Jan de Vries

Jan de Vries

A Life in Healing

Summary

Jan de Vries: A Life in Healing is the complete life story of the world-renowned health guru. It recounts his journey from childhood in wartime Holland through an amazing 50-year career, during which he has earned a global reputation as a leader in the field of alternative medicine.

De Vries has encountered many obstacles in his fight to achieve recognition for the benefits of alternative medicine and he was once even threatened with imprisonment. Throughout these struggles he has remained true to his principles and his success can be measured by the large number of conventional doctors who have come to support his work.

In this extraordinary autobiography, de Vries also looks back over his long and fruitful working relationship with Alfred Vogel, the famous Swiss naturopath. De Vries was the only person to whom Vogel taught his unique healing methods and he shares many of the secrets and methods he learned from this remarkable man.

Jan de Vries has helped hundreds of thousands of patients during his long career and in this absorbing account he includes invaluable advice for daily living and achieving good physical, mental and spiritual health.

Reviews

  • An inspiring biography . . . infused with his characteristic humour and common sense
    Yoga

About the author

Jan de Vries

Jan de Vries has written extensively on alternative health issues and is the author of the bestselling alternative medicine series By Appointment Only, Well Woman, Nature's Gift and Jan de Vries Healthcare. He has also published the first two volumes of his memoirs, A Step at a Time and Fifty Years Fighting.
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