Fred Greenwood -- Background

I was born in Canada,

My father was an orchardist and my mother a nurse.

In 1957 I enrolled at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C. in what is called pre-engineering.  My first year was spent learning about math, physics, chemistry, English, French.

The chemistry was interesting (my favorite textbook was one written by Dr. Linus Pauling on Inorganic Chemistry), but I did not like the laboratory work (too detailed).

Physics was the toughest thing I ever took and primarily because I first had to unlearn the high school garbage and when I did ended up with 85% (the professor invited me to his office after grading final exams and told me I was his student who had improved the most).

My next 2 years of college were general engineering with a lot of civil structural engineering (I always felt I had 1/2 a degree in civil/structural), engineering math (calculus aimed at solving problems/design), geology, chemical engineering mechanical design/drafting (I hated this).

At the start of my 4th year, you had to decide on your engineering specialty.

I picked Metallurgical Engineering as my favorite subjects were math, physics and chemistry; and metallurgy is the math, physics and chemistry of metals.

The 4th and 5th years were heavy in extractive or chemical metallurgy (the removal of metal from the ore), with some physical metallurgy (physical metallurgy starts with the ingot and includes all the fabrication processes leading to finished parts).

Those last two summers in school I worked in Canada's largest lead and zinc smelter, first in the research laboratory working with zinc and the next year in the lead smelter doing research on lead dross (dross is the oxidized lead and other metals which float on the top of molten lead during final processing).

I had a lot of laboratory classes in metallurgy in the last two years and enjoyed it very much. In my final year, I decided that I preferred physical metallurgy. This created somewhat of a dilemma as most jobs in Canada were to do with chemical metallurgy.  A further dilemma was created when I fell in love with a nursing student who lived in Vancouver and most of the jobs were in Eastern Canada.  I solved this problem by going to work for Boeing in Seattle since it was close to my girlfriend ad I had a passion for airplanes.

I started in a chemical laboratory (remember I hated that in school), with the understanding I would be transferred to the Materials and Processes Group, when an opening existed.

That happened, and I was assigned to research on a Navy Contract (this kept me from getting drafted during the Cuban Missile Crisis).

The research involved high temperature sulfidation corrosion of nickel based gas turbine engine alloys and various metallic coatings plus thermal fatigue of these same materials.

I loved it and quickly became at the forefront of this research.

During this period I spent much of my time studying the affects of corrosion using a metallurgical microscope and later a electron beam microscope.

As a result of a recession and layoffs, I was re-assigned to support the engine manufacturing facility with emphasis on helicopter gear metallurgy and manufacture.  I was made Boeing's representative on the Metallurgy and materials Committee of The American Gear Manufacturers Association (AGMA).  In this capacity I traveled to numerous meetings and wrote the first AGMA Standard for gas nitrided gears (a form of case hardening of gear teeth).

During the Vietnam war I was picked as a Boeing team member to go to Toronto to solve a gear problem with Chinook helicopters.  At one point, the helicopters were grounded in Vietnam since 50% of them were found to have cracked aft rotor transmission sun gears.  Many of the copters had crashed with loss of life.  In Toronto, I determined the cracks were initiating during manufacturing.  Changes were made and the problem was solved.  Boeing sold their gas turbine engine business to Caterpillar and I was re- assigned to work on the 747, in the design group.

In this capacity I reviewed drawings for all control system components and signed them as a rep of Materials and Processes.

Also, I did failure analysis on components which failed during mock-up and flight testing.  This involved laboratory work and report writing.  I was transferred to the main Everett Facility and here my scope was broadened to include all sections of the airplane, but my responsibility was centered on steel components (landing gear, flap tracks, etc.)

After cancellation of the Supersonic Transport, there were further layoffs including me.  At this point I opened my own business in Seattle, purchased surplus metallurgical laboratory equipment from Boeing and started doing work for attorneys as an expert witness on product liability cases involving metal fractures.  I totally nailed the first case, it was settled out of court for one of the largest settlements in Seattle history and the lawyer I did the work for was made a partner in the firm.  By this time I had married the Canadian nurse and we had two children, a boy and a girl, and I needed more financial security than my fledgling business provided.

So I looked around and found in 1971 there was a big need for engineers to work in the nuclear power business.  I got on a government program which provided free tuition at Seattle University to study power plant design.  Before completing this course I had a job offer from the largest, oldest and best engineering consulting company in the area of power plant design.  They employed over 3,000 engineers.  I took the job ,located in Pennsylvania, as a Quality Assurance Engineer. I traveled all over the U.S. doing Quality Assurance Audits of Suppliers of Westinghouse Nuclear Reactor Equipment.  A second assignment was being in charge of the ultrasound examination of all critical piping at Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant (this was Unit 1,Unit 2 was next door which had the partial core meltdown).

After one year my wife was unhappy with the East Coast, so I found a job at a Portland Oregon Utility.  The Company tied to keep me by offering me a Project Manager job.

