 GABRIEL COUSENS M.D., M.D.(H), D.D.
Gabriel Cousens M.D., M.D.(H), D.D. (Doctor of Divinity), Diplomate of American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine, Diplomate Ayurveda is considered the leading live-food medical doctors and spiritual nutrition experts in the world, and, is recognized as "the fasting guru and detoxification expert" by the New York Times. He is also a psychiatrist, family therapist, Ayurvedic practitioner, homeopath, acupuncturist, medical researcher, ecological leader, and bestselling author of books such as Spiritual Nutrition, Conscious Eating, Rainbow Green Live Food Cuisine, and There Is a Cure for Diabetes.
A cum laude graduate of Amherst College, where he was captain of an undefeated football team, Dr. Cousens was selected as an All New England lineman and one of eleven National Scholar Athletes inducted into the National Football Hall of Fame. He received his M.D. degree from Columbia Medical School in 1969 and completed his psychiatry residency in 1973. Dr. Cousens was the Chief Mental Health Consultant for the Sonoma County Operation Head Start and a consultant for the California State Department of Mental Health. He is listed in the Who’s Who in California, Who’s Who among Top Executives, Strathmore’s Who’s Who, and National Register’s Who’s Who and is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the American Holistic Medical Association (AHMA).
A Senior Essene teacher, Reiki Master, and meditation teacher since 1973, Dr. Cousens has presented seminars on many topics including health and nutrition, psycho-spiritual healing, meditation, and spiritual awareness throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Dr. Cousens' spiritual background involves extensive study and personal experience with the kabbalistic, Essene, Judaic, yogic, and Native American aspects of self-liberation, which have given him a unique, authentic, ecumenical, unified worldview. His many designations attest to a dynamic, eclectic, comprehensive body of practical knowledge that composes his teachings on Whole Person Enlightenment and Holistic Veganism.
Gabriel Cousens, MD has developed the first live-food, vegan Masters program in the world in conjunction with University of Integrated Science California. He is the director and founder of the Tree of Life Foundation and the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, called by Harper’s Magazine, “One of the world’s best 10 yoga and detoxification retreats”. Dr. Cousens has taught about live-foods, spirituality, and diabetes prevention in United States, Israel, Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico, Ecuador, North Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Bali, and almost every country in Europe. He is a co-founder of a West African NGO called the West African Rural Health Empowerment Society, and has established health and diabetes prevention programs in Nigeria, Ghana, Mexico, and with farm workers in the U.S. His work in Africa has earned him adoption into the Baika tribe of the Buem traditional area of Ghana, and he has spoken at the University of Ghana’s medical school in Ho.
Gabriel Cousens, M.D. is listed in the "Who’s Who in California", the "Who’s Who Among Top Executives", the "Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals", and "Strathmore’s Who’s Who”. He appears frequently on radio, television, and magazine publications worldwide. Gabriel Cousens is married to Shanti Golds Cousens and has two children and three grandchildren.
As a world peace-worker, holistic physician, and highly trained spiritual facilitator, Dr. Cousens weaves his comprehensive, unique background into his holistic healing and writing approach, supporting and inspiring people into the sacred joy of being free and fully alive.
Medical Bio:
Gabriel Cousens received his MD from Columbia Medical School. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine, a Diplomate in Ayurveda, and has also earned a Homeopathic MD. He has over 35 years experience in healing diabetes naturally.
Recognized worldwide as the leading medical authority on live-food nutrition and as a spiritual teacher, he is a holistic physician, psychiatrist, family therapist, international lecturer, medical researcher, green-juice spiritual fasting and detoxification expert, acupuncturist, and the author of the books: There Is A Cure For Diabetes, Spiritual Nutrition, Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine, Depression- Free for Life, Conscious Eating, , Tachyon Energy, and Creating Peace by Being Peace. Gabriel Cousens, MD, has published research in J of Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, Psychopharmacology, School Health, and J of Orthomolecular Medicine.
