Colitis and Crohn’s Cure Book: Medically-endorsed Natural Dietary Healing Plan

Medical and Academic Endorsements

“Over years of practice I have observed the pain and suffering of my colitis patients who are on conventional medical therapy. High dosages of immuno-suppressants, such as prednisone and like products, are commonly given, resulting in effects ranging from serious to life-threatening. This only suppresses the symptoms temporarily. Disease typically later manifests again, with even more severe and bothersome symptoms.

“I was very impressed with David’s Natural Hygiene approach to healing ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, outlined in his book Self Healing Colitis & Crohn’s. Healthy since 1984 after a severe 8-year bout with ulcerative colitis, he himself is living proof that his program works. I support his approach one hundred percent and believe it is the only way of healing colitis and almost all other health problems, and, therefore, I recommend it to every one of my clients. The results are always good because the diet is our natural biological diet, is nontoxic, nutritionally superior, satisfying, and since only the body’s own wisdom can heal itself, the Natural Hygiene approach makes perfect sense.”

Zarin Azar, M.D., Gastroenterologist
Los Angeles, California <drzarinazar@yahoo.com>

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“David has exhibited uncommon dedication to helping people become well over the twelve years I have known him. Like David, in my practice I see longlasting results when a patient embraces a detoxification program and adopts a healthful lifestyle with a vegan diet. David’s recovery from severe ulcerative colitis, his studies in nutrition and physiology, and his consistent results have given him unique expertise in self-healing. In Self Healing Colitis & Crohn’s we have the blueprint for overcoming IBD.”

Terri Su, M.D.
Santa Rosa, California

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“I know of no physician who is not reluctant to prescribe corticosteroids or advise surgery for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, and yet they are the mainstays of traditional therapy. In Self Healing Colitis & Crohn’s is a clear and detailed healing plan that eschews both and offers a program based on the author’s personal experience and extensive research. It deserves our grateful attention.”

Robert F. Lally Jr., M.D.
Friday Harbor, Washington

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“Ulcerative colitis is a debilitating disease that has long been regarded as untreatable. For many patients, the illness has therefore meant considerable suffering and the end of a normally functioning life. Thanks to David Klein, this need no longer be true. Self Healing Colitis & Crohn’s is an insightful and compassionate book by a leading nutritionist who suffered from this crippling disease, cured himself and has since gone on to become a pioneer in effective nutritional
counseling. It is a must read for anyone who wants an active role in restoring himself or herself to health.”

A. William Menzin, M.D., M.Sc., M.P.H.
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School (retired)
Former Consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO)
Princeton, New Jersey

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“Dr. David Klein’s Self Healing Colitis & Crohn’s demystifies the secrets of the innate natural health processes, by which the body possesses the power to heal itself. A Hygienic Doctor and former victim of ulcerative colitis, Dr. Klein is the leading modern-day pioneer and authority on the self-healing principles of colitis and Crohn’s disease. He is living proof that the body can cure itself and maintain its natural, pristine health when the causes of disease are removed and it is allowed to perform its magical healing-dance of life.”

Paul Fanny, Ph.D., H.D.
President of the University of Natural Health
Hookset, New Hampshire

Foreword

Colitis and Crohn's disease (C&C) are inflammatory bowel illnesses characterized by distressful bowel function. “Itis” means inflammation. The body's intelligence system creates inflammation just as it creates fevers. Inflammation is an escalated healing action in which harmful toxic matter is being broken down and neutralized for elimination at a “feverish pace.” Toxins in the body cause the body to enact inflammation for purification.

The body enacts disease processes, such as C&C, in response to systemic toxicosis, i.e., when the body is overloaded with toxins. A bowel with C&C is overloaded with toxic fecal matter which saturates the tissues and typically impairs elimination. C&C symptoms are “housecleaning” processes. The more acutely toxic the body and the more vital the body's nerve energy, the more intense the self-cleansing/healing process. C&C symptoms will diminish as the body detoxifies, which requires that the ingestion of toxic, indigestible foodstuffs be discontinued and a health-promoting diet and lifestyle be adopted.

Medical researchers, doctors and nurses mistakenly believe that the body's inflammation response is an “autoimmune” phenomenon. That is incorrect and illogical. The body only works to heal itself and never creates any physiological process that would harm itself. When the body is inflamed, the body is acting to break down, neutralize and eliminate toxins, not healthy tissue. And some researchers believe that bacteria cause ulcers. This is also incorrect. Bacteria consume wastes and assist in elimination. They are not capable of causing bodily actions. Ulcers are an open outlet for the elimination of toxins from the bloodstream. The body intelligently resorts to creating ulcers when the load of toxins in the bloodstream is too great for the body to neutralize and eliminate, via the immune system and inflammation alone. Both inflammation and ulceration are manifestations of detoxification and healing. They are the body's way of “curing” itself; inflammation and ulceration are self-healing processes in action. In order to self-heal, one must understand and trust all self-healing processes.

The symptoms of C&C may be considered as a warning that the results of inappropriate lifestyle and dietary habits have reached a stage requiring that immediate changes be made. C&C are most common in societies, such as the West, where meat is a major part of the diet and stress from fast-paced modern lifestyles is prevalent.

The Crohn's and Colitis Foundation (CCFA) estimates there are 1.5 million IBD sufferers in the United States. The Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Canada's estimate for Canada is 170,000. The European Federation of Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis Association's estimate for Europe is 1.2 million. The Australian Crohn's and Colitis Foundation's estimate for Australia is 61,000. CCFA reports a 10-fold increase in IBD in the United States, Europe and Japan since World War II.

Medical authorities state that prolonged suffering with C&C can result in cancer. Colorectal cancer ranks number three in cancer-related mortalities in the United States (behind lung and prostate cancers). There are two basic forms of inflammatory bowel diseases:

1. Colitis is an inflammation of the colon. Local symptoms may include diarrhea, mucous formation, bleeding, constipation, abdominal cramps, spasms, colon disfigurement, flatulence, abdominal and rectal pain, fevers and stomach distress. Related non-local symptoms can be many, including weight loss, emotional distress, headaches, sleeping difficulties, general weakness and rapid aging. The use of anti-inflammatory, antibiotic and immunosup-pressant medications, while sometimes temporarily suppressing symptoms, always have effects which contribute further to the de-vitalization of the person's health. Drugs are toxic and enervating; the body expends precious energy as it works to get rid of them.

Colitis may advance into ulcerative colitis which is characterized by inflammation and ulceration(s) of the colon. Symptoms can include all of those listed above plus painful ulcerations in the colon wall which can both perforate the colon and/or become cancerous.

2. Crohn's disease, or regional enteritis, is an inflammation of any portion of the alimentary canal. It usually affects the lower section of the small intestine-the ileum-giving rise to the name “ileitis.” Symptoms are typically similar to those for colitis.

C&C, if not treated wholistically, typically has a life-ruining effect. Surgical removal of the colon is often considered by the medical establishment to be a standard treatment for chronic cases of colitis and ulcerative colitis. In the past decade, some (but too few) medical doctors have begun to recognize that specific dietary changes can lead to an improvement in C&C. It is prudent for persons with C&C, even in advanced cases, to get opinions from wholistically-trained and experienced health practitioners before submitting to drug therapy and surgery. Most, if not all, colon surgeries are unnecessary.

The way to overcome C&C is to: 1. stop poisoning and enervating the body with drugs, harmful foods and lifestyle stressors, 2. adopt a restful healing program fulfilling our basic health needs, including eating our natural biological diet while allowing the organism to complete the healing process. The body cannot simultaneously accomplish healing while poisons are ingested. Harmful foods include: meat and dairy from any animal source, processed grain products, heated fatty foods including oils, irritants such as spices, salt and onions and all processed “junk foods” and beverages, including coffee.

The Natural Hygiene self-healing plan with the Vegan Healing diet taught in this book work because they are based on the immutable laws governing human biology and physiology. When we discontinue unhealthful practices and provide the requisites of health, eating our natural biological diet, the body will only improve itself, reversing disease, completely healing and creating new health. As long as the dietary and lifestyle factors which cause enervation and toxemia are avoided, wellness will last and C&C will not return.

The body is designed or “programmed” for perfect self-healing. It will regenerate every cell in the organism, break down strictures and scar tissue in the bowel, autolyze polyps and, in most cases, even tumors, and restore health when given the proper care and lifestyle program, as taught herein.

The author recommends and the body demands that people with C&C take a restful sabbatical of three months or more in order to give the body and mind the rest needed for effective self-healing. If you are unable to do this, do the best you can and take as much rest and extra sleep as is possible.

