CARDIOLOGY, PRIMARY CARE AND NUTRITION

Category: Plant-Based Wellness Podcast

  • Podcast: Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Being Your Own Advocate

    Welcome! and Thank You for listening.  Breast cancer awareness is more than just pink ribbons and mammogram scheduling.  It certainly is a scary diagnosis.  Nearly 1 in 9 women will get the diagnosis.  The good news is there are things we can do to prevent it and also things we can do to treat and…

  • Podcast: Preventing Autoimmune Disease Through Plant Based Nutrition

    Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  Autoimmune diseases are often thought to be genetic.  However, there are many people with at risk DNA that never develop the disease.  DNA does not turn on by itself.  There has to be a stimulus and often it is a protein that is the trigger.  Type 1 Diabetes occurs…

  • Podcast: The Magic Number

    Welcome! and Thank you for listening.   It works.  It really does.  Plant based nutrition and exercise reverses lifestyle diseases and people can achieve a normal BMI.  However, it only works if you do it and do it consistently.  Congratulations  David R for achieving some major health goals.  The struggle is real but once you commit…

  • Podcast: Why Is Your Blood Pressure Elevated?

    Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  48% of adults carry the diagnosis of hypertension.  They are diagnosed and placed on medication usually based on protocols.  Very rarely are people assessed for why they have hypertension.  Certainly, nutrition is a large contributor to elevations in blood pressure both from excessive sodium intake and vascular damage from…

  • Podcast: Plant Based Nutrition and Strength Training with Nathan Majnaric, SCCC,CSCS, and Addie Majnaric, RDN

    Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  Today I have a plant based strong man on the podcast.   Nathan Majnaric, SCCC, CSCS.  Most plant based athletes lean toward the endurance world so it is great to have the opportunity to speak with a powerlifter, strength coach, and a blue belt in jujitsu that is not only…

  • Podcast: Mindful Eating

    Welcome! and Thank you for listening.   A New England Journal of Medicine Study looked at how much energy people thought they consumed, and how much energy they actually burned.  They compared two groups of overweight individuals based on reported energy consumption.  Group one had difficulty loosing weight despite a reported 1200 kcal or less consumption…

  • Podcast: Visualize Your Goals

    Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  What are your health goals?  Do you have a bucket list?  My grandmother used to say that if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.  I think there is a lot of confusion between wishing we were healthy and having a plan to do something about it.  We wish there…

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    Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  When things are going well, there is a flow state.  We are in “The Zone”.  Funny how it does not happen too often.  But when it does, we seem to accomplish our goals with minimal efforts.  The other times we are trouble shooting.  Try anything to make things better. …

  • Podcast: Calories versus Weight

    Welcome!  Thank you for listening.   What is a whole food? What is a clean food?  Those terms are thrown around with authority and ultimately blend into just food.  If you ask most people on a diet, they will throw out that they are eating 1200 calories a day.  That seems to be the magic number…

  • Podcast: Risk versus Reward

    Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  What will you do with the results of a test? How will you react? I was very happy to see normal bones and joints on a recent CT scan of my leg, but it did not show the source of my ankle pain.  Good news! Nothing bad.  I can…