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Science
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Statistically less than 1% return to a normal weight in any given year...
That's unacceptable - especially because proven solutions exist.
You'll discover what drives your weight gain and what protocols you can use to halt and reverse it even if you've all but given up...
And the best part: if you know how, this becomes a fun, delicious adventure!
Practical Tips
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Many diseases are related to our weight, such as inflammation, diabetes, heart diseases, Alzheimer's, depression and at least 13 types of cancers...
Because this is so important, we don't shy away from the tough questions and you'll learn from experts you can trust. Plus, we\'ll have daily cooking demos where you\'ll see how you can put the lessons you learn into practice....
It's that clarity paired with practical tips that will allow you to take action right away during the summit and experience effortless, healthy weight loss for yourself.
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9 Days You Don't Want To Miss
Regardless of whether you've yo-yoed before, hit a plateau or just want to feel great in your skin, you'll enjoy learning the latest, cutting-edge insights from 40 of the world's top weight loss and health experts - many of which are the leading scientists in their fields, teach at universities and do not appear in any other online events
DAY 1
The true cause of the obesity epidemic
Dr. Joan Ifland
When food became addictive - the origin of the obesity epidemic and how to end it
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When food became addictive - the origin of the obesity epidemic and how to end it
Learn MoreWhen food became addictive - the origin of the obesity epidemic and how to end it
Dr. Joan Ifland
Dr. Ifland is a food addiction professional who is active in both online recovery and research.
Dr. Ifland has been an innovator in the field of recovery from food addiction since 1999 with the publication of her first popular book. She is the lead author of the first scholarly description of processed food addiction according to classic addiction diagnostic criteria and the first scholarly definition of addictive versus non-addictive foods.
Dr. Ifland earned her PhD in 2010 at Union Institute in addictive nutrition. Her MBA was awarded by Stanford Business School in 1978 and her BA in Economics and Political Science by Oberlin College in 1974. Dr. Ifland is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition. She currently resides in the Seattle area where she enjoys hiking, women’s business groups, and the arts.
Dr. Robert Lustig
Fact or fiction: What is the true cost of sugar and fructose consumption?
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Fact or fiction: What is the true cost of sugar and fructose consumption?
Learn MoreFact or fiction: What is the true cost of sugar and fructose consumption?
Dr. Robert Lustig
Robert H. Lustig, M.D., M.S.L. is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, and Member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF. Dr. Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist, with expertise in metabolism, obesity, and nutrition. He is one of the leaders of the current “anti-sugar” movement that is changing the food industry. Dr. Lustig graduated from MIT in 1976, and received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1980. He also received his Masters of Studies in Law (MSL) degree at University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 2013. He is the author of the popular books Fat Chance (2012), The Hacking of the American Mind (2017), and the just released book Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine. He is the Chief Science Officer of the non-profit Eat REAL, he is on the Advisory Board of the Center for Humane Technology, Simplex Health, and Levels Health, and he is the Chief Medical Officer of BioLumen Technologies, Foogal, Perfact, and Kalin Health.
Dr. Joel Fuhrman
Why we overeat and snack (and how to overcome those habits naturally)
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Dr. Joel Fuhrman
Joel Fuhrman, M.D. is a board-certified family physician, seven-time New York Times bestselling author (his latest book is Eat for Life), and nutritional researcher who has specialized for over 30 years in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional methods. At his Eat to Live Retreat in San Diego, CA, and through his books, television specials, and virtual speaking engagements, Dr. Fuhrman shares his life-saving nutritional protocols with hundreds of thousands of people around the world seeking to recover from obesity, food addictions, diabetes, heart disease, autoimmune disease, cancer, and other serious health concerns.
Dr. Fuhrman is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (Perelman) School of Medicine (1988). He received the St. Joseph’s Family Practice Resident’s Teaching Award for his contribution to the education of family practice residents and a C3 Cardiology Global Health Award for teaching nutritional science to cardiologists. Dr. Fuhrman also serves as the President of the Nutritional Research Foundation and is on the faculty of Northern Arizona University, Health Sciences division. His work and discoveries are published in medical journals, contributing to multiple ongoing nutritional studies with major research institutions across America.
A native of Yonkers, New York, Dr. Fuhrman is a former world-class figure skater, placing second in the United States National Pairs Championships in 1973 and third in the 1976 World Professional Pairs Skating Championship in Jaca, Spain. Dr. Fuhrman has served on sports medicine committees, advised professional and Olympic athletes, and lectured to athletic trainers and world-class athletes about maximizing performance and preventing injury.
In 2018 Dr. Fuhrman opened his Eat to Live Retreat in San Diego, where people from all over the world stay for extended periods to resolve food addiction, lose weight, and recover from serious medical conditions including cardiovascular disease, autoimmune disease, and more.
Dr. Hans Diehl
Behind closed doors of the food industry and 5 key choices you can make today
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Behind closed doors of the food industry and 5 key choices you can make today
Learn MoreBehind closed doors of the food industry and 5 key choices you can make today
Dr. Hans Diehl
Dr. Hans Diehl is an epidemiologist and heart researcher who holds a doctorate in Health Science and a master’s degree in Public Health Nutrition. He is founder of the Lifestyle Medicine Institute in Loma Linda, California and is a Clinical Professor in the School of Medicine of Loma Linda University.
Hans Diehl, DrHSc, MPH, FACN, is the founder of CHIP (Complete Health Improvement Program). The program results have been published in over 45 scientific articles in peer-reviewed medical journals, including the American Journal of Cardiology, the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, and Preventive Medicine. CHIP is endorsed by the Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM and the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
Professor Diehl has co-authored several books – The Optimal Diet Cookbook and Health Power: Healthy by Choice Not Chance, Take Charge Of Your Health, YOU-TURN, To Your Health! translated into 37 languages and an international bestseller with over 2 million copies in print.
Jill and Jeffrey Dalton
Weight loss kitchen: How Jeff lost 70 pounds and Jill 25 pounds
Learn MoreWeight loss kitchen: How Jeff lost 70 pounds and Jill 25 pounds
Jill and Jeffrey Dalton
Jill Dalton & Jeffrey Dalton are the visionaries behind The Whole Food Plant Based Cooking Show (plantbasedcookingshow.com), a YouTube channel and media platform. The couple knew, after making the switch to a whole food plant based diet and experiencing profound changes in their own health, they needed to share the power of a plant based diet with the world.
Together over the past 5 years they have been creating the popular cooking show from their home kitchen in Cary, North Carolina. The Dalton’s original recipes, cookbooks, and courses have been used by millions of viewers the world over as they too make the switch to a plant based lifestyle. Jill hosts the show and shares her mastery for creating tasty and easy to prepare recipes that incorporate all of the leading research on plant based nutrition. Jeffrey works behind the scenes writing, designing, filming, producing, and supporting the technical aspects of the show.
