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Athletic Performance

The Plant Yourself “Game Changers” Compendium

The Game Changers is a game changer for the public discussion of plant-based diets for health.

To celebrate its release, here’s a handy reference guide to all the Plant Yourself episodes with folks featured in or connected to the documentary.

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We are Nature with Josh LaJaunie: PYP 328

Josh LaJaunie returns to the podcast for a fifth (?) time, for a conversation about our relationship with nature.

We talk about the beauty and grandeur of nature, and the ways human beings benefit and grow from being exposed to that loveliness.

And also about nature’s dangerous and scary and yucky and itchy and hot and humid and freezing and soaking and uncomfortable aspects – and how we need those experiences in equal measure with the pleasurable ones.

Our sport, ultrarunning, is an invitation to both faces of nature. To the beauty and grandeur, and to the hassle and discomfort. To the nurturing and the threatening.

We also explore the lessons nature holds for us; in trees and eddies, in cycles of live and death, growth and service.

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Improving Athletic Performance Through Plants with Shiann Darkangelo: PYP 321

Shiann Darkangelo plays professional hockey for the Toronto Furies, in the Canadian Women’s Ice Hockey League.If that isn’t a place you’d expect to find a plant-based athlete, join the club!Shiann is not only one of the world’s best hockey players, but she’s a passionate plant-based coach and mentor.

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