• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • About
  • Book
  • Amazon
  • Cabo Rental
  • Projects…
    • The Inuit were never in Ketosis
    • The Manifesto
    • Gut Health
    • Elixa Probiotic
    • Resistant Starch
  • Archive

Free The Animal

Ex Navy Officer. Owner of Businesses. Digital Entrepreneur. Expat Living in Thailand. 5,000 Biting Blog Post on Everything since 2003.

Eat Well, Eat Real: Friday Food Pics
Mother Says “You’ll Always Be Baby To Me”

For a Good Cause: Swab a Cheek, Save a Life and the Marine Corps Marathon

October 22, 2011 1 Comment

I got an email yesterday from Bob Ewing, one of the folks behind The Primal Challenge Blog.

It’s Bob Ewing over at The Primal Challenge. I’ve teamed up with several primal runners — including New York Times bestselling author Christopher McDougall and the infamous Barefoot Ken Bob — in a campaign to help save the life of Amit Gupta. We’re working with a great charity, Swab a Cheek, Save a Life, that specializes in saving people’s lives that have cancer, and was started by a woman whose life was saved by a bone marrow transplant from a total stranger.

I will be running the DC Marine Corps Marathon on October 30 completely barefoot. And for the kicker, I’ll be wearing a tuxedo! Swab a Cheek will be hosting a bone marrow drive all day at the finish line of the race. Both are in honor of Amit. Also, I’m trying to raise $5000 for Swab a Cheek.

Amit Gupta is a young entrepreneur that you would really get a kick out of. He has an inspiring attitude even though he was diagnosed three weeks ago with leukemia. He needs a bone marrow transplant to survive, but he doesn’t have a match in the registry. He needs his match to join by November 29. There’s a big nationwide campaign right now to find his match.

We put together a great video that features some primal celebrities.

Right now there is a catastrophic nationwide shortage of people in the bone marrow registry, which results in people dying every day while waiting for a match. If only more people were in the registry, many of these lives would be saved.

Any chance you’d be willing to embed this video on your site? If so, that would be extremely appreciated and would certainly be helpful for Amit.

Always happy to help when I can. Check out the short video with lots of names and faces you may recognize.

And here’s your call to action links:

DC BAREFOOT RUN SITE
DONATE TO BOB’S FUNDRAISER
JOIN THE BONE MARROW REGISTRY

Please feel totally welcome and encouraged to pass this information along, on Facebook, Twitter, Goggle+, email and in any other way you can.

Share4
Tweet2
Pin
6 Shares

Filed Under: General Tagged With: charity

The Fabulous Gumroad Store

Free The Animal The Paleo Diet Book

The Best Way To Market Research It

Write This, Not That: The 45 Anti-Persuasion Mistakes

The Best Way to Say It: How to Write Anything

PATREON SUPPORT

My own on-the-scene expat photos, stories, podcasts, and video adventures, currently from the island of Phuket, Thailand. Plus, anything else I write or video about.

Become a Patron

VACATION IN MY CABO CONDO


Elixa Probiotic is a British biotech manufacturer in Oxford, UK. U.S. Demand is now so high they've established distribution centers in Illinois, Nevada, and New Jersey.

Still, sell-outs happen regularly, so order now to avoid a waiting list.

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Jorge October 22, 2011 at 08:53

    Thank you for disseminating this info!

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Search FreeTheAnimal

Social Follow

Facebook3k
Facebook
fb-share-icon
Twitter6k
Visit Us
Follow Me
Tweet
Instagram358
Pinterest118k
Pinterest
fb-share-icon
YouTube798
YouTube
Follow by Email8k
RSS780

Post Notification Options

Non-Pestering Newsletter


powered by MailChimp!

About FreeTheAnimal

I'm Richard Nikoley. Free The Animal began in 2003 and as of 2020, has 5,000 posts and 120,000 comments from readers. I blog what I wish...from lifestyle to philosophy, politics, social antagonism, adventure travel, nomad living, location and time independent—"while you sleep"— income, and food. I intended to travel the world "homeless" but the Covid-19 panic-demic squashed that. I've become an American expat living in rural Thailand where I've built a home. I celebrate the audacity and hubris to live by your own exclusive authority and take your own chances. [Read more...]

CLICK HERE to shop Amazon. Costs you nothing.

Shop Amazon

My own on-the-scene expat photos, stories, podcasts, and video adventures, currently from exotic Thailand

Become a Patron

Gastrointestinal Health

Elixa Probiotic is a British biotech manufacturer in Oxford, UK. U.S. Demand is now so high they've established distribution centers in Illinois, Nevada, and New Jersey.

Still, sell-outs happen regularly, so order now to avoid a waiting list.

Elixa Probiotic

My Book

Free The Animal Book

Recent Posts

Stop Imagining; Do Something Big Instead

On November 6, I shut off Fox Narrative, got in the car, and drove 8 hours to the province. I haven't watched a second of that shit stain ...

Read More

Follow Me on Parler

If you want. If anyone is wondering where my Twitter presence went, they summarily bombed my account after 13 years and 7,000 followers; and as ...

Read More

I Want You To Think Diet and Lifestyle

I said I am getting back into diet advocacy. This is true. What I have come to realize—in both the intervening years since I was a Paleo Diet ...

Read More

Is it Time to Turn Back My Attention to Weight Loss?

So is the whole world, not just America. No matter where in the world you look—no matter which gender, which race, which culture, which ...

Read More

Making It Easy In A World Gone Crazy

A picture is worth a thousand words, they say. Sure, 11 year old Chili to the right and 10 year old Wasabi to the left—who have grown up in the Si Sa ...

Read More

Popular Posts

Coronavirus #3: Denise Minger is Thorough But Misses the Boats92 Total Shares
Have You Forgotten? Richard Lothar Nikoley Doesn’t Give An Eff What You “Think”85 Total Shares
Covid-19 Is Impeachment 3.0; BLM Riots, 4.0; Re-Lockdown, 5.083 Total Shares
My Musings on the Coronavirus (Covid-19)73 Total Shares
Coronavirus #2: The Dumb and the Dumber58 Total Shares
CovidScam Unravels. Backlash Grows and Intensifies.35 Total Shares
Coronavirus #1: The Innocent and the Guilty30 Total Shares
Anthony Colpo is Correct About Yet Another Con: The Covid-19 Con26 Total Shares
The Urban and Suburban Blight25 Total Shares
Please Wear Your Mask to Help The Spread of Covid-1922 Total Shares

Last 10 Comments

  • Bret on Stop Imagining; Do Something Big Instead
  • Big on Stop Imagining; Do Something Big Instead
  • edster on Follow Me on Parler
  • Richard Nikoley on Follow Me on Parler
  • Richard Nikoley on Follow Me on Parler
  • Gerard on Follow Me on Parler
  • mart on Follow Me on Parler
  • Ron Padot Jr on Follow Me on Parler
  • Lynn Wright on Follow Me on Parler
  • Lute on Follow Me on Parler

© 2021 All Rights Reserved · Free The Animal Return to top

Go to mobile version