Dr. John La Puma

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?

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.

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.