The author is an Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Physician. He has overseen thousands of patients for weight management, as well as diabetics with peripheral neuropathy, retinopathy with blindness and kidney failure. He has managed respiratory failure in morbidly obese patients whose inability to breathe required life support. He has managed a muscular dystrophy patient for 29 years on ventilator life support who was able to manage his personal affairs from his bed, despite being unable to use his arms or legs. He also has managed obesity syndromes including Pickwickian Syndrome. He has evaluated many orthopedic problems that were the result of obesity. And by following his own recommendations in his book has proven that his total body re-conditioning truly works.