This is a new paperback edition of the world's #1 self healing guide book for IBD and IBS health recovery. It explains that IBD is caused by toxic diets and lifestyle stress, and that the body requires a clean-digesting nutritious diet, rest and extra sleep in order to self-heal. This is not a plan for managing IBD and IBS, nor is this a quick-fix gimmick. Rather, this approach removes the causes of disease and promotes lasting health for everyone without medicine by supplying our biological health needs. It is based upon the venerable Natural Hygiene Self-healing System which has led million of people to lasting health. This powerful book covers diet, lifestyle and psychology, presenting the Vegan Diet Healing Plan with correct food combining. This is the only dietary approach which results in a clean bowel, while providing superior nutrition and liberating our full healing powers, for rapid healing and complete rejuvenation. The detailed easy-to-follow plan has proven to be effective in over 1,000 cases.
This book was written by a health counselor who himself used the plan to heal advanced ulcerative colitis in 1984 and has since enjoyed excellent health, counseling many IBD sufferers to health via his Colitis & Crohn's Health Recovery Services counseling business which he founded in 1993. Healthful lifestyle guidelines as well as 11 pages of testimonials, five medical endorsements and other inspirational tools are included.
An insightful and compassionate book by a leading nutritionist/counselor who cured himself. This plan will restore health. -- A. William Menzin, MD, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA
Self Healing Colitis & Crohn's is the blueprint for overcoming IBD. -- Terri Su, MD, Santa Rosa, CA
The only true way for healing colitis and Crohn's, therefore I recommend it to all of my clients. -- Zarin Azar, MD, Gastroenterologist, Los Angeles, CA
About the Author
David Klein, B.S., is a certified Nutrition Educator and health consultant who healed himself of advanced ulcerative colitis in 1984 and has built excellent lasting health. David has counseled over 1,000 clients from disease to health using this Natural Hygiene plan via his Colitis & Crohn's Health Recovery Services business. With a 99%+ success rate, David ranks as the world's #1 natural healing coach for IBD, and he is available to help you or yours overcome any bowel disorder via natural health-promoting dietary and lifestyle changes.
Product Details
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Living Nutrition Publications (February 2005)
Dr. David Klein has been Director of the Colitis & Crohn's Health Recovery Center, currently located in Sebastopol in northern California, since 1993.
Dr. Klein is a Hygienic Doctor with a Ph.D. in Natural Health and Healing from the University of Natural Health and holds a Nutrition Educator certification from Bauman College. Dr. Klein's approach is wholistic and is based upon Natural Hygiene, the world's most successful health science program over the last 200 years. Since 1992, Dr. Klein has counseled over 2,000 clients back to health via the principles of Natural Hygiene and he has taught nutrition classes and given health and nutrition lectures. Dr. Klein's own unique healing journey, his studies of many disciplines of health science, and his extensive professional experience have given him uncommon insight into the requisites of healing and health by which he is able to consistently guide people from disease to rejuvenation.
Dr. Klein is also Editor of Vibrance magazine, the world's most-read raw food lifestyle magazine. Dr. Klein is also a Professor with the new University of Natural Health (see www.livingnutrition.com/university.html). Dr. Klein's book Your Natural Diet: Alive Raw Foods is the text for the course "Humans' Natural Biological Diet."
Dr. Klein is on the Board of Directors as a nutritional and healing advisor for St. John's Colonic Center in Bowie, Maryland (colonics are not recommended for inflammatory bowel disease). His book Self Healing Colitis & Crohn's is used as the teaching model for a course taught at the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition. He has led Raw Passion seminars over the last 10 years and co-produced Rawstock health festivals in northern California.
Dr. Klein has thrived on a 100% vegan diet of mostly raw foods since 1984. Originally from New Jersey, he also holds a B.S. in civil engineering and worked 10 years in the field of environmental engineering before starting his health education businesses and practice. Leading people to health independence is Dr. Klein's passion. Dr. David Klein's Web Sites
* Living Nutrition/Vibrance Magazine * Raw 'n Delish Vibrant Recipes * Self Healing Colitis & Crohn's * Self Healing Power! by Dr. T. C. Fry, Dr. Herbert Shelton and Dr. David Klein * The Art of Rejuvenation * The Fruits Of Healing - A Story About a Natural Healing of Ulcerative Colitis * Your Natural Diet: Alive Raw Foods by Dr. T. C. Fry & Dr. David Klein
David's Story
My journey into the health education field began in 1975, when at age 17 my robust health began to gradually decline. A heavy eater of meat and junk food, my physical and mental energies deteriorated over a period of six months, then I experienced incessant diarrhea. After a few weeks of medicine treatment, I showed little improvement, so a colon examination was done. The diagnosis was ulcerative colitis, and I spent my 18th birthday in a hospital, taking prednisone and azulfadine drug treatments. The symptoms subsided, temporarily, but the drugs further ruined my health and had a devastating effect on my mental abilities.
