Health Professionals and Personal Trainers I've Heard About

I will be posting the names and brief bios of professional individuals who I think senior men like you may find of interest or who may have valuable information to share regarding your health. -- Bill

Directory

• Mike Boyle
• Jeff Cavaliere
• Dom D’Agostino
• Davis Lamson
• Rhonda Patrick
• Victoria Valentina

Mike Boyle, personal trainer

Mike Boyle

Michael Boyle is one of the foremost experts in the fields of strength and conditioning, functional training, and general fitness.

Mike served as the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Boston University for 15 years, also for the past 25 years was the Strength and Conditioning Coach for Men’s Ice Hockey at Boston University.

Mike was the Boston Red Sox strength and conditioning coach in 2013 that won the World Series. In addition to his duties at Boston University and the Red Sox, from 1991-1999, Boyle served as the Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League. Michael was also the Strength and Conditioning Coach for the 1998 US Women’s Olympic Ice Hockey Team, who were gold medalists in Nagano and 2014 silver medalists in Sochi, and served as a consultant in the development of the USA Hockey National Team Development Program in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

In 1996, he co-founded Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning, one of the first for-profit strength and conditioning companies in the world. Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning exists for one reason: to provide performance enhancement training for athletes of all levels. Athletes trained range from junior high school students to All Stars in almost every major professional sport. Mike has published a number of books on strength and conditioning including New Functional Training for Sports. Currently Mike spends his time lecturing, teaching, training, and writing [MBSC]

• Facebook: Michael Boyle
• Instagram: michael_boyle1959
• Website MBSC: Mike Boyle strength & conditioning 
• Website StregthCoach.com: Michael Boyle’s StrengthCoach
• X: @mboyle1959
• YouTube Channel: Mike Boyle Strength & Conditioning 

Jeff Cavaliere, personal trainer & physical therapist

Jeff Cavaliere

Jeff Cavaliere is a fitness guru, social media star, personal trainer, and previous head physical therapist of the New York Mets ( professional baseball team). Jeff earned a Bachelor of Science in Physioneurobiolgy/Premedicine and a Masters degree in Physical Therapy from the University of Connecticut. 

He is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). Jeff served as both the Head Physical Therapist and Assistant Strength Coach for the New York Mets during the National League East Championship 2006, 2007 and 2008 seasons. During this time, he coached some of the game’s most accomplished players including future hall of fame pitchers Tom Glavine and Pedro Martinez, and perennial all-stars Carlos Delgado, Carlos Beltran, David Wright, Jose Reyes, and Billy Wagner to name just a few.

In addition to physiotherapy and training, Jeff is an author and lecturer speaking on topics such as baseball injury prevention, sport specific conditioning, sports training, and injury rehabilitation and prevention. Jeff founded ATHLEAN-X Training System to share methods and techniques used by some of the greatest athletes to forge explosive and strong physiques. This is a science based training system allowing anyone to get the same results as professional athletes. [AX] 

• Facebook: ATHLEAN-X
• Greatest Physiques: Jeff Cavaliere
• Instagram: ATHLEAN-X
• Website: ATHLEAN-X
• X: @trainer2thepros
• YouTube Channel: ATHLEAN-X

Dominic D'Agostino, Ph.D.

Dom D’Agostino is a neuroscientist and professor at the forefront of metabolic therapies, including ketogenic strategies, exogenous ketones, and hyperbaric oxygen.

He is a prominent nutritional ketosis and metabolic research scientist, Associate Professor at the University of South Florida (USF) Morsani College of Medicine, and Senior Visiting Scientist at the Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC). He is known for his work on ketogenic diets and ketones for neurological disorders, epilepsy, cancer, traumatic brain injuries, and enhancing human resilience.

Funded by the DoD/ONR, his research develops ketone-based therapies for military and medical applications, focusing on brain health, metabolic diseases, and space exploration.

• Dr. D’Agostino has an informational website: KetoNutrition
• He’s involved in The Metabolic Link podcast [on YouTube], and the Metabolic Health Initiative, which is an ACCME-accredited medical education platform. They have educational information where doctors, neuroscientists, cardiologists, and oncologists who treat metabolic disorders give lectures on this topic. And so you can get medical education and learn about ketogenic diets. It meets the ACCME bar of standards.
• It’s also associated with the Metabolic Health Summit

Davis Lamson, M.S., N.D. - Naturopathic Doctor

Dr. Davis Lamson

Humans are designed fairly well, but with most medical problems something has malfunctioned to result in an undesirable situation.

While quick relief is desirable, finding the cause of a problem is more sensible than only treating symptoms. Sometimes this is complicated and can even result in research to solve a patient problem. As a result, Dr. Lamson has over 40 research publications in professional journals.

