Dr. Nicolette Richer: Individuals who can afford to buy food at a
Dr. Nicolette Richer: whole foods, but they still choose to buy
Dr. Nicolette Richer: processed refined food.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: I've been working with these individuals
Dr. Nicolette Richer: for a long time.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: I've, quite frankly, become a little bit
Dr. Nicolette Richer: exhausted because we do have so much
Dr. Nicolette Richer: information there's too much information
Dr. Nicolette Richer: out there, in fact but it's interesting.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: I've decided to really focus on BIPOC women,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: and that is an area that I know I'll be
Dr. Nicolette Richer: focusing on probably for the next half of
Dr. Nicolette Richer: my life, the next 50 years, and it's the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: area with some of the biggest challenges,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: because we're still facing racism in this
Dr. Nicolette Richer: area.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: We're still facing those economic gaps as
Dr. Nicolette Richer: well.
Hilary Russo: All right, my friends, this is not the
Hilary Russo: first time we talked about this, but
Hilary Russo: imagine being able to reverse the chronic
Hilary Russo: diseases in your life, the health issues
Hilary Russo: that you have, with small changes and I
Hilary Russo: mean really small changes that can make a
Hilary Russo: difference.
Hilary Russo: Like I said, this isn't the first time we
Hilary Russo: talked about this.
Hilary Russo: Holistic living and integrative nutrition
Hilary Russo: is really a big part of that.
Hilary Russo: If you can reverse 97% of the chronic
Hilary Russo: diseases out there with whole food eating,
Hilary Russo: with different kinds of approaches to
Hilary Russo: taking care of your body, mind and spirit
Hilary Russo: holistically, whole body approach, wouldn't
Hilary Russo: you want to have the answers?
Hilary Russo: And that is exactly why I have Dr Nicolette
Hilary Russo: Richer here.
Hilary Russo: She is a doctor of social sciences and she
Hilary Russo: is on a mission to teach 22 million people
Hilary Russo: using food as medicine by a deadline, by
Hilary Russo: the way, 2030.
Hilary Russo: Dr Nicolette, it is so great to have you
Hilary Russo: here.
Hilary Russo: Thank you so much for being on HIListically
Hilary Russo: Speaking.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Yeah, and thanks for having me.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: It's a pleasure to be here and share this
Dr. Nicolette Richer: information.
Hilary Russo: So I was chit-chatting with you before we
Hilary Russo: pressed record about.
Hilary Russo: You are the first doctor of social sciences
Hilary Russo: I've actually had on this podcast.
Hilary Russo: We're, you know well into 150 plus podcast
Hilary Russo: episodes here.
Hilary Russo: Being that this podcast is about holistic
Hilary Russo: health well-being, turning those traumas
Hilary Russo: into triumphs in our life.
Hilary Russo: I've realized from the different kinds of
Hilary Russo: doctors I've had on the show many in
Hilary Russo: functional medicine and integrative
Hilary Russo: medicine that doctors do not go to medical
Hilary Russo: school and take nutritional courses.
Hilary Russo: That's kind of an extracurricular and I do
Hilary Russo: want to start out there.
Hilary Russo: So how is being a social science doctor
Hilary Russo: different?
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Yeah.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So I was actually on the path to med school
Dr. Nicolette Richer: and all of our friends and our customers
Dr. Nicolette Richer: who ate at our plant-based whole food
Dr. Nicolette Richer: restaurants told me don't go to med school
Dr. Nicolette Richer: if I want to teach people how to reverse
Dr. Nicolette Richer: their chronic diseases.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So I wrote my MCATs, I passed my MCAT, I
Dr. Nicolette Richer: was applying for med school and I really
Dr. Nicolette Richer: thought that was the path, that was the way
Dr. Nicolette Richer: I could help the most amount of people.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: And they were like Nikki, you're not going
Dr. Nicolette Richer: to be able to help people in seven and a
Dr. Nicolette Richer: half minute.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: You know practitioner patient appointments.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: And so they're the ones who actually the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: medical doctors talked me out of going to
Dr. Nicolette Richer: med school.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: And they said work with people around
Dr. Nicolette Richer: behavior change that's what's important
Dr. Nicolette Richer: around education around nutrition.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: And they also point blank said I'd lose my
Dr. Nicolette Richer: license if I was prescribing nutrition to
Dr. Nicolette Richer: patients who had heart disease and diabetes
Dr. Nicolette Richer: and cancer, etc.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Etc.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: That's what a lot of people don't realize
Dr. Nicolette Richer: is they can't prescribe a specific diet as
Dr. Nicolette Richer: a doctor because that's not considered
Dr. Nicolette Richer: evidence-based medicine, even though we
Dr. Nicolette Richer: have thousands of studies to show that
Dr. Nicolette Richer: plant-based whole food eating is literally
Dr. Nicolette Richer: the answer to reversing 97% of all chronic
Dr. Nicolette Richer: diseases.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So, being a social scientist, I get to be
Dr. Nicolette Richer: on the side of understanding what makes a
Dr. Nicolette Richer: person tick, what makes them actually
Dr. Nicolette Richer: engage in the behaviors to reverse a
Dr. Nicolette Richer: chronic disease.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: What are the barriers in society that
Dr. Nicolette Richer: prevent them from being able to reverse
Dr. Nicolette Richer: their disease?
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Because it's never just a person has a
Dr. Nicolette Richer: disease and they want to reverse it.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: No, there's economic factors, there's
Dr. Nicolette Richer: geographic factors, there's political
Dr. Nicolette Richer: policies that are in place that prevent
Dr. Nicolette Richer: people from accessing food, particularly if
Dr. Nicolette Richer: you are Black, indigenous or a person of
Dr. Nicolette Richer: color, and a lot of people don't know that.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So it's not just a simple have a disease,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: choose to reverse your disease.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: That's not how it works.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: There's financial inequities that are in
Dr. Nicolette Richer: place, there's racism within the medical
Dr. Nicolette Richer: system that prevent people from getting the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: proper lab test done, etc.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Etc.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So, being a social scientist, I'm actually
Dr. Nicolette Richer: able to look at the systems that are in
Dr. Nicolette Richer: place and the systems that need to be
Dr. Nicolette Richer: changed that would allow somebody to even
Dr. Nicolette Richer: engage in the behaviors of reversing their
Dr. Nicolette Richer: chronic disease in the first place.