DAY 2
The science of permanent weight loss
Dr. Barbara Rolls
The science of losing weight for life while still feeling full and satisfied
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The science of losing weight for life while still feeling full and satisfied
Learn MoreThe science of losing weight for life while still feeling full and satisfied
Dr. Barbara Rolls
Barbara Rolls, Ph.D., is professor of nutritional sciences and the Helen A. Guthrie Chair of Nutritional Sciences at Pennsylvania State University, where she heads the Laboratory for the Study of Human Ingestive Behavior. A veteran nutrition researcher and past president of both the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior and the Obesity Society, Dr. Rolls has been honored throughout her career with numerous awards, including Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and honorary membership in the American Dietetic Association. In 2010 she received the Obesity Society’s highest honor, the George A. Bray Founders Award, and was elected to the American Society for Nutrition’s Fellows Class of 2011. She is the author of more than 250 research articles and six books, including The Volumetrics Weight Control Plan, The Volumetrics Eating Plan and her latest book The Ultimate Volumetrics Diet. She lives in State College, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Alan Goldhamer
Why is it so hard to reach a healthy weight even if you know what to do?
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Why is it so hard to reach a healthy weight even if you know what to do?
Learn MoreWhy is it so hard to reach a healthy weight even if you know what to do?
Dr. Alan Goldhamer
For over 30 years Dr. Alan Goldhamer has been the director of the True North Health Center and the TrueNorth Health Foundation in Santa Rosa CA. TrueNorth Health is an integrative medical facility combining medicine, osteopathy, naturopathy, chiropractic and psychology as well as a research center on the application of fasting to the treatment of high blood pressure, diabetes, autoimmune disorders and lymphoma.
Dr. Goldhamer is the author of the Health Promoting Cookbook and co-author of The Pleasure Trap. He was the principal investigator in a number of studies that have appeared in the peer reviewed literature including 2 papers on the use of fasting in the treatment of high blood pressure and a recent report that appeared in the British Medical Journal on the treatment of Lymphoma cancer with fasting and an exclusively plant-based diet.
Dr. Niki Davis
The ugly truth about oils
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Dr. Niki Davis
Niki Davis, MD is a “rocket scientist” turned physician. She is board certified in both family medicine and lifestyle medicine. At age 13, she started removing animal products from her diet because she didn’t feel it was healthy. Once in college, she obtained bachelor and master degrees in mechanical engineering and worked on the space shuttle program for several years. However, instead of rockets on her mind, she was constantly thinking about health and nutrition – helping her own family members improve their health and their lives by switching to a plant based lifestyle.
She eventually found her way back to her passion after leaving her engineering career to apply for medical school. She graduated from the University of Utah School of Medicine in 2017 and completed a Family Medicine residency program in 2020. While in residency, in addition to serving as Wellness Chief, she helped form Plant Based Montana, an advocacy group with the mission to educate healthcare providers and the general public about the benefits of a plant based diet.
She has had the pleasure of speaking at plant based events around the country and has been lucky enough to train with phenomenal mentors such as Dr. John McDougall, Dr. Michael Klaper, Dr. Anthony Lim, and Dr. Alan Goldhamer, among others. She is a regular guest on Chef AJ’s YouTube channel show and on the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) Podcast. She has a certificate in plant based nutrition from the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies through eCornell and is certified in The Starch Solution.
Dr. William Li
Eating for health: How the body's 5 defense systems are linked to our weight
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Eating for health: How the body's 5 defense systems are linked to our weight
Learn MoreEating for health: How the body's 5 defense systems are linked to our weight
Dr. William Li
William W. Li, MD, is a world-renowned physician, scientist, speaker, and author of EAT TO BEAT DISEASE – The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself. He is best known for leading the Angiogenesis Foundation. His groundbreaking work has impacted more than 70 diseases including cancer, diabetes, blindness, heart disease, and obesity. His TED Talk, “Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?” has garnered more than 11 million views, and he has appeared on: Good Morning America, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, Voice of America; and in The Atlantic, TIME, and The New York Times. An author of over 100 scientific publications in leading journals such as Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, and The Lancet, Dr. Li has served on the faculties of Harvard Medical School, Tufts University, and Dartmouth Medical School.
Shayda Soleymani
Simple recipes that powered a 120 pounds weight loss journey
Learn MoreSimple recipes that powered a 120 pounds weight loss journey
Shayda Soleymani
Shayda Soleymani is passionate about helping others thrive on a whole food plant based diet, SOS free, having seen first hand what it has done for her and her family, as well as others. Since adopting the WFPB lifestyle on January 12, 2012, she has lost close to 120 lbs, eliminated all her medications, and continues to thrive. She has also earned her starch solution certificate from Dr. McDougall. Her goal now is to teach culinary techniques on how to prepare simple, healthy delicious meals, using fresh whole foods without compromising flavor. She is the creator of her YouTube channel, Healthy Cooking with Shayda, where she teaches you how to make simple, healthy delicious meals, that are Salt, Oil and Sugar free. She is also known for creating authentic oil-free Persian food.
DAY 3
Why traditional diets fail
Dr. Marc Hellerstein
How your body fights against weight loss (the little-known reason most diets fail)
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How your body fights against weight loss (the little-known reason most diets fail)
Learn MoreHow your body fights against weight loss (the little-known reason most diets fail)
Dr. Marc Hellerstein
Dr. Hellerstein is Professor of Human Nutrition at the University of California, Berkeley, where he occupies an Endowed Chair (Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Chair). He is also Professor of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition in the Department of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, where he ran the diabetes clinic at SF General Hospital for 25 years. Dr. Hellerstein’s medical training was at Yale Medical School and he completed a PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in addition to medical training in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology and Metabolism.
Dr. Hellerstein’s major research interest has been the measurement in vivo of metabolic fluxes through pathways critical to health and disease, as biomarkers for understanding metabolic control and its disorders, including applications in drug development and clinical diagnostics. This research has resulted in over 300 publications, 80 issued patents and participation on several editorial boards, including Science Translational Medicine. Dr. Hellerstein co-founded a medical diagnostics and drug development biotech company, KineMed, Inc., in 2001.
Dr. John McDougall
The satiety switch: how a vilified food group can be the key to satiating weight loss
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The satiety switch: how a vilified food group can be the key to satiating weight loss
Learn MoreThe satiety switch: how a vilified food group can be the key to satiating weight loss
Dr. John McDougall
John McDougall, MD
John McDougall’s national recognition as a nutrition expert earned him a position in the Great Nutrition Debate 2000 presented by the USDA. He is a board-certified internist, author of 13 national best-selling books and co-founder of the McDougall Program. He has dedicated over 50 years of his life caring for people with diet and lifestyle medicine. Physician, speaker, and best-selling author, John McDougall, MD teaches the importance of a whole food, starch-based diet in order to halt, reverse and heal chronic disease.
