Alive with Life: A Medical Doctor’s Guide to Live Your Best Life

Dr. Gary Epler’s Alive with Life is a narrative roadmap for living an exhilarating life filled with high energy, creativity, enjoyment, positive experiences, and extraordinary people, which is attained by applying five performance components of well-being and ten health practices. In countries throughout the world, well-being is the barometer of how people feel about their lives, traditionally measured by that amorphous yardstick, happiness. However, new studies have shown that four additional factors need to be added for an accurate measure. These include being engaged in life, finding meaning in life be-yond yourself, recognizing your accomplishments, and experiencing positive social interaction with others. These checkpoints of well-being, combined with Dr. Epler’s ten health practices, have led countless individuals to a healthy, high-energy, and enjoyable life. The health practices include healthy nutrition, sleep, exercise, self-healing, and more. Alive with Life illustrates ways healthy-minded people manage their injuries and illnesses better than anyone else and highlights becoming a people-centered leader for increased productivity, a positive interactive workplace, and business success. Thriving entrepreneurs know that hard work is a necessary precursor to success, and their work ethic has propelled new advances in our lives.Dr. Gary Epler is an internationally-known Harvard Medical School professor and thought leader in health, fitness, nutrition, and people-centered leadership. He is an award-winning author and speaker who has impacted the lives of people throughout the world through his speaking engagements, books, and teaching. He has been called upon by individuals from around the globe who have a rare lung disease that he discovered. Dr. Epler is a successful serial entrepreneur as he has been founder and CEO of three companies including a biotech company, a nutraceutical company, and the current medical consulting company. Dr. Epler has been recognized yearly since 1994 in The Best Doctors in America. He discovered the treatable lung disorder bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP). He found a new parasite in South America, chronicled the nutritional needs of North African children, and managed the tuberculosis program in Southeast Asia. Dr. Epler was Chief of Medicine at the New England Baptist Hospital for 15 years. He strives to educate and has written more than 110 scientific reports and given hundreds of seminars and lectures throughout the world. He was editor-in-chief of an online educational program in critical care and pulmonary medicine. Business Week acclaimed him for his development of e-health educational programs. Dr. Epler was recognized as one of Boston Magazine’s “Top Doctors in Town.”Dr. Epler has run several marathons including Boston, New York, and Paris, where he proposed to his wife; and for their first anniversary, they ran the original Greek marathon together. He has been one of the Boston Celtics team doctors. He is a radio and television personality. He is a Hollywood screenwriter and has written a medical thriller movie, medical drama TV show, and a lifestyle reality TV show. In the community, he coached soccer, basketball, hockey, and baseball. He lives in the Boston area with his wife, Joan.