Dr. Toshia Myers is the research director at the TrueNorth Health Foundation in Santa Rosa, California. TrueNorth’s aim is to conduct and facilitate rigorous, peer-reviewed research on the health effects of therapeutic water-only fasting and an exclusively plant foods diet. Dr. Myers obtained a Ph.D. at Columbia University in New York and completed postdoctoral training at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia and University of Copenhagen in Denmark. She has published her research in the journals Developmental Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Stem Cell Reports.