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

Alan Goldhamer, DC: Water Fasting—The Clinical Effectiveness of Rebooting Your Body

This interview originally appeared in Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal (IMCJ), June-July 2014, vol 13, no 3 Interview by Craig Gustafson Alan Goldhamer, DC, is the founder and education director of TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, California. Under his guidance, the center has supervised fasts for thousands of patients and… read more

A way to reverse CAD (coronary artery disease)

Though current medical and surgical treatments manage coronary artery disease, they do little to prevent or stop it. Nutritional intervention, as shown in our study and others, has halted and even reversed CAD. Authors: Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr, MD; Gina Gendy, MD; Jonathan Doyle, MCS; Mladen Golubic, MD, PhD; Michael F. Roizen, MD; The Wellness… read more

GQ Article: How the Terrible, Insufferable Six-Day Water Fast Made Me a New Man

The below article was featured in the November 2013 issue of GQ Magazine.   What if there were a cure-all treatment for high blood pressure, migraines, chronic pain, arthritis, and, of yeah, fatness? The catch: You'll be really, really hungry. Ben Marcus spends a long and profoundly satisfying week on a strict diet of absolutely nothing… read more

A Case of Nonpharmacologic Conservative Management of Suspected Uncomplicated Subacute Appendicitis in an Adult Male

Reprinted from: The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Volume 17, Number 3, 2011, pp. 1–3 Abstract Background: Appendicitis is an acute condition of the abdomen that is treated with surgical intervention. Conservative treatment of appendicitis currently involves intravenous antibiotics. While conservative care is a useful tool in… read more

Resolving Corruption

Resolving Corruption: How to “Reboot” Your Brain so that Healthy Eating is Preferred By Alan Goldhamer, D.C. and Jennifer Marano, D.C. Reprinted from Health Science magazine, Spring 2012 Adopting a health-promoting diet in the modern world is among the most difficult challenges facing humans living in industrialized societies. … read more

What to Eat!

By Alan Goldhamer, D.C. and Jennifer Marano, D.C. Reprinted from Health Science magazine, Fall 2012   When readers of Health Science are asked, “What should I eat,” the first thing that probably springs to mind is to recommend a vegan, meaning plant-based, diet. But just recommending a vegan diet is not enough. The average… read more

Please Help Us Learn About Fasting and Vegan Diet

Bastyr University & TrueNorth Health   “Fasting and Alternatives to Standard Therapeutics (FAST): Determining the Molecular and Physiological Mechanisms Responsible for Adult Hypertension and Obesity”   Please Help Us Learn About Fasting and Vegan Diet   Is medically supervised water-only fasting an effective treatment for High… read more

President Bill Clinton's Dietary Transformation

This past Sunday, Sanjay Gupta of CNN interviewed former President Bill Clinton about his switch to a vegan diet. Read more about Mr. Clinton's transformation here.

Success on a Plant-Based SOS-free Diet

Dr. Alan Goldhamer talks about the basics of health in this interview with the cool vegetarian.

Treating Patients by Doing Nothing

Water-only Fasting: Treating Patients by Doing Nothing - Interview with Dr. Alan Goldhamer from Aron Choi on Vimeo.