VP#139: Dr. Michael Klaper Is Moving Medicine Forward - and Helping Address that Vitamin "L" deficiency! episode artwork

EPISODE · Apr 17, 2026 · 1H 5M

VP#139: Dr. Michael Klaper Is Moving Medicine Forward - and Helping Address that Vitamin "L" deficiency!

from Vegan Posse · host Chrissy Benson

Make vegan novel Marrying Myself an international bestseller and help normalize veganism through the arts!https://christinemelaniebenson.com/https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763/Seeking coaching and/or vegan support? Contact Chrissy directly at [email protected] This week’s episode with Dr. Michael Klaper:Moving Medicine Forward: https://www.movingmedforward.org/Dr. Michael Klaper, is a gifted clinician, internationally recognized teacher, and sought-after speaker on diet and health. He has practiced medicine for more than 40 years and is a leading educator in applied plant-based nutrition and integrative medicine.Dr. Klaper graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago (1972), served a medical internship at Vancouver General Hospital in British Columbia, Canada with additional training in internal medicine, surgery, anesthesiology, and orthopedics at the University of British Columbia Hospitals in Vancouver and in obstetrics at the University of California Hospitals in San Francisco. He practiced acute care medicine in New Zealand for three years and served for eight years on the staff of the TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, California, a nutrition-based medical clinic specializing in therapeutic fasting and health improvement through a whole-food, plant-based diet.Dr. Michael Klaper teaches that, “Health comes from healthy living” and over his medical career, has seen a whole-food, plant-based diet and lifestyle improvement reverse clogged arteries (atherosclerosis), high blood pressure (hypertension), obesity, adult onset diabetes, andDr. Klaper served as an advisor to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) project on nutrition for long-term space colonists on the moon and Mars. He was also a member of the Nutrition Task Force of the American Medical Student Association and served as the Director of the non-profit Institute of Nutrition Education and Research.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 Diet for a New America movie based on the book of the same name. He has also been featured in two other documentaries, “What The Health” and “Cowspiracy”. He feels the most important work of his career is unfolding now in the Moving Medicine Forward Initiative wherein he travels to the nation’s medical schools and educates the students on using plant-predominant nutrition and positive lifestyle changes to truly heal their patients. www.DoctorKlaper.com/Moving-Medicine-Forward.

Make vegan novel Marrying Myself an international bestseller and help normalize veganism through the arts!https://christinemelaniebenson.com/https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763/Seeking coaching and/or vegan support? Contact Chrissy directly at [email protected] This week’s episode with Dr. Michael Klaper:Moving Medicine Forward: https://www.movingmedforward.org/Dr. Michael Klaper, is a gifted clinician, internationally recognized teacher, and sought-after speaker on diet and health. He has practiced medicine for more than 40 years and is a leading educator in applied plant-based nutrition and integrative medicine.Dr. Klaper graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago (1972), served a medical internship at Vancouver General Hospital in British Columbia, Canada with additional training in internal medicine, surgery, anesthesiology, and orthopedics at the University of British Columbia Hospitals in Vancouver and in obstetrics at the University of California Hospitals in San Francisco. He practiced acute care medicine in New Zealand for three years and served for eight years on the staff of the TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, California, a nutrition-based medical clinic specializing in therapeutic fasting and health improvement through a whole-food, plant-based diet.Dr. Michael Klaper teaches that, “Health comes from healthy living” and over his medical career, has seen a whole-food, plant-based diet and lifestyle improvement reverse clogged arteries (atherosclerosis), high blood pressure (hypertension), obesity, adult onset diabetes, andDr. Klaper served as an advisor to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) project on nutrition for long-term space colonists on the moon and Mars. He was also a member of the Nutrition Task Force of the American Medical Student Association and served as the Director of the non-profit Institute of Nutrition Education and Research.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 Diet for a New America movie based on the book of the same name. He has also been featured in two other documentaries, “What The Health” and “Cowspiracy”. He feels the most important work of his career is unfolding now in the Moving Medicine Forward Initiative wherein he travels to the nation’s medical schools and educates the students on using plant-predominant nutrition and positive lifestyle changes to truly heal their patients. www.DoctorKlaper.com/Moving-Medicine-Forward.

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