Introducing different fasting strategies to build metabolic fitness and flexibility
Fasting is powerful with the ability to detoxify the brain, body, heal damaged
organs, and completely rebuild the immune system.
The Insulin Friendly Living model for improving insulin resistance and advanced metabolic health conditions comes from his years of work with patients, clients and participants in custom one on one programs to very large groups of thousands of people in the population health space.
His health, weightloss and wellness programs and strategies have now reached hundreds of thousands of people across the U.S. and internationally. He now combines this experience with years of clinical work to build one of the most comprehensive integrative lifestyle programs available today.
Dr. Clum’s has a truly unique approach in utilizing well documented lifestyle modifications of Variable Output Exercise, Stress Resilience practices, Sleep recovery, and his unique application of nutritional timing emphasizing when to eat as much as what to eat. These lifestyle modifications coupled by his Functional Fasting methods following a Rotational Fasting Calendar has caught the attention of industry leaders in both the holistic and conventional medical model. People have used his programs to improve significant metabolic health issues from weight loss resistance to problems on the insulin resistance spectrum including metabolic syndrome, pre and type 2 diabetes, thyroid and adrenal conditions, as well as addiction and early depression in men.
Dr. Don Clum graduated from Life University in Marietta, GA in 1997 with a degree in Human Nutrition. He then moved to Life Chiropractic College West in California where he graduated with his Doctorate of Chiropractic in 2000. After graduation, Dr. Clum moved to San Jose, Costa Rica where he was invited to work with the Costa Rican Olympic Committee and Athletes.
After eight years in Costa Rica, Dr. Clum traveled to Castilla La Mancha, Spain, where he practiced and did consulting for two years.
He returned to the U.S.A. in 2010 when he and his wife started a fully integrated wellness center bringing holistic services of chiropractic, massage, metabolic nutrition, metabolic workouts in their onsite gym, wellness psychology, and medical services collaboration. Dr. Clum also collaborated in transitioning a traditional pain management medical practice into a wellness center with holistic services and served as the director of the onsite lab.
Dr. Clum’s success in creating integrated programs for insulin resistance specifically focusing on diabetes, diabetes prevention, metabolic syndrome, weight loss resistance, obesity, and cardiometabolic issues led him to join a national corporate wellness and population health company, ADURO Inc., in 2014 to date serving 140 employers and over 1,200,000 employees. While at ADURO Dr. Clum designed and delivered the first alternative diabetes prevention program that rivals and beats the national statistics of the National Diabetes Prevention Program from the N.I.H., and C.D.C.
