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The trainer. The researcher. The clinician.
Every protocol has a story behind it. Here's mine — the path from the gym floor to the clinic, and the question that connected the two.
2015peer-reviewed obesity study
Obesity Research &
Clinical Practice
The trainer
For ten years, I was a certified personal trainer and fitness competitor. I lived the discipline — competition prep, macros counted to the gram, training blocks built around every variable I could control. I knew nutrition, training, and body composition better than almost anyone I worked with. I had competed in it, and I taught it every day.
The client who broke the model
But I kept seeing the same thing: people doing everything right — the diet, the training, the discipline — and still not losing weight. Nobody could tell them why. That question is what sent me looking for an answer the fitness world didn't have.
The research that changed everything
That question took me into a research lab. I co-authored a peer-reviewed study showing that people today carrying the same caloric intake as people in the 1980s are measurably heavier. Something in our biology — not our behavior — had fundamentally shifted. That was the moment I knew this wasn't a willpower problem.
Read the published studyBecoming a doctor
So I went to naturopathic medical school and became a licensed ND. Then I completed a three-year clinical residency under Dr. Mimi Guarneri — the world-renowned integrative cardiologist who founded the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine — learning to read weight not as a cosmetic issue, but as a cardiovascular signal.
Building the protocol
Combining the research with the clinical training, I identified six biological drivers that explain why people doing everything right still can't lose weight: insulin, cortisol, hormones, gut bacteria, inflammation, and toxic burden. Identify the driver, fix the biology — the results follow. That became Dr. Pedi's Protocol.
Oasis Health & Medicine
Today I run that protocol out of Oasis Health & Medicine, where I've personally treated more than 3,000 patients. I share the research and the clinical framework behind it with a community of nearly 2 million people across Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube as Doctor Pedi, Natural Health.