About Jim Lavalle
James B. LaValle
R.Ph., C.C.N. M.T. DHM, DHPh.
James LaValle is an internationally recognized clinical pharmacist, author, board-certified clinical nutritionist, and expert and educator in integrative and precision health. James is best known for his expertise in personalized integrative therapies uncovering the underlying metabolic issues that keep people from feeling healthy and vital. A thought leader in drug/nutrient depletion issues he has published 4 books and 3 databases in this area alone. As such he has over 35 years’ experience integrating natural and integrative therapies into various medical and business models. His latest research is in drug-induced microbiome disruption.
AS A PRACTITIONER
Jim has served thousands of patients using his "Metabolic Model for Health" through his integrative health practice, LaValle Metabolix in Orange County, CA, and formerly at LaValle Metabolic Institute, an interdisciplinary medicine facility which he founded in Cincinnati in 2001 and sold in 2014.
His experience spans from the super athlete to individuals struggling with chronic health complaints. organizations and athletes from the Chicago Blackhawks, Anaheim Ducks, San Jose Sharks, Toronto Maple Leaf’s Orlando Magic, Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots, Houston Astros, St. Louis Cardinals as well as athletes from Olympians, to collegiate baseball, basketball, and football, car racing all search out his expertise for optimizing metabolism and targeting real-world results. He was selected to be the Integrative Medicine Program Director for the NFL Hall of Fame Health and Performance Program in 2019.
Jim also educates and works with military Special forces to optimize resilience and metabolic reserve.
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FOUNDER OF THE METABOLIC CODE
He is the founder of Metabolic Code Enterprises, Inc., which has launched the cloud-based Metabolic Code which helps practitioners and consumers identity their metabotype through labs, subjective surveys, evaluation of drug-induced nutrient depletion and biometrics. It generates a report that acts as a roadmap targeted to their health goals while tracking the improvements. He also founded Integrative Health Resources, which is focused on natural products industry consulting. As a practitioner for over 35 years, James has been recognized as an industry leader, receiving the prestigious Natural Products Association Clinician of the Year Award in 2011 for furthering the advancement of Integrative Medicine in the United States.
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AS AN EDUCATOR
LaValle is currently affiliated with George Washington University as a clinical instructor in the Masters of Integrative Medicine Program and received a Faculty of the Year award in 2017 from the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M), where he has taught for over a decade and serves as educational cochair. Prior to that, he served for over 16 years as an appointed associate professor at The University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy in the division of pharmacy practice and preceptor/faculty member for 4th-year medical students in the division of family practice at the College of Medicine.
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AS AN AUTHOR
James has authored 16 e-books and 20 books including the most recently released, Your Blood Never Lies, as well as his best seller, Cracking the Metabolic Code, along with Smart Medicine for Healthier Living, Nutritional Cost of Drugs and The Cox 2 Connection. He has written hundreds of articles for a variety of industry and scientific journals and publications and has lectured for thousands of healthcare professionals and consumer audiences globally on these topics. He was a founding author of the NHI on Demand database and spearheaded the Lexi Comp databases relating to Natural Therapeutics and Drug-Induced Nutrient Depletions.
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ACCOLADES & APPEARANCES
He was named one of the “50 Most Influential Pharmacists” by American Druggist magazine and was one of only nine Americans selected to serve under Senator Harkin to participate in the inaugural Dietary Supplement Education Alliance & Dietary Supplement Information Bureau. Jim is a favorite interviewee for the media related to natural care and has done well over 1000 media appearances on T.V. and radio.
New Books to be released in the coming year: Metabolic Code Revision and Athletes Guide to Optimizing Metabolic Performance and Resiliency through Biomarker and Subjective Analysis.
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OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Other Industry Highlights include a venture in 2010 with Life Time Fitness, the largest publicly traded fitness company in the US (NASDAQ: LTM), providing nutrition and metabolism expertise and developing Life Time’s national nutrition education, protocol design and product development initiatives related to weight loss and prevention. This entailed educating close to 2700 fitness trainers, 20 dieticians and reaching some 1.2 million Life Time fitness members.
