Biographic Data About Karl Loren

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Karl Loren, Speaker For Life, Researcher, Author, Webmaster Husband of Jean Ross

Karl Loren has led an adventurous life -- he has lived and traveled in more than 35 countries -- spending time with witch doctors in Africa and the Magic Men of Asia. On the "other side," he also has an MBA degree from Harvard University and served in the Kennedy White House. Read here about this remarkable man -- Karl Loren.

Karl was born with the name Loren Carl Troescher.  (If you enter "Troescher" in a search engine, you'll find several very interesting web sites.) If you enter "Karl Loren" - (with quote marks) in Google Search, you'll get about 8,000 hits. If you then look at those, you find that virtually all of them refer to the "Karl Loren" on this page.)

Many years later, as he was moving into a career as a professional public speaker, he realized that few people could pronounce, remember or spell his name. So, with a bit of advice, he assumed the professional name of Karl Loren.

Karl was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1931, and raised mostly in the countryside outside Cleveland. He grew up on Lake Erie, in Willoughby, Ohio, east of Cleveland about 22 miles.

Willoughby is a city located in Lake County, Ohio. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 22,621. My home was in "Willobee on the Lake" about five miles toward Lake Erie. A school bus took me to the High School in Willoughby, but my grade school was in "Willobee on the Lake."

" I lived in a home my father had built with the help of his friends and relatives -- on Windamere Street. I was allowed to ride my bike to the town center, but NOT to go across the big road. So, I would ride up there and park my bike against a particular tree, then walk across the street to "C. Gull Ice Cream" store where I sat and read the newest comic books instead of spending $0.10 each to buy them. Charlie Gull was willing to have polite kids sit in his store without buying anything and read the comics.

I earned small change by scouring the alleys for empty soda bottles. A ginger ale bottle was a grand find because brought in a nickel.

I was one of many kids who collected bottle caps -- until we each had a big supply. Then, I copied my father's work at the nearby beach for the annual carnival and penny toss -- but I set up all the games in my yard and we used bottle caps instead of coins.

I was always building things with ropes and planks, stakes and twine.

"I would often hitch hike to places in those days, or ride my bike. I even walked to the big town of Willoughby a few times -- five miles!

"Between the "big" city of Willoughby and the small town of Willobee-on-the-Lake, was the Lost Nation Airport where I learned to fly. My father had learned there, first, but he encouraged me and paid for lessons so I started in August 1947, when I was 16 years old, in a Cessna. I did my first solo flight there on my eighth lesson."

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"Right next to the Lost Nation Airport was a gulf course where I would often caddy to earn money -- later my father, my role model entrepreneur, bargained to buy it and convert it into a very large cemetery -- would have been a much more profitable use of the land." The deal didn't go through -- another lesson I learned -- my father never gave up trying new things.

For many of those years Karl's boy-hood bedroom was on the second floor of the home on the edge of Lake Erie. The waves lapped at the shore just a few feet from his bed. During the winter he would sleep with the window open that faced the lake and find snow on the floor of his bedroom in the morning. Latter that area got named "Erieside" as it is still today about 3 miles west of Willobee-on-the-Lake.

When Karl moved with his family into that home it was formerly the "summer" house for an affluent man who had his "year-round" house on the next lot. So, the summer home had no furnace -- no basement. His father, then in the business of installing furnaces, personally hand-dug out a basement and installed hot water and heat for the house. In just a few more years, when Karl was about 15 years old, he was out on the job with one of his father's crews actually installing equipment for the furnaces they sold.

He was the only child of Milda and Wilbur Troescher. His father, Wilbur, also had an adventurous life, including being a motorcycle policeman, owning several of his own businesses and living to a healthy old age. Milda was a stay-at-home mom who never had an outside job, but spent many hours and days canning vegetables from our garden, making jelly from the fruits we picked and keeping a clean house.

Mother and father? Never went to college, but they wanted college for their son. In his first two years of high school, at Willoughby Union High School, Karl was the only male in the all-girl typing class. Karl had a premonition of what would be important to a young man entering college and then business. For many years Karl's rapid typing speed made him stand out over every other same-age boy.

HIs father and mother divorced when Karl was a Sophomore in High School. Part of the change was that his mother moved to a new home with Karl.

