Dr. John La Puma

Physician, Celebrity Chef, Best Selling Author and Host of Lifetime's Chef MD

  • Dr. John La Puma Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $20,001 - $30,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    California, USA

  • Dr. John La Puma Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $20,001 - $30,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    California, USA

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Make Your RealAge Younger Now

Over 45 million people have taken the RealAge® test, free– the scientifically sound quiz that tells you your body’s biological age as you’ve chosen to live, as opposed to your birthday age.  The #1 ager is stress and the #2 is what you eat.  Your RealAge ...

Over 45 million people have taken the RealAge® test, free– the scientifically sound quiz that tells you your body’s biological age as you’ve chosen to live, as opposed to your birthday age.  The #1 ager is stress and the #2 is what you eat.  Your RealAge can be 26 years older than your birthday age, or 27 years younger! Which is it? What are the most recent culinary, nutritional, fitness and stress management insights about how to live to 100 at the top of your curve? What is the optimal diet, number of steps, necessary supplements to make your RealAge younger? In this lecture, Dr. La Puma shares just that, including the secrets to making yourself younger with what you eat and how you live.  He also covers the Blue Zone concept and 9 principles (including Wine at 5!), and the new, sixth Blue Zone, Singapore, as an identified place of great longevity and great quality of life. He shows you how you can practice the the small habits that make a big difference among centenarians in Okinawa, Costa Rica, Sardinia, Greece and Loma Linda. He concludes with a peak into the future of aging well—telomeric advances are happening rapidly: could they translate to a longer, healthier life for you?

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What is Culinary Medicine and What Does It Do?

Culinary medicine blends the art of cooking with the science of medicine to create high quality meals and beverages that aim to prevent and treat disease and improve well-being. Dr. La Puma co-taught the first course in a U.S. medical school (SUNY-Upstate, wrote the first ...

Culinary medicine blends the art of cooking with the science of medicine to create high quality meals and beverages that aim to prevent and treat disease and improve well-being. Dr. La Puma co-taught the first course in a U.S. medical school (SUNY-Upstate, wrote the first book (a NYTimes best-seller), filmed the first TV series (120+ episodes on LifetimeTV over 5 years), and gave the first TED talk (both TEDx and TEDMED).  Now taught in 70% of medical schools, culinary medicine is discussed and described by Dr. La Puma.  That means lots of water-cooler facts (bake a pizza hotter, longer or both for more whole wheat crust anti-oxidants)(add black pepper to your curries for maximal anti-inflammatory benefits from the turmeric inside)(leave a watermelon on a kitchen counter to keep the lycopene and beta carotene from going away in the fridge).  It also means the latest on food farmacies, medically tailored meals, produce prescriptions and delicious foods that work like medicine and still taste truly amazing, and are often right in your pantry, fridge or freezer.  Have a masterclass from the ChefMD® who started it all–taste culinary medicine.

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Nature Based Medicine: The Missing Link to Longevity and Wellness

Feeling better when you’re in the great outdoors seems intuitive. But did you know we spend 87% in buildings and 6% in cars? And 11 hours daily on devices? And that women who live near greenery have 12% less mortality than women who don’t? And that their newborns are more...

Feeling better when you’re in the great outdoors seems intuitive. But did you know we spend 87% in buildings and 6% in cars? And 11 hours daily on devices? And that women who live near greenery have 12% less mortality than women who don’t? And that their newborns are more likely to be a normal weight? Nature Deficit Disorder is undiagnosed in millions, and shows up as anxiety, depression, attention deficit, diabetes, hypertension, myopia, and obesity. Prescribing specific natural places for specific medical problems—low immunity, mental health, high blood pressure— is part of the health care system in Korea, Japan, the EU— but is still hidden in the U.S.  In this talk, Dr. La Puma shows what the science says about the relationship between the human microbiome (as big as your brain) and the soil microbiome.  How long do you need to go outside and where for your conditions? He discusses how, exactly, being near greenery or running water works— in the brain, the gut, the immune system and the vascular system. Overprescribing antibiotics, overeating ultraprocessed foods and overusing synthetic farm chemicals in the garden may be at the root cause of our chronic disease epidemic.  Dr. La Puma show you how to write your own prescription for nature based medicine to feel better, have more energy and create true wellness.

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About Keynote Speaker Dr. John La Puma

John La Puma, MD is a board-certified internist, a professionally trained chef and the New York Times best selling author of seven books, including RealAge Diet: Make Yourself Younger with What You Eat (HarperCollins) and Cooking the RealAge Way (Wm Morrow) with Michael Roizen, MD and REFUEL: Shed Fat, Boost Testosterone, and Pump Up Strength and Stamina (Harmony).

An expert in longevity and healthy aging for over 20 years, he co-founded the popular brand ChefMD® and is considered the founder of Culinary Medicine, now taught in 70% of U.S. medical schools and worldwide. He speaks on how to improve both healthspan and longevity with food choices and nature-based interventions at home.

With Leeza Gibbons and Joan Lunden, Dr. La Puma co-hosted the national cable weekly series “Health Corner” for Lifetime TV for five years and 120 episodes. He helps patients avoid synthetics and choose organic.  He currently stewards a regenerative certified organic farm in Santa Barbara, and always brings a treat from his garden to share.

Testimonials

“Our community parents were spell-bound by your inspiring presentation, and so were the teachers! We especially loved the herb plants, the garden data, and the easy-to-use ways that the right food and nature help kids create better focus.”

Josie Bahedry

Director of the Village School, Chadwick, Palos Verdes, CA

“You are the godfather of culinary medicine, and our clinicians from all over the U.S. were writing down every water-cooler nature therapy fact you gave. You’re starting a new field in medicine–again! Thank you a thousand times.”

Wolfram Anderson

CEO, Hypoglycemia Support Foundation and Director, Metabolic Health and Nutrition Summit, Seattle, WA

“Simply brilliant talk on nature therapy and a green rx to our international audience of scholars: please come back and give us more inspiration and wisdom!”

Mark Siegler M.D., F.A.C.P.

Lindy Bergman Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Founder and Director, The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, The University of Chicago, Chicago IL

“Absolutely terrific program!”

Allen Douma

AARP Board of Directors

“The women loved your session…and I would love to have you come back. You sold out all your books!”

Paula Herman

Program Manager, Professional Businesswomen of California

“Through the culinary wizardry of Dr. La Puma, not even your taste buds will know that you’re eating ‘good for you’ food. You can live well, and long, with his guidance.”

Mehmet Oz, M.D.

Author of YOU: Staying Young and YOU: The Owner's Manual

“Dr. La Puma brings to your table a rare combination of medical experience and culinary skills. Your health and meals will both benefit.”

Walter C. Willett, M.D.

Chair, Dept of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health

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