Disease is caused by deficiency, toxicity, or trauma.
Over 70% of the human body is water. Thus, the water you drink, the air you breathe, the sunlight you receive, and the soil your food is grown in matter. To determine the effects of anything, be it food or a toxic chemical, at least two generations or more need to be observed. What we drink, eat, and digest, and how we think, determine what we become. Biochemical individuality must also be considered.
Tai Chi, yoga, and dancing are highly beneficial for the human body, mind, and spirit. While living in Maui, I also learned Polynesian dancing, which kept me very fit.
It took nine long years to find a solution to my infertility, because in those days, little was known. Monique was born in 1978 and then almost died from the MMR vaccine. (Another long story for another time). Through that experience, I learned how to help other women have healthy, beautiful babies and raise healthy children. Thus, this area is of particular interest to me.
When pondering how to solve health and mental problems and relieve suffering (i.e., our current health crises), I concluded the best place to start was through educating young women (and men) on good nutrition before they get pregnant. If done properly, health would improve, and chronic diseases would dissipate within one generation. Unfortunately, life in the real world is not that simple because sickness-care is big business. Nonetheless, the result of good nutrition was evident in my practice. Healthy moms and dads produce healthy, beautiful offspring, and sickness-care costs are greatly reduced. I applaud CHD, ICAN, MAA, OCA, RI, and other organizations, working tirelessly on these issues.
Life happens, and when my daughter was two years old, Ron and I split. For better schooling, I moved to Boca Raton, Florida, in 1987 with my daughter (where else do you go from Hawaii?), where I started a new nutrition practice from scratch. Thus, another phase in my life began.
SOUTH SEAS UNIVERSITY
Backtracking…
During a previous trip to Rarotonga, in the Cook Islands, I met Sir Thomas Davis, MD, KBE, and leader of the opposition party. After my divorce in 1975, he asked me to work for him, so I went to Rarotonga and worked as his PA and in his medical clinic. Long story short, I eventually returned to Maui, and in 1976, he became Prime Minister, created a thriving economy, and wrote his country’s national anthem.
However, we had a destiny and always kept in touch. In 1999, I returned to Rarotonga, and we married in 2000. And thus started another whirlwind journey.
My husband was the first Cook Islander to get a university education. Going to medical school in New Zealand (NZ) and Australia was his pathway to fulfilling his passion for science. While working as the Cook Islands’ Medical Officer (for the NZ government), he was invited to the US by the Calvin Coolidge family.
So, off he sailed to Boston, where he received the Key to the city, attended Harvard, and then worked as a research physician for Arthur D. Little. He was one of the pioneers in the US space program before it developed into NASA. He also did research for the US military and the Indian government in the Himalayas. When his people called upon him to return to the Cook Islands and lead the opposition political party, he answered their call.
Sir Tom was a great sailor, having sailed over 70,000 miles in Polynesian canoes that he built. His maternal Welsh grandfather, Capt.
Harries, was known as the Pearl King of the Pacific, who sailed his large schooner from San Francisco to Sydney and everywhere in between.
Spirit (God/Universe) provides in amazing ways. When my classmates were going off to college, I missed that opportunity. Instead, I was whisked away like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz on a life-learning journey. What I experienced and learned was far more than what any college could have taught me.
In 1999, Lily (Sir Tom’s stepdaughter) and Rod Henderson and Dr. Reza Chowdhury asked Sir Tom and me to help establish South Seas University and its James Cook School of Medicine. We enthusiastically agreed.
Here was the educational opportunity I missed earlier in life. Dr. Chowdhury provided the funds and all the logistics that gave birth to South Seas University (SSU) and James Cook School of Medicine. Dr. Chowdhury was a biomedical engineer and miracle worker with many skills. Previously, he was the Director of President Ronald Reagan’s task force. Having him as my mentor was a blessing. We became the best of friends and still work together today.
Through SSU, I was able to expand my nutrition education and earn a Master of Public Health (MPH), specializing in Nutrition. Working in my husband’s medical practice was also an excellent education and experience.
As time progressed and through many trials and tribulations I was entrusted with SSU and its operations. To honor my late husband and all of Dr. Chowdhury’s efforts, I am building SSU’s OL education programs. With Reza’s mentoring and the help of Dr. Johannes Schonborn, MD, Lily Henderson, Prof. André Leu (Agroecology, Regenerative, Organic Agriculture), Dr. Michelle Perro, MD (Regenerative Pediatrics), Dr. Wayne Dewri, Ed Giles, Fay Thompson, Anne Temple, and others, SSU is making significant progress.
SSU offers unique courses that reflect the changing demands of business, professions, healthcare, and our environment for a better, long-term outcome. Education for Total Consciousness (ETC), established by HH Swami Isa, is applied in all our programs, which are conducive to good health, environmentally friendly, beautifying, and in harmony with Nature.
SSU is committed to being a premier institution of higher learning, offering affordable education, and cultivating exceptional human resources.
SSU provides a culturally rich environment for students to think freely and be inspired, creative, and productive.
While working on SSU in Rarotonga, we also worked on an extraordinary project for Te Wanana College in NZ. I taught Nutrition, and Sir Tom designed and oversaw the building of the Aotearoa One (A 70’ ocean-going double-hulled canoe). He was also a world expert on Polynesian history and a good artist.