Barbara Cordell is a holistic nurse with forty years of experience and dozens of published articles including research on Auto-Brewery Syndrome (ABS). When her husband Joe, was diagnosed with ABS she took a deep dive into the literature and research in order to help him and others get well by writing a book on the science and stories of the rare disease. Her hobbies are reading non-fiction and staying active with yoga, paddling kayaks and boards, and bicycling.