BE (Barbara) is the inventor of Alinker bikes, a vehicle for social change and creator of the “Reverse-Design” way of approaching the world. BE is a paradigm-shifter, edge-walker and developed the "Reverse-Design" life's practice. BE has gained appreciation of the power of community as a result of life-changing work in Afghanistan, Kenya, the Sudan, Ethiopia, Kosovo, and Indonesia. The common theme behind these projects is connecting people with each other by creating meaningful social contexts ...
Mar 31, 2022•1 sec
In 2016, Dr. Wendie Trubow, MD and her husband Ed, also a physician, opened Five Journeys, a membership-based wellness organization that incorporates functional medicine and a unique approach to what they consider to be the five core aspects of health (Physical, Chemical, Emotional, Social and Spiritual) to create a comprehensive plan for vitality and wellness. Dr. Wendie completed her residency in OB/GYN in New York and practiced for 8 years until her health took its toll. She is passionate abo...
Mar 23, 2022•1 hr 54 min
Danielle Arsenault, founder of Pachavega Living Foods Education, is a lover of many things. She is a passionate Raw Food Chef and Plant Based Nutrition Educator, outdoor enthusiast, mountain lover, ukulele player and singer-songwriter, fluent Spanish speaker, cookbook author, humanitarian, environmentalist, vegan and mama. It is her dream to educate the world about the healing power of plant-based whole foods and a healthy lifestyle rooted in compassion for the planet. For almost 10 years, she t...
Mar 10, 2022•1 hr 18 min
After 20 years of a distinguished career as an endocrinologist at Harvard’s Joslin Diabetes Center, Dr. William Hsu joined L-Nutra in 2019 as Chief Medical Officer. In this role, Dr. Hsu leads the clinical development effort at L-Nutra, oversees the Medical Affairs Department, and advances the education and adoption of fasting and Fasting Mimicking Diet as an innovative tool to extend human health span. Among his prior roles, he served as Vice President at Joslin Diabetes Center, a teaching affi...
Feb 23, 2022•1 hr 33 min
Steve Wiltshire has made fitness, health and mindset his priority for over three decades! Shortly after winning Mr. Oregon Body Building Competition, Steve developed an autoimmune disease originating from a serious gut complication. He followed ‘expert’ advice, radical meal plans, and ingesting harsh chemicals in supplements which almost ruined his health. Using the philosophy and wellness practices he learned at the Hypocrites Institute in Southern Florida, Steve completely healed himself and g...
Feb 02, 2022•1 hr 31 min
Tonya Harris has a Master’s Degree of Science in Holistic Nutrition, is Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition, and is an award-winning Environmental Toxicity Specialist with a certificate from the Integrative Medicine Academy. As a childhood leukemia survivor, she’s passionate about eradicating the toxins that surround her. As the mother of a child with ADHD and another with learning disabilities, she discovered that by eliminating toxins in her home she saw a drastic change for the better in bo...
Jan 19, 2022•1 hr 20 min
Natalie Forstbauer is a TEDx speaker, award-winning entrepreneur, author, traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivor and organic, biodynamic, regenerative farmer. She is passionate about human potential and seeing people live their best lives. A brain injury survivor of 16 years, she ignites hearts and connects people to what matters: to wake up and radically and gently turn trauma into triumph through compassion and grace. Raised on an organic biodynamic farm, trained in Polarity Therapy, alternativ...
Dec 29, 2021•1 hr 50 min
Scott Sommer LAc started his health and healing journey at just 18 months old when he was diagnosed with Epilepsy. Scott made a commitment that if he could remove the disease from his own brain, he would spend the rest of his life helping others do the same. As organic farmers at heart, Scott’s parents were already strong on the subject of nutrition and provided their son with a diet including healthy fats, such as nuts and avocados, to help repair the brain and by 15 years old, Scott was declar...
Dec 08, 2021•1 hr 20 min
Juno Award, Canadian Screen Award and 2-time Canadian Folk Music Award nominated singer-songwriter, Peter Katz, has been described by many of his fans and speaking clients as "a thunderbolt for the soul". Alongside his career as an international recording artist, Peter Katz serves clients across the globe by delivering highly customized ‘Keynote Concerts’. His passion for health and happiness is supported by his Whole Food Plant Based lifestyle and in this episode of Eat Real to Heal, Peter shar...
Nov 24, 2021•1 hr 55 min
Elizabeth Harris, a devoted mother, author, and science-minded business owner with more than two decades of experience in the field of health and wellness. Elizabeth’s scientific training, life experience, drive, and entrepreneurial spirit proved to be the very things that saved the life of both herself and her son after they were diagnosed with a rare and very serious auto immune condition. In 2008, Elizabeth’s son came down with a common case of strep throat and after receiving antibiotics he ...
