Dr. David Klein has been Director of the Colitis
& Crohn’s Health Recovery Center, currently located
in Sebastopol in northern California, since 1993.
Dr. Klein is a Hygienic Doctor with a Ph.D.
in Natural Health and Healing from the University of Natural
Health and holds a Nutrition Educator certification from Bauman
College. Dr. Klein’s approach is wholistic and is based
upon Natural Hygiene, the world’s most successful health
science program over the last 200 years. Since 1992, Dr. Klein
has counseled over 2,000 clients back to health via the principles
of Natural Hygiene and he has taught nutrition classes and
given health and nutrition lectures. Dr. Klein 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/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. He also
hosts the weekly Web radio show “Raw Health Talk”
on http://www.tropicwaveradio.net/shows/tropicwaveradio.html.
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.
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David's Story
My journey into the health education field began
in 1975, when at age 17 my robust health began to gradually
decline. A heavy eater of meat and junk food, my physical
and mental energies deteriorated over a period of six months,
then I experienced incessant diarrhea. After a few weeks of
medicine treatment, I showed little improvement, so a colon
examination was done. The diagnosis was ulcerative colitis,
and I spent my 18th birthday in a hospital, taking prednisone
and azulfadine drug treatments. The symptoms subsided, temporarily,
but the drugs further ruined my health and had a devastating
effect on my mental abilities.
Within a few months, feeling sickly and very
weak, I experienced a recurrence of the diarrhea and additional
symptoms, including cramping, bleeding, and this lead to further
physical deterioration. What ensued were eight tortuous years
of colitis flare-ups and off-and-on drug therapy. At age26,
I was reduced to a weak, sickly shadow of my former self.
I was having gastric explosions every time I ate, up to 10
painful bowel movements a day with mucus and blood. My nervous
system became shattered as I was toxic, debilitated by the
medicines, and severely demineralized. Life became a dying
hell , but I never gave in to the medical doctors' advice
to accept my illness and just be patient until their impossible
"miracle drug cure " came along; I desperately wanted
my health back and doubted that the doctors were able to help
me.
In 1984, I had the great fortune to find a
Doctor of Natural Hygiene, Laurence Galant in Staten Island,
who introduced me to the concepts of self-healing and eating
a natural plant-based diet. At first I thought the idea of
eating raw foods while I was having non-stop diarrhea was
crazy. Yet, I studied Natural Hygiene and slowly cleaned up
my diet. I was attached to eating chicken and other favorite
cooked foods, however, and was still having colitis flare-ups
and relying on medicines.
In the fall of 1984 I had a colonoscopy exam
which confirmed that I had advanced ulcerations throughout
my sick colon. Surmising that I had been chronically sick
and was not getting better, the gastroenterologist recommended
that I either try his experimental drug which knocks out the
immune system, or have my colon surgically removed. Upon hearing
this, a heavy decisive thought entered my mind: I have had
it with this medical nightmare - I'll be dead soon if I don't
find the answer myself! My life was a gradual descent into
hell and now I had to climb out now because I sensed it was
almost too late.
Then one amazing night while studying T. C.
Fry's Life Science/Natural Hygiene course, I beheld a healing
vision and it all made sense. I understood that I was eating
a harmful diet which was not compatible with my digestive
physiology, and that I needed to eat a plant-based diet with
plenty of raw fruits and vegetables - - that would allow my
body to purge itself of the wastes that were poisoning my
colon and preventing me from regaining my health, and would
also help me overcome illness and create excellent health.
I was ecstatic knowing I had set myself free!
The next day I threw away the medicines, divorced myself from
all medical intervention for good, gave up all meat and dairy
for ever and started a 3-day juice cleanse. By the second
day I was coming back to life. On the third day I was feeling
better and better and my enthusiasm and joy drove my family
and friends crazy! My gut was feeling soothed and I was rejuvenating.
I set myself free of illness, doctors and medicines for good,
and my bowels were working better and better!!
I adopted a diet with plenty of fruit - that
harmonized best with my mind/body/spirit. And with that my
energies continuously increased as I detoxified and began
rebuilding. Within about six weeks I felt that my colon was
completely healed up. I was able to enjoy eating and life
again, as my bowels were functioning better than ever. I began
a new healthful lifestyle.
Over the next few years I diligently worked
at rebuilding my depleted body, incorporating daily running
and yoga, all the while studying the life sciences and all
of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual factors which
determine our health. It took several years of total dedication
to build robust health. In 1993, after a year of study and
training at the Institute for Educational Therapy in Cotati,
California, I became certified as a Nutrition Educator and
began providing nutrition and healing consultations. Today,
at age 48, I enjoy excellent health and usually feel fantastic--22
disease-free years!
Healing, I teach people, is easy if we understand
and apply the principle that it is the body that does the
healing - - when we remove the unhealthful aspects of our
diet and lifestyle and step out of the way, the body will
do the healing work automatically and naturally.
Is living healthfully difficult? No! Living
healthfully is the easiest and most joyful way to be! And
I'm glad to help health seekers get there and feel that for
themselves. I love to help health seekers discover the way
to heal and build superior health for themselves!
To
order David’s full story: The Fruits Of Healing –
A Story About a Natural Healing of Ulcerative Colitis, click
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