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Notes To Reader

1. Throughout this book ”C&C” is used to refer to colitis and Crohn's disease.

2. Some duly noted sections of this manuscript were taken from various magazine articles and booklets authored and published by the late great Hygienic educators, Dr. T. C. Fry and Dr. Herbert M. Shelton. Their works were uncopyrighted offerings intended for the benefit of humanity; as their work saved my life and many others' lives and their families have permitted me their use, it is my great privilege and duty to pass them on. Some other sections were reprinted with the permission of living authors who are my colleagues. The sections written by authors other than myself are presented in italics. The sections where the author is not named were written by myself.

3. Many will question and prematurely discount this healing plan as being “unscientific,” i.e., not medically validated. That line of thinking is illogical. The modern medical establishment is not the authority on what is scientific and healthful. Modern medical men and women typically either ignore or “shoot down” natural healing approaches. For the most part, modern medicine is interested in medicating and surgically altering patients. Therefore, this information has not interested medical people. Factual truth stands on its own. This program is entirely scientific. That which is scientific yields consistently positive results and is authentically good. My 1,000-plus clients who have healed are not aberrations or anomalies—they are real evidence that this approach works, as is my recovery and 23 years of superb health. I have seen this approach work in over 99% of the clients who have properly implemented the plan. I am trained as a scientist and educator. I hold a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering and have 10 years of experience in engineering. I also have 23 years of experience in health science and holds a Ph.D. in Natural Health and Healing. I have lived over 23 years in disease-free health, beyond what one gastroenterologist forecasted was possible. Scientifically speaking, the results speak for themselves and are conclusively positive. The body is obviously able to consistently and naturally self-heal C&C under the proper conditions. Skepticism is understandable. I was was once there! Skeptics are welcome to contact me to discuss the healing and lifestyle approach presented herein.

4. Many will reject the natural vegan dietary approach espoused herein without studying the facts and contacting me, presuming that:

A. It is nutritionally insufficient, especially in protein, calcium and calories.
B. Animal meat is essential to health.
C. Their blood type or genetics dispose them to require meat.
D. They crave protein and there isn't enough in vegan foods.
E. They cannot tolerate fruit.
F. The diet is too restrictive.
G. Extreme, permanent weight loss and physical weakness will result.
H. They won't feel satisfied and will miss meat and other favorite foods.
I. Others are able to “get away” with eating omnivorous diets with meat, so they should, too.
J. They won't be able to cope socially.
K. They do not believe they can change their habits.

All of those claims are based on misinformation, unfounded assumptions or pessimistic, self-limiting projections. Solid empirical science conclusively demonstrates that there is no lack of any one nutrient in the fruit-based vegan diet espoused herein which is essential to health, while it is animal foods, especially meat, which cause inflammatory bowel disease. Also, the Vegan Diet recommended herein supplies superior nutrition, as consistently confirmed by full-panel blood tests. Furthermore, foods outside of its realm are unnecessary; they cause myriad problems and most lead to C&C; this diet eliminates all of the dietary factors which cause C&C and includes the most healthful diet program for humans.

Fruit is our most naturally healthful food and, when eaten in accordance with the specific guidelines presented herein, is the primary essential food for healing C&C and maintaining good health. When humans correctly eat the original diet for which they were designed, the inevitable result is healing and optimal health. As evidenced by hundreds of thousands people who have actualized superb health on vegan diets similar or identical to the one advised herein, this approach is conclusively valid. We do not experience deprivation or dissatisfaction on this diet because we are eating the foods which we were designed to eat and thrive on, and from which we were naturally designed to derive true pleasure. The result of following this plan is a surprising sense of satisfaction and wellness as we are more thoroughly nourished than ever before, eating a diet of only nutritious foods.

Before dismissing this approach, it is my wish that people try it for three or more months and obtain appropriate counseling in order to make judgments based on personal experience, not on preconceived, self-limiting beliefs which are unfounded. An inquisitive mind and willingness to question one's beliefs and try an approach which is unconventional are traits which will serve everyone well when the conventional ways of approaching diseases do not work. Those who are able to think “outside the box” and imagine their optimal state of health in relation to the natural order of life are the ones who succeed in overcoming C&C. Solving the C&C problem is a matter of thinking for oneself and aligning with our natural instincts—not technology, medical science, modern conventional dietetics or any healing arts involving remedies. The diet and life-style plan presented herein has proven to be the only approach that works because it is based on an accurate understanding of anatomy and the laws of physiology and biology, as borne out by countless successful results. Personal experience is the only way to prove all this true. With appropriate application, the happy truth will be revealed.

5. If you began this program while you are pregnant, continue it and get as much extra rest as possible-this healthful living program is the best thing for mother and child and the quickest route to health.

6. If you are concerned about beginning this program while you are on medications, it is prudent to proceed with the program while following your physician's recommendations regarding medication dosage. The Vegan Healing Diet will only promote health; there is no reason to postpone its implementation.

7. If you are concerned about the suitability of this diet program for infants and children, it is certainly appropriate and offers superior nutrition. Starches, meat and dairy foods including cow's milk should not be fed to infants and children with C&C. For infants or children under age four, human breast milk is recommended in conjunction with the Vegan Healing Diet.

8. To successfully apply the teachings herein, it is necessary to fully understand the subject matter. It is therefore recommended that this book be read several if not numerous times and professional guidance be obtained.

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We Possess Self-Healing Bodies and We're Not Meant To Suffer

We were not designed or born into this world to be sick with inflamed bowels. Our genes do not cause us to become sick with inflammatory bowel disease, but, rather, our diets, lifestyles and thoughts are the causes-and they can all be corrected and we can and will heal if we implement the right healing plan.

The body is a perfectly designed self-healing organism. Bowel inflammation is not a runaway problem but a sign that the body has been harmed and is vigorously attempting to heal itself, and it will gratefully do so if the causes of disease are discontinued and the biological requisites of health are provided. The solution to bowel disease is to identify the harmful factors, discontinue them and implement a new healthful lifestyle with health-promoting practices. A few million people have done this, overcoming all kinds of debilitating disease conditions, including inflammatory and irritable bowel diseases-and so can you!

Contrary to conventional belief, there is no mystery behind why we become sick and there is no lack of understanding of how to overcome disease, heal and rejuvenate. Those who have applied the Natural Hygiene system of self-healthcare have overcome diseases which include colitis, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, ileitis, irritable bowel syndrome and every other gastrointestinal malady humanity has ever experienced, including some cases of cancer.

Herein is a specialized Hygienic healing plan for those who wish to overcome bowel disease and create disease-free vigorous health. All of this information is not based upon theories or anything that the author invented. Hygienic healing, i.e., cooperating with nature, removing the causes of disease and fulfilling our biological requisites for health, is the way that all creatures have always healed and re-covered their health. By deeply delving into these new teachings, letting go of erroneous beliefs, and embracing a new naturally healthful course of action, anyone can dramatically improve his or her condition, and most can go on to master their health and avoid inflammatory bowel problems for the rest of their lives. With proper understanding, help and passionate intention, the goal of disease-free health can be achieved. It takes dedication, work and patience, but it only gets better and better when one immerses oneself in it mind, body and soul. I know—I did it!

In 1984 I began a recovery from the devastating effects of almost nine previous years of ulcerative colitis, which began when I was 17 years old. During my illness, I ate my usual meat and bread-based diet (the “Standard American Diet,” or “SAD”), and was under only medical guidance which consisted of examinations by gastroenterologist, hospitalizations and drug treatment. All of the seven gastroenterologists I saw told me that diet was not a factor in my illness, that there was no known cause of ulcerative colitis, and the only available treatments were drugs, and if they didn't work, then surgical removal of my colon was the best alternative.

In the last year of my illness, my colon was ravaged with ulcerations, my health was in ruins, and surgical removal of my colon was recommended.

At that time, I was consulting a nutrition guidance counselor who had a doctorate in Natural Hygiene. He recommended that I follow a natural diet essentially of only fruits and vegetables (a Natural Hygiene program, which has since been popularized by the best-selling book Fit For Life, written by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond). At first I rejected this advice; however, I slowly began to “clean up” my diet. Still, my colon was inflamed and ulcerated. In October of 1984, just after a gastroenterologist recommended a colostomy (surgical removal of my colon), my fortune changed as one night my studies led to a profound understanding of how dietary change could help transform my health. I saw the value of eating the diet which early man originally ate, and which our digestive physiology was designed for: mostly fruits, with some vegetables, seeds and nuts, and no animal products. The next day I changed from the SAD to a natural diet of mostly uncooked fruits and vegetables. I also ceased using medicines for good (I had been on low dosages at the time). The result was astonishing, but typical: my colon immediately and rapidly began healing up, and totally and permanently healed up within four weeks.

