Carly Asse is a fitness trainer and documentarian. His first film, Unsupersize Me, has been seen over 3 million times, and has inspired and guided countless people to embark on their own journeys of healthy weight loss.
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Benjamin Alter, ND, treats his patients as if they actually have the power to heal themselves.
This power introduces a wonderful and frustrating messiness into the scientific pursuit of truth. It’s hard to control for. It’s hard to randomize for. And it’s hard to replicate.
In fact, science has dealt with this messiness by, at best, pretending it doesn’t exist, and at worst, actively denigrating people’s subjective experiences of illness and healing.
In our conversation, Ben and I talk about his definition of health, and how it connects to freedom.
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Gwyn Whittaker is a change-maker, and for the past several years she’s deployed her considerable “get-it-done” skills to the plant-based movement.
Whittaker is CEO of Greenfare Cafe in Herndon, Virginia, which is the only 100% whole-food, plant-based (WFPB), organic restaurant either of us has ever heard of. (If you know of one, please let me know in the comments section so I can give it a shout-out!)
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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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Ray Martin, aka “Old Man Skin and Bones,” is on a mission to save others from what he went through: heart disease, expensive and unnecessary and potentially harmful medical care, and a bad case of the “If only I’d knowns.”
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Yeah, them’s fighting words in the title of today’s episode. And Garth David, MD, my lead author of Proteinaholic and co-conspirator in a mission to tell the world that chronic disease and obesity are preventable and reversible, is a fighter.
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Joe Cross was, in the words of his first film, “Fat, Sick, & Nearly Dead” when he embarked on a 60-day experiment to escape the pain and discomfort of a lifestyle-induced auto-immune disease.
His transformation story, chronicled in that 2010 documentary, has inspired millions of people to start juicing, and to add more plants to their diets.
In our conversation, we catch up on the decade since he became a famous wellness advocate. How has he weathered that kind of public scrutiny?
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Lauren Plunkett is a registered dietitian living with type 1 diabetes. She’s also the newest addition to the WellStart care team – and we couldn’t be more pleased or delighted!
Lauren is a dynamo of positive energy, and a shining example of the power of lifestyle to enhance quality of life.
Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 11, Lauren struggled for years to feel good and have the energy to do what she wanted to do. She went on a mission to learn everything she could about nutrition and health.
Once she discovered plant-based nutrition, she knew she had found the key to thriving with diabetes: reducing insulin resistance.
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Last week, Ben Alter of Alter.Health and I swapped podcasts. I interviewed him for Plant Yourself, and he returned the favor the next day for his show.
And because he’s far more efficient and together than I am, his show published first. Enjoy!
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Linda Carney, MD, returns to the podcast to talk about a wholistic approach to treating depression.
It turns out that while adverse childhood events, genetics, and traumatic life circumstances all contribute to the onset and severity of depression, we do have choices and tools and strategies to prevent and recover from this debilitating mental condition.
We can change our thoughts patterns, for example.
And – and this is even easier and more straightforward – we can improve our diets.
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