Nov 03, 2021•1 hr 50 min
Dr. Bonnie J. Kaplan is a research psychologist, and Professor in the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine. For many years she studied the role of nutrition in mental illness and brain development. Now, in retirement, her passion is to teach people how our diet influences our brain and mental health. She has written a book with Julia J. Rucklidge called ‘Better Brain: Overcome Anxiety, Combat Depression and Reduce ADHD and Stress with Nutrition’. This is a paradigm-shifting approac...
Oct 13, 2021•1 hr 37 min
Dr. Byrne’s deep passion is to use the latest science to help people change their behaviors, reverse their chronic illnesses and optimize their health. He believes that we all need our own wellness practice; something that’s fun and energizes us so we can achieve our peak potential. Brendan has been a physician and digital pioneer for the past 25 years. Trained at Yale and McGill, he has had a parallel career as an entrepreneur. From his original practice in New Westminster, Brendan created elec...
Sep 29, 2021•1 hr 51 min
Dr. Pejman Katiraei is a board certified pediatrician who is also board and fellowship trained in integrative and holistic medicine. He completed his undergraduate at UCLA and then obtained his osteopathic medical degree at Western University of Health Sciences. He then went on to complete a pediatric residency at Loma Linda University, where he stayed on as teaching faculty for over 4 years. Dr. Katiraei has also completed two fellowships in integrative medicine, one with the University of Ariz...
Aug 24, 2021•1 hr 44 min
Andrew Rosen is the President of Diversified, LLC. In his role as President, he sets the strategic direction, which focuses on providing our clients and employees with everything they need to achieve their goals and dreams. As a Financial Planner, Andrew forges lifelong relationships with clients, coaching them through all stages of life and guiding them to better achieve their life goals. Andrew loves helping others by spreading his knowledge on finance, investments, and the pursuit of happines...
Jun 15, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Drs. Arjun and Shobha Rayapudi are co-founders of Gift of Health, a nonprofit organization based in Newfoundland, Canada, dedicated to revolutionizing lives through lifestyle medicine. Through in-person and online workshops, they have helped hundreds of people prevent and reverse chronic diseases, end the frustrating dieting cycle, lose weight and get off medications. Dr. Arjun Rayapudi often shares with his patients - "I am a lifestyle surgeon. I can treat you with my surgical knife, or I can h...
May 25, 2021•1 hr 49 min
Leader in the health and benefits field, serial entrepreneur and health advocate, Kevin Brady is trying to turn around the health benefit system to a system of health care, not sick care. He believes there are many other solutions than just getting prescriptions. Kevin overcame his own health issues that left him in a coma in the hospital. He shows we can go from zero health to optimal health all in the same body in one lifetime. Kevin has a new book out “Its Never too Late to be Healthy” Founde...
May 04, 2021•1 hr 37 min
Dr Esther Onyoni is a Pharmacist, diabetes health coach and a functional medicine practitioner. For 14 years she was an accessible health care provider, seeing people with diabetes get prescribed more and more medication, with wounds that would not heal, get essential medical procedures delayed until their blood sugar was under control and young people go blind. She became a diabetics health coach so that she could fill the gap and provide a plan or system, support and accountability to people f...
Apr 27, 2021•1 hr 33 min
Dr. Doug Pucci graduated from New York Chiropractic College, Long Island, NY, in 1987. His inspiration to be hands-on with patients and chart his own course as a clinician led him to open in private practice in 1990, in Oradell, NJ, where he still devotes himself to caring for patients using holistic, drug-free treatments. In his thirty years, he has become acutely aware of the limitations our current medical system has in treating chronic diseases using “conventional” methodology. In response t...
Apr 21, 2021•1 hr 57 min
Dr. Richard Jacoby, DPM has treated thousands of patients with peripheral neuropathy. Now, he shares his insights as well as the story of how he connected the dots to determine how refined processed sugar is the common denominator of many chronic diseases. In his book, Sugar Crush , he offers a unique holistic approach to understanding the exacting toll refined sugar and refined carbs take on the body. Based on his clinical work, he breaks down his highly effective methods, showing how dietary c...
Feb 03, 2021•48 min
Dr. Lucy Lyons is a Vancouver based Physician, Neuroscientist, Autogenic Therapist, and International Wellness Champion. She qualified in Medicine and Neuroscience at University College London, UK and has 20 years of clinical experience. Lucy is also an active board member of Sea to Sky Thrivers, a Charity aimed at educating communities on how to use food as medicine to reverse chronic disease. After being diagnosed with melanoma, Dr. Lyons researched and began following a plant-based whole-food...
