Meet The Experts

Jean Carper Stop Aging Now

Jean Carper is a best-selling author, columnist, radio talk show host, and leading authority on health, nutrition and longevity. She is the author of 23 books, including New York Times Best Sellers Stop Aging Now!, Food Your Miracle Medicine and Miracle Cures. Her latest book is EatSmart: the Cookbook You Can't Live Without.

Jean’s column, EatSmart, for Gannett's Sunday supplement USA Weekend, appears every week in 600 newspapers nationwide with a readership of 51 million. Previously she was senior medical correspondent for CNN (Cable News Network), recipient of the cable industry's prestigious ACE award for a series on brain cancer. She has written more than 200 articles for national publications, such as the Washington Post and the Reader's Digest, and has appeared on numerous television programs, including the Today Show, Good Morning America and Dateline.

In 1996 Jean founded Stop Aging Now and formulated her pioneering anti-aging Multi Nutrient Formula based on the findings in her book Stop Aging Now!.  Since then, the company’s product line has grown extensively, and the formulas continue to contain only the highest quality supplements to help people live a longer, healthier life.

Dr. Michael Cutler Easy Health Options

Dr. Cutler is the medical advisor to natural supplements manufacturer, True Health, the editor and founder of the newsletter Easy Health Options as well as the creator of the natural health restoration and weight loss program, 90 Days to True Health.  Dr. Cutler is not only a natural health specialist but he’s also a traditionally-trained medical doctor.  He’s a graduate of Tulane Medical School and has spent over 17 years in private practice.  His career took a turn toward natural and holistic medicine after his own personal health struggle… a painful experience that he says could have been avoided had he fully understood back then what he knows now – the principles of True Health.

Dr. William Campbell Douglass II The Douglass Report

Dr. William Campbell Douglass has led a colorful, rebellious, and crusading life. Not many physicians would dare put their professional reputations on the line as many times as this courageous healer has. A vocal opponent of "business-as-usual" medicine, Dr. Douglass has championed patients' rights and physician commitment to wellness for the past two decades. This dedicated physician has repeatedly gone far beyond the call of duty in his work to spread the truth about alternative therapies. For a full year, he endured economic and physical hardship to work with physicians at the Pasteur Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, where advanced research on photoluminescence is being conducted.

Dr. Douglass comes from a distinguished family of physicians. He is the fourth generation Douglass to practice medicine, and his son is also a physician. Dr. Douglass graduated from the University of Rochester, the Miami School of Medicine, and the Naval School of Aviation and Space Medicine. He has been named the National Health Federation's "Doctor of the Year." An avid traveler, Dr. Douglass is a popular public speaker and often appears on radio and television. He is also the author of five books and editor of The Douglass Report, a monthly alternative medical newsletter.

Jason Knapfel Healthy Living Now

Jason Knapfel is a contributing writer to Healthy Living Now. He has spent nearly a decade in the health and fitness field, including more than six years as Senior Editor at eDiets.com, a leading online diet and fitness plan provider. Jason earned his B.A. in English from Florida Atlantic University in 1994. Jason lives in Roseville, California where he works as a health and wellness writer and editor.

Layne Lowery Health Resources

Layne Lowery is the owner and operator of Health Resources, a manufacturer of high-quality nutritional supplements.  In the health business since 1995, Layne’s passion is providing affordable natural health solutions and educational tools based on the best scientific research available to empower his customers to make wise decisions on matters of personal health.  He scours the globe to find only the most effective, highest quality forms of natural ingredients that are then synergistically blended and triple purity certified. Layne is so confident his line of nutritional health supplements will make real, noticeable improvements to his customers health, he offers a 100 percent, no-risk, lifetime money-back guarantee of satisfaction.

Dr. Joseph Mercola Mercola.com

Dr. Joseph Mercola is an osteopathic physician, board certified in family medicine, and runs the Optimal Wellness Center, located outside Chicago in Schaumburg, Illinois. He has been trained in and practices both conventional and natural medicine, and writes a monthly column for a natural alternative medical journal (The Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients) and has been interviewed on national and local news, including ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.

Dr. Andreas Papas Yasoo Health

Dr. Andreas Papas is one of the founding members and President of Yasoo Health. He holds a PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry and combines 25 years of academic and industrial experience in nutraceuticals.

A Fulbright Scholar at the University of Illinois, Dr. Papas is currently an Adjunct Professor at the College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University. He is the author of the acclaimed book The Vitamin E Factor and editor of the scientific book Antioxidant Status, Diet, Nutrition and Health.

Deemed as a member of the world’s foremost experts on vitamin E, Dr. Papas’s company Yasoo Health, manufactures one of the highest quality lines of vitamin E products available.

Dr. Robert J. Rowen Second Opinion Newsletter

Dr. Robert J. Rowen is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the University of California at San Francisco.  He is board certified in both family medicine and emergency care, and has served on Alaska’s State Medical Board.

Dr. Rowen is known as “The Father of Medical Freedom” for pioneering the nation’s first statutory protection for alternative medicine in 1990. Today, he lives in northern California where he is in private practice with his wife, Dr. Terri Su.

Jenny Thompson Director, Health Sciences Institute

Jenny Thompson is editor of the HSI e-Alert and HSIBaltimore.com.  Prior to joining the Health Sciences Institute of Baltimore in 1998, Jenny worked with several other membership and health-based organizations.  She was fortunate to find an opportunity to combine her experience in both of those areas with her passion for writing.

Today, she works closely with the team at HSI to uncover important health information and expose ridiculous health misinformation, most notably through the HSI e-alert newsletter.

Dr. Jonathan V. Wright

Dr. Jonathan V. Wright has degrees from both Harvard University (cum laude) and the University of Michigan. More than any other doctor, he practically invented the modern science of applied nutritional biochemistry and he has advanced nutritional medicine for nearly three decades. Thousands of doctors respect Dr. Wright as the author of the best-selling Book of Nutritional Therapy and Guide to Healing with Nutrition, as well as other classics in the field.

Millions of Americans first learned about natural medicine through Dr. Wright's regular columns in Prevention (1976-1986) and Let's Live (1986-1996) magazines.

In addition, for nearly 30 years, Dr. Wright and his colleague, Dr. Alan Gaby, have been building an archive of natural healing science unique in all the world. Today it includes nearly every major study on the subject ever published in over 350 medical journals over the past 35 years...plus every pertinent study published in 50 major journals since 1920.