurgery at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Houston; the Department of Orthopedic Microsurgery at
the Medical College of Women in Milwaukee; and the Department of Pharmacology at the
University of California in San Diego.

Together with her husband, Dr. Ma Lan has been instrumental in resurrection of epigenetics as
a science studying the impact of nutritional deficiency on gestational and childhood diseases.
Through her extensive contacts in the professional medical community in North East China,
including Heilongjiang Provence, Dr. Wallach was able to perform thousands of autopsies that
establish the existence of cystic fibrosis occurred in Asians and that it occurred in the children of
selenium deficient mothers (which propositions conflict with the conventional medical position
that cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease found in those of Northern European ancestry).

Wallach Defeats FDA Censorship

Wallach is a patriot. He loves his country and the American Constitution. When he first
discovered that the Food and Drug Administration routinely censors nutrient-disease
information, even when the statements are demonstrably true, he was livid. He could not
believe that over two hundred years after the Founding Fathers put the First Amendment in the
Constitution as a way to end prior restraints on speech forever, agencies of the federal
government were still involved in the business of censorship.

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But it all made sense to him. The big pharmaceutical companies and all of conventional
medicine had a lot to lose if people suddenly came to the realization that inexpensive nutrients
could prevent or eliminate health concerns that they had been treating with costly drugs that
often carried significant adverse side effects, not least of which is death.

Throughout his professional career, and increasingly as he interacted with leading figures in
medical institutions, Wallach came to appreciate that modern medicine was essentially an
appendage of pharmaceutical companies that had achieved monopoly status due to laws
enacted by the federal government. Protected by the FDA, drug companies have been able to
maintain a monopoly over therapeutic claims to the exclusion of all non-patented and natural
therapies. For example, while FDA regularly approves drugs as treatments for disease even
when its own medical reviewers object because the drugs are too toxic, the FDA forbids any
statement from entering the market concerning the treatment effects of nurtients and foods.

That legal creation of a monopoly on therapeutic claims for the drug industry has led most
physicians and most people to regard illness and not treatable except upon getting a
prescription from a doctor for a drug. Since World War II, America has become the largest pill
popping nation on earth and yet chronic illness still plagues the nation. Indeed, despite paying
more for health care than people in any other country on earth, Americans lag behind almost all
industrialized nations in longevity.

The FDA imposes a prior restraint against the communication of any therapeutic claim
concerning the effect of a food or dietary supplement on disease when made in association with
the sale of that food or supplement. FDA imposes that speech ban even when the claims are
demonstrably true. So, for example, if a company that sold prune juice were to represent that
the prune juice was a treatment for chronic constipation, the company’s executives would
violate federal law, the prune juice could be enjoined from sale and ordered destroyed, and the
prune juice would be reclassified by operation of law into an unapproved new drug.

For the love of his country and to further his life’s mission, Wallach wanted to do whatever he
could to end the censorship of life saving information concerning foods and supplements.

The FDA has in place a health claims review process. Those interested in communicating
nutrient-disease relationship claims can petition FDA for allowance of the claim. If the claim
concerns the treatment of disease, FDA prohibits it outright. If, however, the claim concerns the
effect of the food or dietary supplement on reducing the risk of or preventing disease, FDA will
assess the science and determine whether it thinks the science sufficient to support the claim.

Appalled by the reality that the federal government would act against those who informed the
public truthfully of the disease treatment and risk reducing effects of nutrients, Wallach poured
tens of thousands of dollars into legal efforts to overturn the FDA’s speech ban and associated
himself with others of like mind.

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Working with famed health freedom lobbyist Clinton Miller, Wallach generated thousands of
petitions to Congress demanding an end to FDA censorship and calling for passage of the
Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. The DSHEA finally passed Congress in 1994
and was backed by more letters of popular support than any other.

Thanks to the overwhelming weight of court victories against FDA on speech grounds, FDA now
has in place a qualified health claims review process. Although FDA continues to censor
nutrient-disease information, and Wallach’s battle against speech suppression continues, there
is now a clear way to get claims reviewed by FDA and challenged in federal courts under the
First Amendment when the agencies refused to permit them despite credible supporting
evidence.

Due to his unceasing efforts to end FDA censorship of truthful and non-misleading
nutrient-disease relationship claims, the constitutional and administrative law firm Emord &
Associates, P.C. awarded Dr. Wallach its “First Amendment Hall of Fame Award” in 2014.

