Eat Real To Heal Podcast

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 Anxiet...

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 pa...

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....

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...

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 shar...

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...

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...

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 cur...

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...

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. Af...

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 com...

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 bein...

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 kombuch...

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 li...

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 o...

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...

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...

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 optimizati...

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 he...

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-changi...

Dave Proctor lives south of Calgary with his wife and three kids. He commutes to the city to practice at his busy Sports Massage Therapy clinic and in his spare time runs extreme distances. He is the Guinness world record holder for furthest distance run on a treadmill in 24 hours (260.4kms) and is going for the Cross Canada speed record next year (Covid Dependant!) while raising awareness for fam...

Anita Johnston, Ph. D. is a psychologist, a storyteller, and author of Eating in the Light of the Moon, which has been published in 7 languages. She is the co-creator if the Light of the Moon Café, an interactive online women’s circle, book club or ‘workbook’ for Eating in the Light of the Moon. Dr Johnston has been working in the field of eating difficulties and body image distress for over 35 ye...

Angie Cooper is a 54 year old mother of 3 children. She was born and currently live in Perth Western Australia. She grew up doing Athletics in her younger years making the national championships at 12 years old. She still loves to run and go to the gym several times a week. Angie was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma and did the Gerson Therapy in 2013. She is a healing hero and has been cancer free...

Kathryn and I have been crossing paths for years as I refer my clients to her to get a specific protocol designed, and then with my clients protocol in hand, I teach them how to implement the protocol, how to set up their kitchen, prepare and cook the food, and create this new lifestyle, one step at a time. Kathryn Alexander has worked in the field of detoxification and nutritional healing for ove...

On today’s podcast, legendary Udo Erasmus, CEO of Udo’s Choice, shares his journey from pesticide poisoning to creating a global health company. Udo was the first to invent the machinery for extracting oils in a viable health-inducing way and ultimately forged the path of the Healthy Fats industry. He is an acclaimed author, speaker and expert on TOTAL SEXY HEALTH and has an 8-step process that kn...