Within a few months, feeling sickly and very weak, I experienced a recurrence of the diarrhea and additional symptoms, including cramping, bleeding, and this lead to further physical deterioration. What ensued were eight tortuous years of colitis flare-ups and off-and-on drug therapy. At age26, I was reduced to a weak, sickly shadow of my former self. I was having gastric explosions every time I ate, up to 10 painful bowel movements a day with mucus and blood. My nervous system became shattered as I was toxic, debilitated by the medicines, and severely demineralized. Life became a dying hell , but I never gave in to the medical doctors' advice to accept my illness and just be patient until their impossible "miracle drug cure " came along; I desperately wanted my health back and doubted that the doctors were able to help me.
In 1984, I had the great fortune to find a Doctor of Natural Hygiene, Laurence Galant in Staten Island, who introduced me to the concepts of self-healing and eating a natural plant-based diet. At first I thought the idea of eating raw foods while I was having non-stop diarrhea was crazy. Yet, I studied Natural Hygiene and slowly cleaned up my diet. I was attached to eating chicken and other favorite cooked foods, however, and was still having colitis flare-ups and relying on medicines.
In the fall of 1984 I had a colonoscopy exam which confirmed that I had advanced ulcerations throughout my sick colon. Surmising that I had been chronically sick and was not getting better, the gastroenterologist recommended that I either try his experimental drug which knocks out the immune system, or have my colon surgically removed. Upon hearing this, a heavy decisive thought entered my mind: I have had it with this medical nightmare - I'll be dead soon if I don't find the answer myself! My life was a gradual descent into hell and now I had to climb out now because I sensed it was almost too late.
Then one amazing night while studying T. C. Fry's Life Science/Natural Hygiene course, I beheld a healing vision and it all made sense. I understood that I was eating a harmful diet which was not compatible with my digestive physiology, and that I needed to eat a plant-based diet with plenty of raw fruits and vegetables - - that would allow my body to purge itself of the wastes that were poisoning my colon and preventing me from regaining my health, and would also help me overcome illness and create excellent health. I was ecstatic knowing I had set myself free! The next day I threw away the medicines, divorced myself from all medical intervention for good, gave up all meat and dairy for ever and started a 3-day juice cleanse. By the second day I was coming back to life. On the third day I was feeling better and better and my enthusiasm and joy drove my family and friends crazy! My gut was feeling soothed and I was rejuvenating. I set myself free of illness, doctors and medicines for good, and my bowels were working better and better!!
I adopted a diet with plenty of fruit - that harmonized best with my mind/body/spirit. And with that my energies continuously increased as I detoxified and began rebuilding. Within about six weeks I felt that my colon was completely healed up. I was able to enjoy eating and life again, as my bowels were functioning better than ever. I began a new healthful lifestyle.
Over the next few years I diligently worked at rebuilding my depleted body, incorporating daily running and yoga, all the while studying the life sciences and all of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual factors which determine our health. It took several years of total dedication to build robust health. In 1993, after a year of study and training at the Institute for Educational Therapy in Cotati, California, I became certified as a Nutrition Educator and began providing nutrition and healing consultations. Today, at age 51, I enjoy excellent health and usually feel fantastic -- 25 disease-free years.
Healing, I teach people, is easy if we understand and apply the principle that it is the body that does the healing - - when we remove the unhealthful aspects of our diet and lifestyle and step out of the way, the body will do the healing work automatically and naturally.
Is living healthfully difficult? No! Living healthfully is the easiest and most joyful way to be! And I'm glad to help health seekers get there and feel that for themselves. I love to help health seekers discover the way to heal and build superior health for themselves!
This review is from: Self Healing Colitis & Crohn's (Paperback)
I've come to learn that my story is not much different from that of other IBD sufferers. I was living a happy and healthy life, when one day, for no apparent reason, I suddenly began to experience abdominal cramps and loose stools. Over time, this progressed to debilitating abdominal pain and 20+ bloody and mucoid bowel movements each day. As I am training to be a medical doctor myself, I naturally turned to traditional medicine for answers. Definitive answers, though, were far from what I got. Nonetheless, traditional medicine was all I knew. So despite its obvious gaps in knowledge on this matter, I took a leap of faith and followed the directions given to me. I tried just about every anti-inflammatory, anti-spasmodic, and over-the-counter analgesic available. I went through numerous courses of steroids and even an immunosuppressant. For about a year, I let the doctors adjust and readjust medication dosages in the hopes that they would eventually find the key and would be able to protect me from having a colectomy. During this year, life as I knew it, was over. I had to take leave from school, lost about 60 pounds, spent 10 days in the hospital, experienced indescribable abdominal pain, became house-bound due to the frequency of bowel movements, took around 20+ pills daily, incurred numerous side effects to these various medications, and spent thousands of dollars on treatments that did not help.
