Don Tolman

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Don Tolman, is the World Renowned author of The Farmacist Desk Reference (FDR), the Encyclopedia of Whole Food Medicine. He is also known to thousands as a brilliant public speaker, trainer, imaginist, entertainer and experimental nutritional-eating researcher.  He has written multiple books on a variety of skill-specific mental functions and self-improvement topics.  He has been a coach and mentor for key personnel with Xerox, General Motors, and Pitney Bowes corporations.

Don has spoken to more than 1,000 audiences in all 50 states and in 7 foreign countries.  His media credits include more than 50 radio and TV talk show appearances per year.  He has been a return guest on the Donahue Show, Entertainment Tonight, ABC Talk Radio, and he’s a regular guest on The Aware Show in Los Angeles, CA, as well as many newspapers & magazines.  The late Earl Nightingale said, “If George Carlin and Albert Einstein had a son, it would be Don Tolman.”  TV talk show host Phil Donahue said, “Like what he says or not; it’s people like Don Tolman who, in their own unique way, will impact social change.”  Don Tolman has addressed audiences on the same speaker-platform with Brian Tracy, Les Brown, Joe Montana, Patch Adams and Olympic gymnastic gold medalist Peter Vidmar.  Don is a distinguished communications facilitator and vocabulary-enhancement trainer.  He has studied in-depth in the areas of applied behavioral and cognitive science, as well as neurology, semiotics, operant conditioning and Gestalt Theorem. 

All of this has led to his experimentation with nutritional eating and extended fasting for the purposes of understanding mental performance. In this regard, he went 90 days strictly on watermelon, sunshine and air, and 63 days on fresh-squeezed juices. Three times now, Don has fasted strictly on spring water for 40 days. In the fall of 1995, after 40 days on water alone, he drank one quart of fresh-squeezed grape juice and then ran a 26-mile marathon. This endeavor was documented, supervised, and filmed by the Hollywood film company Motion Media and the L.A. Film Factory.