From there I went on to rejuvenate my severely depleted body. Since the day I changed my diet, I have immersed myself in the study of natural healing and worked on completely rebuilding my health without the use of any medications or other unnatural intervention.

Today I am in excellent health and fitness at age 49, and feel like a teenager. I am very passionate about teaching others with C&C how to regain their health by making sensible dietary and life-style changes because I believe that all C&C suffers deserve the same chance to learn about the body's innate ability to heal itself naturally. If you need inspiration to get going and guidance to heal and become well, it is my pleasure to help.

Yours in health,
David Klein, Ph.D.
Sebastopol, California

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Summary

Colitis and Crohn's diseases (C&C) are primarily caused by dietary and other lifestyle stressors. C&C are endemic to cultures where muscle meats and refined foods are eaten as a major portion of the diet and lifestyles have significant stress levels. Animal meats, as well as cooked oils and refined wheat products, are largely indigestible; they poison the bowel as they decompose, acidifying the entire organism and overwhelming the immune and elimination systems, leading to inflammation and distress. Colon and intestinal inflammation are an indication that the body is attempting to purify itself of accumulated toxic matter and heal itself. Inflammation is always the body's intelligent action/response to purify itself of harmful, toxic, irritating poisons and wastes. The healing action is impeded and diseased condition is perpetuated or exacerbated if one continues an improper diet and harmful drug therapy.

In view of the evidence showing how countless people have resolved their C&C by changing to a whole foods, vegan diet, and by incorporating stress management techniques, it is best to approach C&C in a wholistic context through dietary and lifestyle changes. A wholistic approach to overcoming C&C should include health education and the implementation of a health-promoting program which includes:

1. a whole foods vegan (no animal-derived foods) diet and juicing; 2. extra sleep and complete rest (a sabbatical from work or school); 3. proper exercise; 4. health counseling; 5. peer support; and 6. medical cooperation.

The body is a self-healing organism which will heal when harmful practices are discontinued and healthful practices are implemented. This book details the basic physiological and lifestyle principles which are proven to result not in remission of symptoms but in lasting health. When the causes of disease are removed, health will ensue under the proper care. This is fact, not theory. This book presents no theories and only the happy truth about the magnificent restorative power of the body when it is cared for in a manner which is consonant with our natural biological mandates. By cooperating with nature and changing our injurious lifestyle habits, we'll enjoy a blossoming of health and spirit. This program takes work and discipline, but the better we feel the easier it becomes, on our way to a wonderful life free of suffering and full of happiness and wellness.

Understanding Your Self-Healing Powers
by Dr. T. C. Fry

The Immense Wisdom and Providence of the Body

The human body is possessed of intelligence and powers of an order that is incomprehensible to our intellects. While many humans are vain and will not admit to an inability to know and understand, let's face it: we are all finite in our capacities. We cannot comprehend the concept of infinity, and we are mystified by many simple realities of existence.

From miseducation, ignorance, vanity, authoritarianism, and sheer arrogance amongst our professionals flow incorrect and disastrous actions that brutalize those whom they profess to serve. From intellectual wisdom and understanding flow humility, kindness and other humane virtues. Wisdom recognizes our finite nature and admits to ignorance, an act of humility. Humility does not stifle the innate drive to seek knowledge. Rather, humility is born of a realization that spurs the quest for greater wisdom. True wisdom motivates us to continual exploration and improvement.

This treatise treats an area largely unexplored and uncharted. When we view the vastness of the incredible multitude of faculties possessed by the human body, we must stand in awe of the enormous intelligence displayed in each of the quintillions of processes conducted within the body daily. We must stand in wonderment and awe at the precision we observe. We cannot help but conclude that the body operates on principles that manifest the reign of law and order within the organic realm. We must observe that we are constituted of such an order as to comply in every act with the universal laws of existence.

We want to charge you with an overwhelming realization of the enormity of innate intelligence-of inherent body wisdom that exceeds by thousands of times the intellectual powers of which we arrogantly boast. So vast is this innate intelligence that it is positively staggering. The immensity of inborn intelligence is not an easy subject to present. Very few studies touch upon this subject. However, we can delineate and point out some of the many manifestations of inherent body wisdom.

In this treatise you will become aware of an internal providence that should be respected. So great are our body endowments that you should adopt this attitude: never interfere with the vital domain. You cannot possibly help it-you can only harm it. All the knowledge and wisdom of civilization to date do not equal the intelligence exhibited by the operations of a single cell within the body! The best you can do is to order the external environment to make it more favorable for the organism. The only thing you can do for the body is to leave it intelligently alone! It knows what it is doing and how! You don't!

Providence is the ability to anticipate needs and provide for them. This providence may be instinctual, as in the case of the bear that stores tremendous amounts of fat in preparation for hibernation, or of the squirrel that stashes nuts, acorns and seeds, or it may be due to acquired wisdom, as in the case of humans who store foods during plenitude in preparation for the season of scarcity.

The body is always provident. All providence exhibits wisdom. The immensity of the wisdom exhibited in all things so overwhelms the human intellect that many often retreat into the comfort of some all-encompassing outlook that tranquilizes them so that they see no mandate to inquire, assess and understand how their actions undermine their well-being.

In studying this program, you are undertaking to delve into life's provisions sufficiently to ascertain a valid course for uplifting yourself and fellow-beings to the utmost possibilities. Wisdom is really a difficult word to assess and define. It can be said to be all-knowing and all-understanding within a given sphere. Wisdom is at once the comprehension of a matter in both depth and breadth. It is an expertise or mastery that enables the possessor to pursue a correct course of action.

In pursuing this study, we must not confuse inherent wisdom or intelligence with intellect and acquired wisdom. The ability to cogitate and think is a property of the conscious intellect. It involves wisdom and intelligence of a different order than the wisdom of the body. For example, if you bite into a luscious apple, the whole system is coursed with delight. If you bite into an apple that has been injected with a solution of caustic soda, you'll immediately recognize the danger, begin spitting and sputtering and run for water to dilute and remove the deadly poison that contacted your mouth tissues. Rejection of toxic matters is just as natural as delighting in beneficent materials and influences

The Body is Self-Healing

This is self-evident. We observe it in many ways. We see a broken bone knit itself. We see cuts and abrasions heal. We see bruises heal. But most of us, willing to accept that which we readily see, do not believe that the body has sufficient power within to overcome ailments not involving injury. The vital innate healing force is operative at all times. It heals all reparable body injuries and maladies. If the body cannot repair itself, it is irreparable. A tremendous amount of abuse must be heaped upon the body to reach such a low state that it cannot heal itself. At this low state, death is inevitable.

The body works at all times to keep itself in a high-functioning state. It continually works to keep itself pure and as free as possible of toxic wastes. It is endowed with equipment for ejecting foreign material from the vital domain. A body fettered by retained toxic matters and polluted with unwelcome substances from without cannot function at a high level. If the body becomes overburdened, it disables itself through what are called “acute diseases” to hasten the processes of purification and repair. Under the disabled condition, the body marshals its resources to concentrate on internal cleansing and repair of damaged tissue.

All this takes place of the body's own volition, and the best we can do is cooperate. We should take a complete rest so that the body may not be hampered in its endeavors. We should cease all activity, even that of eating. Bed rest in a sunny and airy room with only pure water will greatly facilitate the body's work-you cease to expend energies so that your body may have more.

Nothing inside or outside of nature can substitute for body wisdom. Nothing inside or outside of nature can assume or substitute for body functions. While an ailing body bespeaks a grossly abused body, it will, nevertheless, restore itself to health if the causes of its illness are removed and conditions instituted that permit body restorative activities. If you can see the obvious; that is, that the body is in all cases self-healing, you will: 1. never abuse the temple of your being; and 2. if you suffer from past abuses, not in any way interfere with the body but, under a condition of complete rest, give it command of your energies and resources so that it can more efficiently and quickly repair itself.

Common colds, skin rashes, acne, vomiting, headaches, sinusitis, inflammations and fevers, so-called influenza and a long list of other disabling and frustrating affections are self-healing processes. It is a mistake to try to “cure” them, for they are themselves just that, “curing” processes. But if we do violate the laws of our being, then we must restore health by giving inner body intelligence and powers the opportunity to do so. To try to “cure” a “curing process” is wrong and can cause untold miseries. It adds injury to injury. If a man is repairing a fence and you bludgeon him, he must not only stop fence-mending but contend with a new and more life-threatening enemy.

