April-May 2006 Newsletter from Ecopolitan

Best-Selling Author Tom Gegax (NEXT WEEK!) and Raw-Food Celebrity Paul Nison (TODAY!) at Ecopolitan! Healing Depression and Mood Disorders. To read online, click here.

Today's FIRST humorous quotation:

'Honk if you love peace and quiet.'

Today's SECOND humorous quotation is prominently embedded within this newsletter... Find it, email it back to us, and be entered into a monthly raffle for a free Berry Parfait and an Infrared Sauna (for one or two) OR a Free 'Should We Cook Our Food?' Doctor T's Lecture CD from Ecopolitan!

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With Appreciation,
ECOPOLITAN
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Newsletter Contents

1. Today's Ask Doctor T
2. Articles
3. Free Tuesday Meetings and Lectures
4. Upcoming Events
5. Restaurant Happenings
6. What is Doctor T Up To?
7. About this Newsletter

Special Events

Best Selling Author Tom Gegax - May 2, at 6:30 PM

Tom Gegax, author of the national best-seller, By The Seat of Your Pants: The No-Nonsense Business Management Guide, written with Ecopolitan regular Phil Bolsta, will be speaking on the role of spirituality in business. Tom, who founded the Tires Plus chain of retail tire stores, will be signing copies of the guide immediately after his talk.

ABOUT THE GUIDE

By the Seat of Your Pants is a must-read for anyone who wants to be part of a well-run organization. This best-selling guide charts a new course. It combines hard-nosed accountability and efficiency (profits first) with an enlightened approach (people first) in one practical package that honors both. After all, it¹s the leaders who are both tough-minded and warm-hearted that wind up with happy people producing healthy profits. By the Seat of Your Pants is as thorough as a textbook and as lively as a newsmagazine. It doesn¹t propose drawing-board theories that should work, it¹s jam-packed with real-world practices that do work. Its street-smart tips and techniques will help even the largest firms connect the dots between all aspects of a business in unprecedented detail. Yet, these strategies are also an indispensable slingshot for the millions of scrappy Davids threatened every day by corporate Goliaths. For more information, please visit www.gegax.com.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Best-selling author Tom Gegax has been there, grown that, from five vantage points‹an executive at one of the world¹s largest corporations; a start-up entrepreneur; a CEO leading sixteen hundred employees; a business consultant; and a member of numerous boards. By the time Tom sold his company in July 2000 to a multinational firm, it had mushroomed from a concept sketched on a restaurant napkin to a market leader in its ten-state region with $200 million in revenue. The company was so well managed and profitable that Tom was able to bypass outside investors and retain ownership control.

Paul Nison - Today at 6:30 PM

Paul Nison, an internationally acclaimed author, educator and raw food chef, presents information that will transform your life and motivate you to eat healthy!

• What I’ve learned from long term raw fooders
• Why many raw food eaters have failed
• How to avoid the pitfalls of eating a Raw Diet
• Supplements, necessary or not?
• Live foods VS. Raw Foods
• How to balance your weight out on a raw diet

PLUS ……………

Paul will answer all your questions!

MOTIVATION THAT WILL TAKE YOU TO THE NEXT LEVEL

1. Today's ASK Doctor T

Read Dr. T's Answers:

Natural Cure for Depression

I've suffered from major depression for the past 20 plus years and it does not respond well to anti-depressive medications; have had ECT done for it. I looked into some alternative care type solutions but would like some guidance about what would help me. Thank you.

Dr. T's Answer: Natural Cure for Depression

Winter Depression

I tend to be moody and irritable in the winter (Seasonal Affective Disorder, SAD), but it lasts a lot longer into the summer in recent years, and I feel more and more depressed. Any suggestions?

Dr. T's Answer: Winter Depression

Previous Answers

Read Doctor T's previous answers in the new Ecopolitan's answers archive.

If you have a nutritional or brief medical question you would like Doctor T to answer, please email us and it may be answered in a future newsletter.

2. Articles

Don't read these articles, if you are not concerned about cancer, heart problems, and chronic, degenerative disease related to preventable environmental factors!

Ecopolitan   The Web

3. Free Information Meetings

(Every Tuesday 6-8+ PM, Upstairs).

Join us for free lectures, discussions, or socializing. The information meetings begin sharply at 6:30 PM- please come at 6 PM to meet others, wind down, and have a drink (organic NSA wine, smoothie, or fresh juice...) or a snack (optional). If you wish, you can order from the restaurant before the meeting and we will bring your order upstairs to you. Or, you can just sit and relax, since no purchase is
necessary.

Upcoming Meeting Topics...

Today: Paul Nison, internationally acclaimed author, educator and raw food chef, presents information that will transform your life and motivate you to eat healthy!

May 2: Tom Gigax, bestseller writer: The Role of Spirituality in Business

May 9: Genomic Medicine: How to Maximize Your Health and Longevity Despite Our Polluted Environment.

May 16: The Many Challenges to Vegetarians and Vegans in our society and environment. Become Strong & Secure in Your Choices!

