Mary Zittel is a certified Physician Assistant with experience in internal medicine and primary care. Mary obtained her Bachelor of Science degree studying a pre-medical curriculum at Canisius College earning Summa cum Laude distinction. She then went on to earn her Master of Medical Science degree in Physician Assistant studies from Yale University School of Medicine where she graduated top of her class along with Summa cum Laude distinction and induction into the National Honor Society for Physician Assistants. She has written for Health Science Magazine and was part of the paper that TrueNorth Health Center had published in the British Medical Journal on water only fasting and the treatment of Non-Hodgkins Follicular lymphoma. She also lectures at Yale on the power of an exclusively whole plant food diet free of added salt, oil, and sugar.
Mary has a passion for helping her patients using targeted nutritional therapy in order to reverse chronic illnesses such as high cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure, autoimmune disease and asthma. She also focuses on helping patients who are not candidates for fasting navigate through other options. Mary combines her modern medical education, with her experiences spending time at TrueNorth, in order to help patients make evidence based decisions about their diseases using the latest scientific data. Her mission is to use precise nutritional therapy in order for patients to achieve true reversal of their disease as well as achieve and maintain their ideal weight. With her personalized approach to nutrition and lifestyle, she helps you extend not only your lifespan but your healthspan too. After working with Mary, you will understand what you need to do to not only reverse the illness you are currently facing but to also take control of your future health. You will be empowered with the knowledge on how to live a longer and healthier life using an evidenced based nutritional approach tailored for you.
Mary’s journey into the exclusively whole plant food diet free of added salt, oil, and sugar started quite young, when as a freshman in high school, her library gave out copies of T. Colin Campbell’s book The China Study. Overnight she completely changed the way she ate and has remained true to the way of eating taught at TrueNorth Health Center since. When not working in an internal medicine office or remote coaching for the TrueNorth Health Center, you will find Mary reading the latest science and medical literature or tending to her organic orchard and vegetable garden in western New York with her 3 dogs. Mary also spends time volunteering in Tanzania Africa at a medical clinic and school for disabled children.
