How did you start with macrobiotics?

When my own health broke down about 10 years ago I tried orthodox medicine. I was greatly disappointed. I began searching for alternatives. I found a wealth of information in macrobiotics and other "food is best medicine" approaches. I was also surprised to find out that there has been a multitude of people who have gone down this road including world renowned doctors like Henry G. Bieler, Oliver Wendel Holmes, and Bernard Jensen.

The philosophy of yin-yang showed me in simple terms how the universe works. Everything became much more easily understood from this perspective. Many phenomena that were previously ambiguous became crystal clear.

Example: why do some foods propagate an infection and others stop it?
Answer: Sodium is yang and potassium is yin.
Foods rich in sodium, like zucchini, kill bacteria and stop an infection while foods that are rich in potassium, like parsley, increase the infection.
Unfortunately, we find in some macrobiotic literature that zucchini is a vegetable to be avoided. My experience has shown me time and time agasin that this bland vegetable is the best antibiotic in the world. It is better that any antibiotic man has ever invented.

What do you offer and specialise in?

I am a nutrition consultant. My wife, Elsa, helps me greatly with my work. That is when she is not sewing! We plan to eventually move to her home town in Sweden.
Most people who come to me for advice have a specific illness and they want to learn how to cure it with proper foods. They want to know which foods to avoid and which foods will help cure them.
I offer each of my clients a diet plan that suits their health condition. People come to me personally or through the internet .I also lecture in the Middle East (Beirut, Damascus and Dubai) on health and nutrition. I have also authored one book and about 10 articles on this subject.
It is pertinent to add that I do not always use the term macrobiotics when I talk about food and medicine. As is mentioned in some Hindu literature:

"The truth is one. The sages speak of it by many names"

The standard macrobiotic diet that Michio Kushi developed is general and not for everyone. Your own health condition might require you to make more research into what foods are currently right for you.

Example: if you have typhoid or an allergy or gangrene some of the foods in the standard macro diet might be down right poisonous for you.