My own observations led me to believe that the treatments I was being given were actually worsening my condition. But what could I do? After all, I had to follow the advice of my experienced doctors, right? Wrong. One day, I finally realized that if all these medications weren't helping, then how could I justify the side effects and expense. I understood what the doctors were saying when they strongly advised me not to stop my treatment, but I also realized that no study that they quoted could ever hold a candle to my own experiences. I was slowly and painfully dying at the age of 27, and nothing that they were doing for me was of any help at all. Traditional medicine has done wondrous things for many people, including myself, over the years, but in the case of IBD, it did not have answer for me and I needed to look elsewhere.
Everything changed for me when I MIRACULOUSLY found Dave's book online. I don't doubt that I likely would have dismissed his theories as nonsense if I came across them month 1. But I was now in month 11 and was meeting with a surgeon to discuss having a colectomy. So, I read his book and for the first time felt like someone else understood my predicament. The things he said were in direct agreement with my own experiences and observations. For the first time in a long time, I was filled with hope and felt as if this illness might be manageable. I am now at month 15 and have been free of medications and doctor visits. I've spoken to Dave numerous times over the telephone and through email. He has done nothing less than nurse me back to health. Dave has given me my life back. How do you repay someone for that?
Many of the doctors I work with are quite interested to hear my story. They are astonished that detox and diet have played such a crucial role in my treatment. Such a concept remains foreign to allopathic physicians. A few of these doctors tell me that they have heard similar stories from some of their own patients, but in the end, these doctors have no training or understanding of nutrition and natural healing and can do little more than simply listen to my story.
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This review is from: Self Healing Colitis & Crohn's (Paperback)
after being diagnosed with the onset of colitis and chrohn's disease and a series of upsetting symptoms, i used the principles of this book to completely transform my eating habits.
....it implemented a huge change in my eating and how i viewed nourishment and healing. my last colonoscopy showed that all signs of colitis and chrohn's disease are gone.
this book changed everything for me. it helped me to understand principles of health and nourishment that i never understood before.
it is about honoring ourselves and the natural world and the connectedness therein.
i cannot recommend this book enough. if you are ready for a change, buy the book and start tomorrow to change your life....
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My son Byron (17 year old diagnosed with Crohns June 2006) has just confided in me that this time last year he wanted to commit suicide. At that time he was confined to bed with painful fissures (anal tears), mouth ulcers, stomach cramps, diarrhoea and bowel incontinence, hot & cold sweats and a host of other miserable complaints. He had already endured months of illness and hospitalization and despite drug treatments was no better. The doctors had abandoned us for an extended Xmas/New Year break and an increase in Prednisone dose did nothing to ease symptoms. Then your Self Healing Colitis & Crohn's book arrived. We started the diet straight away and in 3 days the pain from the fissures was gone and he was up and moving around.
David, we have since proved every single word of your book to be true. Byron's recovery went exactly as you described it would. We followed the steps carefully, reducing drugs as we went, we made mistakes but corrected them within 3 days of returning to the diet and we pressed on. We know your work has saved Byron from a life of hell. Today, one year after receiving your book, he is entirely drug free and has been for 5 months. He is 62kg (up from 45kg at diagnosis). He is an active young man looking and feeling great and as a fabulous sidekick benefit, now has a really cool Vegan girlfriend. He lives by the diet and finds it easy, we spend less on good food than we did on the SAD diet and we now spend absolutely nothing on drugs, supplements or consultations. The doctor called Byron's excellent condition "clinical remission", which we confidently told him will last for around 75 years!!!!! Byron and I believe you have provided us with the "cure". Treatments in the 6 months prior to receiving your book cost around AUS$15,000. Your regimen was the cost of the book and one consult fee to meet you (a meeting I am eternally grateful for and was pre-ordained after a surprise opportunity to travel to California last year). We owe you so much and we thank you so much. Please add our story to your list of successes. I am happy to have my email address posted on your site as a contact for those still reading your "Are You Skeptical" link and would be pleased to share our story and discuss. Julie Smith Coffs Harbour, Australia
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