Frank Lipman - Revive!: End Exhaustion & Feel Great Again

Frank Lipman, M.D., is the founder and director of the Eleven Eleven Wellness Center in New York City, where his personal blend of Western and alternative medicine has helped thousands of people-including celebrities like Kyra Sedgwick, David Letterman, and Donna Karan-recover their energy and zest for life.

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Franks Acknowledgments

To write a book takes a village. A heartfelt appreciation to the following special people whom I have been blessed to have in my life.

First, a big thank-you to my patients, for entrusting yourselves to my care. It is a great privilege to be your partner in health. You inspired Revive.

Thanks to my family. To Janice, my anchor, for loving, nurturing, supporting, and keeping me in rhythm and for sharing her delicious recipes. So much of this book and what I do would not be possible without you. To Ali, our beautiful daughter, for bringing so much joy into my life. Your comments and editing suggestions were so insightful. This book was truly a family creation. I love you both. And to Lily, Jeff, Marianne, Mikki, Cecil, David, and Michelleour family, who gave us the roots to grow.

Thanks to my staff at the 1111 Wellness Center, particularly Vicky Zodo and Vanessa Echeveria, who keep my practice running in a steady rhythm so I can move to other beats.

A special thank-you to those who helped make this book a reality. To Mollie Doyle for your brilliance, patience, style, and love of the beat. Your understanding of the subject and ability to take a mass of information and create a user-friendly book continually astounds me. It has been such a gift to work with you. To Stephanie Tade for believing in me, having a vision, planting a seed, and overseeing its growth into Revive. To Lindsey Clennell for being such a wise and loving father, brother, mentor, colleague, and friend. Your yoga advice and wisdom are diffused throughout the book. To Kristi Anderson, Nathan Briner, and Yvonne De Kock, for imparting your knowledge and being such great models for the photographs. To Linda Gaunt and Heidi Krupp, for your enthusiasm and eagerness to spread the word. To Beth Galton, for the exquisite yoga and exercise photos. To Timothy White, for my jacket photo and all your support.

Thanks to the people I call my Daily Advisory CommitteeI call on you for so many things, and you always respond with wisdom, humor, and insight. To Fiona Druckenmiller, for everything you do in this world. To Donna Karan, for your enormous heart and commitment to changing the way patients are cared for. To Harriet Beinfield, Lic. Ac., and Efrem Korngold, O.M.D., Lic. Ac., for teaching me to see the world differently and supporting my growth ever since. To Larry Baskind, M.D., and Steven Cowan, M.D., rhythm brothers, for keeping me laughing and being there for the Lipman family whenever we needed you. To Jeff Bland, Ph.D., for fathering functional medicine and initiating a new, healthier direction in medicine. To Gabrielle Roth, queen of rhythm, for making me change my beat midcourse. To Alejandro Junger, M.D., for your charm, big heart, and love of life. To Kevin Law for saying it like it is and keeping my finger on the pulse. To Marcelle Pick, N.P., for your encouragement, love, and support. To Scott Berliner, R.Ph., for continually sharing your knowledge. To Bob Thurman, for your brilliance and willingness to impart your infinite wisdom. To Gil Chimes, D.C., acupuncturist and body worker extraordinaire, for keeping my body in tune. To Lori Benton, for giving me the original title, Spent. To Denis Crosley for your creative advice. And to Chris Blackwell, for your love of rhythm and turning the world on to such great music.

Thanks to all the folks at Touchstone Fireside: Trish Todd, for getting Revive from the get-go; Chris Lloreda, for getting 100 percent behind it; Zach Schisgal, for a great editing job; Shawna Lietzke, for being so helpful; publisher, Mark Gompertz, and director of publicity, Marcia Burch; Jessica Roth; and Lynn Anderson, for copyediting.

I am honored to be part of two amazing grassroots organizations working in the new South Africa, the Ubuntu Education Fund and MonkeyBiz. Thanks to Jacob Lief, Malizole Banks Gwaxula, Gcobani Zonke, Qondakele Sompondo, Mava Dlepu, Jana Zindell, Jordan Levy, and all the staff and board of the Ubuntu Fund, and to Barbara Jackson and all the women at MonkeyBiz. You have brought so much more meaning into my life.

Thanks to all the friends and colleagues who have supported me over the years and with this book in particular: Patti Gift;Yves Durif; Paulette Cole; Kevin Bacon; Kyra Sedgwick; Richard Smith; Barry Schechter; Maria Hinojosa; Ronna Lichtenberg; Bobby Clennell; Susan Luck, RN; Charlene Chai; Barbara Locker; Marty Jaramillo, P.T.; Jill Pettijohn; Annie Jubb; Kate Horrigan, P.T.; Mark Hyman, M.D.; Woodson Merrell, M.D.; Robert Palmer, D.C.; Charlie DeFrancesco; Rob Di Stefano, D.C.; Lorraine Tiezzi; Susan Swimmer; Amy Homes; and Adam Banning.

Thanks to Rancho La Puerta and all the amazing staff for being my own personal Spent Solution.

To the Environmental Working Group (www.EWG.org) for the important work that they do.

Thanks to South Africa, for instilling in me African rhythms and Ubuntu.

Thanks to the pioneers in this new health movement, whose work has influenced me, in particular Christiane Northrup, M.D.; Mary Dunn; Annemarie Colbin, Ph.D., CHES; Annie Berthold Bond; Barbara Dossey, Ph.D., RN; Harriet Beinfield, Lic. Ac.; Efrem Korngold, O.M.D., Lic. Ac.; Jeff Bland, Ph.D.; Lindsey Clennell; Rodney Yee; Jim Gordon, M.D.; Larry Dossey, M.D.; Andrew Weil, M.D.; Alan Gaby, M.D.; Jonathan Wright, M.D.; Leo Galland, M.D.; Sidney Baker, M.D.; Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.; Richard Schaub, Ph.D.; Leon Chaitow, D.O.; Alejandro Claraco, M.D.; Mark Seem, Ph.D.; Mark Blumenthal; Mike Adams.

To His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and B. K. S. Iyengar, for shining their light on the paththank you.

To Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher, and the late Richard Pryor and George Carlin, for keeping me laughing. To all the musicians around the world who have kept me in rhythm with their music: Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Michael Franti, Wyclef Jean, Manu Chao, Baaba Maal, Youssou NDour, Hugh Masakela, Abdullah Ibrahim, Angelique Kidjo, Gilberto Gil, Neil Young, Miles Davis, Van Morrison, Keith Jarrett, and Bill Laswell, to mention just a few.

Thank you all.

Janices Acknowledgments

So many talented chefs, cooks, and friends have inspired me over the years. I am especially grateful to my mother, Mikki Norton, who taught me the pleasures of home cooking. Thanks to Mollie Katzen, Deborah Madison, Myrna Rosen, Annemarie Colbin, Martha Stewart, Jill Pettijohn, and Annie Jubb. Your recipes have guided and nourished us on this journeya big thank-you. However, Frank and our incredible daughter, Alison, provide me with the greatest nourishment of alltheir love. Special thanks to Lynne Kalvin, Felicity Schwartz, and Susan Cowan for their love and support. And finally, a very big thank-you to Mollie Doyle for helping me and making this process so smooth.

Mollies Acknowledgments

Frank Lipman, for including me in this incredible project. I am honored and humbled.

Stephanie Tade, for her wisdom and humor.

Janice Lipman, for her delicious food and editorial intuition.

My husband, Thomas Bena, for going on the adventure.