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Disclaimer: This podcast does not provide medical advice. The content of this podcast is provided for informational or educational purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for informed medical advice or care. You should not use this information to diagnose or treat any health issue without consulting your doctor. Always seek medical advice before making any lifestyle changes.
Natalie Gentile, MD is a family medicine and lifestyle medicine board certified physician with a passion for food and fitness. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and completed her Family Medicine residency at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.
As an attending physician, she saw that the current primary care model in the U.S. lacks continuity, access, and time with patients. She also noticed, especially on the inpatient hospital service, how sick patients were served food that was making them sicker, even in their most teachable, dire moments of health. Therefore, when she moved back home to Pittsburgh, PA, she opened Gentile Family Direct Primary Care, and is now a co-founder of a managed services organization for direct primary care (DPC) called Direct Care Physicians of Pittsburgh. [ Ссылка ]
Dr. G believes in breaking down barriers between community members and their access to the resources they need to strive to live a healthy lifestyle that’s the right fit for them. That inspired her to open Rebel Wellness in January 2023 – a lifestyle medicine-oriented wellness space that offers plant-based teaching kitchen classes, personal training sessions, group fitness classes and educational workshops, along with an on-demand library of resources. She enjoys the work-life balance that being a DPC doc allows, and loves spending time with her husband and their two young children.
Dr. G is a yoga and fitness instructor who works closely with the Walk at Home program [ Ссылка ] as an instructor. Through her work with Walk with a Doc, [ Ссылка ], she leads the Highland Park chapter that has been active since Spring 2020. She is also a member of the Community Advisory Board for the Carlow College Occupational Therapy program and is on the Board for Plant Based Pittsburgh. Dr. G is regularly engaged in educating the community through social media and was nominated as one of City Paper's Best Changemakers in 2021. In 2022 she was named to Pittsburgh Magazine’s “40 Under 40” list [ Ссылка ] as well as Pennsylvania Medical Society’s “40 under 40” physicians. [ Ссылка ]
Dr. G has a history of disordered eating habits, and when she adopted a plant centered lifestyle during medical school, she found this to be an imperative addition to the management plan to get to a better relationship with food. Nowadays, she puts lifestyle medicine front and center in how she counsels patients as this helped her so significantly in her own health journey. Through the time and continuity she has with patients, she has recognized disordered relationships with food and body image disorders in patients more frequently than she would have imagined. By addressing the 6 pillars of lifestyle medicine in her treatment plan for patients, this helps improve their long-term health in ways that a rushed visit and a prescription medication just doesn’t fully achieve. During this interview, she will discuss her personal journey with disordered eating as well as how a plant based lifestyle can help ease mental health conditions and health anxiety.
She is active on social media through both her personal ([ Ссылка ]) and Rebel Wellness ([ Ссылка ]) instagram accounts, as well as her YouTube channel where she shares fitness tips, plant based diet information, and medical content. She enjoys sharing her experience and passion for being a physician entrepreneur, raising plant based kids, and bringing awareness to weight stigma and disordered eating in medicine.
