Todd Pesek, MD

  • Founder of VitalHealth Partners, a private group medical practice which focuses on preventive, integrative and holistic healthcare
  • Chief Medical Officer of Heinen’s Grocery Store
  • Tenured health sciences professor at Cleveland State University
  • Founder of a leading superfoods and supplements company, Nutritional Roots
  • Author of Eat Yourself Super… One Bite at a Time: A Superfoods Journey for the Happy, Healthy, and Hungry

Experience

Todd J. Pesek, M.D. is a holistic physician, medical advisor, published scholar, professor and author who specializes in disease prevention and reversal toward longevity and vital living.

Dr. Todd is founder of VitalHealth Partners, a private group medical practice which focuses on preventive, integrative and holistic healthcare. Dr. Todd is also Chief Medical Officer of Heinen’s Grocery Store and a tenured health sciences professor at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, where he teaches, researches and serves in multiple capacities, including as founding director for the Center for Healing Across Cultures. In addition, he is founder of a leading superfoods and supplements company, Nutritional Roots.

Dr. Todd was raised in the mountains of Appalachia in rural Pennsylvania and embraced his calling of holistic health and wellness from an early age. His passion and purpose began in the woods surrounding his home, gathering comfort and learning truth from his elders and the Earth. These childhood 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 that have long helped maintain personal health and wellness and can also help us stay healthy and filled with vitality today.

His work illustrates how we all can achieve wellness through hydration, superfood nutrition, alkalinization and detoxification, and that an immersion into nature, healing plants and the traditional practices of the world allow for true health.

His recent success is the health and wellness best-seller, Eat Yourself Super… One Bite at a Time: A Superfoods Journey for the Happy, Healthy, and Hungry.

To read more about Dr. Todd, visit his medical practice www.vitalhealthohio.com and www.nutritionalroots.com.

Education

Dr. Todd received his medical doctorate from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, and completed his training in Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, St. Vincent Charity Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio.