Pursue optimal human performance in Track & Field distance running. Facilitate and proliferate the use of --the-- best applied sport sciences based training information available anywhere in the world. Running involves the use of human cells. The manner in which those cells function impacts one's running ability. Training in a manner consistent with human cellular function, in an effort to optimize their function, makes improvement more controllable, more stable, and more certain.

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed." ---[Francis Bacon]

"I don't know that there is any magic level of interest in science that people ought to have. But the more they understand, the more they will be able to control their destiny and achieve their other aims." ---[Stephen Hawking]

Facilitate and proliferate the use of --the-- best applied general sciences based "Competent Self-Care" information in medicine, mental health, and parenting available anywhere in the world for the targeted purpose of contributing to the removal of large numbers of customers and/or victims of the old medicine and mental health care systems. Encourage and enhance the general public's pursuit of personal growth, self-education, and life long learning in these areas.

"......the benefits that US health care currently deliver may not outweigh the aggregate health harm it imparts." ----[Journal Of The American Medical Association...Volume 302 #1..July 1, 2009...page 89 - 91]

"All the good things....they don't teach us in medical school, because the drug companies pay for our education."---[Dr. John Sessions M.D.]

"Better health care will depend, not on some new therapeutic standard, but on the level of willingness and competence to engage in self care."

[Dr. I. Illich....1978]

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"......the benefits that US health care currently deliver may not outweigh the aggregate health harm it imparts."

Journal Of The American Medical Association...Volume 302 #1..July 1, 2009...page 89 - 91

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Heart disease......."We're never going to end the epidemic because the stents, bypasses, and drugs, none of it is addressing the cause of the illness."

[Caldwell Esselstyn M.D.]

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"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it."

[Dick Cavett]

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"All the good things....they don't teach us in medical school, because the drug companies pay for our education."

Dr. John Sessions M.D.

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"For every dollar we spend on prescription drugs, we spend a dollar to fix the complication."

Dr. Mehmet Oz [Professor of Surgery, Columbia University]

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"Most drugs are only effective for a small percentage of people who take them."

Michael Leavitt [U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services 2005 - 2009]

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"......1.5 million U.S. residents are harmed or killed each year because of medication errors, according to an Institute of Medicine report."

Nature Medicine....Volume 12 #9....September 2006.....pg 984 - 985....News In Brief

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"In September 2011...a National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day...in Orange County, Florida alone....more than 1.5 tons of prescription medications were returned."

WH Shrank....Our bulging medicine cabinets....New England Journal of Medicine....Volume 364 #17.....April 28, 2011......page 1591

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[Dr. John Abramson , Lecturer, Harvard University, Consultant U.S. Dept. Of Justice & FBI.....stated on the Dr. Oz Show May 13, 2011]

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"Less than 1 percent of our health care spending goes to examining what treatments are most effective. Less than 1 percent.......As a result too many doctors and patients are making decisions without the benefit of latest research.......A recent study for example, found that only half of all cardiac guidelines are based on scientific evidence."

President Barack Obama...Speech to the American Medical Association [June 15, 2009]

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"How cancer develops is no longer a mystery." ---- "2/3 of all cancers are preventable."---- "Last year more people suffered and died needlessly than ever before."

Dr. John Seffin [CEO American Cancer Society] National Press Club October 16, 2003

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"Anything and everything we need to know about cancer, we know it."

Bharat Aggarwal PhD. [MD Anderson Cancer Center] Lecture at the University Of Texas at Austin....March 3, 2011

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".....most doctors don't read or understand medical research..."

Richard Smith [editor, British Medical Journal]...........Volume 326 #14......June 2003]

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"The doctors do not always know best and often fail to provide the appropriate care."

[Consumer Reports On Health&&April 2002 -- When Doctors Don't Know Best]

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"The U.S. mental health system is in crisis....according to a federal report."

"The fundamental problem: emphasizing medicating people over fostering ways to help them lead productive lives."

Associated Press, The Daily Texan [September 17, 2002]

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"Practice is not reflecting the research. Ninety to 95% of programs have no research base. The gap between what is known and what is being provided in routine care is huge."

Kimberly Hogwood {New York Office Of Mental Health] Associated Press, The Daily Texan, April 11, 2002

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"You can narcoticize your body, you can distract your brain, but one day your body will present its bill."

[Alice Miller]