Hi, all.
I don't know if anyone here had interactions with Dr. David Gregg, who maintained the website www.krysalis.net (which is currently still up), but I want to note that Dr. Gregg passed away last Wednesday night, July 6, 2011. He had had heart bypass surgery 8 days earlier. and had just returned home. His heart stopped, and paramedics were not able to revive him.
David had been a good friend and inspiration to me for many years. We were coworkers at a national laboratory, and after retirement we continued to interact on a variety of health-related topics.
David was one of the rare people I have had the privilege of knowing who was what I would characterize as a creative genius. He had an intuitive sense that enabled him to come up with solutions to problems that were way outside the box. He had the courage to make his unusual ideas public. He was also a very loyal friend. I didn't always agree with David, and we had very animated discussions. He had the uncanny ability to be certain of something before I felt that there was enough evidence to support it, and very often he turned out to be right, which gave him great glee!
David's formal education was in chemistry and chemical engineering. Here's a very partial list of things David came up with:
He initiated the concept of using lasers to produce nuclear fusion reactions, which has become a very major research program.
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He was the first person to apply a laser to a land surveying instrument. These are standard instruments in wide use now. He didn't patent it.
I'm sorry about the coarseness of the following, but David was named "Asshole of the Month" by Hustler magazine because of his suggestion during the Cold War that the best thing a person in a city could do if given a 20-minute warning of an impending nuclear attack would be to submerge their body in the nearest body of water (river, lake, or ocean). His logic was that this would give at least some protection against blast, heat and radiation. He noted that this was not a very satisfactory solution, and that cities should develop deep underground shelters stocked with food and water, which could double as parking garages in order to pay the cost. His suggestion was misunderstood, and he was made a laughingstock in newspapers. He subsequently self-published a book entitled "Beyond Star Wars," discussing civil defense against nuclear attack.
He developed, contracted for the production, and sold one of the first high-potency general vitamin and mineral supplements, which he called "Sparx." Its immediate impact on my energy level was the thing that caused me to become interested in the use of nutritional supplements for the treatment of health conditions.
He discovered four non-drug treatments for Crohn's disease, which have greatly helped many people, one of them being my late father-in-law.
You can see some of his other ideas on his website.
The last thing he was working on when he died was treatment for Alzheimer's, in an effort to help his companion of 20 years. That is discussed in the blog on his website.
His motivation in working on treatment for each of the disorders he worked on was to help someone he knew, who had that particular disorder. His work on cancer began when I developed colorectal cancer.
I will greatly miss David, and I'm very glad to have known him.
Rich Van Konynenburg
I don't know if anyone here had interactions with Dr. David Gregg, who maintained the website www.krysalis.net (which is currently still up), but I want to note that Dr. Gregg passed away last Wednesday night, July 6, 2011. He had had heart bypass surgery 8 days earlier. and had just returned home. His heart stopped, and paramedics were not able to revive him.
David had been a good friend and inspiration to me for many years. We were coworkers at a national laboratory, and after retirement we continued to interact on a variety of health-related topics.
David was one of the rare people I have had the privilege of knowing who was what I would characterize as a creative genius. He had an intuitive sense that enabled him to come up with solutions to problems that were way outside the box. He had the courage to make his unusual ideas public. He was also a very loyal friend. I didn't always agree with David, and we had very animated discussions. He had the uncanny ability to be certain of something before I felt that there was enough evidence to support it, and very often he turned out to be right, which gave him great glee!
David's formal education was in chemistry and chemical engineering. Here's a very partial list of things David came up with:
He initiated the concept of using lasers to produce nuclear fusion reactions, which has become a very major research program.
.
He was the first person to apply a laser to a land surveying instrument. These are standard instruments in wide use now. He didn't patent it.
I'm sorry about the coarseness of the following, but David was named "Asshole of the Month" by Hustler magazine because of his suggestion during the Cold War that the best thing a person in a city could do if given a 20-minute warning of an impending nuclear attack would be to submerge their body in the nearest body of water (river, lake, or ocean). His logic was that this would give at least some protection against blast, heat and radiation. He noted that this was not a very satisfactory solution, and that cities should develop deep underground shelters stocked with food and water, which could double as parking garages in order to pay the cost. His suggestion was misunderstood, and he was made a laughingstock in newspapers. He subsequently self-published a book entitled "Beyond Star Wars," discussing civil defense against nuclear attack.
He developed, contracted for the production, and sold one of the first high-potency general vitamin and mineral supplements, which he called "Sparx." Its immediate impact on my energy level was the thing that caused me to become interested in the use of nutritional supplements for the treatment of health conditions.
He discovered four non-drug treatments for Crohn's disease, which have greatly helped many people, one of them being my late father-in-law.
You can see some of his other ideas on his website.
The last thing he was working on when he died was treatment for Alzheimer's, in an effort to help his companion of 20 years. That is discussed in the blog on his website.
His motivation in working on treatment for each of the disorders he worked on was to help someone he knew, who had that particular disorder. His work on cancer began when I developed colorectal cancer.
I will greatly miss David, and I'm very glad to have known him.
Rich Van Konynenburg
