About Reza Yavari, M.D.
Dr. Reza Yavari: Beyond Weight Inventor & Founder
Reza Yavari M.D. is a Board-Certified Endocrinologist trained at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Yavari has advanced degrees from UC Berkeley, University of Paris Medical School VII, Sorbonne University, UCONN Health Center and the Yale School of Medicine. At Yale, Dr. Yavari pursued his specialty training in Endocrinology and was a Howard Hughes Fellow in Molecular Genetics. Since 2000, he has been a leader in the field of lifestyle management and wellness as the founder of Beyond Care®, a pioneering preventive care and Yale-affiliated diabetes and obesity center in Madison, CT. In 2005, Dr. Yavari’s was asked to write the first self-care book for reversing metabolic syndrome titled It Must Be My Metabolism (McGraw- Hill, 2006.) Dr. Yavari’s approach and his book were featured in the New York Times, the Yoga Journal, Shape Magazine, NPR, CNN News Live, More magazine, among other national press and media. In 2010, his Therapeutic Lifestyle Change methodology was adopted by HealthFleet Inc. of which Dr. Yavari is a Co-Founder and currently Medical Advisor. Zillion is now successfully coaching tens of thousands of employees of medium to large companies and members of insurance plans (see video below.)
During the last two decades, Dr. Yavari has offered his clinical know-how and services in diverse in-office settings and online. In all these diverse settings, Dr. Yavari has offered an expert line of preventive medicine and lifestyle change services for all types of health consumers. In 2017, Dr. Yavari won the prestigious SOLVE competition at MIT for his Digital Therapeutic aimed at diabetes and obesity designed for under-resourced demographics. This Digital Therapeutic Lifestyle Change Program (dTLC) called Beyond Weight®️ uses proprietary machine learning algorithms to help users self-coach in a personalized fashion to lose weight but more importantly to learn skills to avoid relapse. Using this dTLC program, individuals can learn about their diabetes and metabolic syndrome risk, are given personalized guidelines for nutrition, exercise, weight loss targets and are coached using cutting-edge digital behavior modification tools. Dr. Yavari’s book Simulation Coaching is a companion resource to the Beyond Weight App and describes in detail the methodology supporting our app.
Dr. Yavari speaks regularly on national and local radio and television stations. He also lectures frequently to general audiences and to healthcare professionals on various topics related to metabolism, diabetes and general health-related matters. Dr. Yavari continues to have clinical activity as endocrinologist affiliated with Yale New Haven Health.
Dr. Yavari's book It Must Be Metabolism! is the first comprehensive self-care book focused on therapeutic lifestyle change and metabolic syndrome.
Simulation Coaching for Obesity & Diabetes
Just Released in March 2021: Dr. Yavari offers a fresh review of obesity and diabetes and describes here the methodology used in his digital therapeutic Beyond Weight. Download or buy paperback on Amazon.
People who lose weight, gain it back unless they are forever diligent and always prepared. Simulation Coaching uses examples of unexpected life events that often cause relapse in the form of quizzes. These quizzes or vignettes called lifejigs®️ , prepare and ready participants for adversity and setbacks. By engaging in counter-factual or conditional thinking users self-teach skills needed when facing negative circumstances. This way the “what if” or “if only” outcomes prepare users for a variety of situations that could result in relapse. In his book, Dr. Yavari places Simulation Coaching in the general context of coaching for therapeutic lifestyle change.