Wallach also sued the FDA in cases that produced precedent victories over the agency, among
them: Whitaker v. Thompson (2002); Alliance for Natural Health US v. Sebelius (2011); and
Alliance for Natural Health US v. Sebelius II (2012). He also filed suit as an intervenor in Center
for Science in the Public Interest v. FDA (2010) to protect qualified health claims from a decision
CSPI sought which would have re-established suppression of them as the order of the day.
Wallach won that suit as well.

Those cases secured from FDA censorship claims that antioxidant vitamins reduced the risk of
certain kinds of cancers; that selenium reduced the risk of certain cancers; and that omega-3
fatty acids reduced the risk of coronary heart disease.

Those decisions forced FDA to allow nutrient-disease claims into the market by compelling FDA
to avoid censorship in favor of claim qualification. They also made FDA use succinct and
accurate qualifications free of value laden bias.

Wallach’s War on Conventional Medicine

Because over 100,000 people die each year from properly prescribed drugs, because FDA
approved drugs not infrequently produce side effects worse than the diseases for which they are
indicated, and because modern medical practice shuns use of nutritional medicine in favor of
the pharmaceutical model, Wallach has effectively declared war on conventional medicine.

In recent years as a train of FDA medical reviewers, including the FDA’s Associate Director of
the Office of Drug Safety, Dr. David Graham, have testified repeatedly that FDA is a hand
maiden of the drug industry. In particular, they have consistently testified that FDA has
approved drugs to market over the objections of the agency’s own medical reviewers, who have
complained variously that the drugs approved were unsafe (meaning that they carried with them
side effects that were worse than the underlying conditions). They have said that FDA does the
bidding of the drug industry and, to quote Dr. David Graham, leave the American people largely

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“defenseless” against dangerous drugs. Among the drugs cited by these medical reviewers as
dangerously unsafe and associated with significant adverse effects are Vioxx, Zoloft, Paxil,
Avandia, Serevent, Lipitor, Boniva, Trasylol, and Ketek, to name just a few.

In Let’s Play Doctor, Wallach puts it this way:

The United States government (FDA, NIH, legislation), the pharmaceutical industry (drug
companies) and the AMA have formed a “ménage a trois” or triangle that we choose to call the
“Bermuda Triangle,” “a black hole,” a vortex out of control that sucks us all ever closer to
destruction.

The “orthodox” medical system is an artificial system that depends on our government to
survive. If it were left to the people, they will always choose a less formidable and less complex
health care system. Under the protective and loving wing of the government, “orthodox”
medicine has flourished as a house of cards. Today the medical-pharmaceutical complex costs
Americans more money each year than does all the military and Pentagon spending combined .
..

Across the country in lecture after lecture, Wallach reveals the ugly truths of this
“medical-pharmaceutical complex.” He explains how conventional practitioners shun safe,
inexpensive, and effective nutritional interventions in favor of patented synthetic drugs that often
carry with them lethal side effects. He explains that more times than not drugs approved by the
FDA mask symptoms but do not treat underlying disease conditions which depend on nutritional
support for cure. Indeed, he explains that commonly prescribed treatments often worsen the
patient’s condition or even aggravate the underlying disease. He explains the irony of modern
medicine—how doctors professing adherence to the healing arts are incapable of not only
extending the lives of most patients who suffer chronic disease but are also incapable of
extending their own lives. Relying on evidence of physician mortality, he shows that repeatedly
physicians die at an average age of 58, long before ever reaching the status of octogenarians.

Having a direct window into medical atrocities committed in the name of conventional medicine,
Wallach has been highly critical of the medical profession and of the pharmaceutical industry,
causing conventional practitioners to condemn him in public or write scathing articles
contradicting his work. A plain spoken Missourian, Wallach reveals in his lectures instances
from across the world which document physician abuses and the prescription of dangerous
drugs. Convinced by sound science and logic of his positions, he is never driven from his
course by public or private pressure. Indeed, to every lecture he carries with him reams of
articles, citations, and evidence in support of each position, well aware that he will likely be
challenged by a proponent of conventional medicine.

Aware of nutrient based ways to treat and cure disease that do not involve placing the patient at
enormous risk, Wallach is unwilling to condone the acts of those who employ other methods that
do place patients at enormous risk.

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For Wallach the practice of medicine is not about capitalizing on the dire health of others but
about finding the most effective ways to eliminate disease without placing patients in jeopardy.
There are many examples of Dr. Wallach’s criticisms of modern medicine articulated in his best
seller, Dead Doctors Don’t Lie, but a few here will suffice to prove the point.

