Dr. Durgin trained at Dartmouth and became board-certified in emergency medicine at Brown University. Diagnosed with chronic diseases in his early thirties, he left medicine to care for his family. He transformed his life through healthier eating and exercise. He completed and coached Ironman triathlons, competed in bodybuilding, and became a certified personal trainer and corrective exercise specialist. He found lifestyle medicine via the American College of Medicine and returned to practice with this new focus. As as part of the inaugural class boarded in lifestyle medicine, he developed this area as an important component of the local clinics in Vermont. He and his family follow a whole food, plant-based lifestyle, and he remains active in endurance and strength training. He practices and directs lifestyle medicine through five centers in Vermont.