WellnessSpotlight: Wellness

Keith Norris

Keith Norris, Co-Founder of Paleo f(x)- Keith is a former standout athlete, a military veteran, and an elite strength and conditioning expert with over 35 years of in-the-trenches experience. As a serial entrepreneur in the health and wellness space, he is an owner, co-founder and Chief Development Officer of the largest Paleo conference in the world, Paleo f(x). Keith is a founding member of ID Life, a company whose mission is health and lifestyle optimization. In his spare time, he authors one of the top fitness blogs in the health and wellness sphere, Theory To Practice.

Michelle Norris

Michelle is a co-founder and CEO of Paleo f(x)™, the largest Paleo event in the world. She’s a passionate speaker, motivator and guiding light to those seeking deliverance from a broken healthcare system and disabled economic system. She has used her personal health struggles to empower her to become a firebrand for advancing the Paleo movement.

Susan Blum, MD, MPH

I have experienced first-hand what many of my patients have – pain. A few years ago I developed Arthritis and more than a decade ago, I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, an autoimmune disease where the body attacks the thyroid. By following the exact same Functional Medicine and lifestyle principles I prescribe to my patients, I was able to cure myself of both these conditions. I approach my work using a groundbreaking whole body perspective known as Functional Medicine. This means that I get to the root causes of why people get sick beyond the symptoms and identify the steps to help them get healthy. There’s so much people can do to feel great.

Mark Hyman, MD

Mark Hyman, MD, believes that we all deserve a life of vitality—and that we have the potential to create it for ourselves. That’s why he is dedicated to tackling the root causes of chronic disease by harnessing the power of functional medicine to transform healthcare. Dr. Hyman and his team work every day to empower people, organizations, and communities to heal their bodies and minds, and improve our social and economic resilience.

Dr. Hyman is a practicing family physician, a multi-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in his field. He is the Pritzker Foundation Chair in Functional Medicine, Cleveland Clinic and the Director the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine. He is also the founder and director of The UltraWellness Center, chairman of the board of the Institute for Functional Medicine and a medical editor of The Huffington Post.

Isaac Jones, DC, BS

Isaac Jones, DC, BS, is the co-founder of Elevays, the world’s largest virtual healthcare practice. He is also the founder of Health Experts Alliance and EPIC retreats, where he teaches the top 1% of the world’s best doctors advanced health and business solutions. Isaac has been named "the doctor of the future" and featured in INC magazine. He is a leading expert in Human Potential Healthcare and uses cutting-edge, research supported strategies including lifestyle genetics, cellular detoxification, and customized nutritional solutions to create sustainable health transformations.

Christine Schaffner, ND

Dr. Christine Schaffner is a board-certified naturopathic physician who graduated from Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington. Prior to Bastyr, she completed her undergraduate studies in pre-medicine and psychology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Dr. Schaffner is passionate about practicing medicine and creating healing spaces. She is the clinic director of Sophia Health Institute, which she co-created with her mentor Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt in Woodinville, Washington. She actively sees patients at Sophia Health Institute and through her practices, Marin Naturopathic Medicine in California and Bella Fiore Organic Med Spa & Klinik in Seattle. Along with practicing medicine, Dr. Schaffner has built partnerships and working relationships with practitioners who are committed to treating persistent Lyme disease all over the world. Through these connections, she has established a unique set of skills and knowledge to serve her patients. With this diverse skill set, Dr. Schaffner seeks to improve access, outcomes and speed of recovery for patients struggling with chronic illness.

Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD

Dr. Klinghardt studied medicine and psychology in Freiburg, Germany, completing his PhD on the involvement of the autonomic nervous system in autoimmune disorders. Early in his career, he became interested in the sequelae of chronic toxicity (especially lead, mercury, environmental pollutants and electromagnetic fields) on the course of illness. While working in India, he encountered Eastern concepts of disease etiology and blended them with his Western training. This laid the foundation for his 5-level system of Integrative Medicine. In the US he spent three years as a full-time emergency physician before becoming medical director of the Santa Fe Pain Center. Increasingly aware of the limitations of conventional medicine when dealing with chronic conditions, he trained in Ericksonian hypnotherapy and began to include body-oriented psychotherapeutic and counseling approaches in his work, along with neural therapy, mesotherapy injection techniques and applied psychoneurobiology.

