Getting Inside the Mind of Dinoiii (2007 Midyear LeanBulk.Com Edition)

[dinoiii]

Please NOTE: This is an updated piece for mid-year 2007 as far as I can see. As new things become known to me, I will add them as addendums later on.



Getting Inside the Mind of Dinoiii (2007 Mid-Year Update for leanbulk.com)


Intro

I post this… simply because I can - read on and you’ll figure it all out I hope. Well, that line was a bit more logical a few years ago when I put the very first GITM up, but now...many of you have simply grown accustomed to me...if not, you will.

I have been asked about myself and the Lord knows – we as living and breathing, walking, testosterone-producing males LOVE to talk about ourselves. Due to the current request in a different thread, I thought I would put this here – read it or disregard it – but really – it says it ALL. I hold nothing back…further questions - as always feel free to ask.

On my training: I have trained for what I would call CONSISTENT – 13 years using every program you can imagine to - everything touted as the be-all, end-all in that time frame (each was gonna turn my unattractive saggy frame into what would make all the girls swoon right? Ya know, the chunk-to-hunk transformation). The 3-4 years prior to that, I would live by what is likely considered the INCONSISTENT gym-goer route or the touted “weekend warrior” – not really taking training seriously at the time – and likewise reaping minimal, if any, reward. Together, I suppose, I have compiled what would be called 16-17 years of training.

On my Journey: I started out a 350-pound (349 was my max) uhhh, shall I say “pleasantly-plump” individual (to of course, appeal to all as politically correct) and shed an entire human, one could say I have actually had the opportunity to give birth as a male, I suppose and wound up 141 pounds by 2-years end. Now, of course, 141 didn’t look as attractive as I had anticipated it would – and I thought for a moment, what the hell – this isn’t what I signed up for, but allow me to tell you about how not-so-easy it was for me at first. I dropped my initial first 50 pounds via very unhealthy anorexic states that would likely have me certified a DSM “nutcase.” [DSM, by the way is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, of which American Psychiatry finds comfort in the ability it has of calling itself a branch of medicine. Hey they have released since numerous versions of this book – we are actually on what is known DSM-IV TR (obviously, you gotta question something that needs four roman numeralized editions of classification with text revisions and still has not got it right…we await the DSM-V coming soon to a book store near you).] So here I was…300 pounds and still fat and it took me dropping a loaded barbell on myself through a purely hypoxic (lack of oxygen) state to figure out – hell there has simply got to be a better way. The next one and a half years would be priceless. This is when I got ahold of the studies I hold so dear and put together my own set of principles (call them the Weider principles, of course only better) that would dictate how I would set up my dietary and workout regimes (oh yeah, there is real science there too) for the next years to come and still practice them today. Today, I have pounded my way back up to the 220’s (actually only 211 on June 23, 2007), yet at consistently <10% BF (currently 8.6% through hydrostatic weighing/ caliper/ bioelectrical impedance averaging). When I met up at the ISSN Conference a few weeks back, I would describe myself at about "6 weeks out" conditioning, which is where I tend to hover year round. Since the evolution of various "recomp" style diets, long-gone are the days of prototypical "cuts" and "bulks" though you will soon see in an interesting turn of events what a little modification of that theme can do.

On my Dieting and Nutritional “Knowledge:” Hehe, I had to put this one in quotes – I do NOT find this info solely with the use of studies, but much trial and error. I am my own best lab rat and have 6019 clients who could verify my uh “book smarts” in this domain but also how I practice what I preach. I PUT EVERY OUNCE OF WHAT I WRITE ABOUT TO PRACTICE AND SHIT YOU NOT IN ANY OF MY RESPONSES (for those that have actually seen my posts, you know what I am talking about!). The uniqueness of that in this industry today mind-boggles me – I mean, we are here to help each other, right? I cannot figure for the life of me why in the hell I would do all of this for not. Although going through medical school/residency training, I would love it if I could say that much of my nutritional info was obtained there, but alas I cannot (clinical training included). Case in point: We had a biochemistry class of course with a professor that preached about all fruits and veggies and all but omission of proteinacious food items if you were to live a long life – are you on drugs and does that long life you preach of include that big belly that drapes over your trousers on a daily basis? – was my emphatic response. My classmates would become very familiar with placing their heads in their hands every time I would call out to this guy about the blatant disregard for reality he was preaching.

