Travels from California, USA
Dr. John La Puma's speaking fee falls within range: $20,000 to $25,000
Dr John La Puma is a board-certified internationally recognized internist. He has been called “a secret weapon” by The Wall Street Journal, and is a regular medical, nutrition and healthy aging medical contributor in the national media
John La Puma, MD is the Founder and Clinical Director of Chef Clinic, a professionally trained chef, organic avocado farmer, and two-time New York Times bestselling author. Widely recognized as the pioneer of Culinary Medicine, he has led clinical trials on burnout, obesity, hypertension, osteoarthritis, insomnia, and diabetes—helping people get measurably healthier with what they eat and how they live.
Dr. La Puma has co-created the first U.S. medical courses in Nutrition & Cooking, Culinary Medicine, and Nature Therapy, authored 50+ peer-reviewed papers and three medical books, and published in NEJM, JAMA, and BMJ. His four bestselling books have sold over a million copies published in eight languages. A sought-after speaker, he has presented at Harvard, Stanford, TEDMED, TEDx, and Gel Health, and consulted for CIGNA, Caremark, GSK, and Kraft.
Dr. John La Puma is the leading physician voice for nature as medicine and culinary medicine, and an internationally recognized expert in wellness and longevity.
Dr. John La Puma has been widely featured in the media, hosting PBS programs including ChefMD Shorts and Eat and Cook Healthy, the YouTube series Refuel Minute for Men, and co-hosting 100+ episodes of Lifetime TV’s Health Corner. He has appeared on Dr. Oz, The Today Show, Good Morning America, NPR, CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX, PBS, ESPN, and more, as well as in hundreds of print and online publications.
He trained in internal medicine at UCLA/West LA VA and completed the nation’s first fellowship in general internal medicine and clinical medical ethics at the University of Chicago. Formerly Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago and Professor of Nutrition at Kendall College, he also cooked at Chef Rick Bayless’ Topolobampo and studied professional cooking at Le Cordon Bleu Chicago. A certified naturalist and permaculture designer, he transformed an abandoned orchard into a regenerative organic farm in Santa Barbara, where he grows avocados, rare citrus, and 100+ fruits, herbs, and nuts. Named “One of America’s Top Physicians,” he has also received the AMA/NAMC Award of Excellence.
You Can’t Out-Manage an Indoor Workforce
A diagnosis of why your people are tired and underproductive, and three environmental changes you can make in the building you already lease.
Nature as Medicine: Writing the Prescription
Clinicians leave able to write a specific outdoor prescription and cite the evidence behind it.
After the Drug: What Actually Keeps It Off
Answers the question people on these medications are most afraid to ask, using current evidence on what predicts keeping it off after stopping.
Ultraprocessed Time: Growing Up in a 93% Indoor World
A physician’s view of what indoor childhood does to sleep, attention and mood, and what the research says actually works.
“Chronic inflammation, accelerated aging, and preventable disease often share the same root cause: disconnection—from real food, real movement, and real environments. Indoor Epidemic is a timely, evidence-based guide to restoring that connection. Dr. La Puma’s prescription is simple, free, and profoundly healing.” Dean Ornish, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
“One of the most important and best presentations we’ve ever had—ever! You hit a grand slam!” Stuart Epperson, Chairman of the Board, Salem Communications
“Great job, for our company and for our customers. First rate. And your food was amazing.” Kevin Lobo, CEO, Ethicon Endo-Surgery
“Outstanding! Come back next year!” W. Lee Hammond, AARP President, Class of 2012
“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
“Not even your taste buds will know that you’re eating ‘good for you’ food.” Mehmet Oz, M.D., The Dr. Oz Show, co-author of You on a Diet
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Indoor Epidemic: 93% Inside Steals Sleep, Focus & Years—The 7% Outdoor Rx Restores Them
RECLAIM YOUR BIOLOGY The 7% Outdoor Rx for Modern Humans
You’ve optimized your diet, tracked your sleep, and tried every productivity hack—yet you still wake up exhausted, wired, and unable to focus. The problem isn’t your willpower. It’s your biology running on the wrong operating system.