Wallach’s research establishes that the nutrient glucosamine is an effective treatment for
osteoarthritis because it repairs torn cartilage, the very source of the condition. He finds it
criminal that the approved drugs for osteoarthritis are non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
(NSAIDs). Those drugs increase the risk of internal bleeding and only mask the pain associated
with osteoarthritis; they do not treat the loss of cartilage. Consequently, those who follow their
doctor’s advice and take NSAIDs instead of glucosamine are simply tricking themselves into
thinking because the pain is not there, they can continue to grind away at their lacerated
cartilage until it is gone and bone on bone eburnation sets in. Wallach knows better and,
therefore, condemns the accepted practice of doling out NSAIDs to those with osteoarthritis.

From Wallach’s lectures, people often come away with the stark realization that their very own
medical nightmares are not unique but are shared by many others. Those who have been living
with a poor quality of life while dependent upon multiple drugs daily find Wallach’s lectures
revealing because they provide alternatives to drugs with serious side effects and a chance for
a better quality of life and greater longevity.

Explaining to the public these truths (the horror of conventional medicine serving up drugs that
carry with them lethal and debilitating side effects as well as the simple and affordable
alternative of nutritional therapy) has cost Wallach dearly. An unwritten rule pervades the
medical profession and is reinforced by the drug companies in their dealings with physicians:
Never speak ill of another physician and never call into question the drugs that form the
armamentarium of modern medical practice. Physicians have communicated personal attacks
against Wallach that they would never direct to any other colleague. His lectures hit home
because when educated of the truth, patients frequently abandon the conventions they have
lived by and try new alternatives.

Wallach’s research establishes that omega-3 fatty acids are anti-thrombotic, anti-coagulant, and
anti-arrhythmic agents that improve circulation and heart health. He knows that daily ingestion
of omega-3 fatty acids will reduce the risk of a heart attack and stroke by as much as forty
percent. He also knows that drugs like heparin, warfarin, and Coumadin imperil the lives of
patients in need of therapies to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke because they can
cause bleeding to proceed uncontrollably and cause damage to organs and organ systems.

Wallach’s research establishes that a combination of calcium, strontium, boron, magnesium,

and several other minerals and trace minerals are the most effective means to prevent or lessen
the progression of osteoporosis. He is appalled by the conventional medical community’s
reliance on bisphosphonate drugs as the first line of treatment for those conditions. The
bisphosphonates cause bone mineralization to occur on the surface of the bone but do not build
the bone matrix. Over time, these drugs make bones brittle, precisely the condition they are

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supposed to prevent. Rather than reduce the risk of fracture, over time these drugs increase
the risk of fracture.

Wallach’s research establishes that cholesterol performs critical metabolic functions in the body,
is present in every cell of the body, and without adequate amounts of cholesterol we cannot live.
The never ending quest of the National Cholesterol Program to reduce LDL cholesterol to lower
and lower levels is fraught with danger. Also, the statin drugs block the endogenous production
of not only cholesterol but also an essential co-enzyme for the production of ATP in the body
(necessary for energy production by all muscles of the body, including the heart). By doing so,
statins increase the risk of myopathy (muscle weakness and degeneration), including
cardiomyopathy (heart muscle death). Wallach dismisses the notion that cholesterol is, in and
of itself, an appropriate basis for concern, preferring to look at all aspects of cardiovascular
function and to rely principally on nutritional interventions and lifestyle modifications to reduce
the risk of heart attack and stroke.

Wallach’s attacks on the dangers of FDA approved drugs and on conventional medical practice
dependent upon those drug regimens have received powerful support of late from an
unanticipated quarter, the FDA itself. Beginning with the bombshell announcement by FDA
Associate Director of Drug Safety, David Graham, that the public was “virtually defenseless”
against FDA’s routine approval of unsafe drugs, and a steady stream of like-minded FDA
medical reviewers appearing before Congress condemning corruption with the drug industry
and the FDA and the approval over medical reviewers’ objections of a wide range of unsafe
drugs, there have been dozens of high profile drug recalls and changes in label warnings, all
confirming Wallach’s decades long quest to alert the public to these dangers to be well founded.

Because of Wallach’s firm commitment to the Hippocratic Oath and to non-toxic nutritional
interventions proven to alleviate disease, he is regularly attacked by conventional medical
practitioners and the industries that support them. Rather than be dissuaded from his mission
by the critics, Wallach is emboldened by them and, true to form, takes them on at every turn.

