Ann Wigmore

Ann first became aware of the benefits of the living foods lifestyle after healing herself from stage 4 colon cancer by using wheatgrass juice and other vitamin and enzyme-rich foods. Ann’s knowledge and openness to the living foods lifestyle was deeply rooted from her childhood in Lithuania, where her grandmother, also known as the “village healer,” used the gifts of nature to help heal others in their community and Ann often recalled how her grandmother treated wounded soldiers with herbs during World War I.

Ann personally benefited from her grandmother’s knowledge and treatments, grew strong, and became her assistant before leaving to join her parents who had already immigrated to the United States. Though her life took her in several different directions, Ann was always clear on her mission – to develop and share the power of Living Foods.

Ann’s passion to help others heal naturally inspired her to start the “Red Schoolhouse” at her farm in Stoneham, Massachusetts in 1956. One of Ann’s biggest supporters was a doctor named Dr. Paul Dudley White, who was a Harvard University-educated physician and a member of the faculty at Harvard University. Dr. White was also President Eisenhower’s personal physician and founder of the American Heart Association. After learning about Ann’s methods to help people become well, Dr. White began referring Ann patients of his that he was unable to “cure” using modern medicine.

Through decades of study, consultations, research and experimentation, Ann Wigmore created and developed the Living Foods Lifestyle and the use of wheatgrass juice as a key dietary component began a revolution in the world of nutrition.

Dr. Ann Wigmore founded the original Hippocrates Health Institute in Boston, MA in 1961, and served as its director through 1980. The Hippocrates Health Institute moved to Florida and today is know as Hippocrates Wellness.

She lived and taught the principles and practice of this powerful, transformative lifestyle. She also witnessed the return to vibrant health of countless students from around the world who practiced her methods.

Ann Wigmore went on to create and direct the Ann Wigmore Foundation, also in Boston, in 1987.