About Ageless Press

Ageless Press was founded in 1999 by Tatyana Chegodayeva. The company’s first two titles became the highest selling Russian-language books in the United States between the years 2000 and 2004. Inspired by the success of these Russian-language titles, Tatyana encouraged Mr. Monastyrsky to write his next book in English. She funded the development and oversaw the publication of Fiber Menace, the company’s first English-language title.

Tatyana Chegodayeva, Publisher

 Tatyana Chegodayeva acquired her publishing skills at “Khydozhestvennaya Literatura,” Russia’s top publishing house, where she was senior advertising manager of the tradeshows division. She also served as executive editor at BookExport (“KnigaExport”), where she negotiated the sales and acquisitions of publishing rights with foreign publishers and authors, and oversaw the translation and editing of acquired titles. Prior to BookExport, she was a show director at Moscow International Book Fair, where she started her career as an editor

Tatyana holds a degree in Russian Literature from Moscow Pedagogic University. Her hobbies are reading and cooking, under the watchful gaze of her two devoted and equally adored cats.

Konstantin Monastyrsky, Medical Writer

Konstantin Monastyrsky graduated from medical school in 1976 with a degree in pharmacology. He is also a Certified Nutritional Consultant (C.N.C.), and a member of the American Association of Nutritional Consultants (AANC).

Konstantin emigrated to the United States in 1978 from Ukraine (the former Soviet Union), and chose to pursue a career in the high-technology field. From 1985 to 1990, he worked at two premier Wall Street firms: at First Boston Corporation as a senior systems analyst and at Goldman-Sachs & Co. as a consultant to Dr. Fischer Black, the co-author of the Nobel Prize-winning Black-Scholes theory of options trading. Between 1990 and 1998, he was the president of a software company.

In 1996, Konstantin began to suffer from diabetes and a host of related ailments, including debilitating carpal tunnel syndrome. Unable to use the keyboard, he turned his attention back to medicine to find solutions for his rapidly deteriorating health. He applied the same analytical rigor to the study of his health condition as he had to technology, and within several years completely recovered from diabetes. In 1998, free from the ravages of carpal tunnel syndrome, he left the technology field to pursue a career in medical writing and research.

Since then, Konstantin has written two best-selling Russian-language books, entitled Functional Nutrition: The Foundation of Absolute Health and Longevity, and Disorders of Carbohydrate Metabolism. In 2003, Konstantin decided to concentrate on writing English-language books. Since then he has developed three books, which, starting with Fiber Menace, will be released over the next 18 to 24 months. Fiber Menace is his first English-language title.