Video Introducing Tellspec, Device that could Keep You Healthy

TellSpec is a light, portable, convenient, and fast, wireless device that connects with your smart phone to tell you the allergens, chemicals, nutrients, calories, and ingredients in any food. Just aim it at the food and press the button until it beeps. You can scan directly or through plastic or glass. TellSpec is an inexpensive, simple, and easy to use way to learn what's in your food.

Isabel Hoffmann's daughter fell sick after the family moved to the U.S. from Europe. The 14-year-old's illness got progressively worse — hives, low blood pressure, tremors and light sensitivity — to the point that she had to drop out of school. To make matters worse, no doctor could determine what was causing the chronic illness.

Hoffmann, a serial entrepreneur who helped launch a preventive health clinic in 2001, took matters into her own hands. She brought her daughter to Dr. Neil Nathan, of Gordon Medical Associates in Santa Rosa, Calif., who'd written a book called, On Hope and Healing: For Those Who Have Fallen Through the Medical Cracks.

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