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Pamela Peeke, M.D.
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Topics
- Nutrition / Fitness
- Stress
- Women's Health
- Aging
- Community Health
- Obesity
- Mind-Body-Spirit Medicine
- Men's Health
Events
- Community Events
- Employee Wellness Programs
- Women's Conferences
- Heart Health Events
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Programs
How To Achieve Your Body For Life For WomenUsing her New York Times bestselling book Body for Life for Women, Dr. Peeke presents women with a simple lifelong, gender specific blueprint for optimizing mental and physical function throughout her lifetime. She describes the Ten Power Mind Principles for establishing a sustainable motivation and focus, and lays down a foundation for understanding how each hormonal milestone (menstruation, pregnancy, perimenopause, menopause) impacts upon her mental and physical fitness. Dr. Peeke provides her trademark Mind, Mouth and Muscle program so that each woman can achieve her optimal mental and physical transformation, and sustain it for life.
Men's Health: The ABS And The AB Not'sOver the course of a lifetime, a man's mental and physical health runs parallel with the expansion and contraction of his inner belly fat. Dr. Peeke outlines the relationship between age, stress and lifestyle habits as they impact upon the growth of excessive intra-abdominal fat, or Toxic Weight. Using her national bestseller Fight Fat after Forty, she links Toxic Fat to the increasing incidence of cancer, heart disease and diabetes in men. Based upon her book Fit to Live, Dr. Peeke presents a lifetime template for gender specific stress management, physical activity and nutritional habits to rein in the waistline, reduce disability and maximize years of high quality mental and physical functioning.
Your Mission Statement: Stay Alert And VerticalDr. Peeke describes the secrets of success of the centenarians. Using work done by Pearls at Harvard, and Snowdon's Nun's Study, Dr. Peeke lays down a simple road map of lifestyle habits that are shared by the majority of the gold medal winners in longevity. The mental, spiritual and physical habits and practices of the 100 year olds are related to their effect on medical conditions over the course of a lifetime. Based upon her book Fit to Live, Dr. Peeke challenges men and women with a simple assessment of mental, nutritional, and physical tests, and then outlines her easy and accessible path to high quality longevity.
Medicate With MovementDr. Peeke presents the impact of physical activity on mind and body functioning--- from mood to mammograms. She lays out the power of exercise on mental and immune function, aging, sleep, sexual function, and medical conditions. Dr. Peeke describes her Peeke Prescription from her book Fit to Live to achieve optimal endurance, strength, balance, flexibility and core function.
Stop Eating Science Fair ProjectsDr. Peeke refers to processed, refined foods as science fair projects. She presents the gradual evolution o f foods from whole grains, fruits and vegetables to family sized bags and boxes of fabricated edibles. She presents the argument that we must come full circle to whole foods, and that it is in the long run, the easier, healthier approach to healthy longevity. Using peer reviewed research, Dr. Peeke describes the three most valuable whole foods to eat to help prevent or treat six medical conditions, from heart disease to diabetes.
Stressed For SuccessUsing her pivotal research at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Peeke describes the relationship between chronic elevations of stress hormone (Toxic Stress) and its effect on the aging process, immune function, memory, the deposition of fat deep inside the belly. Drawing from her books (Fight Fat after Forty: The Stress-Fat Connection; Fit to Live), Dr. Peeke presents the five essential elements necessary to optimize an individual's ability to minimize or eliminate Toxic Stress, and increase the quantity and quality of life.
Girth Of A Nation: Live This Lifestyle At Your Own RiskDr. Peeke puts today's 24/7 lifestyle in perspective by presenting the evolution of American life from agrarian to high tech, from combines to computers. She draws the parallels between expanding economies and widening waistlines, and the ultimate medical, health and lifespan consequences. Dr. Peeke presents ten simple steps to regaining control of girth and wellness.
Integrative Fitness: The New BodyMind ScienceDr. Peeke defines her new term "integrative fitness" as the totality of mental, spiritual and physical fitness necessary for optimal, sustainable wellness. She traces the history of mind and body science from the Cartesian model to the current developments in neuroplasticity. Dr. Peeke describes the complex networks of brain chemicals and hormonal systems that link brain and body systems (the BodyMind), and their impact on immune function, growth and the aging process. Dr. Peeke presents a blueprint and action plan for optimizing the BodyMind.
Speaker Information
Dr. Pamela Peeke is an internationally recognized expert, physician, scientist and author in the fields of nutrition, stress, fitness and public health. On stage or in front of a camera, she combines her trademark energy, wit and humor with the latest scientific data to motivate and educate audiences of all ages to transform themselves for healthy living.
Serving as Chief Medical Correspondent for Discovery Health TV, Dr. Peeke is featured on the award winning National Body Challenge series and is the host of the Could You Survive? series, based upon her national bestselling book Fit to Live. Magazines including O, Prevention, Fitness and More feature her columns and editorials. Major television and radio networks including CNN, Fox and NPR interview her as a regular in-studio science and health news commentator. The multimedia healthy lifestyle program, Everyday Fitness with Dr. Pam Peeke, is available online to 50 million unique website users at WebMD.com.
Dr. Peeke's national bestselling books include Fight Fat after Forty, the first consumer book describing the complex science behind the stress-fat connection and what can be done to reverse it. Based on the groundbreaking research Dr. Peeke conducted at the National Institutes of Health, this state of the art book details her holistic, well integrated approach combining science and practical tools to help consumers cope with daily stresses to finally break the stress-fat cycle for life. In Body for Life for Women and the companion Body for Life for Women Workout DVD, Dr. Peeke uses cutting edge science and a holistic and integrative program to show women how to transform their lives as well as achieve and maintain their optimal mind and body fitness throughout the decades of their life. Dr. Peeke's third book, Fit to Live, presents wellness with a survival twist and challenges her readers with the question "Are you Fit to Live - Mentally, Nutritionally, Physically, Financially and Environmentally" to survive 21st century living, from divorce to disaster?
Dr. Peeke serves as spokesperson for the American College of Sports Medicine in it's global initiative, Exercise Is Medicine, and she has been recognized by the National Library of Medicine as one of America's leading physicians in their touring exhibition, Changing The Face of Medicine.
Dr. Peeke holds the position of Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. A native of San Francisco and a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Dr. Peeke was awarded her Baccalaureate in Science and Masters Degree in Public Health and Public Policy before completing her medical degree at Michigan State University and residency in internal medicine at George Washington University.
As a Pew Foundation Scholar in Nutrition and Metabolism during her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California at Davis and then as the first physician to serve as Senior Research Fellow at the National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine, Dr. Peeke conducted research in the newly evolving field of integrative medicine. Dr. Pamela Peeke was among the first physicians with formal training in nutrition science and while at the NIH, studied the relationship between chronic stress, nutrition, and weight gain. She helped establish the scientific foundation for the research and development of investigations involving nutrition and fitness.
An avid athlete and known as the 'doc who walks the talk,' Dr. Peeke leads the Peeke Performance Center for Healthy Living and organizes Peeke Retreats that include mind and body challenges, marathons and mountain hikes driving personal growth.
Testimonials
"The inspiring advice on diet and exercise that was given will promote and reinforce healthy lifestyle choices for all the women who attended."
- First Lady of California
"Dr. Peeke's participation in this event was an essential component in helping us reach our goals of educating and empowering women to take a proactive role in their healthcare."
- First Lady of North Dakota
"Dr. Peeke's talk was not only full of excellent, useful information, but it was motivating as well. We will work to maintain the enthusiasm that she inspired in our organization as we continue to promote healthy eating and lifestyle changes."
- Maryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene

