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May 13, 2019 -- I am undergoing a two-week, medically-supervised, water-only fast (about which I will blog soon) at True North Health Foundation's residential treatment facility in Santa Rosa, California.

True North's founder is the remarkable Alan Goldhamer, DC. I have attended his lectures, read one of his books, watched his videos, and chatted with him over an SOS-vegan dinner. The work he does is radical and has hugely impacted the lives of the 20,000 people who, like me, have fasted at True North to maximize and regain our health.

His institution runs smoothly, is remarkably affordable, and achieves health results that are nothing short of miraculous. Until you study the science... Then it's obvious and inevitable. About that, I'll blog later.

Goldhamer confronts (and often antagonizes) the medical establishment and food industries, both of whom are contributing to (or at best not curing) growing nation- and world-wide epidemics of diabetes, hypertension, and auto-immune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis. It is a battle that will be won -- people want health! -- but the struggle is uphill and we have a long way to go.

He has been waging this war for forty years. During this journey -- which demands repeated explaining and convincing -- he has come to repeat certain phrases so often that he now utters them in a hasty blur of syllables, almost as if they were a single word:

  • Of typical Western food, he says, "We must stop eating that greasy-fatty-slimy-diet of dead-decaying-flesh."

  • The rare physicians who, instead of prescribing lifetimes of pills that "manage" not cure, dare to promote fasting interventions and lifestyle changes that actually help patients get well, he calls, "Doctors who want to do something worthwhile with their lives: heal their patients."

Goldhamer does not mince words.

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