Jan 27, 2021•2 hr 1 min
On today’s episode, Nicolette and Eric discuss how he nearly lost his eyesight because of type 2 diabetes. Instead of googling ‘how to live with diabetes’ as recommended by doctors, Eric instead did a Google search: ‘how to reverse Diabetes’. This launched Eric into a whole food plant-based journey and he successfully reversed his diabetes completely. Eric is now working with schools and other community groups throughout Brooklyn to support them in learning about plant-based wholefoods as medici...
Dec 23, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Passionate about health, wellness, and making a positive impact on the world, Luckie Sigouin created a lifestyle that supports just that in both work and life. Luckie combines his experience as an entrepreneur, fitness trainer, and an Ironman 70.3 competitor and used his knowledge to create the “Fit Vegan Blueprint ”. This is a program that simplifies the daunting process of losing weight and being vegan but without the restrictive dieting that causes so many other programs to fail. Luckie teach...
Dec 17, 2020•1 hr 39 min
After many seasons of snowboarding during the day and working in hospitality until the early hours, Ellen decided to go back to school and get an office gig. It was during this time that she discovered kombucha and became enamoured with its refreshing taste. She started making it at home and sharing it with friends and once she noticed its scarcity locally, she made it her mission to bring kombucha to the Sea to Sky Corridor. Her goal was simply to get a sample into your belly and help you prono...
Dec 09, 2020•1 hr 24 min
Troy Adams is a 33 years old married father of two. His family is fed by plants, positivity and balance. Troy is also an avid adventure ultra runner who doubles as a Journeyman Insulator by career. He enjoy the challenges ahead in life and believes when in doubt choose peace, add some plants, and life will be enjoyable beyond measure. Troy may appear to be an everyday guy living a fairly normal life, but what you don’t see is that at age 16, Troy suffered a severe brain injury which has forever ...
Dec 02, 2020•2 hr 27 min
Chef AJ has been devoted to a plant-exclusive diet for over 43 years. She is the host of the television series Healthy Living with CHEF AJ which airs on Foody TV. A chef, culinary instructor and professional speaker, she is 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 b...
Nov 25, 2020•1 hr 48 min
Sara Hodson is a Clinical Exercise Physiologist and Founder/CEO at LIVE WELL Exercise Clinic. She founded LIVE WELL in 2011 to follow her passion and vision that every individual with a health concern can benefit from exercise and live a healthy and full life. Sara has pioneered the movement of medical fitness by creating clinics that practice exercise as medicine. She identified this gap between medical care and fitness after working for 10 years in hospital-based cardiac rehab. LIVE WELL Exerc...
Nov 18, 2020•1 hr 33 min
On today’s podcast Nicolette talks to the amazing Dr. Caldwell B Esselstyn Jr who has two words he wants you to take away from this podcast; Endothelia Cells and Nitric Oxide. Esselstyn began his career as a breast cancer surgeon and realised he was doing absolutely nothing to help. He moved into treating cardiovascular disease, where he did a study on patients who had had triple vascular cardiac disease and managed to get them to switch to a plant based diet. This study went on for 12 years wit...
Nov 11, 2020•1 hr 19 min
Dr. Bender is Senior Research Scientist at Calgary Counselling Centre and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary. She received her PhD and Master of Science degrees in Experimental Psychology from Washington State University specializing in sleep EEG. She has helped develop the only validated sleep screening tool for athletes and has implemented sleep optimization strategies for numerous Canadian Olympic and professional teams. Her current interests focus on h...
Nov 04, 2020•1 hr 10 min
Dr Carolyn Dean is a medical doctor and a naturopath. She’s the author of over 35 books including The Magnesium Miracle and 110 Kindle Books. Her 50 years in the health field have culminated in a unique supplement line that gives every individual at any stage of wellness or illness the necessary building blocks for sustained health. You can find 20 free eBooks, radio show archives, and blogs on her website below. On today’s show Carolyn and Nicolette talk about the benefits of supplementation, p...
Oct 21, 2020•1 hr 59 min
Ed Tatton is a professional fine-dining chef who has been to culinary college and worked in high-end kitchens in the UK, Australia, New Zealand as well as Canada, but now specializes in making organic naturally leavened sourdough. Having worked in the restaurant business since he was 13, Ed has always made everything from scratch, and used organic local seasonal produce to influence an ever-changing menu. He moved to Whistler in 2013 for a snowboard season and has been here ever since. As co-own...
Oct 14, 2020•1 hr 24 min
