Arnold ehret biography books

The writings of Arnold Ehret (1866-1922) immortalized his ideas and have become intrinsic to Naturopathic practice right up into our own era. He introduced cleansing diets of fruits and vegetables, and correctly managed fasting, directly addressing the dangers of mucus forming foods. From his perspective over a century ago, refined foods were the culprit and “the fundamental cause and main factor in the nature of all diseases, symptoms of age, obesity, falling out of the hair, wrinkles, weakness of nerves and memory, etc.”¹

It seemed in the beginning that his destiny was to follow in his father’s footsteps and die of tuberculosis. By the time he was 31, he was overweight, had Bright’s disease [nephritis], and inclined with consumptive symptomology, so much so that he needed to take several breaks from his work to recuperate.² In his own words, Ehret described the ordeals of restoring his health: “Then for five years, I suffered much from many physicians (24 in total) and part of this suffering was to pay the bills of about $6000 [more than $170 000 in 2019], but with the result pronounced incurable.^”2Not seeing a way out of his predicament with debts, and with no hope for recovery, Ehret contemplated suicide. By chance, though, he overheard stories of Naturopathy a

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