LINGZHI CAI, M.D., Ph.D.

Life is short!

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Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass,

It’s about learning to dance in the rain.

I have much pleasure to introduce myself. I obtained my Medical Doctorate from Jilin Medical University, Chang Chun, China in 1983. I obtained a Ph.D. from the Department of Pediatrics, Nippon Medical University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan in 2004. I learned not only western medicine, but also traditional Chinese medicine when I was  in medical school in China.

I treated my patients by combining both methods when I was working as a pediatrician in China.

My holistic principle is the patient is a person, not a disease. Treatment is finding and fixing the cause of the condition, not just alleviating the symptoms.

I have been engaged in clinical work and research in the fields of pediatrics, immunology, cellular biology, molecular biology and gene therapy for more than thirty years. I was most currently employed as a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Endocrinology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh doing diabetes and obesity research.

Through my clinical work and research on diabetes and obesity, I am most anxious to be actively involved in happy healthy living which includes directly reducing the impact of health problems such as obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, anxiety, depression, insomnia, constipation, neck, shoulder and lower back pain, hip, knee, ankle, heel, elbow, wrist and hand pain, arthritis, glaucoma, vertigo, tinnitus, neuropathy, allergy and various pain and chronic health problems using self health care medical exercise, acupressure point treatment and food therapy. I have been teaching this medical exercise and acupressure therapy and health food preparation for five years at Mountain Palace, Ligonier YMCA, and Westmoreland Community College. I have received very positive reviews from my students. They told me this medical exercise and acupressure therapy helped them resolve their problems. It is very encouraging to me as a mission to spread this happy healthy living skill to as many people as possible during my lifetime.

It will help people prevent different chronic health problems in increasing their life quality and living in happy healthy!

Lingzhi Cai, M.D., Ph.D.

 

Some History

Eleven years ago, I got a Ph.D. from the Department of Pediatrics, Nippon Medical School Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. I was planning to go back to China and continue working on clinical medicine as a pediatrician. A Japanese doctor who had studied in the United States told me “America is more developed than China by more than 100 years!” Wow!  I was shocked to hear it. I thought if I go to America instead of going back to China, it means I will extend my life time for more than 100 years!  What a brilliant idea!  May 15, 2005 I came to United States full of excitement and curiosity.

My classmate picked me up at the airport and sent me to my apartment.  It was an empty room with nothing in it.  He helped me buy a mattress which I put on the floor. I slept on it to start my American dream. It was so quiet by myself living in an apartment without internet, phone or TV. I didn’t understand what people talked about. I couldn’t find my work building the first day. On the bus I saw people pulling a yellow string to stop the bus. I couldn’t tell at which bus stop I should pull the yellow string. I was very carefully watching every building from the window. Every building looked the same for me. I was so nervous!

For the first three years, I worked at the Department of Neurology in UPMC in Pittsburgh doing gene therapy research for DMD (Duchenne muscular dystrophy). With a lot work, three years later, I was invited to present my research at the American Society of Gene Therapy international meeting on June 1, 2008. I published my research work as a chapter in Gene Correction Methods and Protocols text in 2014. Unfortunately, the research funding was ending in that year. I found another job at the Department of Endocrinology at UPMC doing diabetes and obesity research at the gene level to try to figure out the mechanism of obesity affecting diabetes. I learned how unhealthy lifestyle causes health problems which affect people’s life quality from this study.