Dr. McDougall is co-founder of the McDougall Program alongside his wife, Mary McDougall – the original whole-food plant-based vegan and creator of thousands of low fat, oil-free, vegan recipes. The McDougall Program is a leading medical program that heals chronic illness through professional medical care, world-class education and ongoing support for people transitioning to a starch-based lifestyle.
Dr. Michael Goran
Sugar proof: the hidden dangers in sweets and how to protect your children
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Sugar proof: the hidden dangers in sweets and how to protect your children
Learn MoreSugar proof: the hidden dangers in sweets and how to protect your children
Dr. Michael Goran
Michael is a Professor of Pediatrics at The Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, which is affiliated with the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. He is Program Director for Diabetes and Obesity at The Saban Research Institute and he holds the Dr Robert C and Veronica Atkins Endowed Chair in Childhood Obesity and Diabetes. Dr Goran also serves as Co-Director of the USC Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute. Dr Goran is a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester, UK (1986) prior to postdoctoral training in the US (1987 to 1991). He previously served on the faculty of Medicine at the University of Vermont (1991 to 1994), the Department of Nutrition Sciences at UAB (1994 to 1999), the Department of Preventive Medicine at USC (1999 to 2018) prior to joining Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles.
His research has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health and other Foundations for the past 30 years during which he has raised almost $50m in funding to support this work. He has published over 350 professional peer-reviewed articles and reviews. He is the Editor of the “Childhood Obesity: Causes, Consequences and Intervention Approaches” published in 2017, co-editor of “Dietary Sugars and Health”published in late 2014, and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for Pediatric Obesity. He has been the recipient of a number of scientific awards for his research and teaching, including: The Nutrition Society Medal for Research (1996), The Lilly Award for Scientific Achievement from The Obesity Society (2006), The Bar-Or Award for Excellence in Pediatric Obesity Research, from The Obesity Society (2009), the TOPS award for contributions to obesity research from The Obesity Society (2014), and the Rank Prize Lecture in Nutrition (2018).
Michael lives in Silverlake, Los Angeles with his wife Lori, a film editor, his 2 teenage daughters, and their cat, Hugo Moon. Outside of work, Michael likes to play tennis, and hang out with his family which typically involves cooking, eating, going on walks and travel.
Lissa Maris
What to do when you've tried all the diets in the world?
Learn MoreWhat to do when you've tried all the diets in the world?
Lissa Maris
Lissa Maris has been eating a raw diet and living a vegan lifestyle for 7 years. After losing 70 pounds, clearing adult cystic acne and finding vibrant heath, she began to help others find healthy change as well. She speaks at multiple festivals and events, enjoys creating countless delicious raw vegan recipes and has combined her love of photography with food to create recipe books and meal plans to inspire others to choose more raw meals. Her favorite topics are how to combat cravings and dealing with the mindset shifts needed for healthy choices.
DAY 4
Protecting your health – when body fat triggers diseases
Cyrus Khambatta, PhD
What your blood sugar levels tell you about your chances to lose weight (even if you're not diabetic)
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What your blood sugar levels tell you about your chances to lose weight (even if you're not diabetic)
Learn MoreWhat your blood sugar levels tell you about your chances to lose weight (even if you're not diabetic)
Cyrus Khambatta, PhD
Cyrus Khambatta, PhD, is a cofounder of Mastering Diabetes and is an internationally recognized nutrition and fitness coach who has been living with type 1 diabetes since 2002. Using an evidence-based approach to nutrition and fitness, he first reduced his own insulin usage by more than 40%, and has educated thousands of people with all forms of diabetes how to reverse insulin resistance using diet and exercise. Cyrus earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2003, then earned a PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 2012. He is the co-host of the annual Mastering Diabetes Online Summit, a featured speaker at the Plant-Based Nutrition and Healthcare Conference, has been featured on Forks Over Knives, NPR, PBS, KQED, Fast Company, and is the author of the upcoming book Mastering Diabetes.
Dr. Edwin McDonald
Fatty liver disease without alcohol? Understanding how your diet harms and heals the liver
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Fatty liver disease without alcohol? Understanding how your diet harms and heals the liver
Learn MoreFatty liver disease without alcohol? Understanding how your diet harms and heals the liver
Dr. Edwin McDonald
Edwin K. McDonald IV, MD, is dedicated to improving the health of individuals and communities through nutrition education. He works with patients with small bowel diseases, obesity and other conditions affecting the digestive system.
Dr. McDonald’s interest in the effects of nutrition on health and disease stem from his experience with Project Brotherhood — an innovative clinic dedicated to providing accessible, affordable care for black men on Chicago’s South Side. While training barbers to serve as health educators, he became keenly aware of the impact of social determinants of health, including the role of nutrition. In 2012, Dr. McDonald received a certificate in professional cookery from Kendall College School of Culinary Arts.
Dr. McDonald also is an active researcher. He recently investigated the effects of vitamin deficiency in patients requiring parenteral nutrition (intravenous feeding) and studied the usefulness of fecal calprotectin in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. He also created a web-based mobile program to assess the utility of applications in managing inpatient hepatology patients. Dr. McDonald’s work has been funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).
Dr. Will Bulsiewicz
How your gut health unlocks a surprising weight loss mechanism in your body
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How your gut health unlocks a surprising weight loss mechanism in your body
Learn MoreHow your gut health unlocks a surprising weight loss mechanism in your body
Dr. Will Bulsiewicz
Will Bulsiewicz, MD, MSCI, or Dr. B. as he likes to be called, went to med school at Georgetown School of Medicine, trained in medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and gastroenterology at The University of North Carolina Hospitals, got his Master of Science in Clinical Investigation (MSCI) from Northwestern University and a certificate in nutrition from Cornell University.
Dr. B. is board-certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology and an expert in digestive diseases and the gut.
Dr. B. has won multiple awards and distinctions for his work as a clinician, and conducted research for/contributed to 20+ published scientific articles and 40+ presentations at national meetings. He has been featured in Shape, Women’s Health, Men’s Health, and on HuffPost.
In 2020 he published Fiber Fueled which instantly became a New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller.
Plantiful Kiki
Finding the strength to overcome weight struggles and cancer scares
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Plantiful Kiki
Kiki’shealth had been worsening over 6 years no matter what she tried. She kept gaining weight and her blood sugar levels were considered prediabetic. She tried a high protein low carb diet but her blood sugar levels remained terrible.
