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“If you look at the risk factors for covid 19 severity and death, obesity, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure all of which can be prevented or rested or even reversed with a healthy enough plant-based diet and lifestyle.” Dr. Michael Greger has experienced firsthand how switching to a whole, plant-based diet can transform an individual's health and takes the time to share his teachings and experiences with us today.
Highlights
0:28 - Dr. Michael Greger tells us how watching his Grandma completely turn around her dismal diagnosis with a whole, plant-based diet set him on his path to create nuritionfacts.org and to become an author on the topic to save others.
4:00 - The Daily Dozen Challenge.
8:25 - Surviving the pandemic, by preventing future ones. We take a look at our role in animal raising for food and the link between viruses and animal origins.
11:00 - The next predicted pandemic, H799, will be a hundred times deadlier than Covid 19. “It is not worth risking lives and millions of people for the sake of cheaper chicken.”
13:20 - We are not defined by our hereditary disease. How genetics load the gun, but the environment pulls the trigger.
15:25 - A whole-food, plant-based diet with nothing bad added and nothing good taken out. Plus a discussion on fasting and its pros and cons. 🌱
22:20 - 21 Day Kickstart. How you can get some free transitioning help.
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Highlights
1:03 - All about the Plantarion Podcast
1:30 - Introducing the Plantarion Podcast Hosts
1:45 - Danni shares with us some exciting updates
3:45 - Meet Brittany our New Podcast Host
5:30 - What is Plantarion?
7:30 - Announcing our Famous Guest Speaker. Who can it be?
Welcome to Episode 048 of the Plantarion Podcast. Danni McGhee talks with Paul Chatlin of Plant Based Nutrition Support Group about his journey from the gurney to the garden and how a whole food plant based diet saved his life.
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Interview with Paul Chatlin
Paul was born in Detroit and has lived in West Bloomfield since 1971. In May of 2013, he was diagnosed with Heart Disease. His cardiologist gave him two options: bypass surgery or try “Plant Based Nutrition” (PBN). After meeting with Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, he decided to try “Plant Based Nutrition”. After just 3 weeks his angina disappeared. His cholesterol levels dropped from 350 to 88 and he lost 75 pounds. And, he felt great! Paul promised himself that when he felt better he would put together a support group to help others in our community, so he contacted Dr. Joel Kahn, co-medical director who agreed to assist him on the journey. In February of 2014, he held his first Plant Based Nutrition Support Group (PBNSG) meeting and 123 people attended! Today PBNSG has 7600 members and over 100 volunteers. They have started many outreach programs and has relationships with the owners of 30 local restaurants. PBNSG has completed working on curriculum change with Medical Students at Wayne State, Eastern Michigan , Oakland University, Michigan State Universities and the University of Michigan medical school. Held classes for local doctors to learn about the benefits of nutrition before pills or procedures called Doctors Teaching Doctors. Received a sponsorship from Henry Ford Health Systems. PBNSG has over 54 small groups. A small group is where likeminded friends get together at a hosts house to talk about WFPB without judgement. In 2020 PBNSG will be holding over 46 health and culinary education classes. We just finished an 80+ page manual called “A Gurney Promise” which helps people around the world start their own Plant Based Nutrition Support Group. PBNSG also created a Whole Food Plant Based No Oil Cookbook called Perfectly Plant Based.
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Welcome to Episode 047 of the Plantarion Podcast. Danni McGhee talks with Claudia Gonzalez about how doula services can support you before, during, and after pregnancy, as well as how you can have a successful vegan pregnancy.
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Interview with Claudia Gonzalez
Claudia Gonzalez, also known as Cookie, is a fertility doula, labor support doula, and postpartum doula, who enjoys working with families and individuals during the prenatal, birth, and postpartum stages. She assists by providing information and resources, as well as emotional, spiritual, and (non-medical) physical support to her clients, while being sure to provide services that are tailored to their unique needs. With all of the knowledge she has gained and the work she has done (and is still doing), her most prized title of them all is of being an Auntie to her amazing, smart, and funny proxy-baby (aka niece) whom she loves as if she were her own child.
Cookie’s ultimate goal is to be a helping hand as she walks with families on their individual journey, in order to bring their pregnancy and birth dreams to fruition.
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Welcome to Episode 46 of The Plantarion Podcast. Danni McGhee talks with Emily Frigon about her blog Garlic Head, how to make the transition to a plant-based diet, and her holiday recipes that are perfect for a quarantined holiday season.
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Interview with Emily Frigon
Emily Frigon is the founder of Garlic Head, a virtual recipe resource and community designed to promote the sustainable, accessible, affordable, and delicious virtues of plant-based eating. A lifelong vegetarian, Emily is passionate about sharing the benefits of a diet rich in plants, both for personal welfare and overarching health of the planet. Garlic Head aims to exemplify the benefits of vegan living without restrictive labels or expensive grocery bills.
