An innovative and holistic thinker, Dr Elvebakk came to medicine with the long -held belief that illnesses are explainable processes that can be changed.. Her ultimate mission was to understand how, and her road was a long one.

After receiving her medical degree from University of Oslo, Norway, Dr Elvebakk performed post graduate training in Norway and in the US, including an internship in internal medicine at UC Davis California. She was a long- standing member of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians, The American Academy of Family Care Physicians and the AMA.

At the time Dr. Elvebakk entered  American medicine, foreign medical graduates were no longer needed. Immigration was restricted and the necessary equivalence programs were closed. At a disadvantage, she was promptly dismissed as incapable and treated as such.  She caught up and became “an excellent physician” per Faith T. Fitzgerald, Associate Professor, Training Program Director, Department of Internal Medicine, UC Davis Medical Center, California: “An excellent physician. Very meticulous. Bright, knowledgeable, responsible and decidedly hard-working. She sustained and is conquering in a situation which would have caused many to despair or to quit”.

More medical intrigue: Inexplicably, after years of excellent service to Sacramento County Health Department, she saw a patient record falsified by a co-worker to accuse her of  incompetence. Again, no support or redress.

She found peace in private practice working with metabolically ill patients. This is where she found the first clue to her ultimate mission of deciphering illnesses themselves. She wrote her first book “The Food Tree” in 2008, debunking fads and myths and raising nutrition to the scientific level. She is gratified that the views expressed in the book are passing the test of time. In fact, her name and work have been used wide and far.

She then started looking for other triggers of illness. This led to a rich network of connections between the environment and inflammation. Ultimately it led to the discovery of the role of modern physics including quantum in explaining the interactions between the body and the environment that determine our health. This led to the writing of this book.

Being Scandinavian, Dr Elvebakk is a proponent of physical fitness and the outdoors. She is a consummate health advocate. As a columnist and expert commentator, she has written and lectured on weight and nutrition in the US and in Europe. She spends her time writing and talking on nutrition and related illnesses.

This inspiring book holds the key to changing our health at the most fundamental level. The simple treatment of a complicated topic makes it a must-read for everyone. She hopes the information will help us look at health as our relationship with the universe.

A Personal Note from Dr Elvebakk:

Since my topic is medicine itself, I take the liberty of making a personal observation. Traditionally men, they have come up through the ranks through the acceptance by their peers, even from a place of “being unable to learn a simple biological fact” to the Nobel prize. Given the room to succeed, their early struggles become a testimonial to their “overcoming”.

Their female counterparts might not be viewed as charitably, and the record shows a raft of women held to a much more rigorous standard.  Despite passing all obstacles many have been silenced, even discredited.

I should know. I am one of several women physicians having experienced this, and I am tired of the tyranny of half-truths perpetrated by my “betters” in medicine, some of whom at this point do not even understand my work. Our lives and careers also matter. I ask the for the integrity and  professionalism of my work.being critiqued on its own merits.

Those of us who think ahead, however small the contribution, stand on the shoulders of those before us. We welcome constructive criticism to improve and further our thinking.