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Dr. Donato is a physical therapist and chiropractor with a strong emphasis in natural health practice.  He has been a raw fooder since 2004.  He is also a Hallelujah Acres trained Health Minister.  He started teaching the Dolphin's Healthy Boot Camp January 2006.  He teaches the 10-week intensive natural health, raw food nutrition and lifestyle course 2 times a year.   

Dr. Donato initially went on the raw vegan lifestyle by following the Hallelujah Diet in September 2004.  Prior to following the Hallelujah Diet, he was suffering from bouts of vertigo on and off for two years.  Taking medications did nothing to cure the vertigo.  Within 4 months on the Hallelujah Diet, the symptoms of vertigo completely disappeared.  He started hiking and running because of the vibrant energy and improved health.  He has hiked Mt. Whitney (14,497 ft) every year since the fall of 2004.  He also ran the Rock-N-Roll Half Marathon in San Jose, CA in 2006.  Then in the fall of 2007 and 2008 he ran the Portland Marathon in Portland, OR.  As a tribute and testament to superior health, he plans to either hike Mt. Whitney or run a marathon every year.

Dr. Donato teaches Dolphin's Natural Health and Raw Food Lifestyle Program in Dolphin's Healthy Boot Camp, a totally structured 85-100 percent raw vegan vegetarian lifestyle with clinical insights.  Following a totally raw vegan vegetarian diet since July 2007 has given him new insights into natural cures for chronic degenerative diseases, sports performance and maximal vibrant health.  Studying the field of natural health and combining them with the raw food lifestyle and clinical studies, he continues to update Dolphin's Healthy Boot Camp with the most current information and application to natural healthy living.

His most recent continuing education course was in May 2011 at the Gerson Institute in San Diego, CA where he completed Module 1:  The Gerson Therapy Practitioner Training Program for Licensed Professionals.  For more information about the Gerson Therapy, go to www.Gerson.org.

Tony Biggington is a guest instructor for the Herbal Medicine and Wild Edibles sections in Dolphin's Healthy Boot Camp.  He is a Herbologist and Horticulturist with 36 years of experience.  Dr. Donato has attended an Herbal Medicine field trip led by Mr. Bigginton, and was very impressed with his knowledge and teaching experience.  His clinical understanding of Herbal Medicine is outstanding.  Welcome Mr. Bigginton to the Dolphin Guest Faculty team.

Bonnie Patterson is a physical therapist and also an experienced organic gardener.  She has a gift in cultivating health to the soil and growing abundant produce in her backyard garden.  She brings to us the necessary knowledge and information to be successful in growing our own organic produce to support the raw vegan lifestyle.  Bonnie is a boot camp graduate and a Dolpin guest faculty.  She is teaching the Organic Gardening section of Dolphin's Healthy Boot Camp.

Here's what Bonnie has to say about her background: 

"My career is physical therapy but gardening is my therapy.  My first gardening experience was when I was about 8 or 9 years old and my folks allowed me to plant a row of carrots in their garden.  I still remember the wonderful sweet taste of those freshly harvested carrots and I was hooked on gardening.

My gardening experience blossomed at our little horse ranch in California with its nice long growing season and plenty of manure to enrich the soil next to our wet weather creek.  Those earlier years I planted only in the spring but now I am expanding into fall and winter gardening.  I am not a formally trained master gardener but I do study and read as much as I can about organic techniques.

I've been eating a high raw diet since 2008 and am thrilled that you are also going with me on the road to better health and wellness.

I am looking forward to meeting you.  Welcome to our garden!"

Amy Donato is a 1989 graduate of Loma Linda University, CA with a B.S. Degree in Physical Therapy.  She is also a graduate of Andrews University, MI with an A.S. Degree in Business Administration.  She is Dolphin's Raw Food Prep Instructor and coordinates the Dolphin's Healthy Boot Camp food demonstration and sampling.

Josephine Lee or "Joz" is a certified Raw Food Chef.  She is a Get Healthy Boot Camp graduate and hostess of the monthly Raw Food Potluck in Medford, Oregon.  She currently teaches raw food prep classes from her home.  She is an occasional guest instructor in raw food preps for the Dolphin's Healthy Boot Camp.  Joz is well-known in the raw food community.  A very good friend of Victoria Boutenko, Joz is famous for her Lemon Poppy Seed Cake, which was featured in the magazine, Purely Delicious.  For more information about Joz raw food prep classes send your email request to wyjozu2@aol.com.

Demonstrating a raw food prep at Dolphin Health & Education