Needless to say, I didn’t win over many fans while in medical school – I didn’t care – man, if you had time for some stories, I could sure tell you some. See, people don’t like the truth – they like to ask for it, but when you give it to them, they rally around the likelihood of how quickly you’ll rush to be a conformist and if you opt out of the club – there’ll be hell to pay, I tell ya. I don’t care much for this mentality – you ask me a question, I’ll give you an answer the best way I see fit, you don’t like it – DON’T ASK.

Funny part is – the average 10 posts on an internet forum when answered – the likelihood of someone taking the advice offered is 1 in 10!

On my educational journey: I am not sure how far I want to go down this path as it could be obvious from my signature. You know of my medical background though I still tend to rage against the machine (the AMA, pharmaceutics, FDA, etc…). Long gone are the stars in my eyes when I think of how many people I could help via the ways of allopathic means – it has become far too corrupt for my blood. I have attained an additional Master’s Degree. I have an absolute love for the science of the human body and how hormones, metabolism, AND GENETICS - CAN BE REGULATED THROUGH ENDOGENOUS AND EXOGENOUS MEANS. Oh yeah, GENETICS TRULY BE DAMNED. Genetics without environmental influence may be unchangeable, but since when do we disregard the nurture side of contribution to the ole nature vs. nurture ideology? Our nurturing role of meticulous dietary and workout philosophy is what WILL win in the end. I have started a business that specializes in dietary consultations, workout program design, etc… and will embark on an interesting role I hope in the supplement industry in the upcoming year (didn’t anticipate the MAN inclusion – but I think it can only end up positive). Currently, I have employed only 16 people and yet have had a pretty successful almost 7-year run (August 20, 2007) but still search for more with over 6123 clients (enrollment has been capped until I hire on new staff members). In fact, I crave it.

...

[dinoiii]

On my dietary habits in general: Well, they certainly have come a long way since my anorexic beginning down this path. I have done everything from the spectrum of Atkins style ketogenics to BODYOPUS CKDs to AMA low-fat plans. My current diet is an induction-system for lack of better wording that incorporates pieces of ALL of the studies, et al I have read in one neat system that allows me to divvy down a goal directed path at any moment. Not many, if any people would really be able to fit the diet or stick to it for that matter. People around me observe my militant behavior as insane – hehe, I merely call it a life’s work.

On the romantic realm: This is scary. At the age of 29, I have seen a 4 year and 7 year relationship go up in smoke – which accounts for most of my “dating” history. Why share this? Hell, why not – ya know, its our wearing masks that doesn’t give a view of the complete person. If I opted out of this, one could easily ask, why the hell is it that you spend so much freaking time on a message board? Well, get rid of current relationship status and hey, all of a sudden more time opens up. So here goes: I never was into the whole date a bunch of girls and get to know em a little bit (hmmm, signs of initial low testosterone) – it was more like date a few and get inside their head…it is kind of really what defines me. In 2005, I was dating a lawyer (it certainly could have had its up-sides) from California – made it really vested interest to move the business out there from my other two locations (Rochester, NY and Baltimore, MD) – however, she turned out to be rather interesting and to say the least this ENDED the 6 and half month relationship with the lawyer.

On my ideas of the human condition: I have little tolerance for ignorance or LAZINESS (see below) and when I see it in all its might, I’ll call you on it – you have my word. As much as I have been humbled in the past, I wouldn’t hesitate to offer you up the same kind of hospitality. You either love me or hate me and there are no in-betweens – I don’t care. It is like a frontal lobe syndrome (i.e. – lack of inhibition seen with this dysfunction)…fortunately, I can function in society and can inhibit the “voices” when I have to, but it is truly unfortunate as they are too much for this world, but you would at least be entertained perhaps for a while.



To summarize what happened with the rest of that thread…it was asked how the heck I was doing medicine and still running a business…I’ll pick up from there for those curious:

What I will say is this. I own a business in Rochester, NY and I have just recently returned from Baltimore, MD promoting while concurrently embarking in residency. An exercise physiologist (my right hand man, if you will) has governed much of the activity from afar while I am away - but I made frequent trips between the two sites. In fact, we just celebrated our 6-year anniversary (August 20, 2006). Our clients are prominently situated in Western NY and Upper Pennsylvania so it isn’t a terrible “commute.” Since medical school began and beyond (i.e. – while I was away from the business front) - I have subsequently picked up clients in Maryland, Illinois, Missouri, and Southern California.

