Dr. Bee Epstein-Shepherd has been pioneering hypnotic techniques to improve performance and enhance life since embarking on her second career as a hypnotherapist in 1992.

After earning a Master's Degree in Psychology, in 1976, Dr. Bee taught Business Psychology at Monterey Peninsula College while working on her Ph.D. in Psychology, earning that degree in 1982. For the next ten years she taught management courses through a number of colleges and universities while maintaining an active consulting practice. In the late 70's and early 80's she developed some of the first college courses for Women in Management.

As a management consultant, and corporate trainer Dr. Bee developed training programs and seminars in Time Management, Communication, Management and Supervision, Stress Management and Life Balance. Her clients included such diverse organizations as Hewlett Packard, Intel, Apple, Xerox, Macy's, CareerTrack, Procter and Gamble, University of California Medical Center, University of California, Santa Cruz, the IRS, the U.S. Army, Navy, and the Alaska Court System. Between 1981 and 1996 she trained more than 250,000 people in 450 cities internationally.

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Ayurveda is an ancient system of personalized medicine documented and practiced in India since 1500 B.C. According to this system an individual's basic constitution to a large extent determines predisposition and prognosis to diseases as well as therapy and life-style regime. Ayurveda describes seven broad constitution types (Prakritis) each with a varying degree of predisposition to different diseases. Amongst these, three most contrasting types, Vata, Pitta, Kapha, are the most vulnerable to diseases. In the realm of modern predictive medicine, efforts are being directed towards capturing disease phenotypes with greater precision for successful identification of markers for prospective disease conditions. In this study, we explore whether the different constitution types as described in Ayurveda has molecular correlates.

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