Herschlag, Yonason: - Rabbi Herschlag is the founder and CEO of Maimonides Health & Fitness Center in Beitar Illit (near Jerusalem), Israel. The center provides strength and fitness programs as well as nutritional and weight loss counseling. A world renowned religious scribe and Talmudic scholar, his interest in exercise and nutrition intensified after several injuries and middle age led to his waistline and CVD risk marker parameters going out of control. At age 52 he is a competitive weight lifter, dead-lifting 500 pounds, and an expert certified personal fitness trainer. He studied nutrition and physiology in the prestigious Wingate Institute of Jerusalem. His primary focus is researching physiology and endocrinology in the Maimonides Health & Fitness Center. Combining this research with the diet recommendations of Maimonides and the Talmud has led to the discovery of amazing unique scientific breakthroughs in weight loss.