Todd J Pesek

Biography

"Dr. Todd Pesek is a physician-scholar, in private practice, who specializes in preventive, integrative, holistic medicine. Since 2004, he has been a Health Sciences Professor at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio where he teaches, researches and serves including as Director of the Center for Healing Across Cultures. With over a decade of international research and practice experience in preventive, integrative, holistic health, Dr. Pesek has come to specialize in disease reversal, longevity and vital living. Having been raised in the mountains of Appalachia in rural PA, he embraced his calling of holistic health and wellness from an early age. His passion and purpose began in the surrounding woods, gathering comfort, and learning truth from his elders and the Earth. These adventures blossomed into extensive study and collaboration with traditional healers and holistic health practitioners in places as far away as India, Peru and Belize. His goal is to shed light on holistic health and wellness through timeless healing traditions, herbals and superfoods--they have long helped us maintain personal health and wellness, and they can help us stay healthy and filled with vitality today. We can achieve wellness through hydration, superfoods nutrition, alkalinization, and detoxification--things which an immersion into the healing plants and traditional practices of the world allow. Dr. Pesek received his medical doctorate from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, and completed his training in Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, St. Vincent Charity Hospital, also in Cleveland, OH. Dr. Todd has authored numerous publications, documentaries, and academic models in preventive, integrative, holistic health and wellness, and sustainability. He is an internationally prominent speaker with engaging messages who makes his home in rural Northeastern Ohio, where he continues to ramble through the woods to gain inspiration and be renewed by the Earth and Cosmos."

Research Interest

Preventive, Integrative, Holistic Medicine; Traditional Medicine; Ethnobotany; Environmental Health; Sustainability; Consciousness, Mindfulness and Meditation