In 2018 Kiki learned about Dr. John McDougall, followed a starch-based diet and since then lost 70 pounds, normalized her cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood sugar levels and started sharing her story, tips and recipes with others.
Kiki is Mom of two and lives in Colorado.
DAY 5
Break old habits & set yourself up for health
Dr. Rosane Oliveira
Epigenetics: the science of turning off our fat genes
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Dr. Rosane Oliveira
Dr. Rosane Oliveira combines a lifelong passion for nutrition with 25 years of genetics research to create programs that help people develop healthy habits on their journey towards a more plant-based lifestyle.
She is a Visiting Clinical Professor in Public Health Sciences at the University of California Davis and is currently working with the School of Medicine curriculum redesign team to integrate topics related to preventive and lifestyle medicine into the new 4-year curriculum.
For the past 10 years, Dr. Oliveira also served as the founding director of the first Integrative Medicine program at UC Davis, where she created a Lifestyle Medicine Elective, published a #1 Amazon bestseller cookbook, and ran an annual challenge that gave nearly 150,000 individuals across 60+ countries the chance to try out plant-based eating.
As a molecular geneticist, Dr. Oliveira has studied transmission of infectious diseases, drug resistance in microorganisms, cancer initiation and progression, and how the food we eat can change gene expression to either cause disease or promote health and longevity.
She completed her postgraduate studies in Brazil and did her postdoctoral training in immunogenetics and functional genomics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
She is a native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and has lived in the US since 2003.
Dr. Steve Lawenda
Dispelling 5 common myths on exercise, diet and weight loss by a doc who's been in your shoes
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Dispelling 5 common myths on exercise, diet and weight loss by a doc who's been in your shoes
Learn MoreDispelling 5 common myths on exercise, diet and weight loss by a doc who's been in your shoes
Dr. Steve Lawenda
Dr. Steven Lawenda, MD is a board-certified Family Medicine physician in Southern California Kaiser Permanente. In 2013, Dr. Lawenda had an eye-opening experience when he learned about plant-based nutrition. With this new knowledge, Dr. Lawenda transformed his own health and subsequently his practice. Along with a nurse practitioner colleague, Dr. Lawenda
co-created and led Lifestyle Medicine programs centered around plant-based nutrition that have helped transform the lives of patients, as well as the way in which health care is delivered at his medical center.
Dr. Lawenda has spoken on the benefits of plant-based diets at meetings and conferences within Kaiser Permanente, at local events in his community, as well as at health events across the country. In 2018, Dr. Lawenda co-authored a review of Lifestyle Medicine with several esteemed colleagues that was published in the Permanente Journal. For his work, Dr. Lawenda was honored as a two-time recipient of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group Everyday Hero award (2016, 2017), as well as the 2018 Kaiser Permanente Antelope Valley Physicians’ Exceptional Contribution Award. In 2020, Dr. Lawenda continued to pursue his passion even further and became board certified in Lifestyle Medicine.
Dr. Sunil Pai
An Anti-Inflammatory Diet & Other Secrets to Losing Weight And Keeping It Off
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An Anti-Inflammatory Diet & Other Secrets to Losing Weight And Keeping It Off
Learn MoreAn Anti-Inflammatory Diet & Other Secrets to Losing Weight And Keeping It Off
Dr. Sunil Pai
Sunil Pai, MD is internationally recognized an expert in Integrative Medicine, author, researcher, health activist/influencer and thought leader in the wellness industry. After his residency in Family Medicine at the University of New Mexico, he became Board Certified in Family Medicine. He was one of the first physicians 20 years ago and youngest in the U.S. to become a Fellow of the Program in Integrative Medicine at University of Arizona (Class 2002) directed by Dr. Andrew Weil, the “father” of Integrative Medicine. Dr. Pai also became one of the first Board Certified MD’s in Holistic Integrative Medicine in the U.S.
After his Fellowship training, he then studied with and became certified by Dr. Deepak Chopra as a Primordial Sound Meditation Instructor and a Creating Health (Ayurveda Lifestyle) Instructor. Dr. Pai then enhanced his knowledge Ayurvedic Medicine through specialized training at the Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College of Ayurveda, and Intensive Yoga Therapies at the Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana in India. He is currently Senior Faculty at Ayurved Sadhana.
Having trained under the two foremost gurus of natural medicine and mind-body medicine, he then became certified in Functional Medicine, Homotoxicology, Physiological Regulating Medicine , Plant-Based Nutrition and Herbal Medicine.
In addition to mastering the fundamentals of these approaches, he went on to expand his services to patients by becoming certified in Medical Acupuncture and Neuro-Acupuncture through Stanford University School of Medicine and from the world’s expert in Neuro-Acupuncture, Dr. Jason Hao. Dr. Pai is the Vice President of the Neuro-Acupuncture Institute, a non-profit organization focusing on teaching physicians neuro-acupuncture which is focused for pain conditions and neurological dysfunction such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy and autism. Sunil Pai, MD is a Deacon of the House of Sanjevani, located in Albuquerque, an Integrated Auxiliary of the Priory of Santa Fe. As a nonprofit organization, they provide full service health education and Integrative Medicine services with emphasis in indigenous and natural medicines. Sanjevani is certified by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), as an Educational Alliance Partner for delivering evidence based, clinical plant based nutritional programs. Dr. Pai is Clinical Assistant Professor at the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, lectures at national conferences and is actively publishing in in the field of Integrative Medicine.
Dr. Pai has helped thousands of patients worldwide with his critically acclaimed book “An Inflammation Nation” and a proprietary supplement to combat inflammation. The foreword to the book was written by his mentor and teacher Dr. Andrew Weil. The book was chosen by Kirkus Reviews to be listed in the Best of 2016 Indie Books.
Dr. Pai’s Integrative Medicine approach, evaluation, products and services are highly used by celebrities, actors, and musicians in the entertainment and music industries as well as professional athletes to improve and maintain their performance and longevity of their careers. Dr. Pai’s hobbies include playing drums, guitar and music trivia and he thus he is known as the “RocDoc”. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico and his other interests include hiking and spending time with Princess Winnie (his dog), plant-based cooking and yoga.
