Daryl L. Thompson
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Daryl L. Thompson is an American inventor and entrepreneur whose work focuses on health, wellness, and disease prevention.

Life and career

Since 2006, Daryl L. Thompson has served as the president and director of research of ATM Metabolics LLC, Winter Haven, FL, which specializes in the development of food supplements and pharmaceuticals naturally derived from phyto-chemical platforms aimed at preventing and reversing metabolic and neurological diseases.

Thompson was a founder, partner, and served as senior vice president and director of research at Solution Health Systems, Boca Raton, FL, from 2003 to 2006. During that time, he launched one of GNC’s (General Nutrition Centers, Inc.)
General Nutrition Centers
General Nutrition Centers is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based American commercial enterprise focused on the retail sale of health and nutrition related products, including vitamins, supplements, minerals, herbs, sports nutrition, diet & energy products.-History:In 1935, David Shakarian opened a...

 highest-selling food supplements, the Grapefruit
Grapefruit
The grapefruit , is a subtropical citrus tree known for its sour fruit, an 18th-century hybrid first bred in Barbados. When found, it was named the "forbidden fruit"; it has also been misidentified with the pomelo or shaddock , one of the parents of this hybrid, the other being sweet orange The...

 Solution.

In 2000, Thompson was recognized for designing a non-invasive glucose meter and received the Diabetes World Humanitarian Award from the Diabetes Research Center (undocumented).

Inventions and Patents

Thompson has successfully developed, patented, and marketed:

• A retroviral agent, Patent # 6,319,711 Composition and method for inhibiting reverse transcript of a retrovirus and Patent #6,090,602 Levo-monosaccharide in a nucleoside analog for use as an anti-retroviral agent

• A non-invasive blood glucose measuring device

• The Grapefruit Solution, a nutraceutical
Nutraceutical
Nutraceutical, a portmanteau of the words “nutrition” and “pharmaceutical”, is a food or food product that reportedly provides health and medical benefits, including the prevention and treatment of disease. Health Canada defines the term as "a product isolated or purified from foods that is...

 grapefruit-based compound which provides clinically documented weight loss without a change in diet or exercise.

• A natural-based food supplement and pharmaceutical that buffers the sugar in foods and drinks to make foods safer for diabetics and healthier for the population at large.

Thompson recently submitted a patent application for a product that will treat and defend against neurological disease.

Books

The Grapefruit Solution: Lower Your Cholesterol, Lose Weight and Achieve Optimal Health with Nature’s Wonder Fruit (LINX Corp., 2004), with M. Joseph Ahrens

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