A course built around a way of thinking.
Bridging science, spirituality and society.
Why HNTP exists
The programme exists because the gap does.
HNTP was created from a simple conviction: chronic disease cannot always be understood by looking only at the diagnosis, the prescription or the diet chart.
Dr. Suresh Kumar Vunnamatla is a physician and educator whose work focuses on nutrition, lifestyle, metabolic health and the wider determinants that shape human wellbeing. He has worked across clinical medicine, nutrition, nutritional endocrinology and metabolic health since 2002 - before several of those became mainstream categories of care.
That work now connects in-person consultation, personally trained coaches, professional education and institution-level health programmes. Through HNTP, he brings together clinical reasoning, Holistic Nutrition, Lifestyle Medicine and real-world case learning to help health professionals develop a broader and more connected way of understanding chronic disease.
My mission is to empower a medication-free generation through lifestyle medicine, coaching, and compassionate science.
- Qualification
- MBBS, 2002
- Medical school
- Andhra Medical College, NTR University of Health Sciences
- Medical registration
- 48732
- In practice since
- 2002
- Teaching practitioners since
- 2020
The teaching philosophy
How he teaches.
The goal is not to give learners more answers. It is to help them ask better questions.
My conviction is that the foundations of medicine, applied through lifestyle-focused care, can make a meaningful difference to the burden of chronic disease.
- 01
Question assumptions
Learn to examine what is accepted, what is observed and what still needs explanation.
- 02
See the whole person
Understand physiology within the context of the life, environment and relationships around it.
- 03
Learn from outcomes
Observe, apply, follow, reflect and allow real-world experience to refine thinking.
Background
From clinical practice to a training ecosystem.
The milestones that led to HNTP, in the order they happened.
- 2002
MBBS, Andhra Medical College
NTR University of Health Sciences. Early years in clinical practice shaped a systems-level view of health. Registered medical practitioner, registration 48732.
- 2003–04
Chief Medical Officer, Delhi Lung and Heart Institute
Hospital medicine at the sharp end of cardiac and respiratory disease - the conditions lifestyle work would later aim upstream of.
- 2017–18
Head of Nutritional Endocrinology & Obesity
EndoLife Speciality Hospital and ReDesign Lifestyle, Guntur. Also Chief Nutrition Officer at Nutrifi, and Lead Nutritionist at the Prevent NCD Foundation.
- 2019
Co-founder, DoctorG Inc.
Healthcare delivery built around structured lifestyle follow-up and early digital patient records rather than one-off appointments.
- From 2020
Teaching practitioners
Holistic Nutrition Works: a coaching ecosystem focused on lifestyle medicine and chronic disease reversal, and the network of personally trained coaches behind it.
- 2025
Academy of Lifestyle & Metabolic Medicine
Formally established to train health professionals in evidence-informed, person-centred lifestyle medicine. HNTP is its foundation programme.
- Ongoing
Mission Medication-Free Million
A movement to empower one million people with medication-light health strategies.
- Forthcoming
Ahalya Smiled
A philosophical novel weaving mythology, science and real-world reversals - designed to spark hope and agency.
Learn the way he teaches.
HNTP is the foundation course. The way in is the CDC Challenge - two real cases, about twenty minutes, and your reasoning sets your fee.
₹35,000from ₹3,500a year, with a scholarship
- Step 01
Take the challenge
Two real clinical cases, ten questions and six reflections. About twenty minutes. Your answers save as you go, so stopping costs you nothing.
- Step 02
Earn your band
Scored on clinical reasoning, not recall. Every completed challenge earns a scholarship of at least 30%; the strongest earn 90%.
- Step 03
Enrol and begin
Your band sets your fee for the year. Seven modules, weekly live case sessions, and the pathway to ALSM certification.
Or start today with Standard Admission at ₹31,500 a year - no assessment, no waiting.