Dr. David Klein, Director of the Colitis & Crohn's Health Recovery Center
Author of Self Healing Colitis & Crohn's and The Art of Rejuvenation
Executive Editor of Vibrance Magazine
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Dr. Dave is a 24-year rawfooder and walking example of the miracle of rawfood healing, 2 decades after he was given a death sentence after a long, ruinous medically incurable disease. A most passionate educator who takes every opportunity to teach the world about the true path to health, he will discuss the remarkable simplicity and efficacy of healing all diseases and radically improving one's health via a diet of fresh, un-cooked fruits and vegetables, the totally natural way with no therapies, remedies, supplements or other disempowering hocus pocus. Dr. Dave has led over 1,000 clients with debilitating illness to new health with over 99% efficiency via a simple self-healing program including appropriate fresh raw foods. You will realize the magnificent health restorative power within you!

David Klein, Ph.D. is a Hygienic Doctor and a certified Nutrition Educator. David's approach is wholistic and is based upon the Natural Hygiene, the world's most successful health program over the last 200 years. Since 1992, David has counseled over 2,000 clients back to health via the principles of Natural Hygiene and he has occasionally taught nutrition classes and given health and nutrition lectures. David directs Colitis & Crohn's Health Recovery Center and was awarded "HONORABLE MENTION - BEST NUTRITIONIST" in Share Guide's 2002 Readers Poll. David'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.

David is also Publisher / Editor of Vibrance Magazine, the world's most-read raw food lifestyle magazine. David co-founded Healthful Living International, the world's premier Natural Hygiene organization, David is also a Professor with the new University of Natural Health. David’s book, Your Natural Diet: Alive Raw Foods, is the text for the course “Humans’ Natural Biological Diet.” David 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) and his book Self Healing Colitis & Crohn's is used as the teaching model for a course taught at the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition. David has thrived on a 100% vegan raw food diet for most of the last 22 years. Originally from New Jersey, he also holds a B.S. in civil engineering and worked 8 years in corporate environmental engineering before starting his health education businesses. He also hosts the weekly Web radio show “Raw Health Talk” on http://www.bodywondersradio.com. Leading people to health independence is David's passion.

Self-published Works by Dave Klein:

    •  Living Nutrition & Vibrance Magazines
    • Your Natural Diet: Alive Raw Foods by T. C. Fry & David Klein, Ph.D.
    • Self Healing Power! by T. C. Fry, Dr. Herbert Shelton and David Klein, Ph.D.
    • Self Healing Colitis & Crohn's
    • The Fruits Of Healing - A story About a Natural Healing of Ulcerative Colitis
    • The Art of Rejuvenation
    • Raw ‘n Delish Vibrant Recipes

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 age 26, 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 knew what they were doing.

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 raw fruit-based diet. At first I thought the idea of eating mostly fruit 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 madness - 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.

Over the next few days I started thinking like never before about how to overcome my illness. I realized that I had to figure out what the MD's could not, and my thinking lead me to consider more closely the information on self-healing and switching to a raw food diet. The information seemed so incredible, but I saw that it was really working for Laurence, and I read many amazing healing testimonials.

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; the picture of my new health was revealed via the fruitarian pathway to self-mastery. I understood that humans are biologically fruit eaters, and that fruit was the best food for my sick colon and entire body. 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 forever 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 fruit based diet - 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 46, I enjoy excellent health and usually feel strong and energetic.

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 my 100% raw food fruitarian lifestyle hard? 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, and I am glad to assist you!