LaValle also served as the nutrition correspondent for Body Shaping, the number one fitness show on ESPN II in the late 1990s. Jim has been a lead consultant with companies such as Bayer, CVS, Rite Aid, P&G, Helsin, Thorn Research amongst others.
Bio
James B. LaValle, R.Ph., C.C.N. M.T. DHM, DHPh. is an internationally recognized clinical pharmacist, author, and board-certified clinical nutritionist, with over 40 years of clinical experience in natural products, lifestyle, drug/nutrient depletion, compounding pharmacy and peptides. LaValle is best known for his expertise in precision and performance health as well as integrative care.
He has served thousands of patients, using a metabolic model for health, at his clinics in Orange County, CA, Austin, TX and formerly at LaValle Metabolic Institute, in Cincinnati Ohio. His focus both in clinic and enterprise platforms is to uncover the underlying metabolic issues that keep people from their peak health and resiliency.
He is the founder of Metabolic Code Enterprises, a cloud-based health technology platform that helps practitioners and individuals pinpoint the metabolic roadblocks to health based on a symptom survey, lab markers, biometrics, and wearable data. This groundbreaking assessment tool incorporates some 40,000 decisions, prioritizing networks of metabolism that are the most out of balance and provides suggestions for dietary supplements, diet and other targeted interventions and lifestyle suggestions with the goal of building metabolic reserve, resiliency and vitality.
He taught for 18 years as an appointed adjunct faculty member at the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy pioneering the course “Survey of Natural Medicine”, served as faculty at the College of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati, also while serving as a preceptorship for both physicians and pharmacy students. He is former faculty at the New York College of Chiropractic and Oriental Medicine as an instructor in the Master of Nutrition program as well as Adjunct Faculty for the Masters of Integrative Medicine program at the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
As the clinical co-chair at the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine(A4M), he has trained thousands of health care professionals on the value of integrative health programs for health optimization and performance, modeling health care practices to incorporate lifestyle, diet and natural therapies, bioidentical hormone therapies and other integrative care as part of the health equation for Americans.
He is Chair of the International Peptide Society where he organizes and educates physicians and allied health care professionals on various application of peptide therapies including applications in aesthetics, IV therapy, weight management and performance health.
LaValle gained national recognition as National Clinician of the Year in 2012 by the Natural Products Association for his pioneering work in furthering the professional standards of integrative care, and in 2017 as Educator of the Year for American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.
Jim was named one of the “50 Most Influential Pharmacists” by American Druggist magazine and was one of nine Americans selected by Senator Tom Harkin, to participate in the inaugural Dietary Supplement Education Alliance & Dietary Supplement Information Bureau. As such, he is often called on by media for interviews on a variety of health topics due to his
expertise and engaging style.
He is author of more than 26 books including, “Cracking the Metabolic
Code,” “Nutritional Cost of Drugs,” “Your Blood Never Lies”. and his latest book, Peptide Handbook, A Professional’s Guide to Peptide Therapeutics. In addition, he has authored 20 e-Books and four databases with information on a variety of topics, ranging from natural therapeutic decision tools, herb drug interactions, drug induced nutrient depletion, and professional monographs on 240 vitamin, mineral, nutraceuticals, and herbal compounds. He has also authored well over 200 articles, as well as being published in peer-reviewed literature. This year he will release, Optimizing Athletic Performance through Precision Biomarker Evaluation and “Turning Back the Clock”, Combatting Metaflammation and Inflammaging to Maximize Longevity and Performance Health.
In 2010, Jim and his team developed personalized weight loss and wellness programs for Life Time using his Metabolic Code approach for health and wellness. He was the clinical director for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Performance Health Program. Organizations including Corvette Race Team, Orlando Magic, Chicago Blackhawks, San Jose Sharks, Golden State Warriors, Austin FS, and Colorado Rapids have relied on his expertise for performance, resiliency and return to play programs. He also works with first responders and military educating on program develop to maximize recovery and readiness.
He is currently acting as Chief Science Officer for Life Time and the clinical program coordinator with the Miora Longevity and Performance Centers within Life Time facilities. It will be the largest effort for Lifestyle and Precision Health which will provide invaluable outcomes data to validate diet, nutrient, exercise, and medication programs targeted to maximize health, resiliency and meet the fitness goals of millions of Americans.