Ali Deniz Özkan

Ali Deniz Özkan considers himself a citizen author. After discovering fasting in 2016, Ali Deniz needed to share his experience with a broader audience so that, just like him, other people could stop wasting time on health-related issues and focus on their true purpose on this planet. He created a blog called For A Better Monday in 2017 and published articles on various platforms. Ali Deniz Özkan was born in Ankara Türkiye in 1975. In 1984, he moved to Geneva, Switzerland, with his family. In 1999, he migrated to the United States and lived in San Diego, California, for eleven and a half years. In 2011, he moved back to Switzerland, and five years later, he discovered the practice of fasting. Other than fixing his health condition, fasting allowed Ali Deniz to get closer to his true self. Fasting forced him to face the reality that he wasn't happy in Switzerland and needed to do something about it. In January 2017, Ali Deniz moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to open a third-generation coffee shop. Ali Deniz was passionate about coffee culture and an intense coffee drinker. After fasting entered his life, his coffee consumption dropped considerably, and he eventually quit drinking coffee from 2018 to 2024. Thinking he could not sell something he wasn't consuming, Ali Deniz abandoned the coffee shop project in Buenos Aires and became a digital nomad in Latin America. Ali Deniz's main passion in life is rock music. Since he was 14 years old, he has been playing in bands and has released many albums. He managed to turn his nomadic life into a never-ending rock n roll tour and was able to play many shows with his one-person band, Black Sea Storm. Ali Deniz lived in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Panama, Guatemala, Mexico, and Paraguay. In Mexico alone, he has lived in 23 different cities. Wherever his nomadic life and his music project, Black Sea Storm, would take him, he would share the fasting message. In January 2024, he created physical and digital products to support fasting. His first book, "For A Better Monday," is the result of Ali Deniz wanting to put his fasting experience on paper and spread the word about this master solution to an even broader audience. Ali Deniz Özkan speaks four languages fluently. Speaking and reading many languages allows him to expand his research scope on fasting and cross-check information. After the English version of For A Better Monday is published, Spanish, Turkish, and French versions will follow. Ali Deniz Özkan graduated from UCSD (University of California San Diego) in 2008 with a B.A. in interdisciplinary computing.