Stumbling on a great life purpose...

 

Back in the 1990s in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Franco Cavaleri was an undergrad in medicine and a competitive bodybuilder. He had consecutively won several local and regional bodybuilding championships throughout Canada and was training for something bigger.

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His undefeated wins for weight class and overall title championships were unprecedented - driven not only by his own passion but a deeper curiosity and understanding about the impact of nutrition on human performance.

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As a competitive athlete, Franco tried many different supplements including huge amounts of Curcumin because it helped reduce muscle soreness and inflammation so he could recover faster, train harder and more frequently.  The world-wide availability of Curcumin dwindled at one point making it difficult to get so he continued to train at the same pace without this inflammatory countermeasure.

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It wasn't long before his recovery and performance began to regress.  He started to feel aches and pains in his muscles. He also developed terrible stomach pain.  After a stint in the hospital it turned out he had Severe Ulcerative Colitis, a serious inflammatory bowel disease which almost dwindled his hopes of ever competing again - never mind having a normal, healthy life. 

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It became evident before long that this Curcumin dosing was taking the edge off this disease and the logical thing to do was to get back on the original program. Within weeks of restoring his Curcumin intake he was back to training and functioning normally to focus on his studies - much to the surprise of his doctors.

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Franco eventually made it back to the competitive stage and won the Mr. North America International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness Championship in his weight class! He was also able to overcome the symptoms of Severe Ulcerative Colitis and continues to manage it to this day by taking his own patented formula of Curcumin BioBDMC™ which we have included in the NUNU Bioceuticals collection of supplements.

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Franco decided to make nutrition his life’s work. He started working towards a PhD in Experimental Medicine at the University of British Columbia. It wasn't long before his discoveries in medicine defined why and how his Curcumin strategies were effective.  He was able to fine-tune the extraction and composition to hone in on active components not recognized or applied before the way he used them.  His eye-opening findings were heard loud and clear worldwide to garner the attention of international universities including one in India where principal investigators recognized the potential of his pharmacological discoveries published in peer-reviewed medical journals. 

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He was soon invited to extend his doctoral work in an Indian Government University to apply the study of his discoveries to cancer therapy in hopes it could address a mysterious rise in oral cancer in some Indian communities.  Today, this work continues with promising outcomes that are leading to multiple research papers that will be seen shortly in the public literature. Franco's health challenge and overcoming it in the face of competition led to it becoming an important part of his life's work and passion to help humanity. 

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