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About Dr. Cass

Dr. Hyla Cass is one of the country's foremost authors and speakers on the subject of integrative medicine.

An Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine, she has incorporated nutrition and natural health techniques into her practice for more than 15 years.

Appearances

Dr. Cass appears regularly on radio, TV and in print media as an expert in her field. Her appearances include the nationally syndicated Public Radio International (PRI) program To the Point with Warren Olney, Pacifica Radio's The Aware Show with Lisa Garr, and the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. She's also appeared on MSNBC, and her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Toronto Star, Cosmopolitan, Time and People.

She maintains a busy schedule of speaking engagements at health-related events around the country, with topics ranging from complementary medicine and psychiatry, anti-aging, women's health (including natural hormone therapy), weight management, to stress reduction, and natural treatments for addictions, anxiety disorders, and depression.

Best-selling Books

Dr. Cass describes many of her clinical successes in her best-selling books:

• St. John's Wort: Nature's Blues Buster
• Kava: Nature's Answer To Stress, Anxiety And Insomnia (co-written with Terrence McNally).

Her book success continues with:

• All About Herbs
• A User's Guide to Ginkgo
• A User's Guide to Vitamin C
• Natural Highs: Supplements, Nutrition

Philosophy

Dr. Cass' years of experience have yielded the following principles:

1. Treat the whole person - mind, body, spirit, and environment.
2. Look first for the deepest root problems beneath any symptoms.
3. Apply a continuum of treatments, always beginning with the safest, most natural, and most benign.

Dr. Cass is committed to improving the health of individuals and communities and dedicates herself as President of The Healthy Foundation, to providing access to the benefits of nutritional supplements to children and adults at risk for nutritional deficiencies.

World Class Medical Education

Dr. Cass graduated from the University of Toronto School of Medicine, interned at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, and completed a psychiatric residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center/UCLA.

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