Bessel van der Kolk is a Boston-based Dutch-American psychiatrist, author, researcher and educator.

Christopher McDougall is an American author and journalist.

Michael Herschel Greger is an American physician, author, and speaker on public health issues best known for his advocacy of a whole-food, plant-based diet, and his opposition to animal-derived food products.

Gene Stone is an American writer and editor known for his books on animal rights and plant-based food..

Casandra Brené Brown is an American academic and podcaster who is the Huffington Foundation's Brené Brown Endowed Chair at the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work and a visiting professor in management at the McCombs School of Business in the University of Texas at Austin..

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