Dr. Louis Scoma and Dr. Eric Gerken began discussing the connection between chronic disease and chronic inflammation in the mid- 1990’s while studying for their board certification in Anti-Aging medicine with the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M). They discovered that osteoporosis was an inflammatory disease and not a deficiency of calcium mineral as commonly thought. This observation set the stage for further insights into the common denominator of all chronic diseases, that being, chronic inflammation.