Graduate Spotlight
Hans Ove Nilsen, N.D., Ph.D.
“Love Your Body, Love Our Earth”
When Hans Ove Nilsen’s family emigrated from Norway to Utah after World War II, his mother was his inspiration for learning about natural health. She was very impressed with the renowned Iridologist Dr. Bernard Jensen, who helped her improve her health naturally.
As members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Hans Ove’s family had always embraced clean, holistic living: honoring the body with exercise, rest, fresh air, pure water, sunshine, fresh food with very little meat, and full temperance from smoking, drinking and drugs.
Growing up in Salt Lake City, Hans Ove married young and then launched his new family all over Corporate America. Wherever they landed, the Nilsens became ever more inquisitive students of natural health, learning from many great teachers about herbs, juicing, nutritious cooking and supplements.
Now married for 44 years, the Nilsens have two daughters and three sons. Over these many years they have finessed the art of organic gardening.
During the 1980s Hans Ove turned his attentions to earning dual doctoral degrees from Lloyd Clayton’s two young colleges: first a Doctor of Naturopathy from what was then The Clayton School of Natural Healing, and then a Ph.D. in Holistic Nutrition from its sister college, which was then American Holistic College of Nutrition.
By the time these two alma maters merged in 1997, Hans Ove had also had the honor of studying Iridology and sitting at the feet of Dr. Bernard Jensen. Over the years he has “thirstily” studied reflexology and lymphology, plus light, touch, and color therapies.
In 2004 Hans Ove attended CCNH’s natural health conference in Atlanta, adding that the classes helped do more than merely improve and update his skills – the conference enlarged his understanding of his goals!
Here he met the internationally renowned homeopath Rudolph Ballentine, M.D., whose classes on healing the earth propelled Hans Ove to teach these truths to his extended family.
“(He) helped me refocus on how we are the stewards of the herbs and plants that teach and heal us. The earth’s illness mirrors our own, and each perpetuates the other. The wake up call, for me, is that to heal ourselves we must make a steady commitment to care for the Earth and stop harming her.
“The commitment,” he concludes, “is to pass along this sense of urgency, so that my children’s children will always have a safe, nurturing place to live – just like me!”
As author of Family Health and a work-in-progress, Bible Foods, clearly Hans Ove is both a lifelong learner and lifelong teacher.
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