Lifestyle Medicine Course

Lifestyle Medicine is the use of evidence-based lifestyle therapeutic approaches, such as a plant-predominant dietary lifestyle, regular physical activity, adequate sleep, stress management, avoidance of risky substances and other non-drug modalities to treat, often reverse, and prevent lifestyle-related chronic disease.

Carlette has 30+ years of senior leadership in professional and collegiate sports organizations with comprehensive experience in business, sports leadership, transition, and wellbeing. She is an internationally recognized Sports Life Coach, a professional speaker, and the CEO of Patterson Sports Ventures.

Carlette is committed to equipping people to win in their lives in three dimensions (3D) - Personally, Professionally, and Philanthropically. Three-Dimensional Coaching and Training creates high-performance results because it is driven by meaningful relationships, underpinned by character, and anchored in purpose.

The desired outcome of Carlette’s work in 3D Coaching and Training is to achieve balance between personal wellbeing in our lives, professional legacy in our work, and philanthropical influence in our world.

3D Coaching and Training is the foundation for all of Carlette’s work, which have been implemented in the US, New Zealand, and Australia, for thousands of professional and collegiate athletes, coaches, teams, corporations, and executives.

Dr. Hunter was born and raised outside of New Orleans, Louisiana. She completed medical school at Louisiana State University School of Medicine. She moved to the Northwest for her internal medicine residency at Oregon Health & Science University. In 2020, Dr. Hunter earned a secondary board certification in Lifestyle Medicine and enjoys bringing these skills to her patient interactions. Lifestyle Medicine is an evidence based practice that focuses on making healthy changes in six areas of health to prevent, treat and reverse chronic disease. She has been a hospital based doctor, more recently a primary care practitioner and the founder of Vibrant Health NW, her lifestyle hub in the Pacific Northwest.

Dr. Hunter enjoys working with patients to help them take control of their health. She finds it rewarding to watch small changes lead to better wellness in the people she cares for. She believes practicing gratitude—taking time to recognize and appreciate the things one is thankful for—can promote physical and mental health. She encourages patients to focus on the positives in their lives, as well as how healthy habits like whole food diets and regular exercise can create lifelong wellness.

Outside of medicine, Dr. Hunter loves spending time with her two children, running, yoga and wine tasting with her husband. She enjoys eating fresh local foods and hearing New Orleans musicians when they play in the Pacific NW.