Herbert M. Shelton – Feel N Cure

Herbert McGolfin Shelton was born on October 6, 1895 Wylie, Texas, United states.
Death: January 1, 1985
He was an American Naturopath, alternative medicine advocate, author, pacifist, vegan, and a supporter of rawism and fasting.
Shelton developed a fascination for animals when he was young, particularly their differences in behavior between healthy and ill animals.
When the farm animals fell ill, he was particularly impressed by their fasting behaviors.

Shelton studied physical therapy at Bernarr Macfadden college and completed an internship at Elmhurst Illinois Crane sanitorium.
Along with working at the Lindhahr and Sahler sanitoriums, he also completed his graduate studies at Lindlahr college of Natural Therapeutics.
He studied at the American School of Chiropractic, and graduated from the American School of Naturopathy with a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine.

Herbert M. Shelton has authored more than 40 books related to health and hygiene.

His popular books were:

Fasting for renewal of life.
The science and fine arts of fasting.
Fasting can save your life.
The hygienic system.
In 1922, Shelton self-published his first book, Fundamentals of Nature Cure.
Seeing the importance in the Hygienic Movement (influenced by Isaac Jennings and Sylvester Graham), he changed the title of this first book to An Introduction to Natural Hygiene.
From 1934–1941, Shelton authored a seven-volume work, The Hygienic System.

In 1939, Shelton published The Hygienic Review magazine which ran for four decades.
In 1948, he founded the American Natural Hygiene Society which was renamed the National Health Association in 1998
He was a well known fasting supervisor who had overseen more than 40000 fasts in his career.
He was a committed physician with a clear vision.
He defines fasting in his book as the entire voluntary abstinence from taking any type of food or drink for a specific amount of time.
He went into great length on the guidelines, benefits and contraindications of fasting in his book.
He believed that the body uses fasting as a means of self-renewal
In his book- “fasting for renewal of life,” he has said that “healing is a biological process. Just like respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation, or nerve activity, healing is a function of living creature. It is an ongoing process that is a steady as the rotation of the globe. Man cannot mimic, reproduce or replace the process in any way.”
There are no legitimate schools of healing. He has a firm belief that nature is a complete healer.
He emphasized in realigning to laws of nature.
He was the supporter of raw diet and vegetarianism.

Death

By 1972, at the age of 77, Shelton became bedridden from a degenerative neuro-muscular disease believed to be Parkinson’s disease. He died thirteen years later, unable to improve his own health despite many attempts. His peers were shocked to see him unable to walk, speak normally, or write.
Towards the end of his life, Shelton continued his involvement in Dr. Shelton’s Health School. In the time that the school was in operation, over 40,000 people were treated for various ailments, with most recovering with the help of water fasting. The school operated for 53 years, closing in 1981.
In 1989, four years after his death, a biography of Shelton called Yours for Health: The Life and Times of Herbert M. Shelton, was published by Jean A. Oswald.