If your body is repairing itself and you resort to drugs (so-called medicines) that poison the body and so lower its vital powers that it can no longer conduct the reparative process, then your body will remain filled with the offending internal filth, and function will be that much more impaired. When your body is poisoned, the reduction of its vital activities will become readily evident because the symptoms of the reparative process often disappear-the fence-mending has ceased. For instance, a heroin addict's body will start trying to repair itself after being reasonably freed of the heroin. The reparative process is debilitating and pain-wracking. The heroin addict chooses to renarcotize his body with more heroin poison rather than suffer the reparative process. Thus, so-called “withdrawal symptoms,” which are really reparative measures, disappear after renewed poisoning. The same process occurs with addicts to the narcotic habits of tobacco and alcohol. Headaches, pains, swellings, etc. are evidences or symptoms of healing processes being conducted by the body. Take a poison (such as aspirin) and you devitalize the body so that it stops the body's mending process, and the symptoms disappear.

If you become ill, do not fight the illness by trying to “remedy” or “cure” it. All such efforts are the same as assaulting the fence repairman. Instead, go to bed in a warm, sunlit room with fresh flowing air. Drink only pure water. Rest! Conduct only the most necessary of physical activities. Abstain from all food if you have no appetite. With the increased energies, your body will devote itself to a thorough house-cleaning and repair measures unlike any you've ever witnessed. Your infirmity is reduced by more than half-healing occurs much faster. At the end, you should feel like new-in fact, you will look greatly rejuvenated because you will be somewhat rejuvenated-recharged for high level function for which we humans are admirably endowed.

All healing power is inherent in the living organism. There is no curative virtue in drugs nor in anything outside the living organism. Nature has not provided remedies for disease. There is no such thing as a “law of cure.” The only condition of recovery is obedience to physiological law. So-called remedial agents do not act on the living system, as is taught, but are acted on by the vital organism.

Disease is not, as is commonly supposed, an enemy at war with the powers of the living organism, but is itself a remedial effort-a process of purification and repair. It is not something to be destroyed, subdued, suppressed, killed or cured, but an intelligent body action to be cooperated with. Nature's Materia Hygienica consists of light, air, water, food, temperature, exercise, rest, sleep, abstinence, cleanliness and passional influences.

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Understanding Disease
by Dr. T. C. Fry and Dr. David Klein

Disease, or “dis-ease,” is what we feel when the body is in the process of detoxifying and healing itself. Disease is the body's intelligent response to abnormal or threatening influences. Disease is not something which invades our bodies from outside, nor is it something to be cured or stopped. In a manner of speaking, disease symptoms are a manifestation that the body is “curing” itself.

Disease is instituted by the body itself as an emergency measure to purify and repair itself. Modalities (treatments or therapies that involve drugs, herbs, manipulations or other infringements upon the vital domain) cannot possibly assist the body. On the contrary, they interfere with vital body purification and reparative functions and normal body functions as well. Such interference poses additional problems for the body to cope with, thereby further lowering the body vitality. Body vitality may be lowered so much by the greater danger presented by the drugs or modalities that the original disease effort, which is actually an effort to purify the body, is discontinued in favor of devoting available energies to the more virulent enemy, the drugs within. That is why medical physicians are called “allopaths.” That is why there is so much “iatrogenic disease,” meaning disease caused by treatments.

“Allopath” literally means “opposite disease.” In theory, allopathic doctors strive to displace the original disease by creating a heteropathic or opposite disease. Actually, all physicians succeed in doing is to create additional disease. The original problem remains while the body must redirect its energies partly or wholly to removing the more dangerous drugs, herbs, or so-called medicines. Thus, symptoms of the original disease disappear (or are suppressed and masked) because the necessary energy and vitality to further conduct the disease are now lacking. Yet, the body is in graver danger than before it was treated from both the uneliminated toxic accumulations and the added toxicity of drugs or other substances administered.

The best way to help the body in disease is to “intelligently do nothing” and simultaneously establish conditions of health that enable the body to devote all its vitality to the healing crisis. A thoroughgoing rest under tranquil circumstances constitutes a healing environment, for it permits full devotion of body energies to the emergency task.

The body is always acting intelligently and correctly. The body is always acting appropriately based on the conditions with which it must contend. We can interfere with its operations, but we cannot possibly help it other than by furnishing the normal needs of life consonant with existing body conditions.

In 1926, in his book Toxemia Explained, John H. Tilden, M. D., wrote: “All so-called diseases are merely crises of toxemia and evolve from just one cause: toxemia.” Dr. Tilden further wrote:

“It should be known to all discerning physicians that the earliest stage of organic disease is purely functional, evanescent and never autogenated so far as the affected organ is concerned, but is invariably due to an extraneous irritation (or stimulation, if you please) augmented by toxemia. When the irritation is not continuous and toxin is eliminated as fast as developed to the toleration point, normal functioning is resumed between the intervals of irritation and toxin excess.

“For example: a simple coryza (running at the nose-cold in the head), gastritis or colonitis. At first these colds, catarrhs or inflammations are periodic and functional; but as exciting cause or causes (local irritation and toxemia) becomes more intense and continuous, the mucous membranes of these organs take on organic changes which are given various names such as irritation, inflammation, ulceration and cancer. The pathology (organic change) may be studied until doomsday without throwing any light on the cause, for from the first irritation to the extreme ending-cachexia-which may be given the blanket term “tuberculosis,” “syphilis” or “cancer,” the whole pathological panorama is one of continuous evolution of intensifying effects.”

The “seven stages of disease” nominated by Dr. Tilden are: 1. enervation; 2. toxemia, or toxicosis; 3. irritation; 4. inflammation; 5. ulceration; 6. induration; and 7. cancer. It is notable that in some cases even colon cancer has been overcome by making wholistic dietary and lifestyle changes-we obviously want to halt disease at stage one.

By stopping disease symptoms with medicines, a person suffers further toxification and enervation. Disease symptoms may subside with medicines because: 1. the medicine may be so enervating that the body is no longer able to continue with the detoxification process, or 2. the medicine may be so toxic that the body may shift its detoxification efforts to other areas of the body (resulting in new disease symptoms commonly called “side effects”).

If a person with inflammatory bowel disease replaces the unhealthful dietary and lifestyle factors which lead to disease with healthful ones, the body will heal itself and ease will be restored.

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How An Unnatural Diet Causes Diseases

by Dr. T. C. Fry

Just as kerosene fouls up an automobile or airplane engine which was not designed for it, so, too, will foods foul up human bodies if they are not adapted to them. If you are not physiologically adapted to a diet, it will be repulsive to you in its raw natural state-you cannot relish the food nor sustain yourself on it in good health. When you eat an unnatural diet by artifice, that is, by denaturing it by cooking and modifying and camouflaging its taste with condiments and so on, you are doing the following:

1. Heat-deranging and destroying the nutrients within the food.

2. Deranging your taste buds through excitation with toxic substances to make the unpalatable food acceptable. All poisonous substances impose burdensome eliminative problems upon the body. Sicknesses, ailments and diseases result.

3. Causing nutrient deficiencies by eating a partially or wholly nutrient deranged “food.”

4. Causing protein malnutrition. Cooking destroys proteins and amino acids. Once they are oxidized and destroyed by cooking, you can no longer derive any benefit from proteinaceous substances other than, perhaps “empty calories,” that is, nutrient-bereft fuel. Once oxidized, proteins are soil (food) for bacteria which putrefy (rot) it. Bacterial putrefactive byproducts are highly toxic and carcinogenic. These byproducts are methane gas (the source for smelly gas emissions when you eat beans, for instance), hydrogen sulfide and mercaptans (which yield the rotten egg smell when carried out by the methane gas), cadaverine, putrescine, ammonias, indoles, skatoles, leukomaines and profusion of other toxic and carcinogenic substances.

5. Laying the groundwork for putrefactive bacterial flora that will vitiate your intestinal tract. Eaters of cooked foods and wrong foods have about two pounds of bacterial flora up and down their digestive tracts. Raw food eaters have only a few ounces.

6. Laying the groundwork for alcohol and vinegar poisoning. Heated sugars and carbohydrates are readily fermented by fungi and bacteria with, first, alcohol as a byproduct and, then, vinegar which is dozens of times more toxic than alcohol.

7. Intoxicating your body with the toxic debris (deranged nutrients) of what once had nutrient value. Instead of materials your body can use, you have toxins that put the body into a frenzy and, if overwhelmed by the toxic load, into a pathological state.

As you can see, cooked foods and condiments (most condiments are toxic plant excitants and stimulants: life-sapping inorganic substances like salt, pathogenic fermentation products like soy sauces, cheeses, etc.) are a curse to our well-being.

