Presenter:
Michael J. Hewitt, PhD
Research Director for Exercise Science
Clinical Exercise Physiologist
Canyon Ranch Health Resort
Dr. Michael Hewitt’s upcoming unique lecture focuses on true preventive medicine and the importance of physiological resilience. Dr. Hewitt will share The Foundations of Health, a four-legged structure which includes optimal nutrition, physical activity, stress management and sleep. These foundations form the platform upon which resilience, longevity and vitality rest, and are recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) as major modifiable determinants to chronic disease development and incidence.
Dr. Hewitt earned his master's degree in exercise physiology and cardiac rehabilitation from St. Cloud (Minnesota) State University and his PhD in Exercise Physiology from the University of Arizona. As Research Director for Exercise Science and Clinical Exercise Physiologist with a twenty-five-year tenure at Tucson’s famed Canyon Ranch Health Resort, Dr. Hewitt has written more than 15,000 exercise prescriptions. In addition to numerous abstracts, articles and monographs, his chapter on prescribing exercise has been revised and published in all four editions of Dr. David Rakel’s clinical textbook, Integrative Medicine.