WAY1950 Ways to Women's Wellness

Event Experts

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  Véronique Desaulniers, DC

  7 Steps to Preventing Breast Cancer

  What You'll Learn +

  • Discover the 7 Essentials System 
  • Early breast cancer detection
  • Are breast self exams really helpful?
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  Danette May, CPT

  Ancient Healing Power of Cacao

  What You'll Learn +

  • Difference between cacao, cocoa and chocolate 
  • Health benefits, especially for women 
  • Complementary additions to increase healing potential
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  Ashley Smith, NTP, CHC

  Are You a Fat Burner or a Sugar Burner?

  What You'll Learn +

  • Fat adapted and hormone balanced
  • Flip the switch between sugar and fat burning
  • Mend your relationship with dieting
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  Misty Williams

  Art of Self-Nurturing and Support

  What You'll Learn +

  • Advocating for yourself 
  • How to practice self-care 
  • Learning to receive support from others
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  Sarah Ballantyne, PhD

  Autoimmune Diseases and Women's Health

  What You'll Learn +

  • Percentage of women with autoimmune diseases
  • Root causes of autoimmunity
  • Is there a cure?
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  Naomi Whittel

  Autophagy: The Hidden Doctor Inside of You

  What You'll Learn +

  • Autophagy is your internal housekeeping system
  • Going from surviving to thriving 
  • Benefits of intermittent fasting and protein cycling
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  Andrea Nakayama, FNLP, MSN, CNC, CNE, CHHC

  Balancing Nutrition Through Functional Medicine

  What You'll Learn +

  • What is functional medicine?
  • Finding the source of your health challenges
  • Biggest health mistakes you can make
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  Sarah Anne Stewart, AADP

  Body-Image Recovery and Self-Love

  What You'll Learn +

  • Anne’s struggle with eating disorders
  • Mediation and mindfulness are the missing link
  • Trusting intuition and listening to your body
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  Miranda Marquit

  Breaking Free of Your Money Story

  What You'll Learn +

  • Changing the narrative about money 
  • Practical tips for investing and protecting credit 
  • Strategies for making more money
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  Kayte Susse, DC

  Breast Implant Illness, Detox and Self-Love

  What You'll Learn +

  • How breast implants create a "mystery illness" 
  • Proper removal is key for a positive outcome 
  • Understanding detoxification (preventing a healing crisis!)
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  Elena Villanueva, DC

  Budgeting for Single Moms

  What You'll Learn +

  • Making healthy eating more affordable
  • Value of investing in nutritious foods
  • Best places to shop
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  Teddy Sternagel

  Caring for Family with Motherly Intuition

  What You'll Learn +

  • Trusting your inner voice
  • Choosing the best practitioners and treatments
  • Putting yourself first to care for your family
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  Amanda McVey, ACSM, ACE, AFAA

  Caring for Your Cells

  What You'll Learn +

  • Role of your cells in overall health 
  • Preserving creative force and longevity
  • Tap into your cellular intelligence
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  Rania Badreldin

  Change Thoughts to Create the Life You Want

  What You'll Learn +

  • Stop comparing and believe in yourself! 
  • Do what you love and visualize what you want 
  • Have faith in the universe and remove expectations
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  Jenny Carr

  Clean Eating and Food Swaps for Your Kids

  What You'll Learn +

  • Identifying the symptoms linked to inflammation 
  • How Jenny’s son healed from infection and sensory issues 
  • Overcoming an inflammatory lifestyle
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  Theresa Depasquale

  Conquering Myths about Fitness

  What You'll Learn +

  • Does low-calorie eating get results?
  • Are women who lift destined to get bulky?
  • The hardest way *is* the FASTEST way!
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  Rachele Brooke Smith

  Creatively Transforming Fear into Power

  What You'll Learn +

  • Creativity and mindset to disrupt doubt and fear
  • How to feel good in your own skin!
  • Tools to help you live a dreamy life
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  Andrea Duchonovic, CHC

  Daily Habits to Calm Your Mind

  What You'll Learn +

  • Creating a less stressful daily routine 
  • Implementing changes that fit into any schedule 
  • Slower growth for lasting results
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  Terry Wahls, MD

  Dietary Approaches to Autoimmune Diseases

  What You'll Learn +

  • Dr. Wahl’s shares how her life has changed 
  • Impact of her research 
  • Influence of microbiome on MS and autoimmunity
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  Leigh Erin Connealy, MD

  Early Detection of Cancer

  What You'll Learn +

  • Toxins you MUST avoid
  • Which screenings are the most important?
  • Cutting-edge cancer strategies
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  Eva Detko, PhD, MSc, BA (Hons), mIAHT

  Emotional Toxicity and Your Health

  What You'll Learn +

  • Emotional toxicity as a factor in chronic illness 
  • What is emotional toxicity? 
  • Key steps for emotional detox
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  DelRae Messer Marie

  Fit Fitness into Your Busy Life

  What You'll Learn +

  • Using time-blocking practices 
  • Improving emotional and physical balance 
  • Higher intensity and shorter duration exercise
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  Rosetta Krizansky Windle

  Fitting Alcohol into Your Healthy Lifestyle

  What You'll Learn +

  • Rosetta's health journey 
  • Hidden issues with alcohol
  • Keys to staying healthy
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  Emily Lark, E-RYT

  Fulfill Purpose and Achieve Financial Flexibility

  What You'll Learn +

  • Using fear as a vehicle instead of an obstacle
  • The myth that success is for "other people"
  • Finding your voice and reaching the masses
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  Michelle Sands, ND

  Genetic Leveraging for Optimal Wellness

  What You'll Learn +

  • Difference between mutation and variation
  • Why even "bad" genes are actually good
  • Turning genes on and off
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  Kathryn Kos, M.Ed, NTP

  Grounding for Physical and Emotional Health

  What You'll Learn +

  • Grounding and thyroid health
  • Sympathetic to parasympathetic state-anxiety-depression
  • Neutralizing positively charged free radicals
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  Autumn Smith

  Gut Health, Anxiety and Depression

  What You'll Learn +

  • How your gut impacts mental health
  • Strategies to implement today to feel better
  • Latest research on the gut-brain connection
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  Joette Calabrese, HMC, CCH, RSHom

  Healing Female Ailments with Homeopathy

  What You'll Learn +

  • Using homeopathy for UTIs
  • Natural treatments for headaches
  • Hormonal conditions, including thyroid disorders
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  Andrea Siebert

  Healing Rheumatoid Arthritis and Hashi’s

  What You'll Learn +

  • Hope and persistence to get from pain to purpose 
  • What to do when you’re out of answers 
  • How to create a healing mindset!
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  Debi Silber, PhD

  How Betrayal Hurts Us Deeply

  What You'll Learn +

  • Physical, mental and emotional effects 
  • 5 stages from betrayal to breakthrough 
  • Key steps for healing
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  Darieth Chisolm

  How to Heal from Cyber Sexual Assault

  What You'll Learn +

  • Learn from her cyber sexual assault incident
  • How to turn your setbacks into STEP UPS
  • Finding your voice when negative events occur
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  Sonya Jenson, ND

  How Your Hormones Respond to Stress

  What You'll Learn +

  • The upside of stress
  • Progesterone and hormone imbalance
  • Tools to shift perception on stress
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  Kate Jaramillo

  Importance of Community for Women

  What You'll Learn +

  • Online communities can be a great support network
  • Help achieving a better work/life balance
  • How do you know if an online community is right?
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  Vivian Glyck

  Incorporate "Giving Back" into Your Business

  What You'll Learn +

  • Change the world while you work
  • Philanthropy is the gateway to power
  • Giving is the ultimate "health hack"
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  Meghan Walker, ND

  Is “Purpose” a Solution for Disease?

  What You'll Learn +

  • Increase cognitive reserve and physiological resilience
  • Fulfillment, not happiness, is the key to longevity and health
  • Anti-aging effects of cell membrane support
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  Trina Felber, RN, BSN, MSN, CRNA

  Is “Safer” Skincare Silently Killing You?

