Billy Goldberg

He has collaborated with writer Mark Leyner on two books of answers to commonly pondered, though discomforting, medical questions.

"That is if we're not dead from drinking all of those martinis and whiskey sours" said Mark Leyner when interviewed about the upcoming book.

Goldberg and Leyner attempt to answer questions such as, "What causes an ice cream headache?

"[2] In an interview, Goldberg posits the philosophy behind the books: "We spend every moment walking around in this incredibly well-constructed but hard-to-figure-out machine that is our bodies.

Everything we do — when we think, when we hear, when we smell, when we eat — there are these processes that are happening that we don’t understand.

Goldberg discussing his new book with Mark Leyner in New York City, August 2006