Faith and Will Scott
"When you know better, you do better" - breaking past habits with your whole family
Learn MoreFaith and Will Scott
"When you know better, you do better" - breaking past habits with your whole family
Learn More"When you know better, you do better" - breaking past habits with your whole family
Faith and Will Scott
Will & Faith Scott are passionate about living a Whole Food Plant-Based lifestyle. They have lost a combined weight of over 180 pounds eating exclusively plants and have been able to sustain healthy weight for the past six years. They love to inspire and motivate others to live a healthy lifestyle by sharing Whole Food Plant-Based Recipes and in-home workout routines on their blog Get2dRootHealthandWellness.com, Facebook, and Instagram. Their message is simple, “Our Health is our Wealth. Making Healthy Choices develops Healthy Habits and Healthy Habits creates a Healthy Lifestyle. Let’s ‘Get2dRoot’ of obtaining and sustaining optimal health by Eating More Plants”.
DAY 6
Winning the mental game of weight loss
Dr. Doug Lisle
How to turn your health plan into reality (and the two dietary deficiencies that prevent weight loss)
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How to turn your health plan into reality (and the two dietary deficiencies that prevent weight loss)
Learn MoreHow to turn your health plan into reality (and the two dietary deficiencies that prevent weight loss)
Dr. Doug Lisle
Dr. Lisle has been the clinical psychologist at the TrueNorth Health Center for over 30 years. He has published numerous articles in the scientific literature. He is the co-author of The Pleasure Trap and is in private practice, conducting psychotherapy at the TrueNorth Health Center.
Dr. Lisle is a graduate of the University of California at San Diego (Summa Cum Laude). He received the President’s Fellowship and was a Dupont Scholar at the University of Virginia where he completed his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. He was then appointed Lecturer in Psychology at Stanford University and was on the staff at the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Palo Alto, California.
Dr. Lisle worked as a forensic psychologist for the criminal justice system in Dallas, Texas and as a consultant for the National Institute of Health Clinical Trial on Cognitive Therapy for Recurrent Depression at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Lisle lectures nationally to health professionals on topics including evolutionary psychology, cognitive therapy, lifestyle modification, relaxation and stress management, and weight loss. His research and clinical interests have broadened to include health and wellness, self-esteem, relationship satisfaction, the treatment of anxiety disorders and depression, and optimizing achievement motivation.
Dr. Scott Stoll
Curiosity - how simple questions can break and reset our behavior cycles
Learn MoreCuriosity - how simple questions can break and reset our behavior cycles
Dr. Scott Stoll
Dr. Scott Stoll is a board certified specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He served as the chairman of the department of Physical Medicine and Rehab and medical director for Physical Therapy and the Spine Center at Coordinated Health. He specializes in regenerative medicine, utilizing natural treatments, diet, and lifestyle to aid the body in healing chronic disease and injuries. As a member of the 1994 United States Olympic Bobsled Team, Dr. Stoll is well suited for his additional roles as a team physician at Lehigh University, the United States Bobsled and Skeleton Federation, and advising physician serving professional and Olympic athletes.
Dr. Stoll is served as a member of the Whole Foods Scientific Medical Advisory Board, assisting and advising the creation of a culture of health for the 53,000 employees and in the 300 stores worldwide including the Dr. Stoll one-week health immersion held biannually. He co founded the Plantrician Project, a not for profit 501c3, the International Plant Based Nutrition Healthcare conference, The International Cardiovascular Summit co-chaired with the President of the American College of Cardiology, educating and inspiring healthcare professionals to use whole food plant based nutrition as a foundation for healing and disease prevention.
He is the author of the best selling book The Change, and Alive! A Physician’s Biblical & Scientific Guide to Nutrition, monthly article in 3 international magazines, numerous scientific articles, and chapters in Rethink Food. He has appeared in a number of documentaries including Eating You Alive and Wait Til Its Free.
Dr. Stoll can be heard daily on his radio program, Health Minutes, in the Lehigh Valley, daily Health minutes on Channel 60 TV and in lectures nationally and internationally. He can also be seen in guest appearances on The Dr. Oz Show, Live with Marilu Henner, Trinity Broadcasting Network, and Daystar Television.
Dr. Columbus Batiste
S.E.L.F.I.S.H. - seven principles to lose weight and protect yourself against our #1 killer
Learn MoreDr. Columbus Batiste
S.E.L.F.I.S.H. - seven principles to lose weight and protect yourself against our #1 killer
Learn MoreS.E.L.F.I.S.H. - seven principles to lose weight and protect yourself against our #1 killer
Dr. Columbus Batiste
Columbus D. Batiste, MD, FACC, FSCAI is a board certified Internist, Cardiologist, and Interventional Cardiologist. He is currently the Chief of Cardiology at Kaiser Permanente Riverside and Moreno Valley Medical Centers, and the former co-director of the Kaiser Permanente Inland Empire Cardiac Catheterization Services.
In 2011, Dr. Batiste led out in establishing the Integrative Cardiovascular Disease Program (based at Kaiser Permanente). The objective of this program is to prevent the onset and re-occurrence of cardiovascular disease focusing on lifestyle modification. Dr. Batiste is a strong advocate for a plant based diet, exercise and stress reduction. He has been lecturing in the community over the past several years.
Dr. Batiste is also known as “Healthy Heart Doc”. Since graduating from Loma Linda University in 2004 and completion of his Interventional Cardiology Fellowship in 2006, Dr. Batiste has performed nearly 2000 coronary interventions, and hundreds of pacemaker implantations. He has been recognized for his work by multiple organizations ranging from the medical center physician of the year (2010), Inland Empire Magazine Heart Hero (2010), Eagle Award for Excellence in Medicine (2013), to the Derrell Thomas Foundation Community Service Award recipient (2013).
Dr. Batiste’s mission is to share information so that “each one can teach one” about the benefits of exercise and healthy eating and therefore; provide everyone with the opportunity to take control of their health. Through the Healthy Heart Doc page on Facebook, Dr. Batiste is dedicated not only to provide information, but also to provide a community of support for people on the road to a healthy lifestyle and a healthy heart.
Chef Darshana Thacker
Cooking demo: How to create weight loss dishes that tingle your taste buds
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Cooking demo: How to create weight loss dishes that tingle your taste buds
Learn MoreCooking demo: How to create weight loss dishes that tingle your taste buds
Chef Darshana Thacker
Chef Darshana Thacker is a vegan chef who specializes in whole-food, plant-based cuisine. A graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute, she’s known for her hearty and distinctly flavorful creations, which draw inspiration from a wide range of ethnic traditions.
Chef Darshana was the recipe author of Forks Over Knives Family and a lead recipe contributor for the New York Times bestseller The Forks Over Knives Plan. Her recipes have been published in The Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Cookbook, Forks Over Knives—The Cookbook, Forks Over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health, Forks Over Knives: Flavor! Delicious Whole-Food, Plant-Based Food to Cook Every Day and LA Yoga magazine online.