Wallach’s Global Army

Wallach’s indefatigable nature, his seemingly endless store of energy and his unremitting drive
and focus have enabled him to hold meetings almost daily 360 days a year at locations around
the world and to be interviewed by mass media, bringing his message of health transformation
and longevity to millions.

To date, over 250,000 people have enlisted as distributors in Youngevity. Each distributor is
educated in Wallach’s concept of “90 for Life,” the 90 nutrients Wallach has identified as
essential for optimal health and wellness. They, in turn, are reaching millions daily. The
company grows by increasingly larger numbers year after year, and there appears to be no end
in sight.

The Youngevity distributors are valued by Wallach far beyond their economic benefit to the
company. He views them as his emissaries, essential proponents of his 90 for Life philosophy

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to the entire world. He knows that they form an ever expanding army that will bring to every
tongue and people critical information that will alter their lives for the better. Because the
products sell themselves, those who become distributors who have health issues become
fiercely loyal to Dr. Wallach. He reciprocates by devoting his time to help them build their
Youngevity businesses.

Key leaders in the company follow Wallach closely and broadcast his message far and wide.
Those who become distributors are embraced, respected, and uplifted physically and mentally
by company leaders in a pattern that Wallach established from the start. Those distributors who
master Wallach’s philosophy, echo his message, and pursue contacts with zeal often
experience great financial success, enabling them to benefit from a residual income not only for
the remainder of their lives but, through descendancy, for the benefit of their children and
children’s children.

As more come to reap the benefits of Dr. Wallach’s nutritional formulations, even those who
choose not to become a part of the Wallach army become outspoken converts to his philosophy
and to his products. As the remaining chapters make clear, the positive effects on people’s lives
exceed ordinary comfort and involve life changing experiences that are never forgotten.

But for individuals with health challenges, the movement from poor to optimal nutrition involves
far reaching improvements to the functioning of every organ in the body, to the effectiveness of
the immune system, to improvement in mental function, to increased energy levels, and to
normal circulatory and digestive functions. For those who have long endured systemic
complications, the changes are extraordinary, oftentimes moving them from a state of
helplessness to a sense of physical well-being and individual empowerment.

Wallach’s criticisms of conventional medicine resonate well with those who have tried for years
to overcome illness with drug regimes that tax their health, render them physically incapacitated
and debilitated, or give them addictions to pain medication. For them, the road back to health is
not an option, it is a necessity for survival.

Over time, the magnitude of Wallach’s discoveries will continue to elevate the condition of
mankind. He is an early and profound critic of the latest medical craze, manipulating the human
genome to rectify “genetic” diseases.

Wallach agrees that the genetic code can be affected by nutritional deficiencies, but he does not
subscribe to the view that all manner of chronic disease is addressable and correctable by
manipulating genes. Rather, he sees what ordinarily passes for inheritable disease to be the
byproduct of nutritional deficiencies. Wallach believes that if each person receives the 90
essential nutrients most conditions said to be inheritable will reveal themselves not to be.

If mothers maintain nutrient stores in their bodies, the full complement of healthy cells will be
given to their children, yielding healthy children. He has established solid evidence of his theory
in the case of cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy and sickle cell anemia, to name a few.

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As the truth comes to light, medicine will catch up to Wallach and, when it does, many theories
that undergird reliance on drug therapies and that promise cures to all manner of diseases
through manipulation of human genes will be discarded. Wallach is confident of that.

Wallach’s view is in many ways an affirmation of the basics. He affirms that the human body
has a remarkable ability to heal and sustain itself if only properly nourished. Before the
explosive growth of pharmacology after World War II, physicians regularly depended upon
supplying patients substances derived from foods and the earth directly. Colloidal silver was
used to treat infections. Niacin was used to treat elevated cholesterol levels. Fish oil was used
to treat thrombotic vascular heart disease.

When antibiotics proved effective in actually killing harmful bacteria, such as streptococcus, big
pharma arrived, creating an orthodoxy in conventional medicine that all manner of ills could be
treated by the creation of synthetic substances that would interfere with disease progression.
Despite over seven decades of effort, hundreds of billions of dollars expended, and billions
more bequeathed by the federal government to bolster the effort, reliance on synthetic drugs
has proven largely incapable of arresting anything beyond symptoms of disease. Moreover, the
adverse side effects have been of epidemic proportions with over 100,000 people dying
annually from adverse reactions to properly prescribed drugs.