For the first 8 months of the “business” it was actually JUST ME before I made my first 3 hires. I got the name out and raked in about 550 clients in that time frame, all by me doing essential “house-visits” to aid in people’s body composition goals. It certainly was expanding too quickly for me not to consider expansion.

The initial consideration was to envelope a business that would see patients with rare metabolic conditions (i.e. – I am currently working with 9 clients that harbor the rare metabolic subset of conditions known as aminoacidurias still in pursuit of the bodybuilding lifestyle while being very limited in their protein intake allowance; I have well of 60 clients who are post-cholecystectomy (gall-bladder removal); over 300 that are post-bariatric surgeries (i.e. – stomach stapling, gastric bypass/gastric banding). Still despite this initial intention, the “I want to look good naked crowd” persevered and now comprises over 65% of my clientele – well, perhaps then we can act as preventative for the other said conditions before they become issue – and I can honestly say, “I am ok with that.”

Break from Medicine: I will actually be back in Rochester (what I consider my true home) for about a year or longer to begin the “launch” of the supplement “division” of the same company I own and now aid in the growth of the MAN Sports, Inc Supplement line through a consulting role into product development and with aiding the start up of a Pharmacovigilance program for the company. Other plans will come forward as well as time moves forward, but there is certainly a plethora of potential.

I will be giving lectures across the country (something I have done concurrently for the last 6 years) trying to attract new business, but unfortunately will only be there for a short time while promoting a couple of upcoming industry-related books. Until things settle down with me, this won’t come full circle, however - which appears to be slated for one of the first three quarters of next year (hard to approximate as release of the supplement branch has been pushed back four times prior to this due to medical responsibilities amongst monetary constraints – read: $200,000 medical school debt).

I have also been part of five supplement companies and approached by six recently for a product development role in the last six years. I love the industry and am very happy to be able to return in the fashion I have.

I have authored 64 industry-related articles to date and pen them on almost a literal daily basis. Additional options to write in various magazine columns have also been offered me and with continued negotiation on some, I accepted others more readily - in all honesty for exposure and even to broaden the areas I would gear my talks (whether it be supplements or anabolics or training or diet all caters to particular mindsets, though I find interest in all of them collectively).

I have a new training protocol to go up in future editions of MAN-UP magazine or a potential co-authorship with Joey and/or Shawn (but this was an idea just recently pitched my way by Joey so it is very presumptive to suggest how this will pan out). It is something I have been using for year’s with clients in improving lifts and it is rather exciting. Hehe – its rather entertaining that many people look at me as more of a “nutrition guru” although I HATE THE DUBBING and feel I was a student of anatomy/physiology long-before I got into writing about nutrition – so I find myself more all-encompassing this sport/lifestyle of bodybuilding.

[dinoiii]

Later it was asked about what the heck I would be writing about in my books, my response follows:

Current happenings with publications in this industry:

5 penned books, 1st accepted for publication/in editing. It’s a training system (hell, we all have to push our own in this industry)...but you will find a little later this year, this is actually based more on translation than anything else – oh yeah and it will quench the “I want to look good naked crowd.” It is to say the least unique – will announce soon the title – release and such will follow shortly thereafter. I AM ADDING THREE CHAPTERS AS WE SPEAK TO THIS FOR COMPLETION’S SAKE (and to make the publishers happy based on my target demographic)!!!

The next and likely what would raise the most interest in the bb setting is what I would potentially call a dietary supplement “textbook.” I have sort of hinted at it for a while now, but am more comfortable due to its completed status. It is not the first of its kind, but of course, I would give my bid at it being the best - I am willing to bet I wouldn’t have written it had I not felt others were significantly deficient. This will drop late this year at best. I am pushing on publication; the question is what label I would do it under.

Third, I have penned a book that is based on a VERY novel concept - unfortuantely this I have to be a bit more discrete on…I will say this, bodybuilding is not the only application addressed - it is geared as more of a must-have for everyone who cares to wake up each morning…or maybe that’s my early marketing!?!

