Nutritional Advisory Board

Yoshio Yoshimoto, M.D.

Yoshio Yoshimoto, M.D. is a member of Herbalife's Nutrition Advisory Board, based in Japan. The board consists of leading experts around the world in the fields of nutrition and health who educate and train Herbalife independent distributors on the principles of nutrition, physical activity and healthy lifestyle.

Yoshimoto is an active researcher, author and presenter specializing in the fields of endocrinology, bone metabolism, dementia and calcium, as well as microorganism-applied environmental medicine. He is the former director of the National Hyogo-Chuo Hospital, and played a critical role in the preparation for the foundation of College of Nursing Art and Science, Hyogo University, which opened in 1993 as the first public college specializing exclusively in nursing. After the opening of the college, Yoshimoto taught medicine as a professor in the nursing department and the graduate school.

Having served as a visiting professor and researcher at the University of California, Riverside, and Freie Universitat Berlin, as well as having been a member of the American Endocrine Society and other organizations, Yoshimoto has made invaluable contributions to maintaining people's health and to the further growth of the Japanese medical society. He earned a medical degree from Kobe University School of Medicine and is a councilor of the Japan Endocrine Society and the Japanese Society for Bone and Mineral Research; a member of the committee to select speech themes for the International Osteoporosis Conference and the program committee of the World Osteoporosis Conference; and an active member of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, the Japan Dietetics Society, the Japan Osteoporosis Society, the Japanese Society of Anti-Aging Medicine, the Japan Diabetes Society and the Japan Society for the Study of Obesity.