The government has enshrined the pharmaceutical industry, making state sponsored
monopolies of it, and driving out of existence any who would claim foods and dietary
supplements to have therapeutic effects. Although enjoying monopoly status, patented drugs
with patent durations longer than any other patented inventions, and even federal government
policing and prosecution of drug patent violators, the pharmaceutical industry has had few real
breakthroughs in treatment over the last sixty years.

The war on cancer, declared by President Richard Nixon on December 23, 1971, and resulting
in passage of the National Cancer Act, has not changed life expectancy for cancer patients
beyond what it was then—that despite the expenditure of $1.4 billion in cancer research by the
federal government in 1972 and billions more since.

An adult diagnosed with cancer today, with few exceptions, will die within the same period of
time as one diagnosed with cancer in 1971. The treatments approved by the FDA are horrific,
involving agents that fail to cure but do sacrifice quality of life, produce monstrous side effects,
and often result in either secondary cancers or the death of the patient. Radiation,
chemotherapy, and surgery for cancer patients are oftentimes acts of desperation performed by
oncologists who have rarely, if ever, seen success in treatment, and yet tens of thousands
beaten down by disease and death sentences in the doctor’s office, follow like sheep to the
slaughter year after year.

Wallach has long been sickened by this macabre spectacle. He has discovered a better way,
and he hopes for the day when his army of adherents will be populated by the entire world’s

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population. He will not rest until that day, and if he does not live to see it, he can rest in the
knowledge that he has generated an army of over 250,000 strong who will carry on his mission.

Transformations
We depend upon evidence of conquest over disease to judge the abilities of physicians. By that
measure, Dr. Wallach has been enormously successful. The following is a small subset of those
whose health has been dramatically improved by Dr. Wallach’s nutritional recommendations.

Marisa Magistro. Since childhood, Marisa suffered from panic attacks. In her mid-20’s Marisa
was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Disease, an autoimmune thyroid condition. She was
prescribed Armour Thyroid. The alterations in her thyroid function caused her to experience
intense cravings for sweet and salty foods and resulting weight gain. She also developed large
painful fatty deposits in her wrists, diagnosed as ganglion cysts. Marisa’s sister introduced her
to Dr. Wallach and his nutrition recommendations. She followed those recommendations and
experienced an amelioration of her symptoms. “3 years on I am still seeing improvements,”
explains Marisa. “I’ve lost a total of 55 pounds. I have better focus and am not suffering from
my crippling panic attacks anymore. I don’t have cravings and can make better food choices.
My Hashimoto’s Disease is gone as well as my ganglion cysts.”

Michael Magistro. In 2009, Michael suffered from severe abdominal pain and digestive health
issues. He also suffered from lactose intolerance. Michael discovered Dr. Wallach and followed
his nutritional recommendations. Within a short period of time, his symptoms began to subside.
Now, two years following the start of his change in diet and his reliance on nutrition, Michael
reports “because of this nutrition my body has been brought back into balance” and his health
has been restored.

Paul Larsen. Paul suffered a severe heart attack and had triple by-pass surgery with several
grafts. A short time thereafter, he had several stints implanted. “I was told I had a limited life
expectancy,” he recalls. In addition to his cardiovascular health problems, Paul suffered from
sleep apnea, Bells Palsy, a detached retina with floaters in both eyes, Type II diabetes,
peripheral neuropathy, vertigo, depression, insomnia, high and low blood pressure, back pain,
nervousness, panic attacks, prolonged clotting time, cravings, anxiety, elevated cholesterol and
triglycerides, fainting, fatigue, night sweats, weight issues, digestive issues, stomach and
intestinal pain, tinnitus, and eczema. He was prescribed some twenty-two to twenty-eight
medications a day that he was required to take for survival, costing him about $2,385 per
month, excluding monthly charges for diabetes medication, lancets, and strips. After a move to
Salt Lake City, Paul found that he had to be admitted to the emergency room some six times
over the course of a few months because of severe angina pain. Each time he was admitted for
a few days and given morphine. Paul had had it. He explains:

After several such visits lying in my hospital bed the head doctor of the cardio unit came to me
to see how I was doing. I asked, “What can you do for me?” “I’m not interested in becoming
addicted to morphine. Fix me please.” After a long silence, the doctor told me, “I am sorry.
There is nothing we can do for you, except try to manage the angina pain when it comes.”

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Paul was fed up with the routine and lack of help. He told the doctor, “disconnect me from the
monitors and release me. I am going home.”

