Dr. Garrett Swetlikoff is an accomplished researcher and physician in the sciences of naturopathic medicine and holistic healing. He leads a team of support staff at his Kelowna-based clinic, where his expertise in progressive and interventional natural medicine has earned him national respect from the medical community and patients. In addition to his hands-on practice, he serves as Medical Director and a facilitator of the Alive Health Resort, where he leads the product-development team in creating course curriculum in the areas of lifestyle, wellness and health promotion. Garrett was the lead medical advisor in developing North America's first online interactive HQ (Health Quotient) assessment, which reflects his work on disease prevention and longevity. To take the HQ assessment and view Garret's published work, see www.alive.com. Dr. Swetlikoff is currently the President of the British Columbia Naturopathic Association.

Dr. Mark Davies is a speaker, researcher and professor of psychology at Regent College in Vancouver. As a workshop facilitator, he has an innate ability to translate his research findings into powerful and practical methodologies, which enable participants to pinpoint the sources of their stress and to address them through increased emotional intelligence practices. His current focus as an innovative mental-health educator is helping people to understand the impact of stress and its links to physical illness. In his role at the Alive Health Resort, Mark delivers presentations and develops training programs.

Vic LeBouthillier is the President of the Alive Health Resort. His work as a business consultant in international corporate environments has provided him with a unique understanding of how over-striving to achieve peak performance induces the stress and lifestyle imbalances faced by many of today's executives. His research and work at the Alive Health Resort focuses on achieving peak performance while maintaining a balanced and stress-free life through rejuvenation and emotional intelligence practices. Vic served as lead facilitator for the Emotional Health section in the award-winning Encyclopedia of Natural Healing and of the HQ (Health Quotient) assessment and contributes a regular column on emotional health for the alive journal.

Phil Brewer is co-founder and Resort Facilitator of the Alive Health Resort (formerly Silver Hills Health Retreat) and has garnered a reputation as a leading health coach and lifestyle therapist. Through hands-on coaching and lifestyle health training, reinforced by ongoing research and education, he has helped evoke in thousands of people the desire to develop a healthier lifestyle. Phil's humanitarian calling as a health practitioner, together with his relationship-building coaching style, empowers those he works with to shift paradigms and develop newfound strength to make permanent changes to improve their health.

Dr. Andreas Buchinger is medical director of the world-renowned Buchinger Institute, a private 90-bed hospital in Bad Pyrmont near Hanover, Germany. With credentials in internal medicine, naturopathy, emergency medicine, nutrition and spa treatments, he is an internationally recognized expert in healing and natural anti-aging and was a contributor to The Clinician's Complete Reference to Alternative and Complementary Medicine and to Original Buchinger Heilfasten. He is the third-generation leader of the Buchinger Institute, whose reputation for excellence in longevity and advanced healing therapies has attracted world leaders, executives and celebrities since 1920. Andreas' contribution to the Alive medical team enables it to stay attuned to advanced European healing and natural
anti-aging practices.



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