![]() ![]() What we are trying to do right now is to expand our research program and bring in people who are interested in helping us really ask and answer the question who we all are interested in. So our goal is to do primary research, which we have begun by looking at trying to identify these mechanisms, provide public education about the work that we are doing, and particularly train doctors who are interested in the application of these therapies. We have our nonprofit foundation, a 501(c)(3), called the TrueNorth Health Foundation, with the mission of public education and research. We offer an internship program for doctors of chiropractic and naturopathic, as well as medicine, so that they can come in and do a rotation, either as part of their training or after their graduation, so they can get a chance to experience seeing sick people get well using diet and fasting. I think that makes us a rather unique situation as well, and it is particularly of interest to chiropractors who are interested in that type of exposure and training: a chance to work with a variety of doctors on an inpatient basis-actually working with sick people, seeing them get well, and using methodology consistent with what we were taught in school. TrueNorth Health Center is one of the few chiropractic-run inpatient facilities that I am aware of where chiropractic philosophy drives an integrative medical facility. That is the dominant intervention that we do. It is just naturopathic medicine that is not prominently practiced out in the real world: diet, sleep, exercise, and fasting. So we actually are doing what would be considered naturopathic medicine. We do first-level therapeutic order naturopathic intervention. ![]() We have been operating it for 30 years and had 10 000 patients go through the fasting protocol. I returned to the United States in 1984 with my wife, Jennifer Marano, dc, and opened up the TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, California. Conditions that seemed to be tied to dietary excess tended to respond predictably to the use of fasting followed by a health-promoting diet. They applied this regimen in a variety of conditions from diabetes and cardiovascular disease to autoimmune diseases. So I saw a lot of people who I had been trained to not get well, get well, and they did that consistently through the use of fasting and a vegan SOS-free diet-a plant-based, whole-foods diet free of sugar, oils, and salts. There, I had a chance to see what happens when you do nothing intelligently or use fasting appropriately. After I graduated from chiropractic college at Western States, I went to Australia, attended Pacific College, and did an internship with Dr Burton. He was the president of the Pacific College of Osteopathic Medicine. Ultimately, I met Alec Burton, msc, do, dc, who specialized in fasting supervision. So I started reading and came across the books on natural hygiene by Herbert Shelton, nd, and others, and it made a lot of sense. We grew up together and he could always beat me in basketball. I wanted to be a better basketball player than my friend, Doug Lisle, who currently is the director of research and a clinical psychologist at TrueNorth Health Center. Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal ( IMCJ ): What made you interested in pursuing the effects of fasting?ĭr Goldhamer: I got started very young-about 16, actually. He is the primary investigator in 2 published, landmark studies that demonstrate the benefits of water-only fasting, and he is the author of The Health Promoting Cookbook and coauthor of The Pleasure Trap: Mastering The Hidden Force That Undermines Health and Happiness. ![]() Under his guidance, the center has supervised fasts for thousands of patients and grown into one of the premier training facilities for doctors wishing to gain certification in the supervision of therapeutic fasting.ĭr Goldhamer is on the faculty at Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington, where he teaches a course on clinical fasting. ![]() Alan Goldhamer, dc, is the founder and education director of TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, California. ![]()
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