I am a board certified Family Medicine physician working for Northwest Permanente (a Kaiser based practice).

As a plant-based chef (embracing all eating preferences- from vegans to carnivores and everyone in between!) with a big appetite for delicious, wholesome, locally grown food, I have spent many years exploring the connection between food, well-being, community, and the planet. My appetite for vibrant, flavorful food & living a juicy life inspires my approach to wellness. I believe food should be as joyful as it is nourishing. That’s why I help you cultivate a healthy, intuitive relationship with food, listening closely to what your body truly craves.

I blend holistic nutrition with culinary creativity to empower you to make nourishing, mindful, and delightful food choices that align with your unique health goals & values. Through personalized coaching, we will create a nutrition & lifestyle guide that includes a customized cookbook filled with colorful plant-based recipes featuring your favorite superfoods and small daily habits designed to support your well-being. Together, we will explore the transformative power of food as medicine for your body, mind, spirit, soul, and the Earth.

Whether you want to enhance overall wellness, manage specific health conditions, or deepen your connection to the food you eat, I am here to support your journey. Let’s create a delicious path towards wellness, honoring both you and the planet every step of the way.

*While I emphasize a plant-centered approach, you don’t need to be vegan or plant-based to work with me. I do not focus on food restriction, fad diets, calorie counting, or anything that makes you feel bad about your food choices. Wherever you are on your health journey, I am here to support you.

MY CREDENTIALS INCLUDE:
-Culinary Nutrition Chef Certification from The Natural Gourmet Culinary Institute, NYC
-Plant-Based Nutrition Certification from T. Colin Campbell’s eCornell program
-Plant-Based Coaching Certification from The Food Revolution Network
-Pursuing a Master’s degree in Integrative Health and Nutrition from Maryland University of Integrative Health

I practiced primary care and emergency medicine as a PA for over 30 years. It became progressively disheartening to see the growing emphasis on use of prescription drugs for almost every issue. While these medications are beneficial when used appropriately, many patients have forgotten about their own ability to optimally care for their bodies through healthy diet and lifestyle choices, which can frequently prevent the need for drugs. Enjoying a Whole-Food Plant-Based (WFPB) diet for several years has improved my life in every way and I relish preparing and eating food more than ever before. I want the same for all patients who hope for a better life and desire this knowledge. I now use my NC Medical Board license to empower patients to achieve their own health goals through coaching and, if desired, adjunctive therapy with professional clinical hypnosis. I help individuals struggling with health issues and/or barriers to self-care discover new paths to healing and wholeness through positive, supportive, and nonjudgmental guidance.

I am an RN specializing in holistic home care and passionate about plant-based nutrition for optimal health.

Dr. Michelle Loy, MD, DipABOIM, DipABLM, DABMA, FAAP, is a nationally recognized physician who received her magna cum laude degree in Psychology from Harvard College, her MD from Weill Cornell Medical College, her pediatrics residency training from New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell, and her Integrative Medicine Fellowship training from Columbia University/Stamford Hospital. She completed certification in Medical Acupuncture from SUNY Downstate Medical Center. She is board certified in Integrative Medicine, Lifestyle Medicine, Medical Acupuncture, and Pediatrics.

Dr. Loy has achieved recognition in integrative medicine at national academic conferences and other peer-reviewed training opportunities. She serves as an Executive Committee member of the AAP Section of Integrative Medicine and serves on the American Board of Integrative Medicine.

She provides lifestyle medicine and integrative medicine consultations at NYU Langone to solve challenging clinical problems across the spectrum of general and subspecialty pediatric, adolescent, and adult medicine. A clinical professor with joint appointments in Medicine and Pediatrics, she is committed to supporting fellow physicians and physicians-in-training in self-reflection and self-care. Her clinical and research interests include Nutrition, particularly Culinary and Botanical Medicine, Acupuncture, Stress Management, Medical Yoga, Cancer Recovery, Women’s and Children’s Health, Narrative Medicine, and Shared Medical Appointments.

Dr. Loy is a Lecturer for the Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate Program (Cornell University) and also serves on the medical advisory board of Plant Powered Metro New York and the Integrative Oncology Working Group Culinary Medicine Expert Panel. She has presented at national conferences on lifestyle medicine, culinary medicine, and plant-based nutrition. She is on the medical advisory board of Plant Powered Metro New York and pioneered a popular Shop with a Doc Culinary Medicine grocery tour series.