May 23: It’s The Proteins, Dummy! How We Have All Been Fooled By Our Government and Our Nutritional Experts For Decades (contrary to biochemical facts)!

May 30: What DID Our Ancestors Eat? Are We Really Descendents of a Hunter-Gatherer Society? An Important Lesson in Anthropology With Far-Reaching Implications.

All lectures are presented by Ecopolitan Founder Dr. Adiel Tel-Oren ["Dr. T"] , except where noted.

4. Upcoming Events

4.1. Ecopolitan's Monthly Un-Cooking Class

Taught by our illustrious chef James, this monthly class (at Ecopolitan's Lecture/Meeting room upstairs) is focused on healthful food preparation "a la Ecopolitan".

Our monthly un-cooking classes, take place the last Sunday every month, upstairs, at 2:30 PM.

April and May class topics: Basic EcoRaw Food Preparation Techniques, for beginners and intermediate "amateur chefs".

Sunday, April 30th: The art of sprouting, making rejuvelac, dehydrating crackers, pizza crusts, and Eco-Chips!

Sunday, May 28: Basic sauces, pates, parfaits, and smoothies!

If the students have a need for additional recipes, and for specific questions answered, and if not all of the above activities are accomplished within the 2-hour classes, a THIRD basic class in this series will be offered on May's UnCooking Class (the last Sunday of the month, as usual).

For the more serious culinary students, we offer private (one-on-one) un-cooking lessons with one of our chefs. Participants are taught by an Ecopolitan chef the essential skills, methods and recipes for getting started in raw-food preparation. Call or speak to our staff for registration.

Find more on the vegeterian un-cooking classes and private instructions.

4.2. Minneapolis Living Foods Potluck & Support Group

Do you sometime feel that you are alone in your quest for a healthy, sustainable lifestyle that can heal both your body and your Planet? Joining our monthly Minneapolis Eco-Raw Potluck will definitely improve this feeling, as you find other people with whom you can share your friendship, compassion, stories and knowledge! Our potluck meetings, which welcome everybody regardless of race, religion, status, personal preferences, political affiliation, and eating habits, take place the last Sunday every month, upstairs, immediately after the monthly uncooking class .....

Next meeting dates:

Sunday, April 30, 5:30 PM,
Sunday, May 28, 5:30 PM

Go to the potluck page for more information on the exciting Minneapolis Living Foods Potluck & Support Group, what to bring and how to prepare.

4.3. Breast Thermography at Ecopolitan Building

The next date is Breast Thermography, Also Known As Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging (DITI)- is available at the Ecopolitan Building on the first Monday of each month between 9:00-10:00 AM and 2 PM. The next date is Monday, May 1st, Then June 3, 2006. To schedule your DITI appointment please call Joe’s direct line- 612-870-2974.

DITI is a radiation free, contact free, non invasive (symptom-free), state of the art clinical screening test recommended for women of all ages. This test is part of an early breast disease detection program that provides women an opportunity to greatly increase their chances of addressing early stages of cancer and other breast disease. Unlike conventional mammography, DITI is completely safe for pregnant women, women with breast implants, and dense or sensitive breasts, since there is no contact with or compression of the breast. DITI has been recognized as a viable diagnostic tool since 1987 by the AMA Council on Scientific affairs and the ACA Council on Diagnostic Imaging, since 1988 by the Congress of Neuro-Surgeons, and since 1990 by the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

The screening at Ecopolitan (the ONLY MODERN DITI currently available in the Twin Cities that is interpreted by a Board-Certified Radiologist) includes a full thermographic imaging examination and color images, interpretation of the non-breast tissue findings by a Certified Thermographer, and medical interpretation by a board-certified medical radiologist.

The new Thermographer is Valerie Zumbusch. Her number for technical questions is (612) 741-3954 and her email address is vzumbusc at amfam.com.

To schedule, call Joe (of Ecopolitan and of the FDH Foundation) at 612-870-2974. More information on radiation free breast screening.

5. Restaurant Happenings

ECOPOLITAN - providing for the ECOlogy of our metroPOLITAN area
100% Organic, Vegan, Raw Food Restaurant & Bar Natural Home & Body Goods-
'For Your Health, the Earth, & the Taste!'

Open 9am-10pm Seven Days A Week (11pm Fri & Sat).
2409 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55405
(612) 87-GREEN.

New Restaurant pictures

The Minneapolis Ecopolitan EcoRaw Restaurant, Eco-Shop, and Organic Wine Bar, is excited to have its newly expanded menu available online in its entirety. You can now print it if you wish, or order take-outs while browsing the Ecopolitan website: Be sure to check out our enhanced bulk section (nuts, seeds, dried fruits, grains and legumes for sprouting) and our Eco-Shop (Safecoat products and other goods for a healthy, non-toxic home and body; Kitchen appliances; Organic Cotton & Hemp clothes and accessories; organic coconut and olive oils; books & magazines; Rebounding Excercisers, air filters, and shower filters; all these and other products are sold here as well as online or by phone. Everything is discounted, since we are a non-profit!). Remember to ask for a prescription when necessary (for special-order 100% organic cotton mattresses, and for tax deductions on health products and services, including the Infrared Therapy Sauna and the Oxygen Bar, for medical need).

