Healing Food
Reversing the “Diseasification of America” with Jim Loomis, MD: PYP 358
Jim Loomis, MD is Medical Director of the Barnard Medical Center, and one of the stars of the blockbuster documentary The Game Changers.
Dr Loomis’ journey to plant-based practice for himself and his patients began with a viewing of Forks Over Knives, at a time when his own health was starting to fail.
Once he discovered and benefited personally from Lifestyle Medicine, he began to see that the paradigm of human health he had been taught was seriously flawed.
He summed it up this way: “If I’m not sick, then I must be well.”
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Healing Racism in the Vegan / Plant-based Community with Milton Mills, MD: PYP 357
In June, 2019, Dr Milton Mills gave testimony before the USDA Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee about their persistent recommendation to include dairy in our diets.
Dr Mills short presentation was not what I was expecting to hear.
Instead of just repeating the overwhelming body of evidence showing that cow’s milk is not a healthy or suitable food for humans, he put the debate in the context of racism.
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Combating BS with James “Lightning” Wilks: PYP 355
James Wilks is a producer, as well as narrator and chief instigator of The Game Changers, already the bestselling documentary of all time on iTunes.
We talk about the 7-year odyssey of making the film, its effect on popular culture and our food choices, and his appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast earlier this month.
We talk about the long process of making the film, and the warrior spirit needed to defend it from disingenuous and misinformed attacks.
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Healing the Warrior Spirit with Ron Tibbs: PYP 352
Ron Tibbs is a wellness coach, plant-based advocate, and all-around great guy.
He’s part of the core team at WellStart Health, where he coaches, guides, and cheerleads clients to make significant positive changes in their lives.
Ron is perfectly situated to do this, because he’s created his own massive changes in the face of very strong opposing forces.
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Getting Healthy and Giving Back with Brittany Sade: PYP 350
Brittany Sade is a vegan entrepreneur and health coach. Her company, Prosperiteez Clothing, devotes part of its profits to combatting food insecurity in impoverished communities.
Brittany wasn’t always a paragon of healthy living. Thanks to meat three times a day, along with a serious cheese addiction, she suffered from skin problems, arterial blockages, and overweight.
It took the suffering and death of close family members to wake her to the realization that life didn’t have to be an inexorable descent into disability and disease and painful premature death.
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Thriving on Plants, Kindness, and Connection with Karen Smith, RD: PYP 349
Karen Smith is a plant-based registered dietitian, runner (sub-3 hours in the Boston Marathon, baby!), and all around good person.
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PlantPure Cooking with Kim Campbell: PYP 348
Kim Campbell is the culinary force behind PlantPure Nation and PlantPure Foods. She kindly agreed to visit the Plant Yourself test kitchen (which is just the kitchen in my home, cleaned up sufficiently for video) and make some delicious food for me, my wife, and my sister who was visiting from NYC.
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Healing Asthma with a Plant-Based Diet with Margot Freitag: PYP 347
Margot Freitag is a coach who helps people transition to a plant-based diet successfully and sustainably. Growing up in Northwest Ontario (cue “Helpless” by Neil Young), she suffered from asthma, and made constant trips to the ER throughout her childhood.
As a teen, she became a yoyo dieter, trying every variation she stumbled across in an attempt to lose weight: the apple-only diet, the “don’t eat for a week” diet, low carb, etc. One plan she tried allowed her to eat cheese but not carrots, because sugar. (Sigh…)
As luck would have it, her nutrition instructor in massage school was none other than superstar dietitian Brenda Davis (who kindly appeared on this podcast’s 18th episode to talk about defeating diabetes and debunking paleo). From Brenda, Margot learned that dairy was not her friend.
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The Magic of Walking to the Mailbox with Elizabeth Bell: PYP 345
This week’s episode is an accident.
I interviewed Elizabeth Bell in order to record a testimonial for WellStart Health, and ended up having a conversation so compelling and instructive and inspiring that I decided – with Elizabeth’s blessing – to share the whole thing.
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