Dr. Qizhi Gao, D.O.M., Dipl. OM, as a Chinese Medicine practitioner and educator, has been practicing Traditional Chinese Medicine since 1980 and has over 40 years’ experience as a Qigong Practitioner and Instructor.
In 1996, Dr. Gao started to share Bigu Qigong for weight management. He conducted the first study with 12 people. The study result was a really encouraging, as he expected.”…(Twelve Subjects) in the two-week study, there was a significant mean weight loss of 11.2 pounds (5.06 kg) (p<. 0001); mean weight loss per day was 0.9 pounds (0.41 kg)” — Qigong and Weight Loss: Qi as a food source, Presented at the Third World Conference on Medical Qigong, Beijing, China, 1996.
To date, thousands of people have learned the practice of Bigu Qigong through his class and the minimum average weight loss is 6 lbs for a group over the two-week period. Last few years, he started to train instructors to meet the demand. In the instructor class students kept asking him to write a book to share Bigu Qigong. 
In 2017, Dr. Gao wrote and released a book called Breathing Yourself Thin to help introduce people to the concepts of Bigu Qigong.
Additionally, Dr. Gao developed and launched a comprehensive program to teach anyone Bigu Qigong, available as a online course where Dr. Gao and qualified instructors will provide feedback and direction.