Lalit Kapoor, a 1971 graduate of IIT Kanpur and MBA from UCLA is a successful serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. With age he developed lifestyle diseases and decided to reverse them by changing diet and lifestyle. This led him to study and research the field of nutrition and the works of giants in the plant based whole food field like, Dr. Colin Campbell, Dr. John McDougall, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, and others. He successfully got rid of all his chronic diseases like BP, Diabetes, Gout, Hypothyroidism, Osteoarthritis, Sleep Apnea, obesity and seasonal allergies and reinvented himself . He became an inspiration for his IITK batch mates and started a WhatsApp group to guide them with his learnings. Many benefitted and successfully reversed their chronic diseases. The word spread and number of social media groups kept increasing
He further incorporated the Nobel prize winning work by Nobel laureates Dr. Yoshinori Ohsumi (2016) on autophagy, Dr. Jeffery Hall (2017) on circadian rhythm and Dr. Tasuko Honzo (2018) on immunotherapy into his recommendations. His members are now curing themselves in as little as two weeks. He has over 100,000 active members in 45 countries and thousands of success stories. He runs over 100 social groups and enrollment in his monthly sessions has increased to over 7,000. He has created an NGO in US and India by the name “Plant Based Wellness Foundation” with over 35 centers worldwide. He is currently a visiting faculty at IIT Kanpur for a semester, teaching course in Nutrition & Health.