There are many toxic substances that are commonly eaten. For instance:

1. Ordinary commercial orange juice contains a carcinogen! Because the whole orange is squeezed, the toxic limonene (a volatile and flammable oil) in the skin is in the juice. The same goes for lemon and grapefruit juices. Refer to the Office of Toxicological Sciences of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

2. Ordinary mushrooms contain several toxic substances (mainly hydrazine) that are carcinogenic. This has been reported by researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical School and Dr. Bruce N. Ames of the University of California Biochemistry Department. Refer to the September 23, 1983 issue of Science magazine.

3. Tofu, a highly refined soy bean product, contains several carcinogens, notably indole and nitropyrene. Refer to Diet, Nutrition and Cancer.

4. Alfalfa sprouts contain a carcinogen, canavanine. Refer to the September 23, 1983 issue of Science, and the FDA's Office of Toxicological Sciences.

5. All cooked and heated oils and fats as in fried foods, nuts, seeds, meats, etc. contain deadly carcinogens. Their aerated fumes are worse in the lungs than tobacco smoke! Refer to Diet, Nutrition and Cancer.

The list seems endless! We Americans poison ourselves so much that we have more health problems per capita than any other country on earth. More than 16% of our national wealth goes down the disease rat hole. Needless to say, all discomforts, illnesses and suffering are ab normal, unnatural and unnecessary.

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Understanding Inflammation

When injured or invaded by toxic matter, gases or microorganisms, or when a buildup of internal toxic debris, fluids and/or microorganisms (commonly called an “infection”) reaches a crucial level, the body enacts a health-restorative purification process called inflammation. In this process, the body is working at a “feverish” pace to heal you! It sends elements of the immune system to the threatened area: phagocytes, including monocyte/macrophages and leukocytes, also known as white blood cells or T cells, which produce antibodies, binding toxins to the killer/neutralizing T cells. In the cases of C&C, toxic fecal matter and acid wastes have poisoned the bowel, causing the body to enact inflammation in order to purify the tissues.

In addition to the T cell action, the body sends antibody-producing B cells, more blood and more lymphatic fluid for removal of toxic debris to the threatened area. Also, the permeability of the small blood vessels is increased to permit the delivery of large molecules from the bloodstream to the damaged area for use in the body's repair work. The extra blood and lymphatic fluid causes the inflamed area to swell, redden, feel hot and, sometimes, painful. These are all normal and positive signs of the body's magnificent self-healing powers in action.

Inflammation is vigorous self-healing action intelligently conducted by the body. The intelligence of bodily healing action is supreme, and we must support the process. No matter what we do, only the body can heal itself, and, in each case, it heals in spite of, not because of, our interference. Only the body can heal itself, and there is no force in our lives which is more powerful than its self-healing powers.

If we have internal inflammation, we must remove the causes of disease-ie., toxic diet, drugs, mental/emotional/lifestyle stress, etc.-and supply the body with the conditions of health: clean-digesting nutritious diet, rest, sleep, etc. If the inflammation is external, it is prudent to simply clean the affected area with water, then leave it alone and get plenty of rest and sleep to allow the body to shunt all the self-healing energy it can muster for its restorative job. Inflammation will run its course if we support the self-healing process. Only then will health be restored. Remember: self-healing energy is only generated when we sleep-it does not come from food or remedies or anything else. There are no exceptions to this physiological process of life.

Taking anti-inflammatory medicines and herbs works against the body's restorative action, since all “medicinal” anti-inflammatory agents are toxic and enervating-they have no healing intelligence and do not act on the body; rather, the body works to eliminate them. Thus, their use is counterproductive, decreasing the amount of bodily energy available for self-healing and, in some cases, making us sicker. Overdosing on medicines and herbs can weaken the body so greatly that it has no energy for keeping the inflammation process going, and thus the inflammation stops prematurely, fooling people into believing that the agent “worked.” That does not “cure” us; rather, that stops the self-healing action, keeping us toxic! Icing a wound chills out our life-force, slowing down the healing process. The self-healing life-force needs to rage on, unimpeded, to complete its job! And it will, when we provide the conditions of health.

By deeply delving into these simple yet mind-challenging teachings, you will become empowered to heal and live free of fear of disease.

The Science and Fine Art of Healthful Living
by Dr. T. C. Fry and Dr. David Klein

Natural Hygiene, or Healthful Living, is the art and science of living healthfully in accord with our natural biological heritage. Natural Hygiene embodies those principles which guide us to correct living practices. It is a health system of cooperating with Nature to allow our self-healing powers to fully express themselves, enabling the body to rejuvenate and establish its highest level of health. “Hygiene” literally means “the science of health.”

Natural Hygiene is about enhancing physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being through education and right living. It provides us with a simple, wholistic, living awareness system for regaining and maintaining superb human health and beauty. Hygiene is personally empowering and liberating. It teaches independence and rational action. It banishes fear and ignorance regarding human health and how to keep it. Ultimately, it is about freedom.

Natural Hygiene always refers to nature as its mentor and teacher. When wholistic, comprehensive understanding is required, one must refer back to nature in its pristine majesty as the final authority. Because present-day life seems to be losing touch with those conditions which made life possible, Natural Hygiene brings us “back to the garden,” so to speak. We should strive to meet life's requirements, and to smoothly balance them in all aspects so that we can easily lead a joyous and fulfilling existence.

Natural Hygiene concerns itself with those principles and truths applicable to human life so that we may wisely apply them to our lives. We are of the firm conviction that only by living healthfully can we realize the loftiest joys, peace of mind and blissful connection with all of creation which is our birthright.

Animals in nature are creatures of instinct. Following the guidance of instinct, they are correctly self-directed to meet their needs. They thrive optimally in accord with their environmental and genetic possibilities. Discovering and attuning to our natural instincts is part and parcel of Natural Hygiene. Our inborn guiding instincts always tend toward healthful and constructive living when they are unclouded and given proper attention. It is ignorance of our instincts and the laws of life that creates our sickness and suffering.

In presenting the concept that health is normal and natural, Natural Hygienists emphatically refute the idea that disease is inevitable in our lives. We contend that disease will not occur unless there is sufficient cause. Health maintenance is an unceasing process in every organism. When the organism is overwhelmed by toxic substances beyond its ability to eliminate them in normal course, the body institutes emergency action to effect expulsion of the toxic burden. This crisis is called “sickness” or “disease.” Toxic materials accumulate in the body from two sources: 1. from unexpelled body wastes that are endogenously generated as a normal part of our metabolism, and 2. from exogenous materials ingested and partially or wholly retained due to inability to cope with the eliminative load.

All the needs of normal physiology are present in states of disease and are required to be supplied to the end that organic and functional integrity may be preserved or restored. No piecemeal plan of care can possibly succeed in restoring health. Hygienic care comprehends not only a regulation of the diet, but a synthesis and coordination of all the factor elements of normal living: drinking, breathing, sunning, temperature, clothing, exercise, rest, sleep, emotional factors, etc. Nothing short of a total regulation of the way of life can produce ideal results.

All processes of recovery or healing are but extensions and modifications of the processes that preserve health. The materials and processes employed in caring for the sick must be in consonance with physiology and compatible with all other useful measures. A sane method of caring for the sick will not force the body to utilize substances that are not subject to its metabolic processes.

Our biological nature, i.e., the make-up (structure, function and living essence) of our bodies, determines our needs and how we should meet them. Health is our natural state of being. Disease processes (or illnesses) are perfectly natural responses enacted by the body for the purpose of detoxifying, rebalancing, adapting to harmful influences and healing. The condition of health (or wellness) is only achieved by living healthfully, i.e., satisfying our mental/emotional/physiological/spiritual needs.

The Hygienic health system of self-healing has a 200-year track record, establishing it as the most effective healing system ever known to man. The true Hygienic art consists of applying to the living system whatever materials and conditions it can use under the circumstances, and not in the administration of poisons which it must resist and expel. Drugs are themselves causes of disease and produce disease whenever given. They cure nothing. The drug system endeavors to make the sick well by administering poisons which make well persons sick.

Natural Hygiene, on the contrary, restores the sick to health by the means that preserve health in well persons. Disease is caused by violations of the laws and conditions of life. The Hygienic System stops the violations and supplies healthful conditions. Drug medication adds to the causes of destruction and metamorphoses acutely into chronic disease where it does not kill outright. The attempt to cure disease by adding to its causes is irrational and absurd. Hygienic care involves the proper use of all Hygienic materials and influences of nature but rejects all poisons. There is, therefore, between the Hygienic System and the Drug System an irrepressible conflict. If one is true, the other is false.

We must eliminate the dead weight of false knowledge and ideas that we carry with us each moment. Using treatments, drugs, herbs, or anything else abnormal and unnatural to the body can interfere with healthful body functions but, under no circumstances, can these agencies heal the body. Because these devitalizing agencies depress and suppress symptoms (or evidences) of body healing efforts, and because the body discontinues vital activities to contend with these agencies, which makes the symptoms disappear, the anti-vital effects of drugs and treatments are mistaken for healing effects. Nothing but the body can heal itself.

