Autoimmunity-2008 - People

Hi! I'm a recent college grad and have just moved back north (SF area) from LA. I'm an active, not-quite-coordinated one who enjoys food and fun. I like to work out and try to eat as healthfully as possible. I'm a vegetarian. I do sports that aren't too seriously competitive (since I'm generally not very good at them). Snowboarding is fabulous. I run.

Namrita O'Dea is co-owner of 55nine Performance based in Atlanta, GA. She helps triathletes, runners, cyclists and other athletes reach their nutrition and performance goals. She has a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan (1998) and is currently finishing up her Masters degree in Sports Nutrition at Georgia State University where she was recently named...

Penelope Przekop is the author of Aberrations: A Novel (Emerald/Greenleaf) and Six Sigma for Business Excellence (McGraw-Hill). On her blog, Aberration Nation, she interviews people with various mental, physical, and situational aberrations. Members of the Aberration Nation are heros who are stepping out to share how the so-called negatives in life ultimately brought them to new heights of...

In 2006 I become an Ironman. In 2008 doing my third Ironman, I raced to the point of kidney and liver failure. I was given hours to live and yet here I am. I may get to train and race again in 2009. Stick around and find out. ‘Common Man Syndrome’ is a lazy and uninspired life. Breakout and be UNcommon by setting a goal and reaching it.

Like pink - alot! Like to garden - alot! Love being in Santa Cruz.

I'm a healthy, vibrant and joyful person who owns a Pilates & Gyrotonic studio near the beach in Santa Cruz CA. Never having been sick in my life, I was shocked to find a lump in my right breast in June 2008 and was diagnosed with Stage 1 Grade 3 Triple Negative Breast Cancer. I had a lumpectomy in June 2008 and the aggressive cancer spread to lymph nodes requiring a second surgery in February...

As a fitness and nutrition guru, Brad Linder helps his clients reach their health and fitness goals. Getting in shape and living a healthy lifestyle can be a trying process. Brad designs nutrition and fitness programs for individuals and groups to help make that process easier. His approach is to educate, encourage, and motivate the client. Those, along with his comprehensive approach to...

Adi Jaffe is a doctoral student at UCLA who has been studying addiction-related matters for over 6 years, has published several articles and book chapters on the topic as well as having given numerous presentations on addiction at national conferences. In 2008, Adi began publishing an addiction blog at www.allaboutaddiction.com, which has been constantly growing in popularity. After receiving...

I lost a kidney and have just recently found a path to take because a Doctor took the time to listen and realized I was not a hypochondriac or a big overly sensitive, stressed, depressed woman. (yes, lots of justified sarcasm). I was athletic, very lean and continued to stay fit by enjoying bike rides and playing recreational co-ed softball. However, when I started a family at 25, I had horrible...

Al Simon is the director of CloudWater.Com and the CEO of Al J. Simon, Inc. in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Al learned his first Qigong exercises in 1975 (back when it was called "Chinese yoga"), and began Tai Chi in 1984. Al was inducted twice into the United States Martial Arts Hall of Fame. In 2007, Al was inducted with the rank of "Master" by the International Martial Arts Headfounders...