Terri Quenzer, Ph.D.
Education and Training:
Hi, I’m Terri, and I have a passion for good health and for helping others find happiness in themselves through better health! Let’s face it, what good is working hard and reaching our goals in life if we can’t laugh along the way and enjoy the journey and our accomplishments because of our health?
I am a Nutrition, Health, and Wellness Trainer and Coach, and a certified Plant-Based Nutritionist. I spent several years as a chemist doing drug discovery research at Pfizer, the world’s largest pharmaceutical company. Throughout my tenure at Pfizer, I was a member of multiple project teams that worked diligently to discover new medications to treat and cure degenerative diseases. The projects on which I specifically worked to find new medications included cancer, diabetes, glaucoma, and HIV. I was blessed to have worked alongside many other gifted and talented scientists, and I was extremely proud of my work because I believed that I was part of the solution and that I was helping to make the world a better place by helping people improve their health. I have since taken on a different role in helping people improve their health, and still feel strongly that I am helping to make the world a better place.
I discovered the cure to most of the degenerative diseases that affect so many people, and it's much simpler than the discovery of any medication. By "discover", I don't mean that I figured it out and revealed it to the world. I mean that I became aware of the simplistic and elegant preventative and healing power of the right nutrition. My discovery stems not only from my acquired knowledge as a scientist, but also from a life-long challenge with weight control. I was overweight as a child in the 1960's, when being overweight was not considered normal. I went on my first diet of meat and vegetables (an Atkins-type diet) when I was 12 years old and dropped down to a normal weight. By the time I was 14 I was gaining it back, and by high school, I was experiencing the yo-yo effect of dieting that would continue throughout much of my adult life as I tried some new diet every time I gained back the weight I lost from the last diet that wasn't sustainable. I've been active and exercised consistently all of my adult life, and with a lot of hard work and cutting out all added fat (not sugar), I was able to manage my weight for extended periods of time. However, it never felt sustainable, and I was always waiting for the house of cards to collapse, expecting my weight to balloon the minute I put the wrong thing in my mouth. Then, it happened. My weight crept up about 5 pounds per year over a period of six or seven years to the point where no matter what I tried and how active I was, I couldn't lose the weight.
In 2007 I asked my doctor for help, and after determining that I was eating too much sugar, her advice was to cut out the sugar. YIKES! NO SUGAR!!! HOW AM I GOING TO DO THAT??? Being the scientist that I am, I read about the biochemistry of sugar in the body, and from that perspective, it was clear and straightforward (see my blog post "The Sweet Truth About Carbohydrates"). I had to cut out sugar. Once I understood why, it was easy for me to do. I continued to eat as much fruit, vegetables, meat, dairy, and whole grains as I wanted, and the excess weight quickly melted away. Remarkably, I lost the sugar cravings within a couple of days, and then it was easy! In fact, it had never been so easy for me to lose weight! And I felt great!
Toward the end of 2011, a good friend of mine recommended a book you may have heard of called "The China Study", in which T. Colin Campbell presented research findings from his laboratory, from the China Project, and from studies others did with medical patients, all of which consistently demonstrated a strong correlation between consuming animal-based foods (specifically animal-based protein) and increased risk/incidence of degenerative diseases in both animals and humans. Furthermore, these studies also demonstrated a strong correlation between consuming whole, plant-based foods and the lack of degenerative diseases. I've since given up eating meat and dairy, and am enjoying the many benefits of eating a whole food plant-based diet, including great health, high energy, better sleep, less stress, and as a very pleasant side effect, even more weight loss. I don't count calories (since most plant foods are "calorie light"), I eat as much as I want, I don't feel deprived, I don't have cravings, I don't have mood swings, I'm very even-tempered, I love what I eat, I don't ever worry about what or how much I eat, and I don't gain weight.
So my scientific and life experiences have converged to bring me to this point, where my goal is to use those experiences to help you reach your healthy goals.
- Professional Certificate in Plant-Based Cooking, Rouxbe Cooking School.
