Dr. Sylvia Zook ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Author, researcher, and practitioner Sylvia Zook holds a MS and PhD in nutrition. She studied applied enzymes under Dr. Howard F. Loomis, Jr., a student of the noted authority and pioneer in enzyme research, Edward Howell (1898-1995). Dr. Howell first recognized and delineated the importance of food enzymes for human nutrition.
Dr. Zook worked with Dr. John Jeffries of Portland, Oregon who specialized in Candida albicans. Upon his death, she became a team member with those patients and their new physicians to provide continuing, specific nutritional counseling and encouragement to those desperate and grateful by telecons and in her own Hope Alive! clinical practice.
Dr. Zook’s philosophy is that “a practical approach of teaching and consultation,” viewing individual clients holistically—as whole persons—”rather than sets of symptoms. Thus, this model embraces the belief that through imparting knowledge the practitioner empowers and motivates the client to assume greater personal responsibility for his or her health."1 After all, the Latin root of "doctor" (doctore') means to teach. And for decades this researcher has been at the forefront of nutrition science, teaching support of the divinely designed human body’s continual effort toward maintaining optimum health and healing.
A powerful motivator especially because of what she personally experienced during decades of dealing with an undiagnosed, growing brain tumor, Dr. Zook’s dynamic ministry has inspired and taught many through various wellness seminars, conferences, lectures, newspaper columns, editor-in-chief and publisher of Wellness World, an international newsletter, with her free ezine, her books, her website, and countless other websites—all of which publish her unconventional, scientifically- and scripturally-sound articles about how to eat healthy and why. When she received her calling to write Eatin’ After Eden she understood as never before, “My people perish for lack of knowledge...Do the most for the most.” By God’s grace and all these opportunities this resilient, persevering dynamo is being faithful to that calling round the world “to the most.”
Ten years of higher education, 44 years of research and her private practice have resulted in this educator's evidence-based, bioavailable, "tried in the fire" nutrition. The combined true science and scriptural health program she writes about in Eatin' After Eden has enabled her to maintain 60-hour workweeks for decades, well into advanced age. More than one physician has opined that her energizing, healing, cleansing diet keeps her functioning remarkably above that of many half her age while she continues to work overtime helping others, encouraging them to also teach others after their own restoration.
One of the things many appreciate most about this ministry is the integrity behind all that Dr. Zook gives, whether her time in writing her books, her international, unique newsletter, articles, seminars, or other opportunities of sharing these vital truths. She receives no remuneration from the Hope Alive! ministry. Too many patients/clients have complained to her of myriad opportunists for whom the bottom line is commercial rewards, never certain if they are receiving what is best for them—or their practitioners. With Hope Alive! and the book, Eatin’ After Eden, the only reward is the beautiful fruit of the divine plan for eating to His glory.
With with a network of complementary, integrative, as well as naturopathic physicians, top nutrition research scientists at prestigious universities, and other medics, Dr. Zook also daily brings to the attention of the teachable many of the latest exciting new studies and therapies that alert them to become aware of and avoid the need for dangerous and risky modalities.
As a result of her balanced teaching, “sidelined soldiers” are remarkably being returned to ministry and their God-ordained ministries extended, while others remain well and able-bodied to do the work to which they are themselves called. From stay-at-home American moms learning to convert conventional recipes to wholesome foods and teaching their families the Creator’s plan for eating, to medical doctors at home and abroad who learn and then teach their patients real nutrition through Eatin’ After Eden – The Meat of the Word.
- Clayton College, Birmingham, AL
