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Author Bio - Roy Mankovitz

Roy Mankovitz received his undergraduate degree in science from Columbia University with a focus in electrical engineering, and he also holds a doctorate in law.

In his science career, he designed unmanned spacecraft control systems for lunar and Mars soft landing spacecraft and deep space probes, was a member of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Advanced Technical Studies group, and has several NASA publications in the field of rocket science.

He is a prolific inventor, with more than sixty U.S. patents, several of which are in the field of health. In the field of law, he has had an illustrious career as an intellectual property attorney specializing in patent, trademark copyright and licensing matters.


Roy Mankovitz

As an entrepreneur, he has been the founder, cofounder, officer, and director of a diverse group of successful companies, some of which are now publicly traded. He is on the advisory board of many organizations and nonprofits in the field of health, and has been the benefactor and moving force behind university research projects in the area of illness prevention.

Health and the prevention of illness been his passion for the last twenty years, and he holds several certifications in the fields of nutrition and alternative health. This book represents the culmination of his research in these areas, where he challenges virtually all of the underlying research and cherished assumptions in these fields, demonstrating that being healthy is not rocket science!

He lives in Montecito, California, with his wife Kathleen and their two Tonkinese cats, who incidentally have been tenth-generation bred in accordance with the fundamental precepts.