Interview with Dr. Heather Hammerstedt

This week the inimitable Dr. Heather Hammerstedt teaches us about Lifestyle Medicine and how she made her pivot from full-time emergency medicine physician to coach and online business owner.

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Dr. Heather Hammerstedt is board certified in emergency medicine and lifestyle medicine. She received her medical degree from Temple University and a master’s in public health at Harvard University.  Subsequently, she completed her training in emergency medicine at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency.
 
She is an integrative nutrition coach, and CEO of Wholist, where she and her team provide lifestyle medicine coaching and consults.

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Lifestyle Medicine Creates Change

To accomplish her goal to curate each client’s health future, in her life, with her needs in mind, she brings together a system and a team that works together seamlessly. This creates the change that clients want to see and the life they want to live.

At the time of this interview, Heather has already brought together a team of 12 coaches, two salespeople, and two staffers providing administrative support. So, there are a lot of clients being served.

Podcasts and Personal Coaching

And she can’t get enough of her interviews with colleagues on her Curate Your Health Podcast. There she engages in conversations with colleagues in the fields of food, leadership, exercise, weight management, mindset, mindfulness, and women’s health.

You can choose four things that you can control. And the first is how you fuel your body. The second is how you move your body. The third is what your thoughts are and the fourth are what your inner state is. And I think right now, specifically in this world where we are not in control of our circumstance, understanding that you can control those four things is really important. – Dr. Heather Hammerstedt.

It is quite impressive. You should visit the Wholist website at wholisthealth.com to learn more. While you’re there, check out her 8 Week Lifestyle Medicine Course for Physicians and Practitioners.

Summary

We didn’t get into a discussion of her nonprofit, but if you want to learn more about what she is doing with Global Emergency Care then go to globalemergencycare.org. And visit her website to see if her services can help you feel better and get healthier, or teach your patients about the concepts of lifestyle medicine.

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