Alan Goldhamer
DC (chiropractor). Founder of TrueNorth Health Center, co-author of The Pleasure Trap.
Alan Goldhamer is an American chiropractor who founded TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, California. The center offers medically supervised water-only fasting and a whole plant food diet free of added salt, oil and sugar, and its foundation publishes research on fasting.
Best known for
Medically supervised water-only fasting, and The Pleasure Trap (2003), written with Doug Lisle.
Approach
Remove concentrated foods entirely: no added salt, oil or sugar, and no animal foods. For people who struggle on diet alone, his center offers supervised water-only fasts to reset taste.
Main talking points
- Salt, oil and sugar hijack the brain's reward system.
- Moderation does not work for people caught in the pleasure trap, he argues.
- Supervised fasting can help reset taste and break old habits.
- Fasting belongs under medical supervision, never done alone.
The Pleasure Trap
The Health Promoting CookbookSources
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