The Prime Requisites of Health

1. Love of Self
2. Healthy Self-image and Esteem
3. Passionate Love of All Life
4. Awareness
5. Intention
6. Inner Focus/Listening
7. Abidance by the Senses and Intuition
8. True Knowledge
9. Graceful, Grateful, Respectful, Generous Attitude
10. Organic, Properly-combined Vegan Diet
11. Pure Water
12. Pure Air
13. Sunshine
14. Warm Climate
15. Fitness and Posture
16. Security and Peace of Mind
17. Rejuvenative Rest and Sleep
18. Heart-centered Self Nurturing
19. Sharing of Love
20. Relaxation
21. Humor
22. Creative Expression
23. Emotional Flow and Release
24. Rhythmic Movement
25. Musical Indulgence
26. Simple Lifestyle
27. Communing With Nature
28. Gardening
29. Service-Living Your Life's Purpose
30. Engagement in Self-improvement Challenges

By living hygienically, or healthfully, we are enabled to rejuvenate and reach our full health potential.

Functions of the Bowel

The bowel, also referred to as the intestines or gut, consists of the small and large intestines (the latter is also known as the colon). Here are the basic functions of each:

Small Intestine

The small intestine is a muscular 21-foot long tube of small diameter (about one inch, hence the name “small” intestine). This is where the digestive process takes place. Macronutrients are reduced to sugars, amino acids and fatty acids, then absorbed, along with some micronutrients, and transported to the liver, then distributed to the cells through the blood and lymph. The pH in a healthy small intestine is alkaline.

More specifically, here is what happens during the digestive process. From the stomach, the small intestine receives a semi-digested mixture of food and acidic enzymes; this mixture is called “chyme.” The small intestine also receives pancreatic enzyme from the pancreas and bile (a fat emulsifier) from the gall bladder. While being transported through the small intestine by segmentation movement, the digested fluid mass is absorbed through the striated border epithelium covering the villi (the intricate, microscopic finger-like folds which number in the millions).

The bacteria which live on living vegetable foods produce digestive enzymes which assist in the body's digestion of vegetable foods. Under various conditions of poor, haphazard eating and incomplete digestion, however, bacterial decomposition of food occurs (fermentation and putrefaction), resulting in toxic byproducts which can be responsible for irritation, then inflammation, of the intestinal wall. These toxins are typically absorbed into the bloodstream, causing fatigue and a host of illness symptoms. When the wall of the small intestine is inflamed, the nerves and absorptive function of this organ become greatly impaired, and the act of eating is usually met with severe gastric distress.

Colon

The colon is a three to five-foot long thick, muscular organ, normally with an inverted u-shape. A typical person's colon is disfigured, with twists and kinks and prolapses which trap fecal material, leading to any and all colon problems, and autointoxication of the body's fluids. Many behavioral problems and epilepsy have been linked to colon toxemia and constipation. The colon is much more than a muscular tube; it has an intricate network of nerves which connect with every other organ and neuromuscular system in the body. (Refer to Figure 1 which shows a perfectly shaped colon.) The colon receives metabolic wastes from the small intestine. The colon also receives indigestible residue, including micronutrients, from the small intestine through the ileocecal valve. Muscular wavelike motion, peristalsis, moves the material forward as water and micronutrients are absorbed and stools are formed for elimination. A healthy colon has a slightly acid pH, and evacuation (bowel movements) normally occurs easily a short while after each meal.

In the absence of fiber or sufficient moisture in the residue, the peristaltic motion may be inefficient to move the material along, and constipation and mucoid matter buildup may result, leading to enervation and dysfunction of the colon. Fatigue and emotional upset also contribute to colon dysfunction. In times of irritation from a toxic overburden, the body may enact diarrhea, a massive elimination response. If there is not sufficient nerve energy to accomplish diarrhea, then wastes will accumulate, causing the condition of autointoxication, and this may lead to inflammation. Undigested food components passing into the colon, especially proteins from wheat, meat, dairy, legumes and nuts, are typically the major source of irritation because they decompose and their byproducts are toxic to the tissues.

The colon works symbiotically with bacteria (flora). There are two standard classifications of bacteria in the intestinal tract: healthful “friendly” bacteria (including lactobacillus bifidus and coli bacteria) and “unfriendly” coliform bacteria (including E. coli) which are actually misunderstood. As first demonstrated by biologist Antoine Béchamp in the mid-19th century, “unfriendly” bacteria are actually “friendly” bacteria which have mutated in the presence of toxic matter and serve the “friendly” function of eating (or cleaning up) the toxic matter.

“Unfriendly” bacteria are mistakenly blamed as the cause of illness. However, bacteria do NOT cause illness. Bacteria simply function to clean up wastes in the external and internal (bodily) environment. In the healthy colon of a person living on a 100% natural diet of fruits and vegetables, there may be a minimal amount of bacteria in the colon. In a SAD (“standard American diet”) eater's colon, there may be as many as 400 species of bacteria, and sixty% of the wet weight of stools may be made up of bacteria. There are far more bacteria in a SAD eater's colon than the number of cells in our body. Some of the bacteria work symbiotically to maintain our health by manufacturing B vitamins and vitamin K, which is believed to help with blood clotting. Colons of SAD eaters have a huge population of putrefactive bacteria. We can create the condition of health and purity when we maintain a minimal population of only 100% healthful bacteria in the colon, and with that a perfectly healthy and strong colon.

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What To Expect

It's up to those with C&C to do the work to heal and to preserve their health by maintaining the Natural Hygiene healthful living principles taught herein and in many other books and periodicals on the subject. This book gives the keys, teaching how the body's “operating system” was designed to work, that is, how to restore and maintain excellent health.

By setting the intention of continuous self-improvement with the goal of manifesting perfect, vibrant disease-free health, we can achieve our loftiest goals and never experience C&C again. Lifelong vibrant, disease-free health can be maintained by the daily diligent application of healthful living practices. The more we work at it, the easier it becomes. In time, it is no longer work; rather, it is automatic, pleasurable habit and the rewards are joyous. Deep down inside, this is what your bowel and your entire being is calling for! It's all about integrity-giving yourself the loving nurturance you need to be healthy. Taking care of yourself is always priority number one.

When you diligently apply the principles of healthful living, fulfilling the “Prime Requisites of Health” and obeying “The Laws of Life,” you can expect ever-increasing wellness and joy in living. The further you progress with your healthful practices, the easier it becomes. Eventually it all becomes “first nature,” that is, normal, sensible, effortless and enjoyable. Visualize a healthy mind, body and lifestyle. Think healthfully. Act healthfully. Live healthfully. In all ways be healthy. Claim your birthright to glorious health, allow the new healthy you to blossom and don't look back!

Health can be regained but it must be earned each and every day. Choose to live and be healthy every day. I encourage you to totally go for it, to dedicate three to six months to fully implement the self-healing protocol and get the help you need to see it through and keep up the healthful living practices. The reward is vibrant health, freedom and joy. You will love yourself, love life and derive immense pleasure in sharing your experience and high vitality with others.

If you experience some pitfalls-we all do, especially during the first few years-learn from your mistakes and keep moving forward. Becoming healthy and maintaining health is a lifelong process—we all have plenty to unlearn and overcome. Practice makes perfect! All successful people, regardless of their goals, work at self-improvement. The rewards of healthful living are all things that are truly good.

A Perfectly Healthy Bowel

Given the right conditions, care and time, if sufficient vitality exists, all inflammatory bowel disorders will heal under this program including colitis, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, ileitis, irritable bowel syndrome, fistulas and hemorrhoids; strictures will also heal, scar tissue and polyps will slough off, tumors will be autolyzed and eliminated and the bowel will resume its normal shape with all new healthy cells.

When the bowel is perfectly healthy we are not aware of it at all! It does not give us any signs of distress and we feel free and strong. We have two or three brief, subtle urges to evacuate each day and the bowel movement is quick, effortless and in no way unpleasant. There is no more urgency, diarrhea, incontinence, constipation, cramping, spasming, aches or pains. As previously discussed, stools are moist, formed, have fine, homogeneous texture, uniform diameter, their color resembles that of recently eaten food, they have no odor or neutral odor, there is no mucous or blood, and they sink and crumble in the water. There is minimal need for toilet paper. We have little or no gas/flatulence and no foul body odors. With a healthy bowel we enjoy a sense that we are giving our precious body the care it needs, and we are rewarded with good feelings and dynamic energy, making life easy and pleasurable.

