Michael Maxon, M.S. graduate and Ph.D. candidate
When Michael Maxon was a teenager, he developed a health condition that changed his life: Hepatitis. Yes; Michael Maxon and Johnny Delirious are the same person. The disease became chronic and because of this, Michael began an intense and personal interest in natural health. He developed a new gratitude for the Holy Spirit, which he gives credit to his recovery.
He has worked professionally in the laboratory, nutrition and natural health industry since 1987, and has shopped at health food stores for more than 40 years and helped in the beginnings of several nutritional CoOps. When Michael and his wife Valeria, go to a drugstore, they make a joke that they only buy light bulbs, band-aids and tissue there. In Natural Health drugs or surgery are a last resort and should only be utilized when nothing else can be effective.
Michael earned a BS in 1996 in Communication Arts in the University of West Florida and majored in politics and persuasion, focusing on speeches of influence in history: from Lenin, Churchill, John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter to the brilliant sales and marketing rhetoric of Barnum and Bailey Ringling etc.
"I may not embrace their philosophies, but their appeal was magnetic. I wanted to learn why, in order to empower people to make changes that lead to a healthier life. Cleaning the liver is the key to health, and the organ is so named because it helps us live. Maintenance of the liver is simple, yet it is not widely done."
Michael's near-death experience brought a better understanding of the liver and a desire to help others. "When that rare person captures a new understanding and makes a decision within themselves that life can be better and is worth living and they can make that happen, it makes my dreams come true, I live to see people change for the better."
From 2000 to 2004 Michael worked in technical and product support for Garden of Life, interfacing with doctors and other health care providers, health food store employees and consumers. "It is paramount that customers and professionals understand the interactions of nutritionals otherwise they will not get the benefits."
Today, he has biographies about his experience with natural health and healing, the first being his ground breaking book, Hepatitis C, CURED by Johnny Delirious
In Memory of Johnny's Father
This picture was taken in 1997, when I went to my father's 50 Year Medical Reunion and assisted him in all of his activities. A little background on my father...he was born on 9 July 1912 in Muncie, Indiana. He attended local schools and after graduating from Muncie Central High he attended Kenyon College in Ohio, Rollins College in South Florida, and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and became an engineer. Later in his career, he graduated from Tulane Medical School during World War II and as a Naval Reserve officer he taught anatomy at Tulane for the war effort to train more doctors. He was a specialist in Tropical diseases and worked with the Hanson's disease clinic near New Orleans. Due to this interest he was part of the consortium who was working to develop antibiotics such as sulfa and penicillin which would change the treatment of many infections as well as Hanson's disease. It was paramount to the treatment of the war wounded as well.
Going to his reunion and meeting his class mates, I was associating with such medical legends as Drs. Alton Oscher, Leon Meier, Flora Finch, Bob Brown, Michael DeBakey, Dr. Herbert, Dr. F. Marascalco and many others. Dr. Michael de Bakey you may remember is the famous Houston Heart Surgeon who operated on Boris Yelson's heart; which was a very successful operation. Bob Brown is not only an excellent Doctor, but he also was one of the New York Yankee's better baseball players during 1948 and 1949. All are Tulane graduates in my Dad's class or they had Interned with him.
After graduation he worked with Dr. Oscher in the Touro Infirmary and was recognized as intern of the year and later was offered a position in the clinic that Dr. Oscher was starting in New Orleans after the war. Instead my father chose to go to Fort Walton Beach in Northwest Florida and open a general practice as that area had no medical care at the time. This was front-line medicine dealing with all manner of treatment outside his office including house calls. Working with the local Congressman Bob Sikes they established a small hospital and attracted more doctors to the area. He was the doctor of record and call when US presidents came to visit the many armed forces bases in the area. He sat on the Florida medical exam board as well as being the head of the State Board of Health for some time. In the early 1970s he retired from medical practice.
In Memory of Johnny's Mother
This picture was taken in 1955 when my Mom (Eugenia) and I were at our Family Reunion. Eugenia Annie Mae Rudulph Maxon 1917- 1973 was born on the 9th of June 1917 in Selma, Alabama to Burwell Blount Rudulph and his 2nd wife, Caroline Caffey Rudulph. This was his 7th daughter and the first child of Caroline. Three of his daughters and his 1st wife died of scarlet fever during the epidemic that spread across the country.
Eugenia grew up at Cloverdale, the family place in Lowdnes county, near Hayneville Alabama that had been in the family since 1834. She was sent to De Funiak Springs to Palmer High school, a part of the Chataqua Movement at the time. She graduated from Wheaton College in Chicago in June of 1938 with a degree in British Literature. Her classmate and good friend was to become the famous Billy Graham. She married Robert von Purucker Maxon at the First Baptist Church In Montgomery Alabama on 25 June 1938.
For several years in the early 1970's she had been battling different cancers. We were together in London in 1973 and while going through the subway turn-style she hit her right side that released toxins in her liver that took her life very shortly within days. I loved my mother very much, but I must say over and over again I am reminded throughout my whole life of the importance of good liver health.