Read below about our special Uncooking Classes, and the potluck meetings.

6. What's Doctor T up to?

(in addition to Tuesday Meetings lectures, consulting to nutrition companies, founding international health-related projects, organizing treks, retreats & festivals, seeing patients, writing books and producing CD's, overseeing the clinic, the EcoHostel and EcoSpa at the Ecopolitan Building, directing Ecopolitan restaurant's operations, and other activities summarized here)

April 14-17, 2006:

Clinical and Medical Business Trip to Sarasota, Florida.

April 1-13, 2006:

Clinical and Business Medical trip to Israel.

March 10-30, 2006:

Tropical Thailand Healing Retreat (you are welcome to join Doctor T)! Followed by (for those interested in both) Trekking in Nepal, a challenging Himalayan trek!

March 7, 2006:

Jerusalem Lecture about Functional and Nutritional Medicine, to a Symposium of Academicians.

February 23, 2006:

Lectured to Twin Cities doctors about Electro-Magnetic Pollution and Solid Solutions - a continuing-education credit seminar (more details on the EMF seminar). The seminar was well-attended and well-received!

February 15, 2006:

Lecture on EMF Pollution to produce a Double-CD titled "EMF Pollution and Remediation" - NOW AVAILABLE AT ECOPOLITAN!

February 1, 2006: Nutrition Lecture

Doctor T presented a 3-hour General Nutrition Lecture to Yoga Instructors Course Participants at CorePower Yoga Downtown Minneapolis.

Late December, 2005, to mid-January, 2006:

Continuing the promotion of functional laboratory tests in Israel, plus other projects.

November 2005:

The seasonal Tropical Thailand Healing Retreat (you are welcome to join Doctor T for the next tour)! Followed by (for those interested in both) the seasonal Nepal Trekking , a community-based humanitarian eco-trek. Contact us for further details.

Mole removal in Atlanta.

September 2005:

Mole removal in Oregon

Late June- Early July 2005:

Continuing Public Health Projects in Israel (including the Israeli Association of Biological Dentistry), meeting regional HMO doctors, Hospital directors, and the ministry of health officials to promote functional medicine there.

Previous Activities

For previous activities - click here.

7. About This Newsletter

Today's SECOND humorous quotation:

Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how popular it remains?'

This Newsletter has been authored by Doctor T (with some assistance of others), who apologizes profusely for any grammatical or spelling errors that may have occurred, and promises to correct any error promptly upon being notified...

Adiel (“Doctor T”) Tel-Oren, MD (Europe), DC, LN, DACBN, DABOM, CCN, FABDA, DABCT(c), the founder and President of Ecopolitan and its Eco-Health Network, specializes in disease prevention, non-invasive clinical medicine, nutritional and environmental medicine, and functional medicine (science-based holistic approaches to diagnosis and therapy). Trained as an MD in Europe and the USA, Doctor T is board-certified with the American Board of Oxidative Medicine, American Clinical Board of Nutrition, and the American Board of Chelation Therapy (candidate). He is a Certified Clinical Nutritionist and a professor with the Clinical Nutrition Certification Board of the International & American Association of Clinical Nutritionists; a doctor of chiropractic (trained & licensed in the USA); a Licensed Nutritionist (Minnesota); a Fellow of the American Board of Disability Analysts; a member of the ACA Nutrition Council; and President Emeritus of the University of Natural Medicine (Santa Fe, NM), where he serves as Dean of Medical Sciences and Professor of functional, nutritional, & clinical medicine.

Doctor T is founder and president of: The Functional and Dental Health (FDH) Foundation (2001), with local and international chapters; the innovative Integrated Healthcare Clinics (1994-2000); America’s first urban Eco-Spa & Eco-Hostel (2005); and Ecopolitan, America's most ecological & environmentally friendly urban complex, which includes an EcoSpa, an Eco-Healing Clinic, an Eco-Hostel, and Ecopolitan, America’s first sustainable restaurant offering 100% Organic EcoRaw Living Cuisine , an Eco-Shop, & an educational resource center (2001). Besides seeing patients and lecturing internationally & on radio/ TV shows to doctors, nurses, & the public, Doctor T consults for nutritional, military, government, and community organizations and is currently writing books and producing CD’s of his popular ‘Ask Doctor T’™ lectures. He also practices wilderness and humanitarian medicine in remote areas; organizes and guides humanitarian Eco-Treks in Nepal; and leads ecological health and education retreats in Wisconsin, Tropical Thailand, and in Nepal, where he also directs CCODER’s Community Health Plan (www.ccoder.org), managing the health of nearly 200,000 people.

He is seeing patients just one or two days each month, plus does laboratory tests when indicated for his patients and for other doctors' referred patients. More information about Doctor Tel-Oren.

To reach Doctor T (for medical concerns, or to join the FDH Foundation or
any of the Treks or Retreats) please call his assistant, Ecopolitan Director Joe
Noreen, using our secondary phone line (612) 870-2974, or email Joe.