Karl moved to Hudson, Ohio for his last two years of high school, attending Western Reserve Academy. At WRA he took private piano lessons, also music composition and played in the band and orchestra . When he was ready to graduate from WRA he wanted to be a classical pianist and his research suggested that the University of Rochester had a good music school. What he discovered only after getting to Rochester was that he really should have applied for the Rochester School of Music. He didn't have a chance to do ANY piano or music his first year at UR.

He went to the University of Rochester for a foolish year, playing billiards and operating a laundry service where he hauled fellow-students dirty laundry in bags, on the bus system to nearby laundromats to wash, dry and fold for a few dollars.

These were the days when kids actually MAILED their dirty laundry back home -- Karl did -- and the mothers laundered, mailed it back, usually with some cookies.

He didn't quite flunk out of this University, but his grades were terrible. His father thought he just needed to go to school closer to home. Karl went to his father's home for that summer and they looked at closer schools.

At that time his father was licensed to fly a small private plane, took Karl to visit Ohio State and Ohio University to decide where best to switch colleges. Karl remembers visiting Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio -- where he and his father got lost amongst the too-many buildings and complexity of the campus and finally decided it was too big. His father flew him into Athens, Ohio to visit there, landing in the tiny airport by side-slipping in the air stream to land. Here was a campus he liked -- small and in a very tiny and rural town of Athens. Karl switched his college days to Ohio University and lived in the only inter-racial fraternity (Sigma Nu, Coat of Arms on left) on campus, then married his first wife, Dorothy, and moved into married student housing out on the outskirts of town.

He majored in Accounting. He was also enrolled in the ROTC. He could have graduated with his officer's commission, but he had lost a year of ROTC because it wasn't offered at Rochester.

Living in one of about 30 old, gray, converted Army barracks buildings, eight couples per building, he and his new wife attended Ohio University for some years.

Karl was enamored of tropical fish in those days but there was no fish store closer than the 90 miles to Columbus, Ohio, so every few months he would drive his very old car, with running boards, to Columbus to visit the wholesale tropical fish hatchery where he convinced them that with his single 20 gallon fish tank he was the "fish store" in Athens Ohio. With this grand status he could buy as many as six fish at wholesale prices! Thr image above was taken by Karl of his 90 gallon fresh water tank, in his home, on October 12, 2007. There are four Discus and several Angels in that tank.

He then DID set up shop selling fish from his student married apartment with occasional public coming to buy two or three fish. The school took a dim view of his running a public business in campus housing and asked him to move or quit the business operation.

Today Karl keeps his 90 gallon showpiece tank filled with live plants, four gorgeous discus fish and others -- with a tank -keeper who visits twice monthly.

When the School asked him to move, Karl moved to a downtown-Athens, upstairs small apartment where he lived and eventually had 20 of those 20 gallon fish tanks and one 50 gallon tank -- he was in the fish business in "downtown Athens" for real, eventually adding hamsters, snakes, and even a Spider Monkey to his zoo.

Always eager to travel, Karl learned that his wholesale fish supplier in Columbus, John Krause, had purchased a surplus two engined Army plane and planned to fly back and forth from Columbus, Ohio to Georgetown in British Guiana in South America, to bring back fish for his hatchery. Karl and John had become good friends, both entrepreneurs and Karl agreed to quit school and move to South America where he would travel up and down the rivers in British Guiana, buying fish from the natives, bringing them back to the big city where the famous Jim Jones later convinced his hundreds of religious followers to commit mass suicide.

Karl actually flew in that plane with John, but it was not only an Army surplus two-engine plane, but it was one of the very few plans designed and built out of wood, not metal. When it came time to get it licensed, John could fly it himself, but it could not be licensed for hauling fish or taking even one other passenger (al through I did fly with him once). That was the end of the whole business.

Karl had already shipped his clothing and silverware to South America so he could live there and had to get it back. Karl returned to school determined to find some other business he could pursue.

Karl finished his course work for graduation before he was able to take the required number of classes of ROTC, so he transferred to the University of Toledo (Ohio) to take a very small course load -- ROTC and something small. He then went back to Ohio University to graduate with the ROTC requirement completed at Toledo U. While he was a part time student at Toledo U, he had a full time job as an internal auditor at the CPA firm, Konopak and Dalton.