- Certificate of Completion of 1-Year HealthCoach Training Program, Hilton Johnson Productions.
- Certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition, T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies and eCornell.
- Ph.D., Chemistry, University of New Mexico.
Hi, I’m Terri, and I have a passion for good health and for helping others find happiness in themselves through better health! Let’s face it, what good is working hard and reaching our goals in life if we can’t laugh along the way and enjoy the journey and our accomplishments because of our health?
I am a Nutrition, Health, and Wellness Trainer and Coach, and a certified Plant-Based Nutritionist. I spent several years as a chemist doing drug discovery research at Pfizer, the world’s largest pharmaceutical company. Throughout my tenure at Pfizer, I was a member of multiple project teams that worked diligently to discover new medications to treat and cure degenerative diseases. The projects on which I specifically worked to find new medications included cancer, diabetes, glaucoma, and HIV. I was blessed to have worked alongside many other gifted and talented scientists, and I was extremely proud of my work because I believed that I was part of the solution and that I was helping to make the world a better place by helping people improve their health. I have since taken on a different role in helping people improve their health, and still feel strongly that I am helping to make the world a better place.
I discovered the cure to most of the degenerative diseases that affect so many people, and it's much simpler than the discovery of any medication. By "discover", I don't mean that I figured it out and revealed it to the world. I mean that I became aware of the simplistic and elegant preventative and healing power of the right nutrition. My discovery stems not only from my acquired knowledge as a scientist, but also from a life-long challenge with weight control. I was overweight as a child in the 1960's, when being overweight was not considered normal. I went on my first diet of meat and vegetables (an Atkins-type diet) when I was 12 years old and dropped down to a normal weight. By the time I was 14 I was gaining it back, and by high school, I was experiencing the yo-yo effect of dieting that would continue throughout much of my adult life as I tried some new diet every time I gained back the weight I lost from the last diet that wasn't sustainable. I've been active and exercised consistently all of my adult life, and with a lot of hard work and cutting out all added fat (not sugar), I was able to manage my weight for extended periods of time. However, it never felt sustainable, and I was always waiting for the house of cards to collapse, expecting my weight to balloon the minute I put the wrong thing in my mouth. Then, it happened. My weight crept up about 5 pounds per year over a period of six or seven years to the point where no matter what I tried and how active I was, I couldn't lose the weight.
In 2007 I asked my doctor for help, and after determining that I was eating too much sugar, her advice was to cut out the sugar. YIKES! NO SUGAR!!! HOW AM I GOING TO DO THAT??? Being the scientist that I am, I read about the biochemistry of sugar in the body, and from that perspective, it was clear and straightforward (see my blog post "The Sweet Truth About Carbohydrates"). I had to cut out sugar. Once I understood why, it was easy for me to do. I continued to eat as much fruit, vegetables, meat, dairy, and whole grains as I wanted, and the excess weight quickly melted away. Remarkably, I lost the sugar cravings within a couple of days, and then it was easy! In fact, it had never been so easy for me to lose weight! And I felt great!
Toward the end of 2011, a good friend of mine recommended a book you may have heard of called "The China Study", in which T. Colin Campbell presented research findings from his laboratory, from the China Project, and from studies others did with medical patients, all of which consistently demonstrated a strong correlation between consuming animal-based foods (specifically animal-based protein) and increased risk/incidence of degenerative diseases in both animals and humans. Furthermore, these studies also demonstrated a strong correlation between consuming whole, plant-based foods and the lack of degenerative diseases. I've since given up eating meat and dairy, and am enjoying the many benefits of eating a whole food plant-based diet, including great health, high energy, better sleep, less stress, and as a very pleasant side effect, even more weight loss. I don't count calories (since most plant foods are "calorie light"), I eat as much as I want, I don't feel deprived, I don't have cravings, I don't have mood swings, I'm very even-tempered, I love what I eat, I don't ever worry about what or how much I eat, and I don't gain weight.
So my scientific and life experiences have converged to bring me to this point, where my goal is to use those experiences to help you reach your healthy goals.