Dr Pete Patitsas, MD MBA BS

DR PETE PATITSAS
MD, MBA, BS
DR PETEÂ IS AN EMERGENCY MEDICINE PHYSICIAN
Dr Pete works in the emergency room. It is a place that fulfills the promise in the earliest story of Genesis that life will be filled with hard work and pain. It is from that platform, that environment of the True, that one can see reality unmasked. It is from that context that Dr Pete was able to reframe the diet discussion into something about health and not just cosmetics. While taking care of one patient at a time is crucial, The Athos Diet is a program to help humanity prevent disease in the first place. However, science without purpose is aimless. Knowledge without aim is emptiness. In addition to being a medical doctor, Dr Pete is also a Greek Orthodox Christian. The Athos Diet is the intersection between the medical and the philosophical, the Science and the Tradition. The Christian theme of the "meek shall inherit the earth" rings true through The Athos Diet as something so simple can be so powerful to prevent disease and cure disease.
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While Dr Pete has been fasting since 1991, in 2017, while in the last year of medical school, Dr Pete researched the fasting practices of Mt Athos with a scientific lens and optimized them through a medical perspective. He then lived the diet over Great Lent and in 48 days lost 35 lbs. This lifestyle allowed him to forgo eating for most of the day, lose weight, optimize his health, yet still take care of his family and his patients. This particular practice of Fasting can be found referenced in the early centuries of the Christian church and later lived by the monastic communities of Mt Athos; but it was only recently validated, refined, and optimized into the "The Athos Diet".
Dr Patitsas did not research or live out this framework in isolation. Dr Pete has a full plate! He is an Emergency Medicine Physician, has been married since 2007, and has four children, the last one he delivered himself. Dr Pete owns real estate, owns bitcoin, wrote a children's book, chants in the Orthodox Church, and even mows his own lawn! He was an avid rugby player and represented Greece's national team. These responsibilities and experiences have given him great insight into the elements of health and well-being. He lives by "Purpose, Passion, Productivity."
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Informed by his Greek Orthodox heritage, he has discovered a method to stay healthy with high energy to meet the daily grind of every day! Dr Pete visited Greece many times as a youth and lived there after graduating college. He was forever impacted by his journey to Mt Athos and has spent countless weeks living at monasteries across the globe. He remembers it as a place of stillness, fullness, and adventure. It was like a real-life "Lord of the Rings" or "Narnia". A place where time stops and meaning is the highest good. It is no coincidence that within a place of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, there would be found something that can bring a salve to suffering.
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