Sages

Dr. Chris Knobbe, M.D.

In May 2020, I woke up and the world look distorted. I rubbed my eyes. I closed my right eye and the world looked fine, but when I closed my left eye, the world looked all squiggly. Faces looked like small cone heads. I couldn’t help but laugh at the funny images I was now seeing. My wife called our friend who was an ophthalmologist. Dr. Lica Chui told me to come in immediately. I had wet macular degeneration, the #1 cause of blindness in the elderly. But I was only 50 years old. I had a high chance of going blind. It could happen as quickly within a year.

So I listened to every doctor I could find on the Internet to see if there was a cure. No cure. Just some eye shots that would prevent its progression. I had eye injections every month. I thought I would be ok because I still had my left eye but then my left eye also started to see distorted images. So then I had eye injections monthly in both my eyes.

Then I discovered Dr. Chris Knobbe and his Cure for AMD Foundation. His suggestion was simple. Remove all processed foods from my diet, especially the seed oils introduced in the last 100 years. He believed the cause was dietary rather than age. I changed my diet completely. No more fried foods, no more processed foods, no more seed oils (which are almost impossible to get away from when you go to restaurants). Just tell them you are allergic to seed oils and there is hardly anything to eat on the menu. I no longer receive eye shots. My eyes appear stable. My goal is now to not require strong glasses for vision, to strengthen my retina and delay the onset of any further macular degeneration.

December 2020, I donated to Dr. Knobbe’s Cure for AMD Foundation. Then I invited him to our annual Chit Chats Dream Experience in Cancun in Jan 2023. 50 Chit Chatters had an eye opening experience listening to Dr. Knobbe talk about the causes of not only macular degeneration, but of all modern chronic diseases, like heart disease, diabetes, autoimmune diseases, and cancers.

Dr. Chris Knobbe, is a physician, ophthalmologist, nutrition researcher, author, speaker, public health advocate, and the founder of two nonprofit organizations: Ancestral Health Foundation and Cure AMD Foundation. Since 2015, Dr. Knobbe has given scores of presentations and achieved international academic recognition for his work on the dangers of highly polyunsaturated vegetable oils. Dr. Knobbe’s goals are altruistic and humanitarian; he accepts no compensation for his work in this field.

His books, Ancestral Dietary Strategy to Prevent and Treat Macular Degeneration, and his latest, The Ancestral Diet Revolution, espouses that the root cause of most of today’s chronic diseases is processed foods high in vegetable oils, refined sugars, and refined grains. Overweight, obesity, and most all chronic diseases can be prevented simply by eliminating processed foods and vegetable oils from the diet. Primarily, by eliminating the major processed food components – refined flour, sugars, and most vegetable oils – we can prevent and reverse most chronic diseases. Simultaneously, excess weight drops effortlessly, and energy increases, while fatigue, brain fog, and a myriad of other mysterious symptoms generally disappear. The effects of aging are obviously delayed. Most people are shocked at their results, including the authors

Perry Marshall

I read Perry’s book, 80/20 Sales & Marketing and it changed the way I did business. 80/20. Yes we have heard that 20% of your inputs lead to 80% of your outputs. And 80% of your inputs lead to only 20% of your outputs.

But what Perry further realized is that 80/20 is Fractal, meaning there is an 80/20 inside every 80/20, repeating 80/20s. This meant that 1% of your inputs lead to 51% of your outputs.

That was revolutionary! We had 1200 stores on BlackFriday.com. That meant 12 stores would give 51% of our revenues. We removed all but 60 stores, and more than 10x our revenues. 95% less work and 10x more revenues!

Perry distills timeless principles of wealth and life into simple tools and concepts you can employ in your daily life right away, if you so choose, and change your life so drastically by such simple measures.

I was Donor #5 of 10 for Perry’s $10 million XPrize for Evolution 2.0. Together, along with Oxford Professor emeritus, Dr. Denis Noble, who is a judge of the Evolution 2.0 Prize, we presented at the Royal Society in London, England, where the great Sir Isaac Newton was a President. The insights I have had as part of this Evolution 2.0 journey have been so amazing. It merged business with my background in Biochemistry and medicine and has been a fascinating journey together with Perry and our distinguished friends. I’d like to share these life defining moments together with Perry and you.

Perry is a polymath, an Electric Engineer and makes custom high end speakers. Perry has authored several other books including Evolution 2.0, which I advise people to read if you really want to understand evolution simply. He is also one of the most expensive business strategists in the world, endorsed in Forbes and Inc Magazine. He is a published scientist and aims to solve the #1 mystery in Artificial Intelligence and life itself. His reinvention of the Pareto (80/20) Principle is published in Harvard Business Review. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs uses his 80/20 Curve as a productivity tool. His Google book laid the foundations for the $100 billion Pay Per Click industry. Marketing legend Dan Kennedy says, “If you don’t know who Perry Marshall is — unforgivable. Perry’s an honest man in a field rife with charlatans.”

Susan Brecker

I met Susan Brecker recently in New York and I found a kind, compassionate person with a brilliant mind and a big heart. A psychotherapist, mother of two, when tragedy struck her renown husband, Michael Brecker, the transcendent saxophonist, winner of 15 Grammys, with preleukemia, she took the call to make a heartfelt documentary called More to Live For to educate the public to become bone marrow donors, not only in the hopes that there be found a bone marrow match to save her husband’s life, but also for people in the future who would need a bone marrow transplant to survive cancer. Through this, more than 100 lives and counting have been saved.

She continues her husband’s legacy to not only keep his music going in Jazz Festivals and competitions, but in also producing big concerts at the Lincoln Center in New York, with the likes of Paul Simon, Winston Marsalis, Diana Kroll, Bobby McFerrin, James Taylor, Chaka Khan and Hugh Jackman singing to raise funds for the breakthrough cancer research of Dr. Azra Raza and Dr. Sid Mukherjee at Columbia University. She has helped fund raise over $4M to date. The next big concert will be on February 6, 2024 at the Lincoln Center in NY.

She has inspired me to become a bone marrow donor and I am pondering how everyone in the world can be a bone marrow donor. A simple cheek swab and if you are a direct match to save someone’s life, it just requires giving some blood. You can be a life saver!