David Klein - Self Healing Colitis & Crohn’s

Over years of practice I have observed the pain and suffering of my colitis patients who are on conventional medical therapy. High dosages of immuno-suppressants, such as prednisone and like products, are commonly given, resulting in effects ranging from serious to life-threatening. This only suppresses the symptoms temporarily. Disease typically later manifests again, with even more severe and bothersome symptoms.

I was very impressed with Davids Natural Hygiene approach to healing ulcerative colitis and Crohns disease, outlined in his book Self Healing Colitis & Crohns. Healthy since 1984 after a severe 8-year bout with ulcerative colitis, he himself is living proof that his program works. I support his approach one hundred percent and believe it is the only way of healing colitis and almost all other health problems, and, therefore, I recommend it to every one of my clients. The results are always good because the diet is our natural biological diet, is nontoxic, nutritionally superior, satisfying, and since only the bodys own wisdom can heal itself, the Natural Hygiene approach makes perfect sense.

Zarin Azar, M.D., Gastroenterologist

Los Angeles, California <>

David has exhibited uncommon dedication to helping people become well over the twelve years I have known him. Like David, in my practice I see long-lasting results when a patient embraces a detoxification program and adopts a healthful lifestyle with a vegan diet. Davids recovery from severe ulcerative colitis, his studies in nutrition and physiology, and his consistent results have given him unique expertise in self-healing. In Self Healing Colitis & Crohns we have the blueprint for overcoming IBD.

Terri Su, M.D.

Santa Rosa, California

I know of no physician who is not reluctant to prescribe corticosteroids or advise surgery for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, and yet they are the mainstays of traditional therapy. In Self Healing Colitis & Crohns is a clear and detailed healing plan that eschews both and offers a program based on the authors personal experience and extensive research. It deserves our grateful attention.

Robert F. Lally Jr., M.D.

Friday Harbor, Washington

Ulcerative colitis is a debilitating disease that has long been regarded as untreatable. For many patients, the illness has therefore meant considerable suffering and the end of a normally functioning life. Thanks to David Klein, this need no longer be true. Self Healing Colitis & Crohns is an insightful and compassionate book by a leading nutritionist who suffered from this crippling disease, cured himself and has since gone on to become a pioneer in effective nutritional counseling. It is a must read for anyone who wants an active role in restoring himself or herself to health.

A. William Menzin, M.D., M.Sc., M.P.H.

Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School (retired)

Former Consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO)

Princeton, New Jersey

Dr. David Kleins Self Healing Colitis & Crohns demystifies the secrets of the innate natural health processes, by which the body possesses the power to heal itself. A Hygienic Doctor and former victim of ulcerative colitis, Dr. Klein is the leading modern-day pioneer and authority on the self-healing principles of colitis and Crohns disease. He is living proof that the body can cure itself and maintain its natural, pristine health when the causes of disease are removed and it is allowed to perform its magical healing-dance of life.

Paul Fanny, Ph.D., H.D.

President of the University of Natural Health

Hookset, New Hampshire

When it comes to self-healing, my dear friend Dave Klein has been there and done that, like very few have ever done. His depth of understanding of the issues involved in the causes and healing of bowel disease is only matched by his compassion for current sufferers. There is no reason for anyone else to write on this topic because Dave has already perfected the healing process. Like the law of gravity, his program works first time, every time. Put it to work for you and suffer no more.

Douglas N. Graham, D.C.

Author of The 80/10/10 Diet

Key Largo, Florida

Contents

Self Healing

Colitis & Crohns

4th Edition

by David Klein, Ph.D.

Hygienic Doctor

Director, Colitis & Crohns Health Recovery Center

Self Healing Colitis & Crohns

by David Klein, Ph.D.

1993, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011 David Klein, Ph.D.

Fourth Edition, August, 2011

All rights reserved.

Colitis & Crohns Health Recovery Center

Post Box 791241

Paia, Maui, HI 96779 USA

www.colitis-crohns.com

www.colitiscurebook.com

808-572-0861

Cover photo by David Klein, Ph.D.

Book design by Robert Marcus Graphics, Sebastopol, California

ISBN 978-0-9717526-6-5

Acknowledgements

Special thanks go to Dr. Edward Bauman and Dr. Griselda Blazey for helping me to craft my original report on this theme; to my dear mother Doris and friends Jenifer Ransom and Dr. Johanna Zee for their careful copy editing; and to Robert Marcus for his enlivening publishing design work.

Dedications

To Charlie Abel, Dr. Iraj Afshar, Dr. Zarin Azar, Don Bennett, Dr. Alec Burton, Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Donna Dixon-Mannios, Dr. Lyudmila Emilova, Dr. Paul Fanny, Dr. T. C. Fry, Dr. Laurence Galant, Dr. Roe Gallo, Dr. Alan Goldhamer, Dr. Douglas Graham, Professor Rozalind Graham, Sylvester Graham, Roger Haeske, John Henao, Frieda Ireland, Dr. Susan Smith Jones, John Kohler, Morris Krok, Dr. Robert F. Lally Jr., Nick Ledger, Shannon Leone, Dr. Mamiko Matsuda, Dr. A. William Menzin, Dr. Samuel Mielcarski, Dennis Nelson, Florence Nightingale, Karen Ranzi, Dr. Frank Sabatino, Bradley Saul, Dr. Gina Shaw, Dr. Herbert M. Shelton, Dr. Robert Sniadach, Dr. Terri Su, Grace Swanson, Dr. John Tilden, Dr. Timothy Trader, Sydney Vallentyne, Dr. Vivian V. Vetrano, Don Weaver and Dr. Johanna Zee, Ph.D. for holding up the light and showing the way.

To my parents, Doris and Edward, for their loving support.

To my greatest instinctual teachers: Whisky, Greystoke, Simba and Carmella.

To the magnificent self-healing power within us all.

Foreword

Colitis and Crohns disease (C&C) are inflammatory bowel illnesses characterized by distressful bowel function. Itis means inflammation. The bodys intelligence system creates inflammation just as it creates fevers. Inflammation is an escalated healing action in which harmful toxic matter is being broken down and neutralized for elimination at a feverish pace. Toxins in the body cause the body to enact inflammation for purification.

The body enacts disease processes, such as C&C, in response to systemic toxicosis, i.e., when the body is overloaded with toxins. A bowel with C&C is overloaded with toxic fecal matter which saturates the tissues and typically impairs elimination. C&C symptoms are housecleaning processes. The more acutely toxic the body and the more vital the bodys nerve energy, the more intense the self-cleansing/healing process. C&C symptoms will diminish as the body detoxifies, which requires that the ingestion of toxic, indigestible foodstuffs be discontinued and a health-promoting diet and lifestyle be adopted.

Medical researchers, doctors and nurses mistakenly believe that the bodys inflammation response is an autoimmune phenomenon. That is incorrect and illogical. The body only works to heal itself and never creates any physiological process that would harm itself. When the body is inflamed, the body is acting to break down, neutralize and eliminate toxins, not healthy tissue. And some researchers believe that bacteria cause ulcers. This is also incorrect. Bacteria consume wastes and assist in elimination. They are not capable of causing bodily actions. Ulcers are an open outlet for the elimination of toxins from the bloodstream. The body intelligently resorts to creating ulcers when the load of toxins in the bloodstream is too great for the body to neutralize and eliminate, via the immune system and inflammation alone. Both inflammation and ulceration are manifestations of detoxification and healing. They are the bodys way of curing itself; inflammation and ulceration are self-healing processes in action. In order to self-heal, one must understand and trust all self-healing processes.