Disease Proof

This website serves as a forum to promote discussion on health information to help people understand how to take control of their health through nutritional excellence. Nutritional excellence is not only preventative, but as a therapeutic intervention is most often more effective than drugs and surgery at restoring health from chronic diseases.

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Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
Joel Fuhrman, M.D. is a board certified family physician who devotes his career to applying the comprehensive body of scientific literature that establishes that disease has known nutritional and environmental causes. His methods and practice is devoted to removal of cause and establishing the optimal nutritional environment for healing, thus allowing our body's self-reparative and self-protective functions to be maximized. He advocates a diet-style with a high nutrient-per-calorie ratio and typically recommends the judicious use of nutritional supplements to assure nutritional adequacy.

Dr. Fuhrman does not encourage the terms alternative, complementary or holistic as he sees managing lifestyle to maximize health, pleasure and longevity as the foundation of good medicine; it is the way healthcare should be delivered. Medicines and surgery are the second choice.

Dr. Fuhrman does see patients in his private practice in Flemington, New Jersey a few days a week and also offers phone consultations enabling people to seek his guidance from across the country.

Joel Fuhrman, M.D. has discussed the benefits of good nutrition on Good Morning America, The Today Show, the Food Network, CNN and the Discovery Channel. He regularly addresses conferences, college campuses, newspapers, magazines, and radio talk shows across the nation.

Dr. Fuhrman is the author of the critically acclaimed top selling books Disease-Proof Your Child (St. Martin's Press 2005) and Eat to Live (Little, Brown 2003). Dr. Fuhrman's other books include Fasting and Eating for Health (St. Martin's Press 1995) and Cholesterol Protection for Life. Dr. Fuhrman's work has been published in medical journals such as the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Orthopaedics and Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, as well as in consumer publications such as Mothering Magazine and Health Science.

He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and has received the St. Joseph's Family Practice Resident's Teaching Award for his contribution to the education of residents. In addition, Dr. Fuhrman provides nutritional education to other physicians, and is a guest lecturer at Cornell University Graduate Program in Human Nutrition.

Joel Fuhrman is a former world class figure skater and was a member of the United States International and World Figure Skating Team. In 1973, he won second place in the United States National Pairs Championships. In the World Professional Pairs Skating Championships in Jaca, Spain in 1976, he placed third.

Dr. Fuhrman is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Health Association; Advisory Panel, The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine; Diplomat, American Academy of Family Physicians; Sports Medicine Committee, Professional Skaters Guild of America; and PwC Health and Performance Advisory Panel, PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Dr. Fuhrman lives in Flemington, New Jersey with his wife, Lisa, daughters, Talia, Jenna and Cara and son, Sean.