IN THE MEDIA

"When Whistler's Nicolette and Pierre Richer appeared on Dragons' Den on Feb. 8, they came away with a great offer of investment in their company, The Green Moustache. They went in seeking $350,000 for 15% of the fresh-and-local vegan food company, which was founded in 2013."

What if medical schools were called health schools? Symptoms, diagnosis, and drugs. The current medical system isn’t working. An orthomolecular health educator, Nicolette Richer, makes a provocative case for a new healthcare system that begins with reimagining medical schools.

A Mission Driven by Consciousness.

“Inspired by her grandmother from Malawi, Nicolette is on a mission to help people reconnect with the wisdom and awareness of their ancestors to heal disease. ” – Tony Robbins​​​​​​​​

“Meet the Wonder Woman of Plant-Based Nutrition: Nicolette Richer”

Helping people reach their body's optimal potential, Nicolette Richer joins Chuck Carroll to discuss health disparities, her own health journey, and how we can move more, get more energy, and eat better!

With a tenacious entrepreneurial attitude, Nicolette Richer has dedicated her life to learning and teaching that food is medicine. Taking time away from her entrepreneurial endeavors, she travels to her homelands of Malawi, which equally becomes one of her most difficult realizations and her greatest blessing.

Food of Our Ancestors is the highly anticipated follow-up film to Grounded in My Roots. After discovering that the food programs she had been offering people were rooted in her ancestral foodways, she journeys through BIPOC communities to learn, share, and empower others to embrace traditional healing foods.

4 New Reasons To Visit Whistler Right Now

Sate Your Appetite On or Off the Mountain. The Green Moustache Cafe, founded by Nicolette and Pierre Richer, was featured in the Forbes Travel Guide as a must-visit café in Whistler, BC.

In this episode, Robert and Nicolette discussed some practical tips and strategies that entrepreneurs can use to prioritize their health and well-being while still being able to run a successful business. They talked about the importance of nutrition and eating well and the impact that a healthy diet can have on our energy levels and mental clarity.

Prioritizing Health to Live an Extraordinary Life.

In this conversation, Nicolette dives into what it means to have healthy nutrition and diet and how that influences your ability to make good decisions, deal with change, approach challenges, and cope with stress and anxiety.

“In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, we learn from Ph.D. candidate Nicolette Richer how traditional foods can be used as medicine and how colonization has affected our experience and perception of traditional foods. We also learn more about the complexities of food access and what Nicolette is doing to make a difference in the world.” - Dr. Yami

Maxime Sigouin, founder of Fit Vegan Coaching, and Nicolette Richer discussed the importance of including healthy options in major events for entrepreneurs, loving your body and getting it as healthy as you can from the inside out, the importance of reverting to the natural way of eating, and developing the ability to control our bodies.

"On a Scale of 1 to 10, the Silent Epidemic" is a groundbreaking documentary exploring attitudes toward health and chronic pain and how a change in mindset combined with a plant-based diet allows people to reclaim their full potential. Featuring Michael Klaper, Bruce Lipton, Neal Barnard, Mimi Kirk, Joe Cross, Nicolette Richer, Daniel Amen, and many other experts.

Learn how a passionate entrepreneur, Dr. Nicolette Richer, DSocSci, Green Moustache Cafe Founder, is helping change her customers’ and communities’ lives even more thanks to Whistler's first Social Venture Challenge!

Nicolette Richer is heading across Canada to raise awareness of the power of food as medicine. Green Moustache founder and nutritionist Nicolette Richer will travel more than 7,000 kilometres on foot and bike next year to raise awareness of the ways diet can help reverse chronic disease.

Whistler, BC, has everything you need for a dreamy ski trip: Where to Eat

Green Moustache was featured on the Vogue blog as a must-visit cafe in Whistler. Vogue recommends the grain bowl and Dr. G’s Ultimate Green Juice.

“Nicolette Richer is making huge strides in the power of natural healing. She's appeared on the Dragon's Den, invested everything into starting the vegan cafe, The Green Moustache Organic Café (even with 3 little kids), and is helping to change the world and cure and prevent diseases by making whole foods and plant-based meals easily accessible.” - Sonya Looney

Increase life expectancy and reverse chronic degenerative illness, even during social events. Nicolette Richer, a chronic disease reversal specialist and restaurant entrepreneur, discusses the importance of organic whole foods and how vegan and gluten-free don’t always mean healthy.

“Nicolette Richer, health advocate, reminds us that mindfully eating is more than just chewing your food slowly; it’s connecting with your farmers, understanding where your food comes from, and taking the time to have a conversation and connect.”

“Nicolette has done extensive research with indigenous cultures and diets. She also owns several restaurants serving healthy vegan options, and she is a contract worker offering health advice. In this episode, we talk about how food truly is medicine for our bodies. If we can learn to change our lifestyle through diet, we can prevent disease rather than treat it. We also talk about some of the programs Nicolette runs with corporate companies.”

Nicolette was invited to China to educate hundreds of physicians on Gerson Therapy and Eat Real to Heal. Throughout her journey, Nicolette traveled to multiple cities across China, spreading the message about the healing power of metabolic nutrition and detoxification and how traditional whole foods can be used to combat the chronic disease epidemic that is plaguing the country.

“Nicolette Richer, founder of the Green Moustache restaurants, Richer Health Consulting, and author of Eat Real to Heal, will tell us about her most recent projects. Eat Real to Heal has been the number one Amazon new release for months and is a powerful argument for eating whole, organic, plant-based foods with an eye toward good health through nutrition.”

