The Dr. Bass Reading Room

Fasting, raw food, sequential eating, insulin research and Dr. Herbert Shelton's full Orthopathy encyclopedia, sorted by topic so you can find the right read in seconds.

Fasting, Detox and the Healing Crisis

Start here if you are curious about water or juice fasting. These pieces explain what happens inside the body when you stop eating, why you may feel worse before you feel better, and how long real recovery takes.

Fasting

Juice Fasting and Water Fasting Q&A

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Fasting

My First Water Fast

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Detox

Toxify or Detoxify

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Detox

What Symptoms to Expect When Your Diet Improves

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Recovery

The Time Factor in Recovery

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Recovery

How Diseases Are Cured

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Recovery

How Important Is Diagnosis?

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Healing

The Energy Principle in Healing

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Retreat

The Life Science Health Haven

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Food, Diet and the Search for the Ultimate Plate

Dr. Bass tested diets on himself, his patients and even laboratory mice. This shelf covers raw food, vegetarian plans, food combining, primitive diets and the age-old protein question.

Food Combining

Sequential Eating and Food Combining

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Raw Food

Living Well on an All-Raw Diet

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Research

In Search of the Ultimate Diet

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Vegetarian

Dr. Gian-Cursio's Vegetarian Food Plan

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Raw Food

The Raw Primitive Diet Interview

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History

Primitive Man, His Food and His Health

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Vegetarian

Three Generations of Vegetarian Hygienists

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Research

The Slonaker Vegan Rat Experiment

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Protein

How Much Protein Do You Need?

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Programs

Nutrition in 7 Weekly Programs

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Habits

Self Mastery Through Attentive Eating

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Philosophy

Food and Drink by Swami Narayanananda

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History

Stefansson: Adventures in Diet, Part 1

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History

Stefansson: Adventures in Diet, Part 2

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History

Pemmican and Indigenous Diets

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Nutrition

You Are What You Eat

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Raw Food

Finding Raw Milk Locally

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History

What Did Native Texans Eat?

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Pets

Raw or Cooked Pet Food?

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Research

The China Project

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Insulin, Sugar and the Low-Carb Research

Later in his career Dr. Bass paired Natural Hygiene with newer insulin research. These articles look at blood sugar, aging, and why some cancers seem to respond to lower sugar diets.

Insulin

Why Eat Less Carbohydrates

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Insulin

The High Carbohydrate Diet and Related Problems

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Insulin

Insulin and Its Role in Chronic Illness

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Aging

Insulin, Leptin and the Control of Aging

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Low Carb

Health Problems From High Carbohydrate Diets

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Research

Cancer and the Warburg Effect

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Common Diseases Seen Through a Drug-Free Lens

How would a Natural Hygiene doctor think about cancer, diabetes or heart disease? Each article walks through likely causes and the diet and rest based care Dr. Bass described.

Cancer

How Is Cancer Cured?

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Diabetes

How Is Diabetes Cured?

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Heart

How Is Heart Disease Cured?

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Lungs

How Is Tuberculosis Cured?

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Pregnancy

Birth Defects Can Be Avoided

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Immunity

What You Do When You Vaccinate

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Vision

Eye Problems and Eye Exercises

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Mind, Energy and a Longer Life

Health is not only food. These essays cover cravings, habits, clear thinking and the Italian nobleman who wrote about living past one hundred.

Energy

Energy, Feeling and Thought

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Habits

The Energy Causes of Addiction

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Habits

How to Overcome Temptation

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Mind

How to Solve Problems Objectively

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Principles

Introduction to the Laws of Life

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Principles

The Ten Health Commandments

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Spirit

One Truth Behind All Religion

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Mind

Practicing With Certainty

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Spirit

Vivekananda on Our True Nature

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Longevity

Luigi Cornaro: How to Live 100 Years

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Longevity

Cornaro's Temperate Life, Part 1

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Longevity

Cornaro's Temperate Life, Part 2

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Natural Hygiene Network, Interviews and Recordings

Meet the doctors, members and teachers who kept Natural Hygiene alive. You will find interviews, support groups, a radio broadcast and a set of videos from 2009.

Network

Natural Hygiene Network Home

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Basics

What Is Natural Hygiene?

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Basics

What Is Orthopathy?

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Interview

Dr. Cinque Remembers Dr. Shelton

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Stories

Member Recovery Stories

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Directory

Hygienic Physicians Directory

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Interview

Interview With Dr. John Fielder

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Groups

EFT Tapping Support Group

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Groups

Overeaters Support Group

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Audio

Radio Interview With Dr. Bass

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Video

Dr. Bass Videos From 2009

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Dr. Shelton's Orthopathy, Chapter by Chapter

Dr. Herbert Shelton supervised tens of thousands of fasts and wrote this encyclopedia of drug-free care. Each chapter covers one body system or one group of conditions.

Start Here

Orthopathy: Introduction

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Start Here

The Basics of Healing

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Chapter 7

Acute Infections

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Chapter 8

Constitutional Affections

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Chapter 10

The Respiratory System

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Chapter 11

The Heart and Circulation

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Chapter 12

The Blood

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Chapter 13

The Ductless Glands

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Chapter 14

The Urinary System

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Chapter 15

Male Reproductive Health

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Chapter 15b

Female Reproductive Health

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Chapter 16

Brain and Nervous System

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Chapter 18

Bones and Joints

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Chapter 19

The Eyes

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Chapter 20

The Ears

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Chapter 21

The Skin, Part 1

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Chapter 21b

The Skin, Part 2

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Chapter 22

Tumors

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Chapter 24

Parasites

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Chapter 25

Physical Agents and Intoxications

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Chapter 26

Care of Wounds

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Chapter 27

Poisonous Bites and Stings

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Chapter 28

Accidents and Emergencies

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