alive Contributors

Brooke Broadbent, MA is an Ottawa-based author, personal and business coach, and frequent contributor to many publications, including alive.

Lynda Steer is a freelance health care writer based in Ontario. She worked as a pharmacist in the UK for over 20 years.

Vancouver-based Leslie Timmins writes about health and the environment.

Antoine Giraud is a Vancouver writer and editor.

Julie Daniluk, RHN, hosts Healthy Gourmet, highlighting the battle between taste and nutrition. Her first book, Meals That Heal Inflammation (Random House Canada, 2011) helps people enjoy tasty, allergy-free foods.

Jason Bosher is a Vancouver, BC based freelance writer.

Thomas Butcher is a food writer, recipe developer, and West Coast foodie.

Shawn Buckley and Genevieve Eliany are lawyers at Buckley & Company who are concerned with the regulation of NHPs. Shawn is also president of the Natural Health Products Protection Association.

Peggy Kotsopoulos is a registered holistic nutritionist and author of Kitchen Cures: Revolutionize Your Health With Foods That Heal (Penguin, 2013).

Julie Daniluk, RHN, hosts The Healthy Gourmet on the Oprah Winfrey Network and is the author of Meals that Heal Inflammation (Random House, 2011). Lulu Cohen-Farnell and David Farnell are the creators of the Real Food For Real Kids catering company.

Obsessed with birds since the age of four, Doug Smith is now hopelessly addicted, birding at every opportunity from his home in the backwoods of Muskoka, Ontario.

Bryce Wylde is an alternative medicine clinician, media personality, and the author of Wylde on Health: Your Best Choices in the World of Natural Health (Random House, 2012).

N. Glenn Perrett is a writer with a degree in environmental studies. Glenn and his family hiked numerous nature areas for his book, Hikes & Outings of South-Central Ontario (Lone Pine Publishing, 2012).

Jonathan E. Prousky, ND, MSc, is the chief naturopathic medical officer of the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine. His private practice focuses on the evaluation and treatment of mental health disorders.

Jessica Linnay is a writer specializing in health, environment, arts, and culture. She loves music, dogs, and avocados, open-ended questions, and abstract poetry.

Cecilia Ho is a naturopathic doctor with a private practice in Pickering, Ontario, that focuses on women’s health, as well as a scientific advisor in the development of natural health products.

Desiree Miller is a writer and mom of two (with another on the way!). On her time "off" she is learning to embrace the beauty of doing nothing.

Carole Fawcett, RPC, C. CHt, is a registered professional counsellor, certified clinical hypnotherapist, and freelance writer. She lives in the beautiful Okanagan Valley in BC.

Michael T. Murray, ND, is a director of product development and education in natural health and co-author of The Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine.

Galina Pembroke is a freelance magazine writer specializing in health and spirituality. She lives in Nanaimo, BC.

Suni Gomichi is a Toronto freelance writer.

Eva Selhub, MD, clinical associate at Massachusetts General Hospital and instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School, is also co-author of Your Brain On Nature (reissue ed., Harper Collins, 2014).

Natalie Cajic is a freelance journalist specializing in natural health, food, and fitness topics.

Deborah Treijs, MH, is a herbalist and freelance writer living in Calgary, AB.