It was in 1970 when T. C. Fry made his “great health discovery” in his reading Naturopathic Doctor Herbert Shelton’s Superior Nutrition, wherein the principles of Natural Hygiene are revealed. He instantly adopted a hygienic lifestyle, overcame many long standing health problems and embarked on a path which lead him to acquire perhaps more factual information about health and nutrition than anyone in history, and to become a giant on the health scene, teaching Natural Hygiene with devoted fervor. 

T. C. Fry was a voracious researcher and scholar of the sciences of nutrition, physiology and healing. He put all his wealth of information into guiding thousands from illness to health, and his work saved many lives, including this writer’s. He usually did it for little or no compensation, and what profits he did earn he usually put back into the printing and mailing out of more of his literature to health seekers.

An eighth grade dropout, T. C. Fry was entirely self-taught, with Dr. Shelton’s works as his foundation. “It’s better to be ignorant than to have learned so much that isn’t so,” was his favorite retort to those conven-tionally miseducated nutritionists and med-ical doctors whose criticisms and challenges he loved to face head on. By way of his keen intellect and eloquent speaking and writing skills, he made many people see things in a different light, a more truthful light.

Many people were introduced to T. C. Fry via his Healthful Living magazine which flourished in the 1980's to the tune of 30,000 subscribers at its peak. Many folks agree that Healthful Living was the most inspirational health periodical we've ever seen. T. C. Fry's articles were full of life, explained health remarkably clearly, and literally taught us how to think for ourselves, inspiring us to take the initiative we needed to live healthfully. Healthful Living was the forerunner of T. C. Fry's most recent magazine, The Wellness Messenger, both of which watered the seeds of inspiration for my health writing career, and set the standard to which I shall always hold myself.

Also among T. C. Fry's enterprises were a hygienic fasting center in Texas, and his 1988 book, The Great Aids Hoax. He believed that Aids is "the most fiendish and murderous scheme in history." Indeed, T. C. Fry lived by Dr. Shelton's bromide, "Let the truth be told even if the heavens fall." T. C. Fry also wrote several dozen health booklets which he compiled in his "Basic Health Library", and he produced videos.

T. C. Fry's greatest contribution was the 108-lesson Life Science / Natural Hygiene course he masterminded in 1982 and offered through the Life Science Institute in Texas, for which he originally served as President. Many believe that the course stands as the most factual/informative/ readily understandable/practical/beneficial course in the life sciences the modern world has ever seen, encompassing nutrition, health and healing. The course originally offered a Ph. D. which required a 9-month internship and a 15-day water fast (the greatest lessons in physiology/healing and the best preparation for fasting others are gained by fasting oneself]. The Life Science Institute, now in the hands of a group of the school's graduates, has to date graduated 4000 students, including Fit for Life authors Marilyn and Harvey Diamond, and the world-renowned motivational teacher author, Anthony Robbins. The course is reportedly also being taught today at a medical school in France.