If Dr. Taylor’s tweed sofa could have talked, it would have told of the hundreds of rumps it supported through the sniffling retelling of a dire diagnosis. Its stalwart springs felt the tremors of tears, the palpitations of laughter, the slumps of despair, and the determined heaves of resolute hope. His old couch, once housed in a timeworn cedar country house about 45 minutes from town, was unconventional office furniture, but then he was an unconventional doctor.
And his patients loved him for it.
Insatiable charmer, old-world social light, and public speaker extraordinaire, Dr. Taylor loved life and he loved to help others love theirs too. As the stacks of research on nutrition began creeping into all corners of his office and house decades ago, he became passionate about sharing his cutting-edge findings with eager patients. Throughout the years, his effective protocol was stretched, shrunk and shaped.
The one thing that remained absolutely constant? His patients always came back and they always referred their friends.
As his reputation grew, he gathered larger and larger audiences to share his wholistic philosophy: the human body had an astounding ability to heal itself if put in the right conditions and given the right ingredients.
His advice was that, more often than not, given the right attitude, the right food and some nutritional supplementation, many illnesses lose their ability to thrive. And while his advice centered on the importance of fresh, healthy, non-processed foods, his approach was not simply a rant against the mainstream food industry. Much of his systematic method included tangible and practical ways of increasing alkalinity, oxygen and enzymes. Underlining his approach to everything was the belief that it is often not through our eyes that we see the world, but rather through our philosophy. As for his philosophy, it was that life was meant to be enjoyed; and, that true enjoyment usually leads to health of body and heart.