Have you been told you need a lifetime of pills to be healthy?
Our physician-led Jumpstart teaches you how to fix your health with food.
Another pill is not the same as getting better.
Maybe you feel fine. But your bloodwork says otherwise, and your doctor keeps mentioning one more prescription.
You've tried to get ahead of it. The fad diets. The exercise push. Maybe a GLP-1 shot. Maybe the pills themselves. Nothing fixed the underlying issues.
Does this sound familiar?
Your numbers keep creeping the wrong way, no matter what you try.
The prescriptions keep adding up, and not one of them fixes the root issue.
You feel out of control of your own body.
Nobody has shown you the path to controlling your health.
You shouldn't have to live like this. And better health shouldn't be so hard to figure out.
We are a nonprofit led by physicians, including our founder, Dr. Ted Barnett, a practicing radiologist who has eaten this way since 1991. We teach one simple, proven thing: how to eat so your body can heal itself. No supplements. No products to buy. Nothing complicated.
You don't have to take our word for it.
We convince people by the example of their own body.
In fifteen days, your own bloodwork tells you what changed. See our average Jumpstart improvements from over 3000+ participants!
Knowing what to eat was never the hard part.
You already know you should eat more vegetables. Most of us do.
The hard part is doing it. Sticking with it when the family wants takeout, when work runs late, when it is easier not to.
That is what Jumpstart is built for. A clear plan, a physician-led group, and people in it with you, so the change actually holds.
You don't need more information. You need a way to do it.
Real people. Real numbers. Their own words.
Find Your Starting Point.
Live 15-Day Jumpstart
The full experience. Physician-led group sessions over Zoom, a facilitator in your corner, daily lessons, grocery lists, and recipes. Best if you want structure and real human support.
Jumpstart On-Demand
The same lessons, self-paced, on your schedule. Includes access to our weekly live Ask Me Anything sessions, so you are never on your own. Best if you want to start today, your way.
For Clinicians
You want to help your patients, not just keep prescribing medications. Refer patients to Jumpstart or experience it yourself while earning CMEs.
Three steps. Fifteen days.
Join Jumpstart
Register and immediately gain access to recipes, shopping lists, and more to prepare for your journey.
Relearn how to eat
Jumpstart shows you exactly what to eat and how. No calorie counting. No portion control. Eat until you're full.
Finally get healthy
Do the fifteen days, then look at your own numbers. Watch them move in the right direction.
Join from anywhere.
Jumpstart happens live over Zoom, so where you live is not a barrier. Thousands of people have done it with us from all over the world.
We started in Rochester, New York. Today, your kitchen is the classroom.
Fifteen days: Your kitchen, your own results.
You've tried everything built to manage the problem. Try the one thing built to fix it.
Food is the best pharmacy. Let us show you how to use it.
Why we do this.
We believe your path to better health starts on your plate, and that no one should need a lifetime of pills to be healthy. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with one mission: teach as many people as we can how to use food to resolve the health issues that medication only manages. We don't sell supplements, products, or protocols.
We teach skills, not products, because the goal was never to keep you as a patient. The goal is a world where fewer people get sick in the first place.
Real Patient Cases & Discussions.
Each month, Lifestyle Medicine Grand Rounds brings clinicians together to learn from real patient cases, presented by peers and discussed with experienced lifestyle medicine physicians.
You’ll hear how complex medical cases are approached in real practice, including nutrition strategy, behavior change, and medication management. Sessions are interactive, practical, and designed to build confidence in treating root causes—not just symptoms.
Grand Rounds are free medical education, open to the public, with CME credit available for clinicians.
Watch a featured Lifestyle Medicine Grand Rounds here: The Role of Lifestyle Intervention in Early Stage Breast Cancer
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