Biography of Harvey Kryger
Harvey Kryger, in full Abraham Harvey Kryger, retired as the owner and Medical Director (MD) of Monterey Preventive Medical Clinic, located at Cass Street in Monterey, California The preventive medical clinic offered services to prevent diseases and disabilities before they occur or escalate It provided patients with advice and recommendations to maintain and improve their health and well-being through diet, exercise, and hormone balancing. Since his retirement in 2023, Dr.Kryger has continued with his research and still provides advice to past patients.
Dr Kryger is an MD, a DMD, a certified family practitioner, and the founder of the Alternative Medicine Foundation. He is an industry veteran with extensive 50+ years of experience as a physician and preventive medicine expert Kryger was a dedicated healthcare provider and author affiliated with several professional societies.
Educational Background
Kryger completed his bachelor’s education at the University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada, in 1964 Later, from 1965-1969, he attended the University of Manitoba's School of Dentistry for his DMD (Doctor of Dental Medicine) degree. In 1973, he received his MD (Doctor of Medicine) degree from the University of Manitoba’s School of Medicine in Winnipeg
Santa Clara Valley Medical Centre, Santa Clara, CA
Dr. Kryger participated in both an internship and fellowships. In 1973, he joined Stanford University’s Santa Clara Valley Medical Centre He worked in the Burn Unit and performed surgical operations Kryger completed his fellowships in 1975 after working with several plastic surgeons in Israel, France, and Switzerland.
Career Highlights
Dr Kryger has always been a passionate physician He is a known industry veteran specializing in endocrinology, family medicine, and general preventive medicine His treatment and longevity recommendations have gathered him praise from many patients over the years.
Kryger started his journey in 1969 as a private practitioner of dentistry in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada He also worked in Northern Manitoba with the local Canadian Indian tribes, providing free dental care and preventive dental maintenance with his wife as his assistant
Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital, Los Angeles, CA
He joined Robert F Kennedy Memorial Hospital as a staff physician in 1975 Thanks to his work at this small family-owned 45-bed hospital, Dr Kryger was promoted to Medical Director, where he ran the ER and assisted in surgery and utilization review.
Sonoma County Holistic Health Center, Monte Rio, CA
Throughout 1977-1980, Kryger worked as a preventive and nutritional medicine physician at the Sonoma County Holistic Health Center. He organized and ran a wellness clinic with an acupuncturist, optometrics, Massage therapist, Biofeedback therapist, and Wellness Nurse for Santa Rosa residents He was the first California MD to work with an acupuncturist
Alternative Medicine Foundation, Sonoma County, CA
Aligned to his profession, Kryger founded the Alternative Medical Foundation as its Medical Director in Sebastopol, California. With his work success, he was appointed as the primary physician, and he was an integral part of the foundation’s success in 1979, proving that several new alternative modalities were effective in helping patients achieve healthier aging. In 1980, he transferred his practice to Carmel-by-the-Sea and provided medical care to locals and tourists for a decade
Monterey Preventive Medical Clinic, Monterey, CA
Kryger has worked for the Monterey Preventive Medical Clinic most of his professional life. In 1990, he joined the clinic as a primary physician and worked on health promotion, disease prevention, and medicine consultation. In the meantime, he specialized in hormone balancing for men and women In July 1990, he took charge of the clinic as an owner and expanded its primary services to include massage therapy
Thanks to his treatment, one of his patients wrote, “Been using Dr Kryger for over 15 years It has been an incredible journey with this great MD When all other MDs dismissed me and felt it was all in my head, Doc tested me and found the problems. Life has been wonderful.”
Professional & Personal Milestones
Dr Kryger’s professional career syncs perfectly with his personal life’s purpose Throughout his vast journey as a trained practitioner, author, physician, and healthcare provider, he remained a vegetarian, exercised regularly, and was honored with several awards and milestones His WellnessMD com website helped spread information about hormone therapy to thousands of men.
Alpha Omega Fraternity Award
In 1968, Kryger won the Alpha Omega Fraternity Award for “The Immunology of Periodontal Disease.” The award celebrates extensive research on the response of the immune system to periodontal diseases Dr Kryger authored his first writing on “An Immune Hypothesis of the Pathogenesis of Periodontal Disease” for the Alpha Omega Journal In the upcoming years, Kryger authored several books.
Listen To Your Hormones: A Journey From Publication to Organization
In 2004, Kryger published his first book, Listen To Your Hormones A Doctor’s Guide to Sex Love and Long Life. The guide was specifically targeted toward men. As an Andrology Specialist, Dr Kryger filled this book with extensive knowledge on how hormones helped maintain a long-lasting, sexually fulfilled life. The book not only helps men to know more about their body, behavioral character, hormones, and health but also offers them a safe and effective treatment for low T levels resulting from aging and exposure to environmental estrogens
The book also helped to lay the foundation for Kryger's research and prompted the subsequent development of the topical hormonal cream Testocreme®, with Dana Gordon, owner of Central Avenue Pharmacy in Pacific Grove He formed a pharmaceutical company with the help of a few angel investors and was able to get the cream manufactured and patented by the FDA.
True to his publication, after his retirement, Kryger established the Listen To Your Hormones Blog—an online and offline marketplace for medication, hormone education, book review sessions, and consultations The website also offers hormone-related blogs authored by Dr Kryger As his routine, he is writing a new blog for Wix com as: listentoyourhormones org
A Woman's Guide to Men's Health
In addition to his previous publication, Kryger published a new book A Woman's Guide to Men's Health in 2005 Unlike “Listen to Your Hormones,” which was specific to men, this book explains how women’s understanding of men’s health, sexuality, vigor, and happiness can foster an ever-growing love life As an enhanced version of its predecessor, Listen To Your Hormones, it covers the perspectives of hormones for women, their love life, happiness, and hormone supplementation using Estrocreme™ in detail.
The Monterey Diet™
In 2008, Dr Kryger published his new ebook, The Monterey Diet™ He believes the secret to a healthy lifestyle is hidden in plant-based foods and eating habits. The book provides guidelines and tools for when to eat your favorite foods to result in healthy living It offers insights to develop an action plan to adjust eating habits to specific times during the day. This book explains how your brain affects your eating pattern It helps you discover how to reverse that unhealthy pattern and live a healthier life
What's Next?
Dr. Kryger is excited about his future publications. Currently, he is writing a new book, “Surgery without Surgery: How Acupuncture Works in Medical Practice ”
Life Beyond Clinic and Patients
Beyond his life as a physician, author, and healthcare provider, Kryger likes painting and sculpting He works on his farm raising goats, chickens, and Monarch Butterflies By providing seeds to encourage the return of the Monarchs to the Monterey Peninsula, he has hosted educational tours to private schools and interested residents. As a trained physician, he is still actively involved in calisthenics and lifting weights to keep him moving and healthy