Episode 44: Dr. Jeffrey Alfonsi and the Power of Sustainable Changes

In this episode of the Plant-Based Canada we chat with Dr Alfonsi. Dr. Jeffrey Alfonsi is an engineer and physician specializing in Internal Medicine, Obesity Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology. He serves as the Chief Product and Medical Officers of RX Food. He currently practices at Trillium Health Partners, Cleveland Clinic Canada, and London Health Sciences Centre.Dr. Alfonsi has an interest in the delivery of personalized medicine, and is actively involved in research to develop a model to deliver personalized medicine across Ontario and Canada. He also believes in the power of diet and lifestyle medicine – helping his patients build healthy and sustainable habits when it comes to what they put on their plates.He has maintained his passion for engineering over the years, creating multiple mobile health applications – including RX Food, an app using A.I. to assess patients’ daily eating habits – and is currently developing image-processing technologies to identify the nutritional content of foods to better manage chronic diseases. In this episode we discuss:Dr. Alfonsi’s interest in engineering and nutrition and how he merges the two How he utilizes lifestyle medicine and plant-based diets with his patientsHow sustainability and personalized medicine plays into his approachHow Dr. Alfonsi developed RX Food, how it works, and how it helps his patientsThe biggest challenges when it comes to educating physicians and patients about the power of lifestyle medicineSocialsDr. Alfonsi's TwitterRX FoodAI Twitter StudiesCarbohydrate-last meal pattern lowers postprandial glucose and insulin excursions in type 2 diabetesFermented-food diet increases microbiome diversity, decreases inflammatory proteins, study finds Support the show