Indoor Epidemic

Dr. John La Puma is a board-certified internist and two-time New York Times bestselling author who has spent his career asking a simple question: why are modern humans so sick in environments we were never designed to live in?Early in his career, Dr. La Puma founded the field of Culinary Medicine and co-taught the first Culinary Medicine course at a U.S. medical school, helping bring food, metabolism, and lifestyle back into mainstream medical education. Culinary Medicine is now taught in roughly 80% of U.S. medical schools.His focus has since widened beyond food to the environment shaping human biology. His work examines how light, movement, time outdoors, and daily exposure to nature influence sleep, focus, metabolic health, immune function, and resilience - inputs his research shows are often more powerful than medications or devices alone. Indoor Epidemic: 93% Inside Steals Sleep, Focus & Years-The 7% Outdoor Rx Restores Them is the clinical framework built from that work.Dr. La Puma lives and works in Santa Barbara, California, where he continues to study and live the relationship between environment, lifestyle, and long-term health.