Larsen then discovered Dr. Wallach. He followed a very detailed and extensive nutritional
intervention program prescribed by Dr. Wallach. He explains the results:

Within 3 weeks my Type II Diabetes glucose levels turned into the normal range. I was
shocked, and it seemed daily I noticed a change somewhere else in my body. My energy level
increased, I was sleeping better, my stress level started to decrease. Blood pressure fell into
the normal range. No longer needed the sleep apnea machine. Issue after issue daily seemed
to improve. Within 6 weeks I came off all pharmaceuticals. At the highest point I was on 28
different prescriptions. That number would change from visit to visit depending on the newest
trend in drugs. The good news now I only take an 81 mg aspirin a day and my nutrients.

Mylissa Graham. When Mylissa Graham first married her husband Dan, she had difficulty
conceiving and so she and Dan sought Dr. Wallach’s advice. Dr. Wallach determined that
Mylissa’s failure to have a regular menstrual cycle arose because of a lack of a balanced
nutritional profile. He recommended one nutritional intervention tailored to Mylissa’s specific
condition. Mylissa explains that after following Dr. Wallach’s recommendations “within a couple
of months my cycle had become normal. A few months later, I became pregnant with our son
Zac who is now 13 and our son Josh came later.”

Daryl Sturdivant. Daryl was diagnosed with osteoarthritis, including bone on bone eburnation.
He had served in the military and was on the police force. His attending physicians
recommended that he have a double hip replacement. He had one hip replaced and was about
to undergo the operation a second time when he came across Dr. Wallach. He followed Dr.
Wallach’s recommendations and experienced a restoration of cartilage in his hip. He never
underwent the second hip replacement.

Kim Borba-Galati. Kim had lower back pain since she was 19. She was diagnosed with bluging
discs. She was also diagnosed with bone spurs, sciatic nerve, leg cramps, poor circulation, and
vertigo. Based on her doctors’ recommendations, she consumed various medications for the
ailments and pain killers up to 5 times a day. She suffered severe reactions from the pain
medications and was taken off of them. “At times when my back would go completely out my
husband would take me to the doctor in a van as I would have to be lying flat.” She was in
constant pain. She then turned to Dr. Wallach and followed his recommended nutrition
interventions. Now, three years after adhering to Wallach’s recommendations for three
consecutive years, she reported, “I [am] feeling amazingly better.”

Ted Anderson. Ted had knee pain in his left knee and was considering arthroscopic surgery and
possibly a knee replacement. He also suffered from acid reflux and an elevated triglyceride
level (368). For the reflux, he was taking Prilosec every day. Dissatisfied with the medical
advice he received, Ted turned to Dr. Wallach. He followed Dr. Wallach’s specific nutritional

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recommendations for each condition. After about two and a half months, his knee pain went
away. Because every time he discontinued use of the Prilosec he experienced very
uncomfortable acid reflux, he kept taking the Prilosec until Pharmacist Ben Fuchs told him of
health complications that could arise and recommended he depend on the nutritional program
he was on to achieve an elimination of the acid reflux. Ted then stopped using the Prilosec and,
despite a fear of recurrence, has experienced no acid reflux since. After months on the Wallach
protocol, Ted had blood work performed that revealed his triglyceride level to have returned to
within the normal range at 164. In addition, he lost 35 pounds.

Valerie Nelson. Valerie’s husband has Type II diabetes. Valerie wanted her husband to follow
Dr. Wallach’s nutritional recommendations for diabetes but it was not until he met with Dr.
Wallach in person that he became willing to try it. By following those recommendations, her
husband lost 60 pounds and no longer had a need for any of his medications except insulin
which she says “we were able to almost eliminate.”

Jason Macomber. In 2007, Jason was diagnosed with several auto immune diseases. He was
diagnosed with erythema nodosum, an inflammatory condition of the fatty part of the skin. He
was diagnosed with crohn’s disease and with sarcoidosis. He would regurgitate after eating
almost anything. He had a sensation that he was being smothered most of the day, having
considerable difficulty breathing. His lips would turn blue and he would cough all day every day.
He had difficulty sleeping and spent most nights shivering and sweating, unable to sleep
because of the pain and fever. Jason put it this way: “I never really fell asleep. It was more like
I passed out from exhaustion, only to be awakened by sweats and chills. I rested on a bed of
towels. I would pass out, wake up ten minutes later drenched in my own sweat and shaking
uncontrollably from cold. I would then throw off a layer of towels [from my] bed and begin
again.” His ankles, knees, hips, elbows, and wrists were so inflamed that he could barely move
them. He had a large wound on his leg that would not heal. “My doctors told me it was a brown
recluse spider bite. My doctors were silly people,” he recalls. In June of 2006, he weighed 270
pounds but by January of 2007 he weighed 125 pounds. Jason is 6’ 3”.

