He is a best-selling author of thirteen books. His book There is A Cure for Diabetes is presently translated in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian. His other books include: Torah as a Guide to Enlightenment; Creating Peace by Being Peace; Spiritual Nutrition; Conscious Eating; Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine; Sevenfold Peace, Depression-Free for Life, Conscious Parenting; and Tachyon Energy: A New Paradigm in Holistic Healing, co- authored with David Wagner. All his books have been translated into Spanish. His newest and fourteenth book, Into The Nothing, a spiritual autobiography, is soon to be published.
Dr. Cousens is listed in the Who’s Who in California, the Who’s Who Among Top Executives, the Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals, the International Who’s Who of Entrepreneurs, Strathmore’s Who’s Who, and is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the American Holistic Integrative Medical Association (AHIMA).
Dr. Cousens is recognized worldwide through his books and media, for his role as a nutritionist, humanist, and spiritual teacher, and for his transformative programs of the Tree of Life Foundation at the Tree of Life Center US; and as a leading medical authority in the world on healing diabetes naturally through live-food vegan nutrition. He is a frequent guest on popular talk shows and has published articles in health journals and popular magazines in the areas of biochemistry, school health, clinical pharmacology, hypoglycemia and Alzheimer’s disease.
A 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 College Hall of Fame. He received his M.D. degree from Columbia Medical School in 1969 and completed his psychiatric residency in 1973.
Rabbi Gabriel Cousens, M.D., has been involved in humanitarian work since 1963, when he began to work with African-American gangs on the Southside of Chicago. In 1966, Dr. Cousens set up an evening clinic at PS 175, a grammar school located one block from Harlem Hospital where he lived and worked for 3 years.
They examined over 500 children in one week, and after analyzing the results, he developed a training program for community mothers, with funding from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. This program was so successful that it spread to over half the schools in Central Harlem. By the time Dr. Cousens graduated from Columbia, the program became adopted and financed by the New York Health Department.
While in New York, Dr. Cousens also developed a sickle-cell screening program with the PS 175 grammar school in Central Harlem. The results of this program were also followed through by the New York Department of Health.
In 1969, during his medical internship, Dr. Cousens developed several community programs in San Francisco supporting socio-cultural peace. When he moved to Boston to complete his psychiatric residency and to attend the Boston Family Institute for two years, he developed a teen center for white working-class teenagers providing family therapy and teen counseling as well as social activities.
In 1973, Dr. Cousens transitioned into a vegan lifestyle and began teaching meditation. He co-founded the world’s first Kundalini Crisis Clinic with Lee Sanella, M.D. in 1976. By 1983, he transitioned to a 100% vegan live-food lifestyle. Since 1985, Rabbi Cousens has been leading Peace 21 meditations around the world, including a quarterly peace meditation at the United Nations in New York City. His worldwide Peace Everyday Initiative (PEDI), started in 2003, encourages all spiritual traditions to work and pray for peace. PEDI has enrolled over 192 world organizations, and participants include spiritual leaders, rabbis, ministers, sheikhs, and meditation teachers. PEDI has received the blessings of religious and spiritual leaders around the world.