  What You'll Learn +

  • What is “safer” skincare?
  • Identifying primary ingredients 
  • Finding hidden toxins
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  Ritamarie Loscalzo, MS, DC, CCN, DACBN

  Ketosis for Women

  What You'll Learn +

  • What hormones does ketosis control?
  • Balancing hormones to lose weight 
  • Effect of ketosis on your sex hormones
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  Fran Drescher

  Live Differently, FEEL Better

  What You'll Learn +

  • Detox your home for optimal health 
  • Transform from a patient to a medical consumer 
  • Exercise mindful purchasing power
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  Susanne Bennett, DC, CCSP

  Magic of Kimchi: Superfood for Gut Health

  What You'll Learn +

  • What are mitochondria?
  • Improve brain fog, fatigue, heart disease and more!
  • Fix your gut and live longer
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  Melissa Sonners, DC, DACCP, CACCP

  Messy Imperfections of a Healthy Family

  What You'll Learn +

  • Realistic, natural approach to raising kids
  • Importance of self care for parents
  • Setting your intention, focus and sticking with it
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  Margaret Christensen, MD, FACOG, IFMCP, ABOIM

  Mold: Detoxifying Mold: An Invisible Health Threat

  What You'll Learn +

  • Effects on hormones and weight 
  • Link to psychiatric and neurological symptoms
  • Connection to autoimmunity
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  Rachel Pachivas

  Natural Ingredients to Enhance Beauty

  What You'll Learn +

  • Living a non-toxic life 
  • Reading labels to find hidden toxins 
  • Choosing tox-free skincare
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  Isa Herrera, MSPT, CSCS

  Naturally Heal Your Pelvic Floor

  What You'll Learn +

  • Importance of pelvic floor muscles 
  • Can Kegels do more harm than good?
  • Top 3 mistakes to avoid
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  Angi Greene Fletcher

  Nutritional Answers for Depression and Anxiety

  What You'll Learn +

  • Accepting support after childbirth 
  • Misinformation about nutrition and exercise
  • How to partner with your “village” to feel connected
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  Michelle Norris

  Overcome Fear and Bounce Back After Loss

  What You'll Learn +

  • Realizing your potential 
  • Stepping into your feminine power 
  • Creating beauty from the ashes
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  Jessica Smith, NTP

  Physical and Mental Benefits of Growing Food

  What You'll Learn +

  • Connecting with nature for immune health and wellbeing 
  • Impact on communities and children
  • Tips to get started, no matter where you live
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  Mindy Pelz, DC

  Pre-menopause and the Benefit of Keto

  What You'll Learn +

  • Lessen your pre-menopause symptoms 
  • Keto and fasting to help you lose weight 
  • Improve sleep during pre-menopause years
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  Susan Peirce Thompson, PhD

  Psychology, Neuroscience and Weight Loss

  What You'll Learn +

  • Missing link in weight loss programs 
  • Is your brain blocking you from losing weight?
  • Breaking food addiction
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  Robyn Benson, DOM

  Regenerative Medicine for Turning Back the Clock

  What You'll Learn +

  • Solve your most pressing health issues 
  • Cutting-edge health technologies 
  • Using prevention and regenerative medicine
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  Anna Cabeca, DO

  Rejuvenating the Aging Vagina

  What You'll Learn +

  • What constitutes a healthy vagina? 
  • Consequences of an aging vagina
  • Most important interventions to help women
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  Mariza Snyder, DC

  Reset Hormones, Lose Weight and Banish Fatigue

  What You'll Learn +

  • Hormonal imbalances that cause weight gain
  • Jump-start your metabolism with essential oils 
  • Oils for overcoming sugar cravings, fatigue and stress
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  Nasha Winters, ND, FABNO, LAc

  Restoring Circadian Rhythm

  What You'll Learn +

  • Identifying “rhythm stealers”
  • Impact of a damaged circadian cycle 
  • Strategies to restore your rhythm
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  Diane Kazer, FDNP

  Reversing Breast Implant Illness -- T.I.T.S Method

  What You'll Learn +

  • Strategies for healing after explant surgery 
  • Focusing on self-love and being “enough” 
  • Practicing self-care and relying on your tribe for support
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  Karen Salmansohn

  Sensory Meditations for Stress and Anxiety

  What You'll Learn +

  • Using your senses to relieve stress 
  • Relax to improve focus, clarity, productivity and sleep
  • Calm an anxious child with 2-minute meditations
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  Susan Bratton

  Sexual Vitality at Any Age

  What You'll Learn +

  • Support a thriving libido
  • Opening your orgasmic potential
  • Reversing painful sex
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  Shivan Sarna

