Category: Plant-Based Wellness Podcast

  • Episode 78-Junk foood to Health food

    It really is not that easy. If it were more people would be plant based. There are certainly obstacles and some may live in the same household. Be brave. Choose health. Stay strong. I enjoy every plant strong meal. Not only because they are nutrient dense but because they taste good. Experiment maybe one time…

  • Episode 77-Salute to the Military

    Welcome to episode 77!. Just me this episode. It is Memorial Day Weekend. A time to honor the fallen and remember their sacrafice for us. It is also a time of gathering friends and neighbors for cookouts. That means grilling for the masses. And a scary time to be plant based, potentially. But fear not…

  • Episode 76-Plant Based Wellness Graduation Night

    Welcome. Tonight I invite you to sit in on my office nutrition class graduation night. It is the 6th and final session for this class. Some students are seasoned plant strong cooks and others are just learning the why and how of eating plant strong. I am always happy with the way the classes support…

  • Episode 75-Matthew Kenney- Crafting the Future of Food

    This episode features Matthew Kenney. He is the founder and developer of multiple raw food and vegan restaurants around the world including Plant Food + Wine; in Venice, California, and Miami, Florida, and 00 +Co in New York, New York and his newest set to open in May; Arata, in Belfast, Maine. He is the…

  • Episode 74-Jason Cohen-Big Change The Film

    Being sick and overweight can seem like an insurmountable challenge. One worth ignoring. Everyday there are advertisements for a quick fix via injections, supplements or major surgeries. Often these so call mechanical cures can lead to more problems that still require medical care an can be quite limiting. Is it possible to loose weight or…

  • Episode 73-Dr. Joel Furhman-The End of Heart Disease

    “Share goodwill with others”. That is exactly what preparing a whole plant food nutrient dense meal is doing for your friends and family. Heart disease is the number one cause of death and entirely preventable. We are intolerant of motor vehicle defects that cause fatal crashes yet eating the Standard American Diet which leads to…

  • Episode 72 with Tim Kaufman-Rantings of a Former Fat Man

    Tim Kaufman is a former fat man. He is now a teacher, an athlete, and an inspiration. I get the sense he is also a gentle giant when speaking with him. Please check out his website at fatmanrants.com. Tim has Ehrlers Danlos syndrome that is a connective tissue disorder that affects the joints in particular.…

  • Episode 71-Sid Garza-Hillman, Approaching the Natural

    Radical change or baby steps, Full bore vegan or gradual. What really matters is achieving health and maintaining it. Different strokes for different folks. Today’s guest believes in trying to look back at what is natural and taking small steps everyday to get as close as we can. Sid Garza-Hillman is a musician, author, and…

  • Episode 70-Eric O’Grey-Who Rescued Who?

    Loyal to the end. Unconditional love. Man’s best friend. We all recognize those phrases. Eric O’Grey saved a dog and a dog named Peety saved him. He was morbidly obese and hid from the world as much as possible until his naturopathic physician suggested he adopt a dog so that he would be force to…

  • Epidsode 69-Susan Benigas-Exec. director of the Plantrician Project

    Sometimes good people just need to be reminded of their mission. Most physicians set out to help people become healthy. To heal them from disease. Somewhere along traditional medicine we started to believe that there were only two ways. Mediince and surgery. One or the other. And we as physician join one of those teams…