Dr. Matthew Lederman is a board-certified Internal Medicine physician who specializes in reversing disease using nutrition and lifestyle medicine. He was featured in the film Forks Over Knives and co-authored the New York Times Bestseller The Forks Over Knives Plan, Forks Over Knives Family, and Keep It Simple, Keep It Whole. He helped create the lifestyle-improvement program used in the private medical center he cofounded, Transition To Health, and for the Whole Foods Market Medical & Wellness Centers. Most recently he has co-authored The Whole Foods Diet and helped develop www.WholeFoodsDiet.com. Dr. Lederman currently serves as the Vice President of Medical Affairs for Whole Foods Market overseeing the Whole Foods Market Medical and Wellness Centers and the Whole Foods Market Premier Health Plan along with other health and wellness projects. Visit his new website https://www.kinectin.com/
Matt and Alona specialize in optimizing health and making life better for their clients. They started using nutrition and lifestyle medicine to reverse disease and improve wellbeing when they coauthored “Keep It Simple, Keep It Whole.” From there they founded Transition To Health, Inc and Exsalus Health & Wellness Center where they helped patients reverse disease that conventional medicine could not.
They were featured in the film “Forks Over Knives” and co-authored the New York Times Bestseller “The Forks Over Knives Plan” and “Forks Over Knives Family.” In 2010 they joined Whole Foods Market, creating their lifestyle-improvement program and leading various other health and wellness projects. Together with John Mackey, the CEO and co-founder of Whole Foods Market, they coauthored, “The Whole Foods Diet” and “The Whole Foods Cookbook.”
As Vice Presidents at Whole Foods Market they led the initiative to establish comprehensive medical and wellness centers and develop a self-insured health plan and health system partner network designed to optimize all aspects of employee health in a comprehensive, integrated program. In 2020 they transitioned out of their roles at Whole Foods Market to devote their full time to their new venture, Kinectin.
Alona Pulde, MD is a board-certified practitioner of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and Family Medicine Physician. Matthew Lederman, MD is a board-certified Internal Medicine physician and Center for Nonviolent Communication Certified Trainer Candidate. Matt and Alona are married and live in San Diego, California with their two daughters, Kylee and Jordan.