Jason became incredibly frustrated as his attending physicians continued to experiment upon
him, unable to determine what was wrong. He explains:

My doctors all wanted to dope me up on pain medication and mutilate me. Each one of them
was intent on cutting off some body part, or some organ. They all insisted that these were
simple procedures. The consensus was that I would be dead in 5 or 6 years, but only if I let
them butcher me along the way. If they didn’t get to chop me up and poison me I had only a
year of living hell to enjoy, then death. One doctor told me I would be dead in five years then he
winked and smiled at me. I truly and deeply wanted to punch him in the face. I was too weak to
do so. I asked him, “Is there anything I can do?” He said, “no.” I asked him, “why is this
happening?” He said, “you are unlucky.” So my doctor smirked at me, sentenced me to death,
had his nurses come and gawk at the wound on my leg, and sent me home. He invited me
back for intravenous steroids, intravenous antibiotics, intravenous nutrition, and of course many
many surgeries.

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In 2013, Jason discovered Dr. Wallach. He followed Dr. Wallach’s nutritional recommendations.
Within one month, he experienced significant improvements in his energy levels. Within five
months, the wound on his leg which had been present since he was six years old fully healed.
As time passed, he kept with the nutritional recommendations and as he did each of his
symptoms began to disappear. He explains, “I am still amazed at the feeling of being able to
move my body without pain. I can walk, run, play with my nieces and nephews and enjoy life
without pain. Today I do yoga, lift weights and run, and I still have energy. I feel fantastic. I am
a lean 185 pounds. I am about to turn 40, and I feel like a 20 year old. I am healthy and free.
Dr. Wallach gave me back my life.”

Ivan Ledbetter. Ivan weighed 400 pounds and had arthritis in his knees and hips, lower back
pain, and heart disease. He suffered from high blood pressure since the age of 16. Before
discovering Dr. Wallach, Ivan had three heart attacks. By following Dr. Wallach’s nutritional
recommendations for thirty days, Ivan lost 60 pounds. After ninety days, he lost another 145
pounds and was able to discontinue taking 13 medications. More recently, Ivan began to
experience severe difficulty breathing. He was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. He
again relied on Dr. Wallach’s nutritional recommendations and has witnessed a 25% ejection
fraction increase to 75%.

Brenda Wright. Since childhood Brenda suffered from a profound lethargy that robbed her of
the energy she needed to perform basic tasks. She was never able to do any physical labor or
work beyond a short period of time. She was diagnosed with abnormally low levels of iron in
her blood and was placed on a regimen of iron IVs. After a short period of increase in her
energy levels, soon she was back to feeling tired all the time and remained unable to perform
basic tasks. The iron IVs had failed. Worse still, her physicians explained that she was not
absorbing other key nutrients and that she likely had only six months to live. Brenda discovered
Dr. Wallach and explained her condition. She was stunned when in response he replied, “this is
easy.” She then followed his nutritional recommendations. After just five days, her iron levels
tested normal. As the weeks passed, she could arise in the morning without laboring and
without pain. One month after following Dr. Wallach’s recommendations religiously, she was
able to work in an office. A month after that, she was able to work full time. Brenda spent a
total of 50 years in a state of near total disability. She had children but was unable to enjoy time
with them to its fullest. “It’s been such an amazing thing,” she says, “I can play with my
grandchildren. I could not play with my own children.”

Sheryl Morley. When Sheryl was 25 years old, she was an assistant manager at a Taco Bell in
Gilbert, Arizona. Because Taco Bell allowed its employees to eat company food at meal breaks,
she depended on the meals to avoid spending the little money she earned. The consequence
was significant. She became overweight, having gained 30 pounds. In addition, she suffered
from severe pain in both knees. She went to a physician who diagnosed her with osteoarthritis
in both knees. He told her that she would have to take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
the rest of her life to help manage the pain and would eventually need double knee replacement
surgery. Fearful, she asked her mother what to do. Her mother recommended that she follow

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Dr. Wallach’s nutritional recommendations. Reluctantly, she agreed. She lost the 30 pounds
and her knee pain went away, all within the span of 60 days. Thereafter, she became a fitness
competitor, a regular runner, and a snow boarder. Years later, and despite daily rigorous
exercise, she still has no knee pain.

