About Dr. Yost

“I am interested in personalized medicine. Each person is unique in terms of biochemical makeup, environmental influences and lifestyle choices. This means that two people with the same complex chronic illness or autoimmune dysfunction will manifest symptoms and respond to treatment differently. My diagnostic testing and treatments are uniquely designed around each patient’s biochemical individuality.”

Lifestyle Medicine is the medicine of the 21st century. Many studies document the powerful effect of lifestyle changes on all of the chronic diseases we deal with today such as heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and blood sugar problems, osteoporosis, stroke, cancer, arthritis, cholesterol problems and Alzheimer’s. Comprehensive lifestyle changes are shown to influence genetic expression in a positive way for hundreds of genes. Coronary blockages can regress from multiple lifestyle changes. In a recent study, early stage prostate tumors regressed from lifestyle changes such as diet, exercise, meditative stress seduction and group support. These are some dramatic examples of the power of low technology lifestyle changes. The National Institute of Health now recommends lifestyle changes not just for prevention but for actual treatment of many chronic illnesses.

Memberships: Member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine,
American Academy of Pain Management, Institute of
Functional Medicine, Pima County Medical Society
Graduate: Applied Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice (AFMCP),
Institute of Functional Medicine
MD: University of Nebraska College of Medicine, Omaha, NE
Award: Physician’s Recognition Award for Continuing Medical Education,
American Medical Association, 2005-2008
Teaching: Instructor with the Integrative Medicine Program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.
Personal: National Top Ten Masters Swimmer in several events
Diplomate: American Academy of Pain Management