{"id":90,"date":"2024-06-21T11:26:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T11:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drshintani.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=90"},"modified":"2026-06-29T05:36:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T05:36:43","slug":"dr-shintani","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/drshintani.com\/wordpress\/dr-shintani\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Dr. Terry Shintani?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dr. Terry Shintani, MD, JD, MPH<\/strong>
Physician \u00b7 Nutritionist \u00b7 Author \u00b7 Community Advocate<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Terry Shintani has spent over three decades doing something most doctors don’t \u2014 using food as medicine to help patients reverse chronic disease naturally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a physician, nutritionist, lawyer, and community health advocate, Dr. Shintani brings a rare combination of medical expertise and deep cultural wisdom to everything he does. His work is rooted in a simple but powerful belief: that the human body already knows how to heal \u2014 when given the right food, the right environment, and the right care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Career Built on Serving Communities<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Shintani began his career serving Native Hawaiian and underserved communities in Hawaii \u2014 populations disproportionately affected by obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. What he discovered through years of clinical work became the foundation of his life’s mission: that traditional, whole-food plant-based diets could not only prevent chronic disease but reverse it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of his community health programs earned the highest national award from the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services<\/strong> \u2014 a recognition of results that speak for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His work has been featured in Newsweek, CBS This Morning, CNN, and Dateline NBC<\/strong>, and since 1995 he has been recognized in the Encyclopedia Britannica.<\/strong> (click here to see the video<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2006, Dr. Shintani was formally designated a “Living Treasure of Hawaii”<\/strong> \u2014 one of the youngest individuals ever to receive this honor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Peace Diet<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the heart of Dr. Shintani’s work is the Peace Diet<\/strong> \u2014 a whole-food, plant-based nutrition program rooted in the traditional diets of Hawaii and Asia. Unlike calorie-counting programs or restrictive fad diets, the Peace Diet is built on abundance: eating foods that nourish the body, reduce inflammation, and support lasting health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patients on the Peace Diet have experienced remarkable results \u2014 reducing or eliminating the need for diabetes medication, losing weight naturally, lowering cholesterol, and reclaiming energy they thought was gone for good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Peace Diet is not just a diet. It is a return to the way human beings were meant to eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Academic & Leadership Roles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Shintani currently serves as Associate Chair of Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine<\/strong> and holds the following positions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n