Hilary Russo: And that's a big difference.
Hilary Russo: That's a really big difference from what
Hilary Russo: you originally went to school for, like you
Hilary Russo: said, but was this something that you
Hilary Russo: identified with because of your own health
Hilary Russo: concerns as well?
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Good question and the answer is no, but a
Dr. Nicolette Richer: lot of people.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: That's.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Number one question I get asked is how I
Dr. Nicolette Richer: got into this work.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: I was working in government actually
Dr. Nicolette Richer: creating policy for environmental policy,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: so I was in environmental toxicology and
Dr. Nicolette Richer: screening and you know wastewater
Dr. Nicolette Richer: management etc.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Etc.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: And so in doing that work, at the same time
Dr. Nicolette Richer: my best friend's dad was diagnosed with
Dr. Nicolette Richer: stage four cancer.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: He was 72 years old at the time and he had
Dr. Nicolette Richer: metastasized to his bones.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: He was not given chemo surgery or radiation
Dr. Nicolette Richer: as a treatment option at all and they just
Dr. Nicolette Richer: sent him home to die.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So instead he had heard about metabolic
Dr. Nicolette Richer: nutrition and detoxification years and
Dr. Nicolette Richer: years and years before.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So he went back and started researching,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: investigating, asking lots of questions,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: and he immediately changed his behavior,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: his lifestyle.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: He stopped eating processed food, stopped
Dr. Nicolette Richer: eating pizza and burgers and fries and
Dr. Nicolette Richer: packaged ingredients, and he switched to
Dr. Nicolette Richer: organic, plant-based whole food diet, daily
Dr. Nicolette Richer: detoxification with supplements and added
Dr. Nicolette Richer: juicings for the added nutrients.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: And at 72 years old, he reversed his stage
Dr. Nicolette Richer: for metastasized cancer, where he was given
Dr. Nicolette Richer: three months to live and he lived another
Dr. Nicolette Richer: 22 more years.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Now, being naturally a researcher and
Dr. Nicolette Richer: really curious, I couldn't discount what he
Dr. Nicolette Richer: did and just chalk it up to one anecdotal
Dr. Nicolette Richer: story.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So I investigated the therapy to understand.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: You know, what did it mean, what was the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: science behind it?
Dr. Nicolette Richer: And lo and behold, it opened up a whole new
Dr. Nicolette Richer: world where I saw that actually, not even
Dr. Nicolette Richer: just for the last 200 years of published
Dr. Nicolette Richer: medical research and peer reviewed journal
Dr. Nicolette Richer: articles does this information exist.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: But you know, going back through
Dr. Nicolette Richer: traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic
Dr. Nicolette Richer: medicine and other indigenous medicine
Dr. Nicolette Richer: practices, you know food has been medicine
Dr. Nicolette Richer: since the day every single human being was
Dr. Nicolette Richer: came into existence on the planet.
Hilary Russo: What is your hope when you say that you
Hilary Russo: want to teach 22 million people how to
Hilary Russo: eradicate their chronic diseases using food
Hilary Russo: as medicine in the next, really, six years?
Hilary Russo: Yeah, when you think about that, what does
Hilary Russo: that mean for you?
Hilary Russo: Because I know that you are putting a lot
Hilary Russo: of these programs, in these wellness
Hilary Russo: programs in organizations, companies and
Hilary Russo: institutions, but and teaching doctors is
Hilary Russo: one thing that you do, so what is how?
Hilary Russo: Would that mission be a possibility for you?
Dr. Nicolette Richer: yeah, I think one of the biggest, most
Dr. Nicolette Richer: important things any entrepreneur can do is
Dr. Nicolette Richer: to set a big, hairy, audacious goal.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: And a big, hairy, audacious goal is a goal
Dr. Nicolette Richer: that is bigger than anything you can ever
Dr. Nicolette Richer: imagine accomplishing.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: And if we don't set goals like that, then
Dr. Nicolette Richer: we we just don't set big goals.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: We actually set really small goals that are
Dr. Nicolette Richer: very easy to achieve, and so it's important
Dr. Nicolette Richer: to set a big, hairy, audacious goal.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So that is mine.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: It's going to be really hard to quantify.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: For example, I was invited to China by the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Ministry of Health and the Center for
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Chronic Disease Control to teach 600
Dr. Nicolette Richer: physicians how to do this metabolic therapy
Dr. Nicolette Richer: that I teach.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So what they ended up doing was donating
Dr. Nicolette Richer: 200 acres of organic farmland.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: The Chinese government did that and they
Dr. Nicolette Richer: mandated in China that every municipality
Dr. Nicolette Richer: needed to be in charge of the diabetes
Dr. Nicolette Richer: reversing diabetes using food as medicine.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: They now have a 150 bed wellness center
Dr. Nicolette Richer: where anybody in China can go to to learn
Dr. Nicolette Richer: the therapy that I taught these physicians.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: They gutted a main hospital in Beijing to
Dr. Nicolette Richer: put in a metabolic nutrition and detox
Dr. Nicolette Richer: center and including kitchens with stoves
Dr. Nicolette Richer: where every Wednesday evening the community
Dr. Nicolette Richer: can come and learn about food as medicine.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So that's a country with over a billion
Dr. Nicolette Richer: people.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Now, am I going to know exactly how many
Dr. Nicolette Richer: patients those 600 individuals, those
Dr. Nicolette Richer: physicians, have been able to impact in the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: 150 bed center and the hospital in Beijing?
Dr. Nicolette Richer: I will not be able to quantify that, but it
Dr. Nicolette Richer: allows me to actually reach out to
Dr. Nicolette Richer: organizations that I would not normally
Dr. Nicolette Richer: have reached out to and say, hey, can we
Dr. Nicolette Richer: partner?
