Meet Your Doctor

Michael Klaper, MD

I have stepped away from my clinical work and am no longer seeing patients.

Read Dr. Klaper's letter to patients >

“Proper nutrition — through a whole food, plant-based diet — and a balanced lifestyle are essential for health and, in many cases, can make the difference between healing an illness or merely treating its symptoms.”

Dr. Michael Klaper is a gifted clinician, internationally-recognized teacher, and sought-after speaker on diet and health. In addition to his clinical practice and private consultations with patients, he is a passionate and devoted educator of physicians and other healthcare professionals about the importance of nutrition in clinical practice and integrative medicine.

Dr. Klaper is the author of Vegan Nutrition; Pure & Simple (no longer in print) and has produced numerous health videos, webinars and dozens of articles for both scientific journals and the popular press. As 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 movie, Diet for a New America (based on the book of the same name). Dr. Klaper teaches that “Health Comes From Healthy Living” and he is dedicated to the healing and flourishing of all living beings and our planet.

“Health is having a body that moves without pain, breathes without distress and allows us to perform the activities of life with complete presence and focused energy. Then, we can love fully and enjoy our lives to the fullest.”

Dr. Michael Klaper graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1972. He served a medical internship at Vancouver General Hospital in British Columbia, Canada and received training in surgery, anesthesiology and orthopedics at the University of British Columbia Hospital in Vancouver. Additionally, he was trained in obstetrics at the University of California Hospital, San Francisco. Dr. Klaper is board-certified in Urgent Care Medicine.

As his medical career progressed, Dr. Klaper began to realize (true to what science is bearing out today) that many of the diseases his patients presented – clogged arteries (atherosclerosis), high blood pressure (hypertension), obesity, adult-onset diabetes and even some forms of arthritis, asthma, and other significant illnesses – were made worse or actually caused by the high sugar, high fat, high salt, overly processed, animal product-based, Standard American Diet (S.A.D.).

Dr. Klaper's letter to patients.

“I have stepped away from my clinical work”
– Michael Klaper, M.D.

Caring for my patients through PlantBased Telehealth has been one of the great honors and joys of my career. However, time marches on and, at age 75, in order to free up time & energy to write my book, create a podcast & focus on my passion of teaching medical students about plant-based nutrition, I have stepped away from my clinical work at Love.Life Telehealth and will no longer be seeing medical patients through that excellent service.

If you are seeking a truly talented, caring physician, knowledgeable about arresting and reversing disease and optimizing health though plant-based nutrition, I invite you make an appointment with one of the Love.Life Telehealth physicians who is licensed in your state. I assure you, no matter which Love.Life Telehealth physician assumes your care, you will be pleased and comforted by their competence and their caring nature.

If you have any questions about this transition process, please contact the Love.Life TeleHealth office at info@pbtelehealth.com or (888) 420-7284.

Best wishes for a future of health and happiness for you and yours,
Michael Klaper, M.D.

My Perspectives

Practical Medicine

Practical Medicine

By Dr. Michael Klaper On a recent airline flight, as the plane was descending to land, I noticed the child in the seat next to me appeared to be in great pain. He appeared to be 6 or 7 years old, had his hands cupped over both ears, and screamed piteously as tears...

Heart Health

Heart Health

By Dr. Michael Klaper February is designated as “Heart Month” - which, for most people, conjures up images of Cupid’s arrows and valentines. To physicians, however, the term often makes us think of hearts in trouble - most often from putty-like plaques of oxidized...

Webinars/Live Q&A

Q&A with Plant Based Nutrition Support Group

Q&A with Plant Based Nutrition Support Group

Special guests Paul Chatlin & Lisa Smith discuss how their organization Plant Based Nutrition Support Group offers communities to anyone looking to use a plant-based diet to treat their chronic diseases. Questions Answered (00:33) - Introducing the Plant Based...

Lifestyle Medicine Doctors Q&A | Dementia, Iron, Osteoporosis

Lifestyle Medicine Doctors Q&A | Dementia, Iron, Osteoporosis

The PBTH doctors discuss how a plant-based diet affects iron levels, dementia, osteoporosis, and much more! Questions Answered (00:04) - Do you know a dietician that is wholefood plant-based and knowledgeable of hemochromatosis? (02:44) - I have been on a wholefood...

