Beyond everythg else that his extend rume speaks to, Dr. Norman Gay is most passnate the days, about athlet gettg regular health check-ups. This is certaly what he wants for all and sundry, but the good doctor harbors a ep ncern for athlet. Many athlet thk regular petn translat to excellent health. Dr. Gay is about as well-round an dividual as one uld fd anywhere. He was a versatile athlete who starred llege, regnally and lolly volleyball, baseball, softball and body buildg. Dr. Gay, near the end of his petive days, also beme one of the natn's bt ever sports admistrators. He was a succsful polician. Dr. Gay is the anti-agg master, known the world over for his methods and advotg that liv uld last much longer. He preach health re. Dr. Gay would tell all who wish to listen about the numero health issu that don't surface for long perds. One day, an athlete simply blacks out durg petn and di. Here The Bahamas we've seen loved on, ar iends and sports lleagu go out that way. We read and hear about such cints throughout the world, often. Yet, has seemed that the tragedi never really h home. There would be perds of mourng and exprsed awarens by athlet, but soon thereafter, the back to bs as ual mdset prevailed. The ual nonchalance regardg health check-ups would bee the norm, particularly our untry, acrdg to Dr. Gay. The athlet who n afford to do so, pop expensive substanc, legal and sometim illegal wh ltle re to what the negative rults uld be. Then, there are those who sist they n't pay for the regular check-ups, or don't have the time for them. Dr. Gay and his peers lament the suatn nstantly. I believe though, a very strange way, Dr. Gay's preachg will not fall on so many af ears any more. The sports world has been foced on Fabrice Muamba, the midfielr who llapsed and died on March 17 durg a soccer game between his team Bolton Wanrs and Tottenham England. For a full 78 mut, he was ad, acrdg to doctors. Then, miraculoly his life me back. A month later he is out, walkg around and talkg about his ath experience. I make no se that Muamba age 24 was a tragedy wag to happen. I do not know his health history. Whatever the se however a msage has been sent out across the globe to athlet. It is their heads now that even a healthy-lookg young soccer star uld drop ad durg petn. I was London when Muamba went public about his revery. It was a big topic, rivallg polil, enomic and other prime stori. Health check-ups are important. Muamba me back to life. God only, knows the reason or reasons. It is certa though, more and more athlet will start payg greater attentn to whether there is anythg abnormal gog on, no matter how small. To rpond to this lumn, kdly ntact Fred Sturp at
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NORMAN GAY, MD
Like every physician, Dr. Norman Gay lov to see his patients get healthy, but changg liv one by one has never been enough for him. * dr norman gay bahamas *
Norman Gay lov to see his patients get healthy, but changg liv one by one has never been enough for him.
Gay is a champn bodybuilr, still petive at the age of 62.
Gay has long promoted a holistic approach to health, spe enunterg many roadblocks along the way. Gay not, “Over 90% of our health re budgets are spent on disease procs, wh ls than 10% voted to the other si of the equatn, where people have their health and want to keep . Gay creds his mother, a Seventh-Day Adventist, wh settg him on the path to “healthy livg, a healthy body, and a healthy md, ” cludg his early ditn to physil fns.
As the longt servg Mister of Health The Bahamas, Dr. Norman Rupert Gay sports que a list of acplishments om his time ernment, cludg a grant-based rearch iative to plete a 40-volume plan for health the untry the creatn of a nursg school which would bee the nursg program at the College of The Bahamas and the creatn of an AIDS Secretariat The Bahamas. Yet Dr. Gay is most proud of his volvement both the Pan-Amerin Health Organizatn PAHO as chairman and his work wh the World Health Organizatn WHO as a prenter at several nferenc. Prentg on the state of the health of the wtern world wh the ternatnal anizatns, he says, helped him foc more broadly on health-related issu facg Bahamians. It helped me as the mister of health to look at the health of the entire Bahamas rather than as a physician lookg at the health of dividuals who e , he says. For at heart Dr. Gay is a physician, and like all doctors he took an oath to help people who need .  And what people need now more than ever, he says, is heath tn and accs to heath rmatn - pecially a world where non-munible diseas, such as diabet, oby, high blood prsure and ncer are acuntg for most of the aths worldwi. Chronic disease is not somethg that happens overnight.  It's somethg that tak 20 to 30 years before happens, he says.  All of them are preventable and reversible - which is another world for curable - and I don't hate to e the world 'cure' as is one that is hardly ed. It's an exprsn that is beg echoed by many world lears the days.  Jt recently, the Uned Natns hosted a general assembly special summ on the illns and their social and enomic impacts.  Dr. Gay also pots out that our Caribbean neighbor, Tridad and Tobago, is takg steps toward batg s rate of chronic disease, pledgg to rce by 25 percent by the year 2025. But how do one bat such diseas - or reverse and cure them  The answer, Dr. Gay says, do not lie a miracle dg offered by pharmactil pani.  Unlike most doctors who are traed to and ntue the practice of treatg symptoms, Dr. Gay treats the e of symptoms wh surprisgly simple liftyl chang, like swchg to a plant-based diet, at his medil clic, The Bahamas Anti-Agg Medil Instute. That stute, he says, which was tablished the 1970s, me about through treatg repeat patients he saw as senr medil officer for ambulatory re at Prcs Margaret Hospal the late 1960s.  The number of patients g was too much for the small pool of doctors to handle. So I had to look at who the people were who were g here, he remembers.  And as I reviewed rerds, I saw they were the same persons g over and over and over aga wh chronic illns - diabet, high blood prsure, arthris - and persons, spe treatment, were all too equently g to the emergency room wh stroke. So I started an eveng clic wh selected patients to get them to unrstand and take charge of their own health, and wh a three-month perd of time, was amazg what took place the liv of those patients, he says. The bt piece of advice he n offer dividuals and persons the medil field is to te themselv about the evolvg field of medice, new disveri, and wellns, all while keepg an open md. It's fely hard to change the way one has been programmed to functn and what one has been programmed to believe when to wellns and nutrn.  But as Dr. Gay pots out the objective may not be to live a longer life, but to live a more fulfillg life wh one's body fully functnal. As I've been back my practice seeg patients, certa thgs beme obv - that if we ntue to do the thgs we are dog, we will not succeed, he says.  And if you don't get the rults you want, you better change what you do.  And we're not too good at changg what we do. We have a set of learned thgs and then on the other hand we have powerful vted tert groups who have a lot to lose if is changed, and this gets the way of meangful change.  But today, I'm pleased to say that change is happeng. Ined, he is hopeful that a paradigm shift is happeng both on a world sle and The Bahamas through the regnn of functnal medice and the sensizg of his lleagu the field of medice to such methods.  Yet, there is a long way to go and tn is the key. I want to have a natnal health tn program endorsed and put to practice The Bahamas, he says.  Knowg the way the body functns will serve you to be able to prevent many thgs. * dr norman gay bahamas *
Gay is preparg for yet another bodybuildg petn. Gay emphasiz nutrn, supplements, exercise, healthy liftyle practic, and posive thkg. Gay was eply imprsed when he me across an article featurg CAT-sn pictur of the bra illtratg the physil effects of posive and negative thoughts.