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Another example is that Lululemon, which is
Dr. Nicolette Richer: a major employer of 34,000 employees, is
Dr. Nicolette Richer: one of our biggest sponsors and they made
Dr. Nicolette Richer: me an ambassador simply so we could get the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: message out, as food is medicine.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So we're now working with them on a huge
Dr. Nicolette Richer: endeavor which is not only around chronic
Dr. Nicolette Richer: diseases but around mental health disorders
Dr. Nicolette Richer: as well, because mental health disorders
Dr. Nicolette Richer: are just chronic diseases, and so to really
Dr. Nicolette Richer: support men around the globe in reversing
Dr. Nicolette Richer: their suicidal ideation and mood disorders
Dr. Nicolette Richer: as well.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So it's by partnering with these big
Dr. Nicolette Richer: organizations that I think I'm going to be
Dr. Nicolette Richer: able to achieve this goal.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So, yeah, going to be hard to quantify, for
Dr. Nicolette Richer: sure, because I don't keep track of every
Dr. Nicolette Richer: single individual, but it allows me to
Dr. Nicolette Richer: really partner with big organizations.
Hilary Russo: You glow when you're talking about this.
Hilary Russo: You really you come alive, Like I'm just
Hilary Russo: watching you as you talk about, and even
Hilary Russo: talking about things that are traumatic
Hilary Russo: when you talk about suicide.
Hilary Russo: But I think you're seeing the other side of
Hilary Russo: it, like where the possibility is.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Yeah, thank you for noticing that.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: It is definitely my life's work.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: It doesn't even feel like work and every
Dr. Nicolette Richer: time I get a client who is sitting on the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: side of the road.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: This is one example a very successful
Dr. Nicolette Richer: entrepreneur in our town who called me from
Dr. Nicolette Richer: the side of the road crying because he had
Dr. Nicolette Richer: a rope in his hand but couldn't figure out
Dr. Nicolette Richer: where to hang the rope.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: He had served in the British Air Forces.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: You can listen to the podcast on our Eat
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Real to Heal podcast his story.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: And then now to see him, married with two
Dr. Nicolette Richer: kids, running a restaurant.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: He completed our metabolic, nutrition and
Dr. Nicolette Richer: detox coaching certification.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: He helped his entire family reverse their
Dr. Nicolette Richer: head to toe psoriasis.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: After he healed himself of his psoriasis
Dr. Nicolette Richer: and his chronic diseases and mood disorders,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: no longer wants to take his life.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: He's thriving.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: And when you see an individual, you know
Dr. Nicolette Richer: really, do that 150 degree turn like that?
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Yeah, I can't help but glow and smile and I
Dr. Nicolette Richer: can give you thousands of case studies like
Dr. Nicolette Richer: that reversing mental health disorders,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: suicidal ideation, chronic diseases.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: It's one of the easiest things to do, but
Dr. Nicolette Richer: our society makes it so complicated, so I'm
Dr. Nicolette Richer: excited to be on the side that knows how to
Dr. Nicolette Richer: do it.
Hilary Russo: I think that's where we truly vibe, because
Hilary Russo: that's an area where I'm focusing on.
Hilary Russo: As far as being a holistic practitioner in
Hilary Russo: the emotional well-being field, you know,
Hilary Russo: having self-regulating tools, having ways
Hilary Russo: that you can put the power of emotional
Hilary Russo: well-being in someone else's hands.
Hilary Russo: People will say often they'll say, oh,
Hilary Russo: you're a healer or you are the one that is
Hilary Russo: doing the work for someone, but it's being
Hilary Russo: the guide, it's being the person that says
Hilary Russo: here are the tools.
Hilary Russo: You're the one that's actually doing the
Hilary Russo: work that empowers the actual client or
Hilary Russo: patient in your case.
Hilary Russo: And I think about that, like just in the
Hilary Russo: work I do with Havening Techniques, which
Hilary Russo: is a, you know, a psychosensory,
Hilary Russo: neuroscience-based approach that changes
Hilary Russo: your thoughts, moods, behaviors and habits
Hilary Russo: rapidly and being able to give people those
Hilary Russo: tools.
Hilary Russo: Really, I think I'm seeing parts of the
Hilary Russo: mirroring back.
Hilary Russo: You know like you get very excited when you
Hilary Russo: see that, oh yes, this is working for
Hilary Russo: somebody and the work that you're doing is
Hilary Russo: working for so many people.
Hilary Russo: Where do you feel that the challenges are
Hilary Russo: truly in the work that you do?
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Yeah.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So we just got a book picked up by a
Dr. Nicolette Richer: publisher, our third book.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: It's called Rise Up and it's all about how
Dr. Nicolette Richer: women of color, it's time to rise up.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: It's time to reclaim our ancestral
Dr. Nicolette Richer: knowledge that food is medicine.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: It's time to reverse these chronic diseases.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: It's time to end the discrimination in the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: health field, in our food systems field,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: and it's time to reverse these chronic
Dr. Nicolette Richer: diseases.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: It's time to end the discrimination in the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: health field, in our food systems field,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: and it's time to really close those
Dr. Nicolette Richer: economic disparity gaps that we see that
Dr. Nicolette Richer: are huge, that really women face at higher
Dr. Nicolette Richer: levels than men.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So one of the big areas for BIPOC women
Dr. Nicolette Richer: especially, but men as well, and all
Dr. Nicolette Richer: genders and identities it is the fact that
Dr. Nicolette Richer: so many BIPOC individuals can't even access
Dr. Nicolette Richer: clean, real food.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So they can't access your services, they
Dr. Nicolette Richer: can't access my services.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: It is out of their ability to be able to
Dr. Nicolette Richer: afford them.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: There's policies in place that won't that
Dr. Nicolette Richer: prevent them from having a grocery store
Dr. Nicolette Richer: that sells organic, clean, real food at
Dr. Nicolette Richer: affordable prices in their community.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: These are called redline districts.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: You know, whole Foods will not, whole Foods
Dr. Nicolette Richer: will not put their restaurant or their
Dr. Nicolette Richer: grocery store in a redline district.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Food deserts Well, yeah, and it's not even
Dr. Nicolette Richer: just food.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Deserts, like just because you can get pop
Dr. Nicolette Richer: tarts in a grocery store, does not.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: That's not food.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So it's actually having nutrition deserts,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: and so that's a huge problem.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So that is the work that I'm really focused
Dr. Nicolette Richer: on individuals who can afford to buy, you
Dr. Nicolette Richer: know, food at a Whole Foods, but they still
Dr. Nicolette Richer: choose to buy processed, refined food.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: I've been working with these individuals
Dr. Nicolette Richer: for a long time.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: I've, quite frankly, become a little bit
Dr. Nicolette Richer: exhausted because we do have so much
Dr. Nicolette Richer: information there's too much information
Dr. Nicolette Richer: out there, in fact, but it's interesting.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: I've decided to really focus on BIPOC women,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: and that is an area that I know I'll be
Dr. Nicolette Richer: focusing on probably for the next half of
Dr. Nicolette Richer: my life, the next 50 years, and it's the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: area with some of the biggest challenges,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: because we're still facing racism in this
Dr. Nicolette Richer: area.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: We're still facing those economic gaps as
Dr. Nicolette Richer: well.
