What is the history of shared nutrition and lifestyle counseling?
Brent Jaster, MD, is a board certified family physician whose passion is to use nutrition and lifestyle modification to prevent and treat disease. During medical training he realized how little education is dedicated to preventing illness. Instead, training in the United States focuses on treating illness and trying to prevent complications or death from those illnesses. Insurance companies will not generally reimburse doctors who help patients to prevent disease. Dr. Jaster knew that in order to practice his passion and maximally impact patients’ health he needed to create an innovative medical practice—JasterHealth. Dr. Jaster has expertise and experience with shared medical appointments (SMAs), and familiarity using groups to teach diabetes research participants a plant-based diet. Through shared nutrition and lifestyle counseling he can help reverse the illness trend in the United States health care system. Why wait to treat disease with expensive medicine and technology, and not f
