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Kanwal L Haq, M.S., co-author of  Taking Care of You, is a medical anthropologist, community organizer, and non-profit consultant. She currently leads the NYC women’s health programs at the Arnhold Institute for Global Health at Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine. An applied-research scientist dedicated to education and health equity, Kanwal utilizes community-based participatory research and implementation science to build more effective, efficient and equitable systems of care for women across the world. Her desire to bridge the gap between academic knowledge and community resources served as the catalyst for Taking Care of You. Prior to joining Mount Sinai, Kanwal worked at Yale School of Medicine and completed fellowships at the United Nations, Americorps, and the University Teaching Hospital (CHUK) in Kigali, Rwanda. Kanwal completed her B.S. in biological sciences from the University of Missouri and her M.S. in medical anthropology from the Boston University School of Medicine.

Brenda Davis, registered dietitian, is a world leading plant-based pioneer and an internationally acclaimed speaker. Brenda has been a featured speaker at medical, nutrition, and dietetic conferences in 25 countries on 6 continents.
 
As a prolific nutrition writer, Brenda has authored/co-authored 13 books with nearly a million copies in print in 15 languages. Her latest book, Plant-Powered Protein, was hot off the press in April 2023. Brenda has also authored and co-authored numerous professional and lay articles and is a past chair of the Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of the American Dietetic Association. Brenda was the lead dietitian in a diabetes intervention research project in the Marshall Islands. On her last trip (November 2017), she developed a nutrition education curriculum for kindergarten through grade 6 and trained teachers in all public schools. Brenda was the 7th recipient of the Plantrician Project’s Luminary Award in 2022, and was inducted into the Vegetarian Hall of Fame in 2007.

Lisa Swanson is the most sought-after expert on helping women over 50 crush their weight loss goals in a naturally progressive way that boosts metabolism, burns belly fat and keeps it off. Through her BASE Model philosophy, combining fitness, nutrition and mindset women over 50 are finally getting the results they’ve been struggling to get on their own without deprivation diets or spending hours in the gym. Instead she is teaching them how to enjoy the journey and let go of limiting beliefs that have been holding back.

Lisa is best known for her signature Metabolic Design 16-week online group coaching program that follows her 7 Step Metabolic framework for helping women over 50 create a sustainable healthy lifestyle that aligns with their health and fitness goals.

Dr. Kara and Dr. Hillary are natural fertility specialists with over 34 years combined of clinical experience and friendship. They developed the Cultivate Fertility Method to help women along the path to the baby they desire. They offer high quality nutritional supplements, group programs, and virtual consults.

As a 2018 CEO Today Healthcare Award Winner and Telstra Businesswoman of the Year nominee, Lindy Andrews is a dynamic and highly accomplished international business professional. Lindy recently turned this expertise towards global medical tourism and after three years opening and establishing international markets, Lindy launched Meditrav in 2019.

Meditrav was placed into hibernation just 3 weeks after launch due to COVID19. Despite this wrecking ball after just recently signing contracts for large global audiences, Lindy felt it was fortuitous. For over the coming months she was diagnosed with multiple health issues. This time enabled her to learn about them and start the healing journey.

Pure Health Hub was conceived as a result of Lindy being unable to find ‘plain english’ information on her conditions in either the medical and complementary health sectors. So, she decided that to help other women in her situation she would create something that shared her journey while also sharing world’s best practice from the world’s best practitioners.
Lindy is often invited to speak about her insights into the tourism, events and health tourism industries.

Dr. Hillary Frederickson is the co-founder of Cultivate Fertility. She and Dr. Kara Burkhart are natural fertility specialists with over 34 years combined of clinical experience and friendship. They developed the Cultivate Fertility Method to help women along the path to the baby they desire. They offer high quality nutritional supplements, group programs, and virtual consults.