Emily is also the co-founder of harvestRX, a farm-to-patient delivery platform that supplies preventative health programs with grant-funded fresh produce, delivered directly to chronically ill patients and lower income communities. Food access and sustainability motivate her life's work.
With her extensive digital recipe experience, Emily has managed and contributed to the social media/content strategies of plant-centric websites including Minimalist Baker, Choosing Chia, Emilie Eats, and Hummusapien.
Emily holds degrees in Economics, Spanish, and Global Sustainability from the University of Pittsburgh, along with a Plant Based Nutrition certificate through the Center for Nutrition Studies at Cornell University.
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Welcome to Episode 45 of The Plantarion Podcast. Danni McGhee talks with Toni Okamoto about how to eat plant based on a budget with less than $25 per week!
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Interview with Toni Okamoto
Toni Okamoto is the founder of Plant-Based on a Budget, the popular website and meal plan that shows you how to save dough by eating veggies. She’s also author of the Plant-Based on a Budget Cookbook, co-author of The Friendly Vegan Cookbook, and the co-host of The Plant-Powered People Podcast. Okamoto’s work has been profiled by NBC News, Parade Magazine, and she’s a regular presence on local and national morning shows across the country, where she teaches viewers how to break their meat habit without breaking their budget. She was also featured in the popular documentary What the Health. When she’s not cooking up a plant-based storm, she’s spending time with her husband and their rescued dog in Sacramento, CA.
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Welcome to Episode 44 of The Plantarion Podcast. Danni McGhee talks with Leigh Frame, PhD, MHS, about why nutrition is not a one size fits all concept and how to approach our health find what works for each of us.
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Interview with Leigh Frame, PhD, MHS
Leigh Frame, PhD, MHS, brings nutrition and immunity together through clinical/translational research. She is especially interested in the role of vitamin D as an immune modulatory hormone. Dr. Frame is reestablishing her research at the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences. As the Director of the GW Integrative Medicine Programs, she is working to build an Integrative Medicine research program at the university. Her interests include the potential role of the microbiome in nutrition in health, the consequences of malnutrition in obesity, and research ethics.
She has used her wide-ranging experience in biomedical research (from wet bench to clinical research) to oversee research programs, including the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Parkinson's Disease Biomarkers Program. She has extensive experience in the design of studies of all sizes and phases of research including secure, accurate data collection, and data safety and management.
Dr. Frame is also the Executive Director of the GW Office of Integrative Medicine and Health. She received her PhD in Human Nutrition at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health while working at the Johns Hopkins Center for Bariatric Surgery and also received a Master of Health Science from the same school.
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Welcome to Episode 43 of The Plantation Podcast. Danni McGhee talks with Eric C. Lindstrom, Executive Director at FARM, about how to celebrate the holiday season with compassion.
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Interview with Eric C. Lindstrom
Eric C Lindstrom started his career in the animal rights movement as the Program Director for Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM) (2016-2018) and more recently served as the Director of Marketing for Animal Outlook (formerly Compassion Over Killing). In his role as Executive Director, Lindstrom manages the 501(c)3's programs, personnel, and operations. Lindstrom penned two best-selling books on veganism, The Skeptical Vegan and The Smart Parent's Guide to Raising Vegan Kids (Skyhorse Publishing) and resides in Ithaca, New York.
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Welcome to Episode 42 of the Plantarion Podcast! Danni McGhee talks with Stewart Mitchell, animal rights activist and author, about how we can help oppressed groups, including animals, by voting in this election plus more.
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Interview with Stewart Mitchell
Stewart Mitchell is a single father, self published author and animal rights activist that currently serves as a board member for Voters For Animal Rights. He has written two books for children and young adults that stress the importance of eating healthy and compassion for animals (Kayla The Vegan and Liberation Summer) Stewart also wrote a book titled: There Is Beauty In The Darkness, a poetry book that outlines and documents his own personal battles with depression and anxiety. He is a vegan of ten years and is from Brooklyn, NY.
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Welcome to Episode 41 of the Plantarion Podcast! Danni McGhee talks with Muzammil Ahmad, a Canandian medical school student, who is leading the way to change the medical education curriculum to include plant-based nutrition courses.
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Interview with Muzammil Ahmad
Muzammil Ahmad, a plant-based vegan from Canada, is working towards finishing his medical education. He is a third-year medical student at the University of Alberta and has certification in nutrition, a Master’s in Psychology and a Bachelor's in Commerce. He is known for his Instagram account @dr.plantbased and is a co-host of Plant Prescription Podcast.
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