Hey everybody, it's Chris, and today I'm interviewing the legendary Dr. Allen Goldhammer.

Dr. Goldhammer founded True North Health Center back in 1984, and he is one of the world's

foremost experts on water fasting. For those of you have followed me for a while, I've done several

interviews with other water fasting experts and doctors.

And Dr. Goldhammer is such a brilliant man and he's been doing this a long time. I think

he's overseen about 20,000 individual patients through a water fast or a medically supervised

water fast at his clinic. And so this is going to be fun.

You're going to learn a lot and I can't wait.

So Dr. Goldhammer, thank you for taking the time to talk.

It's my pleasure.

I'm happy to be here.

So I would love to know right off the bat, how did you discover water fasting

and what convinced you that it was something that would produce

remarkable results in a person's health?

Yeah, I wasn't looking for information on water fasting originally. I was just interested in figuring out how health worked. I was actually motivated to become a better basketball player when I was a kid. I wanted to beat Dr. Lyle in basketball. He's our clinical psychologist now. And I grew up with him and he just beat me mercilessly. And so I started reading and I

read a book by Herbert Shelton. And he said something that I thought was very interesting. He said

that health was the result of healthful living and that healthful living involved diet, sleep and

exercise. And he talked about this use of fasting to undo the consequences of dietary excess, you know,

when things hadn't been followed properly.

And it made a lot of sense since most of the people that were sick were sick from conditions

of dietary excess.

So obesity, diabetes, autoimmune diseases, many forms of cancer are intimately associated

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