Karl got his BS degree back at OU, a BSC with a major in accounting. From Ohio University he went into the Army in 1955 as a brand new Second Lieutenant. At Ohio University he was on the Student Council and was President of the Chess Club.

Karl was very adventure-loving, after his basic officer training he continued with Ranger training in the Army. Those who successfully completed Ranger Training were allowed to wear the Ranger patch on their left shoulder. Karl wore that patch with great pride in the years he wore the Uniform. He loved that so much that he actually got assigned for his permanent post in the Ranger Battalion, at Fort Benning, Georgia. From there he got a promotion to become an Aide de Camp to one of the Generals at Fort Benning, Georgia.

The fancy uniform I wore at Fort Benning? I could not find a good image to show, but here is an image of the fancy as used in Canada. Lise Thibault (born April 2, 1939) is a Canadian civil servant who was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Quebec on January 30, 1997. As a former Vice-Regal representative of Elizabeth II, as Queen in Right of Quebec, she is styled The Honourable for life. The actual "aiguillette" is the gold braid cord on the right shoulder in the image -- originally the Aide would carry a "hitching rope" on his shoulder so that when his general dismounted he could tie the horse with his handy rope to a post. With my gold braid au gillette on my right shoulder and my ranger patch on the left, I looked very military in my dress blues. My general was the person at Ft. Benning who was responsible for entertaining important visitors -- I got to welcome many foreign military leaders as well as many members of the US Congress visitors. Fort Benning was famous for its demonstrations of new weapons and military hardware -- I got to see lots and meet these visitors with "my general."

Karl had thought, for many years, that he would take over his father's business when he graduated from college. By the time graduation was near, however, he had a step brother and step sister who might well have seemed more likely to take over and he had also had a taste of "life away from home." Frankly, at college graduation time he was not ready to go work with his father. Fortunately the two years in the Army was a requirement, so that postponed the time when he would have to decide on a career choice with his father.

After the Army, however, Karl was faced with telling his father he didn't want to work in the "wholesale furnace business." Going off to Harvard was a convenient reason for delaying that conversation.

Karl had worked in his father's warehouse in Cincinnati, Ohio, during some summer vacations from college. He man-handled heavy cartons of furnace parts and even went out with home-installation crews. So, he knew this business, but it wasn't very exciting for a young man, and his step-siblings were coming along in a few years. They could use the helping hand of their father.

After two years in the Army, Karl went to Harvard University, and got his MBA degree from the Harvard Business School in 1959. He worked briefly for one of his favorite Harvard professors before launching a career as an "economist" in Puerto Rico. As he has said, an "economist" is a guy fifty miles away from home, with a briefcase.

Since 1959 Karl has done an amazing number of things, including a stint in Puerto Rico, as an economist, then to Philadelphia where he worked as an internal auditor for the Sun Oil Company. Along this way his family grew, until it eventually reached six children.

Loren left Sun Oil to work in the US Government, initially in the US Department of Commerce.

While he was working at the Department of Commerce, he learned that the Census Bureau was in that agency and that he would be allowed to visit that Bureau and learn some computer skills. Karl was one of the early persons to learn how to run the IBM 1401 machine -- in his evenings of extra work at the Census Bureau.

When the chance came, he got a position in the Kennedy White House. He served there on the Presidents Trade Negotiations Staff, under Former Governor Christian Herter of Massachusetts. He was the "expert" at the White House on the use of computer to assist the trade negotiators. He left in sorrow after the assassination, taking some very personal photographs of the First Family.

There were very few people in the Government in those days who understood anything about computers and Karl not only knew something, he had volunteered his unpaid time to learn and was available when the White house needed such talent for a special project.

He worked in the Executive Office Building, technically part of the White House since the Vice President had HIS office there. Karl was in charge of computer preparation for the negotiators working on the Kennedy Round of Trade Negotiations.  He even took a sit-in course at MIT on the most advanced computer in the world, at that time at MIT.

From the White House Karl went to Ethiopia, working for several months as an Economist.

There he saw many scenes like the one on the left -- the roads of the capital were dirt, no street signs and extreme poverty. Haile Selassie was the 4 foot high King when Karl watched from his hotel balcony and 7 foot Charles de Gaul made a State Visit. They rode in the golden chariot a few hundred feet from where Karl watched.

