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You may read our selection of articles written by TrueNorth Health staff below. 

Water Diet Experience

Vesanto Melina, co-author of Becoming Vegan and Becoming Raw, recently visited TrueNorth Health Center.  She wrote about her experience for the Canadian magazine, Common Ground.  You can read about her experience here. Time and time again, we see patients at TrueNorth recover from grave illnesses or brush up on healthy lifestyle habits. If you're… read more

16 Year Headache Gone After Water Fast

Kevin Gianni of the Renegade Health Show recorded this interview during his stay at TrueNorth Health Center.

The Cover Story

This month's cover story in Dynamic Chiropractic on "Chiropractors Managing Chronic Hypertension" featured TrueNorth Health Center. Dr. Alex Vasquez writes, "Most chiropractors are probably unaware that the most effective nutritional treatment for chronic hypertension has been researched and documented by Dr. Alan Goldhamer."  He goes on to… read more

Fast Track to Health

Reprinted with permission from Dr. Julian Whitaker's Health & Healing newsletter copyright Healthy Directions, LLC. To subscribe, visit www.drwhitaker.com. For the last 35 years, I've advocated a low-fat, high-fiber diet; exercise; and targeted nutritional supplements as the foundation of optimal health. For most of those years, I followed my… read more

Headaches: Evaluation and Treatment

This article originally appeared in the Spring 2010 issue of Health Science magazine. The occasional headache is a common problem experienced by many people in the United States. According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), as many as 45 million Americans have chronic severe headaches that result in more than 8… read more

Dr. Goldhamer Talks About Fasting on the Renegade Health Show

Listen to Dr. Goldhamer talk to Kevin Gianni of the Renegade Health Show. The doctor talks about medical water fasting.   The difference between juice fasting and water fasting. Finally, Dr. Goldhamer discusses the challenges of a raw food diet.

Easily Share Our Fasting Research with Scribd

I just posted all of our articles available in pdf format to scribd, where you can easily download, share, and print our information on fasting and health. First, go to one of our pdf articles: Medically Supervised Water-only Fasting in the Treatment of Hypertension Medically Supervised Water-Only Fasting in the Treatment of Borderline… read more

Health Quote of the Week: Definition of Fasting

Fast is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word, faest, which means "firm" or "fixed." The practice of going without food at certain times was called fasting, from the Anglo-Saxon, faesten, to hold oneself from food. Like most English words, the word fasting has more than one meaning. Thus, the dictionary defines fasting as "abstinence from food,… read more

Fasting in the Treatment of Diabetes and High Blood Pressure

Summary: High blood pressure (HBP) is the most common contributing cause of death and disability in populations of industrialized countries. The majority of patients that suffer morbidity and mortality as a consequence of hypertension have blood pressure (BP) in the high-normal range, with systolic BP between 120 mm Hg. and 140 mm Hg. No… read more