Victor Earl Irons was born on January 23, 1895 in West Virginia, USA. He graduated from Yale University in 1919.
He was diagnosed with a crippling arthritic spinal ailment called ankylosing spondylosis at the age of 40, doctors told him he would be soon confined to a wheel chair. This was back in 1935.
V.E Irons refused to accept this verdict, and began to study the medical literature recorded by early luminaries of naturopathic medicine like Dr Tilden and Dr Kellogg. He then decided to take matters in his own hands by treating his condition with a series of therapeutic fasts and self-administered colonics.
His experience and the complete cure it effected within 14 months led him to devote the rest of his long life to research and development of this natural way to detoxify and heal the body.
In the 1950's he was imprisoned for publicly stating his revolutionary views on human health and healing and refusing to recant them under legal pressure by the medical establishment. In an ironic turn of events, 30 years later President Reagan heaped public praise on him for his excellent work in health and presented him with a national award for contributions to the science of longevity.
Irons remained healthy and active throughout his life, starting a second family at the age of 72 and fathering his last child at the age of 80. Sadly, he died in a car accident at the age of 98.