Then, he moved to Ghana, again as an economist, working for the National Investment Bank of Ghana. That was three educational years traveling all over Ghana and Africa, becoming friends with natives and "townspeople" alike.

When Karl left Ghana, after three fascinating years in Africa, he moved to the Philippines, and became the Executive Director of Delgado Brothers Transportation Company, in Manila. This was a company with about 5,000 employees, and activities in trucking, warehousing, tanker operation and ship handling.

From there he went to Trans Asia Engineering Co, as Chief Financial Officer. He supervised financial activities of the Company's far-flung operations in 12 countries. Trans Asia had about 9,000 employees and Karl was the guy in charge of the money. He traveled quite a bit throughout Asia on this job.

Karl was a philosopher at heart, and hadn't found the type of personal satisfaction he was looking for -- although the salaries and fun were fine!

As Karl left the world of salaried employment, he realized that he would never be happy working for a salary, and started into his own business, in the Los Angeles area.

He had no concerns for starting at the bottom, and actually first got a "job" as a salesman for a janitorial company so he could learn the janitorial business. He was busy selling janitorial services during the day, and cleaning toilets during the night. He became the top salesman, then the Sales Manager for the janitorial company, and after a while of that left to form his own janitorial service company.

He was probably the only Harvard Business School graduate to earn a living cleaning toilets! He paid out more than $1,000,000 to his janitorial workers over the years before he sold the business and took the next path on his journey.

He has never worked for a salary again.

He tried once -- took his new wife to Saudi Arabia for a job interview with Gaith Pharon -- the first Saudi to buy a US Bank. Gaith claimed to want a "Western business executive with an MBA to bring modern techniques into his Saudi Company. Karl asked too my questions on confidential issues and Gaith lost all interest. His wife then, Jean Ross now, was not allowed to go outside their hotel in public. It was a miserable place for a "western couple."

He went back to work more in his janitor business.

The janitor business was good to him, and he eventually built it up to about 25 janitors, sold the business, and took his money into a period of time when he had decided that he wanted to become a professional public speaker.

Karl joined three different Toastmaster's Clubs, and spoke at hundreds of small meetings for local service clubs. He even got paid for a few of those speeches.

Eventually he turned this skill and interest in public speaking into an opportunity to learn about vitamins, and speak about heart disease, while selling an oral chelation vitamin product produced by a company still in existence.

Around that time, 1981, his mother died of an aneurysm. Karl had never even heard of the word. He asked the doctor who said "Nobody knows the cause of heart disease." That was a false claim, one of many Karl soon learned, by an MD who was too rigidly tied to the medical model. Karl started the research that later proved to be his greatest skill, and soon found a book that changed his life, Bypassing Bypass, by Dr. Elmer Cranton. Karl's whole life changed as he decited to pursue his interest in alternative treatments for heart disease.

The MLM company he had joined had a formula for oral chelation, but Karl soon learned enough about the formula that he thought he could improve on it and go into business for himself.

Soon he and his wife formed Vibrant Life, the mail order vitamin company which now sells vitamins all over the world.His wife, using the name Jean Ross, ran the vitamin business while Karl, with a separate business continued research and writing.

Karl started appearing as a guest on radio and TV shows, and eventually was offered an amazing opportunity with Station KIEV in Los Angeles. He took it! He took over a live radio talk show that started at midnight, and went to 6 AM, five nights per week.

He actually had 30 hours of live radio show, every week, and had hundreds of fascinating guests. He may have had more live time on radio than any other host around.

One of his regular guests was the man who operated the most successful cancer clinic in Mexico. Karl learned a lot about health during that time, and also about how the truth is suppressed so much in this area.   The man who operated this clinic was Jimmy Keller.  Karl visited this clinic when a lady-friend of his went there for treatment of breast cancer.  Karl saw amazing success.   Within a few more months he became very friendly with the man who operated it; we'll call him "The Healer."  As this friendship grew Karl offered to help The Healer by providing a contact point within the United States for people to get information about the clinic.  The Healer explained to Karl that three previous persons who had attempted to do this for him had been arrested on trivial charges and held in jail until they would sign a statement saying that "The Healer is operating fraudulently in Mexico. . . . etc."  Each of the others caved in.  One of them was not only personally held in jail, but HER parents were then threatened with jail for helping her if she did not sign the government lies about The Healer.  Karl Loren held that position for more than one year, despite the danger of his being held in jail until he would denounce his friend.  Ultimately, US police kidnapped The Healer out of his clinic in Mexico, two days after when Karl's wife was on a visit there, and he was sent to Federal Prison for two years.  Karl visited him in prison and helped raise money for his legal defense.  Karl is a good friend to have!

