Dr. Steven Lome is a cardiologist practicing at Rush-Copley in Aurora, IL at the time of his founding of PBNM, and focusing on preventing and reversing heart disease with plant-based nutrition and other lifestyle changes. He is the founder/author of HeartStrong.com, a free website to teach people the power of plant-based diets and lifestyle changes to prevent and reverse chronic diseases. Dr. Lome grew up on the Standard American Diet (SAD) and began his career practicing standard western medicine, totally ignoring diet and lifestyle. Through exercise and adopting a whole-food, plant-based diet, he successfully lost 100 and made a commitment to helping others overcome their unhealthy lifestyle habits. Dr. Lome holds board certifications in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Cardiac CT, Nuclear Cardiology, Echocardiography, Vascular Medicine, he is a registered vascular technologist (R.V.T.) and a registered physician in vascular interpretation (R.P.V.I.). As a member of the