Essentials for Plant-Based Diet with Guest Dr. Michael Greger

Essentials for Plant-Based Diet with Guest Dr. Michael Greger

  In this video our plant-based doctors answer your questions about suppliments, olive oil, and kidney disease, with quest speaker Dr. Michael Greger. Questions Answered (00:47) - Dr. Michael Greger, do you have any new projects that you like to share with us or...

PlantPure Nation | Q&A with Guest Speaker Nelson Campbell

PlantPure Nation | Q&A with Guest Speaker Nelson Campbell

In this Q&A, We welcome guest speaker Nelson Campbell and answer questions about PlantPure. Learn more about PlantPure Nation and Nelson Campbell https://www.plantpurenation.com/​. Questions Answered (00:12) - Can you tell us about PlantPure (10:18) - How can I...

Plant-based Nutrition | Live Q&A | GERD, Blood work, and A1C

Plant-based Nutrition | Live Q&A | GERD, Blood work, and A1C

In this Q&A, our plant-based doctors answer questions about plant-based nutrition, GERD, Blood work, and A1C. Questions Answered (00:40) - Silent GERD, Causes and Remedies (06:53) - Would you recommend surgery for a hiatal hernia for an 82 year old? (08:24) -...

What’s Missing from Medicine, Q&A with Guest Dr. Saray Stancic

What’s Missing from Medicine, Q&A with Guest Dr. Saray Stancic

On this Q&A plant-based doctors answer questions and discuss the many ways lifestyle medicine can improve your health. Questions Answered (02:38) - Introducing Dr. Saray Stancic (10:31) - Can you tell us about your film "Code Blue"? (15:55) - Where can I watch...

How to Monitor Your Health | Lifestyle Medicine Doctor Q&A

How to Monitor Your Health | Lifestyle Medicine Doctor Q&A

In this week’s webinar, Dr. Klaper, Dr. Miller, and Dr. Marbas answer a series of questions asked by the live audience on all topics related to medical conditions, plant based nutrition, and lifestyle medicine. Questions Answered (08:01) - What are your thoughts on...

Live Audience Questions | Lifestyle Medicine Doctors

Live Audience Questions | Lifestyle Medicine Doctors

In this week's webinar, Dr. Klaper, Dr. Miller, and Dr. Marbas answer a series of questions asked by the live audience on all topics related to medical conditions, plant based nutrition, and lifestyle medicine. Questions Answered (01:34) - Do you have any advice for...

Discussing Lifestyle Telemedicine

Discussing Lifestyle Telemedicine

In this week's webinar, Dr. Klaper, Dr. Miller, and Dr. Marbas discuss the incredible opportunities of practicing lifestyle telemedicine and how patients can best partner with their doctor to get, and stay, healthy. Questions Answered (00:52) - The complications of...

Getting Started on a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet

Getting Started on a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet

In this week's webinar, Dr. Klaper, Dr. Miller, and Dr. Marbas, and special guest Julieanna Hever, The Plant-Based Dietician,  discuss and answer audience questions about getting started on a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet. Questions Answered (02:11) - Adding vegetables...

Protecting Your Child's Health | Live Q&A

Protecting Your Child's Health | Live Q&A

On this Q&A plant-based doctors answer questions and discuss key aspects of protecting your child's health. Questions Answered (00:03) - Children's immune system (09:21) - Getting children to eat fruit (13:23) - Make healthy eating fun! (15:05) - The "one bite"...

Skin Health

Skin Health

In this week's webinar, Dr. Klaper, Dr. Miller, and Dr. Marbas answer questions about keeping your skin healthy. Questions Answered (00:39) - Understanding our skin, our largest organ (06:18) - Our skin as a reflection of our internal health (10:45) - Some common...

Habit Change

Habit Change

In this week's webinar, Dr. Klaper, Dr. Miller, and Dr. Marbas answer questions about habit change. Questions Answered (01:00) - Why do we care about changing habits? (07:50) - What's needed to create behavior change? (10:28) - Developing a growth mindset (11:58) -...

Welcome Dr. Klaper

Welcome Dr. Klaper

In this week's live Q&A, Dr. Marbas and Dr. Miller welcome Dr. Michael Klaper to the PlantBasedTeleHealth Team. Dr. Michael Klaper is a gifted clinician, internationally-recognized teacher, and sought-after speaker on diet and health. In addition to his clinical...