9th
Annual Health Freedom Expo
Your Source
for Total Natural Health
By Mara Quigley
By the beginning of the new
millennium, Dr. Wendell Whitman of Warsaw, Indiana had come to an alarming
realization. No one was protecting the public’s right to information about
natural health products and practices that in many cases were more effective, less
invasive, and less costly than standard medical drugs and therapies.
In the interest of protecting
themselves, Big Pharma and the medical/insurance
complex were slowly but surely encroaching on the public’s access to natural
health information, leaving people at the mercy of those entrusted with
protecting their health.
“If a person does not know
about their health choices, then there are no health choices,” Dr. Whitman
often said. Galvanizing colleagues, family and friends, Dr. Whitman created an
affordable, high-impact forum to educate the public about all aspects of
natural health, and in 2005 he founded the first Health Freedom Expo.
Unlike other health expos,
the Health Freedom Expo is not just about selling products. It’s about people
who are passionate about sharing information, how our health freedoms are being
taken away, and how we can actively become involved to protect them.
Since Dr. Whitman’s passing
in 2008, his daughter, Julie Whitman Kline, has continued her father’s mission
to empower the Health Freedom movement, producing two exemplary expos each year
in Chicago, Illinois and Long Beach, California.
The 9th Annual Health Freedom
Expo: Total Natural Health, to be held March 1-3 in Long Beach, California,
will feature world-renowned doctors and experts lecturing on the newest
findings in natural health. Four panel discussions will explore the topics You and Food, You and your Environment, The Politics of
Health, and Longevity: 100 is the new 50. Four award-winning documentary films,
Genetic Roulette: The Gamble
of our
Lives, Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue Our Broken Health Care System, Folks,
this Ain’t Normal: The disconnect from Natural Food,
and Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days, will be screened throughout the
weekend.
The 2013 Featured Speakers Line up includes
Dean Ornish,
M.D. - Known for his lifestyle-driven approach to the control of coronary
artery disease and other chronic diseases, Ornish is
the author of six books, all national bestsellers, including: Dr. Dean Ornish’s
Program for Reversing Heart Disease and The Spectrum.
Patch
Adams, M.D. - Author and speaker on wellness, laughter and humor, health care
and health care systems, and the focus of the movie with the same name starring
Robin Williams.
Joan Borysenko,
PhD - NY Times best-selling author/co-author of 13 books, including Minding the Body, Mending the Mind, Borysenko is a world-renowned expert in the field of
mind/body connection.
Michael Greger,
M.D. - Offers practical advice on how to eat to prevent, treat, and even
reverse chronic disease. His latest two books are Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching and Carbophobia: The Scary Truth Behind America’s Low-Carb Craze.
Jeffrey Smith - Author,
lecturer and the leading consumer advocate promoting healthier non-GMO choices.
George Noory
- Host of Coast to Coast AM Radio talk show, nationally syndicated on 545
stations.
Jordan Rubin - The author of
the NY Times best-selling book, The
Maker’s Diet, and 19 other health-related titles, including his latest
work, Perfect Weight America.
Sara Ivanhoe - Weight
Watchers’ newest spokesperson and world-renowned yoga instructor.
Shelley Redford Young
and Dr. Robert Young - Co-authors of The pH Miracle series lecture nationwide about practical dietary
application of the alkalizing principles contained in Dr. Young’s
research.
Dr. Carolyn Dean - A medical
doctor, naturopath, herbalist and acupuncturist, Dean has authored and
co-authored 19 books, including Death by
Modern Medicine: Seeking Safe Solutions.
Dr. John Apsley
- Co-author of five books, including bestseller The Regeneration Effect, Apsley lectures on human regenerative techniques in
medicine.
Dr.
Theresa Dale – Author, Lecturer, Dean and Founder, California College of
Natural Medicine, Hormone Rejuvenation Therapy.
Chef Alex Jamieson - Author
of The Great American Detox
Diet, and featured in the Oscar-nominated hit movie, Super Size Me.
Jonathan W. Emord – Constitutional Attorney who drafted the Health
Freedom Bill for Congressman Ron Paul. Emord has
defeated the FDA in federal court a remarkable eight times.
Robert Scott Bell -
Homeopathic practitioner, high-energy radio talk show host, called the “Voice of
Health Freedom.”
Christian Wilde – Author of Hidden Causes of Heart Attack and Stroke,
his newest book, Miracle Stem Cell Heart
Repair, delves into the science of using one’s own stem cells for actually
repairing the damaged heart.
The Health Freedom Expo will be held at the Long Beach Convention
Center Exhibit Hall A, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach,
CA 90802 March 1-3. Expo will be open 10–7 Friday and Saturday; 10-6 Sunday. Expo Hall opens
at 10 am. Cost: $20 per day, or $45 for
the three-day weekend.
For complete details:
http://www.healthfreedomexpo.com or call (888) 658-EXPO.
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Speakers and line-up may be subject to change
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Stem Cells, Cytokines and Telomeres:
How to Make 100 the
New 50
The Nobel Prize in Medicine
in 2007 went to researchers in the field of Telomere Biology. With that award,
a little-known, esoteric area of study began to go mainstream.
Media personalities from Oprah to Dr. Oz to Suzanne Somers began to spread the
word about these tiny cellular endcaps, and “telomere”
became a buzzword for early longevity adaptors.
But like resveratrol,
which became a mainstream trend but was certainly no single bullet solution,
there is no one solitary element that can complete the anti-aging picture on
its merits alone. Longevity is a puzzle with interlocking pieces that must all
fit and work together to create an effective strategy to make 100 the New 50.
Increasingly, top researchers
understand the importance of stem cells, cytokine signaling, telomere support
and a few other key factors as parts of a SYSTEM — you might call it the “Silver
System” approach — as opposed to any single bullet solution.
Greta Blackburn, co-author of
The Immortality Edge and a health and fitness pioneer for nearly three decades,
will moderate a panel of leading experts in the field of longevity, including
the world’s most famous gerontologist, Cambridge scholar Aubrey de Grey; David Kekich, the founder of the Maximum Life Foundation; leading
super centenarian researcher Dr. Stephen Coles; “Dr. Telomere” Dr. Bryant Villeponteau; and top cryobiologist
Dr. Greg Fahy.
The Longevity Panel will bring to light the most recent discoveries
in the key fields that impact how we age — and importantly, how we STOP AGING
as we now know it. Meet the Panel Sunday, March 3 from 2-3:45pm at the same expo location.