DAY 7
How to crush cravings and food addiction
Dr. Vera Tarman
Why you can't rely on willpower and what to do instead (the key to end yo-yo dieting)
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Why you can't rely on willpower and what to do instead (the key to end yo-yo dieting)
Learn MoreWhy you can't rely on willpower and what to do instead (the key to end yo-yo dieting)
Dr. Vera Tarman
Dr. Vera Tarman
MD, M.Sc, FCFP, ABAM
Dr Vera Tarman has been working in the field of addiction medicine since 1994. She is the medical director of Renascent and oversees their in and out patient food addiction program. She has spoken internationally to public audiences, as well as on radio, television and multiple podcasts on the subject of food addiction. She runs a Facebook support group: “I’m Sweet Enough: Sugar Free for Life”. She is the author of “Food Junkies: Recovery from Food Addiction, 2nd Edition”.
Dr. Nicole Avena
The science of food addiction: how our brains respond to processed foods
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The science of food addiction: how our brains respond to processed foods
Learn MoreThe science of food addiction: how our brains respond to processed foods
Dr. Nicole Avena
Dr. Nicole Avena is a research neuroscientist and expert in the fields of nutrition, diet and addiction, with a special focus on nutrition during early life and pregnancy. Her research achievements have been honored by awards from several groups including the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Psychological Association, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Dr. Avena has written several books, including What to Eat When You’re Pregnant, What to Feed Your Baby and Toddler and What to Eat When You Want to Get Pregnant. She regularly appears as a science expert on the Dr. Oz Show, Good Day NY, and The Doctors, as well as many other news programs. Her work has been featured in Bloomberg Business Week, Time Magazine for Kids, The New York Times, Shape, Men’s Health, Details, and many other periodicals. Dr. Avena is a member of the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau. She has the #2 most watched TED-ED Health talk, How Sugar Affects Your Brain (over 10 million views) and blogs for Psychology Today.
Dr. Eric Walsh
Does moderation work? Understanding how food impacts our cognition and ability to enjoy life
Learn MoreDr. Eric Walsh
Does moderation work? Understanding how food impacts our cognition and ability to enjoy life
Learn MoreDoes moderation work? Understanding how food impacts our cognition and ability to enjoy life
Dr. Eric Walsh
Dr. Eric Walsh serves as Medical Director for Urgent Care services. Dr. Walsh has a double doctorate in medicine and public health. Dr. Walsh is passionate about educating people on ways to improve their mental, physical and spiritual health. As a result, he has taken his God given talents across the world and has given lectures and sermons on every continent.
Justina Froese
The surprising origins of binge eating and how to prevent it from happening to you
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The surprising origins of binge eating and how to prevent it from happening to you
Learn MoreThe surprising origins of binge eating and how to prevent it from happening to you
Justina Froese
Justina Froese is a health and wellness counselor. She lives with her husband in Cologne, Germany. Her health journey led her to the psychologist Dr. Doug Lisle. She is trained and certified by his approach to motivation and well-being called Esteem Dynamics.
Coming from an obese and sick family background, she was interested in health from a young age. Her mother even gave her the title “Health Apostle.” But eating healthy and being slender isn’t as easy as many say. Personality places a huge role in how diligent someone follows a healthy diet. Bodyweight is 70% heritable, and therefore a lot of people have difficulties reaching a healthy weight on a Standard Western Diet.
As a former chronic dieter, she is familiar with this. Dieting and bingeing were part of her life for 15 years. The cycle of restriction, over-exercising, and bingeing was continued by a misguided caloric deprivation, and as a result, she consistently gained weight.
She started to see results in weight loss when she adopted a whole food plant-based diet, combined with the principles of calorie density.
It was a long health journey, but now she feels better than ever. She eats more than ever, exercises less, and is binge-free for years. Her passion is to help people to become binge-free forever and living a healthy lifestyle.
DAY 8
Exactly what to do and what not to do to lose weight
Dr. Hana Kahleova
How to optimize your diet to boost your metabolism (no exercise needed!)
Learn MoreDr. Hana Kahleova
How to optimize your diet to boost your metabolism (no exercise needed!)
Learn MoreHow to optimize your diet to boost your metabolism (no exercise needed!)
Dr. Hana Kahleova
Hana Kahleova, M.D., Ph.D., is the director of clinical research at the Physicians Committee and directs research studies analyzing the effect food choices have on insulin resistance and the regulation of a healthy body weight. Her current research includes analyzing the thermic effect of food in response to a 16-week dietary intervention.
Dr. Kahleova has published more than a dozen nutrition studies. She is the author of Vegetarian Diet in the Treatment of Diabetes (Maxdorf, 2013). She also wrote the chapter about using a plant-based diet to treat diabetes in Vegetarian and Plant-Based Diets in Health and Disease Prevention (Academic Press, 2017).
Her favorite research topics include testing the effect a plant-based diet has on metabolism, insulin function, fitness, and mental health, as well as studying the impact meal timing and meal frequency have on metabolism and body weight.
Dr. Kahleova earned her doctorate in nutrition and diabetes and her medical degree from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. As a postdoctoral research fellow at Loma Linda University in California, Dr. Kahleova analyzed data from 50,000 Adventist Health Study-2 participants. She analyzed data on meal frequency and timing in relationship to changes in body weight. She finds two to three meals a day, without snacks, are optimal for body weight control. This led to her recommendation to eat breakfast regularly and to make it the largest meal of the day.
Robby Barbaro, MPH
High fat vs. low-fat - surprising insights into what truly works long-term
Learn MoreRobby Barbaro, MPH
High fat vs. low-fat - surprising insights into what truly works long-term
Learn MoreHigh fat vs. low-fat - surprising insights into what truly works long-term
Robby Barbaro, MPH
Robby Barbaro, MPH is an internationally recognized diabetes expert and New York Times bestselling co-author of Mastering Diabetes who has helped countless people reverse insulin resistance and take back full control of their metabolic health. Robby earned a Master’s in Public Health from American Public University in 2019 and completed his undergraduate education at the University of Florida in 2011. He has been living with type 1 diabetes since 2000, has a current A1c of 5.4%, and a time-in-range above 90% while maintaining an active lifestyle.
Dr. Frank Sabatino
8 modalities to recover and heal from compulsive eating (and why they work)
Learn MoreDr. Frank Sabatino
8 modalities to recover and heal from compulsive eating (and why they work)
Learn More8 modalities to recover and heal from compulsive eating (and why they work)
Dr. Frank Sabatino
Dr. Frank Sabatino is the past Health Director of the Shangri-La Natural Hygiene Institute in Bonita Springs , FL, the Regency Health Resort and Spa in Hallandale, FL, the Balance For Life Retreat and Health Director-Owner of Ocean Jade Retreat in Lauderdale by the Sea, FL, where he cared for, lectured and inspired thousands of people over the past 40 years. In his work he specializes in nutrition, health rejuvenation, stress management and therapeutic fasting and detoxification.
