Speaking & Consulting
With ten years of speaking experience, Hunter Yost M.D., an Integrative physician, has addressed a
wide variety of audiences including physicians at hospitals about the importance of lifestyle and
nutritional factors affecting common illnesses such as heart disease, hypertension, diabetes,
arthritis, weight and gastrointestinal problems. He gives informative and entertaining power point
presentations covering the latest medical research related to diet and healthy lifestyles. Anecdotes
from Dr. Yost's medical practice are also used to illustrate these points.
Knowing that most people do not hear from their primary care physicians about nutritional and
lifestyle factors, Dr. Yost strongly believes this lifesaving medical research should be widely
disseminated to everyone.
Audiences will develop a new understanding of how their daily food habits, physical activity and
ability to deal effectively with stress closely relate to the most common and some not so common
health problems and then feel empowered to begin making simple changes to improve their health.
Dr. Yost is available to give keynote addresses on nutrition and healthy lifestyles as well as half
day or daylong workshops to corporations, agencies and executive retreats.
Wellness 2.0 for Hospitals and Healthcare Organizations
New Meanings and Conversations of Wellness.
Dr. Yost's unique paradigm for Wellness goes beyond the traditional carrot and stick approaches
of incentives and penalties offered to employees. A critical element missing in the usual focus on
diet, exercise and lifestyle changes is an answer to the question, "Why should I make any changes in
my lifestyle and why should I do it now?"
Dr. Yost's technology, based on the latest medical and social sciences research, focuses on self
generated meanings of wellness conveyed through social networks. It is based on the assumption that
everyone has at some time in the past made a choice to do something positive for their health, however
small or short lived, but have not incorporated this story of wellness into a present day conversation
of a healthy identity for themselves. Individuals are encouraged to elicit their own forgotten stories
of wellness. These stories could be in the area of diet, physical activity or reducing stress. Through
a series of generative, relational and future-oriented questions, new possibilities and personalized
meanings of wellness are created. These possibilities are conveyed within the individuals social
network. The potential for encouragement and inspiration can magnify in a reciprocal manner through
out that individuals network.
Basic Premises:
- Each individual has the potential to create new meanings of wellness for themselves.
- Conversations of wellness can begin a contagion of healthily behaviors.
Intentions:
- To encourage new self generated meanings of wellness.
- To spread healthy behaviors through conversations of wellness.
Contact Dr. Yost at 520-219-5060 or speaking@hunteryostmd.com
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