  SIBO: How to Detox Your Gut

  What You'll Learn +

  • What is SIBO (and its symptoms)? 
  • Why by concerned if you think you have it? 
  • 3 tips for dealing with SIBO
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  Merily Pompa

  Spiritual Wellness: Moving from Pain to Purpose

  What You'll Learn +

  • Finding your purpose 
  • Healing emotionally and physically 
  • Importance of moving toward spiritual wellness
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  Amy Killen, MD

  Stem Cells for Aging and Sexual Health

  What You'll Learn +

  • How do stem cells activate healing? 
  • Regenerative therapies to regrow hair, heal wounds and more
  • The combo of integrative and regenerative therapies
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  Jodi Cohen, NTP

  Stimulate Your Vagus Nerve

  What You'll Learn +

  • Link between the vagus nerve, brain and organs 
  • Overcoming toxicity for optimal signaling 
  • Improve mood, reduce pain and inflammation
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  Angela Bell

  The Abundant Mindset: Attract True Wealth in All Areas

  What You'll Learn +

  • Uncover blocks surrounding your success 
  • Programming that’s preventing what you want
  • Encompass true wealth and be your richest self
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  Sheri Salata

  Tips and Tricks from Oprah's Executive Producer

  What You'll Learn +

  • How Sheri got to this place in her career 
  • Strategies for overcoming burnout 
  • Turning failures into growth
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  Wendy Myers, FDN-P

  Toxic Metals, Disease and Rapid Aging

  What You'll Learn +

  • Link between toxins and disease 
  • Are heavy metals causing your fatigue?
  • How toxins cause weight loss resistance
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  Erika De La Cruz

  Turning Your Passion into a Paycheck

  What You'll Learn +

  • Focus on passion and trust the universe
  • Open up to create lasting, authentic relationships
  • Generating revenue from what you love
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  Donna Gates, MEd, ABAAHP

  Untapped Power Inside Every Woman

  What You'll Learn +

  • Thoughts on the power of YOU 
  • Addressing prenatal genetic manipulation 
  • Strategies to help you prepare for the future
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  Tammy Stewart, CHC

  Value of True Health

  What You'll Learn +

  • Health is your greatest asset
  • When interference is removed, the body can heal.
  • Health is a journey, not a destination
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  Angela Lauria, PhD

  What I Learned Losing 100 Pounds (5 Times!)

  What You'll Learn +

  • Why weight is one of the biggest challenges
  • Losing weight and can’t keep it off?
  • Tips and tricks about Angela's weight loss journey
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  Trevor Cates, ND

  Why Glowing Skin Starts in Your Microbiome

  What You'll Learn +

  • What is your skin microbiome? 
  • Underlying factors behind your symptoms 
  • Strategies for healthy skin
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  Randy Taran

  Your Magical Inner Guidance System

  What You'll Learn +

  • Emotions are messages to help you navigate your life
  • Difference between guilt and shame, sadness and depression
  • How happiness is a skill that can be developed
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  Felice Gersh, MD

  Your Menstrual Cycle and Health

  What You'll Learn +

  • Vital sign of female wellbeing
  • Meaning of abnormal cycles
  • Birth control pills and hormonal contraception
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  Caitlin Czezowski, DC, CFMP, CACCP

  Your Mouth Can Wreak Havoc on Your Body

  What You'll Learn +

  • Impact of silver fillings on your hormones 
  • How cavitations affect your overall health 
  • Dentists properly trained in amalgam removal

Meet Your Host

Sonya Jenson, ND

Dr. Sonya Jensen is a mom of two boys, a business owner, a yoga teacher, a workshop leader and a women’s health expert, whose mission is to inspire women to live free and balanced lives. She’s a graduate of British Columbia’s Simon Fraser University, where she received a degree in cell and molecular biology. Pulled in the direction of helping others since the age of 5, Dr. Jensen pursued naturopathic medicine to explore the body’s healing potential and learn how to share it with patients. She is the host of the podcast, Women N Wellness, and believes it is her job as a parent, doctor, employer and teacher to strive to be the best version of herself in physical, mental and emotional health. Through this work she hopes to create a ripple effect in the world, creating more health, self-love and joy.

In 2009, Dr. Sonya and her husband, Dr. Nicholas Jensen, opened Divine Elements Naturopathic Family Wellness in the Kitsilano neighborhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, where they help clients create lasting changes in their overall health and well-being.

