Konstantin monastyrsky biography

In 1977 I graduated with a pharmacy degree from medical university in Lviv, Ukraine [link]. A year later, my family emigrated to the United States because, among other things, of my staunch anti-Soviet views (back then, Ukraine was a part of the USSR).

The pharmacy wasn’t exactly my cup of tea, so I taught myself advanced computer programming, and starting in 1982, enjoyed an unusually successful career in this field.

In 1996, I began suffering from late-stage type 2 diabetes and carpal tunnel syndrome.

Unable to use the keyboard, I switched focus to studying medicine again with the hope of reversing my precipitous decline.

As improbable as it sounds, by the end of 1998, I fully recovered from both conditions and decided to pursue medical writing and health advocacy.

In the process, I’ve developed considerable expertise in forensic nutrition [link], an area of life-sciences that investigates the connections between supposedly healthy foods and nut