In her recreational time, she enjoys reading, swimming, running, exploring farmer’s markets, and creating healthful, whole-food, plant-forward meals for her husband and five children.

I have been a practicing Internal Medicine physician since 1991. My practice has been focused on primary care of adults. Since 1996, I have been practicing with the Palo Alto Medical Foundation initially in Sunnyvale, then Mountain View, California. My plant-based journey began in the mid 1990s when I read “Diet for a new America” by John Robbins, and subsequently read many books by Dr John McDougal. In addition to taking the eCornell course through T. Colin Campbell, I became board-certified in Lifestyle Medicine in 2019. i have attended 2 of the annual Lifestyle medicine conferences, in 2019 and 2022. I have also attended the Plant Strong conference in Ashland, North Carolina in 2023, led by Rip Esselstyn.

Since February 2024, I have been the lead physician in my group’s new concierge medical practice. This membership-based practice is allowing me more time to work with patients who are interested in plant-based eating and healthy lifestyle changes. My philosophy of healthcare is preventive, collaborative, and postive.

Blessings! I am Dr. Lupita Haro, a medical surgeon specializing in Integrative Medicine based in Mexico. In my practice, I integrate advanced diagnostic and treatment techniques, including Neural Therapy, Homeopathy, Ozone Therapy, Immunotherapy, Quantum Medicine, and the use of stem cells. I offer remote consultations through my website: www.dralupitaharo.com . I am dedicated to promoting a healthy lifestyle by incorporating a whole-food, plant-based diet as a core component of my treatments. My approach is designed not only to treat diseases but also to enhance the quality of life of my patients, supporting comprehensive and sustained recovery.

Jen Mosteller, MSN, FNP-BC, DipACLM
Jennifer Mosteller is a nationally dual board certified and licensed Family Nurse Practitioner with both AANP and ANCC. Additionally, she is board certified in Lifestyle Medicine through the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and has additional education and training in obesity management through the Obesity Medical Association. She completed her MSN from the University of Cincinnati, graduating from the Family Nurse Practitioner program with honors. Jen enjoys building relationships with her patients and their family members and is committed to helping others pursue better health results. She loves the opportunity to work with a variety of patients across the life span and provide education and treatment options that allow them to make the best decisions for their health and wellbeing. Additional primary care experience includes adolescent health, mental health, preventative care, weight loss, nutrition, and women’s health.

Jen is passionate about preventing and reversing chronic disease by following a plant based diet, getting in the exercise and following the pillars of lifestyle medicine. She loves to educate others and help them live healthier lives.

*Are you a women who is ready to feel fantastic?
*Are you struggling with high blood pressure, your weight, or other chronic health concern?
*Do you want a natural, effective solution instead of just “management” of your disease?
*Have you tried your doctor recommended diet to no avail?

Dr. Polak is a Canadian Medical Doctor who created a not-for-profit company to help women struggling with hypertension, weight issues and other chronic diseases to optimise their health and feel fantastic with science-backed nutrition.

Health and wellness are not just about reducing your symptoms, but about aiming for FULL REMISSION whenever possible, fully recovering your true self, realising satisfying relationships, overcoming self-defeating patterns, and achieving optimal physical and mental health through nutrition and lifestyle – all while minimising your risk of future chronic illnesses.

Dr. Polak promotes a constellation of evidence-based lifestyle modifications around nutrition (whole food plant-based, of course!), sleep, exercise, relaxation practices, and social connectedness.

Being half-Italian, she called it “Benessere,” which means “well-being” or “wellness” – and “North” for, well, Canada! She welcomes women worldwide, and in addition to English Dr. Polak speaks French, Spanish, and Italian. To sign up for information on her NEXT CLASS to help you get started eating this way: https://bit.ly/5dayswaitlist.

I am a primary care physician, retired USAF Colonel flight surgeon, agricultural advisor/consultant and author of both health and agricultural books. I am a vegan along with my wife Lisa Everett Andersen who is a clinical pharmacist and certified clinical nutritionist. I started my adult life in sustainable/biological agriculture and subsequently went to medical school and have always practiced integrative medicine.

I provide primary care, integrative medicine, IV therapies, prolotherapy, nutrition counseling and collaboration with my wife and other clinical pharmacists at Obrien Pharmacy, Mission, Kansas. I treat new born to the most elderly, every kind of issue experienced including collaboration with NP midwives to sustain delicate pregnancies and assist with fertility and bioidentical hormone replacement therapies.