Health Freedom

Here are more major benefits you can expect as you refine and gain mastery with your healthful living practices, especially your eating habits:

You will no longer experience common maladies such as colds, fevers, gastric distress, candida, infections, headaches, earaches, rashes, PMS, difficult menstruation, bruising, fatigue, impotence, etc.
You will heal from or avoid common major diseases.
Your blood pressure and cholesterol levels will normalize. Your cholesterol level might rise during the initial stage of the detox as excess is dumped into the bloodstream; then it will fall.
Your taste buds will be delighted and never bored by the richness, vibrance, variety and complex flavors of fresh fruits and tender vegetables.
You will sense that fresh, organic feels more nourishing than other foods.
You will experience natural highs when eating tropical fruits.
You will relish and savor raw fatty foods more than fatty animal-derived foods and not miss them.
Calorie-dense fruits will warm and sustain you perfectly when you eat them in sufficient quantities.
Raw fruits and vegetables, eaten correctly, will no longer cause gastric distress and diarrhea.
Vegan foods will not make you tired and sleepy (unless you eat meals of mostly cooked foods).
As you become healthier, you will require less food to maintain your weight and energy level.
You will prefer simple, unprocessed whole fruit and vegetable meals.
You will mostly prefer mono meals of one kind of fruit.
You will require less sleep to wake up feeling refreshed.
Depression, unexplainable sadness, frustrations and moodiness will diminish and, in many cases, vanish for good.
Your ability to master your mind and emotions will become easier.
Your mental abilities including memory will become keener.
Your creative powers will become enhanced.
Your eating mastery and digestion will become easier if you maintain your fitness by exercising regularly.
Your waistline will become and remain slim.
Your skin and eyes will become clear and healthy looking.
Cellulite and cysts will vanish and moles will fade.
Your bones and nails will remineralize and become strong.
Your hair will become thicker and more lustrous, without excessive oiliness, thus requiring no shampoo.
If your hair was falling out, the rate will decrease after you have totally detoxified and, in some cases, new growth will ensue.
Your body will smell sweet or neutral, requiring no deodorants.
All of your senses will vivify.
You will feel richer sensations in your body
You will experience an expansion of awareness and consciousness.
Your eyesight will improve.
Your ears will become clear and your hearing will improve.
Your sinuses, throat and lungs will become clear and breathing will become freer and deeper. Your voice will become more resonant.
You will totally overcome allergies.
Your strength and stamina will improve.
Any chronic stiffness, aches and pains will diminish and, in most cases, vanish.
Your recovery and healing time following vigorous exercise and any injuries will be rapid.
Your medical bills and health insurance needs will diminish or become zero.
Your connection to nature, your spirit and your lovingness and lovability will increase.
You will enjoy the freedom of living under your body's own energy without relying on stimulants.
Your need for sleep will decrease after you are totally healthy.
You will wake up refreshed, clear-minded and full of inspiration.
Aging will greatly slow down and you will feel youthful.
You will look and feel 10 to 20 years younger than most others in your age group.
You will glow with inner happiness, knowing you have been “reborn.”
You will gain a sense of being able to finally move toward your ultimate potential.
You will enjoy your new life and feel grateful for your new knowledge.
You will feel deeply satisfied knowing you are finally treating your body the way if was designed to be treated.
You will have more and deeper inner peace.
You feel more lovable and become more attractive to others.
When you arrive at the condition of peak health in a clean and fit body, you will feel natural euphoria and understand the true munificence of living in a healthy body.

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I Live In Joy Now

(DAVID'S SONG OF LIFE)

I live in joy now
and the memories from the past
are distant and faded
I can only faintly remember:
the pain
the torture
the anguish
the agony
the aggravation
the confusion
the turmoil
the misery
the ugliness
the indignity
the disgust
the depression
the loneliness
the helplessness
the frustration
the despair
the hatred
the suffering
the emptiness
the lovelessness
the desperation
the fear
from the life that was a traumatic dying hell
That chapter in my life is long gone
I ended it on one glorious day a long time ago
I have reclaimed my health and my life
I love
I share
I sing
I live in joy now

Testimonials

(Only some of the most recent ones are listed below)

“I send people to your web site. I hope they have the discipline and wisdom to follow through. I'm feeling great with no problems at all since 2000 after following your program. Colitis was a godsend to get me into a new way of life. And you were there at the time I needed you and I will always be grateful. The Vegan Healing Diet (along with playing blues guitar) is the best way I know of for feeling great! Here's a poem I wrote:”

Ode to David

I once had colitis
so the doctor gave me pills
he said: “son, now you take these
for all your pains and ills”
So I took those little red things.
they didn't do a lot
except make me even sicker
and tied my stomach in a knot!
I said: “Doc you must be kidding-
surely there's a cure”
he said: “no, son, I'm truly sorry”
then he gave me more!
Then I found this guy named David Klein
I heard what he had to say
and threw away those little red pills
and have been a new man since that day!

- Ralph Acerno, River Edge, New Jersey (2006)

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“I bought Self Healing Colitis & Crohn's last November and found it to be what I was looking for over the last 12 years. It basically kept me away from a colostomy. For the past 12 years, I have gone through very difficult times with ulcerative colitis and was under a lot of pressure from my GI doctor and surgeon to have a colostomy. Thank God I was able to resist. After applying the healing plan in the book I am much better and currently leading almost a normal life. I appreciate your help Dave-you have shown me how to deal with this monstrous disease.”

- Abu M., Saudi Arabia (2006)

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“I was at the point of total desperation when I made one last ditch effort to find an alternative cure. If not for your guidance, I would have gone back to the doctor and agreed to take Remicade as the last resort. But I ran across your book and went on the program. After three weeks I am doing so much better. I had to gradually make the adjustments but they are long-term and I feel 80% better. I will be a true advocate of the program and a lifelong follower. I am sure I am headed for full recovery of my Crohn's. I have suffered horribly with this condition and the relief now is wonderful. I want to thank you. I owe you so much.”

- Becky L., Alton, Missouri (2006)

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“My dear friend, you have done more for me than any friend I know, and most probably will ever know, besides my wonderful husband. This e-mail is about my very own Thanksgiving Day. Last year on this date I changed my life. It was the day that I said I can do this. I didn't want sickness to be my sentence, so I stepped up to the edge and jumped into your program. I must admit there were times I thought I was drowning as I struggled to stay afloat. But you were my lifejacket. I had to learn the strategies of how to swim back to shore.

“I thank you from the deepest part of me. My life would not be the way it is if it were not for you. We are off to a beautiful beach resort in Broome in Western Australia for two weeks, a trip I would not be able to enjoy without all you have done for me. God bless you, always.”

- Maria Andrianopoulos, Melbourne, Australia,
Age 39, recovered from ulcerative colitis, asthma, arthritis and osteoporosis (2007).

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“I am the bodybuilder formerly with ulcerative colitis who spoke to you five weeks ago. I have followed the diet you recommended since then. I was already on the diet outlined in your book for about two weeks prior to our talking. Your consultation helped me fine tune my eating for better results. The diet has helped me get progressively better and, as of the last five days, I have been absolutely symptom-free! It's fortunate that I caught this problem early, lost only 12 pounds while detoxing and never had to use steroids. I love my new energy levels! And that's after only seven to eight weeks. I imagine how I'm going to feel a year with this new eating lifestyle...because I'm never going back to the SAD diet again!”

- John C., Phoenix, Arizona (2007)

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“I just want to thank you for creating www.colitis-crohns.com. It entirely changed my life and my attitude. I have found answers.”

- Rob S., Slovakia (2007)

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“I just completed four of the eight weeks I needed to make up for lost time at med school. It was pretty demanding, but I remained loyal to the diet and made it through just fine. I have this week off to rejuvenate, before I have to go back for the remaining four weeks. You've done no less than give me my life back and I can't thank you enough for that.

“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-plus bloody and mucoid bowel movements each day.

“As I am training to be a medical doctor, I naturally turned to traditional medicine for answers. Definitive answers were not what I got. Nonetheless, traditional medicine was all I knew. So, despite my 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, antispasmodic, 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 hope that they would eventually find the key and would be able to protect me from having a colostomy.

“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 housebound due to the frequency of bowel movements, took 20 or more pills a day, incurred numerous side effects from these various medications, and spent thousands of dollars on treatments that did not help.

“My observations led me to believe that the treatments I was 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? The doctors strongly advised me to continue the treatment, but I was slowly and painfully dying at the age of 27, and nothing that they were doing for me was of any help. In the case of IBD, traditional medicine did not have an answer for me and I needed to look elsewhere.

