Rabbi Gabriel Cousens, M.D., M.D. (H), Diplomat American Board of Holistic Medicine, Diplomat in Ayurveda, N.D.(hc), and D.D. (Doctor of Divinity) is the founder and director of the Tree of Life Foundation and Tree of Life Center US in Patagonia, Arizona. He is known worldwide as a liberated spiritual teacher and leading expert in raw, live, plant-source nutrition. The New York Times calls him, “the fasting guru and detoxification expert”.
Dr. Cousens serves as a holistic medical doctor, a licensed psychiatrist and family therapist, a licensed homeopathic physician in the state of Arizona, and licensed M.D. in the State of California. He is also an ordained rabbi, acknowledged yogi, Master Essene Teacher, Native American Elder and four-year Sundancer and Eagle Dancer adopted into the Lakota High Horse Clan. His unique multi-ethic background also includes studies in Taoism and study at the Shaolin Temple in China. He is a living inter-faith holistic expression who functions as a physician of the soul. Dr. Cousens uses the approaches of nutrition, naturopathy, Ayurveda, Native American Medicine Way, Chinese herbal medicine and theory, and homeopathy, blended with spiritual awareness, in the healing of body, mind, and spirit.
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.