Dr Marilyn Magazin has worked in scientific and medical research for forty years. She has a Chemistry degree from the University of Kentucky and a doctoral degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Geneva. Thirty years ago she encountered Tibetan medicine which she then studied with Jacques Haesaert, a French naturopath and Tibetan medical doctor. She then went on to co-editing and translating his teachings from French to English, as well as translating more than 150 consultations. Dr Magazin then studied for three more years with Dr Lobsang Shrestha.