Dr. Sabatino is a Chiropractic physician who also has a Ph.D. in cell biology and neuroendocrinology from the Emory University School of Medicine. The book of his original research on the effects of brain peptides on the regulation of reproductive hormones was published in 1988. While an assistant professor at the University of Texas School of Medicine, he did extensive landmark research on calorie restriction, stress and aging, and has published a number of major scientific papers in some of the most well-respected peer reviewed journals in the fields of cell biology, aging, endocrinology and neuroscience.
He has also written numerous articles for lay magazines and journals in the areas of clinical nutrition, healthy weight loss, women’s hormones, stress management, addiction and healthy aging. He has been featured in a variety of books, news articles, and cable TV programs including CNN. Dr. Sabatino is a past member of the prestigious Brookdale fellowship in Gerontology and Aging. As a member of the International Association of Hygienic Physicians, he is also widely recognized as an expert in water-only fasting and integrative health care. His DVD Program and recently completed book: ‘WEIGHTLESS: Compassionate Weight Loss for LIfe’ promote the most comprehensive plant-based solution and lifestyle strategies for solving the pandemic of obesity. He is also a proponent of Oriental energy arts and a long time teacher and student of tai-chi and qi gong.
Dr. Sabatino is available for personal consults as part of the TrueNorth health coaching services.
Dr. Herman Pontzer
How an African tribe busted the weight loss industry's biggest myth
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Dr. Herman Pontzer
Herman Pontzer, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and Research Associate Professor of Global Health at Duke University, investigates how our species’ evolutionary past shapes our lives today. His team conducted the first measurements of daily energy expenditure in traditional hunter-gatherers and in non-human apes, with findings that have challenged the way we think about diet, exercise, metabolism, and health. Dr. Pontzer’s new book, Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy, published in March, 2021.
We burn 2,000 calories a day. And if we exercise and cut carbs, we’ll lose more weight. Right? Wrong. In this paradigm-shifting book, Herman Pontzer reveals for the first time how human metabolism really works so that we can finally manage our weight and improve our health.
Pontzer’s groundbreaking studies with hunter-gatherer tribes show how exercise doesn’t increase our metabolism. Instead, we burn calories within a very narrow range: nearly 3,000 calories per day, no matter our activity level. This was a brilliant evolutionary strategy to survive in times of famine. Now it seems to doom us to obesity. The good news is we can lose weight, but we need to cut calories. Refuting such weight-loss hype as paleo, keto, anti-gluten, anti-grain, and even vegan, Pontzer discusses how all diets succeed or fail: For shedding pounds, a calorie is a calorie.
At the same time, we must exercise to keep our body systems and signals functioning optimally, even if it won’t make us thinner. Hunter-gatherers like the Hadza move about five hours a day and remain remarkably healthy into old age. But elite athletes can push the body too far, burning calories faster than their bodies can take them in. It may be that the most spectacular athletic feats are the result not just of great training, but of an astonishingly efficient digestive system.
Revealing, irreverent, and always entertaining, Pontzer has written a book that will change how you eat, move, and live.
Herman Pontzer
Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and Global Health
How did the human body evolve, and how does our species’ deep past shape our health and physiology today? Through lab and field research, Dr. Pontzer investigates the physiology of humans and other primates to understand how ecology, lifestyle, diet, and evolutionary history affect metabolism and health. He is particularly interested in cardiometabolic disease and the lifestyle factors that protect against obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and other noncommunicable diseases that are common among industrialized populations but rare or absent in non-industrialized societies.
Dr. Pontzer’s field projects seek to understand how diet, activity and other ecological factors influence the physiology and health of people in small-scale societies, including hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers in east Africa and South America. Back at Duke, his lab research focuses on energetics and metabolism, including respirometry and doubly labeled water methods.
To learn more about the Hadza hunter-gatherer community, please check out
https://www.hadzafund.org/
The LaJaunie Family
This family reinvented Southern comfort food and lost over 1,000 pounds
Learn MoreThe LaJaunie Family
This family reinvented Southern comfort food and lost over 1,000 pounds
Learn MoreThis family reinvented Southern comfort food and lost over 1,000 pounds
The LaJaunie Family
Ramona, Josh, Dustin and other LaJaunie family members collectively lost over 1,000 pounds.
It started when Josh LaJaunie found himself tipping the scales at over 400 lbs in early 2011. Since then Josh has lost 200 lbs, developed a love for running and has competed in some of the toughest races in the world. Josh wrote about his journey in the book “Sick To Fit” and is an inspiration for thousands worldwide. Today Josh is Chief Lifestyle Ambassador at WellStart Health, where he coaches, educates, and inspires people to go from sick to fit. Josh has been featured in Runner’s World magazine, People magazine, Good Morning America, The Today Show, and his personal favorite, the Rich Roll Podcast.
Ramona and her son Dustin went on to publish the cookbook, Pure Ambrosia, showing that even comfort food from Louisiana and Mississippi can be healthy and weight-loss friendly.
DAY 9
Key takeaways & practical tips on getting started
Dr. Neal Barnard
How to break out of the diet roller coaster as you age (even if you're postmenopausal)
Learn MoreDr. Neal Barnard
How to break out of the diet roller coaster as you age (even if you're postmenopausal)
Learn MoreHow to break out of the diet roller coaster as you age (even if you're postmenopausal)
Dr. Neal Barnard
Dr. Barnard has led numerous research studies investigating the effects of diet on diabetes, body weight, and chronic pain, including a groundbreaking study of dietary interventions in type 2 diabetes, funded by the National Institutes of Health, that paved the way for viewing type 2 diabetes as a potentially reversible condition for many patients. Dr. Barnard has authored more than 90 scientific publications and 20 books for medical and lay readers, and is the editor in chief of the Nutrition Guide for Clinicians, a textbook made available to all U.S. medical students.
As president of the Physicians Committee, Dr. Barnard leads programs advocating for preventive medicine, good nutrition, and higher ethical standards in research. His research contributed to the acceptance of plant-based diets in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. In 2015, he was named a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. In 2016, he founded the Barnard Medical Center in Washington, D.C., as a model for making nutrition a routine part of all medical care.
Working with the Medical Society of the District of Columbia and the American Medical Association, Dr. Barnard has authored key resolutions, now part of AMA policy, calling for a new focus on prevention and nutrition in federal policies and in medical practice. In 2018, he received the Medical Society of the District of Columbia’s Distinguished Service Award. He has hosted four PBS television programs on nutrition and health.