Modern life traps us indoors for 93% of our time—under artificial light, staring at screens, disconnected from the natural signals that regulate energy, hormones, attention, and recovery. The result is familiar: burnout, brain fog, poor sleep, metabolic dysfunction, and accelerated aging.
Digital Obesity: The Hidden Driver of Burnout Digital overload, artificial light, and lack of time outdoors create what Dr. John La Puma calls Digital Obesity—a sensory mismatch that disrupts stress regulation, attention, circadian timing, and metabolic flexibility. Burnout isn’t just psychological. It’s what happens when human biology is trapped indoors.
This physician-authored framework shows how repurposing part of the 7% of your week you already spend outdoors—less than an hour a day—can help restore energy, focus, resilience, and long-term health. No supplements, biohacking gadgets, or extreme routines required.
Parents: This Works for Kids Too Since 2020, childhood depression has surged while outdoor time has plummeted. Teen antidepressant prescriptions rose 69% in six years.
The 7% Outdoor Rx offers a practical, medication-free way to help restore focus, mood, and resilience for the whole family. This isn’t a parenting book—it’s a biological reset for growing brains in an indoor world.
Evidence-Based. Medical-Grade. Zero Wellness Hype. Written by Dr. John La Puma, a board-certified internist and two-time New York Times bestselling author, Indoor Epidemic delivers a rigorous, research-grounded approach for professionals, parents, and anyone navigating modern indoor life.
This is not a supplement plan or a wellness trend. It’s a set of simple, measurable micro-prescriptions grounded in biology, not belief.
Inside, You’ll Learn How To: Correct circadian timing — Use light, temperature, and timing to improve sleep and daytime alertness Improve focus and motivation — Address attention disruption caused by digital overload and indoor living Stabilize stress hormones — Reduce cortisol dysregulation through environmental inputs, not willpower alone Strengthen immune resilience — Lower inflammatory burden through regular exposure to natural environments Increase metabolic flexibility — Sync meals, movement, and daylight to support energy and longevity Apply the 7% Outdoor Rx — Simple, realistic micro-prescriptions that fit even the busiest schedules No fluff. No wellness theater. No perfection required.
Indoor Epidemic is a physician’s blueprint for recalibrating human biology, reducing the cognitive and metabolic costs of indoor living, and extending health span by reconnecting with the environment that built you.
Take control of your biology. Start with 7%.
ChefMD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine: A Food Lover’s Road Map to: Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, Getting Really Healthy Doctor, What Do I Eat for That–and How Do I Make It Taste Really Good?
Respected physician and trained chef Dr. John La Puma answers those questions and more in this revolutionary book. In it, he offers you “culinary medicine” the art of cooking blended with the science of medicine. The result? Restaurant-quality recipes, foods, and meals that can reverse the process of disease.
Use ChefMD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine to:
Eat and cook the ChefMD way and discover just how easy, simple, and delicious a healthy life can be.
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RealAge Diet
Do some foods accelerate aging and others reverse it? Science says yes! Dr. Michael Roizen, who showed Americans how to stop getting biologically older by changing their lifestyle choices, now reveals his authoritative anti-aging diet.
Dr. Roizen starts with the simple premise, “If it doesn’t taste good, don’t eat it.” Then he solves everyday dining dilemmas. Eating out? Simple guidelines make meal selection a cinch. Eating in? Cooking tips and 84 fabulous recipes pack meals with age-lowering ingredients. Trying to lose weight? Dr. Roisen analyzes today’s popular diets for their impact on aging—and reveals the shocking resluts. A perfect follow-up volume for Roizen’s bestseller RealAge, The RealAge Diet is the delicious way to live longer and younger.
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