THOMAS COWAN, MD
PHYSICIAN, AUTHOR
THE FOURFOLD PATH TO RESILIENCE
Founding Board Member of the Westin A. Price Foundation, Dr. Cowan invites listeners to consider their healing from a different viewpoint.
Thomas Cowan, M.D., has studied and written about many subjects in medicine including the heart, autoimmune disease, nutrition, anthroposophical medicine and herbal medicine. He is the author of Human Heart, Cosmic Heart and Vaccines, Autoimmunity and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness, both published by Chelsea Green; the principal author of The Fourfold Path to Healing; and co-author (with Sally Fallon) of The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby and Child Care.
Thomas Cowan, M.D., has studied and written about many subjects in medicine including the heart, autoimmune disease, nutrition, anthroposophical medicine and herbal medicine. He is the author of Human Heart, Cosmic Heart and Vaccines, Autoimmunity and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness, both published by Chelsea Green; the principal author of The Fourfold Path to Healing; and co-author (with Sally Fallon) of The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby and Child Care.
Dr. Cowan has served as vice president of the Physicians Association for Anthroposophic Medicine and is a founding board member of the Weston A. Price Foundation®. He also writes the “Ask the Doctor” column in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts (the Weston A. Price Foundation’s quarterly magazine) and has lectured throughout the United States and Canada.
In 2016, he and his family launched Dr. Cowan's Garden, a company that makes and sells organic vegetable powders to help people diversify their vegetable consumption. He has three grown children and lives and practices medicine in San Francisco.
"MOST OF THE SYMPTOMS WE EXPERIENCE ARE OUR BODY'S THERAPEUTIC ATTEMPTS TO ADDRESS THE TOXIC INFLUENCES THAT WE ARE ALL EXPOSED TO."
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The Fourfold Path to Healing merges the wisdom of traditional societies, the most modern findings of western medicine and the esoteric teaching of the ancients. The fourfold approach includes: Nutrition using nutrient-dense traditional foods; therapeutics through a wide range of nontoxic remedies; Movement to heal and strengthen the emotions; and meditation to develop your powers of objective thought.
