Wendy Warner - Boosting your immunity for dummies

Boosting Your Immunity For Dummies

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About the Authors

Wendy Warner, MD, is a holistic gynecologist, educator, and writer. After receiving her BS at the University of Tennessee, she attended medical school at the University of Tennessee at Memphis and completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, where she served as Chief Resident her final year. She started private practice in a conventional ObGyn setting in suburban Philadelphia after residency and served as Chair of the Department of ObGyn at two hospitals.

Shortly after starting practice, Dr. Warner realized that although she was trained to do an awful lot of medicine, much of it wasnt relevant to getting and staying healthy. After training with herbalists and energy workers, she eventually became involved with the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine, the organization that certifies physicians in integrative holistic medicine. She served on the board of directors for ten years, two of those as president. She has been on the teaching faculty for that organization since 2002. In 2004, Dr. Warner founded Medicine in Balance, a collaborative holistic medical practice in suburban Philadelphia., In that practice, she provides conventional gynecologic care as well as holistic medical consultations for women, men, and teens.

From early on in her practice, Dr. Warner has been teaching. She has led workshops and Mini Med School at her office, is a frequent presenter at medical conferences about holistic medicine, has spoken to various lay groups, and was an invited guest on The Dr. Oz Show to discuss functional medicine. To receive periodic health information updates, sign up for her blog at www.medicineinbalance.com .

Kellyann Petrucci, DC, earned her BA from Temple University, hosted her alma maters Department of Public Health Intern Program, and mentored students entering the health field. She earned her MS from St. Josephs University and her DC from Logan College of Chiropractic University Programs, where she served as the Postgraduate Chairperson. Dr. Kellyann did postgraduate coursework in Europe. She studied Naturopathic Medicine at the College of Naturopathic Medicine, London, and she is one of the few practitioners in the United States certified in Biological Medicine by the esteemed Dr. Thomas Rau, of the Paracelsus Klinik Lustmhle, Switzerland.

In Dr. Kellyanns many years in a thriving nutritional based practice and consulting, shes helped patients build the strongest, healthiest body possible. She learned early on that looking and feeling amazing came down to learning simple lifestyle principles that made amazing differences in peoples lives. She realized that deep nutrition wasnt about fancy powders, ancient elixirs, or the latest creams; it was about reprogramming the body to get back to the basics and eat and live in a way that naturally boosts immunity, and all else will follow. She found the principles of eating and living for superimmunity to be the key for those that get well, stay well, lose weight, and fight aging. Dr. Kellyann has seen so much success from learning these immune-boosting health principles that she feels a moral obligation to spread the message of eating real food and living in a way that moves people toward health and super immunity.

Dr. Kellyann is the coauthor for the health and lifestyle book Living Paleo For Dummies (Wiley). She also created the successful kids health and wellness program Superkids Wellness and developed the PaleoSmart System and International Wellness Consulting. You can find free nutritional videos and a weekly dose of news, tips, and inspiration on her website at