Dr. Lamson is familiar with many chronic problems, such as osteoarthritis, autoimmunity, infection control with immune stimulation, lung problems, diabetes, kidney failure, and gastroesophageal reflux. He also offers complementary medical support for those with cancer, having instructed it in a medical school for 17 years.

Atherosclerotic plaque in heart arteries is the chief reason for heart attack and the plaque is removable. So everyone is checked for the amount of artery plaque by a non-invasive in-office procedure – with usually a simple suggestion for plaque removal if necessary.

Dr. Lamson has received awards including the 2004 Alumnus of the Year by Bastyr University and the first Lifetime Achievement Award of the Oncology Association of Naturopathic Physicians in 2015.

In addition to general medical care and the aim of allover body improvement, Dr. Lamson offers the following specific services:

• Digital Pulsewave Analysis – shows degree of atherosclerosis in arteries.
• Pulmonary Function – determines state of and progress in asthma and COPD.
• Food Allergy Determination – by immune antibody levels.
• Therapeutic Ultrasound – for acute muscular discomfort
• Identification of Low Intestinal Absorption of Nutrients.
• Amount of calcium discharged in urine – a no-cost office test as estimation of bone loss.
• Complementary Medical Assistance with Cancer – Those with a cancer concern should hear the details and reasons for engaging in this.

Education:

• Bastyr University, Kenmore, WA: N.D.: Naturopathic Medicine 1982
•  University of Illinois, Urbana, IL: ABD; Organic Chemistry 1967
•  University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ: M.S.; Organic Chemistry 1962
• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC: B.S.; Chemistry 1956

Dr. Lamson has a practice at Seattle Healing Arts Center in Seattle.

Click here for services offered by Dr. Lamson.

Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D., Researcher and Co-Founder of FoundMyFitness

Rhonda Patrick earned her BS in biochemistry/ chemistry from the University of California, San Diego. She earned her PhD in biomedical science at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. In her graduate work she investigated the link between mitochondrial metabolism, apoptosis, and cancer. She discovered a protein critical for cell survival which has two distinct mitochondrial locations with disparate functions. Her work linked the role of this protein in inhibiting apoptosis to a previously unrecognized role in mitochondrial respiration and maintenance of mitochondrial structure. Her dissertation findings were published in the 2012 issue of Nature Cell Biology. 

Dr. Patrick did her postdoctoral training at Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute with Dr. Bruce Ames where she investigated the effects of micronutrient inadequacies on metabolism, inflammation, DNA damaging, and aging. She investigated whether supplementation can reverse such damage. Additionally, she studied the role of vitamin D in brain function, behavior, and other physiological functions. 

Dr. Patrick. also spent time at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences where she investigated the role of insulin signaling in protein misfolding, a common characteristic of neurodegenerative disease. In 2012, she co-founded FoundMyFitness Science Podcast with the goal of encouraging the public to think about health and longevity using a proactive, preventative approach. [FoundMyFitness].

Follow Dr. Rhonda Patrick: 

• Instagram – https://instagram.com/foundmyfitness 
• X – https://x.com/foundmyfitness
• Website – https://www.foundmyfitness.com/ 
• Weekly health newsletter – https://www.foundmyfitness.com/newsletter 
• You can subscribe to Rhonda’s monthly series on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts: 
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/foundmyfitness?sub_confirmation=1 
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QjpaU0o1Q2MkVZwwG3y7d 
• You can download Rhonda’s free protocol guides, here: 
• How to Train According to the Experts – https://howtotrainguide.com/ 
• The Cognitive Enhancement Blueprint – https://bdnfprotocols.com/ 
• The Omega-3 Supplementation Guide – https://fmfomega3guide.com/

Victoria Valentina, MA, PhD

Victoria Valentina

If you have a history of childhood trauma or other emotional issues that continues to trouble you in spite of conventional therapies and support, you might look into this resource. Or perhaps you are facing a major life transition or dealing with continuing grief.

Or possibly you have a son or daughter in trouble.

Valentina is the founder of the Life Cycle Center in Ashland OR. Below is some information from her website. 

She is the founder of Ritual Therapeutics -- an authentic, life-changing approach to post-trauma growth that’s reshaping how we heal.

She doesn’t follow a conventional approach; instead, she leads people into uncharted territories, where healing takes on a whole new meaning. Her work blends ancient practices with modern, revolutionary eco-somatic psychology, offering a fresh and transformative lens on healing.

For those navigating major life transitions, grief, and post-trauma recovery, she  provides a transformative approach to healing. The programs empower individuals and practitioners with innovative tools to build resilience, cultivate self-resource, and uncover strength within life’s deepest challenges. 

"We are committed to fostering self-resourced individuals who embody the natural state of strength and resilience essential to well-being. By freeing and moving the energy of pain, we help ensure that grief and trauma no longer hold you captive, but instead, they become catalysts for growth, empowerment, and the ability to pass these vital skills on to future generations."

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