TrueNorth Health

TrueNorth Health

1551 Pacific Avenue
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
(707) 586 - 5555
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TrueNorth Health Education and Fasting Center has operated its residential health education program in California since 1984. Our program educates participants on the benefits of healthy living and on the use of fasting as a tool to improve their diet and lifestyle. Like a compass, we help our participants chart the course toward optimum health. We call this direction TrueNorth.

TrueNorth Health Education Center is affiliated with doctors who have been certified by the International Association of Hygienic Physicians in fasting supervision. They have extensive experience in the supervision of both short and extended fasting. These doctors maintain offices adjacent to the Center and are available during office hours to discuss the fasting program and monitor your progress and health concerns. Please call us at (707) 586-5555 with your questions.

Our goal is to create a peaceful environment in which our participants can learn to make positive changes to their diet and lifestyles.

We recognize that no two people are exactly alike. The doctors can help you tailor our program to meet your specific needs. Since 1984, more than 7,000 people have undergone fasting and successfully completed our residential health education program.

FASTING — BACK TO THE FUTURE

The Rediscovery of Water-Only Fasting
by Alan Goldhamer, D.C.

Although the notion of electing to go without food for prolonged periods of time to improve one's health has not been something commonly considered in recent times, fasting has a long and important history. In fact, fasting played a vital part in early human survival. Fortunately, this ancient knowledge is making a dramatic comeback and is beginning to transform the way modern healthcare providers view their responsibilities to patients.

Human beings have the capability to survive extended periods of fasting. This was certainly known in our hunter-gatherer days, since many humans were forced to live through periods when little or no food was available to them. However, since the advent of agriculture and increasing technological advancement, modern humans have largely lost their awareness of this powerful, innate capability.

For example, the 1937 edition of The New Standard Encyclopedia stated that for humans, “Generally death occurs after eight days of deprivation of food.” By 1956, this grim pronouncement inched somewhat closer to reality. That year’s edition of the American Peoples Encyclopedia stated that survival time in men during water-only fasting ranged from 17 to 76 days.

Other articles of interest:

New: An interview with Alan Goldhamer, D.C.by Mark Huberman(PDF format takes a few seconds to load)

Medically Supervised Water-Only Fasting in the Treatment of Hypertension by Alan Goldhamer, D.C.

Medically Supervised Water-Only Fasting in the Treatment of Borderline Hypertension by Alan Goldhamer, D.C.

Fasting in the treatment of Diabetes and High Blood Pressure by Alan Goldhamer, D.C.

Benefits of Fasting by Alan Goldhamer, D.C.

Therapeutic Fasting by Alan Goldhamer, D.C.

Fasting...the lost adaptation by Douglas Lisle, Ph.D., and Alan Goldhamer, D.C.

A Fasting Article Not to Miss
Do You Need to Fast? by Alan Goldhamer, D.C.