Todd Pesek

Raised in the mountains of Appalachia in rural Pennsylvania, I have embraced my calling of holistic health and wellness from an early age. My passion and purpose began with childhood rambles in those very woods, gathering comfort and learning truths from my elders and from nature, and have blossomed into extensive study and collaboration with traditional healers and preventive, integrative, holistic practitioners worldwide. So inspired, I have dedicated myself to the pursuit of keeping people healthy through the tenets of hydration, whole foods and superfoods nutrition, alkalinization, and detoxification and by an immersion into the healing plants and traditional practices of my own Appalachian tradition, as well as healing plants and practices of other cultures and practitioners learned on my journey.

My work sheds light on holistic health and wellness via deep healing traditions, how they have long helped us maintain personal health and wellness, and, most importantly, how they can help us stay healthy and filled with vitality in sustainable fashion now.

I am a private practice physician in Northeastern Ohio where I specialize in preventive, integrative, holistic medicine. I am co-founder of Great Lakes Health Institute, a leading holistic healthcare/medical practice in Northeastern Ohio.

On the academic front, I am a Health Sciences Professor at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, where I teach, research and serve including as Director of the Center for Healing Across Cultures, which I co-founded to facilitate positive change in health, wellness and sustainability as I research and disseminate traditional modalities for the maintenance of health and wellness, heightening of consciousness, happiness, and wisdom in the pursuit of healthier people, their communities, and our living environment. At Cleveland State University, I teach Healing Across Cultures, Culture and Health, Environmental Health, and Complementary and Alternative Medicine, where I integrate my international research and scholarship findings in preventive, integrative, holistic health and the secrets of long life as I extend my classroom walls to sacred spaces worldwide.

A holistic physician and ethnobotanist, I am the founding CEO of Earth Healers, an innovative and socially responsible green business partnership of doctors and indigenous peoples of the earth who work to make indigenous healing traditions widely available, for people and planet, through traditional herbal products of the utmost purity and potency.

I received my medical doctorate from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. I completed my training in Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, St. Vincent Charity Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio.

I have authored numerous publications, documentaries, and academic models in preventive, integrative, holistic health and wellness, and sustainability. I am an international speaker with engaging messages who makes his home in rural Northeastern Ohio, where I continue to ramble through the woods with my family and my elders to gain inspiration and be renewed by the Earth and Cosmos.

Todd's full story behind the Healing Space can be found here.