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Joe
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His difficult and often abusive childhood led him to discover what is needed to become a good parent and with his wife Ann they have raised six successful children. |
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Joe had a long career in the construction industry starting at the age of six as a hod tender for his father who was a residential brick masonry contractor. At the age of sixteen Joe was an accomplished brick mason. At age seventeen he left home and resided with an Aunt and Uncle where he worked part time in their grocery store while finishing High School. At nineteen he served two years voluntary service for his church working with the American Indians in Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota. He Married Ann Despain in 1966 and on their first anniversary, he was in Fort Bliss Texas Army Boot Camp training for combat and an unknown future. He then attended school to become a helicopter Crew Chief and served one year in the U.S. and thirteen months in Korea.
In Korea Joe advanced to a Personnel Sergeant and Secret Documents NCO. On Sundays he conducted religious services for a small group of servicemen and his wife Ann played the piano. Once a week they taught an evening class of Conversational English to Korean College Students which helped them learn about the culture of Korea.
When Joe returned home in 1969 he resumed construction and used the GI bill to attend two years of College. In construction He had several positions; partner in a home remodeling company, a carpenter, a brick mason and a self employed masonry contractor. Due to back problems he sought and obtained employment as a building inspector. He was promoted to be the head plans examiner for the State of Idaho checking many buildings including large commercial and educational buildings for building code compliance. He later become an assistant manager for a municipal building inspection department, supervising inspectors and handling complaints including people with contractor problems.
He became a commercial construction superintendent, then project manager. He managed the construction of many commercial buildings including a state of the art milk processing plant where he supervised not only the construction with hundreds of workman and sub contractors but also the instillation and start up operation of the milk processing equipment. The plant produced over 100,000 gallons of milk a day and raw milk was processed and delivered within 24 hours. In 1995 while owning his own General Construction Company he developed an infection. In less than a month he could not work and developed chronic fatigue sleeping up to twenty hours a day. This required him to close his construction company and lay off twelve employees. His doctor treated him as a hypochondriac as if he wanted to stop supporting his family. For fifteen years Joe suffered with chronic fatigue and could not work. Since he found no help from the medical community He began searching the internet to find a way to restore his health. He started researching alternative health and soon discovered much of it was so un scientific that he began collecting only proven science about herbs and health. |
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In 2009 he learned about Celiac Disease and decided to try the gluten free diet and His health began to improve. When he inadvertently ate gluten, he would get sick and depressed, verifying he had Celiac Disease. If his doctor would have administered a simple blood test for Celiac Disease instead of branding Joe as a hypochondriac he could have avoided fifteen years of not being able to support his family.
The result of all these experiences is that Joe published his research on a web site that now has thousands of scientific research reports about health categorized by disease topics. No other health site in the world is like it.
Joe has published three books based on his construction and health experiences that he hopes will make a difference in the lives of others.
Joe conducts business
as Smart Steps LLC. |
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