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John McDougall, MD

John McDougall, MD

For over 30 years, Dr. McDougall has been studying, writing and speaking about the effects of nutrition on disease. He founded and serves as the medical director of the McDougall Program, a ten day residential program located in Santa Rosa, CA, where diet and lifestyle changes are implemented with incredible results. Dr. McDougall developed a...

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John Robbins

John Robbins

John Robbins was the first person many of us enountered in considering the plant based diet world. We were privileged to work one Immersion program with John Robbins, a world famous author who gave up the riches of the Baskin Robbins family to pursue his interest in health and plant based nutrition. Many of the...

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Julieanna Hever, MS, RD, CPT

Julieanna Hever, MS, RD, CPT

Known as The Plant-Based Dietitian, Julieanna Hever has written several books including The Complete Idiots Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition and serves as a nutritionist columnist for VegNews Magazine. Outside of her private practice in Los Angeles, Julieanna Hever has been a guest on numerous television and radio shows, including Dr. Oz, and is published in journals,...

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Matthew Lederman, MD

Matthew Lederman, MD

Dr. Lederman, an Internal Medicine physician, has strived to eliminate medication and reverse diease in his patients through diet and lifestyle changes.  He is coauthor, with his wife Alona Pulde MD, of Keep it Simple, Keep it Whole and he has appeared in Healing Cancer and Forks Over Knives where the work of Dr. Lederman...

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Michael Klaper, MD

Michael Klaper, MD

When Dr. Michael Klaper came to the conclusion that the Standard American Diet (S.A.D.) was either causing or intensifying many of his patients' illnesses he took action. He began studying the effects of a dietary, exercise and plant based nutrition regimen that helped to elevate the health of almost every test subject. Even Doctor Klaper,...

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Neil Nedley, MD

Neil Nedley, MD

Dr. Neil Nedley authored Proof Positive, which promoted nutritional and lifestyle therapies to treat and prevent heart dsiease, cancer, hypertension, diabetes, kidney failure, high cholesterol and many other diseases. He is President of Weimar Center of Health and Education, which runs a residential lifestyle center, academy and college outside of Sacramento, California, and also the...

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Pam Popper, PhD

Pam Popper, PhD

Pam Popper PhD worked with us on the first lifestyle programs in 2010 and 2011. It was wonderful to become friends with Pam. We certainly found her perspectives very thought provoking and insightful. She is a naturopath, a nutritionist and is recognized as an expert on nutrition, medicine and health. Pam is a woman on...

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Rip Esselstyn

Rip Esselstyn

It is amazing to see how doors have opened for Rip Esselstyn to become such a strong leader in the plant-based movement. He was, of course in the right place at the right time, but even more he had a heart for helping others. We are so thankful for the opportunity to get to know...

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T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D

T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D

Dr. T. Colin Campbell PhD, Nutritional Biochemistry, Cornell University has been a leader in the study of nutrition for many decades. He is an honest scientist whose research led him to repudiate all that he previously believed regarding the role of nutrition and health. Dr. Campbell, along with his son, is the author of the...

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Lindsay Nixon

Lindsay Nixon

Lindsay Nixon is doing everything she can to make it easy for people to adopt a plant based lifestyle. She has published the books The Happy Herbivore Cookbook, Everyday Happy Herbivore, Happy Herbivore Abroad, and Happy Herbivore Light and Lean. She has spread her message of cooking with no added oils or fats through appearances...

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Baxter Montgomery, MD

Baxter Montgomery, MD

Doctor Baxter Montgomery, Board Certified Cardiologist and Cardiac Electrophysiologist, knows how to use all of the most advanced tools in the world to treat heart disease, but has found that prevention through eating a healthy plant based diet is the true cure. He is the founder and president of the Houston Cardiac Association and the...

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Jay Gordon, MD

Jay Gordon, MD

We first encountered Dr. Jay Gordon, M.D. while watching the video Processed People. Always impressed with any Physician interested in nutrition in healing, we are especially are we encouraged when a pediatrician encourages plant-based nutrition. Teaching a child when he is young is just smart medicine. He is the author of several books and has...

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