Dr. Klinghardt has contributed significantly to the understanding of metal toxicity and its connection with chronic infections, illness and pain. He has been instrumental in advancing various fields within biological medicine — non-invasive pain management, injection techniques for pain and orthopedic dysfunction, anti-aging medicine, toxicology, pediatrics (neuro-developmental disorders), energy psychology, biological dentistry and others. He has also developed Autonomic Response Testing, a comprehensive diagnostic system that has helped many practitioners to become accomplished holistic physicians.

He founded Sophia Health Institute in 2012, and is actively involved in patient care at his clinic.

Diane V. Capaldi, MAP

V Capaldi is the founder of the award-winning brand PaleoBOSS Lady, a CBD and cannabis advocate, TEDx Speaker, miracle, sponsored social media influencer and business badass. She has won 8+ awards for her work in community teaching and sharing with others the power of consciousness to offer free and accessible healthcare. For 30+ years V has been an advocate for cannabis and CBD, sharing her miracle story of healing using only diet and lifestyle in the face of multiple sclerosis (MS), Epstein Barr, Hashimoto’s and potentially, Lyme disease. In addition, V has built and sold companies from idea to empires. V’s work informs the community and companies on how to live a purpose- and passion-driven life mission that activates a BAM reality.

Mary Clifton, MD

Dr. Mary Clifton is an internal medicine doctor in New York City, with 20 years of experience in both the hospital and private practice. She is licensed by the New York State Department of Health to provide medical marijuana and is a recognized expert in CBD, cannabis and medical marijuana. She is a published researcher, a national speaker on women’s health and osteoporosis, and author of four books, and two new soon-to-be-released books on CBD and cannabis. She is also a leading voice in telemedicine, bridging the gap in healthcare availability and affordable lab testing for long-term wellness. She has a special interest in innovation in health care delivery and patient empowerment. An alumni board member at Michigan State University’s medical school, Dr. Clifton completed her residency training with MSU in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She has previously served on the national speaker’s bureaus for multiple women’s health and osteoporosis pharmaceutical companies, including Eli Lilly, Amgen, Forest Pharmaceuticals and Medtronic. 

After authoring her health guide, Waist Away, and its companion cookbook, Get Waisted, she designed a 30-day wellness program to help patients take control of their health, with health coaching branches in 74 cities and online. Her passion is to not only help patients create a fast reset for their health and lives but also to support health practitioners in resetting their practices and revenue through telemedicine and lab testing opportunities.

Sam Asser

Sam Asser is the co-founder of Fast Way To Health, an online education platform specializing in fasting. Sam is a holistic coach and the host of their online events that bring together health and wellness experts from all around the globe to empower and educate people on becoming the best and healthiest version of themselves. Fasting has been the catalyst for positive change in her own life and her mission is to continue to spread this positive ripple effect out into the world so people can become who they truly are.

Mitch Asser

Mitch Asser is founder of FastWayToHealth.com and The Fasting Summit, which is one of the leading health and wellness brands in the world that is focused around fasting. His events have now reached 10s of 1,000s of people who are looking to reverse disease, fight fatigue, lose weight and ultimately become a healthier version of themselves with fasting.

Eric Zielinski, DC

Dr. Eric Zielinski is the author of a U.S. bestselling book, The Healing Power of Essential Oils, and has pioneered natural living and biblical health education since 2003. Trained as an aromatherapist, public health researcher and chiropractor, Dr. Z started NaturalLivingFamily.com in 2014 with his wife, Sabrina Ann, to help people learn how to safely and effectively use natural remedies such as essential oils. Now visited by more than four million natural health seekers every year, NaturalLivingFamily.com has rapidly become the #1 online source for biblical health and non-branded essential oils education.

Wendy Myers, FDN-P

Wendy Myers is passionate about educating on the importance of detox in our ever-increasingly toxic world. She healed her own health issues through detox and wants to help others do the same. Wendy’s research into detox intensified with the death of her father from esophageal cancer. Intuitively, she knew toxins, chemo, radiation and ten medications killed him prematurely. Launching her site, Myersdetox.com, she vowed to educate others to avoid the same fate. Food, detoxification, and natural healing modalities must be used to achieve true and lasting health. Wendy is a functional diagnostic nutritionist in Los Angeles, CA. She uses Hair Mineral Analysis, urine and stool metals tests to detox clients with her revolutionary Myers Detox Protocol.