Hilary Russo: That is something that I became very
Hilary Russo: familiar with when I was working with CVS
Hilary Russo: Health, because I was hosting a show called
Hilary Russo: Healthy Communities.
Hilary Russo: We focused on the social determinants of
Hilary Russo: health and seeing the lack in some of these
Hilary Russo: communities that, really, put it, halted a
Hilary Russo: number of communities from being able to
Hilary Russo: access what is healthier for them in their
Hilary Russo: everyday, in their communities.
Hilary Russo: But also it's changing the habits, because
Hilary Russo: if for so long they have been eating a
Hilary Russo: certain way to survive, it's changing the
Hilary Russo: thought, moods, behaviors and habits to
Hilary Russo: thrive, to live well to realize that they
Hilary Russo: can turn so many things around, and it's
Hilary Russo: not just the food, like you said, it's an
Hilary Russo: emotional response as well.
Hilary Russo: Can you touch on why keto kills?
Hilary Russo: That was something that came up because we
Hilary Russo: hear so much about keto on both sides.
Hilary Russo: I'm curious from your perspective, why does
Hilary Russo: keto kill?
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Yeah.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So I'll actually just jump in and say it's
Dr. Nicolette Richer: not my perspective.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: It's actually what the scientific
Dr. Nicolette Richer: literature shows.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So we have media, nutritionists, health
Dr. Nicolette Richer: advocates promoting keto based on a very
Dr. Nicolette Richer: few amount of studies and these studies
Dr. Nicolette Richer: have not been done long term.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: All of the studies that I've looked at that
Dr. Nicolette Richer: have been done long term.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: They had to actually stop the studies
Dr. Nicolette Richer: because they actually resulted in people
Dr. Nicolette Richer: having higher rates of suicidal ideation,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: clinical depression, which they didn't even
Dr. Nicolette Richer: have starting keto, higher rates of heart
Dr. Nicolette Richer: disease.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Some studies had to be stopped because some
Dr. Nicolette Richer: of the patients they couldn't even carry
Dr. Nicolette Richer: out the long-term study because some of the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: patients ended up with 98% arterial
Dr. Nicolette Richer: blockage from keto.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So they couldn't ethically continue the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: study because the subjects, the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: participants, would have died.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So when you just look at the evidence, that
Dr. Nicolette Richer: is why I do not promote keto but
Dr. Nicolette Richer: scientifically, from a biochemical
Dr. Nicolette Richer: perspective as well, when you choose to eat
Dr. Nicolette Richer: that high amount of fat, that high amount
Dr. Nicolette Richer: of protein, and especially if doing it
Dr. Nicolette Richer: through an animal-based diet, you create
Dr. Nicolette Richer: what's called a TMAO reaction in the gut.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: This happens in everybody.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: It's just a basic biochemical principle.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Most people have no idea what TMAO does and
Dr. Nicolette Richer: is.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So this reaction happens and then it starts
Dr. Nicolette Richer: immediately to clog arteries.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: When you do this, you create insulin
Dr. Nicolette Richer: insensitivity.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: You cannot draw glucose and insulin across
Dr. Nicolette Richer: the arterial walls into the cells where
Dr. Nicolette Richer: it's needed.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So your kidneys, your heart, all your
Dr. Nicolette Richer: organs that are dependent on glucose and
Dr. Nicolette Richer: insulin no longer able to receive it.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So then you create diabetes, heart disease,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: mental health disorders and more.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So there is no way I can get behind that,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: because the long-term studies show keto
Dr. Nicolette Richer: kills.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So now we have a bunch of hooligans and
Dr. Nicolette Richer: I'll call them hooligans running around the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: planet.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Most of these hooligans are backed by media
Dr. Nicolette Richer: because they running around the planet.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Most of these hooligans are backed by media
Dr. Nicolette Richer: because they you know how media loves to.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: You know jump onto one little molecule like
Dr. Nicolette Richer: resveratrol from red wine, one study
Dr. Nicolette Richer: showing that resveratrol it does the body
Dr. Nicolette Richer: good.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: All of a sudden, the media is promoting red
Dr. Nicolette Richer: wine as being good for you.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: But what media fails to say is that you'd
Dr. Nicolette Richer: need to drink 12 bottles of red wine in one
Dr. Nicolette Richer: sitting to get enough resveratrol.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: That would actually be beneficial to the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: body.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So we have people running around spreading
Dr. Nicolette Richer: nutritional information that do not know
Dr. Nicolette Richer: how to read an actual scientific study from
Dr. Nicolette Richer: beginning to end, and this is killing
Dr. Nicolette Richer: people.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So it's not just keto kills, media kills.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Nutritionists who fail to read scientific
Dr. Nicolette Richer: studies are killing people every single day,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: and I do not say that lightly if they're in.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: You don't know how many nutritionists that
Dr. Nicolette Richer: have patients, clients that end up coming
Dr. Nicolette Richer: to me afterwards because their markers are
Dr. Nicolette Richer: worse than when they started with that
Dr. Nicolette Richer: nutritionist, and so it's really, really
Dr. Nicolette Richer: important that we start looking at
Dr. Nicolette Richer: nutrition as a body of medicine that is not
Dr. Nicolette Richer: going to be run by people who've never read
Dr. Nicolette Richer: a single scientific study.
Hilary Russo: I have a question about testing too.
Hilary Russo: When people do come to you, do they get
Hilary Russo: specific types of tests, meaning like their
Hilary Russo: vitamin tests, blood work, like a full
Hilary Russo: panel?
Hilary Russo: What's the first step for somebody that
Hilary Russo: comes to you as a patient or a potential
Hilary Russo: patient?
