Dr. Steven Lome is a cardiologist practicing in Monterey CA on preventing and reversing heart disease with plant-based nutrition and lifestyle medicine. He is Chief of Cardiology at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula and Medical Director of MMG Cardiology.
Dr. Lome has an active YouTube Channel and 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.
Read Dr. Lome’s Forks Over Knives article detailing how he fell into two traps: The Standard American Diet (SAD) and practicing standard western medicine, totally ignoring diet and lifestyle. He successfully lost 100 pounds making many mistakes along the way. He now has a strong commitment to helping others overcome their unhealthy lifestyle habits seeing the power of lifestyle medicine personally and within his family.
Dr. Lome resuscitated two runners during a marathon in November 2022. Both men survived and are not following whole food plant based diets! See them on The Today Show here. The two runners are coming back to run the race again with Dr. Lome November 12th 2023!
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 Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Dr. Lome has stood alongside Dr. Neal Barnard helping to change legislation and policies to improve nutrition in America. He is the founder of the Plant Based Nutrition Movement (PBNM.org) and continues to show a never ending passion to fight chronic diseases with plants.
Dr. Lome enjoys running, swimming and his family. His wife, Helen, is a dedicated plant-based family physician and together they have 6 plant-based children”.

Steven Lome, DO, RVT