Find something you like … and
just do it
Dr. Eliezer Rapaport lives by what
the best piece of advice he says he ever received: “Do only the things you
are interested in. Life is too short.” For him, that is a life dedicated to studying,
researching, and understanding adenosine nucleotides. Nucleotides are the
structural units of RNA and of DNA. They play a role in energy production
and metabolism. For AIM Members, what they really need to know is that he
has spent 30 years establishing himself as a leader in working with ATP
(adenosine triphosphate), the major ingredient in AIM Peak Endurance™. In
fact, he holds eight patents, many of them related to his cutting-edge
research on ATP. You know he is serious about his calling when he says, “My
biggest hobby is reading current medical, physiological, and biological
research articles.” His dedication to his work has resulted in him spending
time on the faculties of the Harvard Medical School and the Boston
University School of Medicine.
Today, however, he does “very little teaching. Mostly I am involved
with ATP. I am working on resurrecting ATP Therapeutics, a company I founded
in 1999 for utilizing ATP in the treatment of several life-threatening
indications.” He serves as a consultant to biopharmaceutical companies. His
research work has found its way into 58 published, original, peer-reviewed
articles. His march to the top of his field began in earnest with graduate
studies from 1967 to 1971 at Johns Hopkins University. From Hopkins he relocated to Harvard “where I started looking at the
mechanisms of intracellular ATP functions ...” In time, he says, he came to
“the realization that ATP, an ancient molecule, is involved in the
regulation of every aspect of life.” As with his passion for his work, he
lives what he believes – he takes ATP. Dr. Rapaport has spent the better part of his life pushing the
envelope on ATP, constantly striving to know more about it. It is part of
his character, a big part of who he is. “Try to be innovative,” he advises.
“Never do work that is completely confirmatory. Always expand to uncharted
waters.” Interestingly, for this man of science, the motivators, the inspirators in
his life are not scientists. They are Mahatma Gandhi and Ralph Bunche. He
refers to them as “two giants of the 20th century. Dr. Ralph Bunche was an
African-American who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 for mediating
the 1948 Palestine ceasefire.” Gandhi, an Indian, was the champion of
peaceful resistance to political policies he considered corrupt and
discriminatory. Dr. Rapaport calls Gandhi “the pure idealist.” Bunche, he
says, was both an “idealist and a realist.” |