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Yes.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So everybody who comes to me already has
Dr. Nicolette Richer: years of diagnostic testing done.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: They have years of lab results.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: They have everything.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Most often I don't need.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: There's only a few more tests that I need
Dr. Nicolette Richer: done.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: They're very minor, so they already have it.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Because they're on disability, they've had
Dr. Nicolette Richer: their chronic disease for a long time,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: they're on 36 different medications, so
Dr. Nicolette Richer: they don't need more testing.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: This is the other side that drives me, and
Dr. Nicolette Richer: if I can say this on the show, you can say
Dr. Nicolette Richer: whatever you want Thank you, that shit.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Crazy is when a health coach takes on a new
Dr. Nicolette Richer: client and then they just send them for
Dr. Nicolette Richer: these expensive tests that do not need to
Dr. Nicolette Richer: be done, whereas they already have the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: testing done.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: We've seen their lab markers, we've seen
Dr. Nicolette Richer: their hormone panels, we've seen everything.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So my clients come in, we already know
Dr. Nicolette Richer: their full diagnosis.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: I work with their entire medical team to
Dr. Nicolette Richer: reverse their disease.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So the premise of what I teach is only
Dr. Nicolette Richer: there's two things you have your chronic
Dr. Nicolette Richer: disease because of two factors okay
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Nutritional deficiency that resulted in
Dr. Nicolette Richer: toxicity or toxicity that resulted in
Dr. Nicolette Richer: nutritional deficiency.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: You reverse those two factors and the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: client heals.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Now people will say what about the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: emotional side of it, which I know is
Dr. Nicolette Richer: really a lot of the good work that you do.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Of course there's an emotional side of it,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: but here's the thing Most of my clients
Dr. Nicolette Richer: don't have the mental capacity anymore
Dr. Nicolette Richer: because their brain fog is so bad that you
Dr. Nicolette Richer: can coach the hell out of them and they
Dr. Nicolette Richer: cannot remember what you just said.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: They cannot implement the tools that you
Dr. Nicolette Richer: know.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So the thing is is that we can reverse
Dr. Nicolette Richer: those two things nutritional deficiency and
Dr. Nicolette Richer: toxicity which really starts with the next
Dr. Nicolette Richer: meal that they eat, the next meal they can
Dr. Nicolette Richer: do it that day.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Within a day they can start to think
Dr. Nicolette Richer: clearly, which means that they can address
Dr. Nicolette Richer: yes, intergenerational trauma is 100% true
Dr. Nicolette Richer: and affects probably everybody.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Right?
Dr. Nicolette Richer: People have huge traumas, big T traumas,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: little t traumas, emotional concussions All
Dr. Nicolette Richer: humans have that.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: If you're a human on the planet, you have
Dr. Nicolette Richer: that.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So what we do is we just go in with the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: simplest thing that every human does on any
Dr. Nicolette Richer: given day, and that's that they eat food.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: We just change the food that they're eating
Dr. Nicolette Richer: and all of a sudden they heal, even though
Dr. Nicolette Richer: they still have the big T traumas.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: They still haven't even dealt with that.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: But now that their brain is clear and their
Dr. Nicolette Richer: body's nervous system is not in angst
Dr. Nicolette Richer: because it's looking for nutrients or it's
Dr. Nicolette Richer: highly toxic, all of a sudden they're able
Dr. Nicolette Richer: to address the emotional side, or the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: spiritual side, or their mental health as
Dr. Nicolette Richer: well.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: But we start with the physical first and
Dr. Nicolette Richer: foremost.
Hilary Russo: Yeah, that's why you're the type of doctor
Hilary Russo: I love to work with, because there is such
Hilary Russo: a need for the liaison between the client,
Hilary Russo: the patient and the doctor, and I think
Hilary Russo: that's where health coaches come in.
Hilary Russo: But what?
Hilary Russo: Where you really hit the nail on the head
Hilary Russo: is that, first of all, stay within your
Hilary Russo: scope of practice.
Hilary Russo: Everyone, if you are a health coach that
Hilary Russo: tunes into this podcast or you are in any
Hilary Russo: way in the nutrition or health or medical
Hilary Russo: or mental health field, please stay within
Hilary Russo: your scope of practice.
Hilary Russo: Build that tribe of people, like you
Hilary Russo: mentioned, working with their doctors right,
Hilary Russo: it's not just one, because we all have
Hilary Russo: these areas that we focus on that we're
Hilary Russo: there to support the client or the patient
Hilary Russo: for the doctor, right?
Hilary Russo: So the one thing I do want to share with
Hilary Russo: those who are tuning in is that Dr
Hilary Russo: Nicolette has just graciously offered her
Hilary Russo: reverse your chronic disease.
Hilary Russo: This is her program that she has.
Hilary Russo: It's called Eat Real to Heal, course.
Hilary Russo: I'm going to put that in the podcast notes.
Hilary Russo: And also there is a program, a
Hilary Russo: certification program, that you have, on
Hilary Russo: nutritional detox.
Hilary Russo: If we can just learn how to detox this body
Hilary Russo: from the things that we you know we do it
Hilary Russo: so much for our home.
Hilary Russo: We do it for things outside of ourselves.
Hilary Russo: If we're not starting right here, the
Hilary Russo: temple before you, the one that you look in
Hilary Russo: the mirror and see every day, what are we
Hilary Russo: doing Right?
Hilary Russo: So having something like this is really
Hilary Russo: great.
Hilary Russo: I'll put all of that in the podcast notes.
Hilary Russo: You can look into Dr Nicolette's approaches
Hilary Russo: everything on her website to offer more.
Hilary Russo: What would the first step be for folks that
Hilary Russo: are looking to take this to the next level?
Hilary Russo: They are frustrated, they are getting brain
Hilary Russo: fog, they are getting migraines, they are
Hilary Russo: not sleeping well.
Hilary Russo: You know we can really compound all of
Hilary Russo: these doctor visits that they get and that
Hilary Russo: in itself can just burn you out.
Hilary Russo: So what's the first step?
