David Kern:  

Life Let's catch up... I left dear old Naples High in the middle of my senior year, having exhausted all options and teachers I was interested in. (Remember, never end a sentence with a preposition. And avoid clichés like the plague.) I graduated from DiBacco School in Lake Worth. They let me write, direct and produce a play for my senior project. No typing, no shop. I wrote 440 stanzas in iambic pentameter. Very cool school. Back to Naples, no offers of college, which I now regret. At the time, I was drained of all enthusiasm for school. Ironic, since I spend most of my time studying now. I met my future wife in 1979. Lived on Sanibel for a while, then Tampa. In 1980, Katrina and I stuffed the kids in the car and moved to Denver, to be near her youngest. We stayed for the next 25 years or so. Two more kids in the meantime, and the lights of my life they remain: Suzanne Elena in '82, and Aaron David in '87. The move to Colorado also coincided with my introduction to antiaging nutrition and orthomolecular medicine. Katrina read Pearson and Shaw's "Life Extension" and recommended it to me. I was fascinated by the possibility of intervention into the aging process, and remain so. I began writing about discoveries in medical nutrition in 1993, and published a subscription newsletter, New Health & Longevity, for several years. Unfortunately, it was an idea whose time had almost come. I made my living in carpentry, computers, construction, automotive testing, and telephone information services. R...Expand for more