Michael Klaper, MD

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“Proper nutrition — through a whole food, plant-based diet — and a balanced lifestyle are essential for health and, in many cases, can make the difference between healing an illness or merely treating its symptoms.”

Dr. Michael Klaper is a gifted clinician, internationally-recognized teacher, and sought-after speaker on diet and health. In addition to his clinical practice and private consultations with patients, he is a passionate and devoted educator of physicians and other healthcare professionals about the importance of nutrition in clinical practice and integrative medicine.

Dr. Klaper is the author of Vegan Nutrition; Pure & Simple (no longer in print) and has produced numerous health videos, webinars and dozens of articles for both scientific journals and the popular press. As a source of inspiration advocating plant-based diets and the end of animal cruelty worldwide, Dr. Klaper contributed to the making of two PBS television programs, Food for Thought and the award-winning movie, Diet for a New America (based on the book of the same name). Dr. Klaper teaches that “Health Comes From Healthy Living” and he is dedicated to the healing and flourishing of all living beings and our planet.

“Health is having a body that moves without pain, breathes without distress and allows us to perform the activities of life with complete presence and focused energy. Then, we can love fully and enjoy our lives to the fullest.”

Dr. Michael Klaper graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1972. He served a medical internship at Vancouver General Hospital in British Columbia, Canada and received training in surgery, anesthesiology and orthopedics at the University of British Columbia Hospital in Vancouver. Additionally, he was trained in obstetrics at the University of California Hospital, San Francisco. Dr. Klaper is board-certified in Urgent Care Medicine.

As his medical career progressed, Dr. Klaper began to realize (true to what science is bearing out today) that many of the diseases his patients presented – clogged arteries (atherosclerosis), high blood pressure (hypertension), obesity, adult-onset diabetes and even some forms of arthritis, asthma, and other significant illnesses – were made worse or actually caused by the high sugar, high fat, high salt, overly processed, animal product-based, Standard American Diet (S.A.D.).

Dr. Klaper's letter to patients.

“I have stepped away from my clinical work”
– Michael Klaper, M.D.

Caring for my patients through PlantBased Telehealth has been one of the great honors and joys of my career. However, time marches on and, at age 75, in order to free up time & energy to write my book, create a podcast & focus on my passion of teaching medical students about plant-based nutrition, I have stepped away from my clinical work at Love.Life Telehealth and will no longer be seeing medical patients through that excellent service.

If you are seeking a truly talented, caring physician, knowledgeable about arresting and reversing disease and optimizing health though plant-based nutrition, I invite you make an appointment with one of the Love.Life Telehealth physicians who is licensed in your state. I assure you, no matter which Love.Life Telehealth physician assumes your care, you will be pleased and comforted by their competence and their caring nature.

If you have any questions about this transition process, please contact the Love.Life TeleHealth office at info@pbtelehealth.com or (888) 420-7284.

Best wishes for a future of health and happiness for you and yours,
Michael Klaper, M.D.