“Everything changed for me when I MIRACULOUSLY found your Self Healing Colitis & Crohn's book online. I likely would have dismissed your theories as nonsense if I had come across them during the first month of the illness. But I was now in month 11 and was meeting with a surgeon to discuss a colectomy. So, I read your book and for the first time felt like someone else understood my predicament. The things you 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 you numerous times over the telephone and through e-mail. You have done nothing less than nurse me back to health and given me my life back. How do you repay someone for that?

“Many of the doctors I work with are quite interested in hearing my story. They are astonished that detox and diet have played such a crucial role in my healing. Such a concept remains foreign to allopathic physicians. A few of those doctors tell me that they have heard similar stories from some of their own patients but, in the end, they have no training or understanding of nutrition and natural healing and can do little more than simply listen to my story.”

- S.G., Florida (2007)

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“It will be three years in May since I first contacted you. I was having upsetting digestive problems and had a colonoscopy that showed the beginnings of colitis and Crohn's disease. I purchased your book, we had a long consultation, and I switched to vegetarianism. Although I have somewhat modified the program over the years, not a day goes by that I don't have at least eight to ten fresh fruits plus veggies. I have canceled all meat, fish and poultry from my diet.

“I recently had my annual physical examination with my doctor. He wanted me to have a colonoscopy. I hadn't had one in three years and was curious to see what it would show. Thank G-d, it was excellent! Now I am 58 years old, and no signs of any Crohn's disease, colitis, diverticulitis or polyps!

“This diet has transformed my whole life. Your wisdom that you share with others makes you a true miracle worker. Thank you so much and G-d bless you for your teachings and the wonderful work you do to help others.”

- Jacqueline K., Los Angeles, California (2007)

Conclusion

C&C are degenerative illnesses which are caused by chronic stress from any of the following sources: diet, lifestyle, the mind, emotions, society, culture and environment. The stressors result in physiological enervation and toxification of the human organism, leading to the heightened, distressful elimination and inflammation responses which are properly referred to as “detoxification disease.”

In virtually every case, health is restorable and the diseases will not return if the healthful living practices taught herein are correctly practiced. In order to restore health, persons with C&C should be cared for wholistically—the causes of disease must be discontinued, healthful practices must be implemented and the detoxification process must be allowed to proceed to completion. The body will be guided by its innate intelligence and naturally heal itself when all the factors of health are in place. In order for complete healing, there must be an accurate understanding of the disease process, our biological needs and the overall health picture. Wholistic health guidance should be enlisted and self-education taken up.

All of the principles and assertions espoused herein are based on physiological fact and empirical experience-not on theories. The Natural Hygiene self-healing plan with the Vegan Healing Diet work because they are based on the immutable laws governing human biology and physiology. When we discontinue unhealthful practices and provide the requisites of health, eating our natural biological diet, the body will only improve itself, reversing disease and creating new health.

Natural self-healing has been around for a long time, dating back to biblical times. The Natural Hygiene movement began in the early 1800s and has continued to this day. Natural healing is actually nature's way. The body is programmed to self-heal. Many people who have followed the natural healing route for every known disease condition and have gone on to higher levels of health than ever before. To prove this true, each person must do the work and experience it for himself or herself. Healing and excellent health will come to fruition if one uses his or her higher intelligence and passionately embraces healthful living as a way of life.

The elements of an effective plan for overcoming C&C will vary from case to case. Generally speaking, the basics are: 1. Natural Hygiene education; 2. a natural, whole foods vegan diet (preferably organic) with juicing; 3. extra sleep and complete rest (sabbatical from work or school); 4. proper exercise; 5. health counseling; 6. peer support; and 7. medical cooperation. And each person must focus on giving him-herself nurturing love, living in harmony with nature and seeking out others who will support that goal wholeheartedly.

I wrote these words almost 24 years after I began my healing-my lasting healing-with guidance from my coaches and saviors Drs. Laurence Galant and T. C. Fry. Dr. Fry has passed on, yet I often give silent thanks to this lionhearted man for putting out and supporting me with the Natural Hygiene program information I direly needed. Dr. Galant is still my dear friend; we regularly speak on the phone and I occasionally visit him and express my gratitude and share my joy. You too can have 24 years of health freedom and happiness-simply dedicate yourself to healthful living and get the help you need. Healthful abundance awaits you. It's up to you-it only gets easier and easier and more and more joyful-naturally! Imagine it, visualize it, believe in your magnificent self-healing power, your God-given right to be healthy and your natural place in this world, and say: “I can do it!” You can! Celebrate your uniqueness, your sensitivity, your wisdom, your determination, love your self-healing body and keep on the healthful living path for life!

Note: If you are considering making any changes in your dietary and healing regime, please reread Section 1.3, Advisory and the entire contents of this book many times and do not proceed unless you have a solid understanding of the safe and proper protocol to follow. Improper, hurried, misguided implementation of the healing diet plan espoused herein can be harmful. Dr. Klein and his qualified associates are available to properly assist clients.

About the Author

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 and a certified Nutrition Educator. 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 was awarded “Honorable Mention - Best Nutritionist” in Share Guide's 2002 Readers Poll.

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 Living Nutrition and 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

www.colitis-crohns.com
www.colitiscurebook.com
www.selfhealingempowerment.com
www.livingnutrition.com

Self-published Works By Dr. David Klein

Living Nutrition and Vibrance Magazine
Raw 'n Delish Vibrant Recipes
Self Healing Colitis & Crohn's
Self Healing Power! by Dr. T. C. Fry, Dr. Herbert Shelton and 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 & David Klein

Dr. David Klein's Biography

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 medical 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 and bleeding, and this led to further physical deterioration. What ensued were eight tortuous years of colitis flare-ups and off-and-on drug therapy. At age 26, after eight years of ulcerative colitis while attending engineering school followed by working in the environmental engineering field, I was reduced to a weak, sickly shadow of my former self. I was having gastric eruptions every time I ate and up to 10 painful bowel movements a day with mucous and blood. My gut always hurt, my nervous system became shattered and I experienced hellish nightmares as I was toxic, debilitated by the medicines, severely demineralized and over-stressed by my diet and medicines. I was no longer able to work or leave my house.

Although my life had become a dying hell, 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 knew what they were doing.

In 1984, I had the great fortune to find a nutritionist and Doctor of Natural Hygiene, Dr. Laurence Galant in Staten Island. He introduced me to the concepts of self-healing and eating a fruit-based diet and he gave me Natural Hygiene literature to study. At first I thought the idea of eating mostly fruit while having nonstop diarrhea was crazy. Yet, I studied Natural Hygiene literature 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 and would eventually face cancer, 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 madness-I'll be dead soon if I don't find the answer myself!” I recognized that my life was a gradual descent into hell and I had to climb out now because it was almost too late.

Over the next few days I started thinking like never before about how to overcome my illness. I realized that I had to figure out what the MD's could not, and my thinking led me to consider more closely the information on self-healing and switching to a vegan diet. The information seemed so incredible, but I saw that it was really working for Dr. Galant, and I had read many amazing healing testimonials.

Then one amazing night while studying Dr. T. C. Fry's Life Science/Natural Hygiene course, I beheld a healing vision and it all made sense; the picture of my new health was revealed via the Natural Hygiene healthful living system. I understood that humans are biologically fruit eaters and that fruit was the best food for my sick colon and entire body. I was ecstatic knowing I had solved the diet mystery, conquered the myths about humans' natural diet and the care of disease and 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 forever and started a three-day fresh-made juice diet. 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 crazy! My gut was feeling soothed, I was rejuvenating and the nightmarish illness was over. On the fourth day, upon adding solid fruits including bananas to my diet, I had solid stools and greatly diminished symptoms. I had set myself free of illness, doctors and medicines for good, and my bowels were working better and better with no signs of toxicity!

I adopted a fruit-based, vegan diet-that harmonized best with my mind/body/spirit. And with that my energies continuously increased as I detoxified and began rebuilding. Within about four to six weeks I felt that my colon was completely healed. I was able to enjoy eating and living again. With my bowels functioning better than ever, I began a new active 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 (now known as Bauman college in Penngrove, California), I became certified as a Nutrition Educator and began providing nutrition and healing consultations. In 2006 I received a Ph.D./Hygienic Doctor degree in Natural Health and Healing from the University of Natural Health. Self Healing Colitis and Crohn's served as my thesis. Today, at age 50, I enjoy excellent dynamic health and vitality.

Healing 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.

Living healthfully is the easiest and most joyful way to be, and I am glad to help health seekers get there and feel that for themselves. Each of us deserves glorious health!



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Excerpts From Self Healing Colitis & Crohn's 2nd Edition

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Excerpts From Self Healing Colitis & Crohn's 2nd Edition

©David Klein, Ph.D. World rights reserved.

©David Klein, Ph.D.
World rights reserved.