About Dr. Cass

Dr.-Cass-324-250x300Hyla Cass M.D graduated from the University of Toronto School of Medicine, interned at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, and completed a psychiatric residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center/UCLA School of Medicine. She was an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine until 2005, and is in private clinical practice in Pacific Palisades, CA. Dr. Cass is author of several popular books, including:

  • Supplement Your Prescription:
  • What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know About Nutrition
  • 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health: A Woman’s Take-Charge Program to Correct Imbalances, Reclaim Energy, and Restore Well-Being
  • Natural Highs: Supplements, Nutrition, and Mind/Body Techniques to Help You Feel Good All the Time
  • St. John’s Wort: Nature’s Blues Buster
  • Kava; Nature’s Answer to Stress Anxiety and Insomnia
  • A User’s Guides to Ginkgo A
  • User’s Guide to Vitamin C
  • A User’s Guide to Herbal Remedies

Dr. Cass is also a member of the Advisory Board of Health Sciences Institute, Taste for Life Magazine, and Total Health Magazine, and an advisory board member of California Citizens for Health. She consults to the supplement industry regarding formulations, and has developed several under her own label. Incorporating nutritional principles and natural health techniques in her practice for more than 20 years, Dr. Cass is one of the nation’s foremost authors and speakers on the subject of integrative medicine. She regularly appears on radio, television, including The View, The CBS Evening News and MSNBC, where she successfully debated a “Quackbuster” challenger. She is quoted as an expert in the field in publications such as the Los Angeles Times, The Toronto Star, Cosmopolitan, Time Magazine, and People Magazine. Her speaking topics to both lay and professional medical audiences include complementary medicine and psychiatry, anti-aging, women’s health (including bio-identical hormone therapy), stress reduction, and natural treatments for addictions, anxiety disorders, and depression.

Vision

The concept of doctor as authority figure is rapidly being replaced with a more progressive view of doctor as health partner. We now have an opportunity to help heal ourselves, our health care system, our communities, and ultimately, our planet by:

  • Treating the whole person – mind, body, spirit, and environment.
  • Determining the deepest root causes of symptoms, using scientific lab testing if needed.
  • Apply a continuum of treatments, always beginning with the safest and most nautural as possible.

Dr Hyla Cass is one of the country’s foremost authors and speakers on the subject of integrative medicine. A former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine, she has incorporated nutrition and natural health techniques into her practice for more than 20 years. Media: Click here for  Media and speaking resources

Practice

Dr. Cass has a private practice in Pacific Palisades, CA (near Santa Monica, in the Los Angeles area). She uses an integrated approach in her evaluation and treatment of individuals with a wide variety of problems. >> Consultation Appearances Dr. Cass appears regularly as an expert in the field, on radio, TV (including The View and MSNBC), and in publications such as the Los Angeles Times, The Toronto Star, Cosmopolitan, Time Magazine, and People Magazine. Dr Cass also maintains a busy schedule of speaking engagements at health-related events around the country, with topics ranging from complementary medicine and psychiatry, anti-aging, women’s health (including natural hormone therapy), weight management, to stress reduction, and natural treatments for addictions, anxiety disorders, and depression. Articles:  Click here for articles written by Dr. Cass Contact: Click here to contact Dr. Cass

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