The fourth and fifth respectively will not likely drop until 2008 as they are still in the infancy of their respective editing processes on my end (and boy am I a perfectionist) but both pertain directly to bodybuilding and one may be pushed up in the process and released later this year, but I am already at the end of my rope with so many alternative projects on tap.

A website will be up in t-minus about 3 months or so (although it has been pushed back like 7 times to date as new projects continue to crop up), but it will be under construction for a bit. I am actually planning a minor break (~ 1 yr., perhaps longer from medicine after July 1 to pursue these bb/supplement industry endeavors) and you would likely see them pushed a bit more rapidly - unfortunately, they can only be worked out so quick doing both concurrently.

____________________________________________

Current Happenings in Medicine:

[MY background is HEAVILY INFLUENCED by ENDOCRINOLOGY]

I have had some ongoing research into the world of Pheochromocytomas (adrenal medulla tumors) for the last 10 years - this will start dropping publications next year or so.

I have co-authored a piece on the Syndrome of Inappropriate AntiDiuretic Hormone (SIADH) that was started in my Internal Medicine rotation of the clinical years of medical school. I will only be likely have a hand at second author on this piece - but you will notice my heavy hand in much of the biomolecular writing inolving significant discussion of various enantiomers on sodium balance and hyponatremia.

I have written another book/manual already out in manual form as a Student Guide is a Radiology manual - this is by no means what I would consider a specialty but written for clinicians that are not in that specialty or students planning other routes and what is kind of a must have knowledge for anyone in the field of medicine in general.


UPDATE: Many of you are also aware of my recent certification on an exam put out by the International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN) - earning the coveted CISSN tag, or alternatively dubbed a "certified sports nutritionist." Less than 40% of the examinees passed this exam, so it was certainly a credit to the difficulty and standard set by the organization. Jeff Sout suggests this to be harder than the CSCS exam for those familiar with all these certifications but it may come down to simply picking your poison.


If there are any more questions for those that may care…this is the background. I post it so you can see who exactly wrote the pieces of work you may or may not have read.



Thanks for taking the time...Looking forward to future interactions with everyone.


D_

[dinoiii]

Check out my new "Underground" Newsletter on advancements in ALL of the areas listed above plus articles, et al.

Formal announcement (cut 'n pasted in from other forums):

On or about July 1, 2007 begins a new era...the second half of 2007 will hold quite a bit for me and I want to chroniclize it in newsletter format. As a show of appreciation, the newsletter will NOT be complete solicitation...lol...my exchange are the following:

Contests, Prizes, Independent articles, A "Dirty Article" series (hey, what the heck is this anyway?), chances to take part in product review, new protocols, training programs, book offers, STUFF THAT CANNOT BE CONSIDERED ACCEPTABLE FOR BB MESSAGE BOARDS , Industry insider information, IFFI extension (for those that know what the heck that is...:wink: ), website announcements, magazine article announcements, organization announcements, employment opportunities (ever thought about working in the industry) , a "rep/moderator" lottery drawing and the fringe benefits that come along with it...AND SO MUCH MORE...

Bring back the excitment that should be the industry I dreamed to take part in 16 years ago...



Send a blank email with the word "SUBSCRIBE" in the heading to:
askdinoiii@hotmail.com


You won't want to miss it. I assure you!

D_

[Voodoo]

You know, after reading various posts you've made, one would think that I would be accustomed to the long winded ways of Dinoiii... but yet again - stunned!

I never thought of you as a nutritional guru, more a source of information on the molecular level. Though I understand the politics I think you hold back far too much of your own opinion and in that effect ruin your ability to simplify things. :smile:

Do I even need to send the subscribe email? I figure its understood at this point that I'm in. Though I have yet to retain IFFI status, due to my "run it and see if it works" and "if a little is good..." mentality..

Anyhow, it's good to have you on here D! As of yet, I haven't seen the politics on this board due to the fact they're not exclusively backed by anyone. Ahem. So maybe, just maybe Trans will be safe as well.

(Now go answer my abstracts on MelanotanII question, cause no one else can come up with any potential negatives on the stuff)

[Sampson]

wow, thats what you call an introduction! Welcome to the boards man, I have heard quite a bit about you! Make yourself right at home.

[snakemw]

Welcome aboard Dana, I was just thinking i should have mentioned this forum in my email the other day. This is the only forum i have more posts then you