| Your longest water fast (in days): |
10 |
| Your longest juice fast (in days): |
30 |
| You longest period of undereating (in days): |
380 |
| Main Reason for Fasting?: |
Self Mastery;Creativity Enhancer;Health Improvement;Overcome an Illness |
| Are you a health care professional?: |
yes |
| What sort of health care do you offer?: |
Supervised fasting |
| Are you a fasting co-ordinator/coach?: |
yes |
| Do you teach or organize fasting related workshops: |
yes |
| Have you had any special healing by fasting?: |
Numerous of my patients labelled |
| Would you like to share something about you?: |
I am a registered medical practitioner active in orthodox medicine as well as in Holistic health promotion since 1979. After completing school, I studied the basic sciences (Physics and Chemistry)
Having done compulsory military service as a personnel officer, I went farming. There, an almost fatal accident changed the course of my life, triggering an interest in Medicine. At about the same time, the family estate near Pretoria was converted into a Health Hydro. Thus I became intimately involved with two traditional adversaries, Orthodox (Allopathic) and “Alternative” or “complementary” medicine.
Throughout Medical School, a philosophy of synthesis between these two developed. Shortly after commencing practice at the Hydro, I felt the need to investigate in a scientific manner, the mechanisms underlying the obvious efficacy of Nature cure.
To this end, I equipped a fully fledged Pathology laboratory on the premises, monitoring closely the effects of various hitherto uninvestigated cures. He also designed and wrote a unique computer programme capably of dynamic analysis of dients for more than 30 important nutrients, based on the individual's unique requirements.
Results from these sources are integrated with clinical observations into a data base which, after several years of intensive research, contained hundreds of bits of data on each of several thousand patients. The interaction of diet, exercise, clinical and biochemical criteria and numerous other facets of holistic health remains the subject of continuous research.
Of all "interventions" experienced and investigated so far, I have found fasting the most effective and powerful. Not always used on its own, it should be the backbone of a holistic approach using aspects from various modalities, professionally selected and customized to be appropriate for the individual. I always see fasting and other natural cures as "complementary" rather than "alternative" to scientific medicine, reducing the need for and side effects of allopathic intervention while enhancing its efficiency where still necessary.
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| Have you written any books or articles on fasting: |
Yes |
| Would you like to mention which ones?: |
Health Won |
| Have you visited a fasting retreat?: |
Yes |
| Would you like to mention which centre you stayed: |
Hoogland Health Hydro
(For 30 years!) |
| What type of fasting/diet interests you most?: |
water fasting;under eating |