Tammy Stewart, CHC

Tammy Stewart is the founder of Health for a Purpose in Grapevine, Texas. She became certified as a cellular detoxification specialist over a decade ago, and continues extensive specialized training several times a year. When her children began struggling with health issues, she was called to serve them and others who are struggling with "no known cause/no known cure" issues. As a certified health coach, she practices what she teaches: remove the interference, and the body will heal itself; chemical stress from the overwhelming load of toxins in our bodies and our environment cause cellular inflammation which causes dysfunction in the body; fix the cell, and the body will heal itself.

Caitlin Czezowski, DC, CFMP, CACCP

Dr. Caitlin Czezowski is a doctor of chiropractic and certified functional medicine practitioner with extensive training in women's health, pregnancy and pediatrics. In her quest to find the cause for her own deteriorating health, she came across post-graduate training in functional endocrinology and clinical nutrition. She was able to trace her root causes back to dental work she had done as a teenager and young adult, and through extensive research, she found that the majority of symptoms and illnesses can be linked to mouth health, and because of this, she created The Dental Detox. 

Dr. Czezowski is hugely passionate about finding the root cause of a patient’s health issues and developing a safe and effective plan to reverse symptoms and restore quality of life. She does this by working one on one with select individuals and by educating the masses through the Women N Wellness podcast, speaking engagements and social media.

Mindy Pelz, DC

Dr. Mindy Pelz is crazy passionate about helping families stay healthy. For the past 22 years, she has been in the health trenches with busy, overscheduled families. She has built one of the largest holistic health clinics in Silicon Valley with patients coming to her from all over the world for her customized ketobiotic, fasting, detox and nutritional approaches. Her focus is giving families simple, effective, science-based health tools that have all members of the family thriving. Her current passion is educating women on how to use keto, fasting and diet variation to impact their hormonal health.

Her bestselling book, The Reset Factor, was released in 2015, giving people all over the world access to a clear step-by-step path to creating a healthy, vibrant, energy-filled life free from disease and suffering. Once a month, Dr. Pelz leads her “Resetter tribe,” a supportive online group of like-minded people, through a free Fast Training Week, when all community members practice different styles of fasting together.

Melissa Sonners, DC, DACCP, CACCP

Dr. Melissa Sonners has extensive training in prenatal/post-partum and pediatric care. She is dedicated to bringing the latest research to parents and children, whether they are just trying to pursue healthy lifestyles or navigating the complex world of developmental delays and disorders. She completed the functional neurology childhood developmental course through the Carrick Institute, and is one of only 52 professionals who earned their Diplomate in Chiropractic Pediatrics from the Academy of Family Practice in North America. 

Dr. Sonners and her husband, Dr. Jason Sonners, are the owners of Core Therapies Family Wellness Center in northern New Jersey. Together, they create comprehensive programs and help patients dealing with a variety of autoimmune and neurological conditions, including allergies, autism, cancer and many others. Combining chiropractic, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, nutrition, exercise, detoxification programs and much more, they help support patients naturally and guide them through their health challenges. 

Drs. Melissa and Jason Sonners are also the owners of Nj HBOT and HBOT USA.

JJ Virgin, CNS, BCHN, EP-C

Celebrity nutrition expert and Fitness Hall of Famer JJ Virgin teaches clients how to eliminate food and carb intolerances so they can transform their health and their lives. As cohost of TLC’s Freaky Eaters and health expert on Dr. Phil, JJ is a prominent TV and media personality, including appearances on PBS, Dr. Oz, Rachael Ray, Access Hollywood, and the TODAY Show. JJ is the author of four NY Times bestsellers: The Virgin Diet, The Virgin Diet Cookbook, JJ Virgin’s Sugar Impact Diet, and JJ Virgin’s Sugar Impact Diet Cookbook.

Her latest book, Miracle Mindset, shows warrior moms how to be strong, positive leaders for their families, while exploring the inspirational lessons JJ learned as she fought for her own son’s life. JJ hosts the popular JJ Virgin Lifestyle Show podcast, with over 3 million downloads and counting. She also regularly writes for Huffington Post, Rodale Wellness, Mind Body Green and other major blogs and magazines.