ALLAN C. SOMERSALL, Ph.D., M.D.

Physician   *   Scientist   *   Author   *   Conference Speaker

A true renaissance physician, Dr. Somersall is an acclaimed motivational speaker and a very popular lecturer on nutrition and medicine.  He is just as comfortable and effective among his professional peers or in lay audiences everywhere.   He is an outspoken advocate for supplementation and lifestyle medicine and therefore, a  much  sought  after  media  guest.    A celebrated author in his own right, ‘Fresh Air for Life’ is but the latest of his nine books.

“The health challenges of the future will not be for more and better technology.  We already have the drugs, the surgery, the therapies at hand … we now need the wisdom and the will to make the right lifestyle choices, both personal and public.”

He makes a strong connection and a most convincing argument.

Making the Connection
Dr. Somersall is a mainstream practitioner, but he loves to address contemporary lifestyle issues such as nutrition and supplementation, complementary medicine, fitness and exercise, stress management, positive mental attitude, smoking cessation, drug and alcohol addiction, safe sex and even effective relationships.  “No chain is stronger than its weakest link, and that’s true in the maintenance of good health, he points out.  “Each component is a personal choice and every choice is rewarded … sooner or later.”

Credible by Qualification
His academic record includes a First Class Honors degree in Chemistry from the University of London and graduate work at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Toronto from where he earned a Master’s (1971) and a Ph.D., (1973).  He later studied medicine at the University of Toronto Medical School and McMaster University Medical Centre.  He has written several research articles and (9) nine books.

Committed to Prevention
Dr. Somersall has worked in a group of family physicians but more importantly, for two decades he has traveled the world lecturing on health, lifestyle and preventive medicine.  He believes the bottleneck to optimum health in industrialized societies lies in health-responsibility and risk reduction.  “It is what you do between these doctors’ visitsthat really matters”, he insists.

Effective in Communication
But essentially, Dr. Somersall is a clear thinker and an effective communicator. He was as much at ease addressing the Annual Conference of the National Medical Association in Las Vegas, as he was in a public forum in Malaysia, Austria or Argentina.  He enjoys open-line interviews on radio and television, as much as clinical symposia with his peers, or one-on-one counseling sessions.

Dr. Somersall is rigorous and professional, but he makes complex issues easy for the lay public to understand. He hosted the popular DOCTOR, DOCTOR Health Show which was syndicated on the Liberty Works Radio Network. Best of all, with his contagious enthusiasm for his subject, he motivates lifestyle changes in his listeners.

Fundamentally, Dr. Somersall wants his patients and his listeners to become empowered…to feel energized and determined to take their own health into their own hands.  That’s the key to the future!

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