93 Millennium - Nineteenth Edition HEALTH AND WELLNESS includes volunteering as Hercules in a community parade for a young girl’s dance troupe and featuring multiple times as a paid speaker for the Center for Neurological Disorders, the Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center, and the Wisconsin Neurological Society Annual Conference. In 2024, he acquired membership with the Anti-Aging Health Educators Alliance and directly challenged their overly “paper-study based” scientific and reductionist “bio-hacking” dogma. Moving forward, Mr. Bates plans on inviting committed wellness seekers to actively explore his wellness philosophy through a new website called www.yourselfempowermentjourney. com. He believes the journey toward selfempowerment is intricately linked with the concept of anti-aging and epigenetics, and he advocates for a comprehensive lifestyle change encompassing nutritional, sleep and exercisedriven cellular, subcellular, mitochondrial, microbiological, lymphatic, glymphatic, brain, organ, gland, neurotransmitter, postural, spinal, and nervous system health. Likewise, he actively promotes cognitive, spiritual, community, and environmental-driven wellness. These many factors and far more will be the true essence of his website, providing others with the information and inspiration needed for personal success. degree, he continued his education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, earning the first then-recorded departmental straight-A MA in sociology in 1989. Among Mr. Bates’s seven total major drug-free bodybuilding victories, he was twice named Overall and Heavyweight Winner in the Mr. Natural Wisconsin, operated by the National Physique Committee (NPC) in 1996 and 1999, with an additional Heavyweight win in 1998. His three NPC Team Universe accomplishments earned him a role as an official athlete representative from the State NPC chairman. He then became involved in head judging, guest posing and spokesmanship roles from 1997 to 2005 for the Amateur Athletic Union’s State Fair Physique Contests and Milwaukee Summerfest Physique shows. Apart from a two-year break, Mr. Bates continued occasionally competing, scoring victories in the 2003 Tri-State Championship, a 2004 Heavyweight, and a 2005 Overall and Heavyweight win with the International Natural Bodybuilding Federation. Furthermore, he won his first INBF Overall and Heavyweight victories in 1999. In addition to his professional endeavors, Mr. Bates has a long background in diverse civic advocacy and community involvement. This
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