Throughout the 6 years I worked at the Portland Company, the Pennsylvania (PA) Company contacted each year with a new job offer.

Finally in 1980,I went to work for them as their only technical employee West of the Mississippi working out of my Portland home.  By this time, my wife and I were divorced and I already had a new girlfriend whom I am happily married to today .. a little Cuban woman with two wonderful daughters.  The new job resulted in an assignment in the Bay Area as a consultant to another smaller firm.  So, I married my wife and the four of us moved to San Jose.

One of the partners in the California Company was a friend of mine which helped.

I was put in charge of selecting the best engineers from the PA Company(10 of them), to do a Government mandated independent review of Diablo Canyon design in light of the Unit 1/Unit 2 mirror image problem (the design of earthquake resistant portions of both units got reversed .. what was done to Unit 1 should have been done to Unit 2 and vice versa).

After this assignment I was sent on various smaller jobs all over the country.  The three partners in the firm started squabbling and things started to fall apart.  So I said to myself, time to move on again and I had realized from my travels that I had more knowledge of Nuclear Plant Design Quality Assurance than anyone .. so I quit and put out my consulting shingle.

Within one month I landed a $1.5M contract with PG&E in S.F. with 3 employees.  This assignment netted me $1M before taxes.  We purchased a new 3400 sq. ft Mediterranean ranch house on two acres in Los Altos Hills.( near David Packard, of Hewlett Packard).

The house was for a tax deduction and investment.  At the same time I increased my disability insurance due to increased income and financial responsibility.  When the S.F. assignment was completed I purchased a small plastics manufacturing company (no more travel!) and hired one of my stepdaughters to do the books, etc.

After 6 years, I got a bad case of shingles in the head and eye and became permanently disabled (I am in constant pain).  So, at 54 I went into forced retirement, but the extra disability insurance prevented any financial hardship.  For three years I had partial amnesia,  could not drive or watch TV-let alone read.  In the spring of 1977 I had hernia surgery, except there was no hernia.

The trauma from this started me smoking again and in no time my amnesia left (Bradford's book explains why-nicotine is an MAO inhibitors an MAO's do a number on your brain.

We now live in a senior Mobile Home Park (to keep life simple and inexpensive).

In 1977,I saw Durk Pearson on the Merv Griffin Show-he talked about Vit.C in crystalline form for preventing colds-needless to say, we haven't had colds since.

In 1981, I purchases Life Extension book and that enabled me to solve a chronic bronchitis problem,  I have been able to alleviate some of my head pain through various supplements.

We have been patients at several TJ clinics and by and large found for our situations it did not help much (it did help my wife's leg pain).  Earlier this year I decided to look for something to keep my wife's aneurysm from growing, that is what led me to MMP's.

She is now on Doxycycline which inhibits all bad MMP's, just like chelation.  Phase 2 clinical trials were completed in August which showed Doxycycline keeps aneurysms from growing by inhibiting MMP's.

I have corresponded with several scientists at NIH and different Universities on subjects of interest at the time.  I have studied most human diseases and try to keep up to date in both alternative and modern medicine, as my belief is whatever works-the best combination of both. As far as my religious belief,

I am a Christian, but do not attend church.

I believe in the Golden Rule and that God is Love, which is around you everyday in nature and people. I believe we are all here for a reason and I want to do the best I can to help as many people as I can.

Since neither of us are Citizens, we do not vote, but take a keen interest in politics.

Most of my best friends over the years have been East Indian as they make good friends.

The rest of my friends are members of the Menze's (by coincidence) and they are all full time or part time inventors.

I do not have any friends who are knowledgeable in Biochemistry, only Engineering-so really I have no one to talk to about this stuff, at least nobody who would understand.

I have had E-Mail conversations with personnel at Drug Companies on different subjects. I have found that the human body is very complex and that Doctors often can't help you.  Most Doctor's know little about nutrition or the immune system, l et alone free radicals and anti-oxidants.

I have studied the endocrine system, the hpa axis, the brain and skin. I do not claim to be an expert in anything, just someone with a wide variety of interests, a desire to learn, solve problems and hopefully help other people. My real forte is to be able to take a variety of information from different sources, put it all together and reach conclusions which have escaped other people.

In 1984, I took a management aptitude test which had previously been given to 30,000 managers.

I scored the highest in the ability to sort information to determine the root cause.  Recently I told my wife the sniper killer would be caught and he would be ex-military (with a bad experience) and most likely black.

Why- prior knowledge-I played golf with a man earlier this year who was ex-military, black, and very disgruntled with America.  He told me there were many who felt as he did.  He was leaving for Beijing China as they had hired him because of his Navy experience. I always rely on science rather than opinion.

The science can be wrong too so I look for substantiating evidence.  I have taken Extension Courses at UCLA in reliability and decision making based on probability of prior events (Bayr's theorem).  It is particularly useful for small sample sizes, unlike classical statistics. I hope this gives you a feel for me-if you didn't fall asleep while reading it!

Fred