For the past forty years, Elaine Gottschall had, as a biochemist and cell biologist, specialized in the study of the effect of food on the human body, including the brain. Ten of these years have been spent at universities, first at Montclair State College, Montclair, New Jersey, where she received her bachelor’s degree in 1973 after graduating Magna Cum Laude, and then another year in the Department of Graduate Studies in Nutrition at Rutgers. The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
In 1975, she became a member of the Department of Cell Science at The University of Western Ontario’s Zoology Department and spent four years there investigating the effects of various sugars on the digestive tract. She obtained a Master of Science degree from that department in 1979. Results of her work are published in the journal, Acta Anatomica 123: 178 (1985). For the year following, Elaine worked in the Department of Anatomy of the University of Western Ontario investigating the changes that occur in the bowel wall in inflammatory bowel disease.
Elaine was a popular lecturer on the subject of human biology and food at various seminars and conferences throughout North America and Great Britain. She was involved with the publication of her book, Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health through Diet, throughout the world, having it translated into many different languages and having it distributed in many foreign countries. In her practice, she saw many sufferers from ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, diverticulitis, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic diarrhea, and celiac disease, as well as cases of autism, freed from their problems by following THE SPECIFIC CARBOHYDRATE DIET.
