Laurie Marbas, MD, MBA is a board certified family medicine physician and board certified in lifestyle medicine. Dr. Marbas shares her story of discovering the healing power of plant-based diet through one of her patients' experiences and making it a "norm" for herself, her family and her patients. Since then, Dr. Marbas has witnessed many cases of disease reversal. She talks about her approach to helping patients adopt healthy diet, strategies to get families, including children, to eat more veggies, and tips on how not get give into cravings. Podcast: How To Health, found on youtube and iTunes, SoundCloud, and stitcher. https://soundcloud.com/stream Website: https://www.howtohealth.org
Laurie Marbas, MD, MBA is a board certified family medicine physician and board certified in lifestyle medicine. She utilized a whole foods plant based diet with her patients for the past 6 years in rural Colorado and as the former medical director for Dr. Fuhrman’s Health Oasis in Boca Raton, Florida. There they combined the power of nutrient dense foods and intensive clinical psychological therapy to treat not only food addiction but the chronic diseases plaguing America. Now she is working for Doctor on Demand as telemedicine physician, licensed in 11 states. Telemedicine gives her the flexibility to work with individuals across the country.
She is the host of the How to Health podcast and website, howtohealth.org, that has online self guided classes for individuals who want to transition to a whole foods plant based diet and many resources for parents to help their kids eat healthier too! She also working the managing editor of a new medical journal, The International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention highlighting of plant based research and lifestyle interventions to combat chronic disease plaguing America and the world.
In Colorado, she convinced a large hospital to create a lifestyle medicine program centered around the whole foods plant based diet with resounding success. She also conducted a study of 26 employees at another hospital for one month on a plant based, all fed from the hospital’s kitchen (working with Chef Martin Oswald), each individual had improvement of their health. She has spoken at the the Plantrician Project, Et Cultura, Golden VegFest in Colorado and other venues teaching about the value of the WFPB diet.
She wrote 7 books while in medical school, six of which were in a series called “Visual Mnemonics”, using cartoons to memorize vast amounts of information because she was also a mom as a medical student. She is a USAF veteran having served in the Middle East and South America. She is wife, mom of three grown children, and an avid runner.
In this conversation, Dr. Marbas shares her story of discovering the healing power of plant-based diet through one of her patients' experiences and making it a "norm" for herself, her family and her patients. Since then, Dr. Marbas has witnessed many cases of disease reversal. She talks about her approach to helping patients adopt healthy diet, strategies to get families, including children, to eat more veggies, and tips on how not get give into cravings.
Dr. Marbas is a managing editor for a new medical journal launching in the fall called the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention. The past president of the American College of Cardiology, Dr. Kim Williams, is the Editor in Chief. The website is http://ijdrp.org .
Podcast: How To Health, found on youtube and iTunes, SoundCloud, and stitcher.
https://soundcloud.com/stream
Website: https://www.howtohealth.org