Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., C.N.S.

Visionary, health guru, diet/detox expert, author, spokesperson, role model, and natural foods icon, Ann Louise Gittleman has always been a trendsetter.  Highly respected as a health pioneer, weight loss expert and award-winning author of 30 books, she revolutionized weight loss in her New York Times bestseller The Fat Flush Plan.  She later introduced The Fast Track ONE-DAY Detox Diet, which takes the age-old method of fasting and incorporates it into a modern day detox diet. Ann Louise's latest release, The Gut Flush Plan, reveals the surprising sources of toxins that make you sick, tired and bloated, and offers a revolutionary three-week, three-step program to rebuild your digestive system.  She packs every chapter with useful tips to enhance your health and to help you defend your gut at home and on the road.

Always ahead of her time, Ann Louise set the pace for new health protocols in the 1990s with four more breakthrough books.  She was the first to warn of the environmental hazards of parasites in her classic Guess What Came to Dinner? Parasites and Your Health.  In Your Body Knows Best, Ann Louise was the first to discuss the blood type/weight theory and proclaim that one diet may not be right for every body - an idea that is only now becoming mainstream.  She was the first to offer natural remedies for menopausal symptoms in Super Nutrition for Menopause and is widely credited as the first to popularize the term “perimenopause” in her New York Times bestseller, Before the Change.

Ann Louise forged new ways of thinking about obesity early in her career.  She was the first to proclaim that obesity was caused by the lack of dietary fats and the wrong kind of carbohydrates in her book Beyond Pritikin, published in 1988. In Beyond Pritikin, she predicted that the fat free, carb-rich diet was creating weight gain, sugar cravings, fatigue and diabetes.

Millions of readers follow her advice through her column in First for Women magazine, where she has been a columnist since 2003.  Thousands visit her Web site (www.annlouise.com) on a daily basis and join The Forum, her interactive messaging board, where she frequently responds to diet and health questions.

Ann Louise is a savvy and dynamic speaker.  She was featured on 20/20, Dr. Phil, The View, Good Morning America, Extra, CNN, PBS, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CBN, Fox News, Good Day New York and the BBC.  She has appeared on several national infomercials including the extremely popular The World’s Greatest Treasury of Health Secrets hosted by Hugh Downs.  She served as a celebrity spokesperson for some of the most influential products and companies in the natural foods industry including Rejuvex, Spectrum, The Vitamin Shoppe, Balance Bar, Barleans, Arkopharma, Essential Formulas, and Himalaya USA.

Her work has been featured in national publications ranging from Time, Newsweek, Harper's Bazaar, The Oprah Magazine, Seventeen, Fitness, Cosmopolitan, Parade, USA Weekend, Woman's World, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times to US Weekly and The National Enquirer. 

Ann Louise was recognized as one of the top ten nutritionists in the country by Self magazine (1993) and was the recipient of the American Medical Writers Association award for excellence (1992).

Today, she continues to dedicate herself to carving out new landmarks in holistic health and healing based on science and ancient healing arts.  Through her many books, Web site, and free e-letter, Ann Louise offers a “virtual” health support system for men and women that provides educational and self-health assessment services to empower people everywhere to achieve total health.

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