Karl also produced and was the featured speaker in several hundred TV shows sponsored by his Church.

In the last several years Karl has turned his talents to research and writing, and while he still enjoys public speaking, he prefers writing, and finds the Web an extremely interesting place to work. As he discovered, writing for the Web is an experience of freedom. Karl is fully capable of thinking in dozens of directions at once, focusing on any one of those directions, and moving to the next. The wonder of hyperlink writing, and cyber space frees an author to be extremely creative.

You have, here, a man of driven eagerness, in love with his work, passionate about his ideas, and ready to solve the health problems of the world. Read the Philosophy page to get a much deeper understanding about Karl Loren.

Karl has long had the policy of responding personally to every personal message he receives.

Added Information in April 2002.

My work continues.  As of this writing I am almost 71 years old and feel that I have a mission to change the way society views heart disease, among other health subjects.  I now have 12 web sites, 15,000 (in 2007 there are more than 100,000+ pages) pages and spend almost full time doing research, writing and publishing material.  I publish a free monthly newsletter (The Wednesday Letter) that now has more than 4,000 subscribers -- the subscription list grows at about 100 new people per week. (That subscription list is now at 15,000+.

In addition to doing the research and writing that I enjoy, I have an amazing exchange of correspondence with hundreds of people.  My pledge to answer personally every personal eMail I receive astounds people, all the more when I typically respond within a few hours.  Test that out!  Send a letter.

Since 2007?

I had a mild stroke on Christmas Day, 2006, but have recovered and learned a great deal.

I've been a Kung Fu Student with my wife, Jean Ross for almost two years, now with orange belts for both of us. I'm the webmaster for my Kung Fu School HERE.

At the time of this writing I have mostly finished several months of intense research and writing about organic sulfur -- here.

SUBSCRIBE:  The Wednesday Letter is a free electronic monthly newsletter written and published by Karl Loren.  You can view more than 50 back issues of this publication by clicking here.  The Wednesday Letter subscription list is maintained on a secure server, no name is ever given or sold to anyone, and it is never used except for this Newsletter.  It is automatically published on the Tuesday night just before the first Wednesday of every month.  You can subscribe to this free monthly electronic letter by entering your eMail address and name below.  You will then automatically receive a request for confirmation, sent to whatever address you have entered.  If you do NOT receive this confirmation request, then you will not be subscribed.  There may have been an error with your address and you should resubmit.  The letter is never sent twice to the same address -- so you do not have to worry about a duplicate subscription.  When you receive this confirmation request you must reply to it, or your subscription will not become active.  No one can subscribe your name, and address, without you being notified, and if you get an unwanted notice of subscription you only need to DO NOTHING and the subscription will NOT be active.

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Personal Message:  When you send a personal message to Karl Loren, you will receive a personal reply as per his instructions.  Karl pledges that every personal message will get a personal answer. When you provide your mail address, we will send you free information including our free catalog and a cassette tape lecture by Karl Loren about heart disease, no charge, by mail, even if outside the US.  You can select particular information you would like to receive, along with the free cassette tape and catalog.

You can reach Vibrant Life in many ways, including by mail to Vibrant Life, 2808 N. Naomi St., Burbank, CA 91504.  Within the US and Canada, use the toll free number:  (800) 523-4521, the local number:  (818) 558-1799, the FAX:  (818) 558-7299, eMail to kimberly@oralchelation.com or any one of the hundreds of message forms throughout the 50 web sites.  Vibrant Life normally ships the same day we get an order.  There are message forms on each of the 100,000+ pages on this and other sites where you can communicate with Vibrant Life.  Check out our companion site, at:  http://www.oralchelation.net where Karl's 2000 page book is published.  Karl Loren is the author and webmaster for this BOOK, as well as for another web site about ORAL CHELATION.  His personal philosophical articles are at PHILOSOPHY. 

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