Education:

• University of Arizona | Bachelor of Science in Argriculture/Ag. Education
• University of South Florida | Master of Science in Public Health
• Clayton University | PhD in Agriculture Biophysics
• Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona CA | Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine

Certifications and Licensures:

• Certified Cenegenics, Trained Physician

For over 25 years, I have been a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist in Atlanta. Over the years, my personal journey for improved health and disease recovery led to practicing a whole-food plant-based, no oil eating style in 2021. Finding dramatic health benefits, I became increasingly interested in helping people achieve and sustain changes in their lifestyle to improve their health. Following my retirement from clinical psychiatric practice in 2023, I became board certified in Lifestyle Medicine. Partnering with our existing program, Kinetik Focus, we are launching Kinetik Health which focuses not only on education regarding the six pillars of lifestyle medicine, but also provides skills for behavioral change, accountability, coaching and community support to make the necessary changes for improved health.

I have been a practicing noninvasive cardiologist since 2012 specializing in ion and advanced lipid management. In 2019 I changed my diet and my immediate family members diet to a Whole Foods plant-based diet. I began to share all the positive effects a plant-based diet was having for me personally with my patients, and my medical practice naturally evolved into one focused on helping patients implement healthy lifestyle strategies, especiallu moving towards a whole food plant-based diet to treat and reverse their cardiovascular and other metabolic diseases. For the first time in my career, I began to see patients actually get well rather than continue to decline slowly overtime. In 2020 I completed the eCornell Plant, Pete’s nutrition certification, course through the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies, and in 2022 I became board-certified in lifestyle medicine through the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. I now incorporate all six pillars of lifestyle medicine into my daily preventive cardiovascular practice teaching my patients how to restore their health and improve their well-being.

Christine A. Degnon, MD, MPH (she/hers) is triple-boarded, with board certifications in Family Medicine, Obesity Medicine, and Lifestyle Medicine. “Dr. Chris” graduated from Bucknell University with degrees in Biology and Religion, then spent over two years serving as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in Kenya. She obtained her Medical Degree from Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania and then completed the Family Medicine Residency Program at Self Regional Healthcare in Greenwood, South Carolina. She also earned a Master in Public Health degree at Boston University. Since opening Coastal Direct Primary Care in January of 2018, Dr. Chris has been partnering with patients to make health a priority. She believes in patient-centered care and shared decision making, which means she will listen to you and work with you to develop your health and wellness goals, as well as a strategy to meet them.

Melanie Hughes is a Nurse Practitioner working in family practice in Tremonton, Utah. Melanie
lived in England and Canada before coming to the United States. She has been with
Intermountain Health for over 20 years and appreciates working for a company whose mission,
vision, and values align with her own. She loved working in the emergency department and
intensive care, but has found her true passion is family practice. She finds fulfillment in getting
to know the whole patient, their family, and their unique challenges. She earned a Bachelor of
Science from Brigham Young University (1991), and a Master of Science from the University of
Utah (2005). Additionally, she is a diplomate of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.
Doctoral studies are not yet completed. Her favorite moments at work are when she can help a
patient see success with lifestyle changes. When away from work she enjoys time with family,
hiking, canoeing, kayaking, gardening, weight-lifting, and reading.

Dr. Erica Jowett Hirst is a Clinical Behavior Analyst who earned her doctorate in Behavioral Psychology from the University of Kansas in 2014 and her master’s degree in Applied Behavior Analysis in 2008 and a bachelor’s degree in Psychology in 2006 from the Florida Institute of Technology. Dr. Jowett Hirst has experience using the science of behavior analysis to improve the lives of individuals across the life span.

Dr. Jowett Hirst uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people live their best life. ACT is an evidence-based therapy for addressing issues that are traditionally associated with mental health disorders (e.g., problematic patterns of thinking, compulsive behavior, emotional responding, etc.). ACT is an active and engaging form of therapy that focuses on 1) increasing attention to present-moment experiences (i.e., mindfulness), 2) developing healthy ways to cope with difficult thoughts and feelings, and 3) engaging in values-driven action. If you’re feeling stuck and ready to try something new, then ACT is for YOU!

Dr. Jowett Hirst also has experience helping individuals with autism and other intellectual and developmental disabilities achieve their full potential using Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). ABA is an evidence-based therapy for increasing adaptive skills such as communication, social skills, and independence with daily living, and decreasing behaviors that get in the way of living a meaningful life. If you are a parent or a person with a disability who is looking to improve your or your child’s quality of life, ABA is for YOU!