Dr. Nicolette Richer: The first step is when you go to the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: grocery store is you have to know the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: difference between processed food and
Dr. Nicolette Richer: refined food.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So a lot of people don't like taking
Dr. Nicolette Richer: supplements.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: They're afraid of supplements, they think
Dr. Nicolette Richer: they're going to hurt them.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: But again, that's because they're not
Dr. Nicolette Richer: looking at the research that shows that
Dr. Nicolette Richer: supplements do very, very little harm, and
Dr. Nicolette Richer: in fact, you can count on my fingers how
Dr. Nicolette Richer: many people have been negatively impacted
Dr. Nicolette Richer: by supplements, whereas prescription
Dr. Nicolette Richer: medications everybody's willing to pop
Dr. Nicolette Richer: those pills and which you do need until you
Dr. Nicolette Richer: know another way.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So the first thing you need to do is know
Dr. Nicolette Richer: the difference between refined and
Dr. Nicolette Richer: processed food.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: All the processed food that's out there
Dr. Nicolette Richer: usually comes in a box, a bag, a package of
Dr. Nicolette Richer: some sort.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: You need to not purchase that stuff anymore.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: It's full of preservatives high in sodium,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: it's full in food coloring, it's full of
Dr. Nicolette Richer: glyphosate, it's full of you know,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: pesticides, herbicides.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: This stuff is killing you slowly cell by
Dr. Nicolette Richer: cell, organ by organ.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So that's the first thing you need to know.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So when you go to the grocery store, it
Dr. Nicolette Richer: makes it really, really, really easy,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: because when you want to go buy the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: potatoes, sure the potatoes might come in a
Dr. Nicolette Richer: bag, but try and get the potatoes that are
Dr. Nicolette Richer: still dirty that come in the box.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Buy the apples, not the fruit roll-ups or
Dr. Nicolette Richer: the applesauce in a jar.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Buy the oranges, buy the chickpeas, not the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: chickpea potato chips that are 100% organic
Dr. Nicolette Richer: and still covered in tons of sodium and
Dr. Nicolette Richer: have to have supplements added to them to
Dr. Nicolette Richer: even be considered food.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So this is the first thing that people need
Dr. Nicolette Richer: to do.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: You do not need to know how to cook, which
Dr. Nicolette Richer: is so beautiful.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: A lot of my clients who come to our
Dr. Nicolette Richer: retreats they've never chopped a potato or
Dr. Nicolette Richer: even seen broccoli.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: And it is okay, because in our Eat Real to
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Heal program, we teach you how to become
Dr. Nicolette Richer: some of the best chefs in the entire world,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: and you don't have to spend hours in the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: kitchen If somebody has to give you meal
Dr. Nicolette Richer: plan after meal plan, week after week.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: This is not intuitive eating, and what we
Dr. Nicolette Richer: do is teach you how to eat intuitively so
Dr. Nicolette Richer: you can eat with the seasons, you can buy
Dr. Nicolette Richer: what's affordable at the grocery store and
Dr. Nicolette Richer: then you know how to make it really really
Dr. Nicolette Richer: easily with spending the least amount of
Dr. Nicolette Richer: time in the kitchen.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Really important to cook your food.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So if there's a lot of raw foodists out
Dr. Nicolette Richer: there who are suffering from chronic
Dr. Nicolette Richer: diseases, one of the most important things
Dr. Nicolette Richer: you could do is actually use the heat from
Dr. Nicolette Richer: your stove as medicine, because by cooking
Dr. Nicolette Richer: the food, you're going to actually access
Dr. Nicolette Richer: about 2000 times more nutrients and make it
Dr. Nicolette Richer: really easy on your body to heal.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So if you're doing any fad programs right
Dr. Nicolette Richer: now, if somebody is telling you to fast
Dr. Nicolette Richer: right now to try and reverse your chronic
Dr. Nicolette Richer: disease, I promise you.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: I've worked with thousands of people who
Dr. Nicolette Richer: fasted and they're still have their chronic
Dr. Nicolette Richer: diseases and that's because they're still
Dr. Nicolette Richer: not eating clean, real food.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So eat real food.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: And with our coaching program I just have
Dr. Nicolette Richer: to say and it's not just an online course
Dr. Nicolette Richer: where you're going to be left to do it on
Dr. Nicolette Richer: your own Only 5% of people ever ever even
Dr. Nicolette Richer: open up, let alone complete, an online
Dr. Nicolette Richer: course that they purchased.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So we offer a lifetime of group coaching
Dr. Nicolette Richer: every single week so we can handhold you
Dr. Nicolette Richer: through the process, so you can ask the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: questions and not have to spend 24 hours
Dr. Nicolette Richer: just trying to find the answer on Google or
Dr. Nicolette Richer: within the course.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: You can just simply show up, ask the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: questions and, as you age and as you go
Dr. Nicolette Richer: through menopause or giving birth or
Dr. Nicolette Richer: whatever it is that you're going to be
Dr. Nicolette Richer: doing over the course of your life, we're
Dr. Nicolette Richer: still here for you to answer those
Dr. Nicolette Richer: questions in our weekly live group coaching.
Hilary Russo: And that's the Real to Heal course.
Hilary Russo: Correct, that's your group coaching course.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: That's the Eat Real to Heal course and it's
Dr. Nicolette Richer: the community too, isn't it?
Hilary Russo: It's community.
Hilary Russo: I mean, you're not alone in the battle.
Hilary Russo: It's not one to one and there are benefits
Hilary Russo: to one in one.
Hilary Russo: But I think there's also real benefits to
Hilary Russo: having community and knowing other people
Hilary Russo: are going through something.
Hilary Russo: It might not be your specific battle, but
Hilary Russo: we're all in this together kind of thing,
Hilary Russo: right, you learn from others.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Yeah, and like, for example, andrew, you
Dr. Nicolette Richer: know he suffered from 30 migraines.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: A Everybody celebrated Miguel rheumatoid
Dr. Nicolette Richer: arthritis on disability couldn't play
Dr. Nicolette Richer: baseball anymore, which is his sport.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Couldn't work anymore, living alone at home
Dr. Nicolette Richer: suffering from rheumatoid arthritis on all
Dr. Nicolette Richer: of these prescription meds that were just
Dr. Nicolette Richer: like slowly killing him.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: When the day his doctors took him off his
Dr. Nicolette Richer: last medication and declared him rheumatoid
Dr. Nicolette Richer: arthritis free, we all celebrated.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: His son died a month later.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: We were all there to support him and hold
Dr. Nicolette Richer: him through that time.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So, yes, community is so, so, so important.
Hilary Russo: What do you think is the biggest fad out
Hilary Russo: there right now that you just wish people
Hilary Russo: would just stop?
Dr. Nicolette Richer: I don't know.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Keto for sure is one of the biggest ones.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Keto is just another name for the Atkins
Dr. Nicolette Richer: diet, so everybody needs to know that that
Dr. Nicolette Richer: created so much heart disease in the 80s.
