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Mark F. Mc Carty

Biography

 Mark McCarty was born in Texas in 1951, but grew up in southern California, obtaining his undergraduate education in biochemistry at UC San Diego, Revelle College, graduating magna cum laude. He commenced his medical education by enrolling at UC San Diego School of Medicine as a Regents Scholar. After two years, he took a one year sabbatical to research and write a book manuscript, Nutritional Aspects of Degenerative Disease. Following a further year of medical training, his growing concern that nutritional measures were grossly neglected in medical practice led him to leave medical school and devote his career to applied nutrition, taking a job as Research Director with Nutrition 21. During 20 years of affiliation with this company, he played a key role in the development and clinical testing of organic supplemental selenium (high-selenium yeast, L-selenomethionine) as well as chromium picolinate. During this period, McCarty published scores of articles on a wide range of biomedical topics in the medical literature, most of them appearing in the journal Medical Hypotheses. He has been awarded 7 U.S. patents (composition of matter and/or use) for a variety of applied nutritional measures.

Research Interest

 Degenerative Disease, Biochemistry, organic supplemental selenium, cancer, Medicinal Food

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