Originally from Fargo, North Dakota, Dr. Barnard received his MD degree at the George Washington University School of Medicine and completed his residency at the same institution. He practiced at St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York before returning to Washington to found the Physicians Committee.
Dr. Michael Greger
The latest research on do's and don'ts (including natural appetite suppressants)
Learn MoreDr. Michael Greger
The latest research on do's and don'ts (including natural appetite suppressants)
Learn MoreThe latest research on do's and don'ts (including natural appetite suppressants)
Dr. Michael Greger
Dr. Greger is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition, food safety, and public health issues.
A founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, Dr. Greger is licensed as a general practitioner specializing in clinical nutrition. He is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and Tufts University School of Medicine. In 2017, Dr. Greger was honored with the ACLM Lifestyle Medicine Trailblazer Award and became a diplomat of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine.
Both his latest books, How Not to Die and the How Not to Die Cookbook, became instant New York Times Best Sellers. 100% of all proceeds he has ever received from his books, DVDs, and speaking engagements have always and will always be donated to charity.
Dr. Thomas Campbell
3 simple actions that will get you the most results
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Dr. Thomas Campbell
Thomas M. Campbell, MD is the Medical Director of the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies, co-author of worldwide bestseller, “The China Study, The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and The Startling Implications for Diet, Weight-Loss, and Long-Term Health” (an international bestseller) and author of The China Study Solution.
Dr. Campbell is also the Medical Director of the University of Rochester Weight Management and Lifestyle Center at Highland Hospital. He continues to have a particularly strong interest in nutrition and lifestyle counseling. With strong evidence that many of the most common chronic diseases can be prevented and treated with lifestyle changes, Dr. Campbell strives to partner with patients to support them in helping them improve their health.
Dr. Campbell is the executive director of a nonprofit organization in Ithaca, NY partnering with eCornell (Cornell University’s online education organization) to promote optimal nutrition through science-based education, advocacy, and research.
Dr. Stephan Esser
Creating a new paradigm for your journey of health
Learn MoreCreating a new paradigm for your journey of health
Dr. Stephan Esser
Stephan Esser, MD is a physician, author and motivational speaker specializing in sports medicine and lifestyle modification. He is dedicated to empowering individuals to achieve their best health and maximize fitness, fun and function.
Dr. Esser completed a Bachelor of Science at Palm Beach Atlantic University, Medical School at the University of South Florida College of Medicine, a residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School/Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, and a Fellowship in Sports Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. He currently works as the Sports & Spine Physician with Southeast Orthopedic Specialists in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL.
Tami Kramer
Cooking demo: Ending 40 years of yo-yo dieting by spoiling yourself with yummy food
Learn MoreTami Kramer
Cooking demo: Ending 40 years of yo-yo dieting by spoiling yourself with yummy food
Learn MoreCooking demo: Ending 40 years of yo-yo dieting by spoiling yourself with yummy food
Tami Kramer
Tami Kramer is the Author and Editor of the NutmegNotebook.com Whole Food Plant Based Cooking and lifestyle blog. She is also our On-Screen teacher for the Nutmeg Notebook Youtube Channel.
She is the “batch-cooking” queen and loves sharing her tips and tricks in the kitchen.
This summit is for you if:
Why this is so urgent
Obesity is linked to 13 different types of cancer
In 2017 health officials reported that there is a link between obesity and 40 percent of all the cancers diagnosed in the United States. The 13 cancers include brain, breast, thyroid, stomach, liver, pancreas, kidney, ovaries, uterus and colon cancers the researchers said. (during the summit you'll learn exactly how to lose weight AND protect your health at the same time!)
Type 2 diabetes
Obesity is believed to account for 80-85% of the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Obese people are up to 80 times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those with a BMI of less than 22. (the good news is that your body starts healing the moment you start losing weight the right way)
Heart disease
Heart disease is the number one killer in the US and multiple large-scale studies have shown that "Obesity is among the leading causes of elevated cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality and morbidity." (did you know that the fat tissue itself releases inflammatory molecules that can induce cardiac dysfunction and promote plaque?)
Risk of stroke
Studies have shown that for each one-unit increase in BMI there is a 4% increase in the risk of ischemic stroke and a 6% increase for hemorrhagic stroke. That means just 20 pounds overweight increase the risk of stroke by 24%.
Depression and Dementia
People who were obese had a 55 percent greater risk of developing depression throughout their lives. But that's just the start: We now know that the brain is significantly impacted by the inflammatory state of obesity. As a consequence overweight is now recognized as a factor in dementia and cognitive function. (that's why losing weight is so vital - not just to feel great today, but to give yourself a chance to feel great in your golden years)
Processed food
60% of calories consumed in America come from highly processed foods. And only 5% of Americans get enough fiber. Fiber not only helps to manage a healthy weight, fiber is linked to reduced risks of developing various conditions, including heart disease, diabetes, and constipation. (did you know that fiber helps with healthy cholesterol level, regular bowel movements and detox as well?)
Stress
42 percent of people report being \"stress eaters.\" This is not a sign of weakness but a natural consequence of our biology because 94% experience stress at work and processed foods are designed to artificially trigger our reward centers. (there are strategies to overcome cravings and emotional eating and you'll learn them from the foremost experts on the summit).
Weight loss is NOT a vanity goal. Excess body fat has devastating effects on our health and lives. That's why we're teaming up with 40 experts to bring you the truth about weight loss - FOR FREE.
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Your host
Chef AJ
As a chef Chef AJ gained weight over the years despite being a vegan. Disappointed that standard diets and your typical approaches didn't work she resigned to the "fact" that that's just the way she'd be for the rest of her life...
All this changed when she started cooking at True North Health Center. There she discovered the secrets to natural weight loss and has lost over 50 pounds - and kept them off for years. Today she is determined to live at least 100 and is proud to say that her IQ is higher than her cholesterol.
Chef AJ holds a certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition from eCornell University, is the host of the TV series Healthy Living, has made appearances on shows with Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, David Letterman and more. She is the author of the popular book Unprocessed: How to Achieve Vibrant Health and Your Ideal Weight, which chronicles her journey from an obese junk-food vegan faced with a diagnosis of pre-cancerous polyps, to learning how to create foods that nourish and heal the body. Her latest bestselling book The Secrets to Ultimate Weight Loss has received glowing endorsements by many doctors and dietitians. She runs live seminars, a weight loss program and YouTube shows which have helped hundreds achieve the health and body they deserve. And she has become famous for making sugar, oil, salt and gluten-free desserts that are just as delicious as their sinful counterparts...
"You're not alone!"
What you're about to discover can change your life. In previous years countless participants have started to lose weight during the summit just by taking advantage of all the free presentations. And now it's your turn!