Rosemary Austin. At the age of 33, while pregnant, Rosemary suffered a disabling stroke.
Having grown up in a household that appreciated the benefits of organic foods, and having
consumed wholesome farm fresh foods her entire life, Rosemary was baffled by the notion that
something was remiss in her daily routine that would make her susceptible to a stroke. While
recovering from the effects of the stroke, she was able to secure employment answering
phones. It was at her place of employment that she first heard of Dr. Wallach. She experienced
an epiphany when she heard Dr. Wallach say that our foods are nutritionally deficient. Her own
father, who was an organic food advocate, had told her that he would rather go to a veterinarian
for treatment of disease than a human physician. When she heard that Dr. Wallach was a
veterinarian, she remembered those words and felt comforted. She wanted to avoid a second
stroke and make as near a complete recovery as possible and she decided to follow Dr.
Wallach’s nutritional recommendations. “I can go and do,” she says, “and I owe that to Dr.
Wallach.” Rosemary credits her recovery and her stroke free existence to the nutritional
recommendations of Dr. Wallach, which she adheres to religiously.

Wallach’s Unrelenting Drive, Vision, and Legacy

From his formative years as a farm boy in West St. Louis County to his undergraduate and
graduate education at the University of Missouri to his career as a comparative pathologist and
then a physician, Dr. Joel D. Wallach has striven to make a difference in the world and has
made that difference. Lives have been saved. The quality of human life has been improved.
And the hope of mankind that it may one day find a way to conquer disease and live to the limits
of the human lifespan with a quality of life worth living have been advanced greatly by his
contributions.

The fruits of his efforts are evidenced in the thousands of those who have been transformed
from physical affliction, including those near death, and returned to good health. They stand as
living monuments to Wallach’s medical genius. He has never given up on a vexing case; in fact,
his patients are ordinarily those failed by conventional medicine.

His vision of a world liberated from disease and empowered to live better longer through the
self-help mechanism of quality and complete nutrition has been largely realized through an army
of over 250,000 distributors, but Wallach has never been one to dream modest dreams. He
envisions a world in which every person understands the importance of “90 for Life.”

The life of Joel Wallach from his earliest days has been one of constant service and
self-sacrifice. He has not taken the easy road because he has taken upon him the physical
hardships of others. He has made the betterment of mankind his responsibility. The weight of
that burden would tax most people to death but Wallach is invigorated by the struggle.

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Wallach dreams of a day when the ugly truths underlying modern medicine are universally
appreciated. When a patient visits a doctor, Wallach wants that patient armed with knowledge
not only concerning the benefits of complete nutrition but also concerning the precise
deficiencies that beget their disease states and the treatments that will best bring about a cure.
He wants an end to the era of patients going like sheep to the slaughter and the creation of a
new era where physicians are truly made to account for the prescriptions they give.

He dreams of a day when all appreciate the critical role of complete nutrition in the maintenance
of health. He wants each of us to understand how the 90 essential nutrients variously work
within our bodies to maintain healthy metabolic function, avert disease, and, when ill, hasten
return to normal health.

He dreams of a day when the myth that genes determine a whole host of diseases that elude
modern medicine is put to rest, and when people come to understand that epigenetics, the
effect of nutrient deficiency on gene expression, becomes universally understood. On that day
diseases like cystic fibrosis, multiple sclerosis, and sickle cell anemia will be known to be
preventable through complete nutrition in the same way that neural tube defect births are now
known to be preventable through folic acid supplementation.

He dreams of a day when the governments of the world finally abandon censorship and allow
into the market the enormous body of evidence concerning the disease prevention and
treatment effects of nutrients. Wallach longs for the day when people forewarned and
forearmed with 90 essential nutrients each day so effectively defeat disease that the average
lifespan extends well beyond 100 years and the quality of life of centenarians is equal to those
in today’s industrialized societies who are half their age.

Although 75 years young, Wallach has more vitality, quickness of mind, and passion than most
men half his age and he attributes that good health to his own reliance on the very formulations
he recommends to others. He will likely live a very long life and will not discontinue his mission
until his last breath.

His legacy is now secure, but it will continue to grow in the years to come. With an exceptional
management team, the institution he founded, Youngevity, will ultimately bring to the entire
world Wallach’s message of better health and longevity through high quality and complete
nutrition. Wallach’s passion has been contagious thus far and will likely continue to be for
generations to come.