In this episode, Dr. Frank Sabatino, Director of Health Education at NHA,​​​​​​​ and Nicolette Richer discussed Nicolette’s doctoral research on the barriers communities face in accessing clean, real food due to colonization and displacement from their traditional diets, he limitations of traditional healthcare systems in addressing the root causes of chronic diseases, including issues of food access and socio-economic disparities.

Dr. Laurie Marbas and Nicolette Richer have a conversation about the power of farm-to-table dining, the importance of supporting local farmers, and how this practice not only ensures the freshness and quality of the food we consume but also promotes a sustainable and healthy food system. This reminds us that what we put into our bodies can have a profound impact on our health and vitality.

“Nicolette Richer (pronounced ree-shay) is a Canadian who, in the depths of winter, heads to a frozen lake most days (in subzero temperatures, obviously), cuts a hole in the ice, and takes a plunge; a few adjectives spring to mind here, but I’ve decided to go with inspiring and courageous. Apart from that, Nicolette is a Chronic Disease Reversal Specialist, Author, and Speaker, and I loved chatting with her. Enjoy.” - Craig Harper

In this episode, Nicolette and Drs. Nick and Sonya Jensen talk about Nicolette’s passion for teaching food as medicine. You will learn about how she started her journey in cooking healthy foods up to opening a restaurant called Green Moustache against all odds and critiques. We go into the importance of passing down intergenerational knowledge and discuss how to nourish our relationship with food and our children.

Let Food Be Your Medicine

In this plant-based chat, we cover the importance of leaning into hard, rock-bottom moments to create the change we need in our health. We talk about those painful moments and use them as an opportunity. We are living in a time of information access! Access to education, books, documentaries, and studies to learn about plant-based foods.

Nicolette Richer tackles the 5 Steps to Create Healthier Habits, which include engineering your environment. Nicolette advises her clients to set themselves up for success by making the choice and intention clear. Choosing Rhythm Over Routine, Seeking Social Support, Scheduling Your Tasks or Projects, and Knowing Yourself.

“Chronic degenerative diseases do not have to be a life sentence,’ says Nicolette Richer, a chronic disease reversal specialist with over 15 years of experience helping people arrest and reverse disease through organic, plant-based, whole-food nutrition.

Food Conversations. Food as medicine means that real food - NOT refined, processed, or packaged so-called “food"—contains all the necessary nutrients that can prevent, arrest, and reverse 97% of chronic and even genetic diseases.​​​​​​​​

Jordan heard about Nicolette after asking the Universe to send her a way to help heal people through nutrition, and heal herself, and shortly after was introduced to the Gerson Therapy program that Nicholette leads!

Nicolette Richer is deeply motivated by a desire to improve people's health. She ran a health-consulting company for 10 years, providing a specific metabolic nutrient-therapy program to clients with chronic diseases and cancer. The goal was to detoxify their bodies to promote healing.

Spotlight on The Green Moustache: Changing the Way People Think About Fast Food. Through Nicolette’s research and policy work, Nicolette noticed the link between the food we eat, soil quality, cancer, and overall planetary health, and that’s what motivated her to start her own business.

Vegan Food Can Heal Body and Soul, Says Plant-Based Wellness Expert Nicolette Richer. For over 10 years I’ve studied, taught and then witnessed hundreds of clients reverse hundreds of chronic degenerative diseases using vegan food as medicine.

What would motivate someone to ride a bicycle across Canada? For Nicolette Richer, the motivation is simple; raise awareness about health, reversing disease, and the need for people to know the truth about what they are consuming. We dig deep into food choices, racism, colonization, disease and the oppression that needs to be brought to the light of day.

Green Moustache Café transforms the 'familiar' into something special. I spoke to Green Moustache Café co-owner and co-founder Nicolette Richer on the phone recently about how her business got started. The original Green Moustache up in Whistler came into existence amidst a decided paucity of healthy dining options in the resort town, a place that is every bit as much a training ground for world-class athletes as it is a playground for the rest of us.

My first guest strongly believes that food is medicine and doctors shouldn’t go to medical school but rather health school. A Regenerative Medicine Educator, entrepreneur, author, Doctoral student and speaker Nicolette Richer joins me to share some practical tips for optimizing your health with food. After all, you are what you eat, right?

The Return to Food as Medicine - GATHER for HER with Nicolette Richer

Most people don’t realize they have all the power within their hands to reclaim their life, reverse their disease, and put an end to their chronic pain, fatigue, medications, and more.

When Nicolette started her first The Green Moustache café eight years ago, she met a lot of resistance. She was told people wouldn’t pay money for healthy food. There are four locations now and another ten locations set to open. She describes how plant-based whole foods could be sold at more food establishments and appeal to a public who aren’t used to eating fruits and vegetables. 

Nicolette shares her insights on the history of human diets and the impact of colonization on access to healthy foods. We discuss the importance of education and access to healthy foods, especially in communities that are living in food deserts. Nicolette emphasizes the role of plant-based nutrition in reversing chronic diseases and highlights the importance of fiber in maintaining good health. 

Nicolette Richer is on a mission to help people to heal. She uses food as medicine to reverse chronic diseases, from diabetes, arthritis, cancer and other regenerative diseases. Discover how she believes even chronic diseases are easy to reverse. She helps her clients to lead a long life and a short death, leaving no one suffering.

Forging a Path Back to Food as Medicine. Uncover the disease reversing benefits of traditional food systems. Learn how to implement these ways of knowing into your kitchen and medicine cabinet so you can reclaim your energy, health and life and together we can heal our lands, our animals and our people.

Nicolette is back on the It’s Never Too Late To Be Healthy Podcast! We wanted to catch up with her and her experience with the 22 Million Strong Campaign, BC Tour. She is a firm believer that food is medicine and can be used to treat chronic conditions.