Dr. Pelletier is a Clinical Professor of Medicine, Dept. of Medicine; Dept. of Family and Community Medicine; and Dept. of Psychiatry at the University of California School of Medicine (UCSF) in San Francisco. At UCSF Med, he is the Director of the Corporate Health Improvement Program (CHIP) a collaborative research program between CHIP and fifteen Fortune 500 corporations including Ford, Oracle, Prudential, Dow, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Pepsico, IBM, Cummins, Steelcase, and the Mayo Clinic. He is also Chairman of the AHA and a Vice President with American Specialty Health (ASH).Dr. Pelletier is a medical and business consultant to the USDHHS, the WHO, the NBGH, the Federation of State Medical Boards, and major corporations including Cisco, IBM, American Airlines, Prudential, Dow, Disney, Ford, Mercer, Merck, Pepsico, Ford, Pfizer, Walgreens, NASA, Microsoft ENCARTA, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, United Healthcare, Health Net, the Pasteur Institute of Lille, France, the Alpha Group of Mexico, and the Singapore Ministry of Health.He has or currently serves serves on the boards of Rancho la Puerta (Mexico), Fries Foundation, American Institute of Stress (AIS), American Journal of Health Promotion (AJHP), is a Founding Board Member of the American Board of Integrative Medicine (ABOIM), and as a peer reviewer for the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (JOEM), Annals of Internal Medicine, Health Affairs, and webMD. Andrew Weil, M.D., is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, a healing-oriented approach to health care which encompasses body, mind, and spirit.Combining a Harvard education and a lifetime of practicing natural and preventive medicine, Dr. Weil is the founder and director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, where he also holds the Lovell-Jones Endowed Chair in Integrative Rheumatology, and is Clinical Professor of Medicine and Professor of Public Health. The Center is the leading effort in the world to develop a comprehensive curriculum in integrative medicine. Graduates serve as directors of integrative medicine programs throughout the United States, and through its fellowship, the Center is now training doctors and nurse practitioners around the world.Dr. Weil is an internationally recognized expert for his views on leading a healthy lifestyle, his philosophy of healthy aging, and his critique of the future of medicine and health care.
"Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier's intent has always been to lead us to
discover what more each of us can do to make healthier choices.
While the right equation may not be "mind over matter," it is
profoundly true, as Ken likes to say, that our mind matters!" - DR.
ANDREW WEIL
"If you have every worried that the genetic hand you have been
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HYMAN, MD
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DEEPAK CHOPRA
"This extraordinary guidebook distills cutting-edge science and is
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health. A must read for consumers and clinicians." -WOODSON
MERRELL, MD, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE, MT. SINAI SCHOOL OF
MEDICINE, CHAIRMAN, INTEGRATIVE HEALTHCARE SYMPOSIUM
"The book distills the complexities of genetics and metabolism into
easy-to-understand concepts, metaphors, and examples that make
these often arcane topics accessible and applicable to practical
health improvement solutions." - DAVID S. SOBEL, MD, MPH, ADJUNCT
LECTURER, STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
"So you think health is all in your genes? Think again. It in your
epigenes! Dr. Pelletier once again shows he is a master translator
of this complex science into the simple and useable. Read it. Use
it." - WAYNE JONAS, MD
"Dr. Pelletier has taken this information and broken it down into
an interesting, informative read complete with advice on optimizing
our own health." - K. ANDREW CRIGHTON, MD, PAST CHAIRMAN OF THE
HEALTH ENHANCEMENT RESEARCH ORGANIZATION
"Dr. Pelletier has integrated decades of experience and research -
on how our genes truly respond to our lifestyle, on the role of
stress, consciousness and gut health - and he offers us our own
dashboard of markers, guidance systems and practices to fulfill our
potential as radiant, thriving beings." - FOSTER GAMBLE,
CO-CREATOR, THRIVE MOVIE AND MOVEMENT
"I have always found the pioneering research and writings of my
longtime friend Ken Pelletier to be invaluable. I highly recommend
this book to anyone hoping to lead a healthy long life."- KEN
DYCHTWALD, PH.D.
"Dr. Pelletier unravels the mystery of your genes and the
epigenetic inputs throughout life that continue to program your
genes. Reading this book is an essential epigenetic input that will
help you optimize your gene expression." - RICHARD CARMONA, MD,
MPH, FACS, SEVENTEENTH SURGEON GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
"Not only does this book provides a scientific basis for our
ability to shape our health trajectories through belief and
lifestyle choices, but it also outlines the emerging power of
personalized medicine." - EMERAN A. MAYER, MD, PHD,
"I found genetics to be the most complex subject in medical school.
Now, fifty years later, the field is one hundred times more
complicated. But leave it to Kenneth Pelletier to once again not
only tackle the importance of this rapidly evolving field but, as
with his other timely books, to make the practical application of
these breakthroughs easy to understand for most readers. No one
does it better." - STEVEN E. LOCKE, MD, ASSOCIATE CLINICAL,
PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY AT HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, DISTINGUISHED
LIFE FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION, CHIEF MEDICAL
OFFICER, IHOPE NETWORK
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