Hippocrates Health Institute

Hippocrates was a BIG disappointment. I went there b/​c of health problems, but found my housing unit to be too far from the center of activity, and this limited my access to programs. The food was AWFUL. I can understand raw food, but they served lemon juice for breakfast and then both lunch and dinner consisted of huge salad bars with the same greens and sprouts and vegetables every single day — no real diversity, very few prepared dishes, and incredibly boring and unfullfilling. They obviously spent nothing to feed us even tho the prices are astronomical.
One BIG PROBLEM — they advertise that they are «fragrance free» — not true. The building I was in (La Palma) smelled from the cleaning supplies, as did my room. I could not let them in to clean. Several places have fragrant «natural» oils blowing around. I am sensitive to chemicals and found this nauseating. This is certainly not fragrance-​free.
Lastly, there was no real help on how to manage the very complex schedule. And almost every lecture (tho some were interesting) turned out to be a sales pitch — for their very expensive vitamins and their very expensive (but questionable) treatments.
In addition, there is a real cult-​like atmosphere, which I found difficult to deal with. The owners didn’t discover anything new — they just figured out a way to make lots of money from sick people who really need help.
My advice — save your money.

Visiting my friend while she is staying here for 3 weeks. Enjoyed an amazing lunch. The salad bar is sooo delicious & of course healthy! What an amazing place. I wish I could stay here for a retreat. If you ever have the opportunity to go you should!

Very beautiful and peaceful — I come here for the wonderful shop to buy specific vitamins.

This place is a little piece of heaven on earth… I took my then 15 year old daughter to Hippocrates in 2012– the seeds were planted… she had been suffering from depression and today she is a healthy, vibrant, 18 year old. It was the best investment of money I could have spent on our health. I highly recommend Hippocrates to anyone :)

We are incredibly fortunate to have this place here in South Florida. If you are looking for a much more effective and humane approach to healthcare, this is where you want to be. Hippocrates addresses the body, mind and spirit in its entirety, unlike most conventional treatments — treatments that in many cases do not work, or make one’s health much worse. The core of the program is raw living food, green juice, wheatgrass, exercise and emotional/​psychological therapy. Massage is an integral component, as are IV infusions with Vitamin C, Glutathione, Vitamin D shots etc. I would recommend to anyone looking to improve their health or prevent future illness.

The best thing I could have done for myself, off sugar, wheat, dairy and meat, I spent almost 6 weeks at hippocrates, I cannot say enough Just Amazing, if your low on energy, suffering from all kinds of things, want off the drugs for chronic pain, then this is the place for you, the have all the best in alternative treatments for pain and suffering of all types, including chelation therapy, an amazing spa and the best staff in the whole world. The pools and rooms, and the best vegan diet, wheatgrass and sprouts on the planet, come love yourself and change your life before you get sick, I saw families with kids, to people with stage 4 cancer and it is just for everyone who wants to change their life body, mind and soul.
To Sheila, Katherine, all the people who work the desk, the kitchen staff, the nurses, the people at the spa and all my wonderful new friends you all are the best, thank you all.
Peace
Jefferson Parker
owner: Frequency Yoga and Fitness in San Rafael CA.

Amazing place to reset your health and living OPTIMALLY. This place is changing lives every day. Far infrared saunas, organic live vegan foods, mineral baths. This place is changing lives! HHI is on my list for the best resort world wide. It’s everything from the exquisite grounds to the organic beds and peace. I leaned a tremendous amount about how optimal health and that’s saying a lot for a person like me who is an expert in the field of health.

Great place. Great concept. I fully support this place and completely KNOW that anything can be healed by natural methods.
Beautiful location.

Oh my. What a delightful place. Employes are so friendly & the grounds are just beautiful. Now the food, I would love to eat here nearly every day & have the bounty of deliciousness at my finger tips on a daily basis.
I love to relax at the pool & do my qigong in my favorite spot.

I love it here!

I’m shocked there aren’t more reviews here! HHI is fabulous. A true miracle of a place. I healed tremendously during my three weeks here, and saw the same with so many others. It’s not a luxury spa, some aspects aren’t particularly fancy, but you will gain health, knowledge, kindness and hope. Highly, highly recommended.

Bicycles, make sure to get one are great way to get around the campus. Powerhouse gym with 30,000 ft. very basic but great like the best equipment. weather can be nice but you don’t go to the beach a lot. Guest, most are quite nice some are very ill.
CHI KONG, MEDITATION, NIA GREAT GREAT, but yurt was moldy smelly yuck… FOOD TERRIBLE UNIMAGINATIVE. BRAGGS IS NOT RAW IS PROCESSED IN EVERYTHING kitchen is chaotic and unhelpful usually runs out
of nuts. same 50 veggies each day and 2 crappy side salads dishes,
meatloaf.tacos are okay buy watch out for braggs:)
also too many concentrated oils/​again processed not whole…
QUALITY OF THE VEGGIES/​FRUIT IS SUB PAIR FROM 3RD WORLD COUNTRIES are shipped from California not much local.
Mucho supplements and each class is like an infomercial to buy something like very $$$$$
NOT relaxing with staff/​guests all talking on cell phones in all areas of center. Very expensive for what it is. What a dump and the new villas look like they bought art/​furnishing from some mafia don’s house on long island…
Rooms are simple some are old smelly and noticed recently painted rooms did not use eco paint. Some staff helpful: nurses, Dr. Keith, Shawna/​NIA very helpful healers, some not… after reading all these review s that are listed I could, could see they are all true.
If you are going to stay in Hacienda you are better off in a hotel in Palm Beach near beach and pay the nice driver the center uses to be a day student or stay nearby do ala carte… also some classes good –Dave, Katherine, some not well done kinda like by my service you can’t live without it without a lot of medical research even alternative research… also there is street noise and some renovated rooms are okay, cleaning staff is great tip them because they pay them very little.
Overall I would not return or suggest, unless you are new to raw foods, healthy lifestyle and it is better than traditional medicine… but ohi San Diego and Austin are much better programs. My suggestion by naturalpathic nd dr. locally to boost your immune system and go to optimum health. Much better program, teachers, not a bazillion repeating classes, no cell phones :-) oh and the food each menu is posted in the morning and each meal is a work of art :-) or look at True North Santa Rosa … a lot of raw foodies say it rocks.
The best teachers are quite good but MIA drumming up business.