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I am Robert Sniadach, D.C., Natural Hygiene doctor, Healthful Living Consultant.

If you are searching for solutions to health problems, weight problems or perhaps even mental problems - and are hesitant about taking drugs or having surgery -- here is a good place to start your research.

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I had ear and throat and sinus infections on a regular basis My refrigerator door shelves were just filled with bottles and cans of potions and pills of all kinds. Diet was improving a little bit but I had no real method to my madness. More madness than method. It turns out that dairy products were my real nemesis, though I didn't know it at the time. And lo and behold, the sinusitis started to clear up and basically cleared up for good. So I was totally sold. I spent six months interning for Dr. Esser, jointly supervising about 120 fasts, a good dozen or so over 25 days. We dealt with all kinds of cases: long-standing chronic fatigue syndromes, severe respiratory problems, colitis ... It was very gratifying to see how well people responded.

Do you have a health problem? I once had. Dr. Keki Sidhwa, Dr. Peter Coumentakis and me at the British Natural Hygiene Convention 1998. INTERVIEW: This interview was originally made by Chet Day for Health and Beyond. Dr. Sniadach, please take a moment or two and tell us about yourself. When and where you were born, your education, your family, your hobbies, and so on.         I was born March 3, 1957, in Baltimore, MD, and lived there my first twenty years. I went to Catholic elementary and junior high schools and then attended a regular public senior high school. I also did a couple of years of community college education around the Baltimore area. I had a wonderful standard American upbringing. Kind of low to middle income suburbs, a great childhood. Lots of time spent on baseball, football and track teams beginning as far back as when I started to walk. I was very athletically-oriented. As kids we played outside regularly and had fun with football and baseball, kickball, kick the can and all those great games. All in all, it was a great childhood.         I grew up mostly with my mom. My dad died when I was nine of a heart attack. He was 39 years old, so in retrospect that had something to do with the health search that I eventually got on, which I'll go into later.         Hobbies? I've been a musician for a lot of years. Been playing lead and rhythm guitar in a bunch of rock and roll bands through the years. Did it professionally for a couple of years. And I've also been playing some keyboard and synthesizer lately and doing a lot of composing on my synthesizer I have here at home. So that's a lot of fun and I enjoy it. I like racquetball a lot. Swimming and snorkeling in the ocean down in Florida, where I grew up. Also reading and studying all kinds of things about health. Lately I've been reading a lot about consciousness and spiritual issues; I've a real interest in these areas of my life. Why did you get on a health search?         Let me start by giving you the nickel tour of my personal health journey.         As a kid, growing up, I had sinus problems like crazy, chronic sinusitis. My constantly inflamed tonsils were removed, I had ear and throat and sinus infections on a regular basis, along with all the problems that accompany sinusitis. It turns out that dairy products were my real nemesis, though I didn't know it at the time. I had gotten sick and tired of the various drugs that were being shoved down my throat as a kid and even as a teenager, so I guess early on I started on my own personal health quest – as many of us do who find out about Hygiene. Once I got fed up with the medical boys and their approach, I started looking into other things – naturopathic, homeopathic, megavitamins, supplements, some oriental things, also macrobiotics a little bit.         I was one of those people whose refrigerator door shelves were just filled with bottles and cans of potions and pills of all kinds. I thought I was really on top of life extension technologies and life improvement through megavitamins and supplements. I spent several years searching, getting some benefit, but then kind of coming back, and then some benefit again, and then falling back. Diet was improving a little bit but I had no real method to my madness. More madness than method.         Finally somewhere along the way I stumbled onto a Hygiene booklet by T.C. Fry. I forget the name, but it was a small paperback with two pictures of him on the back posing like bodybuilders do. I thought that was kind of comical when I first saw it, but the book intrigued me and I checked it out. I remember reading it, thinking, "Well, this makes sense, that makes sense." I kept reading, saying, "Yeah, well, that's true, and yeah, that's obvious."         By the time I finished the book I realized, "Well, there it is. There's nothing but pure common sense here." A few moments later I realized that was the real pearl within: this whole business of Natural Hygiene just makes perfect, simple sense! So I dove into the book again, reread it, and really got into it. That was my introduction to Hygiene.         As I started applying some of these principles, lo and behold, the sinusitis started to clear up and basically cleared up for good. So I was totally sold. Everything else also improved. Energy improved, thinking improved, fitness improved, and some extra pounds fell off. All that good stuff. I suspect that my story is similar to many others in some respects. Why did you choose to work with Dr. Esser?         Somewhere along the way there I found out about Dr. Esser. He was working at his hygienic health ranch which happened to be about five miles up the road from me here in Boynton Beach. I decided to go up and hear one of his lectures. I was real intrigued. He looked in fine shape for his age, talking clearly, and thinking clearly, looking good, trim and fit and all. I enjoyed what I was hearing and attended his lectures for a few Sundays. By that time I was deeply involved in Hygiene, studying everything I could get my hands on. I cornered him one day after his lecture and asked him, "Dr. Esser, I'd really like to do this Hygiene business for real, you know, as a career. What's it going to take? Is there a college? What's the story?"         I knew about T.C. Fry's course, but I wondered about any serious college. He said, "Well, there is none. You're going to have to go to either chiropractic or naturopathic or osteopathic or allopathic (medical) school and go learn physiology and pathology and the whole business. You'll have to get one of those degrees. When you do, come back and we'll teach you some Hygiene for another six months or so."         So I said, "How does that work, the internship period after school?"         He said, "There are several places around the country and around the world where you can go and intern, and that's one of the options." He kind of paused for a moment and then added, "If you decide to do it, when you're done give me a call."         And he left it at that. So, with that bit of incentive, I started looking through details of what it would take to get through either medical school or osteopathic school or naturopathic school or chiropractic school. Actually, my decision came down to the fact that the chiropractic and naturopathic philosophies were both closest to Natural Hygiene's philosophy. Since the osteopaths had basically taken up the flag of the pharmaceutical companies and had decided to get into pushing drugs and had essentially canned their own philosophy, the medics and osteopaths were out. The naturopaths seemed closest to Natural Hygiene, but yet on a practical note, they were only licensed in seven or eight of the fifty states. Mind you, all of these guys are continually barking up the therapeutic tree, but at least the D.C.'s and the N.D.'s were giving the body much more credit for its own healing capacity.         Since I wanted mobility, the option of getting a license anywhere in the country, I chose chiropractic. I went to Parker Chiropractic College in Dallas from May of 1989 through August, 1993, when I graduated. Then I returned to South Florida and started interning with Dr. Esser on October 10, 1993, when the Ranch opened for the 93-94 season. Tell us about your internship at Dr. Esser's Ranch in Florida.         I spent six months interning for Dr. Esser, jointly supervising about 120 fasts, a good dozen or so over 25 days, several over 30 days, and various lengths of fasts less than that. I took part in a lot of the physical exams as well as, of course, the daily monitoring of vital signs and emotional status and all the elements that one considers while people are fasting. Then we carried on with breaking fasts and bringing people up to speed with eating as they got their energy back and getting them on a good exercise program with sunbathing and plenty of sleep and rest and all those things. I also gave weekly lectures at the Ranch.         That was pretty much the situation with the internship with Dr. Esser–just the daily details of tending to guests and their needs and watching carefully how they progressed. I learned that most of the time it really boils down to helping people maintain a good state of mind, keeping people in good spirits (as good as possible), and educating and always suggesting reading and listening to audio tapes and videotapes about Hygiene and living well. There was a definite daily routine that we would follow.         We had people who were regulars who would come year in, year out, for the last 20 or 30 years. We had other people come in the door without a clue as to even what Natural Hygiene was. We dealt with all kinds of cases: long-standing chronic fatigue syndromes, severe respiratory problems, colitis, all kinds of things, so it was very gratifying to see how well people responded to fasting and to the Hygienic program. I came to understand that it is extremely important to not only have a regular routine, but to cultivate pleasant and serene surroundings so that every guest can focus on healing at all levels without distraction. So that's a little bit regarding my interning with Dr. Esser. NEXT PAGE