Hilary Russo: I remember that.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So keto, I would say, is the one that is
Dr. Nicolette Richer: doing the most harm to humans, to their
Dr. Nicolette Richer: bodies and to the planet.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: It is horrific when it's, you know, in a
Dr. Nicolette Richer: time when we need to be consuming less meat
Dr. Nicolette Richer: because we were told 100 years ago how you,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: we need protein, we need fat, we need, you
Dr. Nicolette Richer: know, all of these animal-based products.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: And now, basically, governments around the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: world are rewriting all their nutrition
Dr. Nicolette Richer: programs to say, please stop eating so much
Dr. Nicolette Richer: meat.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: At the same time that all the keto
Dr. Nicolette Richer: advocates came out, and all because of what?
Dr. Nicolette Richer: They?
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Sure, you can lose weight, but you're going
Dr. Nicolette Richer: to clog your arteries doing it.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So I would say, keto Fasting is amazing,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: for sure, there's no doubt about it, but
Dr. Nicolette Richer: people are using it like it's the only
Dr. Nicolette Richer: thing that they need to do, and it's so
Dr. Nicolette Richer: important that, sure, if you're going to
Dr. Nicolette Richer: eat within that eight hour period, that's
Dr. Nicolette Richer: fine, but if you have a chronic disease,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: you need nutrients all throughout the day,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: and that is critical, especially if you're
Dr. Nicolette Richer: trying to reverse something like a very
Dr. Nicolette Richer: aggressive chronic disease like cancer,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: where you have limited time on your hands.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Fasting is not going to get you there.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So that's a challenge for me and, as well,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: the kind of fasting people are doing.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: I'm a big proponent of intermittent fasting,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: where you still consume some calories, but
Dr. Nicolette Richer: not this.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: You know people who are running around, you
Dr. Nicolette Richer: know consuming their one meal a day, which
Dr. Nicolette Richer: you can do for a limited amount of time.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: But again, you have to look at the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: long-term studies as well.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: And as well you have to know that you're
Dr. Nicolette Richer: not a yeast molecule, you are not a yeast
Dr. Nicolette Richer: species alone.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: You are intricate human species.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So what happens in the laboratory in a
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Petri dish, is not the same that happens to
Dr. Nicolette Richer: a human in real life.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: That's busy, running around taking care of
Dr. Nicolette Richer: kids, has stress, you know, because the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: economy is taking in environmental toxins.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So it's really important that people are
Dr. Nicolette Richer: critical of the scientific research that
Dr. Nicolette Richer: gets published as well, and anybody can
Dr. Nicolette Richer: take a course in how to you know understand
Dr. Nicolette Richer: bias in a research and how to read the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: entire study.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So that's going to be really important is
Dr. Nicolette Richer: we need to develop a scientifically
Dr. Nicolette Richer: literate society, and anybody can do that.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: My kids are teenagers and they know how to
Dr. Nicolette Richer: read through scientific journals now, and
Dr. Nicolette Richer: so this is something we need to be teaching
Dr. Nicolette Richer: in school.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So that's also one of the big fads is that
Dr. Nicolette Richer: our education system is also needs an
Dr. Nicolette Richer: overhaul.
Hilary Russo: Oh, that could be a whole nother
Hilary Russo: conversation.
Hilary Russo: I agree with that, not just.
Hilary Russo: I mean in all areas.
Hilary Russo: It's not your everyday home ec, home ec,
Hilary Russo: like when we grew up.
Hilary Russo: You know, and I'm so happy to see that some
Hilary Russo: schools are taking that really seriously,
Hilary Russo: both nutrition and mental health,
Hilary Russo: mindfulness, you know, bringing those into
Hilary Russo: the classroom.
Hilary Russo: So hopefully we will see a change with more
Hilary Russo: champions like yourself.
Hilary Russo: I know we have a little time left and I
Hilary Russo: just want to remind folks that there is a
Hilary Russo: wonderful course, that that the doctor is
Hilary Russo: putting out, and it's called eat real to
Hilary Russo: heal, and also the detox coaching
Hilary Russo: certification she has.
Hilary Russo: I'm going to put all of that in the podcast
Hilary Russo: notes you mentioned.
Hilary Russo: You have a book that you're working on
Hilary Russo: called rise up, and is there anything else
Hilary Russo: that is coming up?
Hilary Russo: Because there's?
Hilary Russo: I have so much on you that I want to talk
Hilary Russo: about in this time and I actually really I
Hilary Russo: do have something I want to ask you about.
Hilary Russo: Please tell me about the Green Mustache
Hilary Russo: Organic Cafes.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Yeah.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So back in 2013, I had been working in
Dr. Nicolette Richer: government up until that point and our
Dr. Nicolette Richer: local HR manager in the government said
Dr. Nicolette Richer: could you please teach all our employees
Dr. Nicolette Richer: the Eat Realty Heal program?
Dr. Nicolette Richer: And so I did and all of a sudden all the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: employees started coming back to me saying
Dr. Nicolette Richer: oh, I don't have, you know, emphysema
Dr. Nicolette Richer: anymore.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: I can breathe again.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: I don't have depression.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: I just got pregnant after being told for 15
Dr. Nicolette Richer: years I cannot get pregnant.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Diabetes gone, heart disease.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So all of these individuals kept coming
Dr. Nicolette Richer: back their energy through the roof, you
Dr. Nicolette Richer: know, brain fog gone.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So I started taking on clients.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Then because you, then because people are
Dr. Nicolette Richer: saying can you work with my mom?
Dr. Nicolette Richer: She's got this disease.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Can you work with my cousin?
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So I started taking on clients and one of
Dr. Nicolette Richer: the number one things my clients said to me
Dr. Nicolette Richer: was after they got started with the program
Dr. Nicolette Richer: and they saw well, you need to be in your
Dr. Nicolette Richer: kitchen, right?
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Feminist movement was wonderful, but it
Dr. Nicolette Richer: really did take humans out of the kitchen
Dr. Nicolette Richer: and didn't replace them.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So that's all fine to take women out of the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: homes, put them in the workforce, but they
Dr. Nicolette Richer: forgot to put a chef back in the kitchen
Dr. Nicolette Richer: for the household.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: And so tv dinners.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: You know macaroni and cheese.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Those things came to be the convenient food,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: quick fix, yes.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So my client started asking me can you make
Dr. Nicolette Richer: me the food?
