About Dr. George Zahrebelski, MS, MD

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Dr. George Zahrebelski, MS, MD, is a board-certified Castle Connelly selected Top Doctor practicing gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago, Illinois at the Digestive Disorders & Liver Center that he established in 1993. His clinical interests include toxic drug and metabolic liver disorders including NASH, the Irritable Bowel Syndrome, inflammatory bowel diseases, the human gut microbiome, and using nutritional and lifestyle approaches to help the human body remain healthy and heal naturally.

Dr. Zahrebelski created the Nutritional, Digestive And Liver Health Matters Institute to direct his preventative health philosophy toward individualizing strategies to maintain health and manage weight naturally for those who are motivated and striving to attain the highest quality existence.

Dr. Zahrebelski finished his fellowship in digestive and liver diseases and nutrition at the University of North Carolina Hospitals and Clinics at Chapel Hill, where he concentrated on the dietary management of various health disorders and studied how drugs, environmental influences, social factors, and genetics affected the liver and the digestive and metabolic functioning of the human body. His fellowship training led to certification in gastroenterology and hepatology.

Prior to his fellowship, he completed a residency and internship in internal medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Westside Veterans Administration Hospitals after earning his medical degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Before pursuing his career in health care, Dr. Zahrebelski received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in chemistry from Loyola University in Chicago and attained a Master of Science degree in chemistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago, focusing his academic interests on studying organic chemistry and the metabolism and toxicity of drugs.

Throughout his academic career, Dr. Zahrebelski worked with notable scientists in their field to carry out varied research projects including analyzing trace mineral element content in toenail samples to assess human health conditions; synthesizing novel organic chemical agents and characterizing the chemical reaction byproducts; evaluating the pharmacologic effects of hypnotic agents on sleep in mice; and studying the toxic effects of low oxygen states on liver cells. His research activities have contributed to studies published in major scientific journals.

He has served as chairman of his hospital’s Institutional Review Board committee to evaluate the safety of human participation in clinical research studies performed by staff providers on hospital network patients.

Dr. Zahrebelski has continually held a strong teaching interest, beginning while serving as a teaching and laboratory assistant during graduate and undergraduate studies; progressing through his residency and fellowship supervising and instructing junior physicians in training; and continuing into his private practice informing and educating patients concerning their health matters, all culminating in the creation of his instructional nutrition and healthful lifestyle book: CRUDE FUEL Monkey Food Diet, available through Amazon.com.