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When I graduated from UCLA with my Master’s in Public Health in 1988, I had a very important decision to make. Do I, or do I not return to UC Davis School of Medicine to complete my training to become a physician? (I had spent 3 years at UC Davis) I realized that I was passionately committed to promoting health and preventing disease, and that I was no longer interested in treating disease. I made a bold decision to pursue studying Lifestyle Medicine on my own and went into healthcare administration and eventually consulting. But along the way, I was busy conducting my own research, delivering seminars and even wrote a book on health called Evolving Health, endorsed by Dr. Neal Barnard.
In 2016, I attended the Plant-based Nutrition Healthcare Conference and learned about the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. I was so thrilled! In October 2017, I attended my first Lifestyle Medicine Conference and was delighted to have found my tribe. They announced the board certification for physicians and for professionals. I was in! In October 2018, I attended my second Lifestyle Medicine Conference and passed my board exam! I am so proud to officially be a Lifestyle Medicine Professional! 
For the longest time, I have believed that a whole food, plant-based diet is fundamental to empowering people to prevent, reverse and treat chronic disease. I have had the good fortune to have helped hundreds to do just that. 

I work with clients, who have chronic medical conditions, to help them reach optimal health.

ChefMD® Dr John La Puma is a board-certified specialist in internal medicine and an international leader in his field of nutrition and weight control. He provides you with the support, structure, strategies and healthy eating program you need so you can lose extra weight quickly, easily and without hunger or deprivation. He sees you himself, and works for you and your success.

After turning 50 I realized that if I ate what everyone else ate, I would die like everyone else was dying. I was determined to take control of my health and change the road I was heading down. I read The China Study and watched Forks over Knives and decided to take control of my health destiny and adopted a 100% Plant Based lifestyle. I completed the Plant Based Nutrition Certification through e-Cornell and recently completed the Plant Based Culinary RX program through Rouxbe. I am passionate about educating others on the amazing health benefits of a Plant Based diet and about helping people take control of their health destiny.

Nutritional counselor with cuisine skills, organizing workshops and cultural activities where people learn more about plant-based food and nutrition

Krisann Polito-Moller

Caroline Trickey Wholefood Dietitian and Nutritionist

The only way to optimum heath is through optimum nutrition which is a whole food plant-based diet. This message needs to become common knowledge amongst healthcare practitioners and the general public.

Caryn adopted a plant based diet in response to tragedy; in 2008, cancer took her father at an early age and ten weeks later, tried to take her. In response to her diagnosis, she searched for an answer and found one in the growing body of literature supporting a whole food, plant based diet to bolster our natural immune system. Adopting a vegan diet herself and beating cancer, she sought to share her knowledge to help others. In 2011, Caryn studied in Washington, DC, under the direction of Neal Barnard MD in the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine’s Food For Life program, becoming a certified instructor. Bringing this knowledge home, she teaches immune boosting, plant based cooking classes at the Cancer Support Center of St. Louis for the benefit of others who are, like her, battling cancer. Caryn went on to form STLVegGirl, LLC, St. Louis’ first fully plant based entity providing cooking instruction, personal cheffing, and catering services, regularly appears in plant based cooking segments on local television morning shows and teaches cooking classes at Dierbergs’ Markets and the Kitchen Conservtory. Earning her spurs as a personal chef through the Wellness Forum’s Plant Based Certified Personal Chef Program, she has entered the Corporate Wellness world, teaching the Complete Health Improvement Program (CHIP) as a Lifestyle Medicine Institute Certified Program Facilitator and is in the process of earning a Plant Based Professional Culinary Certificate through the Rouxbe Cooking School.

I seek to motivate and educate to empower clients to make health behavior changes to reach their goals through lifestyle changes including a plant based eating plan. I encourage clients to view change as a creative process and challenge rather than a restrictive and negative one.

Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) guiding clients to achieve their health goals through personalized, evidence- and plant-based medical nutrition therapy.

Health Coach, Naturopathic Medical Student

ChefMD® Dr John La Puma is a board-certified specialist in internal medicine and an international leader in his field of nutrition and weight control. He provides you with the support, structure, strategies and healthy eating program you need so you can lose extra weight quickly, easily and without hunger or deprivation. He sees you himself, and works for you and your success.

I’m Jennifer Drost and I can help you transform your health.
Inspired by my own research (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1559827619879073), collaboration with industry leaders like Dr. Michael Greger (of NutritionFacts.org) and the Mayo Clinic and patient success stories, I guide my clients as they learn about the impact that lifestyle choices have on their own health.
 
As a Mayo Clinic-Certified Wellness Coach, researcher, frequent speaker and CHIP facilitator, I have learned that relying solely on medications is not the answer to solving today’s health crisis. Instead, chronic diseases such as Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity, High Cholesterol and High Blood Pressure can be treated much more effectively through lifestyle modifications.
 
Here is a link to a CME talk about lipotoxicity I gave at the Sedona Health and Nutrition conference as well as a couple of podcast appearances: about daily habits on the Mayo Clinic channel and about mental health on ToBeRe.