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SCHOOL OF NATURAL HYGIENE Dr. Sniadach is editor-in-chief for the new NATURAL HYGIENE COURSE, an updated, expanded edition of the original course by T.C. Fry. Click here for more info or contact Dr. Sniadach rwsniadach@transformationinst.com.

INDEX

INTERVIEW [Baltimore] [Health search] [Why become a Natural Hygiene doctor] [Meeting Dr. Esser] [What is a Natural Hygiene internship] [Internship with Dr. Esser in Florida] Part 2 [Dr. Esser's views] [Shangri-la] [ANHS and Hygienic purity] [ANHS and member needs] [Nerve energy and sleep] [Nerve energy and sex] [Sex and body fluids] [Methods to build self-discipline] Part 3 [Hygienic retreats and emotional support] [Fruit or vegetables] [Cheating and eating] [B12 deficiencies] [Dr. Esser's diet] [Eggs and cheese] [Food cravings] Recommended exercises] [Jogging or walking] [Sunshine or sunscreen] [Soaps and schampoos] [Dental hygiene] [Can fruit sugars damage the enamel] [Is chicken pox contagious] Part 4 [AIDS and Chronic Fatigue Syndrom] [Immune system problems and fasting] [Spiritual visions while fasting] [Fasting and exercise] [Are short fasts enervating?] [Norman Walker and juices for healing] [Water fasting versus juice diets] [Enemas while fasting?] [How can the overstressed American slow down?] [Top ten book recommendations] [Alternative health confusion] [Keki Sidhwas detoxification routine] [Barley green supplements] [What supplements are best] [Usefulness of chiropractic, acupuncture and other therapies; muscle tension] [Hygiene, Christianity and wholistic thinking] TRUE HEALTH FREEDOM [Shelton and the Principles of Natural Hygiene] [Hanna and Somatics body awareness] Part 2 [What is the science of Natural Hygiene?] [Natural Laws of Life] [Disastrous results of therapeutic intervention] [Is sickness inevitable? - No!] [Natural Hygiene Philosophy] [Basics - what are the ideal conditions for human life?] [Nutrition in a nutshell] [The perfect food for humans] [Elimination] [Drugs are toxic] [Is there a place for therapies?] [Pain is a warning alarm] [The remedy mentality] Part 3 [Fasting - basic facts] [Appropriate intervention] [When is medical or surgical care necessary?] [Living wisdom] [Internal somatic awareness] [The Alexander method] [Somatics] [Somatics philosophy and theory] [Putting it all together] [Turning helpless frightened patients into happy non-patients]

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