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PYP 007: Dr Wes Youngberg: Goodbye Diabetes

Dr. Wes Youngberg, author of Goodbye Diabetes, was just a boy when his mother died of cancer. At the age of 13, he was already obsessed with discovering and mitigating his own risk factors of disease.

After earning degrees in nutrition and lifestyle medicine, Wes spend 14 years on Guam, researching that island’s diabetes epidemic and directing a wellness clinic dedicated to reversing diabetes among the island’s population.

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PYP 006: Hans Diehl: Healthy by Choice, Not by Chance

Hans Diehl is founder of CHIP (The Complete Health Improvement Program), a 30-day health education program that has been changing lives for the better for decades.

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PYP 005: Randy Clemens: The Magic of Sriracha, and Learning to Love Our Veggies

Randy Clemens is the Sriracha-loving author of two Sriracha-based cookbooks. (In case you haven’t tried it, Sriracha sauce is a fairly spicy, totally amazing Vietnamese hot sauce that has generated a cult following in the past few years.)

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PYP 004: Char Nolan: It’s Never Too Late

Howard had a lovely chat with the kind and courageous Char Nolan, Connector at Real Food Works and powerful promoter of a plant-based diet in the Philadelphia area.

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PYP 003: Chef Del Sroufe: Better Than Vegan

10 years ago, Del Sroufe ate his way to 475 pounds – on a vegan diet!

Now, 200+ pounds thinner (and counting), Chef Del is the culinary genius behind the Forks Over Knives cookbook, as well as co-owner of the brilliant Wellness Forum.

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Lindsay Nixon is The Happy Herbivore: PYP 001

In this first Pant Yourself Podcast episode, Howard has a lovely chat with the Happy Herbivore, Lindsay Nixon, about her transition to a whole-foods plant based diet, her evolution from kitchen klutz to accomplished cookbook author, and the Happy part of being plant-pure and strong.

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