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So I did.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: I did.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: I was like five months pregnant with my
Dr. Nicolette Richer: third child and I would start making juices
Dr. Nicolette Richer: and making the food and delivering it to
Dr. Nicolette Richer: clients and delivering it to restaurants so
Dr. Nicolette Richer: they can sell it to their patrons.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: They were asking for the food and I was
Dr. Nicolette Richer: like I cannot do this anymore.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: I need a restaurant where I can have a
Dr. Nicolette Richer: whole team who makes the food and I can be
Dr. Nicolette Richer: coaching clients.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So I quit my job in government, opened up
Dr. Nicolette Richer: the first restaurant.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: That's when I was also applying for med
Dr. Nicolette Richer: school.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: I had just written my MCAT and all the
Dr. Nicolette Richer: doctors who were eating at our restaurant.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: They said Nikki, do not go to med school,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: just grow the green mustache.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So the green mustache is 100% organic,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: plant-based, whole food, vegan, gluten-free
Dr. Nicolette Richer: cafe, which means we basically get the food
Dr. Nicolette Richer: from our farmers.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: They pick it at five in the morning.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: They bring it into our restaurant.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: We convert it into amazing meals lots of
Dr. Nicolette Richer: warm dishes, cool dishes.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Any beverage you get in there is made from
Dr. Nicolette Richer: a whole food.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: We do not have refined sugar, we do not
Dr. Nicolette Richer: have any salt, we do not have any refined
Dr. Nicolette Richer: oils, everything is made from scratch and
Dr. Nicolette Richer: whole foods.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So that's our restaurant.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: And, yeah, we had up to eight locations at
Dr. Nicolette Richer: one point, or seven locations, and we have
Dr. Nicolette Richer: 10 coming to New York at one point soon.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So, yeah, that's an exciting company.
Hilary Russo: That's amazing.
Hilary Russo: What a journey.
Hilary Russo: Love it.
Hilary Russo: We have a couple minutes left.
Hilary Russo: I want to ask you if you are willing to do
Hilary Russo: a quick rapid fire game that I do with my
Hilary Russo: guests at the end of every podcast.
Hilary Russo: I'm going to throw out a word and then what
Hilary Russo: you do is come back with the first word
Hilary Russo: that comes to mind.
Hilary Russo: All right, yeah, refined Processed food
Hilary Russo: Intuitive.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Healer Clean vegetables, metabolism,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: mitochondria disease, reversed bipoc,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: complete, most amazing total health and
Dr. Nicolette Richer: wellness knowledge that needs to be
Dr. Nicolette Richer: resurrected so that we use that beautiful
Dr. Nicolette Richer: wisdom to heal the planet and heal all
Dr. Nicolette Richer: people and animals and rocks and trees and
Dr. Nicolette Richer: soil, etc.
Hilary Russo: Can I just leave it there?
Hilary Russo: We're going to make that one long word like
Hilary Russo: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: That's exactly what it was intended to be.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: That's great, yes.
Hilary Russo: Awesome.
Hilary Russo: One more word for you, just like it's the
Hilary Russo: exclamation point heal.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Potential.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Yeah, and we all have that right.
Hilary Russo: I think that's what you're teaching people.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: We all do.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: We all have the ability to be free of
Dr. Nicolette Richer: chronic disease, and I'll just talk about
Dr. Nicolette Richer: the nutrition and detox coaching
Dr. Nicolette Richer: certification.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So that is a six month training program for
Dr. Nicolette Richer: any individual, whether you have a science
Dr. Nicolette Richer: background or not, whether you're a
Dr. Nicolette Richer: physician, a stay at home dad, someone
Dr. Nicolette Richer: who's a physician, a stay-at-home dad,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: someone who's battling a chronic disease.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: That's a beautiful program where you're
Dr. Nicolette Richer: going to learn everything that I know that
Dr. Nicolette Richer: I've learned in the last 25 years about
Dr. Nicolette Richer: reversing chronic disease.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: I download all the science to you the art
Dr. Nicolette Richer: of reversing disease, how to coach clients
Dr. Nicolette Richer: and then we help you build a business in
Dr. Nicolette Richer: helping other people reverse their chronic
Dr. Nicolette Richer: diseases.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: So that's an exciting program.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: One of our former students he just got a $4
Dr. Nicolette Richer: million investment for his business that he
Dr. Nicolette Richer: built.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: Another student has 169 acre beautiful
Dr. Nicolette Richer: piece of land in British Columbia where he
Dr. Nicolette Richer: now works with elders and indigenous
Dr. Nicolette Richer: communities working to help men and women
Dr. Nicolette Richer: in their 20s reverse their mood disorders
Dr. Nicolette Richer: and mental health disorders and chronic
Dr. Nicolette Richer: diseases.
Dr. Nicolette Richer: I love that program because it can take
Dr. Nicolette Richer: anybody, you do not need to be a physician,
Dr. Nicolette Richer: and it turns you into a healer overnight.
Hilary Russo: We're our own healers first.
Hilary Russo: Yes, exactly, it's really the only ones
Hilary Russo: that we can focus on is the inner healing,
Hilary Russo: yeah, you know, and then we can support
Hilary Russo: others on their journey as well.
Hilary Russo: Exactly, thank you for being here and just
Hilary Russo: sharing your gift.
Hilary Russo: Thank you for having me on your show.
Hilary Russo: If you connect with what Dr Roche shared
Hilary Russo: during our conversation on HIListically
Hilary Russo: Speaking, it may be time to connect with
Hilary Russo: her personally so you can turn your health
Hilary Russo: around and finally heal once and for all.
Hilary Russo: Just check out the list of notes of
Hilary Russo: Holistically Speaking and see how you can
Hilary Russo: find out more about the Eat Real to Heal
Hilary Russo: program that she has, her course and her
Hilary Russo: detox coaching certification, as well as
Hilary Russo: everything else that we shared during our
Hilary Russo: conversation right here on this podcast
Hilary Russo: episode, and listen.
Hilary Russo: Dr Richer shared that healing is about
Hilary Russo: building your army right, finding the right
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Hilary Russo: journey.
Hilary Russo: And you know what?
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