Gay not, “we say ‘anti-agg, ’ but maybe that’s not such a good word. Gay beme a member of the Internatnal Amy of Preventive Medice the 1970s and a member of the Life Extensn Foundatn the 1980s.
Wt Bay Clic & The Bahamas Anti Ageg stute, office of Dr Norman R Gay MD, is loted on Wt Bay Street jt below the Fish Fry. * dr norman gay bahamas *
Gay see as the major problems affectg our abily to live longer and healthier liv? Gay rells a US ernment report on soil pletn datg all the way back to 1936, when farmers were forced to produce high crop volum jt to survive, and the soil was never allowed to recuperate.
Gay. Gay c the growg cince of type II diabet, which he lks to the creasg cince of oby around the world. Gay re for himself and his patients?
Gay says that sleep requirements differ for different people and that you n judge the amount you need by the way you feel when you wake up the morng.
The sgle-most important aspect that marked the prev two admistratns of the Bahamas Boxg Commissn was the extraordary raship enjoyed by the members who ma solid stris spe a stgglg enomy, not favorable to would-be promoters. Unr Dr. Norman Gay's chairmanship, the 2003-2007 admistrators rennected profsnal boxg The Bahamas wh the major world boxg thory bodi. Dr. Gay, who was one of the chief archects of the legislated l and regulatns that ern profsnal boxg, is known for his diplomatic style. He fostered a close-kn climate and the members worked always as one to rega a posive image for profsnal boxg the untry. In 2007, unr a new central ernment, the posn of chairman was filled by former outstandg light heavyweight boxer Pat Strachan. The smooth workg relatnship of the missn ntued. Durg Strachan's tenure, the missn tablished the Boxg Hall of Fame and ducted five former stalwarts of the sport. The first three ducte, 2009, were Everette Elisha Obed Fergon, William Yama Bahama Butler and Gomeo Brennan. In 2011, the missn ducted Bertram Bert Perry Perigord and Wiled Battlg Douglas. I had the pleasure of servg as secretary unr both admistratns, and as print of the Commonwealth Boxg Council 2008-2010. The missn was also stmental workg wh the uncil to place Bahamians as boxg ntenrs. In that regard, Jerma Mackey was rated, got a shot at the Commonwealth Super Middleweight Crown and was succsful. He held the tle om 2007 to 2009. So ed, while promoters had and still have difficulti gettg enough fundg to put on boxg shows, some signifint roads were ma durg the past two admistratns of the missn. Dr. Gay and Strachan serve high praise for their learship style. The prent admistratn, announced on Monday by the ernment, is th challenged to fe new avenu of acplishments. Unr the new announced chairman, Alv Sargeant, and this wrer, who was named puty chairman, the missn starts out on a high note. Three weeks ago, Bahamian Heavyweight Champn Sherman 'Tank' Williams got a prtig victory. He feated Chncy Welliver Mau, Cha and end up wh three tl. He is now the Cha Zone, Asia Pacific and Mau Provce champn. Th, he owns four tl, cludg that of The Bahamas. A grand way to get gog would be for the new missn to pay public tribute to Williams. My unrstandg is that the cy of Vero Beach Florida, where Williams and his wife Kimberley ri, has embraced him anew. Acrdg to Kimberley, the Tank is due to be prented wh the key to the cy a special ceremony later this month. So far, nothg of the kd has been announced lolly. Perhaps might be left to the missn to take the iative. It would be a gture beftg the noted sports ambassador and a rather posive plank on which the admistratn unr Sargeant n beg s bs. o To rpond to this lumn, kdly ntact Fred Sturp at * dr norman gay bahamas *
Gay tak vam supplements, cludg the Life Extensn Mix, which he lls the bt preparatn of s kd, and the Life Extensn Booster, both of which he strongly remends to his patients. Gay says, “bee I’m buildg mcle and lookg at beg an ele athlete. Gay nsum one gram of prote per pound of body weight daily.