Dr. Cousens has practiced yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda for thirty-five years, and is an acupuncturist. He has worked extensively with black communities in central Harlem and the South side of Chicago, as well as Latino community in the Southwest. He has unique and powerful multi-ethno-cultural understanding and background, which he brings to his discussion of holistic healing.
Dr. Cousens has created family-centered teen centers in Boston and in Petaluma. He is the founder of the Petaluma services center, which has a forty year history of integrating about forty different medical and social services in southern Sonoma county. He was the chief mental health consultant for Sonoma county Head Start and the mental health consultant for the state of California. He also taught family therapy dynamics to a variety of groups from Head Start teachers and a 2-year Masters course for PhD students as well as running family therapy psychosomatic seminars at the family practice residency program in Sonoma county.
He regularly speaks on radio, appears on television, and addresses a variety of medical audiences and medical centers on the topics of reversing diabetes naturally, reversing depression naturally, and the biochemical and psychosomatic interface of depression and heart disease. He also speaks nationally and internationally on the importance of live food nutrition and meditation for health.
His adolescent interest in health and medicine led him to construct a heart-lung machine that won 1st prize in the state science fair. Gabriel graduated cum laude from Amherst College, where he published his first scientific paper in Biochemica et Biophysica Acta. Dr. Cousens was captain of an undefeated college football team, and was inducted into the National Football Hall of Fame. He graduated from Columbia Medical School, where he published his second paper in School Health, based on his three year experience living in Central Harlem. There he developed a training program that was accepted in half the schools in Central Harlem and eventually accepted by the N.Y. Department of Health. During his psychiatry residency he taught psychopharmacology to first year residents and published a paper in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. His current focus is speaking at medical schools and to medical audiences in the US and internationally on how to reverse diabetes naturally. He is currently involved in creating a study of 500 type 2 diabetics using the principles of natural healing, diet, and herbs.
Since 1993 Dr. Cousens has been the director of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center and Tree of Life Foundation. His Diabetes Recovery Program supports participants in reversing diabetes in twenty- one days, in which 33% of type 1 diabetics have come off their insulin and have a blood sugar of less than 100. 55% of the varieties of type 2’s have come off all medications and have a blood sugar of less than 100 within twenty-one days.
 ADAM TICE, NMD
Adam Tice, NMD was inspired to pursue a career in Naturopathic Medicine after studying Yoga, Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, and other ancient healing practices for years. Dr. Tice is making it his life's mission to elevate awareness using ancient, and not-yet-mainstream techniques that enable people to live in the most natural, healthy, vibrant way. He accomplishes this using homeopathy, botanical medicines, living foods clinical nutrition, quantum supplementation, and various mind-body techniques. Each of these are time-tested methods which have continually proven to be safe, effective, and gentle ways to relieve many of the illnesses prevalent in modern society today including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, depression, anxiety, and most chronic conditions. It works because we address the full spectrum human, which invites and creates space for whole person healing.
A graduate of Louisiana State University in Shreveport with a Bachelor's Degree in Biology, Dr. Tice went on to earn his Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine from Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in Tempe, AZ. While there, over 400 hours of his clinical training was under the guidance of internationally renowned homeopathic physicians Stephen Messer, ND, DHANP, Eric Udell, ND, and Francisco Eizayaga, MD, from Argentina. Dr. Tice also studied under some of the most extensively trained homeopathic physicians in the country, including Natalie Ham, N.D, and Jamie Oskin, N.D. Currently, Dr. Tice is a licensed Primary Care Naturopathic Doctor in the state of Arizona.
Dr. Tice has successfully facilitated enlightening workshops on Yoga and Meditation, First Aid Naturally, Homeopathy, Spirituality, Longevity, and Anti-aging. Prior to joining the Tree of Life, Dr. Tice co-founded and ran a successful practice in Indialantic, FL. He also sits as a board member for the Florida Naturopathic Physicians Association.