Martin Neumann took in 1998 the Lifestyle Educator Course at Wildwood Lifestyle Center & Hospital. He worked then 3 years as a staff of the institution and helped to develop materials for the Health Expo and the Abundant Live presentation series. Since then he has lectured in different parts of the world about a healthy lifestyle and natural remedies. He is the founder of the Abundant Health website and instructor for Stress Management Tools.

Dr. Young is a currently practicing, board-certified, Emergency Medicine physician and is certified as a diplomate of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine. She graduated medical school from Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine in Glendale, AZ in 2006 and completed Emergency Medicine residency at Maricopa Medical Center in 2009.

As an Emergency Medicine physician, Dr. Young sees patients at their most critical points, frequently on the worst day of their lives. Her job is to stabilize, rule out life-threatening conditions and treat any acute illnesses. Often what brings patients to the emergency department are things that could have been avoided with lifestyle changes. Heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes are among the top 10 leading causes of death in the United States. Through lifestyle changes, patients are able to significantly reduce their risk for all of these!

Dr. Young loves working in the emergency department but found herself wishing she had more time to spend with patients. When she sees patients in the ED, she can touch briefly on simple things they can do to take charge of their health, but her interactions are limited by time. She started Sozo Lifestyle Medicine so that she can change her pace, develop relationships with her patients and help support them as they take charge of their health. Through lifestyle interventions that reverse chronic disease as well as her skillset as an Emergency Medicine physician, she is helping her patients stay healthy and out of the emergency department.

Dr. Steve is a bestselling author and native of South Florida, graduate of Tulane University and the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science.

As a member of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine and the American Society for Nutrition, and through his medical, health and fitness conferences and subscriptions, he stays up to date with the latest advances in the Anti-Aging, Health, and Fitness genres. He posts daily articles on his Facebook group, “Anti-Aging, Health, and Fitness Community”, a group page where members share their thoughts and health hacks.

Dr. Steve is a former team doctor for the University of Miami Hurricanes and Miami City Ballet, who specialized in sports medicine, foot and ankle surgery, and wound care.

He has completed several marathons, practiced and taught yoga, and is a Vegan. He is a cancer survivor in his 70’s and has always been passionate about anti-aging, health, and fitness, with an emphasis on treating patients with a natural approach using diet and exercise.

He is married to Debra Lawrence, a retired opera singer and currently an artist whose medium has been acrylics and oils, clay, and glass for the past two decades. He has two daughters and 3 grandchildren.

Lara West is the author of 7 Healthy Gut Habits for Women Over 40. Her work is focused on gut health for women and is designed to help readers navigate the physical symptoms associated with middle age. Lara’s dedication to helping other women take control of their health stems from her own experiences leading up to menopause.

She first started to experience symptoms of perimenopause in her mid-forties and began researching women’s health to try to improve her experience. At the same time, she was diagnosed with leaky gut syndrome and an autoimmune disease, and as her research continued, she began to connect the dots and discover that each of her problems stemmed from the same root: gut health. Committed to making lifestyle changes in order to get her health and happiness back on track naturally, she found that her menopause symptoms also improved.

Through dedicated study, Lara discovered a lack of information about the importance of gut health and how it can be achieved, as well as the impact of this on women as they approach middle age. Her research revealed far more than she’d been able to learn from medical professionals, and she is now passionate about making this information readily available to other women.

Lara originates from Ukraine and lives on Vancouver Island with her husband. She owns a home staging company which she established after finding new levels of confidence and energy as she improved her health. Lara can be reached via her website www.larawestbooks.com.

Kara Holmes is a certified IIN health coach helping people heal their gut and balance blood sugar through lifestyle and nutrition. In 2018, she found that healing her gut and making small, yet powerful changes with her food transformed her from the inside out and helped her recover from an 11-year battle with an eating disorder and prediabetes. When she isn't writing about holistic health, she is coaching others on anti-inflammatory nutrition for healthy gut, hormone, and blood sugar levels and creating delicious recipes.