As a Naturopathic Physician who lives a yogic live food lifestyle, he is in a unique position to assist others to sustainably make a jump into full spectrum health and whole person living. He has extensive knowledge of naturopathic medicine, yogic sciences, Ayurveda, homeopathy, herbal medicine, fasting, live foods, detoxification, and cleansing.
Dr. Tice enjoys spending time at the beach or hiking with his fiance, playing with his dog, Luna, creating music on percussion and guitar, preparing global living food cuisines, and deepening the evolving practice of yoga and meditation.
 DR. GEORGE CROMACK
Dr. George Cromack is working as a medical assistant to Gabriel Cousens M.D., M.D. (H) D.D. at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation center in Patagonia Arizona. Dr. Cromack is the co-founder and director of the Renew Yourself Regeneration & Youthing Program and author of the book Ageing Well: A Guide to Rejuvenation and Longevity.
In 1981 he graduated from the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic and completed post graduate work in radiology and sports medicine, participated in masters program for whiplash injuries and completed a Medical Fellowship in Acupuncture. Dr. Cromack practiced in Europe and Hawaii where he trained and treated top professional athletes. He also has a background in Ayurvedic medicine and as a yoga instructor.
Dr. Cromack has been working with live foods for over 38 years and is considered a pioneer of the modern live food movement in the US. His interests include big wave surfing, swimming, diving, biking, martial arts, fitness, travel, yoga, and research. He is passionate about helping people achieve their optimum health and well-being.
 ARIEL KRZYS, RN
Kristin "Ariel" Krzys, RN joined Dr. Cousens' medical team in 2007. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from the University of Delaware in 1996 and her Master of Science in Nursing degree with a specialty in psychiatric mental health nursing from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998. Ariel's earliest professional work included charge nurse responsibilities on a 46-bed specialized dementia care unit in Maryland and clinical leadership of psychiatric nursing units in Delaware.
Ariel has extensive knowledge and experience with low glycemic & live foods preparation and lifestyle, toxicity and detoxification symptomology, women's health, children's growth and development, and family systems. Ariel helps to facilitate Dr. Cousens' Diabetes Recovery Program, Mental Wellness program, Cancer Prevention, Whole Person Healing and Juice Fasts at the Tree of Life.
Ariel has been living and studying live fodos, alternative medicine and holistic health for over 12 years. Ariel's personal hobbies include herbology, cultural studies, and sustainability practices. She lives in Patagonia, Arizona with her husband, his son, and her daughter and two sons.
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TREE OF LIFE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
ABOUT THE TREE OF LIFE MEDICAL CENTER
The Tree of Life Medical Center offers a fully integrated holistic approach to health and well-being. Designed by Gabriel Cousens M.D., M.D. (H), and implemented by Tree of Life physicians, our Medical Center is committed to facilitating a way of life that moves one towards vitality, optimum wellness, and awareness. The experience of having medical support at the Tree of Life is a co-creative process. Our physicians clearly present healing options and support you in assuming appropriate responsibility for your health. Understanding this type of healing relationship greatly enhances the healing process and promotes a more powerful healing experience.
The Tree of Life Medical Center supports the Reversing Diabetes program, Mental Wellness program, Cancer Prevention program, and Juice Fast Detox programs. The Tree of Life physicians use a personalized, integrated, and holistic approach to health. They observe and assess a variety of dimensions and perspectives to provide a more all-encompassing view of your overall state of health. This approach differs distinctly from using multiple healing techniques with inputs from a variety of different practitioners. It allows a healing partnership to evolve between you and your physician as you work together to apply and administer multiple healing modalities. The result is a perspective of you as a total being. This evolves and guides your therapeutic plan in a way and at a pace that uniquely fits you. Your therapeutic plan includes specific diet, nutrition, and exercise programs, psychological awareness training, meditation, lifestyle changes, and nutritional and natural medicinal supplements designed to bring your body-mind-spirit into greater balance and harmony.
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